Greyparrot

How accurate is this documentary?

Our favorite Socialist Dystopia is about to erupt into a bloody civil war. How do you feel about the fact that it is very unlikely that Trump will intervene despite the fact that Russia and Cuba have a military presence there?

Are you a US Citizen?

A controversial question for some as it might not count all the illegal aliens present in a State. A census number allocates funds as well as providing accurate numbers of representatives. I would like to bring up 2 counterpoints.

1) We should NOT be funding illegal aliens with any sort of welfare.

2) Congress does NOT represent people that cannot vote for them. If that were true, every boy would have endless candy and every girl would own a pony, and every felon would have free prostitutes.

Jail time for obstruction of justice and obstruction of Trump.

Feels good to send plastic into the oceans instead of landfills? Sure does.

When I was growing up, it used to be that the Media spoke truth to power.

Now the MSM Media speaks the truth as dictated from government power. Remember the endless coverage of the 17 Government intelligence agencies? There would never have been a single network 20 years ago that would have trusted anything that the government said without rigorous cross checking. In fact, the medias prime position was to distrust anyone in power first and verify everything government claimed. Now the media just "leaks" the government truths from anonymous "sources" as "facts." Even though the media gets all these facts wrong, the people still don't get that the media is now working hand in glove with the government.

I'm pretty sure corporate media has been bought by the same people that purchased the government. This is sad.

I believe the DNC elites did an inside hitjob on AOC setting her up with campaign violations.

Discuss.

Shots fired at DNC elites:

FEC complaint:

And their loyal mascot.

Hollywood is destroying all the comedians.

If a woman cannot be forced by the government to carry a fetus, then a man cannot be forced to carry a rifle.

Right to Privacy lulz.

Looking more and more like Venezuela every year...good job.

President Donald Trump has ordered staff to execute the "full" and "rapid" withdrawal of US military from Syria, declaring that the US has defeated ISIS.

Is anyone surprised at all by this move? Is this in line with Trump's Isolationist stance?

Might Russia and Iran leave Syria now that America is no longer a player in the region?

It really doesn't, not to people or even animals. What really matters is habitat change, which may or may not be caused in part by climate change. Climate change may also have a negligible effect on habitats for some plants and animals. The main reason scientists don't talk about habitat change is because that would force scientists to assign a ranking to the factors that cause habitat change. If they were to be honest about the causes of habitat change, they would be forced to admit climate change usually ranks pretty low as a causal factor in most cases.

Examining the vast majority of cases of global habitat change and habitat depletion, the 2 main causes clearly are human overpopulation and human industrialization. If the climate were to remain static, habitats would still disappear. I'm not just talking about animal and plant habitats disappearing. Human habitats are also destroyed from resource depletion from runaway industrialization, and this depletion is then multiplied by runaway overpopulation. While climate change may be a concerning lesser factor toward habitat depletion, the hyperfocus on climate change does little to address the real major causes of habitat depletion. 

Considering the world's general apathy toward climate change, it's alarming to note an even greater global apathy toward runaway population and runaway industrialization. So the question is thus: at what point will this apathy abate? How much habitat needs to be destroyed before scientists focus their studies on the effects of overpopulation and over industrialization? Most of it?

The one sure thing is that the planet has built in defenses from overpopulation and resource depletion with the mechanics of starvation and disease. If humans get to that point, which will happen if these 2 problems are not addressed, it will take thousands of years to reverse the damage if no actions are taken now. Population control will take thousands of years to address if it is to be done humanely through birth control policies. While most plants and animals may be able to migrate and adapt to different climates as they have done so throughout Earth's history, they are no match for human overpopulation, which has wiped out many many more habitats and caused the extinction of countless species long before anyone took a look at the effects of "climate change" on habitats.

Why did a benevolent God create the natural laws that ensure the strong inherit the earth?

Does he just hate disabled people?

Are disabled people evil?

In mass graves.

America developed from a struggling collection of colonies to the wealthiest nation in the world mainly due to....

1) Capitalism...or...

2) 100 years of Slavery.

moo

Ginsburg falls, breaks 3 ribs...vows to remain a judge until she is 90. Now that's a hero.

Bolsonaro bad.

Orange man bad.

Is a community divider creating mobs for vigilante justice.

Thanks UN...she was wasting away there...

Ty Sen Collins. 

according to wiki..

As of January 2017, the global participation rate of women in national-level parliaments is 23.3%

While you may find an outlier like Rwanda that has a parliament with more than 50% women, it is only because most of the men were slaughtered in the Rwanda genocide, and new babies haven't replaced the lost generation.

When women make up 50% of the voters, the only plausible reason for the lack of women can only be a disinterest of women voting for women, assuming there is no voter intimidation. (we saw this with Hillary)... So why are most parliaments in liberal and free nations still around 30% women participation?

It's the same reason why there are more men in jail than women.

Judge: Ok, let's hear your testimony...

Lawyer: What's the rush? We waited 33 years, we can wait 2 more years....

I don't know if any of you guys have 12 minutes to spare, but this speech is one of the best I heard all year explaining why our government sucks, and is steadily getting worse.

Schoolhouse Rock speech:

So the NY Times popped a hit piece on Trump recently.

The gist of the op ed was that someone in DC anonymously admitted to subverting the will of the president.

So here is the big problem.

Scenario 1:

The anonymous person is a person in DC.

Therefore: The deep state exists.

Scenario :

The anonymous person is not a person in DC.

Therefore: The fake news exists.

Either of the 2 possible scenarios is a win for Trump's base.

McCain would be proud that a person that was deliberately not invited to his funeral appeared anyway in the words of about everyone that spoke at the funeral. RIP.

If you believe the concept of separate human races exist you are racist. If you believe races exist on the basis of color, you are racist.

If you believe races exist, but there are no differences at all between races, then you actually do not believe in the concept of separate races, congratulations, you are not a racist.

If you are a race denier, you cannot be a racist.

One day all people will embrace science and realize there are no multiple races of humans. Colorism on the other hand, will be much harder to eradicate from society. Debunking the multiple race theory is a start.

Being colorblind not only makes you not a racist, but also not a colorist, which is the highest moral position to strive for in society.

I don't know if this should go in the science forum, but whatever.

Whenever the brain doesn't understand something, it produces chemicals to provide discomfort, much in the way your limbs feel pain if there is something wrong with them. Evolution has given humans this adaptation so that they can be more aware of the actual world they live in. For example, if a caveman doesn't see a panther but he can hear a panther, he immediately discards the first idea that he is safe just because he can't see the threat. The chemicals in his brain force him to resolve that conflict in the perception of the real world.

When a person feels pain, there are 2 choices. Address the reason for the pain, or just take medicine to dull the pain.

When a person feels uncertainty about the world they also have 2 choices. Address the logical fallacies or escape in a delusion of a God fantasy.

God is the chemical that keeps the brain happy and sedated.

If you listen to commencement speakers without falling asleep, you will often here the same phrase "make a difference"

This has to be one of the worst bits of advice well-meaning commencement speakers habitually offer to the youth of America. This hackneyed mantra assumes that everything needs to be changed, when that's clearly a very bad idea if some things are working just fine, or have a low priority for change. Likewise, this advice assumes that all differences made are good changes. This is an extremely naive assertion. Making changes just to make changes without any rational thought is something a monkey can do, not what we expect out of college graduates. Change solely for change's sake can easily lead to the collapse of everything we value in society.

In a nutshell "hope and change" is terrible advice to give to graduates. A monkey can do this without prompting.

"Evaluate and improve the world" would be far, far better advice. This is what we should expect from a rational, critically-thinking responsible citizen.

When you are raised as a coddled snowflake, and a pinprick feels like a gunshot wound, then a funny looking man saying mean things will surely look like Hitler to you.