The fight for smoking, like drinking (and to a lesser extent dietary control - fat, sugar, etc) is part of social control and almost always has been.
People knew it was bad in the 50s when it was advertised heavily on tv (do a search on YouTube for flintstones Winston cigarette ads).
That the same people telling you itobacco is evil and should be eradicated from existence are the same people demanding smoking pot be legalized and how helpful it is should tell ya something. It’s not about the science.
While I’m sure there’s a moral/ethical component to some anti-smoking campaigns, I suspect it’s always been more about being an attack on the Tobacco companies who were quite powerful at one time. Same as Code Pink (which disappeared when Obama took office and kept increasing war attacks and then opposed Trump… who actually pulled back on the wars.)
This might have something to do with it - https://www.lesswrong.com/posts/QDczBduZorG4dxZiW/sam-altman-s-sister-annie-altman-claims-sam-has-severely
I know there’s a lot of discussion that this is preparing the US to fight for Israel but I think this is a sign that the west (specifically the leftists) are going to ally with the Muslims and go all in on Palestine.
And golly we can’t have Osamas words out there about why he hated the west coz he’s gonna be from a group who’s our ally now.
Currently "Infamous Scribblers: The Founding Fathers and the Rowdy Beginnings of American Journalism" by Eric Burns. This has been on my pile of shame forever (I got bogged down reading all of Michel de Montaigne's essays a few years back). Eric Burns used to host Fox News Watch which was an ombudsman sort of show that analyzed the news stories Fox News had presented that week and the takes on the news from various viewpoints. The book itself isn't bad if not a little lighter "history" than i was expecting.
Previous (also from the pile of shame): Neal Stephenson's Quicksilver. Um... the first 200 pages were great and then it sort of went off the rails... Treating historical scientific figures using contemporary thought processes (which is probably closer than the historical literature represents it) is a clever and fun idea but then Stephenson tries applying that to political and religious leaders and that just doesn't work at all... and then he goes for the trifecta and puts a stronk women character in it.
From a religious standpoint, all can be baptized, including trannies.
Now… can they become priests? Get confirmed? Get married? Take communion?
They wouldn’t let my dad take communion because he married outside the church. You’re telling me it’s ok for a trannie to take communion then?
F! I liked going to the Distant Worlds concerts but if they did that then I'm DONE with them.
Stupid assholes
https://kotakuinaction2.win/p/17rTBSjAx9/daily-wire-seems-salty-for-some-/c/
His response just seemed over the top when Crowder didn’t directly call them out. Just made general statements of “supposedly conservative media with far deeper pockets than me won’t do this” - and frankly I thought he was talking about Fox News.
Hmm… who’s banning Halloween again?
https://www.joannejacobs.com/post/scared-of-halloween-ghoulies-ghosties-and-dei-beasties
But he’s married, loves women and has a kid!
The very NOT definition of “incel”
I get it - they’re pissed off because they can’t call him a racist because he adopted a black son. But if you’re going to rage bait, at least do it from an actual foundation instead of frothing at the mouth with “burn the unbeliever! I hates religion!”
They said there are hierarchies of color within Grenada and discrimination follows from that.
MY GOD! YOU STUPID UTTERLY RETARDED VIRTUE SIGNALING TWIT!
What do you THINK of the racism of the UK against the IRISH, the ITALIANS and the FRENCH and the GERMANS is?! National governmental squabbles?! NO - IT'S "COLORISM"! And it was something that we had to finally put to rest (mostly) in western civilization over hundreds of years of work and sacrifice and for some godawfully insane reason you think it's only a concept that aggrieves black and brown people?!
When did intelligence and education utterly collapse like this - It's like we've raised generations of cargo cultists!
Isn't it up to, like, the players to create their own characters who may or may not be autistic, quadriplegic, blind, transgender, etc;
That was the whole point of the game in the beginning - not these spoon fed stories. And D&D never split "race" stats based on color of skin... you had humans and orcs and dragons and elves and dwarves, etc;
Kids these days...
Wow - you're a super kind of retard.
Neither Christmas nor Easter celebrate those "pagan roots" - they're literally celebrations of Christ' birth and resurrection.
The argument isn't that Halloween has pagan roots, the argument is that Halloween celebrates paganism.
Now tell me why Atheists condemn Christianity but never Paganism or Islam?
That’s my thought… unless the board had already been infiltrated in the name of inclusion and the minorities staged a coup.