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Looks like this will be my new home. Warning: I (probably) have Asperger's, so my be prepared for my autism to show through.
I don't think I am a right wing extremist, but I am sure anyone with low testosterone might think otherwise.
Joined Sep 2022
If your reaction to the Chinese spy balloon is "I can't believe that the Chinese are spying on us!" I have some bad news for you. Other countries are always spying on us, just as we are spying on them. Us finding on example of how it was being done should not make you shocked that we are being spied on.
Besides, our own government does it, and they hate us more than the Chinese government does.
The nurse shortage in many parts of the US shows that we cannot guarantee that there will be a ready supply of labor for a given field. Any moron who thinks that nationalizing health care will fix this issue does not consider that capitalism is not the cause, nor do they actually have a means to fix the shortage issue. They simply see healthcare as an unlimited resource that is being withheld by rich greedy people.
Besides, it was government vaxx mandates that caused the shortages.
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allow me to explain:
This person does not take this as an 'own'. Even if he's cheering the ultimate result that the Republicans wanted, what he opposed was their decision-making process of "just shoot it down".
And he's right to oppose that. He's probably not that right about the thought processes of the people he's attacking: if pressed, they'd certainly agree that the military should of course shoot it down in a sensible manner, and not drop it right over a full kindergarten.
His error is really that he imagines that Biden and the military will have a much more in-depth discussion. As a leftist, he's a lickspittle of power, a worshiper and an admirer of it. He sees unwashed peasants making dumb demands of his brilliant technocratic government and he's disgusted by a contrast that isn't real. As, in the end it was surely some Biden handler saying "just shoot it down" to some general in the military, and any smart decision-making only happened at the very end of the process, by low-level officers who might as well have been posting "just shoot it down" that morning.
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This person does not take this as an 'own'. Even if he's cheering the ultimate result that the Republicans wanted, what he opposed was their decision-making process of "just shoot it down".
And he's right to oppose that. He's probably not that right about the thought processes of the people he's attacking: if pressed, they'd certainly agree that the military should of course shoot it down in a sensible manner, and not drop it right over a full kindergarten.
His error is really that he imagines that Biden and the military will have a much more in-depth discussion. As a leftist, he's a lickspittle of power, a worshiper and an admirer of it. He sees unwashed peasants making dumb demands of his brilliant technocratic government and he's disgusted by a contrast that isn't real. As, in the end it was surely some Biden handler saying "just shoot it down" to some general in the military, and any smart decision-making only happened at the very end of the process, by low-level officers who might as well have been posting "just shoot it down" that morning.
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That is why I see China having a chance more than many other countries. What good is it being "the best" in aspects such as GDP production, military, technology, or any other major aspect of a big player in the world if you cannot even keep up a replacement birth rate. You cannot have a lasting major power if you cannot even sustain it with human capital.
So if China ends up making the changes they would need to make to reverse course, they may just win by default.
Among the major players in the world, I can see China being more likely to have a future. That is because I see articles about how the Chinese government is going directly against feminism. Granted, these may be small actions, but let us consider the current Chinese system. What exactly is stopping them from hitting the gas and really "taking women's rights away?" Nothing really, since they do not have to worry about elections.
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People will literally call Russia a totalitarian state while this shit happens all over the satrapies of Sacred DemocracyLand
Those that equate "freedom" with getting happy outcomes or getting provisions show that they do not understand actual freedom. Freedom can give you the means to succeed, but it can also result in you failing as well.
For example, if you hit a baseball of a tee, you are far more likely to hit the ball. But if you are someone wanting to hit a home run, hitting a ball off a tee would limit that capability. "But I want to be free from striking out," means you do not understand freedom.
One theory I am willing to accept as possibly being true is Hitler not actually dying during WWII but rather that he escaped to another country such as Argentina. Who was it that claimed to have found his dead body? The Soviets? You mean those same people that became our enemy for the next 5 decades? Is it possible they lied to us? I would not be surprised by that.
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I keep having to point this thing out to old boomer guys, where they think we’ve lived in anything close to their world and got the same read on history. I’ve heard them talk about how “Well nobody really knows about the Tuskegee airmen, they never got credit” and “yeah nobody appreciates Amelia Earhart….” and they never wrap their heads around the fact that those entities are ALL my generation learned about. Nobody learned about Gabby Gabreski or Carlos Hathcock, we learned ONLY about the women and browns throughout every phase of american history.
Civil war lessons in high school entirely omitted anything about the fighting men except for some negro legion that managed to fight a small fraction of the war. Probably just so we could watch that shitty movie in class with tiger woods (or a sufficiently similar black)
But having old guys expecting me to have been taught the same things they were in 1965 is hilarious
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@Rudolf_von_Goldenbaum @IgnorantHussy That's right. California voted to keep gay marriage illegal in 2008. CALIFORNIA. Most states did in fact, which is why the supreme court eventually had to step in.
Vast majority of the population was against it just 10 years ago, yet the moment the courts force it through Republicans stop talking about it altogether. National legalization only happened in 2015. 2015!
Fun game: try to remember the last time a Republican talked about banning gay marriage. Betcha can't.
From this image, you can see that gay marriage legalization literally spread out from New York.
Vast majority of the population was against it just 10 years ago, yet the moment the courts force it through Republicans stop talking about it altogether. National legalization only happened in 2015. 2015!
Fun game: try to remember the last time a Republican talked about banning gay marriage. Betcha can't.
From this image, you can see that gay marriage legalization literally spread out from New York.
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familiar pattern: slaughter the chickens > run out of food you can enter the circle of happiness any time, come and play goyim
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It doesn't take much to convince me that religious people will have lower divorce rates and happier marriages.
However this article seems to be making the claim that marrying young is the secret, and I think it's far more likely that marrying young and staying together are both just traits of religious people. So the real secret is faith.
However this article seems to be making the claim that marrying young is the secret, and I think it's far more likely that marrying young and staying together are both just traits of religious people. So the real secret is faith.
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"Look, okay, Christian Tradition may have been scientifically proven right again, but you all are still evil because you don't like it when I rape children"
aleteia.org/2023/01/24/research-shows-that-marrying-relatively-young-without-living-together-first-results-in-the-most-durable-marriages/
aleteia.org/2023/01/24/research-shows-that-marrying-relatively-young-without-living-together-first-results-in-the-most-durable-marriages/
Death is always inevitable, and it should always be understood as such. The songs of Ring around the Rosie and Rock-a-Bye baby were rather lighthearted about the idea (a baby falling from a tree could indeed be deadly). But today, if you have one person die, people think the whole world should stop to try to prevent that.
But what if, just think for a moment, they were going to die and there was nothing that could be done to prevent it? Should we panic over what we will never be able to stop?
Looks like this will be my new home. Warning: I (probably) have Asperger's, so my be prepared for my autism to show through.
I don't think I am a right wing extremist, but I am sure anyone with low testosterone might think otherwise.
Joined Sep 2022
