You're right, and I think that's where you lose a lot of people. In uncovering awful behaviors among the rich and powerful, a lot of people have this deep desire to uncover a "vast global conspiracy" when 9/10 its just people in power making the most selfish possible choices in a situation that already wasn't great.

This and John Abramson was such a fantastic double whammy.

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I think people are so quick to shoot this stuff down / quickly dismiss bc it has that fervent tin-foil-hat feel of "this goes all the way to the top." But it does. Like the reality of the situation is so bold and ridiculous and people just think "that can't possibly be true" and move on.

Hydrogen cars incoming?

I've never really cared much about anything related to the jews, but of late the crying about antisemitism is getting particularly old. Any even slight negative wording alongside anything that is within 5 degrees of relation to a jew is automatically slammed antisemitic. Kinda wild really, when you consider how hard people openly slam Christianity and catholicism. Can't talk shit on jews or Muslims tho

I've also been removed from pretty much all of that for a while and it's jarring when you get hit with it. Even turning on Netflix now - it's impossible to unsee the CONSTANT barrage of PC bullshit. Every single show has strong feminist, racial equality, etc undertones. I've noticed it most more recently. There's plenty of Netflix shows that I watched and enjoyed in the past that were completely inundated with the nonsense in their newer seasons. It's honestly disgusting.

Hm. Noted. I thought this place wasn't like that. I'll change it a bit tho, thanks for the heads up.

Pick up my 13 year old kid and take them to get a medical procedure bc you think my parenting is wrong? Yeah we're going have a big fucking problem.

I don't know how true any of this was, but I heard a lot of rumbling at one point that there was a ton of shit that hadn't passed peer review bc people in the related fields capable of doing it thought it would be career suicide to touch em

Yeah I get that, but no need to be shortsighted. If it can be understood and PREVENTED its certainly worth doing so.

I think the idea was trying to understand how people come to be this way, in an effort to stop it from happening (if possible). In reference to the above comment, not the prof from the article. He can get fucked, bc this was clearly in pursuit of normalizing pedophilia.

It probably would be a decent idea to actually figure out if people becoming pedophiles can be prevented. Whether it's an evil decision or something that can be medicated or somehow prevented it probably worth knowing.

What a ridiculous platform to take - taking issue with people having the right to defend property. The between the lines here is "it doesn't matter if they're destroying property if violence is the only way they can be stopped then we shouldn't stop them."

That video is really hard to even see what's going on.

I think a lot of people thought woke was a good thing and meant something kinda different for a while there.

I was just reading an "article" about how "reverse racism isn't real" and scrolled down to look for the comments section, and lo' and behold! You are correct. Nonexistent.

Then I came here just dying to talk about how much I hate all of this. The white guilty bullshit. The victim complexes everywhere. The cucks for blacks movement. The trans rights faux revolution. The vaccines. The masks. The idea of people being "cancelled." It goes on ad nauseum and I'm so fucking sick of it.

I just started typing a huge fucking rant and deleted it instead, because you all know what I was going to say - because everyone here feels it.

Its just their culture.

You know, I never drew a hard line over any of the streaming platforms -- but I did naturally drift away from Netflix probably over the past 2 years. Yes, their politics suck. But so does their entire platform lmao their content has become garbage and the actual app itself blows. Who was the fucking brainiac that decided "let's make every title auto play a preview that you can't turn off without visiting the website" and also made it so that it's pretty much impossible to only view selections that are in your spoken language.

But God there sure is a lot of the trash you're mentioning also. It doesn't even offend me though honestly- it's so transparent that I can't help but laugh at this point.

Yeah you know, kinda like Him in the Bible.

Personally, I think its real. My logic there is that covid is in the same family as the common cold which is known to mutate rapidly. Plus, the initial uproar and fear was based almost entirely around covid's incredibly rapid transmission. Faster transmission, more chances to mutate.

Personally, I think its real. My logic there is that covid is in the same family as the common cold which is known to mutate rapidly. Plus, the initial uproar and fear was based almost entirely around covid's incredibly rapid transmission. Faster transmission, more chances to mutate.

Personally, I think its real. My logic there is that covid is in the same family as the common cold which is known to mutate rapidly. Plus, the initial uproar and fear was based almost entirely around covid's incredibly rapid transmission. Faster transmission, more chances to mutate.

I'm not even surprised honestly. There's a certain type of white collar worker who managed to be furloughed or work from home literally from the beginning until now, and all they've heard is what CNN tells them. My SO's mom is retired and she was literally afraid to leave her house until the day she got the vaccine.

Stark contrast from my blue collar world, where everyone was back to work almost immediately and have long since realized covid is nothing to fear.

It was probably something parallell-ish that they decided to claim was racism to absolve them for any ills they had committed.

What a fucking bizarre world we live in where we have news stories with multiple photos of a person and a story based on a few entirely harmless comments she may or may not have made lmao its so crazy. Imagine this in literally any other scenario:

"[White] mother of 3 Sarah tells [white] mother of 2, who lives two blocks over, to keep her children on their own block"

Its just such a non issue.

How people can see this and still maintain that the govt ISNT using "safety" to strip away every right they can

I think this is all pretty clear to anyone with half a brain. The problem is that people who are pro-choice are also generally very 'bleeding heart' types. The only rationalization for abortion that would make a bit of sense is "we as a society do NOT hold all life as sacred, and therefore have decided to allow the termination of unwanted pregnancy to allow accidental would-be mothers to remove the burden of motherhood from their lives in the pursuit of their own interests." This notion goes against everything they allegedly stand for, so they can't say that. They can't call it what it is (baby murder) bc they are the party of 'compassion and tolerance' and form their identity around taking up the fight for the disenfranchised everywhere. It's pretty easy to see what's happening here.

So all they're left to do is come up with these bullshit strawman pseudoscientific arguments. I think the reason that they're all so willing to get behind these concepts so obviously riddled with holes is that they all kinda know that what they really mean is that women should be able to nix a pregnancy she doesn't want whether it's a life or not. If they were truly willing to be honest, and have some fucking dignity, they'd stand up and call it would it is and let the people fall where they will on the issue.

So if you have money in the bank... what happens? The banks just keep it?