Social media gives them that little dopamine hit.
It all started with facebook birthdays. I never understood the obsession people had with these utterly meaningless birthday wishes from people you literally never talk to.
Everyone acts the same because they have built this faux-culture where nothing of substance happens but the appearance of substance is king.
WE WUZ SHAKESPEARE AND SHEEEIT
I'm a little torn.
Yes, attention spans are tiny these days. BUT, there's a skill to be honed in mastering brevity + getting to the point.
You need to demand attention and then follow through on the back end once you've captured it. In your example, say 'This burrito sucks' and SHOW him why. If it's bad, it'll get his attention and you can fill in the details.
Just a reality of this world of ours.
SHE
Found the problem.
Gen-Z males have a chance to be based because they deal with these mental health patients every day. It should NEVER be assumed that a gen-z female, with all the attention, validation, and ideological poison they've received, is anything but a willing footsoldier for the New World Order.
I mean...
I thought it was going to be somewhat bad, but that was... holy shit.
What the fuck is this?
And, as someone else said, they view themselves as good and people they disagree with as evil.
Ends always justify the means when you think your ends are morally good.
Please don't fall into the trap that a lot of leftists and traditional liberals and even some conservatives fall in to:
Imagine if humanity was taught to respect all life, where would we be
Imagine if humanity had wings and could soar with the birds.
Humans are animals. Animals capable of amazing logical and rational thought compared to almost any other animal -- but an animal nonetheless. Do you think you can take a community of Chimpanzees or Gorillas and teach them not to fight each other for territory and food? Do you think these squabbles would go away if we just provided them all with everything they'd ever need?
Of course not.
Even further up someone said "if you showed people a dog getting their tail cut off and told them about an abortion they'd care more about the dog"
DUH. If you showed them a late term abortion and told them about the dog they'd care more about the abortion. Abortion is presented in the media as "caring" and "healthcare" and "empowering"
If you want people to believe that as well -- you need to show them. All the telling in the world doesn't mean anything because people can excuse it away.
I got another one for your list from my Grad School days - using a buzz word you probably don't hear that often anymore:
Hypothesis: Poor black people live in food deserts and are unhealthy because of institutionalized racism
Test: Poor blacks unable to access fresh vegetables/food in a cost-effective way?
Result: No, it turns out even in rural Southern Georgia, everyone has reasonable access to fresh food.
Conclusion: Black people make bad choices because of whitey.
Don't disagree but I think it might be a but punitive. No one is going to vote for an 80 year old non-incumbent for Congress.
And if they're incumbent, their days in Congress would be numbered anyway.
Biggest and most pressing issue is obviously term limits, but it doesn't do enough.
Echoing u/Baron_Bubbles regarding the 'servant' back in public service -- I've thought about ways to do it in a way that is simple and in the same spirit of the amendment process:
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No one shall serve in the House of Representatives for more than 10 years. If a citizen is not eligible to serve a full term they are not eligible to run.
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No one shall serve in the Senate for more than 2 terms.
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No one shall serve in Congress for more than 15 years with no exceptions.
We also need HUGE reform on campaign financing and lobbying. Lobbying as an institution needs to die a horrific death. Make it a felony and throw the book at the first violation. (Whether or not this is even allowed to happen would be a great benchmark for the success of the reforms).
There honestly isn't a reasonable solution I'm not willing to endorse. Make Congress members' personal finances while in office public record? Create an independent watchdog to audit Congress members if their net worth (or their spouse's net worth) increases dramatically.
These people work for us, and public service should be a sacrifice.
Looking at our current Congress I understand why the French went for the Guillotine.
Close.
Literal voodoo witchcraft needs to be considered just as "valid" a system for gaining understanding of observed phenomena.
Literal voodoo witchcraft needs to be considered just as "valid" because actual scientific inquiry shows all of their hypotheses about economics, psychology, sociology, etc to be completely worthless.
True story from my "Blue pill" days as a Sociology graduate student:
Grad Student wants to prove that men not doing housework leads to frustrated women and bad sex lives. Does a regression analysis on some big data set (these people NEVER collect or collate their own data) -- finds out that people in traditional marriages with a traditional division of labor are the happiest. Complete failure to reject the null hypothesis.
The ensuing 10 minute presentation on how these women must have internalized misogyny made my eyes roll out of my head -- and I haven't even begun to realize how stupid these people were yet.
I have more stories, too.
This is true, but at least it was once a confounding variable that you tried to control for. With raw data there are ways we can do checks to see if someone is full of shit (even after the fact) --
--but these idiots with Liberal Arts degrees (and I am one of them and was once an idiot) have no such controls.
When a quack doctor releases data showing something outrageous, it's usually very easy to find the flaws in the data collection or the data interpretation.
When I was a grad student in Sociology (I told you I used to be one of those idiots), my department hired a professor whose parents were illegals and who wrote exclusively about the terrible plight of illegals. They made a big show about how they hired him and gave him the biggest starting salary they ever gave any professor and fast tracked him on tenure.
Two years later he was gone (as was I. Long gone at that point) -- I dunno if he failed tenure review or what, but all of his work was so infiltrated with his own biases it wouldn't surprise me. But in a Sociological journal you don't have that raw data, you don't have controls for confounding, you just have a name on a page and trust they have integrity.
This is how bad ideas get spread and passed off as legitimate. Academia as an institution needs to be burnt down and rebuilt from the foundations.
While no one took the Liberal Arts seriously anyway -- this sort of bad research started in those departments first. I don't know when we stopped controlling for personal biases (if we ever did) but it's rampant across academia.
The fat girl studying fat people, the brown dude studying how people hate brown people -- etc. People are encouraged to research what is personal to them and so they never break down their biases.
That on top of the "diversification" of academia which led to shit researchers and shit scientists getting pushed through because of DiVeRsiTy -- and you also have a large cohort of people with no idea of scientific rigor or integrity, because it's never been demanded of them.
I mean, they definitely do exist.
But I thought there were studies saying cannabis was protective (slightly. SLIGHTLY) against severe infection.
It's all BS anyway, but Colorado (with its dense urban center and cold climate) has been one of the least-impacted states by the virus itself. All their damage was self-inflicted by a commie governor.
Wait --- they're authorizing boosters for old people and... all natives?
What is the possible logic behind this? Does the virus latch on to all those woke points natives have?
100% spot on -- those fools that gave petty tyrants any leeway set us all back.
I'm in the KC region and it's a hilarious clusterfuck out here. The corrupt urban counties on the KC MO side are back to mask mandates and extending them every 30 days with no discussion of benchmarks or when they will rescind them. Cases are down 75% from when they used them as a justification -- and yet there's no end in sight.
Then on the Kansas side you have Wyandotte County which has a mask mandate -- but Johnson county (the more populous) does not -- so businesses on other side of the street right in the middle of the metro area have different rules.
But in all cases, if you take your car and go 20 miles in any direction it's like the plandemic never happened.
It's not nearly as bad as in the lefty shitholes, but man if it ain't honkin' like clown world.
Yep.
I have to admit, I'm pretty well-versed on this stuff and I didn't know HOW dramatic the flip has been on gender balance of dysmorphic patients (Perhaps I should put quotes on that...), but even I'm a little surprised at the apparent effect of adolescent female social psychology.
I still don't think this will be a deleterious to women long-term like the father crisis is for men -- but again, it's incredible that a Fake Vag Doc is the one trying to pump the brakes on this.
I still think the doc is mentally ill being a tranny themselves, but I do give kudos for speaking out. Would have been easy to just keep making them big $$$
I'm not sure what you're referring to, but I'd love to see that list --
I honestly think the bigger issue is what it's doing for biological girls -- dysmorphia is a real mental illness and has been documented at about 1:10000 people, mostly male.
Per the article, on college campuses now it's like 1:20 and it's mostly girls.
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Simply beautiful
It is also a damning indictment of "ScIeNcE" that the deleterious effects of the treatment found in Europe were and are completely ignored by American doctors.
It's unbridled corruption and incompetence.
Munchausen's by proxy
--also interesting that the doctor raising the alarm is themselves a tranny and essentially a plastic surgeon. It seems significant to me that someone with so much skin in the game would go so drastically against the narrative.
All the coof stuff notwithstanding, what American doctors have been doing to children for the past decade is a legitimate crime against humanity.
This is true.
I think a lot of Dem voters fall into this camp of "oh yes we should take care of refugees" and "oh yes of course we should support trans people" but they never want to be the ones facing the issue.
They'd never admit it, but they want to welcome refugees at a safe distance. Preferably a couple states away. Same thing with trannies - oh wow such acceptance please stay away from my children.
Come on, its totally plausible in this day and age that a child old enough to articulate a full sentence would have no idea queer people exist.
Maybe she was amish.
I think they are the last ones left who havent had the agenda jammed down their throats
Yep. Title had me thinking I was headed for an angry read... but then I looked up the author and realized it was written by a man.
Excellent arguments against what's going on, and I truly couldn't have said it better myself. The media wants to gaslight people into talking about "CRT" and this allows them to move the goalposts in any direction to avoid the actual discussion.
Formulate solid arguments against the actions and the curriculum, not the boogeyman.