Sir.Lancelot

We just need to draw in people who can counter their narratives. Trust me, you don't want these people off the site and I  forums where they hear no alternative philosophies, it's dangerous. For every Ted Kazynski on the site, their should be a ray kurzweil. For every David Duke there should be a Jordan Peterson to show them they are wrong. 

That reads like one of TWS1405_2s posts.

That's a pretty short list of fighting words lol.

RM, you got cheated on the savantism. You just got autism. 

I am not a savant, I am good at more than one thing.

1. The Value of Positive Nihilism.
   
2. Do the benefits of psychedelic drugs outweigh the risks.
   

I agree with the concept of seasons. Honestly, it's kind of annoying to see all the people sitting at 1700+, considering that every single one of them got there only by noobsniping and winning over half their debates by full forfeits. The only exception is whiteflame, who won over 80% of his debates legitimately. I'd like to see a solution that doesn't disadvantage new users too much, while also discouraging excessive noobsniping.

3) It's also intentional, the idea was that the voting shouldn't be too long or too short for rated debates. Kinda like a way to standardize things.

1) I believe there was some logic for the first point but honestly, I can't recall, maybe it's time to revise it. But it's not a bug, it's intentional.

• Mall can no longer issue direct challenges to people if they are rated, which sets him up to be noob-sniped by me and Novice.
  
• Public-Choice can no longer debate pro's like Barney or Oromagi without the risk of a regular person accepting the debate and losing because of Public's advantage.

• You can't name a Contender if you create a Rated Debate.
  
• The option to challenge someone directly is no longer on their profile.
  
• Rated Debates don't allow you to choose 1 week, 2 week, or 6 month Voting Times.
  

Which part's insane, specifically?

She never once or rarely discussed her paganism.  And by her own admission she was a "self made Witch" without a coven.  She did once tell me that her "gods" were aliens from another planet which I found interesting but the conversation didn't get any further that. 

It was probably a case of that any decent conversation with her about her own beliefs was getting in the way of her wish to continually abuse other members, which seemed to be her favourite subject above all.

The problem is that in Indian culture (and this is seriously true) scamming is actually a part of it, they are one of the only cultures to genuinely go 'you should have seen that coming' when someone gets scammed.

If you think I am lying, I would like you to research the rate of scamming being in India vs the rest of the world. As in international scamming organisations tend to run their scams specifically through India because the repercussions there are the most lenient on the entire planet.

https://borgenproject.org/scam-call-centers-in-india/

https://www.reddit.com/r/india/comments/6rbpr9/why_is_lying_and_cheating_so_common_in_every/

To learn to cheat in India is to learn how to survive. If you don’t, society will treat you as an imbecile who never grew up. Like the freelance writer.

The working principle is this: If you don’t exploit, then you will automatically become the exploited. What happens then is that since everyone is cheating everybody else, all this cheating cancels each other out in the final sum. No one really gains. But it’s something we are habituated and genetically inclined to do, like the way we drive. It’s a mix of nature and culture.

https://www.dailyo.in/variety/scams-nirav-modi-rotomac-fodder-scam-pnb-22537

Yes, he is American by nationality but there is something to consider about why he felt it was okay and why it is so extremely prevalent. I am aware how extremely controversial what I am saying is and I don't really care.

This is not about race but you can brand it that way, I wouldn't say this irl unless around people I really trusted. It is a fundamental part of most Indian cultures (there are different castes and subcultures there) to see those that get fooled as stupid and deserving of it, it surely carries over to how they raise children abroad even as immigrants. It is actually present throughout all of Asia, India is just most prevalent at the frequency of it in terms of how often scams occur there. It is changing in the current generation, there's definitely a growing sensitivity and empathy in the latest generation there but it is still very harsh to the naive.

An American person of Indian ethnicity was probably raised with this harshness in mind. I wouldn't be surprised to find plenty other who run scams in US whether social media slave labour Dhar Mann schemes or not. The question is what could have been done differently in schooling or whatever to make this guy get empathy for his victims of scamming earlier, to me that is the crucial thing to answer.