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@thett3
No that is much more to do with environment than genes. All Asians tend to raise children harsher on education, less about enjoying their childhood. That is cultural and environmental, they tend to have low EQ and high IQ when compared with their average caucasian counterpart but again this depends specifically which Asian culture/ethnicity we are doing it on.
You say 'East Asian', Japanese, especially those that have immigrated to the West, are often the more liberal end of the East Asian spectrum in how they raise their children (in terms of who their children can socialise with) but are very strict on grades and/or sports attainment. Chinese tend to be the strictest all-round while South Koreans tend to be strict in terms of getting a job but less strict in terms of grades compared with the other two mentioned. Vietnamese are stricter in terms of who their kids hang out with and such but less strict in terms of grades. Filipinos are very strict except they tend to be more lenient when it comes to hobbies and artistic ventures of their children (they respect the children going into musical or performance arts and such more than most of the other cultures do, the others tend to want instantaneous success if their children do venture into that and train them harsh from a young age) but Filipinos are strict on behaviour and who their children can socialise with.
All East Asian cultures have extreme focus on the concept of 'discipline' itself but they focus on different elements. The Japanese, as I already said, in this day and age are actually more likely to accept rebelliousness in the child, the reason is not entirely clear. Idk if you want to go into Thailand and such but I promise you it's about environment more than genes when it comes to the different intelligence types of East Asians vs Caucasians. Caucasians are generally raised to be 'people smart', I would even argue that if you are autistic and high functioning, in East Asian cultures, you actually can pass as normal due to how little they focus on EQ and socialising overall (except for the Japanese). If a child is very introverted and odd but studious, the parents tend to think that's a brilliant child in their cultures, while in the Western cultures there's much more pressure to make the child socialise and question why they're not developing EQ at the same rate as other children are.
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@FLRW
I never understood the love for his character or the scenes with him in them. It was so displeasurable that I literally stopped watching once I realised how dark things were going to get.
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the fact they let him live after all he did to them makes me sick to my stomach. You do to Glenn what he did and I'd be doing shit I can't type here to you. He deserved to be killed slowly.
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@drlebronski
lmao you only saw breaking bad now? That's late as heck :P
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@thett3
Wrong.
Especially with the new mRNA form of vaccination, the lasting immunity is much stronger and longer lasting than from just getting Covid, it is designed (the mRNA vaccines, especially Pfizer) to help your cells recognise anything even similar to the Covid-19 virus and rapidly respond to it. mRNA-vaccinated are having much stronger resistance to Delta variant in both duration and severity of effects.
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@drlebronski
Depends on so much, what genres and types of actor are you into?
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Have you been black or interacted with black people and heard their side of the story?
This sounds like a bunch of 'I haven't been through it, therefore it doesn't happen'.
Do you think every time a black person doesn't get promoted because of their race it's statistically recorded as a racist lack of promotion? Do you think every time a cop was harsher and court case was harsher on a black person because of their race that it was recorded as such?
What statistics can prove you wrong without you scapegoating competence for each and every instance 'they were incompetent, it was brought onto them by their own mistakes.' this is your reply to everything that proves systemic racism in the US, you don't even begin to mentally process what may be unrecorded and affecting the statistics because you're too busy latching onto any sentence or data finding that you can use to further your preconceived views.
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@drlebronski
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There's also a study with the Delta variant out of Israel.
Strange study, it doesn't even mention if their symptoms were alleviated or not, just that they contracted it more
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Why Milley's got the balls to stand up to his superior commander in chief now but was all timid when Trump made the shit-tier deal with the very ethnicity and extremist agenda he swore to his voting base he'd alienate and persecute. I know why, of course, one's a reasonable leader whereas the other is a lunatic whose ego would have led to him firing Milley and smear campaigning him.
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@Wylted
even though things like collectivism have been proven to be evil if you look at Hitler or mao or pol pot.
Firstly, why are you pooling Hitler in with the Communists when it comes to individualism vs collectivism? Hitler was so extremely individualistic that he thought his own ethnicity should eliminate another and any who were vulnerable should be eliminated unless they serve the greedy who thrived in his Capitalist society (as long as the greedy didn't stand in his way and were of an ethnicity he held as supreme).
Mao and Pol Pot were extremely corrupt and used 'collectivism' to disguise their own individualist empire under the mask of equality, just like every single Communist dictator has and does. The real way to do 'collectivism' is Social Democracy.
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The one that's down to Bush's invasion and Trump's deal with the Taliban. Gotcha.
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@Vader
I take it the wrong way because it's way too late you banned this troll. His literal approach to you notifying him about a ban is to try and drag tradesecret down with him... even as a comedic act it's just plain annoying to see a thread with this amount of bullshit spam
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@Wylted
Why is your source a strange 'archive' in an icelandic website domain?
Please just explain the incident.
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@949havoc
Instinctive predictions in emotionally heated scenarios that prove themselves correct are good estimations linked with adrenaline rush, it's not a sixth sense because what are you sensing with?
Generally you will experience a lot of the touch-sense during this time as you feel a rush around your body linked to the blood pumping and goosebumps forming potentially too (or alternatively sweat). These are all the sense 'touch' physically. Sometimes this (the adrenaline rush) then leads to you experiencing heightened sight, hearing, smell and taste that's because your brain, while adrenaline pumps through the body, is on high altert to rapidly interpret sensory input.
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@FLRW
Some hunted better than others, even with identical general environment in upbringing some were better hunters than others.
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@Wylted
In UK's NHS website (which has a section per disease that explicitly is designed to give clear instructions of when and when not to seek help for certain symptoms of each) blood-coughing is a red alert to see the doctor:
Aspirin and Ibuprofen based painkillers slow down the clotting time of blood but ibuprofen does it the least and isn't officially thinning the blood, it's just slowing your body's response time to injuries.
Paracetemol based painkillers aren't going to be strong enough for deep lung pains etc, you'd save the blood thinning perhaps but it affects blood in other ways and also is linked to lack of appetite (which is bad if you're sick, you need to stay hungry).
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@thett3
would extend to physical and cognitive abilities as well
first, if both are true, what does that mean in extension?
second, I totally understand what you mean here and yes the alternative hypothesis will prove true in a variety of metrics but 'cognitive' is far too vague.
third, in anyone beyond infant level, environment is a factor you can't neglect to account for.
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@TheMorningsStar
Yeah, alright, I'm skeptical about your awareness of context in most scenarios regarding race realism but it appears you and I agree then.
The answer to your thread is that on its own the findings used don't necessarily hurt the dignity of any race. However, the context it's raised in and agenda that is attached to a huge proportion of the findings are so severely harmful to cohesion between diverse cultures and races in a society that it's better left for rare occasions, such as perhaps a civil discussion in a thread like this.
The real reply to you is that firstly race isn't a social construct, ethnicities are and secondly that 'race realism' is using science that on its own shouldn't be deemed racist, I agree with you, however is used that way over 96% of the time I'd say and the severity of where it can lead... I don't think I need to list the historic examples. Sure the phrase 'race realism' didn't exist during atrocities of the past but what it actually refers to is less about science and far more about abusing anything you can dub as scientific or statistical in order to masquerade a racial supremacist agenda (for Mesmer's sake I specified this, as opposed to just saying 'racist').
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Imagine, for a moment, that mods were about to ban you for some reason. You were warned about toxicity, crossed some line, etc.Would you want a President that
I think he'd want someone that actually posted to the website before they smelled the chance to win an election turned up rather than taking a 2-year long hiatus.
I also think I am more open to Wylted's personality than you are, you pick on any outcast and weirdo here much more than I do.
If you have a suggestion for President that isn't you, post it. If this is just about your power-grab then maybe work on discussing things with him in private or caring about him at all.
Wylted said he was potentially dying of severe covid 1-2 hours before making this thread, since that thread existed, you haven't even so much as said hello to him from what I can see. That's not just politics, that's called putting pride and rivalry on a website aside for actual empathy and concern. It's where the real personality, without agenda, appears for you and I. He hadn't even uttered a word about this thread to me before I posted there, I was genuinely concerned for him it's what led to a conversation that then led to this thread.
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@949havoc
For once we agree. What a sight to behold.
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@TheMorningsStar
Can you be extremely clear on something, please.
Are you saying only that the scientific findings shouldn't be taboo or are you saying that stratifying society based on those findings shouldn't be taboo?
I agree to this:
the scientific findings shouldn't be taboo
but I extremely seldom find a scenario where that happens to be discussed where this isn't strongly led into:
stratifying society based on those findings
I am 100% against the latter, even against discussing it. That is racism and has always been racism. It masquerades as harmless discussion and rapidly mutates into brutally right-wing prejudiced agenda. This is why sometimes it's better to avoid the topic entirely. Sure, I concede there are genetic differences between the ethnicities of each and every race (they even differ to each other) and I would not support censoring that area of science entirely, the context where the findings are brought up matters a lot.
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@Discipulus_Didicit
Treachery will be noted, you endorsed me to oppose Wylted. I not only succeeded at that, I won over his support (for now at least) and then you turn your back on me.
This didn't surprise me though, in threads regarding my fallacious ban, you were quite the cheerleader for the mods and mocker of me. I nonetheless hoped we could forgive and forget.
If you just wanted me to run because I voted 'no' to the presidency and your real agenda was to have someone in the role who doesn't use it, why not just run yourself on that honest platform? You're not as unpopular as you think, however I do not intend to turn this into a popularity contest as I know my strengths and weaknesses.
Nobody should vote me because they like me. They should vote me because if they or someone they like happens to get abused by the moderation here, they'll want someone in the role of 'president' who will use that power in the best way possible for the website, regardless of whether it's for or against the moderation.
I pledge to you that not one single person who gets banned while I am 'president' unless they do something bordering on the illegal, will just go without a proper hearing-out and discussion. I will defend their case regardless of my personal views but if they refuse to discuss with me or have me represent them, that's on them. I'd ensure whoever they wanted to represent their case got involved if they wanted that alternative.
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@TheMorningsStar
I do not at all agree that Dr. Pinker isn't an obvious racist but what I'd agree is he's what seems to be a less severe one. I do find that there's justifiable reasoning behind why Jews of today are, on average, more intelligent and even more cunning/adaptable than what there would have been pre-WWII, the reasons are obvious and to do with the types that survived and had their genes passed on. Even pre-WWII, they've been persecuted for millennia in fact (even the Ancient Egyptians persecuted the Hebrews). The idea of averages in IQ differing between ethnicities is absolutely acceptable science and I get why it's wrong to make the topic itself taboo but what happens is often people who start bringing it up instantly then go into ways to stratify society based on it and that is absolutely 100% racist whenever it's enacted.
What you will find is that the averages differing is also hugely environmental but yes there is a genetic component. What I mean is that when you grow up in even a sheltered Amish family environment, not just a Ghetto environment, there's a variety of upbringings where being smart and particularly intelligent matter far less than raw work ethic and athleticism. This is why you get children and adolescence of such upbringings often not having 'flexed' their brain nearly as much as those who had a more education-focused upbringing (even outside of school). One of the hugest reasons why all Asian ethnicities maintain a consistently high IQ, as well as Jews of today, is that their cultures emphasise education massively, it's not just about innate IQ which may well be higher but that 'higher' is a slight advantage, it's about flexing it and making it come to fruition.
Do you not think it's likely, not just possible, that certain brains within ethnicities that emphasise intelligence less in upbringing had the capabilities to be Einstein and/or Tesla? I do. I think that a genius brain of a lower-income family applied to a harshly capitalist culture, in any continent becomes a thriving businessman if they're very practical (Tesla/Zuckerberg genius, INTJ) or becomes a hobo on the street who sadly couldn't have their ingenuity amount to anything because the crap schooling and nutrition they got didn't enable that brain to thrive (Einstein/Darwin-style genius, INTP).
I would say though, that ethnicities tend to utilise intelligence differently and that is where Caucasians happened to have an edge due in fact to the environment in which they evolved earlier on. Caucasians evolved in colder climates with an incredibly balanced mix of need to 'hide from' predators, 'hunt down' stealthy prey and yet also have the open areas of grassland and/or ice during the ice age where just plain open-planning mattered. What I mean is that you will find there are two fundamental ways humans evolved to be smart; either they evolved to estimate and calculate deep (hiding and hunting stealthy prey) or they evolved to calculate and estimate fast (open-plain environment). Blacks of Africa were in extremely open-plain scenarios where absolutely nothing mattered more than endurance, literally. How far you could run, how long you could chase down and then carry your prey's body back to your tribe, how long you could last in a straightforward fight, these are the things that mattered in Africa. The only element of intellect required here was speedy tactics, therefore what was naturally selected was entirely based around that. In Asia, you had to memorise which trees are likely to have predators lurking in them, which areas are fantastic to find prey, which sounds among other sounds to listen out for that would warn you of a stealthier predator and on top of this you had to have the very same expertise and ability in hand-to-hand combat as the Africans did (especially in East Asia which was prone to massively brutal clan-on-clan combat). So this environment naturally selected for people who could memorise well and calculate fast, regularly, not just strength.
So, the balanced environments allowed extremely varied forms of intelligence to thrive, which was beneficial back then when that was a factor that influenced us a lot (we don't live in the wild anymore, except a select few native tribes of certain nations).
If you are curious about how and why types of intellect became attached to race, think logically about evolution and realise it has absolutely nothing to do with the race, it's to do with environment and what it both enabled to be stimulated from childhood and then also naturally selected out for.
In this day and age, very few of us live in 'survival mode' in that literal sense. That is why these things are outdated and why in fact it would be optimal to just mate with whoever, completely ignoring culture and race and embracing diversity. The only reason people are hostile to that idea is due to an animalistic tribal instinct in us that has absolutley zero positive function anymore.
When you say 'smarter, therefore superior' what you don't understand is that it was inferior to worry too much about being too smart in certain environments where certain ethnicities evolved. You need to also realise that there are reasons why blacks were the most driven to be creative musically and have innately got more natural talent at dancing, on average, than all other races (yes, I'm being a 'race realist' here). The reason is that the tribes that tended to last were often the most creative and tactical in their environment, not the most 'logical' at all. The more creatively your tribe could adapt to the enemies and fight, the better but this was based around immediate adaptation, fast-thinking. There was no need to build a gun for them because absolutely nothing about open savanna warfare requires you to need to innovate a weapon that severely, it's much more about keeping your eye out and spotting the enemy themselves from far and then calculating how to either avoid or confront them successfully. In a forest environment you don't have the same advantage (and barefooted humans who memorise where all the twigs are in their surroundings are extremely difficult to hear until they're too close to properly prepare and react to).
The kind of brain functions and thinking patterns different environments demanded are why different races of today probably still have lingering tendencies in how their brain handles certain hormones, addiction, aggression and all of it. That doesn't really mean anything much because I am telling you that the innate/genetic factor is differing in averages, you should always design a society to enable outliers to thrive at what they're good at, not stifle those who are gifted in a way that you deem doesn't matter.
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@Wylted
Muslims when they are in charge of a country kill homos.
So do (or at least did) Christians, what changed was that most of them have separated the church and the state.
In Eastern Europe and Latin America as well as certain Christian African nations this still happens.
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Are you attempting to refer to racial hatred? Are you attempting to refer to racial bias? Are you attempting to refer to people who advocate for certain race's genocide? Who knows what you're referring to.
Racism is an overall term that includes everything you referred to. Similar to how the term 'mathematics' has algebra, calculus, trigonometry, statistics, mechanics etc.
Stop using nonsense language so that people can understand what you're referring to.
Dear Mesmer, go back to school and ask your teacher to remind you of the R-section in the dictionary.
While you're looking up 'racism' look up the term 'respect' and learn to pay some to those you deal with.
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@MarkWebberFan
It's very far from the truth because he is separating Islam from conservatism in political spectrum of Sharia nations... Islam is inherently conservative especially in its politics.
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@TheMorningsStar
Can you give me examples of observations within 'race realism' and proponents of it that aren't racist?
One thing I have an issue with is that it's called 'race realism' as opposed to 'ethnic observations'. The reason I have an issue with 'race' as opposed to 'ethnic' is that you are pooling everyone of the same race into one category, that always will lead to irrational racism that ignores environmental causes for common traits. On the other hand, the reason I have an issue with 'realism' is that it is not only arrogant but doesn't make clear what the thing is. If it's just observations, there'd be no reason to need to call it that unless you were some edgy racist trying to prove a society wrong that loathed racism.
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The fucking ad-hom trolls on this site are ridiculous. It's like twitter for fucktards.
tell me about it
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And Biden speaks like Ramshutu.
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I guess this is a moment when I need to ask myself if 'bad publicity' is better than 'no publicity'. LMAO
I'm not sure I agree with this depiction of me, especially not the wording, however I appreciate the meaning and support.
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@Wylted
if you're not trolling, you contact a doctor regardless. This is serious whether it's Covid or not. You could literally die if you don't go to a hospital.
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@Wylted
did you get both jabs?
you contact regardless
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@EtrnlVw
If it could be proven, shown and demonstrated that a God exists, what implications would arise for you personally?What would you want out of discovering this knowledge?
These are both not hypothetical for me but let's say they are...
I know originally, before knowing for sure that a god is real, that I wanted meaning in life. I felt a deep abyss as to the 'why' of my existence and it hurt me incredibly much that I was nothing more than a worthless random accident of meaningless events on a spinning ball in the middle of fucking nowhere.
Discovering god initially was about feeling special, like I had a reason to live. What I shortly realised is, it's not about that but instead realising nothing needs that 'reason', the reason we live is just to ride the wave and see how life turns out. I began to see annoying events that really disrupted my life as challenges and rougher tides for my surfing of that wave. My life became an adventure as opposed to a chore.
That's all I have to say on the matter really. For me, with god, life is an adventure with interesting changes. Before god was knowingly in my life for sure, life was a daily set of chores and everything chaotic was a disturbance.
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@EtrnlVw
Evil and suffering are not a "problem" for God- even though they appear as unfavorable conditions they are required as a means of learning from mistakes and learning about the deepest parts of our character and being.
Partly true, in my opinion. I agree with you that it's not a problem for god, however I don't think it's only an important lesson. Many religions make a mistake of romanticising god as a being that is 'good and caring'. God doesn't give a shit when you're in agony, the reason God may lend a hand to you is if you interest god more when you're happy than when you're in agony.
If it's neither way (you bore god either way or entertain god equally either way), God tends to focus on manually altering other things and just leaves your outcomes on 'automatic'. That's what I think anyway, there's no gain for god to actively influence everyone's life to be pain-free, that's a predictable bore to watch unfold and we are here for the entertainment of this 'god'.
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aim your mockery at a race that is blatantly dominant.
Just to be clear, when I said 'dominant' here it didn't mean actually superior, it is clear what I meant if you read the whole part before it but I was just clarifying before that gets twisted.
I mistyped 'ethos' as 'ethose'.
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@cristo71
Thanks for your comprehensive answer to my first question!One of the problems, as I see it, is that (too) many in progressive circles have expanded upon your definition greatly. Such as:1. People of Color (POC) cannot be racist, as they are not part of the racist power structure
Okay, so the example such as with the 'mockery' element and such is that if you mock a race that has been continually victimised and isolated, it has more harshness than if you aim your mockery at a race that is blatantly dominant. I am not saying I agree, what I am saying is 'racism' in that context is referring to how harsh the impact is.
2. Asking “where are you from?” is a “micro aggression” rooted in racism because it is “otherizing” a person with a different appearance from the majority
It can be. Especially because this question is a terribly worded one that people should stop using altogether (I genuinely mean that). Other than first-generation immigrants, there is a huge issue with the question 'where are you from' as it is not clear if it means to ascertain where you grow up and resided in for your younger life or alternatively means to ascertain where does your ethnic bloodline trace back to.
If people would make clear 'where did you grow up?' or 'what ethnicity are you?' then it would be better. However, I already know you are correct that some will get offended with either of those questions, especially the latter, so it then comes down to who you're asking and why. If that's the first thing you ask someone, it sometimes is peculiar why that's the first thing on your mind when it comes to judging and forming an impression of them within your mind. It's telling at least that you primarily split people up along those lines, it's not racist necessarily but certainly implies prejudice.
3. A white person disliking an individual of a different race is assumed to be because of racism (conscious or subconscious) rather than merely the dislike people have for another person all the time
Depends on the person and other things contextually, this is far too generic and vague for me to talk about either way.
4. “Nonwhite” is a label rooted in racism, as it sees all different races through the (racist) Eurocentric lense
Well, there's definitely no need to use that term, it reminds me of a very outdated British and/or South African term which is 'coloured/colored', there's just no need for that term at all anymore.
5. Math is racist because… I cannot comprehend why…
I don't recall anyone arguing this ever but please show me.
5. Punctuality, hard work, etc. are aspects of “whiteness”, and therefor is racist to expect from all people
Specifically with punctuality, many non-caucasian cultures (except for east Asians meaning the Chinese and surrounding nations) are known to be tardy and emphasise less on being on time, especially non-professionally. It is actually a very cultural trait of south Asians in particular to be extremely approximate and wide in when they set a family event to happen vs when things really begin (many learn to set parties 2 whole hours ahead of when the real dancing etc begins just because of how late most will turn up). That said, I don't think professionally or even in general that the emphasis on punctuality within many Caucasian cultures is racist at all.
Hard work is confusing to me, definitely can't be in relation to Asian cultures since they heavily emphasise hard work and most other cultures have an ethose of 'work hard, play hard' so I don't know which ethnicity it is that this could be racist towards. In fact, certain 'white cultures' such as the Italians, Portuguese, Greek and Spanish (Latino means south american not European Portuguese and European Spanish, they're considered a type of Caucasian) have a lot of emphasis on leisure, so I guess it depends which you mean. Scandinavians also have 'relaxation and learning to enjoy the moment' as significant parts of their cultures, not only 'hard work'.
That’s just from the top of my head right now. Hence, precisely why I pose question 2.
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@Wylted
It's equally stupid in right wing societies, but their appeals are different. Liberals behave like I mention with those appeals to authority and conservatives are more like"Derp just obey cops and bend over for the government and you won't get shot, derp"It's just stupid shit of a different variety.
No, that isn't quite what I meant.
In right-wing societies, even science itself becomes something authority figures can redefine as they see fit. In Saudi Arabia, Pokemon got banned completely in 2016 (it was previously in 2001 and then got lifted then gradually they banned the trading cards of any kind, even yu-gioh and then pokemon) because it was seen as to interfere with the 'truth' that evolution doesn't occur. It also had another element to it (you are technically gambling when you engage in pokemon duels where the winner can loot cards as a prize) so it became outlawed for that. Similarly, any and all research proving that homosexuality is natural and an involuntary aspect of sexuality is often completely censored in right-wing societies.
If you think I am joking or exaggerating, understand that gays were interrogated and tortured to snitch on the other secret gays/lesbians/transgenders (there, trans just means dressing in drag at all) they knew of. Then, when asked about it, the official statement given was:
During an interview with HBO, Mr Kadyrov denied there were any gay men in Chechnya and dismissed reports of a “gay purge” in the Muslim republic as “nonsense”.David Scott, from HBO’s Real Sports, asked the 40-year-old head of state: “I wanted to ask you about the alleged roundup, abduction, and torture of gay men in the Republic. What, Mr President, do you want to say about that?”“This is nonsense,” Mr Kadyrov said. “We don’t have those kinds of people here. We don’t have any gays. If there are any, take them to Canada.”He added: “Praise be to God. Take them far from us so we don’t have them at home. To purify our blood, if there are any here, take them.”
This guy is not only unchallenged, he is applauded. Everyone else within Chechnya that supports him refers to this quote with pride. This is what I mean by appealing to authority in right-wing society, that is considered a solid piece of evidence that there are no gays there, literally.
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@949havoc
"Wouldn't it be a hoot"
You said won't it be, not wouldn't it be.
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@949havoc
Won't it be a hoot when it is discovered [it will be] that the real insurrectionists of Jan 6 were agents of the FBI and Capitol Police.
Nothing here is a suggestion, the emphasis on 'it will be' makes it you stating what you see as fact. Don't try to gaslight me, it's petty and toxic.
You stated what you see as fact, do not change that into me misreading it and making me question my own sanity.
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@oromagi
Whatever floats your boat, Wiki Warrior, for me the biggest thing I enjoyed is that they don't over or under represent villains. You get to see the light and dark side of almost every significant character (except one guy, who I won't name and it's not the main character, there's a support character who I'd argue is morally benevolent without any malice and no, I don't mean the cop though he may qualify too). I won't spoil anything further, just watch. You will be gripped.
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@949havoc
Won't it be a hoot when it is discovered [it will be] that the real insurrectionists of Jan 6 were agents of the FBI and Capitol Police.
This is actually quite disgusting what you are suggesting. A policeman died from what went down and the risk was easily there for more to have done so. Have you even seen the videos (filmed by the protesters themselves) of the protest? You know four of them died due to trampling over each other? One died from heart failure due to the stress.
You are also accusing the wrong agencies. First learn how to be a conspiracy theorist before trying to be one. You would not accuse FBI or Capitol Police of this, both are too open, if this were to be a conspiracy-based thing, it would be CIA.
It isn't though, there'd be no gain to America's security to pull this operation off (at all). What happened was actually possibly Russia's equivalent of CIA (GRU) engineering things on social media.
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I don't want to spoil much but I will put a warning in the thread title just in case.
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There are scenes in later episodes where I literally shed tears. I am not ashamed about admitting that but I will tell you that for me to do that, a series needs to really be powerful. Another series I have shed tears during that's big and on Netflix is Lucifer (but you need to watch many episodes and some seasons in before really getting to where it began to get that deep).
Squid Game is epic, genuinely, I have almost never watched something that made me feel so many emotions at once.
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There's some underground Jewish rappers like Ill Bill that are secular Jews (Jews by race) if you mean that but he's as underground as it gets. No way is he a mainstream influencer.
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Black communities in America were already ruined by poverty and an inequality-prone society that traps them in a ghetto lifestyle. That was the root of hiphop. The idea that the new-age mumble rap is so much worse than what was there before is a lie. Tupac and Biggie Smalls were rapping about sex, drugs and a lot of violence with both essentially directly death-threatening the other in raps (more so tupac to biggie) and these were/are two of the most respected OGs in the entire rap game. Rap has always been about sociopathic lifestyle in the ghetto, the different takes on it are where the depth comes in.
The emo rap that's actually meaningful and heartfelt gets mocked by most of the hiphop community as 'corny' and many real poets get called culture-vultures along with the other shallow end of the spectrum, ironically. To authentic hiphop fans, someone like Future is 'real hiphop' whereas someone like Lil Pump is a 'culture vulture', someone like Kanye West, who did a song with Lil Pump just for fame and money is a highly respects hiphop artist whereas someone like NF, Hopsin or Logic, who raps their heart out with such great lyricism is seen as a cornball.
These things aren't fair but they are also not at all engineered by what you suggest. You are just a sad case of someone who has been dragged really far in to far-right conspiracy theories. Use your head for a minute. If Jews really are behind everything, why are they such a minority religion on the planet? Nothing about modern rap is pro-Jewish, the only Jewish rapper that I know of is Lil Dicky, Mac Miller was one too. you have that comedic Lonely Island rapper if you mean him.
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bad immigrants tend to sit on the dole and are a massive drain on the economy, let alone all the social problems they bring.
Can you show me a single country where it's immigrants, as opposed to entitled native (in US this can mean both native american and caucasian but generally I'm referring to Caucasian natives) locals, who live on the dole by and large?
If you mean the US and by 'immigrants' you mean descendants of slaves who were brought against their will, I think there's reason for a resentment and ure towards the state, this wasn't what you described though.
For instance, you've posted recently some rather racist remarks about how you would compare the aborigenese in Australia to East Asian immigrants to 'western nations' (which you don't realise only the wealthy Asians emigrate out to those nations in the first place) but what I am confused about here is that it's the Caucasian invaders who are the immgrants more so than the Aboriginese natives, so I am very confused why you'd focus on them in one post and immigrants in the next unless you're just a racist cloaking your agenda. This isn't ad hominem, I don't see a single other reason to fuse those angles unless it's about race and not immigration.
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