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A "Showerthought" is a simple term used to describe the thoughts that pop into your head while you're doing everyday things like taking a shower, driving, or just daydreaming. The most popular seem to be lighthearted clever little truths, hidden in daily life.
Here are some examples to inspire your own showerthoughts:
- Both “200” and “160” are 2 minutes in microwave math
- When you’re a kid, you don’t realize you’re also watching your mom and dad grow up.
- More dreams have been destroyed by alarm clocks than anything else
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- If your topic is in a grey area, please phrase it to emphasize the fascinating aspects, not the dramatic aspects. You can do this by avoiding overly politicized terms such as "capitalism" and "communism". If you must make comparisons, you can say something is different without saying something is better/worse.
- A good place for politics is c/politicaldiscussion
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You wanted an example of where the accusations of rape directly led to ruined lives, and I gave you one.
Sure, in the example I gave the motive behind the accusations was racism, but the accusation was still about rape. The original commenter was pointing out that any and all accusations must be met with suspicion in order for "innocent until proven guilty" to function.
What that doesn't mean is that any and all accusations of rape should be dismissed because the accuser is a woman. There's a difference here
Should the police believe someone when they claim they've been raped and should the police investigate? Yes.
Should the police, court of law, court of public opinion believe a rape accusation purely because the accuser is a woman? No.
They should believe it long enough to investigate! That is what the saying means.
At this point I'm wondering if your National Reconnaissance Office mission patch profile pic is supposed to be ironic or not. It shouldn't take an intelligence officer to discover literally the sentence before the one you quoted.
I was confirming that it needed to at least reach the step prior. Sorry for not doing a full diagram with arrows and stuff to make that clear.
Reading would have been enough.
Figured they knew what they wrote, silly me!
They did.