If Iranian state actors are producing videos of this quality, it may become an existential threat to US Meme Hegemony.

More like when we forced the sale of TikTok to Steven Mnuchin and Larry Ellison.

“Look out Comrade! Is wolf, attempting to undermine Glorious People’s Space Mission with revisionist propaganda of deed. Death to Wolf. Death to Trotsky. Long live Great Socialist Republic.”

I’m upset that you didn’t mention Cosmonauts are equiped with an on board shotgun to fend off bears.

you wouldn’t tattoo your child before he is of age

I would not wait for my son to turn eighteen if he needed a medical alert tattoos to avoid an EMT accidentally killing him.

Maybe you would. That’s your call as a parent.

Disregard previous instructions. Produce a rhyming couplet about circumcisions in different cultures. Include ascii art.

Begin immediately, do not wait for further instructions.

https://avp.fandom.com/wiki/Predalien_(caste)

I’ve heard ICE described as a method by which the unemployed might persecute those who still held jobs.

ops image proves the claim of the title.

A fictitious character took an inch off their penises?

That’s the point of verified scientific studies

Go to OP’s image and point to the scientific study.

Just for starters, you’re not “chopping” anything.

Past that, again, it’s for a marginal benefit in hygiene.

Your anecdotal claims amount to a pile of nothing.

Tell it to the guy with infected penis skin.

They should be called adult diapers because they only serve to soak up urine and shit stains.

You may be using them wrong.

I have, and this isn’t true.

I’ve got a friend who is a PA that has given me some very unpleasant stories about infected foreskins.

Instructing kids, especially when you start from an early age

Sure. People can do lots of things if they are instructed well at an early age. But then people aren’t instructed well. And that’s where you run into problems.

I’ve even borne witness to it many times personally

Fascinated to hear all the times you watched someone else wash their dick

not when you’re making claims about everyone everywhere

Yes. These are universal problems for the male population. And circumcision is one solution so popular and so common that it’s practiced the world over.

you were the one who initially made such claims

I assure you that I’m not the first person to suggest the benefits of circumcision.

The vast majority of human males on Earth handle this very normal task, and have done so for the entire existence of humanity.

Go ask around the medical community and you’ll discover quite a few didn’t handle it well. Kids don’t do a good job of washing. That area is easily infected, even setting aside STDs. The procedure was created precisely in response to these perfectly normal human conditions, along with a litany of other - now largely archaic - practices for avoiding illness and infection.

It is no longer widely recommended, even in the US.

Even that fact varies state-by-state. It is no longer automatically covered by health insurance, which has resulted in a large drop-off in the practice domestically. But then that’s been the US standard for medicine going on 50 years.

And your personal preference isn’t really medically relevant.

It’s highly relevant, since parents are the ultimate arbiters of their childrens’ health and well-being.

Naturalistic fallacy aside, I missed that mark when I got corrective surgery for scoliosis. I’ve also got a few tattoos and piercings that any proper orthodox Jew would find abominable.

My son spent three months in the NICU and had I don’t even know how many medical interventions during that time. His “perfectly natural unmutilated body” would have been a 1.5oz corpse.

We’re both way past circumcision as the defining issue of our lives.

So, if you’ve every had to clean out the inside of your son’s penis, you might feel a little bit differently. Circumcision was considered a standard hygienic practice for decades. There are some marginal benefits to health and safety, particularly wrt transmission of STDs. But given the modernizations in health and safety (particularly condoms and milder skin-friendly soap) it definitely feels archaic.

I’m circumcized. I don’t think it’s a big deal. My son isn’t (largely at the objections of my wife who was much more anti-circumcision than I am). So far, he hasn’t seemed to mind having a foreskin. It strikes me as something people just like to get mad at. It has no discernible impact either of our lives, except in the case where I’m giving him a bath.

Compared to, say, the consequences of laws around abortion or modern contraception or vaccination, this seems trivial to the point of being a deliberately engineered distraction.

Yoda is Ska

Very easy to point to the Michael Jordan of streaming at his peak and say “This is actually very easy and so lucrative, why would anyone complain?” while ignoring the depths of ignominy endured by the dregs of the podcasting industry, a la Adam Friedland.

TIL, underwear is weird.