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@dave Looks like something caused him to get a burst blood vessel (even propaganda outlets like this report it) :

https://www.npr.org/2022/12/14/1142647682/grant-wahl-autopsy-world-cup-qatar

Yeah, his wife says it was not the vaxx, but gee, we sure see a lot of cardiovascular problems right around the time they were pushing everyone to get vaxxed.

@WashedOutGundamPilot @deprecated_ii Perhaps family is not the only thing that gives men stake, but it sure is a major one. Men need to know that they will not be screwed over at any moment or be stuck in a miserable marriage in order for them to have a desire to get married in the first place. Though frankly, so many women are not marriageable that even rolling back some of the bad laws might not be enough.

Hey Dave, how about we give men a better deal before bringing on the shaming tactics?

@WashedOutGundamPilot @deprecated_ii Just what is causing young men to give up? They feel they have no stake in society. What gives men a feeling of having stake in society? A family. And look what has happened to the family. Divorce is rampant, thanks to women being able to turn "till death do us part" to "for whatever reason I feel like." So many men simply cannot see having a family and KEEPING said family as a realistic prospect.

Give men a better deal, and they can once more be motivated.

@WashedOutGundamPilot @deprecated_ii Dave Ramsey has a good understanding about how to manage personal finances and help people get out of debt, but he does not have an "eyes on the ground" view of what is going on with younger generations.

It is just like in Office Space when Peter says "It's not that I'm lazy, it's that I just don't care." So many young men just don't care any more. Give them a good reason to go out there and work, and they will do it.

Even when you ask parents if they would be proud of their child if he/she grew up to be President, they would say they would. But being adults themselves, the parents should know better about this sort of thing.

So I will say that I would never want a child of mine to become president. I don't need to wonder how many crimes they have committed to keep themselves in power.

So many kids grow saying things like "when I grow up I want to become President." Little do they know how corrupt our political system is, and more likely than not if you have an real chance of becoming president, you are a scumbag. Nobody keeps themselves in power in a corrupt system by having good moral character.

https://www.theepochtimes.com/handwritten-letters-tell-stories-of-life-as-jan-6-prisoner-in-new-book_4827194.html

I have heard rumors about the Jan 6th prisoners, and I am inclined to believe these stories to be true. What irks me is not only that these people are being wrongfully imprisoned and are being mistreated, but also that I have no faith in the people responsible for keeping them locked up will never be held responsible.

Sorry that there is a paywall for this story.

@Tfmonkey I get what you are saying about pullups. It can get overhyped. But there is one useful merit to them, that being it proves you are not too fat for your own body to be able to pull its own weight.

The problems arise when guys are either cheating reps with crap like kipping or some other action to pad their numbers, or when some beanpole has barely any weight to pull in the first place. That makes every claim suspect.

@DW2 @WhiteDissidentRadio >small period of time where there is a decrease
>"inflation is easing"

It is not so much that the lie is retarded that pisses me off, but our own media will just happily parrot this shit without any desire to be critical.

@deprecated_ii >knowing how to write a for loop not matter

U wot mate? Every time I feel like I am not that great of a programmer, I see how far into the ground the bar has been driven with things like this. It is bad enough that CS students can't do the 101 rubric, but you have people rationalizing it away by saying it does not matter.

It's like saying that being able to use a power drill is not an important skill in the construction business.

@dave @Humpleupagus You're far less likely to die of Covid at all because Omicron is so mild that it does not kill anyone. Notice how they don't talk about number of deaths "with" covid (which was a bullshit statistical trick as well)? It's all about the CASES! OOOOOOOO! So scary! People popping positive for a test that is questionable for a virus that is now far less dangerous than it initially was.

Not taking any of the shots. No thank you.

@TegraMorgan @Tfmonkey The findings about how women vote are not wrong, but that does not mean that it explains the "results" of the vote. You can still have election shenanigans and have whores voting in favor of abortion.

@StevenBeschloss You and your kind have done more to radicalize people than any other group. Why the hell do journalists hate white people so much? All a white nationalist has to do is pull up some articles by your fellow journalists and they have a far more persuasive argument than anything they could say themselves.

@basedbagel And sometimes a pawn is able to reach a greater potential under the right circumstances.

I don't think this necessarily means anything changes, but I have no idea why this is going on:

https://www.usatoday.com/story/opinion/voices/2022/12/09/sen-kyrsten-sinema-of-arizona-why-im-registering-as-an-independent/10864551002/

The two "independent" Senators we already have basically just vote along Democrat lines anyways, so Sinema changing her party affiliation in itself is probably meaningless. But I am wondering if there is some weird behind the scenes action going on, as the political theater itself is never the true story anyways.

@PapaPole @Tfmonkey @furgar One problem with the so called metaverse is the barrier to entry that is buying an expensive VR setup. Who is going to buy a VR headset to do something as cringeworthy as "party in the metaverse?" Nobody. People buy VR headsets to do other things such as video games.

Whoever came up with these plans are really out of touch with what people want.