So The Independent recently ran a piece by Catherine Murphy of Amnesty International, explaining why the organization is calling for the decriminalization of sex work.
In the comments, someone calling themselves THEMISHMISHEH offers a unique take on the issue.
And by “unique” I mean “seemingly from another planet.”
Shades of Tom Martin, huh?
@lindsay
They should stop tax on sanitary items, period!!
@Virgin Mary
I believe that anyone who holds such views of the opposite gender or supports such views is wrong and sexist. I believe that there are both women and men out there who think like this of the opposite sex and I stand against them both with equity.
Subotaging and disrupting apposing views would amount to ‘not wanting anyone else to get attention except you’, wouldn’t you agree?
why?
Yeah, I hate it when people subotage apposing views. Don’t tage my subo, bro!
Troll is really scared of answering my question. I guess we’ll have to assume that he agrees with JB on nuking Mecca. After all, they’re both anti-feminists. What other conclusion should possibly be drawn?
Why, troll? Why do you want to nuke Mecca?
He probably approves of nuking Agrabah as well.
All trolls are afraid of answering direct questions. No exception.
He should be afraid. He’s backed into a corner. Either he says that despite JB also being an anti-feminist, they don’t share the same views. This makes all his feminists behaving badly copypasta totally invalid. Or he has to agree that millions of people should be killed with nukes.
Of course he’s afraid to answer the question!
Because it’s unfair to tax someone who needs something for something they have no control over?
Vagina-havers (like myself) can’t just shut the tap off to Lucifer’s Waterfall every month, we are going to bleed, with rare exception. We would prefer not to bleed all over the place, if it’s all the same to you.
So, why force us to pay for products so we don’t bleed everywhere (and so no one knows we’re on our periods, because apparently that’s shameful even though it happens to roughly half the planet’s population), and then force us to pay taxes on it as well?
Why don’t penis-havers have a comparable tax? I thought you were all about equality?
Toilet paper and diapers ought not to be taxed, either, really.
Penises should be taxed.
@IP
TFW you go to the store to get a penis with a tenner in your pocket, but it’s actually $10.60
http://ajournalofmusicalthings.com/wp-content/uploads/monopoly-bankrupt.jpg
@Axe
Also TFW you just sold your penis for $10 and realize the tax will have to come out of your profits. Fuck this, I’m going libertarian.
This discussion could not be more timely. California voted today to end the tampon, etc., tax.
http://www.huffingtonpost.com/entry/california-tampon-tax_us_57618206e4b05e4be8606b5d
I suspect that ALLCAPSGUY knew this — he appears to be obsessed with female bodies.
@IP
Nah, it’s fine. Ya just need to make a private sale. Maybe online. No background check or anything! Wait. That must be the evil Cultural Marxist and also just plain Marxist plot of Hillary Clinton’s. Penis control! It’s got Scott Adams spooked. Closing loopholes, raising taxes, perhaps even phallic registration. Tyranny! Misandry! Get the government out of our pants! I care now that it affects to meee!
(Yes, I’m proud of that joke)
These guys?
Cos the imagery is perfect
(Less proud of that one)
Speaking of bad spacing, this one will never not be my favorite.
I think the important question we need to ask is, what evidence have we seen that this troll is not Ted Cruz? Now that his presidential bid has failed Cruz must have a lot of time to sit around and troll the web; and now that his power base has evaporated he has to find somewhere else to be smarmy, condescending and offensive. Trolling people on the web sounds exactly like his thing.
His “debating” tactics are basically those of Cruz, too: ignoring strong points, meandering around weaker ones, blurting out prefabricated talking points like the ghost of Duane Gish, and trying to be as annoying as possible.
I’m not definitely saying that he’s Ted Cruz, of course. I’m just asking questions.
Senator CruzCapslock guy, would you like to issue a denial on the subject, or would you prefer to confess?@PI
‘Clicklovers: you’ll be glad you came’
‘Clicklovers: we give your equipment a good once over’
‘Clicklovers: Gigabytes? Terabytes? RAM size doesn’t matter’
Haha! I’m a child…
Uh, the Click Lovers thing is from GTA V. Is it bad kerning if it’s on purpose?
Unless you knew it was from GTA V than excuse me, I’m just gonna go sit over here.
@ lindesyirene
It’s weird in Europe. There’s VAT on toilet paper and tampons, but not on nappies and incontinence pads. That’s actually a condition of our EU membership, so if we do Brexit then theoretically the UK Govt could zero rate tampons. (That was actually one of the things Cameron asked for in his pre referendum negotiations but was told no special treatment for UK).
Where I live, food is taxed well below the regular rate. Don’t see why other ‘necessities’ shouldn’t as well. Tampons, tp, diapers, as have been said, but also soap, bottled water, etc. Basically, if a family/household probably couldn’t go without it during a long blackout, it should at least be tax reduced
@Alan
I love the EU to death, but fuck if it don’t need somebody to go around and slap some MEPs upside the head. As my mom would say, bring em some Jesus (not in the shitty way, that is)
@ axe
We so should have had you leading the ‘remain’ campaign. (That was pretty much their argument, remain but reform, but they didn’t put it anywhere as brilliantly as you just did)
ETA: if you want a wonderfully quirky example of VAT arguments, check out what the manufacturers of Jaffa Cakes did in order to get zero rated.
@Alan
I’m still flabbergasted by the failure of Remain. Where was the nationalism? Like, I’m as big a critic of my country as anyone, but I love it. The flag, the anthem, the Constitution, the melting pot, the amber waves of grain, I love it. I’m a nationalist, most people probably are. Where was the campaign boisterously selling this as a nationalist issue? Oh right, that campaign was victorious and weaseling their way out of lies on TV the next morning…
‘Britain’s amazing, but the EU is less amazing. Who’s gonna fix it if not us? After all, the Great British Public know what’s what! We can’t avoid them, and their rules are gonna affect us anyway. They’ll royally fuck us over if we’re not around to keep em in line. Are you gonna let em? Like hell, I am!’
Maybe have Rule Britannia swell majestically. Give the listeners nostalgia for a country with power and influence. Spitballin here…
@ axe
There’s been a lot of really interesting analysis of the campaigns post result. People involved can speak freely now about what was really going on. In essence it was a bit of complacency on the remain part (they just assumed in the end people would stick with the devil they know). The campaigns it seems though didn’t have that much of an effect anyway; people had made their minds up ages ago.
You make a good point about nationalism, or at least patriotism. The remain camp did regret going down the ‘leavers are just little Englanders’ route. It made it look like staying in was an abandonment of sovereignty.
On a related note, a mate set up a post Brexit Facebook thing to look at issues for ex-pats in the EU. She asked me to do a bit of filler so I did one of my usual boringly nerdy legal things. Having actually read the various treaties I just raised a question (does leaving the EU automatically mean we leave the EEA and thus the single market?). I assumed that someone would explain why that was the case, but weirdly it seems that my presumption (‘no it doesn’t’) might be correct. I find it very hard to believe all the clever people who know about this stuff haven’t considered this, but it’s caused an interesting kerfuffle. The constitutional lawyers and political experts are going ‘it must do’, but no one yet seems to be able to identify why that is.
Dunno if that’s been mentioned here already, but Trump’s called himself “Mr. Brexit”.
Although he obviously has no clue what the hell that means, leavers should probably take the hint. When what you did is endorsed by Trump, then you probably did something very wrong.
Oh and it looks like France’s own little dumb racist “eurosceptic” party has a chance to win the next election.