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@Tfmonkey And if you have no electricity and see mushroom clouds in the distance, then shit got very, very real and we are all doomed.

@Yetimon You are an idiot. That other set of "religious practices" is just an ideology that claims to transcend religion while being just as zealous with their beliefs. The people pushing this faggot shit are not believing in a higher power, or are outright ignoring anything that they would be taught.

You are more cringeworthy than any religious person I have seen. You bring nothing of value, and if we follow your prescribed plan we will have a worse world.

I may have previously mentioned that I found many Jewish traditions a tad bit ridiculous (e.g. not being able to even use a regular light switch during Shabbat), but as far as I can observe, they are not the ones at the forefront of all the leftist garbage agenda worldwide (such as all the pride shit and drag queen shit). That would be the progressive Jews who are far less likely to be practicing their religion. Rather, they just find another set of religious practices, and force it on everyone.

Prior to the happening in Israel with Hamas, I heard about this little event where progressive Jews were ass mad about orthodox Jews wanting to keep with their traditions , which includes gender segregation for things like this.

"You can't do that! It's unfair that men and women are put into separate groups, because everyone is equal!"

Seeing this, I prefer the orthodox Jews to the lefty progressive ones, as the latter are the ones pushing their stupid bullshit on everyone else.

Every day I don't suddenly find out that shit hit the fan with nuclear war or don't find myself getting a draft notice is a day I can appreciate. I would like to think that everything will keep going on fine, but I cannot count on that.

I would much prefer a quieter "bad ending" where standards of living simply goes down across the board, but we shall see. The assholes in power are not to be trusted.

@mrhorsetwat Will buy shoes, food and clothes, sure. But with whose money? That's right, yours! You won't see much in returns, but big businesses will get some more money, and the politicians get more voters, and those same "refugees" can take on more debt so that the can will be kicked a little further down the road.

Just another broken window fallacy line of thinking.

@WashedOutGundamPilot Yeah, knowing all the same references is about as important to a relationship as what flavor of ice cream you both like. Which is to say, not at all important.

My wife and I have very different tastes for things we like to watch. Nothing wrong with that. She does not care that I do not watch many murder mysteries and I don't care that she is not into anime.

@WashedOutGundamPilot Many men may overlook a woman who is not really all that intellectually engaging or interesting due to the fact that he is willing to put up with a woman for as long as he is enjoying the sex. And if he tires of that, he has no further reason to engage in a relationship with her.

Meanwhile, the same woman may think she has "great conversational skills" because her feedback is comprised only of other vapid women and men who just want to sleep with them.

@WashedOutGundamPilot >jobs wages
Same projecting as always

>ridiculously good company

Now this is a point that needs addressing. Maybe they are good company for other WOMEN, but for men? Is that still the case?

Yes, the meme often goes that women are not worth conversing with, and that is true to a point. But I don't think it is just about capability or intelligence, but rather that women often never had to try being good at conversation in order for them to attract and keep men.

@caekislove @WashedOutGundamPilot Hey now. That's a little too much oversimplification of their jobs, wouldn't you say? Sometimes they have to send emails, and that can be stressful! You don't know how hard it is to do BOTH PowerPoint presentations and sending emails. Sometimes you get uncomfortable sitting in your chair too long or the AC is going just a little too strong but not strong enough to put on another layer of clothes.

Not as easy as you thought, is it now?

@mrhorsetwat often it is both the parents and the teachers being bad, not just one or the other. But usually the parents are the bigger problem. Some parents think that they don't have to do anything other than just hand them off to the teachers and take no role in their education.

These days, it would be foolish to assume that your child is learning properly, especially since teachers are usually the least intelligent among the "educated" (see: grades and test scores of Education majors).

@MasterSimper @shortstories I don't know about that. If your profile picture is reflective of who you are, you are just going to be enabling them. The last thing they need is another cat in their lives.

In retrospect, it looks like a lot of changes for the better are happening as a result of the election being stolen from Trump. Trump might have been competent enough to make sure that the conflicts in Ukraine and Israel would not happen. Only the Biden admin could screw up that hard.

Not that Trump was amazingly competent, but these events would probably had different outcomes with him still in office. And unfortunately those outcomes would be the US maintaining their GAE empire longer.

@shortstories It is just a TERF instance that federated with the likes of us assholes because all the other lefty instances hate that the spinster instance does not like trannies.

They are still feminist, they just do not like that the progressive agenda puts them in the back of the bus in favor of the troons. Do not feel sympathy for them.

@sardonicsmile Please tell me he cut his losses and cancelled any future plans he thought he would have with her. There is nothing worth moving forward with such a woman.

If I was the father, I would be livid to have raised a daughter who became an unapologetic whore. He is just as passive now as he probably was during the years he was raising her.

It is not enough to be in the daughter's life as the father. He needs to have a spine as well.

@kaiservenom @Tfmonkey Depends on who you ask. Some on the right might cite them, but I suspect a lefty might cite some Scandinavian country with a birthrate of 1.7 instead of 1.4. All of which is due to immigrants in those countries having a lot of kids while the native population still has a low birthrate, which shows that the generous welfare does not raise birth rates but rather just attracts those who are looking for more money with kids they already would have had regardless.

@kaiservenom @Tfmonkey Japan's work culture may have some issues, but it is not THE reason that the birth rates are low. This is pretty much just "the economy is the reason people are not having children" meme that has been used as an excuse.

I don't think I need to say it is women's empowerment lowering birth rates, but for those that want to blame economic conditions should be told to provide an example of a "good" economy where birth rates are good. Most likely they will have no example.

@sardonicsmile If I were in a combat zone wondering if I am going to make it out alive or not, I certainly would not want to be wearing the kind of socks I don't like! Just think about how stressed I would be, thinking, "Oh my socks just don't feel right! How can I focus on staying alive when my socks are all wrong?"

I get the feeling that the US is going to keep balking on any real commitment to boots on the ground operations because they know that their ranks are full of failures like this.