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dragonwriter

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2012-11-15

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  • > The left wing constantly says “we started letting women work”.

    I’ve literally never seen anyone on the left (and rarely even the liberal capitalist center-right) say that. I’ve seen people on the hard right, when complaining, use that framing, though.

    And, look, here its part of a complaint glorifying the defects of the capitalist-patriarchal family and whining that more equal treatment of women in the economic sphere hurt the “family unit” rather than recognizing that capitalism wrecks the family unit and greater equality for women just reduces the particular systematic of oppression of women within the capitalist-patriarchal system, but neither cures nor causes the damage to the family unit that comes from capitalism.

  • > Most people run Windows just fine on cheap laptops with 4GB of RAM.

    And if they can do that, they can get them (at full MSRP) for about half the price of a MacBook Neo.

    Heck, you can get 8GB Windows laptops with twice the SSD size of the MacBook Neo's for a little over half of the Neo’s price (again, at full MSRP.)

  • Yeah, they kept the "MS" when they lost any connection with Microsoft, but they lost the "NBC" when they severed their connection from NBCUniversal.

  • > Sorry, ban on priest marriage. [...] Which makes it a ban on children for Christians.

    Well, no, it doesn't, and its important to note what the actual bans are to understand why it doesn't. There is:

    * a fairly hard ban (essentially absolute, except for an exception noted at the end of this list) on men who are already priests marrying in the Catholic Church,

    * a softer ban on married men becoming priests in the Latin Rite of the Catholic Church (this is the 12th Century rule you reference),

    * no ban on married men becoming priests in the Eastern Rites of the Catholic Church,

    * a fairly hard ban (essentially absolute, except for an exception noted at the end of this list) on currently-married men becoming bishops in the Catholic Church,

    * no ban on men who are widowers (including men admitted to the priesthood while married) becoming bishops in the Catholic Church,

    * no ban on a married Catholic man (possibly a layman, a Latin Rite deacon, one of the already exceptional Latin Rite priests, or an Eastern Rite priest) being ordained Bishop of Rome after being elected by the College of Cardinals (the rule for this specific allows any Catholic man to be elected) to the Papacy, though its never happened.

    It is not impossible for a man to be both married and have children licitly while being a Catholic priest, and it is not impossible for a man to licitly have children through marriage as a widower while being a Catholic bishop (including the Pope), and its even technically possible for a married man with children to be Pope, though it is improbable that someone not already a bishop---and therefore not currently married, but possibly widowed and with children—and cardinal would be elected.)

    As I said originally, there is no rule against a Catholic priest having children, though “there are a number of other rules which can combine to make it look approximately like there is.”

  • The article not mentioning the name does not change that the detective did sign the police charging documents.

    (Nor does the omission in the article of other names and procedural details change the fact that for there to be actual criminal charges, an arrest warrant, extradition, and incarceration, a number of other people had to sign their names to official acts, including, among others, at least one public prosecutor, and more than one judge.)

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