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the belief that all in the world are heterosexual (unless s/he or they disclose otherwise).
Patrick saysthe belief that all in the world are heterosexual (unless s/he or they disclose otherwise).
Sounds reasonable to me. If someone wants to be queer, tranny, or whatever, I have no problem with that. If they insist on making me accept them as mainstream or try to indoctrinate my kids, then we have a problem.
And that's where the breakdown occurs. The indoctrination of it all. That it's normal.
WookieMan saysAnd that's where the breakdown occurs. The indoctrination of it all. That it's normal.
I agree. The indoctrination is the truly evil part, especially because they target children and ruin their lives.
They get government child support when these guys ultimately go to prison. The incentive from their own culture and then the government is for black men to go to jail. That's literally their job to provide for the kids. Get busted so baby mama can get a check
white people are only 36% of California and falling fast
Never considered that part of it. An actual financial incentive to go to jail.
Hispanics are white or not? They hate a certain non-white race much more than anyone else
Not that any of you would watch it.
hatred of Trump was never incitement of violence
That's academia for you. Not actually about doing anything, just talking in circles.
I was a liberal arts major at first and it was very depressing how no one would agree on anything, all constantly trying to stomp each other because of ego, and no one with any clear job path.
I've got two boys and I'm probably going to push them to go the trades route with come CC courses on business. Or a STEM field. They'd have a leg up with engineering due to my wife's work. I just don't want them going near the bull shit minimum requirements/courses at a university that do nothing towards getting an engineering degree. Basically the indoctrination courses.
Rin's plan: GED at 16, Trade for a year or two, then college later.
Finally, it's super-useful for everyone to have a basic trade they can fall back on. Construction, plumbing, electric, whatever.
Zen & Art of Motorcycle Maintenance: Learn to love fixing the motor, then think about physics or mechanical engineering
Something like Rin's plan: GED at 16, Trade for a year or two, then college later.
And in particular I think George Bush was acting on the best intel he had at the time post 9/11. I have to study up some more...there’s a few books I’ve had on the back burner....but I’m guessing that alone could be an epic thread. Once I’m read up on everything...I have no problem taking on the entire site.
For example, do you know of anyone, ever, who was unfriended for holding leftist views? The right tolerates the left, listens, and does not end friendship over such stuff even if they continue to disagree.
Most tribal disagreements on here result from Word Thinking (Credit: @ScottAdamsSays).
"This word means that, and that's bad!"
"No, it means this, and that's good!"
See this everywhere.
Serious question for @Patrick and the followers of this forum.
Why did @Patrick censor the 'sjmoca' account by banning, when they did not break any forum rules? This forum purports to be a space to discuss ideas and disagree without insults. Patrick insulted 'sjmoca' by calling him a pharma shill, and then censored them by banning - seemingly only for posting data, ideas, or questions that Patrick personally disagrees with.
It's Okay for you to be offended Patrick. It's not Okay, by your own rules, to censor those who disagree with you.
consider the structure of the question being posed and the assumptions therein, because they will seek to skip steps and occlude what’s being done and they will blow it by you because you happen to like the outcome so you won’t think about it too hard or bother to fight.
they will pick the least sympathetic case to get the ball rolling.
after all, who’s going to stand up for some neo nazis?
well, you should, and here’s why: sure they may be odious and you may disagree violently with them, but an assault on their speech is an assault on everyone’s speech, yours included.
the price of your own free speech is listening to others say things you absolutely hate. if you are not willing to do this, you neither deserve nor will you retain your own right of speech.
no one ever said it was easy, only that it was just and fair.
it is precisely because you will not stand up for the right to hateful speech that they are able to take your free speech away. then, one day, you try to protest a school board for muzzling your children in class and they silence you, bar you from discourse, and, in all too predictable fashion, brand you as a fascist and a nazi and as a domestic terrorist. (and yes, this really happened)
and it was your fault. you walked into it and let them set up the trap by changing the framing from rights to privileges. you failed to defend nazi speech and thereby lost your own. we all did (or enough did that the rest got run over)
Lol, I could do that.
OK, done for new comments and posts.
@AmericanKulak
@richwicks OK, done.
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