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I don't know if you guys have noticed but time is relative. We experience it slower as children because one year at 10 is 10% of our lives so it feels so long. When you are 20 it feels shorter but still long at 5% of your life.
Every year you are alive is a year that goes faster. Now at 40 a year feels like a month and 80 it will likely feel like a week. Assuming I live until 80 and with the years feeling progressively faster, it means I might have 10 years going by my childhood perception left to live.
However many years you feel like you have left is mot likely a going to feel like a lot less than they actually are. https://www.huffpost.com/entry/time-perception-aging_l_63973dc2e4b0169d76d92560
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NDEs have been replicated in experiments on Nasa Astronauts. Why would they appear to happen to oxygen deprived astronauts nowhere near death?
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@bronskibeat
Do me a favor. I am not trying to get the last word in. You brought up a lot of great points and gave me a lot to ruminate on. I can't put in the same amount of effort towards the conversation as you so it would be bad form for me to keep talking without given your arguments as much consideration as you give mine. If we are going to continue the conversation I think we need to narrow it to a single point. Once that point is exhaustes I don't mind revisiting the rest.
It looks like you took issue with me claiming the change of language was some sort of manipulation. You stated it happened naturally or as a response to marginalized communities taking ownership of the words that they are referred to as.
I dont think you addressed what I said about the language seeming to change faster now than it did in the past which was one of my premises.
My other premises are probably just not going to be extrapolated because I was into Satanism for so long as well s the occult and so I am kind of aware of what alterations in language can do and am kind of picking up on that.
For example a lot of occultism would not say a phrase like "I am a fireman" when describing their occupation' they would say "I fight fires"
There I hundreds of things we do with language in plain site and I am willing to write a post on some of how occultism and word choice works but it is a hidden Premise I held which is potentially not fair to explain one of my reasoning. Not that I believe the language manipulation is from occultism only that they seem to intuitively recognize some occult principles around language and be using them, and I don't feel like the language alterations are natural. Even when the term "social media" came out is seem contrived and the term seemed pushed more by mainstream media than a bottom up approach to language that is more normal
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I am not even going to reread what you are responding to. I forgot what I even posted. I just know when I judge debates I will not punish for gish gallop unless the person doing it is called out by their opponent. However merely calling the out is not enough they need to explain to me why I should punish their opponent for it
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@Double_R
And since you really need me to explain my comment further, I was merely expressing why I (and I assume most liberals) tune you guys out when you talk about this - because we've seen this nonsense before. But go on and provide that example. I look forward to being enlightened.
II don't want to be disrespectful but I stopped reading here because I provided an example and you just said "outlier" I could provide 10 more and you would say the same thing. I find it hard that this thing that has been all over the media you haven't seen because right-wing sites will actually show pictures from the books. All I can think of is that you are a partisan hack that only follows left wing sources.
I also want to be fair because you are here an exposing yourself to the other side, but I just see this stuff and it's in my memory bank. I don't feel like spending 30 minutes on Google finding examples that I think will get called outliers. It's not something I am particularly passionate about. I think exposing kids to porn is unethical but I also think you know that parents are not going to be getting upset over a book that has gay characters. You know it goes beyond that.
This stuff has been everywhere. I think you re aware of he indoctrination taking place and being disingenuous when you claim to not notice that California is passing laws that allow teachers to socially transition children or noticed that youtube is getting millions of views from a song about how "Yes we are coming for your kids". https://youtu.be/ArOQF4kadHA?si=FwcFYnbNJfOG3Zwt
I am sure you have seen children shows that are now shifting to promote trans ideology.
I mean sure we know some of the outrage is manufactured but when you have even lifelong libtards like Bill Mahar noticing. Well then maybe you should think for yourself that maybe there is something to it.
We can debate whether a comic book depicting oral sex between 2 men is porn. Maybe you will say no, I think it is. However I know. Didn't see the shit when I was in school. I checked out books on religion and occultism and of various political philosophies. Nobody cared vecause it wasn't degenerate.
Nobody is trying to prevent freedom of expression or reading books that have various points of views. Parents are just asking that their children are not exposed to smut. Different people have different values. You don't want your kid hearing that Jesus died on the cross for his sins in school and I don't want mine picking up a book in the school library where I have to explain an image he is swwing of 2 guys sucking each others cocks, or even descriptions of that.
We live in a multicultural society and one culture is asking not to be violated and we respected it when we banned creationism and prayer times in school and we should also respect it when it comes to these books. You want to focus on the word porn and play semantics. It doesn't matter if it is technically porn. What matters is having some level of respect for other members of the community.
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@Best.Korea
Did you know that Christians when they have sex also put their penises into women.
I guess the real difference between Christian and non Christian sex is that it spreads less diseases such as Aids and monkey pox.
I guess the real difference between Christian and non Christian sex is that it spreads less diseases such as Aids and monkey pox.
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I would teach sex Ed the way it is I would oppose showing 8 year olds porn or transing them behind their parents back like California schools do
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@bronskibeat
So, you don’t want to be asked, you just want people to assume and call you what they want? That's doesn't really make sense, you're doing a little jumping around here.
Correct. It would b nice if they assume in an accurate fashion but I will point out that it is retarded to think somebody born in America with no indications of having citizenship elsewhere is somehow Japanese.
I don’t really know what you’re saying here but, the “BLM riots” accounted for about 7% of BLM protests and demonstrations. Meaning 93% were peaceful. A lot of positive came out of the movement. BLM protests addressed genuine concerns of the black community, not "made up" concerns.
Lol okay. It was people blaming police for social problems in black communities that the police have no control over and the spreading of myths like hands up don't shoot.
I loved the images of burning buildings of these 93% peaceful protests while news reporters were reporting with the building behind them burning calling it peaceful.
There should be a couple of things noted here. 1. You let this conversation drift beyond pronouns
2. The peaceful protestors were obviously used to cover for the rioters. They are legitimately there as distractions so people can say "97% weren't rioting just being a distraction to aid the rioters by monopolizing police presence and attention"
The same grace is not extended to the people on January 6th by the way
3. These weren't legitimate black issues. The Jewish ran BLM movement was requesting for the elimination of funding for police# reduced police presence in communities that need it the most, and for police to be more gentle.
There is a difference between “favoring” your own race out of a feeling superiority, and “favoring” your own race
There really isn't nice try. Favoring your fellow Jew or black or white over less qualified candidates when hiring is racist no matter what.
you feel that the majority of society unfavor them and you’re trying to balance out the difference. The playing field is not level
Racist whites literally use the same justification for favoring their own kind, but atleast they admit being racist.
The Quran says no such thing. You’re probably referring to hadiths, of which there are thousands, and not all Muslims follow the same (or any) hadith texts.
The Quran literally does but you re correct that people have different interpretations. Thanks for saying people interpret things in different ways captain obvious.
African-Americans were more likely to consider racial diversity important when watching a film, and less likely to believe there is a sufficient enough of racial diversity within acting roles: https://morningconsult.com/wp-content/uploads/2019/01/190124_crosstabs_HOLLYWOOD_Adults_v1-1.pdf
It literally doesn't shock me that a group that is 13% of the population but has like 33% more of the roles or more in Hollywood has been brainwashed by the left to think they aren't represented.
The last 5 supervowls probably had 80% white audience and yet nearly 100% of theon stage talent was black, but these people don't get enough celebrities representing them. They have to be at least 33% of the leading roles in Hollywood films as well.
Are "Proud-Americans" stupid?
Probably but it's beneficial to society to have some level of group identity and its probably best to do it at a national level.
so naturally, people will favor their experience in a particular city/town/state over another and would identify the ways in which living in a particular place informed their values and character (which your environment will have direct impact on).
Good for them. That isn't a logical way to approach things. They should probably do a cost benefit analysis on the cultural values they are accepting.
Teachers are more likely to label black students as troublemakers than they are white students with the same number of
That's likely because the black students with the same amount of infractions are bigger troublemakers. Studies have also shown teachers are less likely to give black students infractions for the same incidents. You won't label the less infractions as racist against whites because of your presupposition though. So if a teacher writes up 100% of a white students infractions but 50% of a black students and they have the same number of infractions than you have the black kid asthe bigger trouble maker. Also this wouldn't accou t for all the stupid shit the kids do that can't really be used to discipline them.
Researchers reported that teachers asked to rate students’ academic abilities scored Black children far below white peers with identical scores:
I can't click on links and simultaneously reply due to a bad internet connection. I will click on this link later.
Black students are more likely to attend schools with inexperienced or low-paid teachers.
Yeah it's not due to white people thinking black people it's due to the fact highly skilled teachers when given the option will go to places which are safer and with parents not as likely to go into defensive mode when you call them up to try and get them to discipline their children for their in school behavior.
You're basing your opinion, not on data or any kind of research, but on a youtube video. You're arguing that white people are less likely to discriminate, but should discriminate? Again, lots of jumping around happening here.
I said white people are less likely to be racist. I gave you an alternate explanation why blacks would get less help in emergency situations and it's because they are statistically more likely to be a threat to those helping them. The video I showed you is one of millions I could where this type of erratic behaviors in emergencies that male emergencies worse can be seen.
Compared to white people, black people are less likely to receive preventive health services and often receive lower-quality
Okay nothing I denied and probably is explained less by your hypothesis that doctors are racist and more to the fact that black people usually are poor meaning they have worse health insurance, go to overrun free health clinics and delay going to the hospital longer when suffering. That's black actions not white actions causing worse health outcomes.
A substantial number of white laypeople and medical students and residents hold false beliefs about biological differences between blacks and whites and demonstrates that these beliefs predict racial bias in pain perception and treatment recommendation
I don't even know what you are talking about here. Like the belief that black people feel less pain? That doesn't seem like a belief a medical professional would have. If they recieve less pain medicine for being more stoic than it isn't that medical personnel are being g racist it is that they are taking the stoic demeanor to mean they aren't in as much pain as some cry baby white person.
Black and white lenders were not treated the same even when equally qualified
Doubtful, you literally fill out a form online where an algorithm decides whether you can get money or not. This is not the 1950s where people show up to a bank and beg a bank manager. I have literally never asked anyone for a loan in person.
Black boys raised in America, even in the wealthiest families and living in some of the most well-to-do neighborhoods, still earn less in adulthood than white boys with similar backgrounds
The article I was ale to click on it said the differences are often attributed to the black person scoring lower on tests. Therefore they are less competent and their bosses most likely pick up on it. The objection to this rebuttal was that women outperform their test scores so it can't explain the differences among white and black men. It's a nonsense objection to the rebuttal because women in general are more social creatures better at navigating social situations. Meaning they aren't outperfor.ing due to the same type of competence but because they are incredibly competent at navigating social situations. I can tell you that when I was in sales, it was unnatural and hard for me to get as many sales as my female coworkers. Every female that went into sales where was killed it, meanwhile most men failed and the ones that succeeded usually were still less competent because of the social aspect than women who worked half as hard, and if a woman worked just as hard as me she would outperform me by a significant amount. The study just doesn't prove what you think it does.
Black employment in the testing sector is suppressed in the absence of testing, a finding which is consistent with ex ante discrimination on the basis of drug use perception
Can you just explain what this means? Like the people who administer Comptia exams? What does testing sector mean? And why would drug use perception stop a person from hiring somebody? If you smell like weed I won't hire you personally but other than that you need to literally fail a drug test before I would deny you employment for something like that.
I fid respo d to this stuff but honestly I am not sure what you are arguing. I think for the most part we agree about disproportionate outcomes for African Americans. We likely just disagree with the cause of the reason and especially the solutions to the problemss
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@Double_R
Probably because this is to many (myself included) a silly issue to be elevating in our politics. I've never in my life met anyone who thought it would be anything but outrageous for an adult to show someone else's child porn,
And yet there are thousands of school administrators doing it everyday and then when conservatives make laws to prevent it, the left throws hissy fits.
If it is rare, what is with the backlash against schools that choose not to have porn available for children?
I've also seen what many conservatives are calling porn. In some cases it's just a guy dressed up in drag.
There it is. You literally defending showing children porn by downplaying it as books about drag queens and not what it actually is in most cases. Visual depictions of sex meant to arouse children. It's the reason why many of these parents are censored in these meetings when they start showing images from these books.
a collection of isolated incidents right wingers are using to craft a picture that isn't real
How many isolayedincidents do you need to make it a pattern and why attack laws that prevent teachers from showing kids porn if it isn't common or the intent of the left to do so?
Beyond that Don't talk to me until you watch ops documentary. It's ridiculous that I can listen to 10 hours of the lefts best arguments on a weekly basis but you refuse to watch a single 2 hour documentary
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@TheUnderdog
Should the constitution be terminated?", I disagree with Trump.
Trump isn't really a conservative but it's pretty obvious that the left is a larger threat to the bill of rights. the bill of rights being the most important part of the constitution.
I dont Trump has really stated he wants to suspend the constitution despite his hot take on some things. I guess the accusation comes down to the fact that he disagreed with a lot of people about what the constitution gave Mike Pence th authority to do. It also seems that the left has acknowledged he is correct because the changed some laws (the rhetoric thy use is strengthened" to ensure that the law is more Lear on the issue. To me that is undermi ing th constitution if constitutional scholars are in disagreement over what the VP is allowed to do and especially if the laws see altered so they are more clear on the matter.
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@thett3
Yes by the definition of “book bans” these people are using like 99.99% of books ever published are “banned” because they aren’t in some random school library. Meanwhile these same people support the actual censorship of “disinformation” and “dangerous ideas”
This is why I stopped being a libertarian. The libertarians will see this hypocrisy and help the left meet their objectives meanwhile there is no leftwing equivalent that helps conservatives. Liberal bills in congress are almost always passed unanimously by democrats, while when you watch Cspan, conservative bills usually have a good 10 l% or more conservatives defect. Then they cry that liberals always win.
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Why are your citations mostly links to the exact same Wikipedia article? It's weird.
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@IwantRooseveltagain
So why is it worse for a white person to have fathers who are drug addicts than whites? Does a white 9 month old baby have more control over whether their parent is a drug addict than a 9 month old black baby?
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Russia would at least have more cannon fodder to throw at Ukraine if those fetuses weren't aborted
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This is why people need to give the bird to banks and use crypto in their own physical cold wallets.
What happened is straight fascism and if I was a conservative and saw this happen to liberals it would wake me up to who the true bad guys are and I would immediately switch sides.
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Why do you hate black people? Lots of marginalized people have similar struggles in childhood so what is it about black people and other poor people who face hardships?
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@Double_R
I don't have a problem with parents objecting to their kids being shown highly inappropriate sexual content at schools, I have an issue with people acting like these extreme examples are really the norm, and acting like this is some kind of plot by liberals to sexualize your children so that they can... well... whatever batshit crazy conspiracy plot follows from this.
The point to sexualize them is about spreading Marxist ideology. Marxists are against the traditional family unit because it gets in the way of making the government the authority. The same reason for the anti religious impulse.
Why do I know this? I was a Marxist. The criticism isn't of all liberals. The criticism is mostly of the cultural Marxists. Although a lot of times I use the term liberal because it seems like when liberals speak against this sort of cultural Marxism than other liberals turn on the , I would say most liberals.
Here are some examples
Jordan Peterson- is a liberal but liberals think of him as a bad person because apparently he doesn't want to use people's preferred pronouns
J.K. Rowling- very far leftist who liberals turn on because she doesn't buy into the woke agenda.
The guy who wrote the Bell Curve, legitimately a Marxist who was pointing out IQ dufference so governments would know where to pool their money to help the largest amount of people.
It's over And over and over. So it's natural to think that if every liberal who speaks out on the woke agenda is basically tossed out of their own movement by fellow liberals than apparently most liberals view liberalism as being pro woke agenda.
I watch bread tube and I never see these people criticize showing children porn. They usually ignore these "book bannings" or label them something they aren't.
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@thett3
Good luck to you. You honestly should have a large amount of kids if you can. I have 2 and honestly should have had 4 l promised myself bo new kids after 40 though because of increased issues with babies born even to older fathers and this is even among older fathers who impregnate younger women.
40 was my cut off, and I don't have the right partner anyway. Essentially I am only with her because I think leaving her would put her in a position where she is unable to provide high quality parenting to my younger son. She has shitty decision making skills and isn't capable of making as much s me so getting rid of her would likely cause her to start fucking some white trash person, immediately moving in with them and not going g through the proper vetting process before exposing my son to him.
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@ADreamOfLiberty
What? Who did that?
I am an idiot. The post was there the whole time. I think it is post 22
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@bronskibeat
I find it hard to believe that you don’t care what people call you but later in your post you say that you get “annoyed” when people ask “what are you” insinuating that you would identify as anything else but “American.” I would think you wouldn’t care either way.
No they can call me Irish or black or Japanese if they want. The question just annoys me. I know I am not Japanese and I have no problem with Japanese people so I don't mind being called it. I don't want to be asked though .
While, you’re right, most Latin people seems to hate the term, it was not white people who invented it…it was Latin people
Well I speak Spanish and I have only heard white people say it. It was probably a Latin person who only speaks English and does not understand how gendered languages work.
The left acknowledges how race and socio-economic struggles that impact marginalized communities disproportionately. There is no manipulation, it's just acknowledgment.
Everyone acknowledges it. Its not acknowledging the struggles. The criticism is in the insincere patronization and in the efforts to use these communities as cannon fodder such as with the BLM riots.
First, you're misrepresenting what the study was looking for: it was not looking to find which races "hate" other races, but rather was there a favoring of one over the other
Yeah so... racism. Favoring your own race over another one is racism. Sorry.
Every study is imperfect but when asked if you are racist un the way it was done and answering that question yes, I'd pretty indicative you re racist.
"white participants were less likely to help black help black people (and more likely to help other white people"
I could only read that studies abstract and the abstract of the studies cited.
I know they cited studies to see if wearing a hijab would decrease the likelihood of receiving help then the abstract explained that it did not reduce the likelihood of getting help but it just changed who was likely to help them. More women helped when the woman when she wore a head scarf. To me this would just be people scared to help because they maybe assume and correctly so that Islamic culture just accepts beating of women and the women don't want help. As somebody who read the Quran most of the time, I can assure you the assumption is well founded.
As for whether black people are helpedmore than non blacks when they need help.... I can only read the abstracts but here is what we call weasel language being used in the abstract;
Interestingly, discrimination against Blacks was shown when there were higher levels of emergency.
From the other abstracts I read of the studies this one cites it appears they're referring to not the level of help received but instead to how the victims are treated after being rescued by the rescuers.
I can tell you that there is inherently more risk in rescuing black people than non blacks, and perhaps that more risk is why it's not done as frequently
Let's say your typical white woman and man is in a car. Let's say they are parents and their baby is not breathing and they are pulled overbecause they are rushing to a hospital and the cop immediately takes the baby from the back of the car to save its life. You know because most ops have extensive training in first aid. The white couple is going to typically shut the fuck up and get out of the way so their child is saved.
The black couple a lot of times is not. Now it doesn't mean every white couple will be calm or every black couple will be erratic and try to stop the cop from rescuing the baby. It does mean that the white couples are more likely to be calm and thus you are at less personal risk by helping them.
It's like trying to rescue a drowning man trying to pull you down with him vs one that just goes limp and let's you pull him to shore. https://youtu.be/aVzZfirxu7k?si=sKw3RapDmzKDvvax
Anyone who doesn't recognize this pattern is likely a rich white person living in a gated community .
By the way, and I do understand I only have access to the abstract but it appears the study doesn't address the racial makeup of the crowds who help black people less.
It’s silly to hear a straight white man say, “who cares about representation” because they’ve never known a world where they didn’t have it in abundance.
Yes I have. Like I said I was the only white kid in my foster home and so I got control of the TV like once out of every 7 times and trust me I also picked black shows because it's just not fun to be the only one enjoying a show or a movie. You want somebody thereto watch it with you. At least for me watching television is a communal thing.
I think representation is probably a chick thing and mostly white chick thing. I never once heard one of the black kids in foster care (all boys home) cry about not being represented. However I did hear fat white chick's crying when Amy Schumer decided not to play Barbie.
When someone identifies themselves as a “New Yorker” or a “proud Texan”, are they being anti-patriotic?
It' s legitimately stupid. Let me be more accurate. When I say I am American, I am happy to be American but it's just a factual thing. Why would anyone be a proud New Yorker or Texan?
You literally have no control over where your mother gave birth. It's dumb to be proud of it.
The issues to focus on to help with poverty and everything that comes with it would be first and foremost: education,healthcare, housing, and employment. You're looking at the symptoms, but not the ilillnes
Incorrect. education you are partially correct with though you probablybthink the solution is throwing more money at the problem and fail to realize that places like DC have the highest cost per student and spending moremoney doesn't stip them from being the worst. So the solution isnt throwing money at problems. However school should be year round to make up for the disproportionate academic decline.
Healthcare- um.no, disproportionate health outcomes are due to a cycle that is too nuanced to get into here as well s genetics. Lets hust say socializing medicine and having 2 year wait times like Canada is not going to help the fact that black people eat unhealthy
Housing- sure, you till havent put together that forcing banks to give mlre risky loans caused the banks to need billions to be bailed out in the early 2000s or noticedthat New york deciding to utilize rent control to help ith housing actually has the highest rents in the country. So you need some pattern recognition skills here.
Employment- correct but again not in the ways you suggest that make things worse. Clamp down on illegal immigration because black jobs are the firat to go. Stop the minimum wage hikes that are proven to increase unemployment of african americans but have zero impact on whute comunities. We also need to spread the "ban the box" initiative to every state because there is no reason that a felon is struggling tonfind employment as a dishwasher.
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@thett3
I’m probably going to have to shell out like $10k a year per kid despite already paying thousands in taxes to public schools to avoid them getting groomed by freaks lol
I can't afford that but I told the wife be prepared to homeschooling at a drop of the hat. Fortunately my son's school is pretty good. There are gay teachers there but they are not grooming children they are not part of the woke mob they are just normal dudes who are teachers and just happen to be gay.
I am ready to pull him at any minute if this changes though.
The entire pornographic books in the library controversy is so bizarre to me. I’m not sure how much it specifically matters
To be fair. I don't think it matters much with high-school kids. They appear to be targeting mostly elementary school kids in these incidents I jeep finding.
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Never mind it is still there. Post 22
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@Double_R
Thett quotes it in the next post. So even with it erasednit looks like it still remains but you better look at it quick before a mod deletes thett's response to me
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@Double_R
Everyone opposes grooming children, this is a Boogeyman right wingers made up because they don't have any real issues to run on.
I literally posted a video of a principal saying outright that it is okay to show porn to 8 year olds. It looks like a mod deleted the post. I can PM the video to you and attempt to circumvent the video being hidden.
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Actually will probably watch the pilot on Wednesday. I just arched a preview and already see why it would be controversial. It's likely fundamentalists kvetching over somebody having fun creating a series about saving hell or something.
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just found the pilot on youtube. Watching it before reading reviews so I can give a fresh take and try to guess at what makes it co troversial
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What streaming platform is it on and what is it about?
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@Best.Korea
Roosevelt gets away with it somehow. He is literally just the liberal version of TWS and goes unpunished.
I feel like some people are just allowed. I think I would be banned for it. You would probably get banned for it, but it's just gut feelings.either way it's not something that should be tolerated.
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Sexual ssault is not necessarily rape. Maybe he walked up to somebody and grabbed them by the pussy.
https://youtu.be/eFdnyITLpxI?si=_wQSIVJifveIztsc
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@Amber
time watching a far right nutjob documentary.
I don't understand this attitude he has. I am willing to watch far left documentaries. I do sometimes have a hard time stomaching stuff moderates put out but I still try to get exposed to new information.
I have several hours a day at work and if I listen to 8 hours of conservative stuff at work, I make sure I get atleast 2 hours of breadtube in. It's not perfectly balanced but I am picking a mix of low brow and high brow stuff from the right and trying to stick to only high brow stuff on the left.
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@Greyparrot
I am an hour in BTW, and he is now saying that governments who bail out banks should not be able to dictate how those banks spend the money.
I agree with most of what he says but this is the one area where all I can think of is fuckem they can refuse the money if they don't like being told what to do.
I agree with Sowell that not being controlled by the government in how to spend the bail out money would be more profitable to the bank and a better result to th tax payer, but all I can think of is fuck them for Taki g the money and let them fail or be your bitch if they take it.
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Me and Greyparrot have started a book club. He suggested the first book. I get the second book and whoever is 3rd gets to pick 3rd if they participate.
This is the book we are on:
Thomas Sowell. Dismantling America
A few rules about book selection.
1. Don't be a smart ass
2. If you don't participate I'm discussions then we will skip your book selection
3. The book must be available for free on youtube
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@IwantRooseveltagain
Yesterday I was at a hotel in Miami. Only 2 people behind the front desk with a line of people waiting to be checked in. We need more immigrants. We need more workers
You are not going to convince anyone that Miami lacks enough immigrants. I lived half of my life nin South Florida and Miami in particular you seem to run into more apanish speakers than English speakers. That hotel needs to be punished for not raising wages enough to attract good workers. Not punished by government but by hotel guests.
After all, the country let your ancestors in and your people are still minimum wage workers. Should we have let your family in? Was it a mistake?
Yeah, huge mistake. The Indians should have been hitting us with bows and arrows the second we stepped off the boat. Their open border policy caused them to essentially be genocided.
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How exactly is eco omic policies that make them more poor improve their lives? How would promoting weak borders so illegal immigrants flood the job market help legal immigrants get better pay at their jobs?
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@Best.Korea
Leopold Posch was that great man. Nice of you to defend Hitler's intelligence though
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Rm, just so you know conservatives are not against sex education here is a principal saying it is fine to show 8 year olds porn. https://youtube.com/shorts/x29ZLCbX3Qc?si=0etrIqtBBI-g8qRo
The fact you are trying to twist people opposed to kids seeing men throat fucking other men as conservatives opposing teaching kids how to put on condoms, is sick. If you don't know about it fine. But if this is your first time finding out and you still support watching porn with children than please find Jesus.
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@Best.Korea
A great man once remarked about the importance of focusing on the essential and dispensing with the rest.
It was perhaps decisive for my whole later life that fate gave me as a history teacher one of the few who knew how to get across the important things in class and to dismiss the unimportant. Doctor Leopold Potsch…
Adolphus Hitler, Mein Kampf
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I was looking through the patent office and digging through documents on the dark web s well as recording with NXVM people and tons and tons of boring document.
Why did I dig so deep into this odd sex cult?
I kept running into comments that said stuff like
"This stuff really works and changed my life, but yeah it's definitely a cult and bad"
So I kept wondering. Why are these people getting so many good results in life?
You better have good discernment if you look into this stuff because some material is definitely intended to get followers to do free labor for him.
However I ran into one compelling thing. Keith Ranier taught that low self esteem is the result of believing you don't have many options. He paired this with teaching that the average person has about 500 limiting beliefs and that if you get through those limiting beliefs than you will have high self esteem because you will realize all th options you have.
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We blame degenerate lefties not blacks WTF?
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@Greyparrot
Since you let me introduce you to liberalhivemind. I want to share this guy with you. https://youtu.be/l0cOWRpIuzo?si=y2kfg0QsHoFqfZy9
Lots of gems on his channel
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@Greyparrot
The plot to ship a bunch of immigrants to predominantly black cities who compete directly with them for subsidies and jobs was a great plan. I think it woke a lot of people up. Not to mention the mug shot of Trump and all the black rapper endorsements he has got lately.
Also you will not find a single rap enthusiest not listening to he following beat. https://youtu.be/rMM2042bLzQ?si=iczq0piq5Mm5DSdL
The shoe targeted towards that demographic that is selling like hot cakes should be a red flag for them but instead they somehow see it as a red flag for trump
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There isn't proof the opposite leads to the opposite because they never allow such studies in those places.
We don't oppose sex Ed. I speak for all of us. We oppose grooming. There is nothing wrong with sex Ed classes.
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@IwantRooseveltagain
Didn’t the KKK say the same thing at their trial?
I doubt it, but yes why would somebody that cares about black people want them to live in high crime areas?
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@Hero_In_Instatute
Your argument that judges never discriminate is that they would be fired by Twitter if they did. I will let the readers make up their own minds about whether that is stupid
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@bronskibeat
here is a study that asks groups how much they hate other races essentially and whites were the least racist
https://www.ljzigerell.com/?p=9002
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That’s what you don’t understand: The intention is not political, it’s about humanity
I understand why you think that. You think the words were taken as a way to be self descriptive as opposed to something another group describes you as. I didn't debate you on it, becausei am considering that opinion. What you stated seems feasible and I am still schewing on it. I also don't think you can chalk it up to that.
I disagree that, that sort of ownership of language matters. Maybe that is because I speak 4 languages f and I just automatically accept whatever the people in those languages call me.
You want to maintain your anger toward these groups
You don't know anything about me. I don't have anger towards these groups. I see these groups that engage in that sort of thing as either misguided or victims of leftists. Especially ially groups like Hispanic who are called Latinx because white people don't understand gendered languages and how they work.
I really empathize with marginalized communities, and I see most of this nonsense as intentional divisiveness meant to create hostilities between groups because leftists can sense that these catholic Hispanics and socially conservative religious African Americans have different values than they do and so they exploit them through divisive language.
Here are some opinions I have because I really emphasize with these people,
1. Bans on things that exploit the poor as if they are farm animals such as paid plasma donations, and surrogate pregnancy.
2. End things that harm th black family such as welfare policies that encourage single motherhood and ending the war on drugs so that way black fathers can be in their kid's lives more as well as dropping the stigma from being locked up that makes it so hard to get a job and support a family.
3. Taking measures so less African americans and poor babies are murdered in the womb.
Being against woke nonsense isn't about hatred towards minorities.
representation is also about being able to connect and enjoy a film on a personal level
It's not needed. Quite frankly if you need to see yourself represented on screen you're probably a racist. I didn't cry when I was in fostercare when the whole house watched Martin and listened to Tupac all day.
And could you supply those studies you are speaking of?
My next post I will share one. There are some metastudies on the phenomenon as well, but I assumed you would know intuitively since I assume you are white with an out group bias.
Your fear of change is not rational. We have linguists and historians who study writings based on the context of the time they were written
I believe my criticism was of the speed of change not the slow subtle shifts that happen over hundreds of years naturally.
There are absolutely instances where you would use pronouns with the person being referred to present,
I am not speaking on anybody behalf who isn't a child. It would have to be an extremely rare circumstance where somebody is trying to rape them or something and I yell "leave him alone"
But if I speak on their behalf to save them and they say "it's mam" . I am likely to just say never mind and walk away.
Then why don’t people cry as much about festivals celebrating Irish or Italian heritage as much as they do those that celebrate black culture
I don't speak out about any of them. I just offered my opinion because I felt prompted. In fact when I was in Columbus the had a yearly Black walk to remind black people to be healthy given the disparate health outcomes and I thought that was an incredible ideal. At least that one had purpose unless the festivals where people celebrate things they have no control over.
In fact I probably bitch more about the white stuff. The reason being is nobody ever asks me if I am black but they will start talking about what they are "I am Italian, hey frank what are you?" I am Irish and John is polish. What are you Wylted?" I usually get annoyed and say "I am American dumbass".
It makes me so happy when I meet an immigrant and I befriend them and they become comfortable enough to start saying "I am American" the way I do. I am not Iriah or European or African or Mexican. I am American. That's all I am.
Batman is still a straight white guy, and straight white guys want to see straight white guys they can look up to. And everyone deserves that….
I like Miles Morales better and before you bring up that he is still male one of my favorite characters. I probably identify more with him, though he is better than me so not by much.
If you’re a straight white man, there are centuries worth of stories and characters depicting that experience in a million different ways.
White people didn't invent story telling. There are centuries of stories, hell thousands of years of stories in africa, Mexico, Greece, China. Music that goes back as well. Whites just aren't that great.
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@FLRW
Your afterlife will be the same as your beforelife. Without a brain, you do not exist
I find people male this statement to soothe themselves about not existing. It's a cope like any other to avoid thinking about something you intuitively find terrifying. Just embrace that you will die and stop with the coping mechanism that it's the exact thing as never being born.
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