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@3RU7AL
farmers generally only work from sunrise to sunset
Thanks for displaying your ignorance on agriculture.
So you have never watched Nat Geo nor set foot on a farm confirmed.
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@3RU7AL
do you think that perhaps there are unqualified legacy idiot executives and politicians ?
Washington DC Politicians, absolutely. Most voters pay no federal taxes.
Business Executives?
Unlikely since the voters an executive is accountable to actually have their personal money invested in them.
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@badger
Sweatshops and CEO's, that's capitalism.
Sure beats 12-year-olds plowing a field 16 hours a day.
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@3RU7AL
DO YOU REALLY THINK SOME HUMANS ARE BORN INTRINSICALLY "BETTER" THAN OTHERS?
Did your parents never make you watch Nat Geo as a kid?
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@badger
I'm just amazed at the so called academic intellectuals tossing about the term "equality" in a world where there isn't anything equal in nature.
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@3RU7AL
It's the small biological differences that create politics. It doesn't matter the percentage.
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@3RU7AL
who do you believe have a "genetic advantage" ?
Everyone is genetically unequal.
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@3RU7AL
automating intellectual labor will open up opportunities in WHAT EXACTLY??
Transcendence from unequal biology.
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@Tradesecret
Why are 2 gay parents a worse environment for a child than a single parent?
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@coal
Of course it's acceptable for a biological male to lead a nuclear family, and any suggestion to the contrary is preposterous.
You might have glossed over the word "increasingly" but it is a VERY important word in that premise. This is the future I see for most of the non-Islamic western world.
But we likely won't get that far.
After the past few years, I am not so sure. Certainly not within our lifetimes.
That all being said, I strongly support gay/lesbian parenting. For reasons that I think should be obvious
Please expound for the edification of everyone interested. I highly value your insights.
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@FLRW
So you don't disagree? It's a preferable family arrangement for a child than a single parent?
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In a world where it is increasingly no longer socially acceptable for a biological male to lead a nuclear family, the next best option over a child being raised by a single parent would be being raised by 2 gay parents.
Disagree?
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@ebuc
There it is again. "Texas" beep boop.
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@ebuc
Only robots would say Texas.
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@badger
Women are agents of chaos. Men are agents of order. That is the natural balance.
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@sadolite
They don't.
People who dismiss Jordan Peterson are firm believers of using psychotic drugs and indoctrination to suppress our caveman instincts.
The people that refuse "treatment" are Neanderthals.
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@badger
I still have the DNA instincts of a caveman like everyone else.
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@badger
Men are naturally attracted to dogs because dogs are naturally submissive and grateful.
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@badger
Also, women naturally are attracted to cats because they cannot control them.
Once a woman has control, they naturally get bored and move on to the next alpha pet.
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@badger
Cats make a great substitute for children. Just ask any childless woman over 40.
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Equality is the punishment for ambitious people and the reward for jealous people.
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@3RU7AL
EQUALITY = PROVABLY FAIR
"Fair" is one of the most subjective terms in existence.
EQUALITY = NO "HEAD-STARTS"
so no affirmative action and everyone is genetically engineered at a lab at conception. what a dystopia.
NO GIFTS
You mean no bribes, right?
NO INHERITANCE
So no reason to work harder for society to make a better life for your kids, ok. Why even have kids at that point if you are not allowed to leave a legacy?
NO NEPOTISM
How about just getting rid of the offices politicians can appoint? Doesn't matter anyway, Hunter Biden proved America is incapable of holding nepotism accountable in the worst of cases.
NO CHEATING
So no ambitions to get ahead. Might as well move to Norway at this point and become mediocre like everyone else.
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@ebuc
In 2018, “Trump” was the fourth-most-used word in the New York Times. On average, Trump was directly mentioned two to three times in every article, and indirectly mentioned an additional once or twice. This average included all articles published by the Times (including weather, sports, fashion, etc.). Trump has ceased to be just a topic of news; he seems to be the prism through which we interpret and discuss everything.
Trump has been great for business. The Times saw a record spike in subscriptions over the course of the 2016 election cycle, due largely (in the Times’ own accounting) to the mutual antagonism between Trump and the paper of record. The publication now boasts a record-high number of paid subscribers. It is not alone: many outlets have seen sharp increases in readership and subscribers by capitalizing on (and reinforcing) the obsession with Trump.
News media have basically been running with 2016 campaign–level attention on Trump for five years straight now.
A new tool from Stanford University’s Computer Graphics Lab reveals that cable news has undergone a similar transformation. The Stanford Cable TV News Analyzer enables users to track cable news screen time for anyone they’d like, from 2010 to present. Looking at Trump relative to Barack Obama, Hillary Clinton, and Joe Biden reveals a number of striking patterns:
First, the cable news media seems to be consistently giving Donald Trump about twice as much airtime per day on average as it gave Obama from 2010 to 2012. Comparisons between Trump and his 2016 and (especially) 2020 rivals are also dramatic: Trump received significantly more airtime than Hillary Clinton virtually every month of the 2016 campaign, and Joe Biden is nowhere close in this cycle.
During the 2016 campaign, from August 2015 to November 2016, cable news aired about two hours per day (123 minutes) of just Trump talking. And, of course, this is just a fraction of the total coverage, as every clip aired of Trump speaking is typically bookended with other people talking about what Trump was going to say or had just said—building ten-minute segments out of two minutes of Trump talk.
What is most striking in the data, however, is what happened after the election—because almost nothing changed. In 2017, as Trump began his presidency, he averaged 110 minutes of speaking time per day; in 2018 it was 114 minutes; in 2019, 112 minutes. So far in 2020, it has been 110 minutes. If people are exhausted, it’s no surprise: news media have basically been running with 2016 campaign–level attention on Trump for four years straight now.
This becomes even clearer when we break out Trump airtime by network. The coverage is extremely steady from 2015 through the present; fluctuations notwithstanding, the overall trend in the data is essentially flat:
A lot of attention has been paid to the relationship between Fox News and Trump. In fact, the network that consistently gives Trump the most airtime is not Fox News, but MSNBC and CNN. The channel’s viewers may hate Trump, but MSNBC and CNN keep serving those viewers Trump content. It doesn’t matter whether or not viewers are watching to feed their outrage; all that seems to matter is that people are watching.
Trump hates the media, the media hate Trump—but they are also obsessed with each other. And Americans can’t seem to look away: like print media, cable news outlets have enjoyed record ratings and huge increases in ad revenue by fetishizing the president.
There is wall-to-wall coverage for every outrageous word and action—often leading outlets to inadvertently report incorrect information in their bid to keep everyone glued to their seats. They fact-check Trump constantly, but often only after airing—and, in many cases, repeating—misinformation. This can create what psychologists call an “illusory truth effect,” where people end up remembering the falsehood, forgetting the correction, and then attributing their misinformation to the very source that had tried to correct it!
In short, the media, the ex-president, and the public seem to be locked into the world’s worst relationship triangle. And as we hurtle toward the 2024 election, we could be headed for an even more terrible zombification.
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@ebuc
Classic Trumpaboutism.
Got a problem with government? Let me plug you into CNN for a few hours to fix that.
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@ILikePie5
So was Bill Ayres.
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@ILikePie5
I do love me some “insurrectionists.” And I’m not talking about the ones in CHOP or CHAZ or whatever ofc
Those are absolutely the wrong kinds of insurrectionists. Not only do their costumes suck, but they are really bad at taking a bullet in the neck from a DC cop.
If only q-Anon threw more necks at DC police bullets, maybe Democracy could have been actually threatened.
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@ILikePie5
Mabye if they dressed them up as cosplay shamans...
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@3RU7AL
nobody wants to play a game that has loaded dice
The very essence of equality is loaded dice. Nothing is left to chance.
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@3RU7AL
you can't scare a person into becoming a "good person"you can't bribe a person into becoming a "good person"
Sure you can; it's all encapsulated in a single word that does not apply to feminists.
Accountability.
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@3RU7AL
Tell that to the millions of shallow feminists who have no purpose in society other than their careers.
At least there will be fewer homeless cats in the future.
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@3RU7AL
you're only a sheep if you're "obligated" to the fucking herd
Rip the human species. It just won the Darwin award.
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@3RU7AL
you are only ever "obligated" to YOURSELF
That's the mantra perpetuated by toxic feminism, Congrats sheep.
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@3RU7AL
MGTOW for most men is just a recently constructed therapy group for many men to help them suppress their biological urges to provide for a woman in a world where almost no woman rewards a man for doing so.
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@Athias
It's true that Feminism especially in its adoption by the State as well as it perpetuation in the media has done a number on the family unit. I would argue the same of ideologies like MGTOW who do not seek to solve this, but to "liberate themselves" from the yolk of "female oppression." The male and female are essential. And there is in my opinion a concerted effort to sow discord among them.
I have been binge watching Kevin Samuels for weeks. I highly recommend listening to his points.
Generations of modern Feminism has taught many women to have masculine energy, which is a biological turnoff for many men.
It has also taught men to have feminine energy which no woman wants.
The redefining of social roles by purposefully ignoring biology is the direct cause of the destruction of most heterosexual relationships and ultimately the nuclear family. This was going to happen whether or not MGTOW existed. MGTOW for most men is just a recently constructed therapy group for men to help them suppress their biological urges to provide for a woman in a world where almost no woman rewards a man for doing so.
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@Athias
Feminism liberated men from women. Men no longer have an obligation or any social responsibility to provide for any woman. Ever.
Families are completely optional at this point as well as an intact nuclear family thanks to feminism and the shattering of biologically constructed social roles.
Enjoy your cats feminazis.
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@Dr.Franklin
If only we could get the world to put Hamas into the "nutjob" category.
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@bmdrocks21
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@ILikePie5
So did the FBI at Waco.
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@ebuc
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@thett3
I've seen enough of these kinds of arguments regarding nature vs nurture to know it's dangerous ethical ground to imply someone could be born predisposed to be a Marxist.
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@badger
There's more recent research that individual suicide rates go up after genitalia mutilations.
Can't say that I am all surprised science figured that out.
You can even get surgery before the age of 18 in some states.
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@zedvictor4
Also, when you die, your body will be consumed by microscopic carnivores, even if you are a vegan.
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@zedvictor4
Chimps also prefer meat when they can get it. They love rending smaller monkeys.
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