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richwicks says

I remember a 2nd person. I thought he was imprisoned too.

But yeah, I can't find any evidence for it. There was a 2nd person, and I'm hating myself for not being more astute to remember who he was.

That 2nd person could be you for all we know :-/

No, there is no purpose in terrorism. I wouldn't be surprised if the Oklahoma City bombing was done by our own government. I remember McVeigh's "friend". Terry Nichols. That's who it was.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Terry_Nichols

Now isn't that funny, everybody has forgotten, like it's now a CONSPIRACY theory that he existed. Isn't that hilarious, he hasn't been memory holed.

I don't see any point in murder. It doesn't change anything, it just makes it worse, every time.

I remember after 9/11 my cousin and I got together shortly after it, and we are both pretty knowledgeable about US foreign policy in the Middle East. "Finally, the US government will HAVE to talk about what they've actually been doing for the last 40 years in the Middle East". We were both convinced that conversation would happen.

Nope.

"They h8 us 4 R Freedumb".

and then "Saddam Hussein sent anthrax to try to kill people in the United States", then "we can't wait for the final proof to come in the form of a mushroom cloud", then "Saddam Hussein has mobile weapons labs and are developing weapons of mass destruction". Just a stream of obvious propaganda and nonsense, I couldn't believe people bought it. Hmm. "people".

My generation is partially lost, the Boomer generation almost entirely lost. People have no idea what is going on, even if they are intelligent they don't want to know. We're stuck having our government murder people for bullshit reasons, and making us pay for it.

Americans think "it will be worse if we're in a multipolar world", no it won't be. I can't be worse. My nation has no ethics or morals and most people barely register as human to me now. Even when you can convince a person that the result of bombing Libya resulted in slavery markets and civil war, and had NOTHING to do with "preventing a humanitarian crisis" - but instead created one, they're not the least bit bothered. "Well, I'm sure the government had a good reason, WHATEVER it was" - well if they did, they would have provided that reason.

I don't know, maybe people are just naturally evil.

Karloff says

People are worried about nonsense like "equity" and "gender affirmation" rather than basic human needs. Clearly they have so little to worry about that these inconsequential issues can be front and center.

I don't think people are legitimately worried about these "issues".

Remember when "abortion" was the Big Issue? Well, Roe v. Wade was over-turned. Nobody cares. That was "The Big Issue" for a time, nobody really cares about it. Where are the protests and women screaming "my body, my right?"

That's what this transgendered BS is. Yeah, there are innocent kids being hurt, I know. We kill plenty of them in wars, well this is just another fucking war. It's a distraction. VERY few people will go through transgender surgery and I bet MOST of them will regret. Lupron damages individuals severely, that's used to delay puberty - we know what it does because it's been used for quite some time to delay puberty in children that have precocious puberty (i.e. early onset).

So the kid develops early, so what? But with Lupron, you delay it, at the cost of screwing up the kids physical development.

I'm so tired of these "issues" constantly being inserted into society. In 10 years people will be saying "wasn't the 2010's and 20's a CRAZY time? Remember that transgender mania?" and there were be a few 1000 people who are effected Say it's 100,000 (a vast overestimate in my opinion), that's just 0.03% of the population. It's still incredibly rare. Their are FOUR people who transgendered in Hollyweird, Chaz Bono. Eliot Page and the Wachowskis, 5 if you count Bruce Jenner and he's not really Hollyweird.

Even among the nuts it rare. But it's constantly shoved in our face. Transgendered people are sought out to become "stars". Dylan Mulvaney wouldn't exist 20 years ago, it would just be a weirdo on the Internet. Jazz Jennings is ONLY a person you know BECAUSE she is transgender. No different than "Honey Boo-Boo" - remember that WRECK?

All this nonsense is to create unrest. That's it.

I hate all this because it's really a molehill. It's NOT that common. Kids will say stupid shit until they are at least 25. Most people who say they are "transgender" will just grow out of it.

NuttBoxer says

And while I don't agree with his implementation of his ideas, that doesn't in any way detract from their relevance.

Bingo. Felt the same way when I read it two decades ago.

I have no idea why he sent the bombs. It didn't help his arguments in the least.

Trollhole says

I have no idea why he sent the bombs. It didn't help his arguments in the least.

I think he was trying to target people that was bringing this about.

Some people think that Ted wasn't working alone. I mean - how did he afford to live in the woods for years?

Who were the 2 guys that opened fire on the CIA employees right outside the gates at a stop light?

richwicks says

I hate all this because it's really a molehill. It's NOT that common.

I dunno, man. I have worked with TWO people who have kids who "transitioned". I work in small IT groups, so I haven't worked with that many people.

I went to a high school that had between 1500-2000 kids. A few were gay, but not a single one was "trans" at the time. This crap has been pushed so hard that it's become trendy. Kids who feel rejected or depressed will jump onto this bandwagon to get some attention and will likely damage themselves irreversibly.

As a father, this concerns me greatly.

Karloff says

I went to a high school that had between 1500-2000 kids. A few were gay, but not a single one was "trans" at the time. This crap has been pushed so hard that it's become trendy. Kids who feel rejected or depressed will jump onto this bandwagon to get some attention and will likely damage themselves irreversibly.

OK, longer than I expected, but bear with me.

I think the answer is we have ask "why are kids depressed"? I can answer in SOME ways they are.

They are constantly propagandized into thinking they are "destroying the world" and "the world is going to end in just a decade". IF that were true and you believed it, and you were 14, how would you feel? The world is going to end by the time you leave college. What's the point?

That's ONE of the purposes of "global warming". It's to demoralize society particularly kids.

Kids are HIGHLY propagandized. What is depicted as "normal" on television for a kid to be is ANYTHING but normal. If you were hooking up in high school all the time for sex, that was abnormal. Our society never did that before, this happened in "the sexual revolution". Kids might get married at 15, but they got married at 15, they didn't go around and just fuck. IF you did that, some father would have come after you with a shotgun and put a bunch of salt pellets in your ass, and say "stay the hell away from my daughter, next time it will lead". Somebody like that would LITERALLY have been run out of town.

Hookup culture is abnormal. We've never had that either. It started in the 1960's.

There's all this pressure in media to do abnormal things, that are presented as absolutely normal and they aren't. If a typical kid today woke up in 1800 with the attitudes and social mores of THAT time, I think they'd easily adjust to it. First, they would find out they have to do a lot more work, and there's no entertainment except books, and work can be pleasant and enjoyable. I think they will find that a pleasant shock. Second, there wasn't this social conditioning imposed on children where you're constantly pushed to pervert your own human nature.

A large part of society is just brainwashed, and we all were since birth. I've been deprogramming myself ever since I got out high school. Got rid of my television, realized our "news" media was bullshit, tried to figure out what was actually going on (and there's people that know), watched a ton of films because I enjoyed them, realized they were social propaganda quit that because it was screwing me up. Believe me, Hollyweird has a LOT MORE CONTROL than you can possibly imagine - our culture is downstream of media. It's television and movies that determines EVERYTHING from what is socially acceptable to how we should dress, what we should own, how we should act, what wars to support, what people and institutions to support and attack. It's "normal to be non-binary / gay / trans / whatever" according to Nickelodeon, Disney, Sesame Street, and god knows what other bullshit there is out there. "Religious people are stupid and/or crazy", that was a common theme in the 1990's I recall.

It's not just the NEW generation that has been propagandized, my generation (X) was too, so were the Boomers, I think the last generation to largely miss it was the Silent Generation and the so-called "greatest generation". They experienced propaganda, but not social propaganda. They had propaganda for WWII.

I'm telling you, the reason modern man (and kids) are so unhappy is that they are taught to hate themselves, hate learning, hate mankind, do unusual weird stuff at ages they aren't ready for it, all sorts of shit. They're being warped and we were warped too. Everything unnatural because we have constant conditioning. Fucking BF. Skinner, it's his fault. He believed that there was no nature, it was nurture only. Well, we're being put at odds with our actual nature, CONSTANTLY, and that makes people unhappy.

Think of this: remember hearing "single moms are the BRAVEST women!!" - that was drilled into my head. Why? They are selfish women. They can't divide their time between work and child rearing easily, MOST of them end up in poverty, the kid is neglected, it's not a good way to raise a kid, but we were told over and over and over again how BRAVE these women were. No - selfish, short-sighted, all the while thinking they are morally superior, when it's the exact opposite. The reason people sometimes think "oh, the black community has all these ANIMALS in it" - well, I bet almost all of them were raised in single parent households. This is what happens to a neglected kid.

richwicks says

Think of this: remember hearing "single moms are the BRAVEST women!!" - that was drilled into my head. Why? They are selfish women. They can't divide their time between work and child rearing easily, MOST of them end up in poverty, the kid is neglected, it's not a good way to raise a kid, but we were told over and over and over again how BRAVE these women were.

This yet another example of how women are the weak link in any society.

TED talks are the bomb.