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@mutageno 1 trillion? That is some bullshit. Sure, there are people who look for opportunities to get less money stolen from them, but I have a hard time believing they will get that much substantial money.

It's about control.

@LouisConde I am sure he had plenty of practice surpressing his gag reflex.

@Tfmonkey I know the daylight savings time change has happened now, but can you guess which president championed it? You only need one guess, because it is the very president who you already think is the worst. Just another thing to add to the lists of reasons he was terrible.

@Aether @DasSauerkraut Pretty sure all you have to do is change a letter on your driver's license, and BAM! You're a woman! Who cares if you have a beard, an Adam's apple, and an intact penis? A woman is whatever you want it to be, bigot!

@BigSkyRider Just think about how much propaganda they threw at people like us, only to still have us not take the mystery juice shot. It was not enough for them to put out their government ad campaigns and have the complicit media shill the vaxx, they wanted others to "organically" shill for the vaxx on their own. I did not know this, but I am not surprised.

But it was still not enough.

@Humpleupagus You just haven't embraced your inner Village People properly.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nmGuy0jievs

If the election in 2022 was stolen to any extent (pretty much yes), I will say it is far less obvious and overt compared to 2020. The usual suspects of Nevada, Arizona, Pennsylvania, Georgia, should be looked at critically, but even if the swing state races all went Republican, there still would not be enough to actually change things for the better. And it is not as if the Republicans are going to save this country.

And taking the House by a tiny majority is at best going to stall things.

@blitzdriver "Ackshully, climate change means there will be more extremes! So it will cause both droughts and flooding to happen more often. But when there are periods where there are not extreme weather conditions, we will just ignore that and still yammer on about climate change. And we will not talk about how extreme weather conditions still happened before there was any industrialization."

Remember when "climate change" used to be called global warming? I 'member.

@mutageno Another case of the furbaby insanity. No, your cats (or dogs in those cases) are not your children. Stop putting them on an equivalent level. She claims to not want children, but her maternal instincts make her want to care for something.

If she does not realize that she actually wants children (most women do), she will find herself in quite a bit of misery when she is older with no family to call her own.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0Wai7VFzycI

Hard to know if poa.st will love this or hate this. But here it is.

@DW2 I always get curious about how many people actually understand their own financial decisions when they claim they cannot afford children. So many people make the same normie financial mistakes that it is no wonder they are broke. You can afford to live a good life raising a family so long as you are willing to forgo "keeping up with the Jones's."

Newsflash: the Jones's are able to live like that because they are overextended on debt. And they are not happy in the end either.

@DW2 A lot of dirt poor countries have high birth rates. Why are their poor economic conditions not lowering their birth rates? Maybe because economics does not fully answer the question of poor birth rates, or really at all.

Yes, being able to afford a family helps, but so many people could make it work if they really wanted to. How many couples are strapping themselves with unnecessary debt? That new car? That Ivy League degree? An oversized house? None of these are needed for a family.

@DW2 People can claim that if we just "fix the economic issues" that birth rates will come back up. But we also hear the claim that birth rates are down because people in developed countries have less children. That message contradicts "the economy being bad lowers the birth rate." It cannot be both. Feminism causes both the economic issues by depressing wages as well as causing the birth rates to fall, and the correlation of economics and birth rates disguises the true causes.

@DW2 "Economic struggles" are not the crux of the problem for why people are not having children. Feminism is the reason why there are low birth rates. That does tie into economic issues, such depressing wages across the board. A man could more easily support a family if he did not have his own earning potential/buying power knee-capped by inflating the workforce without any real added value. Given that many women do make-work bullshit jobs, having them out of the workforce would be good.

@Heil_Honkler If this is the trial I am thinking of, it was purposefully set up to fail. The one I am thinking of had a waiting period of a week before administering ivermectin as a treatment. By that time, you are already too late to have the treatment help (early intervention is key) or you are already over being sick.

But of course, the lying asshole media just reports "ivermectin doesn't work" and not even discuss these details.

@Bvst3r White people created ships and spent many years exploring trade routes just to get spices to eat with their food.

@Pain66 @Tfmonkey Hard to know how genuine Lauren Chen is with her politics. That applies really to anyone major online, not just tradthots. I think she is better than many other tradthots out there, at least so far.

@ButtWorldsMan @Pain66 @Tfmonkey I only know about Norway specifically because I have a family member living there. Countries like Sweden, I do not know for sure.

Either way, you have to accept the trade offs when it comes to having any system. Idealistic idiots think they can just add the benefits of another system without the other parts being included.

@ButtWorldsMan @Pain66 @Tfmonkey There are important trade-offs to consider with a "Scandinavian" system. Norway, for example, does have generous benefits for their citizens in terms of healthcare and other policies. But they also have an extremely restrictive immigration system. This is not a coincidence, but rather a necessary part of the package.

I doubt most American leftists would be happy being as restrictive as Norway is. They really do not see the whole picture with things like this.

@LukeAlmighty @WashedOutGundamPilot @Aether As a married man who is married to a mutual virgin prior to marriage, I can say that I am quite happy that she did not have the "experience." The premise that you will get "better sex" is hardly well merited when any slut can get a high partner count while being a dead fish in bed.

Enthusiasm on her end will make the sex far better than any "experience" that apparently needs to come from her being with other men before you.