Ati-gun motivated shooting. We're going to see a lot more of this sort of thing; there is a reason the Nashville shooter's manifesto is under lock and key. We are already seeing people refuse to blame the shooters directly, and then try to place the responsibility on others.

Male expendability rears its ugly head

And it should never stop. Men should understand that we are not superheroes, that most of us are grunts, that we have to be part of something bigger than ourselves. Men didn't build civilization by being a gathering of kings; they did it by cooperation, and yes, hierarchy. Let women keep their princess bullshit if they must, its for the birds. The problem is that society has stopped rewarding its best supporters: boys and men. I don't know what the solution is, but I know its not men acting like women.

"Artists" nail a urinal to a wall, but artisans spend three generations building a cathedral.

The proper response is always "Don't let the door hit you where the good lord split you".

This will never work. Progressives will, as they always have, use the power of the state to enforce their preferred ideas. I know your example was from the UK, but they like the US prohibit freedom of association. Freedom of association is so fundamental to a society that it was never properly spelled out in the US Constitution. Then 60 years ago the Civil Rights Act of 1964 stripped Americans of this right officially. You have no choice to freely interact with others in any sense that matters. Run a school and don't what groomers teaching children? Too bad, the pink mafia is a "protected class" and you must associate with them. Without the ability to tell ANYONE to fuck off because you don't like them for any reason, you are not free.

This is going to start costing me money. Woodhouse was one of my favorites as a kid when I was penniless and most of my books were from the ol' public library. I don't own many books of his at the moment, so I will have to start spending on pre-2000 imprints. And Woodhouse is not the only author I care about that this is happening to.

That doesn't even address the awkwardness I'm going to face in another decade or two when I realize whoever I'm talking to may have read these new "sanitized" versions. Maoist bullshit.

I've only watched Picard in order to watch the GenXrs at RLM suffer. Sadly, it seems they've finally broken and can no longer realize they are consuming crap; now I'm just watching them tell me how the crap tastes ok. Its not as fun.

Breitbart claiming US failing to support colonial Zionists is a failure. Conservatives being stupid like usual. Remember kids, Judeo-Christian is a term less than a century old and the support only goes one way.

Well if you're going to counter the likes of Aristotle, you could offer a definition of sex of your own.

fuck it. i'm out.

ps-- add source. contextless screen grabs are beneath you.

Kathy Bates is playing Matlock.

While I admit this is an interesting casting, I still ask: why do it at all? I'd probably tune in for a few episodes of Kathy Bates playing a rustic attorney, so why the reboot?

Indeed. Redditors takes on Q were weirder than Q itself.

hate America if you want them out of the Middle East now?

Yes. This is not implied, it is directly stated. If you do not support the export of "American" ideas to the rest of the world, you are un-American. Of course, what is meant by American ideals is a very specific worldview put forth by various progressive politicians an NGOs. The same approach is used while discussing threats to "democracy." In both cases they are referring to the policies of the progressive regime.

I'm OK with the two of them trying to out anti-woke each other.

I'm not. Trump, I liked him, always wants to be the popular kid, but he spent four years showing that, even if his heart is in the right place, he has no idea how to fight globohomo. You might argue some of his people knew the enemy, but they were ineffective (see: fat drunkard Steve Bannon). DeSantis seems to know who he is fighting and how to do it (still shills for Israel though...).

I read an old article recently about how "young radicalized men" were sympathizing with the Taliban after the US evacuation of Afghanistan. She literally thought a bunch of dudes were ideologically aligning with the Taliban. The writer clearly could not grasp that many many people had a little laugh when Western imperialism got its nose bloodied just a little bit. And if she couldn't understand that, how could she ever understand much of the world doesn't care for American neo-Liberalism/ Conservatism?

Every one of these assholes will become "conservative" when food runs low and the web stops delivering "entertainment." I don't mind posts of retards being retards, but at a certain point what are you supposed to say?

So we're all just doing the dead internet thing out in the open now?

The fake placebos mention is very interesting. The safety aluminum adjuvants used in vaccines seems to be debated, or at least was debated before wrong think could cost you your job. So why in the heck would they use them in the placebo, and does Malone point to any justification offered by Pharma? I know what he's implying.

And I've realized that vaccines touch upon a topic I find fascinating: complexity. I don't think these researchers have a clue. I mean it, and I've come to believe that biological systems are far beyond our current understanding. For every advance in knowledge two questions arise, and I think our ability to tinker has far exceeded our mechanistic understanding.

It would be like handing Newton a motherboard and giving him a year to figure it out. Sure he'd make progress, but he wouldn't be building a graphics card when his time was up. Now make the problem a million time more complex and people die every misstep you take. I'm beginning to think that the whole "medical trial" thing is a workaround for unethical behavior.

I'm honestly a bit suppressed that Orwell hasn't been suppressed. The guy understood and criticized socialists in a was only a socialist could. Do we tell students it's about the Nazis? Maybe people literally don't understand the work. For anyone who missed it here an actual quote from H Clintons memoir

"This is what happens in George Orwell’s classic novel Nineteen Eighty-Four, when a torturer holds up four fingers and delivers electric shocks until his prisoner sees five fingers as ordered. The goal is to make you question logic and reason and to sow mistrust toward exactly the people we need to rely on: our leaders, the press, experts who seek to guide public policy based on evidence, ourselves."

Aquinas. His writing is a bit much to approach directly. But if you're looking for an intellectual approach, IRL I recommend to people Edward Fesser's "The Last Superstition" or "Aquinas". The first a broad response to the "New Atheists" covering a wider intellectual tradition, and the latter more focused on Aquinas himself. To warn you, I have been (accurately) accused of popery, so if that bothers you: CS Lewis.

Edit: I recommend Lewis either way really. This channel is fun: https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCw-kYN6wWXWDyp_lB0wnlxw

A bit harsh. After all, what's a little popery between friends? As to my own retardation I will make no defense, but the Catholic intellectual tradition bares some reflection. From beginning to more recent some obscure thinkers that may have grace your reading: Plato, Aristotle, Augustine, Aquinas, [your dear reformation occurs here], Bellarmine, Newman, MacIntyre. Tell me dear Matt, am I to conclude these men are as dense as I?

I know. Too many religious groups have crazies at the fringe. Problem is nobody does anything about it. Violate the "nice Jesus" doctrine. My issue is the transexual thing is so far beyond the pale. It's not doctrinal disputes, but the denial of reality.

Sure. And it's hard to criticize him at this point from a purely secular point of view. That having been said, I will attempt to do so while leaving religious specifics as far in the corner as I can. Luther was a Latin priest and they have generally had three responsibilities: (1) Say the prayers of the Church, (2) maintain celibacy and (3) obedience to Religious superiors. Luther ultimately broke with two of the three. I would argue an educated man would upon rejecting two thirds of his cultural requirements should have foreseen significant changes to the world and others around him. Given that Luther didn't reject the religion as a whole, these significant and likely upheavals should have been concerning to him. Unforeseen consequences are a bugger of a thing, hard to predict and offer no real absolution when you get it wrong.

Odd response given the topic is literally a Lutheran clergyman.

Luther was warned of his error. In his arrogance he decided he knew better. You are seeing the fruits his foolishness.

They were in possession of a reasonable belief system.

If I were an artist who ever intended to make any sort of living, I would give serious consideration what medium my original work is in, even if I had to learn a new one. There's a reason why dudes on youtube are selling live edge epoxy tabletops for thousands of dollars and a lot of artists facing this new tech work for pennies. I've always wanted to learn plaster relief making myself. AI won't be doing that for some time.