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  • Queer acceptance scales very closely with HDI with a 5-20 year lag. The actual causes I believe are poverty reduction, achieved higher education, urbanization, and most recently, internet access, which are all major HDI contributors.

    (There’s also a big contributing factor outside of HDI, which is queer legislation eg., sodomy laws, gay marriage, name/gender changing, surgery, hormone therapy. This more or less defines the boundaries of how much or little queer acceptance is allowed within a country for reasons I do not understand)

    There’s some capitalist tricknology embedded in HDI because of its use of nominal GDP/capita rather than GDP(PPP)/capita, but it’s very widely used and good enough for this application.

    By queer acceptance I’m talking about reduced hate crimes, and myriad trust-me-bro self-surveys, because it’s a somewhat nebulous concept.

    There are of course some very obvious outliers. Rich, extraction based countries (UAE, Bahrain) have a lower than expected rate of acceptance. Poor, tourism based countries (Thailand, Cuba) have much higher acceptance rates than expected.

    There’s also a very noticable East-West divide on which queers are accepted. Western nations strongly prefer cisgender homosexuals, and asian nations are conparatively more lenient when it comes to binary trans people.

    The HDI-queer connection makes a lot of sense dialectically. The further advanced capitalism becomes in a nation, the more thouroughly the vestiges of feudalism are liquidated until a breaking point is reached where they can no longer justify the rigid gender norms that engender queerphobias.












  • I despise western chauvanism, and I see it everywhere now. I’m in the hard sciences right now, and you’d be suprised how woefully entrenched educated liberals still are, even after seeing multiple simultaneous genocides facitiltated by their oh-so progressive liberal parties. It is impossible to confront them and not see the disgust in their eyes.

    The Thailand thing has been happening at all 800+ US military bases since the fifties. It’s kind of crazy people don’t know about this stuff.



  • I’m exaggerating for comedic effect here. I don’t actually want to be a piece of shit liberal again. “Schizophrenic Islamist” isn’t something a modern Marxist-Leninist would ever dare udder about someone else, especially in the current geopolitical situation, where Islam has become a massive anti-imperial counterweight. I’m pointing out here how stifling the atmosphere is in liberal countries when it comes to recounting very real war crimes.






  • The majority of anti-social behaviour is caused externally through poor socialization and adverse life events. With the advent of modern drug-assisted psychotherapy, criminal reform is becoming much easier after the fact as well (IF THEY BOTHERED TO USE IT).

    Punishment should be carried out by having the perpetrator restore damages to the victim. Incarceration should be a last resort for those threatening imminant violence anyways.

    The death penalty is essentially a statement that reforming some individuals is impossible, which I don’t believe will remain true for long due to coming advances in neuroscience.