Europe
Europe community on dbzer0. Intended to be a place to discuss European news, politics, or just general topics from a European perspective. Since this is on dbzer0 expect the community to lean more leftist-anarchist but a wide range of views are accepted here (within reason).
Rules:
1. No Bigotry or Hate Speech
Any forms of Homophobia, Transphobia, Queerphobia, Racism, or Ableism will be met with swift and harsh action and will not be tolerated here whatsoever. Bigots will be banned immediately on-sight. This includes apologia of it.
Trying to be politely or intellectually bigoted i.e. "Just asking questions" won't be tolerated.
2. No Zionism
Any forms of Zionism or Zionist rhetoric will not be tolerated here, this includes Zionist apologia, accusations of antisemitism towards anti-Zionists, or blatant denial or downplaying of the genocide towards Palestinians. Any attempt to uphold or prop up the IHRA definition of antisemitism, will be treated as Zionism.
Anyone engaging in Pro-Zionist sentiment or apologia will be actioned in accordance with its severity.
Note: Trying to find loopholes or whataboutery to see what is or isn't genocide denial or Zionism will be treated as a violation of this rule. Don't test us.
3. Stay Civil
Please maintain civil discourse in the community. Do not engage in arguments with others, name-calling, or insults. Note that calling out bigotry or Zionism is not considered an insult. In heated arguments users are encouraged to or even required to disengage failure to do so will result in mod action.
4. No Misinformation
Spreading of misinformation intentionally in this community is unacceptable and will not be tolerated. Spreading misinformation hurts the credibility of the community and can mislead people sometimes in dangerous ways. Users who intentionally post misinformation as articles, comment answers, or in attempt to win arguments will be actioned swiftly.
Note: This includes Russian and Chinese propaganda. Users with a history of such posting will be banned on sight.
5. No AI Content
Please do not post articles or content primarily created using generative AI. Generative AI content may contain misinformation or be lower quality and thus is discouraged. Posts and comments featuring it will be removed. However this community does not allow or tolerate Anti-AI trolling or hostility and users who engage in such behavior will be actioned for it, additionally Anti-AI trolling violates Rule 3 and often Rule 4 so it is generally unacceptable already.
Note: Rules 1 & 2 may be subject to preemptive mod action due to their severity, and they apply to a user's entire post history. Not just this community.
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LMAO that would be meaningless as consent can be withdrawn at any time.
It's really not difficult to continually affirm consent. You're making up demons that don't exist.
Here's a nice listen!
How do you prove that consent was present? In court?
How often do you end up in court? Has someone accused you of assault for bumping into them in public? Has anyone sued you for forgetting to repay them $10?
I have not ended up in court. It really depends on what kind of people you deal with.
The overwhelming majority of people would not falsely accuse people of sexual assault. Even of those who would do it, I reckon most would only do it against a high net worth individual. Still, there have been documented cases of false accusations landing people in jail.
While I was being hyperbolic, it's still food for thought. How DO you prove consent after the fact unless you had a signed contract? Not to mention the fact that consent can be withdrawn DURING intercourse even if there was consent in the beginning. To legally be 100% protected, you'd have to have a contract AND a video recording for every time you have sex. Video recording to prove that consent was not withdrawn after the fact. Contract to get permission for sex and the recording of said sex.
To be clear, I am somewhat kidding, but also not. No, I have never signed contracts, nor recorded having sex. But I HAVE broken the rule of "don't stick your dick in crazy" and I am moderately scared of what future holds for me - luckily I have 2 years of text conversations proving that it was a consensual relationship (I mean technically not all consensual on my part, she threatened me plenty, just not for sex).
To illustrate how crazy we're talking about: She essentially whined me into getting her mom airpods and an apple watch as a gift. Since she was an extremely explosive pregnant lady, I agreed. Later when she got into a spat with her mom, she asked for the things back and when she didn't get them back from her mom, she had me file a police report for theft of these things. Literally the kinda person who falsely accuses everyone of everything to get things. I'm in for a bumpy ride.
Oh and of course if anyone is asking "wait, the relationship only lasted two years and she was pregnant?" - well naturally, she claimed to be on the pill. And a sheet of said pills did appear on a countertop when she started hanging around my place. But I suspect she was just throwing them down the toilet once a day. This was month #1.