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Comment Re:It was just crazy watching (Score 1) 119

Oh, and I can't edit this - but before you start accusing ME of ISMs and phobias:

I DID NOT VOTE FOR TRUMP.

I also did not vote for Kamala. She is a committed liar, a fraud - and I don't appreciate an Indian woman pretending she is black to try stealing my vote, despite evidence and testimony from her own family that she is not black. Race-baiting is too far.

I am a MODERATE LIBERAL. However, the democrat party has spiraled into far left progressive ... terrorism. I guess I'm an independent now, because I've been left behind.

Comment Re:It was just crazy watching (Score 1) 119

Wait, what?

How can you report those things without examining evidence?

Trump received 94% negative coverage from media. Kamala received 57% positive coverage and 11% negative coverage. Tim Wlaz received 62% positive coverage, JD Vance received 92% negative coverage.

Think of it this way: There was an assassination attempt on Trump. The media reported things like, "disturbance at Trump Rally" instead of ASSASSINATION ATTEMPT.

You're right one one thing - two newspapers that are going out of business were prevented from endorsing Kamala Harris, because their owners are trying to develop a new business model - one that is not rabidly pro-progressive. They need to try something new to stay in business. One of the two owners believes that it is not the place of a newspaper to endorse a political candidate, but rather - to report the news. It just so happens that the entire valuation of that newspaper is less than the cost of his yacht, so its small potatoes to him.

Meanwhile .... Kamala spent two billion dollars on her campaign, paying P.Diddy party-goers millions of dollars to get on stage and say something nice about her. Thugs, thieves, booty-clappers, rappers....

Can you imagine? One of the democrat presidential candidates left his party because the Democrats were illegally blocking him from running for president, while bypassing the democratic voting process to install Kamala - the worst performing presidential candidate in the DNC history - into the candidacy by bypassing the primary voting process. Another of the democratic presidential candidates left her party because ... lots of reasons.

And on the Republican side, the 2000 era "Let's invade Iraq for oil" crew switched sides to the Democrats, who are now the party of war. And EMINEM GOT ON STAGE AND SAID, "YES PLEASE, MORE WAR." Eminem, who got famous singing about "Fuck Bush, Fuck Cheney, fuck war" is now on the side of those same people.

Meanwhile, Blue Sky has arisen out of rebellion of X no longer being a left-wing circle jerk; itsinstead 48/49 representative now, which is fair - except that conservative voices aren't automatically banned, and misinformation gets community noted. But lots of progressives don't want debate or equal representation, so they made a new progressive circle-jerk called Blue Sky, which is currently ripping itself apart in mass-reportings, mass-bannings, because the amount of child-material is out of control, the hate speech is out of control, and its progressive audience is enthusiastically sabotaging itself - par for the course for a group of people who label any tiniest disagreement on any issue as an ism / phobia.

Comment How Interesting (Score 2) 118

Over the centuries of discourse about the possible likely cause of the end of the human species....we've focused on war, plague, asteroid impacts, the Second Coming, acid raid, global starvation, water wars, nuclear holocaust, fission gone wild, our solar system's sun ...

How completely anticlimactic would it be if we just ... fizzle out due to global plastic contamination.

Comment Re:Way behind! (Score 1) 80

Psilocybin / Ketamine / DMT are not "automatic" conversions to faith. Rather, there is an interesting correlation between users who are introduced to them in a clinical setting, and who also have a metaphysical change in belief structure.

Check out the white paper I linked; I think they dig into it about 2/3 of the way down.

Comment Way behind! (Score 2, Interesting) 80

Alright, so this has been a heavily studied concept. This is one of my favorite white papers. https://www.pnas.org/doi/full/...

Summing up research: Ketamine, Psilocybin, DMT, etc - all essentially do the same thing: They dysregulate independent neural functions, which essentially control the brain's "bucketization" category, or how we process stimuli into different stereotypes; causing a "blended consciousness" experience, where IQ, memory, positive and negative subjective emotional inputs are simultaneously experiencing synaptic tagging - or more interestingly - cortical expansion with TOP plasticity enhancements.

These are the same things experienced by those in deep, meditative states, or those with adrenaline-infused NDE/ADE experiences; essentially giving spiritual, metaphysical changes in belief structure as imagination, IQ, memory, and feelings merge into a powerful blending of multi-functional neural activity.

Literally: Don't believe in God? Or "A" God? Take Psilocybin and meet the heavenly host. You won't disbelieve again.

Comment Re:Buy an EU eSIM and use that while in the EU (Score 4, Informative) 21

Doesn't work. That article is written for Americans, but the outage affects EVERYONE, EVERYWHERE. I am currently in Latvia, recently out of Norway, and everyone is out. Natives and tourists alike. Cellular network in the entire country is down; it's due to the backbone provider and international roaming agreements.

Comment Re:The problem they're having (Score 1) 218

Birth rates in the US are falling in large part because of the dissolution of the nuclear family. The advent of birth control and the following sexual freedom had long reaching affect on pair-bonding that is only now being understood. The US leads the world in single-mother households at 23.9%; in the black community it's over 70%. Meanwhile, marriages are a punitive contract that women are financially rewarded for breaking.

Layered on top of that is a collapsing social security system that originated with 42:1 people paying in to taking out that is falling to 3:1. It's not sustainable - wild economic growth and new taxpayers are the only way to keep it alive, and people aren't having babies because of the points above.

Other countries have similar situations.

Comment Bahaha (Score 1) 37

The lawsuit cites the example of a University of North Texas researcher who studies young people's use of social media, who has been forced to abandon research projects that rely on university computers and to remove material about TikTok from her courses.
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And nothing of value was lost.

Comment Re:You would have to fundamentally change (Score 0) 140

I think you need some critical thinking classes of your own. The use of logical fallacies to make an argument makes an invalid argument. In your case, you used a false premise and an ad hominem, which invalidates whatever argument you are trying to make.

You wrote:
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Anyone who thinks the right is the party of free speech, because the left uses social pressure to fight hate speech and false speech aimed at getting people killed, while the right is using the force of law to ban talking about race in ways they don't like, ban sexual education making it easier to molest kids while they call *us* groomers, and now banning doctors from recommending the overwhelming medical consensus treatment for gender issues... Not to mention allowing de facto forced prayer in schools.. and Musk and other right wing socials banning people for any criticism or dissent... well they're either a mendacious jackass or a blind idiot. Which are you?
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Here's the thing:
1. You are correct - there is an overwhelming medical consensus treatment for gender issues.
2. It is so overwhelming that a growing number of countries are banning the outlier efforts to chemically or physically disfigure children.
3. The social pressure the left uses to fight hate speech and false speech is to attempt to ban speech, criminalize non-compliance with enforced pronoun use..

C'mon.

Minors can't buy alcohol. They can't get a tattoo without parental consent. They can't join the military. You can't have sex with them. They are un-developed, and a protected class, and cannot legally CONSENT.

I would return fire that anyone who believes that despite all of this, minors should have the indisputable right to CONSENT to permanent, life-altering disfigurement, and a lifetime of expensive, required medical care, with sometimes seriously life-threatening secondary conditions, despite a medical and scientific consensus HORRIFIED at the proposition, and that these children shouldn't need to undergo counseling and therapy, and that parents who don't jump at the chance to disfigure their children should be jailed and have their parental rights taken away..

Those people are evil. Not left. Not center. Evil.

There *ARE* doctors and hospitals that support this, because it's a hugely profitable business, and buys them cars, boats, houses, and a nice lifestyle. It isn't illegal in the United States yet, but it IS hugely unethical.

PS - I'm not on the far right. I'm the kind of liberal that calls the abortion debate "Pro Choice vs Anti-Choice" instead of Pro Choice vs Pro Life."

I'm allowed to be progressive and liberal ... and ALSO believe that children who cannot rationally consent shouldn't be submitted to disfigurement. They shouldn't be sexualized. Their elementary school classrooms should not include literature on blowjobs. Nor anal sex, or the importance of lubricant in anal sex, nor ANY kind of sexual education. Sex ed belongs where it always has: Somewhere in the 13-16 age category when puberty is kicking in, combined with home education with parents.

I'm starting to think that the right *IS* the party of free speech. People can chant "We're here, we're queer, we're coming for your children" without being assaulted or arrested.

People can't hold a pro-life rally on a campus without being assaulted and censored.

It's disgusting.

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