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PeopleUnited
2022 Dec 14, 11:05am
PeopleUnited
2022 Dec 14, 11:05am
DD214 says
Like Pfauci and the Science!
PeopleUnited says
find themselves to be superior to everyone outside their own circles
As do members of most any religion
Like Pfauci and the Science!
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DD214
2022 Dec 15, 5:31am
PeopleUnited says
God penned the constitution ? Let me guess - he inspired the humans to write it after they read about the United States in the bible and they decided it was time to fulfill the prophecy.
Hey, going back to that being superior thing, check this out
Research Shows Religious People Believe They Are Morally Superior, But Their Motivations Are Largely Egoistic
https://www.inquisitr.com/5444066/religiosity-morality-religious-people
That is only something God can do.
God penned the constitution ? Let me guess - he inspired the humans to write it after they read about the United States in the bible and they decided it was time to fulfill the prophecy.
Hey, going back to that being superior thing, check this out
Research Shows Religious People Believe They Are Morally Superior, But Their Motivations Are Largely Egoistic
https://www.inquisitr.com/5444066/religiosity-morality-religious-people
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PeopleUnited
2022 Dec 15, 6:34pm
PeopleUnited
2022 Dec 15, 6:34pm
We hold these truths to be self-evident, that all men are created equal, that they are endowed by their Creator with certain unalienable Rights, that among these are Life, Liberty and the pursuit of Happiness. That to secure these rights, Governments are instituted among Men, deriving their just powers from the consent of the governed,
“Endowed by their Creator with certain unalienable Rights”
But forgive their moral superiority, obviously the men who wrote about these unalienable rights of birth are egoistic.
“Endowed by their Creator with certain unalienable Rights”
But forgive their moral superiority, obviously the men who wrote about these unalienable rights of birth are egoistic.
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AmericanKulak
2022 Dec 15, 11:38pm
AmericanKulak
2022 Dec 15, 11:38pm
Patrick says
"Penis Envy".
Women are run far more by their emotions than men, and they can't help it. And they are smart enough to know it.
It's kind of like being stuck at 13-14 for a male. You have logic, are smart, can be responsible, but those hormones fuck with your emotions.
Then consider that most Western women under 40 are on Birth Control, which works by mimicking the hormones of early pregnancy. That actually increases anxiety/fears of personal safety/feelings of (unwanted) dependence; evolutionary standpoint, a newly pregnant woman would avoid risk and want safety and free and reliable resources above all. More than usual.
Then add to that Western women being the largest group in the world in taking antidepressants. While being on birth control. And many of them drink regularly on top of that, a no-no with most antidepressants.
But once started, feminism runs by itself, appealing to female resentments. I think the majority of women have resented men for their higher status at some time or another.
"Penis Envy".
Women are run far more by their emotions than men, and they can't help it. And they are smart enough to know it.
It's kind of like being stuck at 13-14 for a male. You have logic, are smart, can be responsible, but those hormones fuck with your emotions.
Then consider that most Western women under 40 are on Birth Control, which works by mimicking the hormones of early pregnancy. That actually increases anxiety/fears of personal safety/feelings of (unwanted) dependence; evolutionary standpoint, a newly pregnant woman would avoid risk and want safety and free and reliable resources above all. More than usual.
Then add to that Western women being the largest group in the world in taking antidepressants. While being on birth control. And many of them drink regularly on top of that, a no-no with most antidepressants.
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stfu
2022 Dec 16, 4:24am
AmericanKulak says
I've read somewhere (can't remember the source at the moment - may have been here on patnet) that Birth Control fucks with pheromones. The fact that pheromones may be incredibly powerful in the attractions between two people means that women on Birth Control end up picking and/or being picked by the wrong mates for marriage, and this is a core reason for the increase in the divorce rate.
Just a theory and not mine, but I may spend some time looking for a graph plotting % birth control vs. % divorces.
Then consider that most Western women under 40 are on Birth Control,
I've read somewhere (can't remember the source at the moment - may have been here on patnet) that Birth Control fucks with pheromones. The fact that pheromones may be incredibly powerful in the attractions between two people means that women on Birth Control end up picking and/or being picked by the wrong mates for marriage, and this is a core reason for the increase in the divorce rate.
Just a theory and not mine, but I may spend some time looking for a graph plotting % birth control vs. % divorces.
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DD214
2022 Dec 16, 12:58pm
PeopleUnited says
Pretty much so Skippy. Moral superiority and egoistic with a big bow on top.
How did that equal and rights thing work out the slaves, uneducated, Native Americans, women and all the other who were not deemed worthy of voting or much else ? Pretty much just like today, it was a "big club" then and it is still a "big club" and you and I ain't in the "big club" but we sure get to feel the impacts of it .
Liberty - these guys were basically talking about liberty from taxation by England and once they got done with that they imposed their own tax. As far as '"liberty" I am sure the slaves and other found those words very comforting.
Boy, what a life huh ? Pursuing happiness as a slave or other outcast. Wonder how the founding fathers felt about Asians, atheists, immigrants from where English was not the language of choice.
Are those right unalienable or inalienable ? Doesn't really matter since that phrase did not apply to everyone at the time anything was signed anyway.
More here:
https://dailyconquest.substack.com/p/certain-unalienable-rights
Something else to ponder
God and Jesus Condone Slavery
https://thechurchoftruth.org/god-jesus-condone-slavery/#:~:text=And%20when%20those%20who%20had%20been%20sent%20returned,freeing%20the%20slave%20or%20admonishing%20the%20slave%E2%80%99s%20owner.
If the founding father's were so benevolent - why didn't they do away with slavery and ensure that all humans regardless of whatever were included in all of this ?
We hold these truths to be self-evident, that all men are created equal, that they are endowed by their Creator with certain unalienable Rights, that among these are Life, Liberty and the pursuit of Happiness. That to secure these rights, Governments are instituted among Men, deriving their just powers from the consent of the governed,
“Endowed by their Creator with certain unalienable Rights”
But forgive their moral superiority, obviously the men who wrote about these unalienable rights of birth are egoistic.
Pretty much so Skippy. Moral superiority and egoistic with a big bow on top.
How did that equal and rights thing work out the slaves, uneducated, Native Americans, women and all the other who were not deemed worthy of voting or much else ? Pretty much just like today, it was a "big club" then and it is still a "big club" and you and I ain't in the "big club" but we sure get to feel the impacts of it .
Liberty - these guys were basically talking about liberty from taxation by England and once they got done with that they imposed their own tax. As far as '"liberty" I am sure the slaves and other found those words very comforting.
Boy, what a life huh ? Pursuing happiness as a slave or other outcast. Wonder how the founding fathers felt about Asians, atheists, immigrants from where English was not the language of choice.
Are those right unalienable or inalienable ? Doesn't really matter since that phrase did not apply to everyone at the time anything was signed anyway.
More here:
https://dailyconquest.substack.com/p/certain-unalienable-rights
Something else to ponder
God and Jesus Condone Slavery
https://thechurchoftruth.org/god-jesus-condone-slavery/#:~:text=And%20when%20those%20who%20had%20been%20sent%20returned,freeing%20the%20slave%20or%20admonishing%20the%20slave%E2%80%99s%20owner.
If the founding father's were so benevolent - why didn't they do away with slavery and ensure that all humans regardless of whatever were included in all of this ?
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Patrick
2022 Dec 16, 2:45pm
Patrick
2022 Dec 16, 2:45pm
DD214 says
@DD214 It worked out very well for all of them, since the founding fathers were at the forefront of human rights, unlike most other countries.
Name another country at the time that had more widely spread rights.
They were indeed profoundly benevolent, and you yourself seem to be an exceptionally ungrateful beneficiary of the risks they took for your sake.
DD214 says
Please compare to Islam, where slavery continues down to the present day.
How did that equal and rights thing work out the slaves, uneducated, Native Americans, women
@DD214 It worked out very well for all of them, since the founding fathers were at the forefront of human rights, unlike most other countries.
Name another country at the time that had more widely spread rights.
They were indeed profoundly benevolent, and you yourself seem to be an exceptionally ungrateful beneficiary of the risks they took for your sake.
DD214 says
God and Jesus Condone Slavery
Please compare to Islam, where slavery continues down to the present day.
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SunnyvaleCA
2022 Dec 16, 3:13pm
DD214 says
The "big club" is the "not living in the stone age" club. Western ideas, especially those promoted and accelerated by the USA, have brought a huge number of people into the "big club." Despite what the progressives and other USA-haters would have you believe, people living in the USA can so easily join the club that millions of people are willing to uproot and jump the border because the prospects of living at the very bottom in the USA is better than living in the non-club country they come from.
How did that equal and rights thing work out the slaves, uneducated, Native Americans, women and all the other who were not deemed worthy of voting or much else ? Pretty much just like today, it was a "big club" then and it is still a "big club" and you and I ain't in the "big club" but we sure get to feel the impacts of it .
The "big club" is the "not living in the stone age" club. Western ideas, especially those promoted and accelerated by the USA, have brought a huge number of people into the "big club." Despite what the progressives and other USA-haters would have you believe, people living in the USA can so easily join the club that millions of people are willing to uproot and jump the border because the prospects of living at the very bottom in the USA is better than living in the non-club country they come from.
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DD214
2022 Dec 16, 4:24pm
Patrick says
I guess that four years I voluntary gave up to serve in the Armed Forces is an act of being ingrate but I digress,
Patrick what have you done for this country ? Please do not tell me you vote and that is it.
you yourself seem to be an exceptionally ungrateful beneficiary of the risks they took for your sake.
I guess that four years I voluntary gave up to serve in the Armed Forces is an act of being ingrate but I digress,
Patrick what have you done for this country ? Please do not tell me you vote and that is it.
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DD214
2022 Dec 16, 4:26pm
Patrick says
Only for themselves and people they considered educated enough to vote. Everyone else was confined to the status quo if you will.
since the founding fathers were at the forefront of human rights
Only for themselves and people they considered educated enough to vote. Everyone else was confined to the status quo if you will.
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Patrick
2022 Dec 16, 4:28pm
Patrick
2022 Dec 16, 4:28pm
DD214 says
Because otherwise it looks like you simply hate Christians and will ignore inconvenient facts to justify that hate.
I hope you're better than that.
Patrick says
Please compare to Islam, where slavery continues down to the present day.
Why ?
Because otherwise it looks like you simply hate Christians and will ignore inconvenient facts to justify that hate.
I hope you're better than that.
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Patrick
2022 Dec 16, 4:30pm
Patrick
2022 Dec 16, 4:30pm
DD214 says
Their fight for human rights at the risk of their own lives, for "posterity" which includes you, was crucial in the establishment rights for everyone.
When you ignore this, it looks like you simply hate white men and will ignore the risks they took to justify that hate.
I hope you're better than that.
Patrick says
since the founding fathers were at the forefront of human rights
Only for themselves and people they considered educated enough to vote. Everyone else was confined to the status quo if you will.
Their fight for human rights at the risk of their own lives, for "posterity" which includes you, was crucial in the establishment rights for everyone.
When you ignore this, it looks like you simply hate white men and will ignore the risks they took to justify that hate.
I hope you're better than that.
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DD214
2022 Dec 16, 4:30pm
Patrick says
Much better, however I find Bible verse quoters walk and talk do not coincide.
I hope you're better than that.
Much better, however I find Bible verse quoters walk and talk do not coincide.
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DD214
2022 Dec 16, 4:31pm
Patrick says
As I did for you when I entered the Armed Forces plus I had the added bonus of being spit on, called a baby killer etc.
Their fight for human rights at the risk of their own lives, for "posterity" which includes you, was crucial in the establishment rights for everyone.
As I did for you when I entered the Armed Forces plus I had the added bonus of being spit on, called a baby killer etc.
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Patrick
2022 Dec 16, 4:35pm
Patrick
2022 Dec 16, 4:35pm
DD214 says
You sure sound like an antifa fascist when you attack white men and Christians.
Patrick - now I get to be Antifa as well ?
You sure sound like an antifa fascist when you attack white men and Christians.
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Onvacation
2022 Dec 16, 4:41pm
Onvacation
2022 Dec 16, 4:41pm
DD214 says
They set up ideals for a country to live by. Do you know of a better system?
If the founding father's were so benevolent
They set up ideals for a country to live by. Do you know of a better system?
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Patrick
2022 Dec 16, 4:52pm
Patrick
2022 Dec 16, 4:52pm
DD214 says
I spend most of each day doing what I can to point out the self-destructive hate which motivates the woke-corporate fascists who have taken over and destroyed the Democratic Party.
https://tobyrogers.substack.com/p/thinking-points-september-21-2022
Patrick what have you done for this country ?
I spend most of each day doing what I can to point out the self-destructive hate which motivates the woke-corporate fascists who have taken over and destroyed the Democratic Party.
https://tobyrogers.substack.com/p/thinking-points-september-21-2022
It’s like Pharma just backed a truck up to the Progressive Values Factory; stole everything; modified core values in order to maim people, make money, and implement global totalitarianism; and the left is just out there smoking a cigarette on the loading dock saying, “Sounds good to me.” What!? What the heck happened to the left? Is there no one remaining in that tribe who is capable of logic and reason!? Quite literally the worst industry in the world stole the left’s most cherished values and no one on the left is the slightest bit offended by this (even though they are offended by everything else)!? We live in the bizarro upside down world.
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PeopleUnited
2022 Dec 16, 7:59pm
PeopleUnited
2022 Dec 16, 7:59pm
Self righteous always accuse the other side, but rarely see their own extensive shortcomings. A major clue is painting with a broad brush, accusing others of egoism because of some false comparison to a made up caricature straw man Bible thumper that supposedly represents every Bible believer, but in so creating and attacking this straw man the self righteous expose their own obvious feelings of moral superiority. I find that the self righteous people who are most vehement in their self righteousness are not religious in the traditional sense but rather they are atheists, “scientists” and/or God haters. Pathetic.
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AmericanKulak
2022 Dec 16, 10:06pm
AmericanKulak
2022 Dec 16, 10:06pm
The same people who bitch and moan about ONLY Confederate Slavery, while ignoring West African, East African Arab, Persian, Indian, etc. Slavery....
... have no problem in their LA or Chicago or SFBA workplace advocating to send more business to China with it's Uighur Million-Man Work Camps and 19th Century working conditions for Han Chinese as well.
... they also made Qatar all about the homosexual symbolic virtue signalling with rainbow flags instead of about it's many thousands of Filipino, Tibetan, African unskilled workforce treated like absolute trash, having their passports taken away, forced to shop at company stores, not allowed to shop at the modern malls, etc.
... have no problem in their LA or Chicago or SFBA workplace advocating to send more business to China with it's Uighur Million-Man Work Camps and 19th Century working conditions for Han Chinese as well.
... they also made Qatar all about the homosexual symbolic virtue signalling with rainbow flags instead of about it's many thousands of Filipino, Tibetan, African unskilled workforce treated like absolute trash, having their passports taken away, forced to shop at company stores, not allowed to shop at the modern malls, etc.
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useful_information
2022 Dec 17, 1:14am
Patrick says
This will explain it for you and it's a very interesting and well done video:
The Architects of Western Decline
original link
gabbar says
Patrick says
1965 Academia gets serious about systematically undermining traditional gender roles, motherhood, the family, heterosexuality, patriotism, and Christianity, with the goal of weakening all forces which are preventing the Marxist revolution in America that they hope for.
I wasn't born in 1965. Can someone explain this, I want to learn
gabbar That was about the time that "education" became more about indoctrination into wokeness than about critical thinking.
This will explain it for you and it's a very interesting and well done video:
The Architects of Western Decline
original link
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useful_information
2022 Dec 17, 9:44pm
Patrick says
"Gay, the daughter of Haitian immigrants, has helped implement recommendations posited by the Presidential Committee on Harvard and the Legacy of Slavery, which includes the creation of a reparative endowment meant to benefit black and indigenous populations, and participated in the launch of the Salata Institute for Climate and Sustainability."
LMAO
I feel like we live in two different worlds, now - the woke vs the red pilled and never the twain shall meet.
https://notthebee.com/article/harvards-next-president-is-going-to-be-a-race-and-politics-professor
"Gay, the daughter of Haitian immigrants, has helped implement recommendations posited by the Presidential Committee on Harvard and the Legacy of Slavery, which includes the creation of a reparative endowment meant to benefit black and indigenous populations, and participated in the launch of the Salata Institute for Climate and Sustainability."
LMAO
I feel like we live in two different worlds, now - the woke vs the red pilled and never the twain shall meet.
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Patrick
2022 Dec 17, 9:47pm
Patrick
2022 Dec 17, 9:47pm
Harvard is cutting its own throat here, and that can only be good news.
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DD214
2022 Dec 18, 7:07am
PeopleUnited says
Glad to see you making use of a mirror
Self righteous always accuse the other side, but rarely see their own extensive shortcomings. A major clue is painting with a broad brush, accusing others of egoism because of some false comparison to a made up caricature straw man Bible thumper that supposedly represents every Bible believer, but in so creating and attacking this straw man the self righteous expose their own obvious feelings of moral superiority. I find that the self righteous people who are most vehement in their self righteousness are not religious in the traditional sense but rather they are atheists, “scientists” and/or God haters. Pathetic.
Glad to see you making use of a mirror
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DD214
2022 Dec 18, 7:12am
Comments 70,73,80,81 and 84 are deflections to divert the conversation away from why the Founding Fathers did not abolish slavery.
As for comment #85
Summary: Many Christians are willing to talk about their faith and about the Lord. Unfortunately, not all of those are obediently translating their faith into the actions and conduct commanded by the Lord. The number of those talking the talk includes some not walking the walk. Said another way, the “hearers only” of God’s Word are not the same as the faithful doers of that same Word. This is not pleasing to God, and He deals with this issue extensively in the Scriptures. May the Lord lead each of us into a heartfelt self-examination.
https://www.jimfeeney.org/talk-cheap-walk-the-walk.html
As for comment #85
Summary: Many Christians are willing to talk about their faith and about the Lord. Unfortunately, not all of those are obediently translating their faith into the actions and conduct commanded by the Lord. The number of those talking the talk includes some not walking the walk. Said another way, the “hearers only” of God’s Word are not the same as the faithful doers of that same Word. This is not pleasing to God, and He deals with this issue extensively in the Scriptures. May the Lord lead each of us into a heartfelt self-examination.
https://www.jimfeeney.org/talk-cheap-walk-the-walk.html
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richwicks
2022 Dec 19, 3:06pm
richwicks
2022 Dec 19, 3:06pm
DD214 says
Some of the most detestable people I have known in my life, constantly talked about how religious they were. I find they often use their (supposed) religious conviction as a shield for their complete moral bankruptcy. It's no different with people who are "woke". In that way, the religions are identical.
Try to convince a morally superior right wing Neocon that MAYBE starving people in Yemen might be a moral failing of our nation? Good luck.
PeopleUnited says
Self righteous always accuse the other side, but rarely see their own extensive shortcomings. A major clue is painting with a broad brush, accusing others of egoism because of some false comparison to a made up caricature straw man Bible thumper that supposedly represents every Bible believer, but in so creating and attacking this straw man the self righteous expose their own obvious feelings of moral superiority. I find that the self righteous people who are most vehement in their self righteousness are not religious in the traditional sense but rather they are atheists, “scientists” and/or God haters. Pathetic.
Glad to see you making use of a mirror
Some of the most detestable people I have known in my life, constantly talked about how religious they were. I find they often use their (supposed) religious conviction as a shield for their complete moral bankruptcy. It's no different with people who are "woke". In that way, the religions are identical.
Try to convince a morally superior right wing Neocon that MAYBE starving people in Yemen might be a moral failing of our nation? Good luck.
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WookieMan
2022 Dec 19, 3:45pm
WookieMan
2022 Dec 19, 3:45pm
richwicks says
This. It's no different than the pronoun bull shit. It's made up shit. I like religious people better than the lefties, but on paper what is actually the difference? I don't see a difference if I'm being honest.
I just like honest people. Not bull shit. Hard to come by now. Fucking Catholic church diddled half of kids into being gay as adults. Then lefties took them and groomed them further as teens. It's fucking sick.
I'll turn positive when family structure comes back. It's fucked even in my own family. Having a Dad and Mom worked for centuries. Was/is it always perfect, fuck no. But we are collapsing at this point. Where 1% of the population can have parades half naked in major cities with their dicks out. That's not normal. At all. When you can post how gay you are and it's applauded, but as a man you're ridiculed for wanting to fuck your wife you're shot down by society. Up is down.....
Some of the most detestable people I have known in my life, constantly talked about how religious they were.
This. It's no different than the pronoun bull shit. It's made up shit. I like religious people better than the lefties, but on paper what is actually the difference? I don't see a difference if I'm being honest.
I just like honest people. Not bull shit. Hard to come by now. Fucking Catholic church diddled half of kids into being gay as adults. Then lefties took them and groomed them further as teens. It's fucking sick.
I'll turn positive when family structure comes back. It's fucked even in my own family. Having a Dad and Mom worked for centuries. Was/is it always perfect, fuck no. But we are collapsing at this point. Where 1% of the population can have parades half naked in major cities with their dicks out. That's not normal. At all. When you can post how gay you are and it's applauded, but as a man you're ridiculed for wanting to fuck your wife you're shot down by society. Up is down.....
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richwicks
2022 Dec 19, 3:55pm
richwicks
2022 Dec 19, 3:55pm
WookieMan says
It's a self correcting problem.
People who are outside of a well established norm will produce less children, and will end up eliminating themselves from future generations. It just won't correct itself within our lifetimes.
I used to be an ASTRINGENT atheist, but I also knew atheists had less children than religious people. I used to worry that all the atheists would die out. Well, they will in time, and given what sort of society we'd end up with (it's pretty clearly evident what the consequences would be to me now) if everybody was atheist, I no longer worry about atheists dying out, I worry about the religious being exterminated. There's never been a society that was atheistic. I'm the odd man out, well, so be it.
I can remain objective and also, I can change as I learn more. Compulsory atheism would be actually worse than compulsory religion.
I'll turn positive when family structure comes back. It's fucked even in my own family. Having a Dad and Mom worked for centuries. Was/is it always perfect, fuck no. But we are collapsing at this point. Where 1% of the population can have parades half naked in major cities with their dicks out. That's not normal. At all. When you can post how gay you are and it's applauded, but as a man you're ridiculed for wanting to fuck your wife you're shot down by society. Up is down.....
It's a self correcting problem.
People who are outside of a well established norm will produce less children, and will end up eliminating themselves from future generations. It just won't correct itself within our lifetimes.
I used to be an ASTRINGENT atheist, but I also knew atheists had less children than religious people. I used to worry that all the atheists would die out. Well, they will in time, and given what sort of society we'd end up with (it's pretty clearly evident what the consequences would be to me now) if everybody was atheist, I no longer worry about atheists dying out, I worry about the religious being exterminated. There's never been a society that was atheistic. I'm the odd man out, well, so be it.
I can remain objective and also, I can change as I learn more. Compulsory atheism would be actually worse than compulsory religion.
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Patrick
2022 Dec 19, 4:02pm
Patrick
2022 Dec 19, 4:02pm
Yes, it does seem self-correcting in the long run, though none of us will probably live long enough to see the correction.
Everything promoted by the left seems to lead to family breakdown and fewer children: atheism, militant feminism, promiscuity, homosexuality, transgenderism, mRNA injections, and literal state-sponsored suicide as in Canada.
Everything promoted by the left seems to lead to family breakdown and fewer children: atheism, militant feminism, promiscuity, homosexuality, transgenderism, mRNA injections, and literal state-sponsored suicide as in Canada.
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Patrick
2023 Feb 24, 2:38pm
Patrick
2023 Feb 24, 2:38pm
https://euphoricrecall.substack.com/p/how-trump-both-saved-and-changed
According to the analysis, “in 2018, ‘Trump’ was the fourth most used word in the paper. On average, Trump was directly mentioned two to three times in every article, and indirectly mentioned an additional once or twice. ...
The Trump obsession was so all-consuming that in order for a story to be published, it became almost mandatory for writers to include the Bad Orange Man w/Mean Tweets. The Columbia Journalism Review reported that even placing international stories in American outlets was getting harder unless they directly involved The Donald. Book publishing was much the same. In 2018, each book at the top of the New York Times best-seller list shared one commonality: Trump. ...
If there should be any question as to whether the Trump bump was merely correlation, one need only look at what happened when Trump left office. News engagement and viewership numbers plummeted. ...
It’s not that the MSM was wrong to exploit Trump for a bump in clicks and subscribers and what have you; it’s how they did it. Objectivity was replaced with shrill, self-righteous advocacy journalism.
In a post I wrote back in August, I detailed the lengths that the MSM went to push the it’s-always-Trump’s-fault narrative, often outright lying. But they also profited from an artificially induced “Trump scare.” Immediately following his election, shrewd media executives realized that the whole amusement-type carnival coverage based on the what-if fairy tale they treated Trump’s campaign as all the way up to November 8, 2016 would no longer suffice.5 Trump as existential danger allowed them to commodify the Bad Orange Man scare, a transition that amplified the Trump bump rewards even more. Thus, the politicization of the media business began, contributing to society’s surge in polarization. ...
To keep numbers up and the money coming in, and to lure converts past the pesky paywall, the MSM had to successfully use what’s referred to in the PR world as “a call to action.” They settled on rhetoric specifically meant to incite fear and angst. At every possible occasion, Trump was portrayed as a demonic figure Extremely Dangerous to Our Democracy™, a madman who might well toy around with the nuclear codes for funsies on days that he got bored with Twitter, and whom no Good Person™ could possibly accept.
Notably, it wasn’t just Trump that they used for fear fodder, but the entire half of the electorate that supported him as well—the “MAGAts.” Ordinary Americans were vilified overnight, thereafter treated like some kind of mongol horde living amongst us in secret. Good People™ everywhere became paranoid: I just know Dave in accounting voted for that despicable man. I know it. I can just tell by the American flag sticker on the back of his car. That son of a bitch! ...
As polarizing agents within a new business model dependent on engagement and subscriptions, the MSM sells validation—of beliefs, not news. ...
The MSM’s new reliance on digital subscriptions means that the advertising-dictated necessity to appeal to the median American and practice objectivity is no more. The inherent liberal predisposition of the newsrooms is now unchecked by any financial imperative. This has led to the development of “post-journalism”—essentially, commentary commodified and sold as the modern-day version of news but which is funded through subscriptions, which are in turn solicited as donations. This new form of journalism sells not the news, not even the truth necessarily, but an ethos and an agenda to like-minded people; it identifies and exploits the ideological fears and values of a specific audience, then cultivates the content that audience will buy as part of a constructed worldview that can be altered to seduce.
... the best triggers are emotions, particularly fear and anger and outrage and angst, and as we all know well, the Trump Derangement Syndrome-afflicted are extremely sensitive to all things Bad Orange Man w/Mean Tweets.
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DhammaStep
2023 Feb 24, 3:19pm
December 23, 1913 - Federal Reserve created. Yes, I'm one of those "the central bankers are actually evil" people.
Edit: hooray, I've got my first ignore! I will wear it with pride.
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GNL
2023 Feb 24, 4:49pm
GNL
2023 Feb 24, 4:49pm
Patrick says
All signs of a dying society.
Everything promoted by the left seems to lead to family breakdown and fewer children: atheism, militant feminism, promiscuity, homosexuality, transgenderism, mRNA injections, and literal state-sponsored suicide as in Canada.
All signs of a dying society.
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Patrick
2023 Feb 24, 5:05pm
Patrick
2023 Feb 24, 5:05pm
DhammaStep says
@DhammaStep
All speech worth protecting is offensive to someone. Speech which offends no one ("Nice weather today") needs no protection.
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@DhammaStep
All speech worth protecting is offensive to someone. Speech which offends no one ("Nice weather today") needs no protection.
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1972 Nixon visits Communist China
1979 Carter grants Communist China full diplomatic recognition
1984 Reagan starts selling Communist China US military equipment
Academics get frustrated that there have been no mass conversions to Marxism as they were certain would happen if universities were "liberated" from pro-Western "bias". They turn against free speech and meritocracy, and refuse to hire faculty members suspected of thoughtcrime. (Perfect for 1984!)
1989 Tiananmen Square Massacre of protestors
US manufacturing executives realize that they can produce in Communist China for 10% of the cost of producing in America because of China's low wages, suppression of labor unions, and absence of environmental laws.
Universities suppress Western Civilization courses and force-feed the poz1 to undergrads who are told they must believe and recite the doctrine or fail these required classes and not graduate. Parents fail to notice that their tuition dollars are being used to turn their children against their own country.
1990 H-1B program created to give employers a way to hire cheap foreign tech workers for jobs Americans can do, driving down wages for US citizens.
1999 Google starts to take significant revenue away from mainstream media.
The US elite gradually see that dividing the public along the lines of race, sex, and sexual deviance is an effective way to weaken and control the public, distracting them from the core economic issues of outsourcing to China and insourcing illegals. Billionaires are delighted to look "progressive" for supporting issues which divide the public. They instruct their corporations to fund and publicly support divisive issues as long as these core economic issues of the harms of globalization are never mentioned.
Academia and global capital see that they can make common cause in supporting these divisive issues. The Marxist left ironically becomes the best friend of global capital. Capital is delighted to keep the spotlight off of itself by keeping it on race, gays, and women's issues instead.
2000 Bill Clinton signs the U.S.- Communist China Relations Act. Between 1980 and 2004, U.S.-China trade rises from $5 billion to $231 billion
US manufacturing is devastated as American factories are moved to China en masse. The people of "flyover country" are mocked as "racist" for objecting to losing their jobs. This slander proves to be effective at discrediting working class opinion on globalization, temporarily.
Feminism has successfully vilified motherhood to the degree that the native US population starts to drop, putting upward pressure on wages even for manual labor like restaurant work, construction, and meat packing.
The border with Mexico is effectively abolished through non-enforcement so that restaurants, construction, and meat packing can openly hire illegals without any real worry of prosecution. Again this saves business owners vast amounts of money by throwing millions of Americans out of work. Employers shorting US workers of all that money in wages then excuse their crime by saying "Americans don't want those jobs" without mentioning that those jobs would pay much more without illegals driving down wages for US citizens.
And again, anyone who loses his job to an illegal is called "racist" in a coordinated media campaign to assure the public that it's totally fine to hurt people as long as they are "racist".
2003 Facebook founded at Harvard by Mark Zuckerberg
Media revenue plummeting as Google ad revenue rises.
2010 Communist China overtakes Japan as world's second largest economy
Google and Facebook have now taken more than half of the mainstream media's revenue away.
Arrival of first generation to graduate from universities where radical ideas have been normalized. Free speech on campus is eliminated by mob shout-downs and violence against speakers with the tacit understanding that the mob will never question outsourcing to China or insourcing of illegals. In fact, liberals end up aggressively protecting illegals which drives down wages for US citizens and increases profits for business owners.
2011 Secretary of State Hillary Clinton outlines a U.S. “pivot” to Asia
Decades of Marxist indoctrination on campus result in entirely new fields of "grievance studies" where everyone except white men of Christian origin can identify with some "oppressed" group and become extremely angry: feminist studies, black studies, queer studies etc. This proves to be very popular with every insecure student who already has a "mortal hatred against the truth which blames him and convinces him of his faults."2
Title IX is used to set up corporate and university kangaroo courts where men (always men) may not question their accusers and are assumed guilty. Men are in fact intimidated and fail to stand up for their constitutional right to a fair trial for fear of losing their jobs or being expelled from school.
2013 Billionaire Jeff Bezos of Amazon buys the Washington Post as his personal propaganda outlet. Bezos's fortune comes from importing and selling goods manufactured in China. Bezos bleeds the US of both cash and jobs, but thereby becomes the richest man in the world.
2014 US court indicts five Communist Chinese hackers with ties to China’s People’s Liberation Army on charges of stealing technology from US companies. The case is irrelevant as almost all US manufacturing technology has already been transferred to Communist China by US executives to justify large bonuses for themselves.
Trump decides to run for president because he sees that an opportunity to publicly point out how badly American workers have been treated by their own elites, something no mainstream candidate can do because they are all funded and therefore controlled by the same people who outsource to China and insource illegals.
All mainstream media are now very weak and susceptible to influence buying, since most of their former ad revenue is now going to Google and Facebook instead. American elites pay Fusion GPS (co-founded by former Wall Street journal reporter) to come up with dirt on Trump (the "Steele Dossier") to try to prevent his election.
Everyone in DC is aware that the Steel Dossier is a fabrication, but Obama and the FBI find it useful as a pretext to justify spying on the Trump campaign and prosecuting Mike Flynn, etc. Obama and FBI deliberately try to subvert American democracy rather than allow Trump to be elected. They support Hillary because she will continue outsourcing to China and insourcing illegals at the expense of American workers.
2016 Trump is elected in violation of the media's direct orders to the public that they must vote for Hillary
Newspapers, husks of their former selves, are now staffed largely with blue-haired slutty-and-proud feminists (exactly as their professors told them to be), who stew in resentment because Chad never called them back after that one night, and never will, while they themselves get older and remain childless. With funding and encouragement from billionaires, these women turn all US mainstream media into a 24/7 anti-Trump hate festival. Trump represents something to these women that makes them absolutely seethe with rage. Objectivity in reporting goes out the window. Chad, meanwhile, is looking for a sweet conservative woman who won't cheat on him, because he wants to know that he will be raising his own kids and not someone else's.
Facebook and Google suppress conservative points of view more and more openly. This is defended as a choice of "private businesses" despite the fact that private bakeries are forced by law to bake cakes for gay weddings. The fact that Facebook and Google are effectively monopolies is also ignored.
2017 The Black Lives Matter Global Network is incorporated in Delaware. It’s technically a charity fiscally sponsored by another nonprofit called Thousand Currents. (Who owns that?)
2018 Trump Tariffs Target Communist China
As feminism becomes America's unquestionable state religion, women earn more and become much more picky about the men they will sleep with. A few desirable men sleep with all the women, but more and more men get no sex at all. The number of American men under 30 who have never had sex triples between 2008 and 2018, but not for women. This creates a large class of frustrated men prone to rioting and looting.
2019 Wuhan virus cases turn up suspiciously close to a major Chinese virology lab, perhaps when test animals were sold in the nearby meat market by janitors
2020 After impeachment fails, the media sees the virus as an opportunity to harm the record economy that Trump helped to create. Media promotes extreme fear even as the virus subsides dramatically. Trump's economic success is an unmentionable embarrassment to the media, since they so wrongly predicted disaster upon Trump's election.
After the sudden mass unemployment fanned by the press panic over Wuhan virus, billionaires get worried about finally being exposed as profiting from moving manufacturing to China.
When violent criminal (pointed a gun at a pregnant woman's belly during an armed robbery) and high on fentanyl drug addict George Floyd dies in police custody after being arrested while attempting to pass off a fake $20, billionaires instruct their lapdog media to put "racism" at the top of the agenda, to divide the public and deflect attention from themselves.
Black continue shooting each other at more than 50x the rate that white people shoot blacks. Black police remain more likely to shoot black criminals than white police are. These fact remains censored in all mainstream media. Chicago sees 100 black on black shootings in one day.
Capitalist billionaires like George Soros fund Marxists in academia to incite BLM riots. The irony is lost on everyone.
269 corporations support "BLM Inc, brought to you by Doritos™. Pepsi™ knows black lives matters."
Mass bannings of blogs, websites, and Twitter accounts for holding politically incorrect views which are invariably conflated with "racism" even when they are exclusively about saving US manufacturing jobs and sending illegals back to their homes to save jobs for US citizens. Historical statues are pulled down by mobs incited by their former professors, and almost all state and local officials cave in, refuse to enforce the law, in the hope that they themselves will not be attacked next.
Surveillance apps forcibly installed on most cellphones in the name of "public health".
1. Pozzed: From HIV positive. Figuratively, any person or institution that is socially liberal, implying support for homosexuality, feminism, trannies, promiscuity, cuckolding, polyamory, and childfree lifestyles. These leftist social attitudes spread like a plague and prevent the host from reproducing effectively.
"My gay friend got pozzed at an orgy."
"That church is totally pozzed. The pastor is a transsexual otherkin coalburner with a degree in Women's Studies."
2. Quote from Pascal at the beginning of Eric Hoffer's book The True Believer
Man would fain be great and sees that he is little; would fain be happy and see that he is miserable; would fain be perfect and sees that he is full of imperfections; would fain be the object of the love and esteem of men, and sees that his faults merit only their aversion and contempt. The embarrassment wherein he finds himself produces in him the most unjust and criminal passions imaginable, for he conceives a mortal hatred against the truth which blames him and convinces him of his faults.