I told my pro-choice mother and her friends at the start of all this:

"If you really believe in my body, my choice, you need to be on the front lines of this."

Because when the other shoe falls, and abortion is outlawed under the same flimsy reasoning "oh it's a public health crisis" then I will have no sympathy for the screeching hordes.

Granted, I was never going to have any sympathy anyway -- but at least I can point out the hypocrisy before they use it against me.

He's thinking bigger, like the Oompa Loompa in Tim Burton and Johnny Depp Ruin A Movie

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=L9Mhn3L3Hys

God I miss Ralphie May. I wish he didn't eat himself to death - he was one of the funniest people I've ever seen.

He'd have a lot to say on this topic.

When you consider that he's probably a product of a broken home or family, his failure to launch makes a lot more sense.

Then you consider the depression and feelings of inadequacy that causes.

Then you consider the cohort of broken adults is growing as a result of failed, greedy, and corrupt policies that have ruined america's moral fabric, destroyed the American family, and diminished our neighborly and national bonds -- and it all just gets sad.

I'm sad. Sad for this dude, sad for his friends, sad for the people that relate, and sad that I don't really see a way out that doesn't get ugly one way or another.

I do dislike this idea that they're impervious to logic.

No, they're not impervious to it, they've just purposely insulated themselves from it. Cognitive Dissonance works, but it's harder and harder to get people to face it.

Women tend to ruin most things where they start to have control.

I just wish I knew what to do with the reality of where we are. Some women, undeniably, are great leaders and innovators. They are just a vanishingly small percentage of the pool - in opening doors for them, we've also had to let in a legion of unqualified women in the name of "equality" or some bullshit.

No one should be told they can't do or be something because of an immutable characteristic. But we also shouldn't artificially inflate numbers because a 10:1 or 20:1 ratio in a given field seems imbalanced.

You got kebabs and thai food? Yeah, so do we.

Truest thing ever. My wife if filipino and looks for Asian food everywhere we go -- she's never had a problem (and we like going to random places).

She still talks about the cambodian place in Sioux Falls, SD a year later. Dodge City, KS also has some pretty authentic asian food (and great pizza, actually).

Urbanites have become the South Park caricature: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cJoGEqZfFDI

Well, yes.

The teenage girl thing is outrageous but seems to be a separate issue - I don't think you'll see high suicide rates for what will amount to a teenage phase. It is still normalzing an issue and another example of a mass psychosis, but its fundamentally different from people with actual gender dysphoria who go the extreme route of surgery.

In these cases the doctors who prescribe hormone blockers and testosterone deserve to rot in jail. I do think that day will come.

Look at Ellen Page. Does she look happier to be masquerading around as a man? Is she happier feigning ignorance that everyone can see through it? What happens when she can't take it anymore?

Can't uncut yourself.

And that is just a famous example. Think of all the depressed and mentally ill people who are groomed into it?

I swear to god, it's like reading The Emperor's New Clothes and getting the entirely wrong message.

Honestly I just feel bad.

It is a mental illness and they think that by giving in to the illness it will resolve itself. If a psychologist had a patient who wanted to cut off an arm, they would not advocate doing it to alleviate the bad feelings - and even if they did it would be unsurprising when it failed to resolve the underlying mental issues.

But that's what happens with trannies. Just yesterday there was a post on reddit about how transgenders are 2x more likely to die than the rest of the population.

I wonder what % more likely schizophrenics and bipolar are?

All i know for sure is that the current model is akin to war crimes and helps no one.

Currently in Salt Lake City... sitting in a hotel lobby waiting to check in. I count at least three big signs about the mask mandate supposedly in effect... 8 people in the lobby, no masks.

EDIT: Vegas is a lost cause right now. The people have just been beaten into submission

If anyone is interested in figuring out where the Mass Psychosis started, look at the Church of Zero COVID - it also fits that even now adherents like Australia and Canada continue to double down.

This whole house of cards seems to be collapsing. We are at that weird point where everyone can see the Emperor has no clothes, but the media hasn't gotten the new marching orders - so all they talk about are the emperor's clothes.

You aren't wrong about blacks hating whites - but I do think the democrats have been purposely fomenting that bullshit for decades.

The republican voting blacks and the old school middle class blacks are generally awesome Americans. Nothing more or less, color has nothing to do with our interactions.

Lots of places I could reply and leave this comment, but I'll just do it here:

1. Trump never walks anything back. Ever. I am sure he'd still give you a quote about what a tremendous success Trump University was (until it wasn't, which was immediately) or how successful he was at running a casino.

2. Trump is a germaphobe - I always thought a pandemic at the start of his final year was a bit too on the nose. But fact is, he has never been logical or pragmatic about germs and disease and his enemies knew this about him.

Two isnt an excuse for his continued support of the death shots, but I think he still has a lot of people in his ear saying how effective they are (and by extension his leadership was). He falls for it every time.

But I do agree that no matter the reason he has lost a lot of his appeal.

Yeah it would feel wrong. The two isn't elegant but its necessary.

I was one of those once. Very expensive red pill.

I consider my resignation letter my thesis because they still conferred me a useless master's

Because it's just a continuation of the coddling indoctrination they get in public school. Because an increasing number of them were raised by women alone who gave them horrific advice like "don't rock the boat" and "it's important to fit in."

Also because they never once teach you to critically think about anything.

Academia is a sick joke with no redeeming qualities. Those at the top aren't the smartest or the most cunning or the most insightful - they're the ones who played the game the whole way up; they're the ones who kissed the right asses at the right time. Nothing more, nothing less.

I would, except she's white.

which is ironic because if it was realistic his sister would probably be the influence to not destroy it.

Also, I'm sure most here have seen the resurfaced tweets of that Ebony woman who is some sort of important person at GETTR.

She claims "oh it was 5 years ago when I said Trump's election made me cry at my desk, but I've changed!"

Whether she's changed or not is kind of irrelevant. Never give any time or effort or money (for god's sake) to a company that hires emotional children who a) cry about politics and b) post about crying on social media for fake sympathy points.

I agree this whole fuckin' thing glows like the Elephant's foot at the bottom of Chernobyl surely did.

While I think there's a fair bit of revisionist history in regards to H3H3 and Ethan -- he should serve as an example of what happens to people when they surround themselves in an echo bubble of room-temperature IQ liberal morons in LA.

What a tool.

Any institution that elevates a human big toe like Brian Stelter to a place of power/influence is a corrupted institution.

The biggest reservoir of hope that I have is that these institutions are rotten and hollow, and will collapse under their own weight sooner rather than later.

You know, when Trump took office I was fully of the mind of reconciliation - learn to work together again, put aside differences, all that.

The media and the DNC wouldn't let us do that. Four long years (and more, tbh) they've screeched. IMO the frothing anti-Trump movement was the beginning of the mass Psychosis (and the ensuing over-reliance and over-trusting of authority).

When the pendulum swings the other way --- fuck em all. Tar and feathers should be back on the table.

Yeah and as someone else said it's likely unrelated. In fact, it's almost certainly unrelated as you'd see scattered reports, not isolated in one place.