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@Tfmonkey Quote: "

Neither Jesus nor Paul was married in the New Testament. 1 Corinthians 7 urges single Christians not to get married so they can focus on Kingdom work. The case for marriage has to be overwhelmingly attractive for a man to pursue marriage. These news stories are discouraging men from marrying."

@Tfmonkey Not saying you will fully agree with WinteryKnight, but I should defend him when you do not have the full context of his viewpoints:

https://winteryknight.com/2023/01/06/texas-supreme-court-allows-ex-wife-to-take-gender-confused-son-to-california/

He is NOT saying that men should just get married no matter what. In fact, he advocates against men from doing the standard tradcuck line of "You have to get married no matter what."

Unfortunately, he does shame Jeff Younger for marrying the wrong woman, but at least he does not advocate for marriage no matter what.

@WashedOutGundamPilot >men who have sex with men

What is wrong with saying homosexual men? Or gay men? Or are they factoring in gay incels? And are those even a thing?

@Humpleupagus Every mention of the horoscope crap makes me cringe. You thinking that a birth date or "the alignment of the stars" has any impact on your compatibility with someone tells me you are a moron and your idiocy is not limited to your adherence to obvious bullshit.

Since she is clearly to old to reproduce, at least her idiocy will end at herself.

@37712 @apopheniac I am not saying they would not fall in line, but rather that most Americans have not contemplated having to live with less food options. Even during the scamdemic, people were able to get Doordashed food of their choice. People were mad about being restricted, though yes, most of them did nothing about it.

@deprecated_ii the only problem I have with this comic is that nearly everyone will think that the sea lion only describes their enemies but never themselves. And I am sure that many people will not have the self awareness to see that they would do the same thing when they wish to engage in bad faith with their opposition.

@37712 @apopheniac Can you imagine Americans being forced into a ration system again, like what was done during WWII? I don't think most American could fathom eating a more meager diet with limited choices. I know I am spoiled with the abundance of choice and quantity of food.

I cannot tell you what it is like to live as a Russian (despite my username, I am not Russian), but it seems too many talking heads think they know exactly how it is, as well as what war is too.

@Heil_Honkler "The people have noticed. And some of them are willing to kill us too. Better just keep going with our plans!"

This is why they want the people unarmed. Not that they are necessarily going to be able to take on the army guarding the conference, but rather that when you have enough people desperate and pissed off, they might be crazy enough to try.

@WashedOutGundamPilot This post is telling on the intelligence of our teachers. Pretty sure she should have known teachers do not make bank, because the teachers and other propaganda outlets never shut up about it. So she should not have been blind to that. But still she thought of that as "getting her life together" and found out that she cannot even pay for the degree she earned.

Not to mention her being a stripper in the past.

Now what is so bad about being a stay at home wife?

@WashedOutGundamPilot >drama free

Yes, a woman who would become a stripper would be so well adjusted that she could never be the cause of drama. I am pretty sure those who claim to hate drama or not have any part of it are the ones who cause it the most often.

Tangenting here, but I recall someone posting a woman trying to tell someone (a doctor I think) that she is autistic, and her claim was immediately dismissed. I would most likely agree with the doctor there.

And no, women, you don't have OCD, ADHD, or ADD. Too many of you are saying that. If you are joking, then no problem. Just don't think that the being able to be distracted or having regular habits of tidiness makes you have some sort of disorder.

So if you think that you are autistic because of these factors, you might want to first determine whether you just have social atrophy. And look into other symptoms of autism, as there is a whole lot more, such as hypersensitivity, being obsessive with topics to the point of annoying others, being way too attached to routines. Chances are, your self diagnosis will be incorrect.

And please, talk to people in person more often. Flex those social muscles and see you are no sperg.

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As someone who has Asperger's, I know the ins and outs of the struggle with communication. But conversing online does not affect me the same as non-autists, because I was already often missing many of the social cues in regular conversations. So when I am also missing them in text, it makes far less of a difference for me.

Now that I think about it, it is not just "online" communication. Many people rarely use their phones for calls, but rather texting. This has the same effect.

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When you are missing most parts of the communication and are doing less in person communication, what you get are a bunch of people who can no longer communicate properly. They sort become like autists, who also struggle with communication. But these people are not autistic, but rather have social atrophy. It is like someone who never goes to the gym and is a beanpole as a result thinking they have muscular dystrophy when in reality, they are just not using their muscles when they could be.

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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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@WashedOutGundamPilot With proper source control this should be a trivial thing to fix.

@Shadowman311 I would not be shocked if he actually was impeached, as it serves the purposes for both parties. The Republicans get a "win" for getting rid of the corrupt Biden, and the Democrats can safely dispose their puppet who is a liability.

It would all be fake and gay, but it could happen. No real change would come of it, but it would make for convenient theater for the masses and only benefit those in power while those who are not get nothing substantial out of it.

You are worse than useless Rod Dreher. How about advocating for home schooling? As in, a solution that you can actually implement to change the circumstances you disapprove of rather than just ask for someone else to do something (especially when you know full well they won't).