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Part 1

A man is traveling by foot when he sees a party of merchants walking in the opposite direction. With that party is a donkey who is heavily burdened with all the merchandise. The man noticing the donkey ready to collapse, states, "That donkey is carrying too much! Take off some of those things so that he does not die from exhaustion!"

The merchants take a look at the donkey and see that the man is correct. They start to discuss among themselves what they should do.

I have a theory about the supposed increase in autists. The internet is to blame. Not simply because people can look up terms and mis-diagnose themselves (though this is part of it), but rather that the internet has the unfortunate side effect of allowing people to be "terminally online."

When you are doing the vast majority of your communication through text alone, you are missing most of the actual communication you would get in a natural social situation (vocal inflections, emotions)

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For anyone who wants marriage and family in their future, I have some advice:

Don't marry wrong. If that means not marrying at all, so be it.

It is indeed better to not marry at all than to make the wrong choice on who to marry. I will never tell any man that they have an obligation to get married, because in spite of the fact that I am married myself, I understand that my path is not one that can or should be prescribed to all other men.

"Walmart employees get paid so little that they have to be on food stamps! We should not be subsidizing corporations!"

I get the idea of forcing Walmart to pay their employees more. But hear me out: what if we took away the food stamps? For everyone. Walmart would not be able to take advantage of this program indirectly anymore.

But people who think more government is the solution cannot fathom that maybe the problem is caused by the very policies they support.

I can tell you firsthand when I was in college that every deparment that had "underrepresentation for women" constantly pandered and bent over backwards to get them in the door. And we have seen this with hiring policies with diversity quotas, where women get priority just because they are women. This old asshole either does not realize this, or is straight up lying when he says "women don't have any advantages and they are still succeeding!"

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-wCS5PE2QmE

It is fascinating that a subset of old white guys like this will claim that "white men have so much privilige and they are still falling behind!" Has it occurred to them that their premise of this so called privilege is wrong?

Ask the young white men today if they think they have privilege when they see the opposite during all their years in school filled with women teachers, family court policies that keep them away from their fathers, and hiring policies.

I have a morbid curiosity about how our world would end up if white people did stop existing. While many anti-white factions may initially see this as a good thing, they would soon find out that not only did having white people gone not solve their problems, but actually made things worse.

I most certainly do not want this to happen, but if it does happen then at least those who wished for it will get the horrible future they deserve.

Another thing, we should most certainly not have any alternative languages for voting in the US to English. You can't read English well enough to understand the ballot? Too bad. I would not expect to go live in Japan and expect them to provide me a ballot in English for their elections (assuming I somehow became eligible in their country).

So we have both an intelligence test and assimilation test right there, with not only no extra work, but less.

Voting should remain a difficult thing to do or should become a more difficult task. If you are incapable of doing the long term planning of figuring out how to register to vote, figure out what identification you need, where and when to vote, how should I expect you to understand the consequences of who and what you vote for?

@Tfmonkey "There's nothing in the Bible that condemns incest."

Are you for real? Leviticus 18 goes over this extensively. It does not prohibit sexual relations/marriage between cousins, so that might be a point of contention. But to say there is no condemnation of incest is just wrong.

I will not defend the whole situation with Lot and his daughters. It does not condemn or condone what happened, but rather just says that it happened.

The slippery slope "fallacy" has been proven to be an effective tactic to shut down opposition to incremental enactment of unwanted policies and outcomes. In fact, I would argue that those proclaiming this as fallacious thinking are themselves are appealing to fallacious reasoning by simply declaring other outcomes as absurd. It also employs shaming tactics, where you use ridicule to suppress anyone who might see that the end outcomes are not so impossible as was implied by naysayers.

Hell, we still have people doubting whether or not we landed on the Moon. Because that (alleged) feat is indeed something that is no easy task. I myself am apathetically agnostic on whether or not we landed on the Moon. I can accept either outcome as possibly being true. But I understand that limitations are far greater than people think when it comes to other possible journeys.