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It seems that students are protesting, but do they not realize that Biden will never stop supporting Israel?
What is their goal?
It was often suspected before that every US president supports Israel unconditionally, but right now its obvious beyond a doubt that both Republican and Democrat presidents unconditionally support Israel.
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@Swagnarok
You don't want that kind of society.
Maybe I dont, but one can understand why some governments go for it.
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@Savant
Wars are extremely expensive to fight. Unless you mean people will die fighting
Its obvious, but yeah, the result of a war is that people die.
Maybe small wars are insignificant in this sense, but a total war usually results in three things:
1. Lots of population dying
2. Population lowering their needs
3. Destruction of useless programs, such as healthcare, which usually cannot be easily abolished in peace time.
While during peace time, population gets very upset easily with any shortages, during war, population simply stops complaining and adapts to very difficult circumstances.
Also, while its true that every soldier is another mouth to feed, its also true that every soldier is a non-consumer in other ways, as he stops consuming many items he would consume during peace, and so does the rest of the population.
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Military government is different from other governments in two ways:
1. It is a pure dictatorship with one leader at highest level of government
2. It is focused on building military alone
The military is provided for by the population, as military needs food, clothes, bases, weapons...ect.
However, in order to create a large military, military must be a bit humble, so every soldier must not have too high wage, because society can only provide a limited amount of money to military, and thus, if individual soldier costs less money, more soldiers can be payed.
The military government has two main battle tactics:
1. Human wave tactics
2. Concentrated attack
Human wave tactics are possible because this system produces huge amount of soldiers, which in turn also allows better concentrated attack.
Concentrated attack is always superior to defensive tactics, since defense tactics always suffer from streched defense problem.
Thus, keeping all soldiers together and concentrated perfectly in one place is superior to keeping them streched across many places, since the latter neither allows good attack nor good counter attack.
This society, which is essentially similar to North Korean model, allows for creation of great military to defend society.
North Korea is famous for its human wave tactics way of attack, as you can see in many of their videos that their soldiers are not trained to act defensively but just charge to attack enemy, and with an army of 7 million people, North Korea has an army which would be practically unstoppable if it charged on South Korea, as with so many soldiers, tanks and artillery attacking, South Korean defenses would quickly collapse since there is no way to defend against such wave of attack.
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We all know that government lives at the expense of economy, as every member of the government earns money through taking away money from population.
However, that is a small amount of money compared to government budget and programs.
Here is what we know so far:
1. Every government is rapidly expanding its budget, increasing the budget size rapidly.
2. Budget is a money taken away from the economy, from the population.
Thus, with rapid increase in budget, population will remain equally rich only if economy grows as fast as budget.
But what happens if budget grows faster than the economy?
What happens is that people become more poor.
Of course, some argue that the government's budget adds to economy, but practically, thats not true, since government programs lack "profit driven mode of work", that is, they lack ability to be cost effective.
For example, US spending trillions on healthcare does not add much to US production of items used by general population, but it even adds to the decrease, as it increases healthcare prooduction at the cost of item production, and more people work in healthcare, but less in item production.
Also, due to lack of profit driven mode of work, government healthcare can never be a buisness which earns more than it spends, that produces more than it spends.
To put it simply, government healthcare spends trillions of dollars, but does not create products that have trillions of dollars of value.
It merely creates healthcare services, which by their nature arent worth creating, as basic life items such as housing, clothes, money for raising children and for education, take priority over any kind of healthcare, as much more people are in need of those rather than in need of healthcare.
Thus, we see two facts:
1. Government's budget grows rapidly.
2. Government's budget takes from economy more than it gives to economy.
The only logical conclusion is that, unless economy grows rapidly as well, budget growth will surpass economy's growth and will cause harm to people's wealth.
Thus, that would create more and more unstable situation in the country which could result in war, since the way to quickly reduce government expenses is to go to war.
The alternative is to reduce government's expenses, thus reduce government's budget.
But no government is working to reduce its budget, which is a reason to worry.
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@TheUnderdog
I'm vegan
Thats impressive. Most people arent strong enough to be vegan, as it takes huge mental discipline to resist meat and milk as those are tasty.
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@Amber
You seem to be dodging the question.
This is your post in response to topic "How do we fix this to avoid the dysphoria cases?":
It's not a plan per se as much as it is a call to go back to the standards of parenting before the liberal push of individuality and kids having more say than their own parents. Get back to corporal punishment and be actual parents. Give authority back to the parents and make kids obedient, as they were once before. It's not like what I said has not been done before and proven to actually work.
So can you tell us how corporal punishment helps trans children?
Its a simple question, so I hope you can answer it.
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@Amber
Well, maybe I still just dont understand, but can you tell us what you meant when you said "bring back corporal punishment" in a text which you said describes how to "fix trans children"?
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English clearly isn't your first language
Well, maybe I just dont understand, but can you tell us what you meant when you said "bring back corporal punishment" as a way to "fix trans children"?
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@Amber
Trans = mental illness.
And you want to treat that by beating the trans out of a child?
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@Amber
Trans = mental illness.
And you want to treat that by beating the trans out of a child?
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@Sidewalker
Mall told us he had to "choose" his sexual orientation
Apparently, Christians can change their sexual orientation at will.
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Get back to corporal punishment and be actual parents. Give authority back to the parents and make kids obedient, as they were once before
Oh, so beat the gay out of a child.
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@amber
It's not a plan per se as much as it is a call to go back to the standards of parenting before the liberal push of individuality
Oh yeah, which standards are those? Please, tell us all about them.
Is it one of these:
"pray the gay away",
"spare the rod, spoil the child",
"beat the gay out of a child"?
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@Sidewalker
I see, and what makes you qualified to "get rid of dysphoria"?
Well, they do seem really obsessed with "helping" trans people, but what really bothers them is that trans people exist. It confuses their sexual attraction dichotomy of male and female, because they find trans women attractive and they cant make sense out of it and just want the feelings to go away.
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@Reece101
As you can see from his history, he had plenty of ideas and war tactics he used to defeat enemies.
He didnt just take sword and blindly attack everyone, as basic history would let you believe.
Basic history even tries to present Hitler as mindless attacker, when his strategies were far beyond mindless attacking.
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@Reece101
The Mongol Empire didn't last long with the culture he created.
He conquered a lot of the world. That takes strategy.
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@Greyparrot
The real question is should chickens be treated better than dogs, since this particular dog was eating chickens....
Humans eat chickens too, but they usually pay money for chicken meat first, usually by going to the store.
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@Reece101
He had great war strategies, no?
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@RaymondSheen
How can an atheist remain unconvinced by the claim that the Christian cross is a god that exists?
Checkmate, atheists.
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@IlDiavolo
And I can tell you, when the aliens come down to earth, they will be the new Gods.
No, we are just after your resources. We have no interest in managing human lives.
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@ADreamOfLiberty
They do exist
I am just saying that women are more worthy than men when it comes to good and bad actions.
Women can be forgiven more of their bad actions.
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@ADreamOfLiberty
Not all animals are equally worthy of existing
Well, sure, so we get to decide.
We're pack animals (or troop animals I guess), so are dogs.
So we are dogs?
It rubs our instincts the wrong way to integrate an animal into our pack/troop and then treat them like they're worthless.
Its not worthless. Dog meat has high price in China.
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Also, Kristi Noem is a woman.
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@ADreamOfLiberty
They don't regularly eat dogs in China
Yeah, just sometimes, after burning them alive with a flamethrower.
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People kill billions of animals a year.
Unless you are a vegan who is slowly dying from B12 deficiency, I really dont see what you have to complain about about Kristi Noem.
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@RaymondSheen
An alien group that appears as recurring antagonists in the Star Trek fictional universe?
Yes.
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I dont really care if my food is smart, unless pigs can solve some complicated problems, which they cant.
They eat dogs in China. Cook dogs alive or burn dogs alive, then eat them.
I even saw a video of a guy burning a dog alive with something like a flamethrower.
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@Reece101
logical conclusion that Greenland sharks should rule the world
I dont think that Greenland sharks have many ideas, I mean, they dont even talk much. But they also lack ability to turn their ideas into reality, if they have any, and I thought it was obvious that ideas play an important component in conquering the world, and person with greatest amount of ideas will rule the world. Now, of course, there is always a possibility of failure, but increasing number of ideas is mandatory anyway, since without ideas you have nothing, and with more ideas you always have better chances, and society with greatest number of ideas has great advantage over society with little to no ideas.
An idea in and of itself is conceptually arbitrary
Well, I was certain that people will at least know what is an idea, but if you dont know what is an idea, then you have no need to read this thread any further.
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@FLRW
"1. William James Sidis – IQ Score: Estimated 250-300
Now, let’s shine the spotlight on William James Sidis, an American child prodigy born in 1898. His estimated IQ score ranges from an astonishing 250 to 300. Sidis’s story is a blend of exceptional brilliance and complex circumstances. At a young age, he attracted media attention for his incredible mental accomplishments, including mastering multiple languages and complex mathematical concepts. Sidis enrolled at Harvard University at just 11 years old, making him one of the youngest to attend the prestigious institution.
Despite his remarkable abilities, Sidis’s life took turns that led him away from the public eye. He pursued various interests, including writing and political activism. While he may not have achieved the fame of some other individuals on this list, his extraordinary IQ remains a testament to the potential of human intelligence."
He was an atheist Socialist, like Albert Einstein. Most of the smartest people are atheist Socialists.
"Sidis took up the socialist cause and was jailed in 1918 during a communist anti-war rally. It was in jail that he met the only woman he ever loved, an Irish socialist named Martha Foley."
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@RaymondSheen
Atheists don't have evidence,they have a militant sociopolitical frustration in a quasi-theistic culture.
Atheists are borg.
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He will probably be back, I mean he quit the site dozens of times and came back again.
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@Reece101
In one case, people are asked to give ideas, in the other, they are not. So only one system produces greatest number of ideas, and greatest number of ideas conquer the world.
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@ebuc
terminator is here ?
Yes. Skynet team was losing. Sent a terminator back into the time before the war.
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@3RU7AL
you're arguing that there will be an apocalypse of suicides if we don't get this gender identity thing "under control" ?
The main question is how does he actually plan to get it under control.
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@Reece101
Well, I guess I often do give ideas.
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@zedvictor4
Data in,Data assessment,Data assimilation,Storage or output of data variables.Such are ideas.
Thats a very good way to describe it.
I usually just go with "input, process, output" type of description, so I know that when I give people ideas, they are going to have to think about it.
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@Reece101
Are you saying some ideas are worse than others?
Yeah.
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In the name of the Dragon,
I invoke Lucifer,
Lord of the Trident,
He who guides the Ascending Soul
on the path of the Gods,
Phosphoros, the Light Bearer!
Dark God of the Qliphoth!
Open the way to your stellar realm,
Come from the Throne of Thaumiel,
Through the gates of the Void,
Into this Temple of Flames.
Lord of the Night,
Open the gates to the Path of the Dragon,
And reveal to me secrets lost and forgotten,
The wisdom of primordial Gods!
Lord of Darkness and Light,
I invite you to enter this flesh,
I call you to my body, my mind and my soul,
I welcome you in my heart!
Lord of Ascending Flame,
Open for me the way to your Throne,
Show me the keys to your Stellar Gates,
And guide me on the paths of limitless power!
Lord of Thaumiel,
Ignite the fire of my soul,
So that I may rise forged in your flames,
As a living grail of your Immortal Essence,
From the bonds of flesh
to the heart of your Golden Throne!
Emperor of Darkness and Flame,
Empower and protect my soul,
So that I may arise
as a living vessel of Draconian Gnosis!
Great Horned King,
Enter this flesh which I offer you as a temple,
And let your immortal blood flow through my veins!
Lucifer, Lord of Ascending Flame,
Let your Fire burn forever in my soul!
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@ADreamOfLiberty
Well he's moved on to Japenese style imperialism.So maybe because the eternally virtuous emperor communicated that the pedos are better in an extremely vague haiku?
Lol
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@rbelivb
In this light, the mainstreaming of transgender identity can be seen as just one manifestation of a much broader cultural shift towards individualisation and self-determination in a post-national world.
The real question was if individual will become more important than society, but that already happened to a certain extent, and the more it happens, the more society sinks. As for trans issue, its not really a direct contradiction to society, as society itself can benefit from some individualism, just not too much of it. Kinda like, if trans persons were actually expected to reproduce, then them being trans wouldnt really bother society.
The question then becomes, what new forms of social, economic, and political organisation will emerge to replace the declining nation-state system?
There is no replacement for society-oriented model, because if survival of society isnt a priority, then what is? And if society doesnt focus on its own survival and greatness, it will just be conquered by those societies who do. Individualism is great for some time, but when freedom of individual contradicts to society's survival, upholding individual freedom diminishes society's chances to survive.
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@ADreamOfLiberty
It's not who votes, but who counts the votes.
I never thought I would see you quoting Stalin.
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@Greyparrot
U.S. goods imports from the world totaled $3.96 trillion
So we give 1.5 trillion of goods and get 3.96 trillion of goods in return.
Are you sure that you want it other way around? You can always move to China, but China's goods belong to US.
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@Greyparrot
Thats just other countries paying for protection.
They need to pay to us to protect them from invasion, or to let them invade someone, or to not get invaded by us.
Just some of the advantages of having strongest military.
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@Greyparrot
If it's over 30%
So we went from "producing nothing" to producing 30%.
Thats progress.
USA has 1.5 trillion in exports, you know!
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@Greyparrot
the US doesn't produce anything anymore
Really? I guess we are supposed to trust you without questioning your questionable claims.
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@FLRW
Eisenhower knew that an unbalance budget causes inflation
Well, high taxes it is!
I suggest 92% top tax rate, since we need to follow what worked before.
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@FLRW
OMG, is Raymond a Borg ?
Yes.
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