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Part 1

A man is traveling by foot when he sees a party of merchants walking in the opposite direction. With that party is a donkey who is heavily burdened with all the merchandise. The man noticing the donkey ready to collapse, states, "That donkey is carrying too much! Take off some of those things so that he does not die from exhaustion!"

The merchants take a look at the donkey and see that the man is correct. They start to discuss among themselves what they should do.

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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For anyone who wants marriage and family in their future, I have some advice:

Don't marry wrong. If that means not marrying at all, so be it.

It is indeed better to not marry at all than to make the wrong choice on who to marry. I will never tell any man that they have an obligation to get married, because in spite of the fact that I am married myself, I understand that my path is not one that can or should be prescribed to all other men.

Back to the left, I understand that there are factions who despise the establishment Democrats because they think they don't go far enough left or simply think they are just right-wing lite. Funny how that happens for many on the right with Republicans doing the inverse of that.

I just want to know how much awareness others have, regardless of their politics. Having awareness will at least tell me if you do any thinking, even if I see your thinking as moronic.

I myself would not consider myself gleeful at his death, but I am also not sad about it either. I despise the world police foreign policy for the United States, and Donald Trump doing the bidding of Israel in his waste of an effort in Iran is unhelpful in almost every way for anyone here on the right (save for maybe the quicker trajectory of collapse by those in the accelerationist camp). So one less supporter of that policy is for the better.

I would not be shocked if many on the left are gleeful about the death of Lindsey Graham. But I have to wonder how many of these same people are aware of many on the right who also are gleeful about his death. The reasons for each would differ wildly, but it serves as a test for the left if they can understand that the right is just as fractured and cobbled together as the left is and that not every right winger is all about supporting spending trillions on foreign wars.

Another form of necessary assimilation is conforming to the citizens ideas of government role and size. Immigrants that demand more of a "better government" than their country of origin are showing that they are failing to assimilate, and therefore should not be here. But those who are seeking to increase government power see opening the borders for more immigrants will take advantage of these consequences. All while traitorously claiming that kind of immigration is "an American value."

A lot of libertarians fail to understand that when an immigrant comes from a country with a failing government system, most of them will not come to the conclusion that government itself is the problem, but rather that their government failed. They look at countries like the USA with a relatively "better government" system and see latching themselves to that system will improve their situation. They are not necessarily incorrect, but this creates further issues.

On this topic, I see why libertarians have no issue with immigrants solely here for economic reasons. Because they seem to only view countries as economic zones themselves, so they see no issue with immigrants viewing the country as that same way. But they fail to realize that immigrants don't share the same view on general freedom that they do. They simply demand more laws and policies in their favor while seeking the most economic advantage they can.

I do not know that assimilation for today's immigrants to western countries is possible. But I will say that assimilation is a bare minimum requirement for any immigrant coming to the US or any other western country. By moving here, you are admitting that we are doing something better than your country of origin. And if we are not, then why are you here instead of there?

Being here for economic reasons alone shows you are not assimilating, and you therefore should not be here.

I have a theory regarding the whole European air conditioner banning and shunning. Think for a moment which age group dies most often due to extreme heat. And think which age group makes the most use of government programs and welfare spending.

It is the perfect way to kill of the elderly without directly having to do it, all while claiming they are doing it in the name of "climate change." I guess we should come to expect this when there is an unwillingness to cut social spending.

When it comes to the premise that leftist activists are dumping algae into the reflection pool, I could see it going either way. I don't put it past Trump to make that claim, but I also don't put it past leftist groups doing this sort of thing since they will do anything to go against Trump because they cannot accept him getting any sort of win.

Given the past case of the suspicious wildfires years ago, I am leaning towards the latter possibility.

I think the best analogy for the effects of a collapse of the US is the passing of a kidney stone. It came about as a consequence of poor choices, and getting through it will be a painful process that will likely cause some damage. But getting through that pain will be necessary for a better outcome.

I should say that a kidney stone is considered a best case scenario. We may end up with a malignant tumor scenario instead.