I worked for a bit with teens in a residential setting. Some were criminals, most were just dealing with being abused and neglected for years before being placed.
We'd be around their classroom during the school day, too.
Best thing about that situation is that we could put hands on em. I don't miss 5-hour long restraint sessions, but it sounds a hell of a lot better than this.
It's almost as if gun control laws were always a bandage on an underlying cultural sickness.
It's almost as if gun control laws did nothing to the underlying stress, so it just keeps getting worse at the fringes.
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It's not "retarded ideology"
It's one of the few constants across PRIMATES, let alone foreign cultures.
Behold, this is China.
Mao flipped the entire social hierarchy on its head... so most of the powerful, rich, and influential families in China are just 1-2 generations removed from being absolute retard peasants.
You can even see it in their face.
This lady has eaten out of a silver spoon her entire life. She's Rebecca Black tier.
In a country full of Rebecca Blacks.
No, don't get me wrong. They're relevant in the culture war. We will use this to hammer Dems into oblivion (god willing!)
But in a big picture sense, his politics don't matter. These retards don't believe in anything coherent enough to be called a political ideology.
I think this is materially different than regular leftism.
This is terminal Rot.
His politics are completely irrelevant.
Would you care how a schizophrenic rationalized something? If not, just understand that these kids are being radicalized in the most retarded way possible:
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they are exposed to ideas way beyond their intellect
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every authority figure encourages this and no one offers actual guidance (critical theory rears its head)
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young person independently adopts conflicting ideologies and then reconciles them in a completely nonsensical way. Throw in some nihilism and hedonism and you have a hell of a psychologically radioactive cocktail
In other words: nothing matters, nothing is right, do whatever you want (it's all the same anyway!)
I haven't ruled out we are now seeing secondary indoctrination through degreed losers who can't get a job, are then terminally online and radicalize others through an ideological game of terrorist telephone.
It doesn't matter if it's intentional...
Because those two sides uniting over that particular issue would just be the worst in so many ways. And I don't really care about Israel one way or the other.
This could be corrected out of a population in a generation.
But you'd need to seize control over education and media and the legal system, so it'd basically be colonization but done right.
And is what worth it? No, that's why everyone just comes in and pillages and funds the warlord who will give them the most shit.
Fair point.
My point is there is worthy, substantive scientific inquiry into these fields. But the current iterations have to go.
Psych has to go fully lean into STEM. fMRIs changed the game two+ decades ago and it's only gotten better since then. There is no reason for the bulk of psychology to exist outside of hard, verifiable science. It needs to marry Neuroscience, essentially.
Sociology at it's core is a worthy field of study, but everyone in every department has to go. We need to start over from the foundation. We need a new foundation throwing out Marx and Weber and Foucault. Probably by having a several year moratorium on those departments, which is a DRAMATIC step.
And that, too, needs to move into more hard science. Much more research needs to be conducted personally - get the fuck away from dependence on national data sets and regression models. Get the fuck away from activism. Get the fuck away from feminism.
We agree, I think.
It's times like these when I'm really sad that we don't take the social sciences seriously.
If we did, we'd already know how damaging this is to several segments of society... but those fields are so ideologically captured (and so female-dominated) that they're useless. The Social Sciences haven't done science in two generations.
And we really need it, especially in the internet age and the age of instant communication.
If you buy a pair of hydrophobic pants
And you spill some water on them
You will fully understand how women see responsibility for ANYTHING.
I don't fully understand how, but every indication is that the money they "lose" isn't real or wildly inflated.
Most of the money in the world is on paper and not real.
Being a Dik is great, way better than it has any right to be.
Too bad the dev is a fucking weirdo. Season 2 was what... 3 years ago? Still over a year away from season 3
Spent a couple days in Belgium in June.
I 100% completely understand now why Farage says Belgium isn't a country.
Not only is it a grey shithole, it's a grey shithole where no one can talk to each other.
Some of us have been strapped to the Trump Train like a Greenpeace Activist on a 400 year old Oak of historical significance.
It's made it easier to deal with the moments you describe. I may not like every twist and turn this train takes, but it's still infinitely better than the alternative.
I mean, I gotta be honest I think they handled it well from a Korean culture perspective (I did live there for pretty much 5 years) -- it's just so completely unnecessary.
Does it add a dimension to the character? Kinda? Maybe? In that he's not a sexual creep in any way and definitely still acts quite masculine.
Is it a dimension this show needed? Well, it didn't need a second season at all but it certainly didn't need the injection of modern politics into it... it's not even related to what the show's about.
But, to be fair, a real life squid games would be full of the most degenerate homeless and sexual deviants you could imagine, so maybe it's not so far off...
Nah, he wasn't destroyed.
https://youtu.be/UOmzkHNCsvw?si=ESwLiHGNjrvp1IXl
The left did some whining, maybe he had a show or two cancelled. But you're making it seem like he had. Louis CK type fall
They're all gyoppos (ethnic koreans with foreign citizenship) -- most seem to come from Australia or New Zealand.
It's funny because gyoppos are just one step above foreigners in the pecking order... just one Gulf of America-sized step down from actual Koreans.
At this point it's a litmus test for liberals to see if they're TRUE retards are just pretending.
The true retards can't wrap their puny brains around the idea of sexual dimorphism. The pretenders, like Carney, know the jig is up and just aren't sure where public opinion is.
I learned he's a shit pretender and he can't think on his feet from this video. But at least he knows it's a losing issue and doesn't want to weigh on it.
I think we ALL agree with you, he was just translating Carney's confused stumble-babble into simple answers.
I will watch that video, but I disagree insofar as the word intent - the truth is more nefarious than that in my opinion.
I won't argue this was the intent of the original Theorists, and is certainly the intent of some of the more radical authors now. Hell, the idiots at Black Lives Matter were too dumb to understand they were basically articulating that intent in their words.
But I just think (largely fed by experience with these people) that most of the academics now are foot soldiers who honestly and ardently believe the bullshit of it all. These idiots really believe there is no biological differences between men and women. They really believe that all the disparate outcomes American blacks see is rooted in racism and not rooted in bad choices coupled with a fucked up incentive system via government handouts.
There will always be people plotting against the dominant world hegemony, and the middle of the 20th century was no exception to that. It is really, ironically, in the collapse of the Soviet Union that this mind virus really took hold. People stopped being vigilant about bad ideas and stopped seeing the danger in ideology. The 90s to now really accelerated the communization of our universities.
You can see evidence of what I am saying in how Democrats (much more likely to be captured by the mind virus and now almost entirely comprised of those afflicted) govern. Take New York as an example. Their state budget is almost $300,000,000,000 and they spend the most money on social services... and continue to invite people like illlegals to come here, and drive out productive people, and promise everyone the moon. The result is no one gets anything, systems completely break down, and waste spirals out of control. The schools fail and they just cover it up with statistics. The police fail and they aren't even allowed to do their jobs in the first place. The prisons fail so they just find reasons to not put people in prison.
They are in complete and utter denial. They are honestly trying their best but their worldview is so fucked they can't even aknowledge the problems they create.
This is one of the smartest posts that has been posted here in a great while.
I still can't adequately articulate what I have seen but this comes pretty close. Foucault and postmodernism are close to the root problem (if not the actual root problem).
I'll never forget when I was a dumbass lib Sociology graduate student and I tried to tell my class (in so many words) that I couldn't shake the feeling all of this theory was just orienting people to tear down all of the systems that we have built and held dear... I left that room convinced not only did they know it, they were rooting for it.
When your enemies say they want to destroy everything about you, believe it.
I think there could he something here if only because the Juggalos really represent the broken part of White America.
We know how the rot affects inner cities with spiraling competence, broken families, and an overall downward trend generation over generation. This is just that same phenomenon in white communities.
Even at his best the hope with Pence was that the Dems didn't want a true stodgy conservative in office. Trump has always been more moderate than the GOP writ large, even if that was counter to the media narrative.
That was a bad plan, and the shaky alliance obviously fell apart. I don't blame Pence as much as others -- what loyalty did he really have to MAGA? But the Vance pick is certainly looking like a home run now.
This isn't a bad take... but it still begs the question of "why" and we do ourselves a massive disservice by not exploring it.
Single mother homes have gutted the black family and the result is essentially environmentally-induced mental retardation. I did nearly two years in social work, and I was shocked at what I saw (and I had a hell of a negative view before I went in).
Expecting a third grade vocabulary from anyone in the inner city is generally asking too much. Hell, I checked into a hotel in DC yesterday and the valet (a black guy) took about 20 seconds to write my (very simple and Biblical) name... building each letter line by line like he was copying it.
It's like an entire community stuck as children. Mentally and socially.
My favorite story from 22 months in the abyss:
We worked with a kid whose name was "Dahjhon"
Dahjhon III, mind you.
After getting to know the family (honestly not that bad... legitimately trying, dad was at home), I asked "what's up with the spelling of your names?"
Three generations of men had no idea that they had John spelled wrong.
I strongly suspect Dwyane Wade wasn't a clerical error, either.