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Isolated_Patriot 9 points ago +9 / -0

I have soon to be 4 kids, we've been on a waiting list for a family doctor for five years.

Paying close to $20k a year in taxes to fund this system that doesn't even allow us the basic convenience of a family doctor.

Meanwhile my mother-in-law is on a six month waiting list for a do-over surgery that will allow her to function as a human being again. After the first one failed, which she was on a waiting list for nine months for.

Such a wonderful utopia this tax-payer-funded medical "care" is.

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Isolated_Patriot 0 points ago +2 / -2

I hear ya man. Some of my best friends are atheists who attack every other religion, but rabbidly defend pisslam.

/s

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Isolated_Patriot 14 points ago +15 / -1

"God is great" is a positive statement declaring the glory of God as simple fact.

Aloha Snackbar translates more accurately as "the moon demon is better" and is a counter and insult against any and all Christian praises to God. It's an implied negative.

Understanding that the motive is even more clear.

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Isolated_Patriot 3 points ago +3 / -0

There is nothing that points are even useful for. I bought everything that I could ever possibly, maybe, someday, think about potentially using two years ago. The only thing left to spend these pointless points on are the silly "awards."

Ah, maybe it's so they can then use the points to astroturf other comments without having to spend a dime? Shill tactics is the only reason I can see anyone caring enough about points to try and farm them.

I think you can give multiple awards to a comment or thread, so a single account can do a lot of astroturfing if they are getting the points for free.

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Isolated_Patriot 1 point ago +1 / -0

Pharmakeia is the Greek word used in the Bible for Sorcery, it literally meant using poisons to treat illness. It's where we get the word, and the practice, of poisoning people to treat them.

Nothing has changed in 2000 years. B-b-b-b-b-but sometimes it works! Yeah? So did Sorcery.

by folx
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Isolated_Patriot 8 points ago +8 / -0

Let's put it this way, One Punch man is both a great manga, AND a hilarious satirization of the genre. So as a first, you'd be missing half the point when it is clearly playing a trope into the stratosphere.

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Isolated_Patriot 16 points ago +16 / -0

That's cute that you think a normie is capable of that.

I couldn't begin to list the number of dumbass questions I've been asked by normies that could have been answered with a search on their phone, for going on a decade now. Or however long it's been that normies have had "smart" phones. Questions had almost no excuse not to already know the answer to anyway.

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Isolated_Patriot 5 points ago +5 / -0

This is the plot to Ark 3 in Hitchhikers Guide to the Galaxy. Though it was all "middlemen" including hairstylists and telephone sanitizers. There was no Ark 1 or 2, it was just a fake to get ride of them.

Unfortunately, they crash landed on a planet called Earth and became the human race. And their home planet died of a plague contracted from a dirty telephone.

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Isolated_Patriot 6 points ago +12 / -6
  1. They are right that it can only be tolerated if the man wears a dress and pretends he is a woman? And only on Thursdays for the pedos?

I get the meme, but it's pretty inaccurate.

I don't much care for number 2 either. We need a return to Western Male dominance and an actual patriarchy in the family again, but we don't need to start treating women as property to be bought, sold, and killed off when they are injured or show too much ankle. We don't have to become barbarians to return to pre-feminist western civilization.

Well, okay, we might have to for a short time.

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Isolated_Patriot 24 points ago +24 / -0

Kinda splitting hairs here, but that "social acceptance" is the safety they are after. Nothing bad will happen to them and no one will judge them if they are "socially accepted." It's why historically they are quick to adapt to a conquering nation, they must be socially accepted by the new rulers to be safe from them.

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Isolated_Patriot 6 points ago +6 / -0

The evidence of AI written articles only increases every day. This looks like one of those cases to me.

Like it pulled up the trigger words for the feelings they programmed it to evoke, but like crappy AI it wrote something the human mind interpreted differently.

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Isolated_Patriot 1 point ago +1 / -0

Do you understand the word "comparatively?"

The Coward and Cortana's tits are hardly pushing communism and transgenderism.

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Isolated_Patriot 6 points ago +8 / -2

Even better. Once Brandon Sanderson takes over, the story gets much more streamlined and wraps up towards a conclusion instead of just meandering around endless characters and plotlines.

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Isolated_Patriot 5 points ago +6 / -1

It gets better again after that, and once you get to the Brandon Sanderson books, it's really the highlight of the series. But yeah, I ended up putting down book 10 for a long time as well.

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Isolated_Patriot 2 points ago +2 / -0

How to make the flu shot mandatory without making the flu shot mandatory.

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Isolated_Patriot 42 points ago +42 / -0

If anyone was wondering why Microsoft, of all the evil companies in the world, was kind of staying out of the Woke fighting, or not getting too involved, and still releasing half decent games that aren't preaching communism, well, this is why. (Even though the company itself is uber-woke, they've mostly kept it out of the games comparatively.)

They're aiming to be last man standing while the rest of the industry goes on a firesale.

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Isolated_Patriot 21 points ago +22 / -1

Fair warning the next 3-4 books are the biggest slog, almost enough to kill your interest in the series.

It has one of the most, I'm not sure if intentional, accurate representations of women I've ever read in a book series.

Yes and no. One of my biggest complaints for the series is that every single woman is exactly the same, with perhaps a minor exception for Min and Bridget. It's like every other woman is just based on his nagging wife.

In that sense, it's probably pretty accurate just because he had such a detailed study. But none of the characters are anything at all like any of the women in my family, or some of my friends. My old boss? Absolutely spot on. 95% of all waitresses I've ever worked with? Also pretty accurate. However, they still had a lot more variability and differences than the women in WoT.

The closest to an actual strong (emotionally stable and capable) woman is probably Bridget. But the women spend most of the time trying to get her to act more like them, lol. Again, accurate for how those type of women are. But I'm pretty sure he was just writing Bridget as a man.

The few women I've known who behave pretty much exactly like his wife I mean the characters in the books, were rarely very capable at all. Usually so overloaded with gossip that there was no chance they could actually accomplish something, or playing queen of the universe with someone else's money. If you put a group of those women in charge of something it would fail within the year, not last a few thousand.

My vote for most accurate representation of women would probably go to the Dragon's of Pern series. Since the author was a woman, she portrays a lot of different women pretty accurately, and still managed to create strong capable men, in a meritocracy, who had to deal with conniving women and their schemes and fix their problems. Personality and character interaction isn't nearly as much focus as it is in WoT though. Even the books which focus on female protagonists, their primary adversarial issues always seem to be other conniving women. It's also pretty clear with it's representation of both "strong" (emotionally stable and capable) women, and morally upstanding men, being rare and uncommon.

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Isolated_Patriot 2 points ago +2 / -0

It was so ridiculously shoehorned in. One of the most blatant incidents I know of.

Arrow had given her a "bi" background already, but she had only showed interest in men in every appearance before that. Including season one of the same show. Then ep 1 of season 2 and she's like a completely over the top flirting and trying to sleep with every woman who appears. To the point of like, destroying the timeline. And she's supposed to be in charge!

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Isolated_Patriot 3 points ago +3 / -0

The "I'm gay and you should know it" episode of Killjoys might be the biggest down point, but it was already weird and not very good by that point.

Season 1 of the Flash was one of the best seasons on TV, IMO, so it's fall from grace really took it's time over the course of every episode after that.

Legends of Tomorrow was a pretty big jump from the last episode of season 1 being a great redemptive arc for a villain, with a genuine comic to screen battle, a serious heroic choice by an excellent main character, then season two puts the worst person in charge because she was a woman, and decides she's an over the top lesbian who want's to captain kirk the timeline.

But, LoT wasn't exactly a shining example of great TV, it was over the top campy fun from the beginning.

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Isolated_Patriot 2 points ago +2 / -0

I liked season 1, heard nothing about it after that and figured it probably went to hell.

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Isolated_Patriot 27 points ago +27 / -0

Whatever the percentage is, it doesn't automatically make them all 100% for vax passes and punishing dissenters, either. A good portion of the vaxxed think this stuff is going to far, they just aren't going to do anything about it because they still think it will all be over as soon as they comply hard enough.

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Isolated_Patriot 2 points ago +2 / -0

Not sure. I'm out of date on current streaming trends for anime. Usually wear an eyepatch sail the high torrents.

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