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This seems reasonable, honestly.

The kid took a gun illegally across state lines

This is literally untrue at one end and deliberately deceitful on the other. Literally the only portion of that sentence that is correct and not misleading is "the kid", lmao:

• He didn't take possession of the rifle until the morning after he arrived in Kenosha
• "State lines" is deceitfully repeated ad nauseam, stating something that's literally true, but is obviously stated specifically that way with the intent to create the illusion that he traveled a great distance, far away from his community. But here are the facts:
  • He traveled 20 miles--he literally lived on the other side of the border.
  • He used to work there, his father lives there, etc.--this WAS his community, lol.

Pretty hilarious that the very first thing you retort with is both false and deceitful. People like you don't even know the most basic facts of the matter, and what you do know, you deliberately twist with deceitful intent. You've got your narrative, and damned if you aren't going to stick to it like glue, no matter what the reality is.

Thanks for proving my point so succinctly.

If you can shoot someone and get away with it - as in during the Rittenhouse murder

This was absolutely clear-cut self defense, and there is so much direct video evidence out there accessible to the public, including the whole damned trial, that anyone who still claims Rittenhouse "murdered" anyone in Kenosha is outing themselves as an ideologue who readily rejects inconvenient facts.

It's not murder to stop someone who is literally in the middle of an attempt to kill you, and "he shouldn't have been there" is 'she was asking for it by choosing to dress that way'-tier apologism.

The coup de grace has to be you comparing Iceland to Saudi Arabia.

Okay I guess you're just illiterate. YOU are the one that asserts that a bigger man/woman gap means there is more sexism. Therefore, YOU consider Iceland one of the MOST sexist countries, because it has a HUGE man/woman gap in construction, MUCH wider and further away from 50/50 than in the vast majority of countries.

That is the conclusion YOUR logic produces, not mine.

• Fact: Iceland has made great strides in gender equality, at the very least, relative to other nations, and has earned its place at the top of that gender equality index.
• Fact: Iceland's man/woman gap in construction is MUCH larger than it is in nations that are known to have SIGNIFICANTLY less gender equality overall.

Therefore, the obvious conclusion, for any rational thinking person, is that it is clearly incorrect to equate the size of that gap to the level of gender equality.

You still can't contend with the simple burning question that arises from the two simple facts above, so until you address it, the following is all you're going to get from me as a response from now on:

If sexism is the cause of that gap, how is it that the gap is larger in less sexist countries, than it is in more sexist countries?

Aldi has cruelty guaranteed eggs

Uh...

You're lying.

Did you think nobody was going to check? lol

Where with all the animals if all went vegan now?

Why are the vegans sounding more like cavemen than the meat-eaters?

Where with all the animals if all went vegan now?

Why are the vegans sounding more like cavemen than the meat-eaters?

Culturally Sweden may be more or less sexist than the US.

Nah, the research has been done, the data is in. There is no "may".

But why don't we push my argument as far as it can go and look at the country rated literally #1 in the world for gender equality, Iceland? It's had that distinction for well over a decade, so it's no flash in the pan you can accuse of being cherry-picked.

Well, it turns out that according to Iceland's most recent national census, the percentage of women in construction in the most gender equal country on the planet is SIX.

I have already provided evidence in the form of Norway that disputes your pet theory.

You cherry picked a country that has had national gender quotas since 2003--what, think I wouldn't notice your sneaky little maneuver? You're not going to get good information about what men and women freely choose to do for a living in a country that literally directly manipulates the sex ratio in the workforce.

You conflate progressive laws with sexism itself

No, you're the one who does that, because you're the one that assumes that the gap is in and of itself evidence of sexism. In reality, the evidence clearly shows that with less sexism, which translates to men and women being more empowered to make their own free choice about what they want to do for a living, men and women's average differences in preference of career manifests more strongly.

Your insistence that there is zero difference of preference between the sexes, and that therefore anything but a 50/50 ratio in an industry is indicative of sexism, is complete bunk.

Men and women are not identical, no matter how much of a tantrum you throw. In the country consistently regarded as being the most gender equal, construction is dramatically more male-dominated than in the average country.

Having progressive laws does not suddenly end sexism.

No one said it did. But you're arguing that progressive laws INCREASE sexism! lmao

Your goofball 'logic' would place Iceland among the LEAST gender equal countries, closer to Afghanistan and Saudi Arabia than the US! Do you really not understand how you are literally arguing that up is down?

Sweden is still a sexist society

Nobody said there was zero sexism in Sweden. I'm talking in relative terms. All that's needed to make my point is for Sweden to be less sexist than the US. And it is--in fact, it's top 4 in the world on gender equality indexes.

The fact, again, is that countries that are more egalitarian re sex have been found to exhibit, as was just evidenced, steeper sex skews in the workforce, than less egalitarian countries.

This roundly refutes the assumption that sexism is the primary cause of the skew's existence. If it was, reducing sexism would narrow the gap, not widen it.

I realize this fact doesn't confirm your biases, but it is the fact of the matter nonetheless.

lol...do you sink in mercury?

the construction industry in Sweden consists of only 11 per cent women."

Meanwhile, in the US:

According to the Bureau of Labor Statistics, approximately 14% of construction workers [are] female.

Oh, look at that, it's exactly what I just said: the country with MORE gender equality overall, Sweden, has the LARGER gender skew. Construction is MORE male-dominated in Sweden than in the US.

So, once more:

Explain how, if sexism is the reason for the gap in the first place, it can be that less sexism leads to a wider gap (which you just unwittingly proved is the case). Be specific.

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