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  45. This couldn't be more timely. There's a group where we recently moved to in Oklahoma that are supposed to be just a gathering for the LGBT in the area. When me and my son met them (he's gay) they swore they aren't political and aren't activists. In a recent exchange, a couple were talking with a teacher about starting an LGBTQ+ club at one of the schools here. Thank goodness enough in the group pushed back and said no. I had to explain to my son why it's a bad thing. I asked him if there was a straight club for kids to talk about their sexuality? Of course not because school and teachers shouldn't be discussing that with children. That if those kids wanted to meet up after school somewhere and hangout together, there's nothing stopping them, but that the school or teachers shouldn't ever be involved. My son still thinks it's good intentions behind it, but I don't think so. I smelled the activist real quick at the first meeting. She kept saying "ally" and wanted to put stickers in the windows of LGBTQ+ "friendly" businesses. She's the current head of the board for the non profit they started. She's not young either. I'd put her in her late 50s to early 60s. It's the younger ones and the ones my age, in our 40s, that are pushing against her. I'm staying involved basically to help keep her inline and also just incase she gets enough to support her so I can sound the alarm. I'm not letting this get a foothold on this community as long as I can breathe. There are others in the group that feel the same as me who are LGBTQ+. They are trying to get her removed from the board as soon as they can. Edit: I'm posting this so everyone understands how easily this happens. They name the club something other than what it really is which puts it a secret from the start. The school isn't really aware. Tim is wrong blaming the parents. The entire thing is set up to be very secretive and the kids are told they are in danger if they are found out. The kids then aren't just protecting themselves, but everyone else in the club depends on them keeping silent. It's done like that because the adults involved know what they're doing is wrong so they manipulate the kids.
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  134. I was watching Congressional proceedings when they were discussing reparations. The amount of blaming other races going on in it was shocking and saddening. One man was very upset there were two college scholarships specifically for huwhite people. He exclaimed that proved racism still existed in the system. I asked him about the nearly 100 I could search for people of his race and why he thought it was fine there be that many available for him, but 2 was too much. I asked if he thought there should be none. He never replied. Another was saying there needed to be more representation on TV and movies. I asked if he thought 12% of the population should make up 50% of it. Again no reply. That was while I was explaining how Natives had not received reparations as all of them believed because "they know some that get checks from the government". I pointed them to the Congressional committee that discussed it under Obama and came to the conclusion it was too difficult. I also explained that the checks were from lawsuits filed against the government for broken treaties and stealing tribal money the government keeps because Natives are too stupid to handle their own money. I also asked why Natives getting checks equals reparations to them, but them getting government checks doesn't. Again no reply. One woman said they didn't want money, but certain privileges and listed several like affirmative action, incentives to start businesses with better interest rates, easier to get housing loans, etc. I pointed out they'd had almost all those since Civil Rights passed. She did reply and admitted she did not know that. Many don't know that reparations were already given in those government programs. It was even acknowledged as such at the time. The sheer hatred I saw in some of the comments directed at all other races was honestly sickening. So no, I'm not surprised by this poll in the slightest.
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  154. IQ is potential. Take me as an example. Heck, most of my family. We all range between 130-150 IQ. None of us have been scientists, have invented something, or done anything special. My oldest is 160+ IQ. He works in operations at an oil refinery. My IQ is 138. My contribution is being a stay at home wife and mother. We've all preferred hands-on type work. So we've all been farmers, ranchers, gardeners (I'm a master gardener and enjoy design), carpenters, etc, and very knowledgeable in those areas. When we do find something that piques our interest, we'll read everything we can find on it. Studying and learning about it like we're getting a masters degree in it. We end up with vast amounts of knowledge in various areas outside whatever we've chosen to earn money doing. We've all been creative in one way or another. Both of my sons are musically gifted and could have gone into it professionally. I'm into fabric art and crafting and work at expanding my skills in areas adjacent to that. My mother loved interior design and all forms of decoration (cakes, knicknacks, ceramics, etc). Both my grandfather and father loved woodworking and building things. Those are the skills we'd work on and master outside work. Continously improving our skills in them. That's basically what the majority of higher IQ people do because it's not about making money. It's about learning and improving our knowledge and skills in whatever area we enjoy. Sorry for the book, but I was trying to sort of explain in detail using my own high IQ family as an example of how it typically functions in the real world.
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  185.  @American-Motors-Corporation  2015 was Obama, not Trump so what does that have to do with him? You forgot that Nixon also caused our oil imports to double due to price controls he put in place. The Arab Oil Embargo that you're referring to was because we'd just faced an oil crisis. What happened in 2015? The US became the largest producer of oil. We were no longer at risk of an oil crisis. We export mainly to Canada and Mexico. I'm confused by why you think sending India oil is bad. We are not currently experiencing an oil shortage. The price of oil is based on speculation, not current supply. That speculation is on the global market, not just the US. Let's take the Keystone pipeline as an example. The pipeline would have allowed oil to flow to refineries faster and increased the global supply of oil so prices dropped in speculation of that happening. When it got canceled, the oil production wouldn't increase thus keeping the global supply the same so the price rose because the speculation was incorrect. The current prices rising is because Biden's cuts to drilling will effect the global supply in the future. If we don't increase exploration, we won't be able to replace oil deposits that run out and stop producing. That will decrease the amount available in the future. Whenever there is a decrease in the amount of something (or the likelihood of a decrease) the price of that item goes up. Edit: Maybe have a basic understanding of how the market works before voicing what you believe to be true.
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  187.  @antonyjh1234  Ugh "equitable" just means everyone equally poor. Why shouldn't my talent and hard work to improve it earn me more than someone who's incapable of doing what I do but does it anyway because they want to? We are not equal. Nothing is equal. Not in the animal kingdom or nature that we're all members of. A person who studies and improves their skills to the point they can perform complex brain surgery should absolutely have more than the hospital cafeteria worker who's much more easily replaced. Agree with it or not, they are simply more valuable to society. We know that if everyone receives the same regardless of work or talent, production drops and technology declines causing not enough for the population to survive. It's been shown to occur time and time again. It's only ever successful in very small communities that people refusing to do their share can be kicked out of. To do that in an entire country means imprisonment or killing them because there's no where to remove them to. It has nothing to do with ideology or advancement or anything else. It's no different than a caged animal being feed and no longer having to acquire it's food as intended. It gets lazy and in some cases eventually drives them mad. No matter how many different ways it's tried, the results will always be the same because we're still animals and subject to nature as much as we like to pretend otherwise. Edit: The whole "such and such country has some social programs so therefore socialism good" is boring and tired. It's called a mixed economy and it's what most countries have. It's called not going to extremes either direction to achieve some balance.
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  196.  @marcasrealaccount  They've intentionally changed the lore to put women in positions of power they don't have in the books or appendices. Their Queen regent Miriel. She's not Queen in the books. Her throne is usurped by her cousin who then forces her to marry him. Because he is already bad, he's much more susceptible to Sauron and he becomes a follower of Melkor (Morgoth who is Sauron's master). This causes the kingdom to split and people to start worshipping evil which directly leads to the fall of Numenor, supposedly what this series is about. Since she's Queen, it changes the entire dynamic of the story and it's already reflecting in the show. Another part is creating a sister for Isildur for no reason. She's already had a scene telling us she's been accepted into a science program. She's not there to move the story forward or explain anything about what's going on. She's just there for strong successful woman and to show that she's clearly better than her brother who is taking a gap year because apparently that's now a thing in Middle Earth now (as are apparently universities ). All completely irrelevant outside of making his nonexistent sister better than the human that cuts the ring from Sauron's finger and to add modern stuff into the most popular fantasy ever written set in a world meant to be the mythology of England. Another subversion is Halbrand. He's from the lands that supported Morgoth, a thief, and is said to have done very bad things. They are intentionally trying to make him sympathetic and likeable. Far more so than Galadriel. They are pushing him into being like an Arragorn He will turn out at the end of this season to be very bad indeed, but you'll sympathize with him by then. The "Harfoots" are particularly nasty subversion. These Hobbits are dirty, gross, and frankly very stupid. The complete opposite of their portrayal in the book. The line from the trailer is "Our hearts are bigger than our feet". Then this episode they talk about how they are a group. They walk on leaving no one behind according to what they are telling you. Then one breaks their leg so they leave him behind to die. They even sing a song listing all the others they have left behind to die which includes a line about how they don't leave anyone behind. Their portrayal is also extremely racists. It's not by coincidence that they have an Irish accent. The good from the books are intentionally being portrayed as if they are really no better than the evil they seek to destroy. It's to destroy the line between what is good and what is bad to the point neither really exists.
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  214. Owning land has always been an investment. That's why it factors into your net worth. It has intrinsic value. Nobody "convinced" anyone of this. It's been understood since Kings granted land as a reward. You're going to need to first prove that it's artificially inflated. Prices started going up during the pandemic. Not just to, but because mass migration began out of certain areas into other areas. NYC and really all major cities houses have always been more expensive because there's very limited land. Add in zoning and massive, unneeded regulations, and it skyrockets because each regulation adds expense to the building process. The migration I mentioned is still taking place. As people move from one area to another, it creates scarcity in the new area driving up prices because the need is bigger than the supply. Prices will drop as either new houses are built or the migration slows. The idea that it's everywhere is also false. My 25 year old purchased his first house last year for $70,000. It's about the size of our first home which was $50,000 20 years ago. Given inflation, that's not a huge increase. Edit: His house also has an attached 1 car garage which increases the value by $5,000-$10,000 which ours only had a carport. So it's not really more expensive than our first house. Given inflation, it was probably even a bit cheaper. Too many people want houses that are over 1,500 square feet too which the bigger the house, the more expensive it is. Since that's what the market demands, that's what gets built. Our first home and his first home were both around 1,000 square feet and over 50 years old which decreases the value/cost.
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  223. Maybe that's why I've always been populist. My grandfather was my idol. Born in 1912, was a farmer and later a Union leader at the oil refinery, led a strike at said oil refinery, was absolutely what one would think of as an upstanding Christian. He was quiet and reserved. He'd take the shirt off his back if someone else needed it, and did. He'd walk to work in the ice if the roads were too bad to drive to make sure the guy he was supposed to relieve at work got off on time. He prioritized family above everything. One time during contract negotiations he asked the OWNER to step outside to settle it, which means he was challenging a fist fight. It was so against his nature to do something like that, the owner immediately apologized and backed down. He'd made a comment about the workers that was particularly insulting and my grandfather wasn't having it. You can imagine the impact that had coming from a 6'7 man that nobody had ever even heard raise his voice. He never trusted the government. He taught us survival skills and how to grow pretty much anything because we still farmed. It was all about being self sufficient. Hunting, farming, fishing, he made sure we all had those skills. He even built the only house they ever owned by himself. Including all the electrical, plumbing, cabinets. Things he'd never done, but taught himself how to so he didn't need to rely on anyone else. I think if everyone had someone like him in their lives, we'd be in a much different and better place right now. Oh yeah, and everything bought HAD to be American made. It didn't matter if it's more expensive. You support your fellow citizen's first.
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  454.  @TheHigherVoltage  I can't take someone seriously that doesn't know why marijuana was banned and why it's remained so. You also ignore that the bill that put all those people in jail didn't come from the right. Marijuana was banned because it was competition to paper. It's remained banned because it's competition to pharmaceutical companies. The Democrats told you it was because of the right because it's in their political interest to do so. You also don't know your audience. The majority here don't believe government should be involved in marriage at all. Marriage has become defined as a religious ceremony so that's where it should stay. For the government, it should just be legislated like any other contract or not at all. So you being upset that a religious institution won't say you can get married so you demand the government violate other people's rights is the problem. As for women, a new poll says over 50% of women WANT to be a housewife and not work. I advocate that's their choice, you advocate that's wrong think. Again believing you should be be able to violate their rights and force your opinion on them because you don't agree with it. Yet you're upset because a now very small group with no political power, dare to voice disagreement with you and don't believe what you want. You consider what they are doing is violating your rights while demanding government involvement to force your opinion on others. You're what you're railing against and don't even see it. Edit to add: Tolerance isn't a one way street. You are free to advocate for what you want and they are free to do the same. Neither should be silenced. That's what real tolerance is. I'd suggest learn to do it first before demanding it from others.
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  474. This is the ideas that the US was founded on. It makes change slow so that if it's really a benefit or a detriment that has time to show. If a new idea works, it will be adopted by other states and that will test if it's compatible for all or if it's more limited based on resources available or wealth of the state. If it is found to be a benefit then it will be adopted at the federal level and by that time it's already pretty much been accepted by the majority of the people. It was never supposed to be as it has become with one or two states doing something and then it's forced onto the others by the federal government using party power rather than individual state power or by withholding funding until they comply. States are finally starting to remember that they are supposed to be the power within the country instead of the federal government. Outside of interstate conflicts, money printing, trade, treaties, etc the federal government isn't supposed to have much power. Edit: The closer the people are to their politicans in day to day interactions the more those laws are supposed to affect our day to day life. Each step further removed from the people, the less impact they're supposed to have on our day to day life. There should be vastly different laws and regulations between states all the way down to counties and towns. It was so people could live under laws they want to and those that didn't like them could easily move to an area that better suited them. We were never supposed to be identical to each other.
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  650.  @EekChocolate  Everything you're saying is completely false. Gen X, my generation, created a new economy because we had to to survive. Those jobs being shipped out are why 90% of what you're complaining about happened. Because there were no more good paying manufacturing jobs that don't require a lot of skill disappeared, that resulted in higher skills being needed. That caused the push for college and the government to step in to attempt to guarantee its availability to those no longer earning from the lost manufacturing which drove the price up. College became so common that businesses now use it to gauge employment readiness which drove the demand even higher. If you watched the video, you'd know wages are usually pretty stagnant, but because of when you grew up you're used to them growing rapidly. They have grown extremely rapidly to be clear. When I was a teenager the minimum wage was $3.20. Now it's over $10 to start in most places and $15-$20 in many areas. That's in less than 30 years. That's massive growth. As it increases so do prices to go along with it. I currently live in a fairly small town in a sparsely populated state and it's $13+ to flip a burger. That's a $5+ hour increase in less than 5 years. That's not stagnate. The wage increase combined with the shortages caused by getting too much stuff from overseas has caused prices to rise and products to shrink. That's not Reagan economics, that's just plain supply and demand. So again, not manufacturing here has caused an increase in prices that wouldn't have occurred. The other major issue no longer making things here has caused is a lack of invention and progress technologically. Competition isn't nearly as fierce to create new things so it's become stagnant. That's where the real stagnation has occurred. You went on a tirade about cars. There were always other big car manufacturers around the world. Tariffs added costs to them, making the ones made in the US cheaper and it drove car manufacturers to constantly be improving their cars in looks and quality to appeal to more people. Seeing cars made outside the US was uncommon and limited to the more wealthy before. You can see it across all product markets. It's no longer about improving how well something works or how long it lasts, but just adding little gadgets onto it to increase the cost. Let's look at washing machines. There's been no real big improvements to their functionality in decades. They've simply added some technology into them, but their core functions haven't improved at all. Simply because I can start it with my phone, somehow makes it worth thousands of dollars when the much cheaper one does the exact same core function just as well. Our society now puts massive value on gadgets rather than actual functionality and quality which is a direct result of the Boomers driving the economy into a consumer one. My generation simply responded to what Boomers wanted in order to survive, but it was never what we wanted. That's why the middle class is now collapsing. It was never sustainable, but making things is. If you think it isn't then explain China's massive economic rise since we've shipped most of the manufacturing of our ideas over there.
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  843. According to Vee, it's pretty standard to be detained for 30 days. They can hold you without charges for up to 180 days, but that's extremely rare for judges to allow. Every 30 days they'll ask for an extension until the 180 is but most judges won't allow it to continue to that point. They don't have innocent until proven guilty like we do so keep that in mind. Completely different judicial system. As to what Tate says, I raised my sons to never hit a woman ever unless life or death like a weapon being involved. I don't believe that anymore and have since added a caveat to it. If it's one if these modern women that believe they can act like a man, and are as strong as a man, if they hit you hit them back. If you're going to as "strong as a man" then that comes with the responsibilities of being physically as strong. If you believe you're better than a man, that comes with more responsibilities than a man. Tired of this idea that women get to be like men and still be treated like women. I'm sick of women complaining they have to work and almost all of child responsibilities. If you alone get to determine if that child is born and the man gets zero say, then it's your responsibility to care for them. You don't get to make 100% of the decision and then put the responsibility of it onto someone else. That's not how equality works. I've been slapped repeatedly in the face with this commercial telling me women are better than men in every way but retire with 30% less and that's not right. If you save 30% than men into your retirement, then yes it is. You're responsible for the choices you make and intentionally remove men from.,
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  1023.  @TheHigherVoltage  The no taxes things on Churches is pretty lame because EVERY nonprofit has those benefits. Churches ARE nonprofit and spend the bulk of donations on charity inside the communities they're in. They save the government money by taking away some of the burden and that's why nonprofits (religious or non religious) aren't taxed. Churches have accounts at grocery stores for those in need to Oh buy the groceries they need to live, they have accounts with every utility company to help pay for families in need, they run shelters, food banks, and kitchens. Define poverty? My red state was considered "poor" but we lived better than people in New York making 3 times as much because the cost of living is much lower. When you look at a rate based on national averages rather than areas, the much higher areas (due to the wealth gap) push the average much higher. I owned a 4 bedroom 3 bath 2300 sq home on 3/4 of an acre for $120,000 because the cost of living was so low. Even when were below the "poverty" line and on food stamps I was able to purchase my own home. We had everything including internet that we were able to pay for fine and our own cellphones and cell service we paid for. That was a family of 4 below the poverty line in one of those "impoverished" red states you're talking about. The average income is $45,000 and the average home price is $100,00. Now look at New York. The average income isn't much higher, but the average cost of a home is astronomical. New York is "rich", but who's living easier and has more? Edit: Also most of those states are agricultural heavy. The government sets the price range of most crops to keep prices down. If farmers were allowed to charge whatever, they wouldn't be poor. Don't try to pull "but California" either. California's farming industry is 1% of the state's economy. Most of those states it's the largest portion of their economy. We can always develop the land and the people in the rich cities can starve.
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  1054.  @fallonclouatre7934  Finland is expanding it's nuclear plants to generate 60% of it's power needs, the opposite of every other country in the West. It's banned in the US. Finland doesn't have oil, natural gas, or coal available as a natural resource so it's always had to import it and will continue to do so for the remainder of its power needs. Meaning more oil is used to ship it in making what it does use a far larger impact than a country like the US that has all 3 readily available. Oil is used in millions of products you use everyday so this idea that anyone will be oil free is laughable unless you want to live like a pioneer. There are already brown outs and black outs because there's not enough energy to supply all the new electric everything required in a few cities. Without nuclear, how do you think all nearly 200 million using an electric car will work exactly without destroying every forest and turning it into a solar panel field or cutting down all the trees so they don't block the wind for the windmills (both of which use oil to make or operate)? No pipe dream technology that might happen either, using only the technology available right now. Those energy sources aren't as reliable either meaning more brown and blackouts than just the ones in residential areas because the businesses need the energy and they take priority. How many people will die when there's not enough to cool or heat them, especially since many places are also banning wood burning fireplaces? I have solar panels that I purchased brand new. They don't produce the exact same amount of energy day to day which means as a means of producing mass amounts it's much less reliable than what we currently use. Look what happened in Texas because the windmills froze and imagine that across the entire grid. It didn't just happen in Texas either. Several states lost their green energy sources because they froze causing 13 states to institute rolling blackouts in an attempt to keep people from freezing to death. That was without the entire population of them using electric cars, stoves, heaters, water heaters, etc. It would have been catastrophic if that was the case.
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  1305.  @anon681  ITIN aren't for legal employment. Those are for dependents that don't have social security numbers. My son had a social security card with the stipulation "not allowed for employment" that had to be removed once we got his citizenship worked out. An ITIN would be used by a spouse to claim their illegal spouse as a dependent which legally they would be since they have no legal income. You're talking about a small portion of them. The idea that most start businesses is absurd. I worked at a lab that did drug testing. Contractors would send all their illegal guys in for them and they'd pass one ID between them and only one could speak English. A supervisor went with them to verify they're name so we could perform the tests. It was especially hilarious when everyone of them failed the drug test and had to fired. We had a business raided and fined 3 times for hiring illegals. It eventually bankrupted them. Why don't you talk about the ones getting kidnapped by cartels and being sent to work on farms or prostitution until their families pay up? Hell a lot are kept working even after the family pays. That they're targeted because they bought something and "the community" informed the cartel. How about how legal immigrants can't stand them either or how many of them are mules for the cartels? What about all the children kidnapped from small towns in the path of the caravans that get brought by them to increase their chances of getting in and then sold into human trafficking once they're across? Don't pretend like the exceptions are the majority.
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  1576.  @weneedcriticalthinking  Don't link opinion pieces as fact. They aren't. They are someone's opinion on what they think something might mean or what might happen based on their own individual biases. That's not proof. Trump's first 2 years were bad for the middle East, no one is disputing that. He's not a politician and was surrounded by people the GOP told him would be good. His entire term he only had a small handful of people around him that were trying to do what he wanted. Everyone else was doing everything they could to stop him. They constantly bragged about it in interviews. The main guy over the Middle East let it all out after he retired. The higher ups in the Pentagon were intentionally lying to the President and the people about troop numbers and what was going on. That's when Trump fired all of them at the Pentagon and put in people he knew he could trust and troops were brought home. Even Congress stepped in to prevent our withdrawal. No one is happy he didn't pardon Assange either. The thing is, nobody is perfect and everyone screws up. He screwed up a hell of lot less than most. Might I remind you Democrats wanted to drone strike Assange rather than even have a trial. Obama used drone strikes against US citizens abroad without them being convicted of anything. Snowden is another case entirely since he leaked information knowing it was illegal. He actually broke the law. Assange is a member of the press so he broke no laws and if he's convicted, that's the end of the free press guaranteed in the first amendment. As for Space Force, it's something that will be needed in the future. If you think those other countries weren't already thinking ahead like we were, I've got a bridge to sell you. It didn't escalate anything it just brought it out into the open. If anything the US is behind because Obama stripped NASA'S funding which is our primary space department.
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  1773. @burnt andburnie The major countries causing CO2 emissions are China and India. They produce more than most other countries combined. That 10 most, is deceiving. I'm not for the Paris agreement because it's telling poor countries they'll have to remain poor forever. Conservative means conservation. That means preserving things or saving things. The problem is you think that means everything, but it doesn't. You can be economically conservative and socially liberal or the opposite. Most would identify has Constitutionalists. There's nothing wrong with preserving the Constitution since it's the foundation of the country. It's obvious you're self taught and I'd say you still have a long way to go. I'd suggest geology so you'll understand the normal global temperature of the Earth is 70, not 60 like now, with little or no ice cap. That's why there are alligator fossils in the Tundra. You'd also learn CO2 levels increase with no explanation why and the global temperature can swing in either direction by as much as 10 degrees rapidly. Yes humans have an impact, but not as much as some think. The Earth has done this when we didn't exist. That some believe human can just change the Earth at will is mainly our ego and usually just creates more problems down the road. Florida is a prime example. "Florida is going to be underwater" because it's mostly supposed to be Everglades and thus pretty much water anyway. Humans built it up to make it habitable and are now shocked it's try to go back to it's natural state.
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  1778.  @kentkobakoff7231  I suggest looking into T cell research when it comes to people who have not had the virus, that's if you know what T cells are. It's complicated to test their reactions so it takes longer than just looking for antibodies in the blood. There are studies worldwide, all with similar results, but the US study differs because it used blood donated from 2015-2018. I was surprised when I saw the results and conclusions and am still waiting on the media to report on them. If we're supposed to follow the science, why aren't these states doing so? The CDC says it's perfectly safe to open schools so why are they closed?. WHO and UN scientists have said lockdowns are bad and kill more than the virus so why are we still talking about them as an option? I have no issue with a store having a policy of mask requirements just like I don't have a problem with their no shirt no shoes no service one. I do have a problem with government mandates, not laws, requiring them. These mandates didn't go through the normal legal process of checks and balances to be enacted and that's a problem. No one is against quarantining those currently infected, but there is no science that says to quarantine the uninfected. We know viruses spread faster in the winter because we stop moving around and stay indoors more, so how does not moving around and staying indoors magically also prevent spreading especially when they close stores and force the whole population to use only one or two? All of this was based on the premise that China did it and it worked, but it has now officially been confirmed that it didn't work and they were lying. So we should continue to follow what China did and ignore WHO and the CDC? Y'all really need to make up your minds.
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  1817.  @MatthewCYN15  The Pandorica The Doctor says a lot of things. This is actions, not words. You've never said something in anger but didn't act on it? Everyone has which is the point of things like that in the scripts. To make him relatable. Time Lord Victorious was way more than just that. It was predicted to the 4th Doctor by the Dalek that he would become everything he opposed. Proving the point of the comment. It was undone when the Eleventh reset all the fixed points in time during the Pandorica arch. Twelfth Doctor threatened that but did not do it. Instead he told her, Me is the name btw, to stay far away from him. He then brought Clara back (sort of) and she's out of time traveling with Me. The only time The Doctor eliminated an entire race was the Daleks which he swore to never do again. He was forced to kill but it was always with great regret. Even in the Time Lord Victorious he allowed a few to escape intentionally. People are allowed to comment as much as they like about the recent seemingly permanent development of a lack of empathy from the 2 most recent attempts at The Doctor. There's a reason the ratings took a nose dive and are continuing to drop regardless of Tenant's and RTD's return. I find it interesting that you only mention him changing a fixed point in time in the Victorious arch but not the much more heinous acts he committed. Like destroying an entire planet and creating a time rift and time loops. He didn't have a companion because he didn't want one. All The Doctor's companions have tragic lives except 1 or 2 across the entire 50 years. He couldn't stand the thought of condemning another person to that fate for a brief time. That reminded him of why he had them in the first place. To keep himself grounded and empathetic. Edit: Even though you claim to have portrayed The Doctor in audio shows (not cannon btw), you have zero grasp or understanding of the character. Not surprising. I've been told by those that work with them that actors are pretty stupid and surface level. Thanks for proving it true.
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  2012.  @Bash70  It started in Ferguson which was all based on a lie. 3 investigation have shown that including one by Obama. If you bothered to look at statistics you'd know police brutality, especially against minorities, has dropped dramatically. Antifa doesn't have a lot of support and BLM support is now below were it was before George Floyd. BLM was created by 3 Marxist to use race tension in the US to start a revolution. It was in their mission statement until they took it down about a month ago. After they created BLM, they opened worldwide chapters. If they were about police brutality in the US why would they do that? Each BLM chapter has a leader that organizes protests. So stop trying to say it's not a centralized organization. Protests kicked off worldwide from the BLM organization almost simatanisly. I'm not saying there haven't been issues, but they have been successfully being addressed. That takes time just like it took years to get the crime rate down from it's peak. Also if they are really about black lives and helping them, why haven't they invested a penny into the black community? They have spent money on Marxist propaganda to be added into the public education system. Including workbooks, children books, and worksheets. How is that going to help the black community or fight police brutality? It isn't and it never was intended to. For the record I'm not right wing and I'm a minority female. I'm just not stupid and actually learned critical thinking and research skills in college.
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  2146.  @janekh1917  What does that have to do with the MCU? I'm a woman and I've never been "oppressed". Are men being oppressed because they are forced by law to financially care for a child they never agreed to have? If you're answer is no, then neither is a woman. Plus you're not addressing why she's being denied. It has nothing to do with the abortion laws and everything to do with being an orphan that currently has no guardian. I can agree that judges ruling was wrong, but you're blaming half the country for a poor court decision that will be appealed and most likely overturned. You're too ignorant to understand the difference between laws and a bad court decision. According to the law, she's well within the legal limit which is 15 weeks. A limit the overwhelming majority of the population of the entire country supports and every other country does as well except Canada, North Korea, and China. Even in Canada it varies by province. It's beyond lame to use a single court case and apply it to every woman as proof of something when it doesn't affect every woman. It's just manipulation and not factual. The state abortion laws don't apply to every woman and are overwhelming supported by the women in those states. The prolife movement is almost exclusively women, the pro abortion movement has a ton of men in it. So either way you slice it, it's not oppression by men. Edit: If you want to talk about oppression by men when it comes to abortion, how about all the men that pressure a woman to get one? They threaten to leave and manipulate a woman in a vulnerable situation. You don't care about that though. Only women making decisions in their states that pertains to them.
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  2275. The best the Fellowship (it's what the fandom is called) can figure out, it's Finrod. Angered and Aegnor died fighting Morgoth. Finrod is the only one associated with Sauron and Middle Earth. His kingdom was in the mountains, instead of the Woodlands like most Elves. He was close to the Easterling where Sauron was creating his armies. Because he was in the mountains, they were near Dwarves. The Dwarves saved his life do he owed them a life debt. Him and some companions magically disguised themselves as orcs and infiltrated Sauron's forces. Sauron showed up and could see through the disguises. Finrod almost defeated Sauron right then, but got injured by a werewolf. He defeated the werewolf, but succumbed to his injuries. Thus he had fulfilled his life debt because he died protecting the Dwarves. So there was no "mission" for her to complete. It also looks like that's not at all how he's going to die, which is a lot of people's favorite story. The snow scene is the Elves that were banished to Middle Earth for taking part in the Kinslaying. She certainly didn't lead the crossing as all families involved were removed so it would be hundreds if not thousands. Certainly not that small number shown. Given that that was what remained of her family members crossing or members that followed her family during the Kinslaying, it makes her demanding anyone be left behind particularly disgusting on her part. The Eminem character, is supposed to be a group of fanatic Elves, which given the nature of Elves is ridiculous. None of that is getting into her having a relationship with Sauron even though in the books he avoided her, Elrod, and Gil-Galad because they had strong foresight and could see through his disguises. Which makes her line about whatever you've done leave it because she would know what they had done, what they were thinking, and likely what they were going to do in the future. You just have to watch the movies to understand that part. That's why she gave them the gifts she did. She knew they'd need them later. So they didn't just not read the books, they didn't even watch the movies.
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  2332. You don’t understand homelessness. Most homeless choose it. They don’t want to be a part of society. The difference is how wealthy nations have become has allowed them to live whereas before they’d just simply die. If you chose not to work, you starved. The state didn’t provide for you. The “majority” in wealthy and democratic nations are NOT poor. It’s a very small percentage of the population. Where as before they were. Serfs were poor and everyone not of nobility, high up in the church, or a merchant were poor. We’re talking 3rd world kind of poor. I simply love when people attempt to compare post industrial revolution to pre. If you’ve never lived like it didn’t happen, you have no idea what you’re talking about. I’m talking no electricity, no running water, no modern day conveniences. There are even a few places in the US you could go experience it. You won’t because you’d rather sit in your comfort making ridiculous comparisons of completely different time periods and proclaim the one you’ve not experienced better. Edit: Serfs didn’t own the land. If they didn’t produce enough to pay the landowner their required amount, which the lord had to pay the crown a percentage of in taxes, they were punished. They weren’t allowed to move up in wealth. As much as people like you complain you have no idea what it’s like to live in a society with zero upward mobility while pretending that’s somehow a good thing. You have no idea what it’s like to truly suffer yet long for it out of your own ignorance. You’re living in the top 1% of the world’s wealth while complaining about the 0.01%.
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  2472.  @reek4062  Yes, stuff was changed which was discussed and debated within the fandom at the time. The majority decided that despite the changes, it was the best representation of Tolkien's work that likely will ever be made. Jackson addressed and explained most of the changes that were made with the fandom at the time. Him, staff, and Sir Ian Mckellen all communicated with us via message boards and blogs during production and after release. The books say Faramir interrogates Gollum rather than kill him for fishing in the Frobidden Pool (entrance to Henneth Annun). It's not unreasonable to assume an interrogation would involve some pressure. That's not "abuse" especially since he should be killed as his proper punishment. Faramir may have been wise and kind, but it didn't mean he didn't perform his duty. The Mouth of Sauron scene is only in the extended editions so if they don't have those, that is unknown to them and only a part cut for time (which it was). Frodo sending Sam away (not Sam leaving Frodo) was highly contested along with removing Tom, and not doing the Scouring of the Shire. The last two were removed for times sake and Frodo sending Sam away didn't change what ultimately occurred as a result of entering Cirith Ungol. These are things, that though debated within the fandom, doesn't take away someone's fan card nor does it call for degrading other fans who love the movies simply because someone else disagrees. That's not how this fandom works because just reading and understanding Tolkien's work requires an intelligence that behaving that way, is frankly, beneath us.
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  2520. ​​​ You're leaking his info. Why is it okay for you? He didn't have an internship if he didn't go to college. He had opened his own business at 17. He's an adult. If a person can graduate college at age 13, go through medical school, and all the training by 18 is he not still a doctor just as capable as any other one he went to school with? You're being very ageist. You're either too old or too young to know this is how the tech industry was built. With young, highly intelligent people that learned everything on their own because there were no college degrees in it. It's how every new tech advancement works. Edit: "Due process" involves criminal trials. It has nothing to do with employment. Due process means the person was charged, faced trial, and had the option to face their accuser. There's no such thing as due process where your employer is concerned. You're just tossing out words you have no idea what they mean. That had to be one of the dumbest things I've read today. Some of those workers were rehired because a court said they had to be. I'm also going to guess you've never been through a company restructuring. That happens all the time. Did nuclear weapons or a power plant explode? Did the offices at the FAA stop functioning (all of them were office workers, not air traffic control)? Nope. The one or two performed a job that someone they didn't fire relied on. That's all. Bill Clinton fired over 350,000 federal workers. Trump and Musk are no where near that, yet.
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  2615.  @MJSGamingSanctuary  If you're so afraid of death how do you function at all? It's more likely you'll die in a car accident or fall in the shower. Both of which could easily put you in the same scenario. I've had the virus and have diseases that put me at risk of death everytime I'd be injected, which is now 3 for my conditions because we aren't producing an immune response to the jab. So far, there have been very few breakthrough cases of those that have gotten the virus and science is currently still saying mild or more infection looks like lifetime immunity. Why should I have to take something I don't need and is only risk? In this woman and you're own comments, you make zero exceptions. Not for medical reasons, not for those that are already immune, etc. What's hilarious is both of you are so afraid and selfish you'd gladly risk the lives of those you claim to want to protect. You use us, the disabled, to claim some moral high ground while punishing us because we can't take it. You're sick and a narcissist and if you're so afraid close yourself up in your home and stop trying to force others to bend to your will. You're the aggressor here. No one is trying to prevent you from taking it, yet you want to force your will onto others while trying to claim you're the victim. Edit: Don't even try with the variants that will be created because we aren't vaccinated. This variant didn't come from the US, it came from India. Unless the entire world population is vaccinated or until enough get it that it burns it's self out, variants are going to continue. That's why there's never been a successful vaccine against these types of viruses. They mutate too rapidly. Blaming your fellow citizens for things they have no control over and punishing them because people in rural 3rd world countries won't have access shows you don't understand science and shouldn't speak on it until you face reality.
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  2659.  @steveg209  Interesting take. Do you honestly believe that red states are all white and don't have all that you listed? I'd suggest looking at real demographics of each state. Minnesota, Oregon, Washington, Rhode Island, and many more are far more homogeneous than the majority of southern states. You know those red states you hate. 1/3 of vegetables can't feed the country. Farming is 1% of California's revenue, it's 25% of mine. So who do you think it affects more and looks like more when the government has to pay to fill their trade agreements on food? We grow 50% of the country's rice supply and 20% of Japan's. That's a staple crop which means farmers get paid to grow it by the government because it's not a good money making crop, but the country needs it. We also produce almost all the country's boilers. I know you don't know what that is, so look it up. We also produce a large amount of tomatoes for the market of several neighboring states as well as quite a bit of soybeans. That's all comes out of a small population of 3 million. I'm also going to point out that you assuming only one race are farmers is extremely racist. I'll be sure next harvest to tell the two local black farmers I buy all my produce from they don't exist. Edit: It's also pretty dang uneducated to think we don't have all those electronic devices since you're talking to us on the internet. They make these wonderful things now called solar panels and there are satellites too. I'm not sure why you're putting down living much more green and leaving a small carbon footprint. I thought that was supposed to be a good thing.
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  2666.  @kh8655  There are a few studies saying production is down and it's pretty easy to explain why that happens when working remotely vs in the office. If you're in the office and you finish what you're working on, you can immediately be assigned to something new. That's not an option remotely. That work exists in both situations it just gets started earlier in one than the other. Also when you're in the office with everyone else, it's much easier if you need something from someone else. Instead of having to schedule, play phone tag, or hope they read your email soon. That's the entire reason big offices were done in the first place. This has changed a bit with Millennials, because there was a serious breakdown in face to face communication and they've always tended to rely on texts or email rather than just walk a few feet. So there was already a decrease in efficiency and productivity, but Gen Z is going back to more traditional interactions within the workplace. Plus, you aren't the only person in the workplace and what's best for you personally might not suit everyone where you work, which also has to be taken into consideration by employers. Many people have too much going on inside the home to be able to dedicate time or find an area to be able to do that. That's why it's important to understand that only 25% or so want to remain working remotely. That 25% is demanding everyone else accommodate them. I'm fine with them looking for a new job that better suits what they now want, but also agree with JJ. Until you do, do your job how you agreed to.
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  2742. ​​ @wtfimcrying  That's not true. Homeschooled children do fine socially. They really do better because they socialize with adults in the worst case scenario. Most people that homeschool connect with other parents and set up field trips and outings. They are also in organized sports at the Boys & Girls Club. As for worrying about their peers if they don't have a phone, you're the parent. Their peers aren't feeding them, clothing them, etc. What they think isn't relevant. You're coming off as wanting to be your child's friend. Will you put yourself in the poorhouse because your child won't have the newest gadget like a friend might? My sons didn't have a phone until high school. They didn't have a smart phone until college. They were limited on computer time and weren't allowed online at all until they were older and always monitored because there are very bad people out there. Making personal and face to face connections are important to development. So it's interesting that you're worried about social development when it comes to homeschooling, but not when it comes to making sure they can communicate outside of messaging. Edit: My sons are Gen Z. I'm going to assume you're a Millennial or later because you care why too much about what others think to be Gen X. My degree is child psychology. Both my sons are well adjusted, caring, responsible, productive members of society. Your job as a parent is to raise good future members of society. That's it. Not to be their buddy. Not to be their personal bank account. To be a parent.
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  2746. It's all 100% evolutionary and preservation of the species/civilization. It's hilarious to see people that will say women shouldn't be in leadership positions or vote because they're not responsible enough also saying women should be on the battlefield. That would make it MORE dangerous and deadly for the men. Men fight for various reasons mainly because they evolved as the protector role in the species. That's why they're stronger, have better twitch muscle response, better hand-eye coordination, etc. The only person similar to a feminist is you in this discussion. You're the one trying to pretend men and women are completely interchangeable. Throughout human evolution the men protected the women because women produce life. A single man can impregnate many women. A woman carries it, births it, and nurses it. If you want to see the end of a species or civilization, let the females die and save the males. This is you not understanding biology, survival of the species/civilization, and putting forth a completely emotional argument isn't logical. Understanding that there's this thing called future generations makes any argument that men shouldn't do those things illogical. Everything you were saying was coming from thinking only about things in a self serving present gratification way. As someone who's ancestors fought in wars going back to the Crusades, one that stopped an invasion of England, and in every conflict from the Revolution onward defending this country, this was disgusting. They sacrificed so their family (including future generations) could live a life that was safer and hopefully better. They planted a tree they knew they'd never lay under the shade of. That it also protected strangers was just a bonus. You don't fight for what's in front of you. You fight for what's behind you. Edit: WWII wasn't just Germany. Why do people think it was just Germany? No, Germany wouldn't have fallen without US intervention. Where do you think Russia was getting food and military supplies from? An army runs on it's stomach. The US defeated Germany on 2 of Germany's 3 fronts. Africa and Northern Europe. We defeated Rommel in Africa. Germany's best military leader. We then landed on the beaches and freed Northern Europe. Russia simply went from their border directly into Germany and we still beat them to Berlin. Then after that, we defeated Japan. No, WWII would NOT have been won without US intervention. Russia would never have freed Northern Europe and Africa, and didn't have the navy capabilities to defeat Japan.
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  2816.  @kkimbo771  "Tump says fallen soldiers are losers" That was debunked within minutes of it being "reported". That you're still using it shows you're just a mouthpiece. What has Biden actually done in his almost 50 years besides legislation that disproportionately harms minorities? Why didn't he try to fix these problems in the last 47 years? I can't even begin to try to picture him standing up against China or Russia. He's not strong enough. He's one of the most racist people I've seen and has been his entire career. He can't keep his hands off women and young girls. Maybe if these Democrat run areas actually protected their citizens instead of coddling criminals, Trump wouldn't be able to point to them as examples of what a Democratic President would do. Y'all also need to decide if he's a wanna be dictator or not. Calling him that while calling those cities his fault doesn't fit. They've given him a perfect excuse to seize power with the insurrection act and he hasn't. Make up your minds. You can hate Trump, but his Israel/ UAE deal and now his Kosovo/Serbia deal are wow. Just one of those would be automatic reelection. His priorities on child trafficking have had real results. His economic policies are why we're recovering quickly from the shutdowns and have faired better on that front than almost all other countries. He released thousands of federal prisoners put their under Biden's bill too with justice reform. No new conflicts, greatly reduced drone strikes once Bolton was gone, drug prices, federal recognition for tribes that would never get it otherwise, etc. Man, he's horrible.
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  2854. Seeing as you grew up around Hollywood I can see that being your perspective. The film industry isn't a good reflection of the how it is in the rest of the world. It's an extremely isolated bubble. So it is wrong to judge everywhere under the false assumption that it's like it is there. That's just not the case. I personally have had far more women try to control my decisions than men and I live in an area people like you would most likely consider backwards and misogynist without having actually lived there. Very red, very religious areas. I have been charged with being a drain on society and worthless as a woman because I chose a more traditional role. A role my mother didn't take. She worked in administration her entire life with computers and in IT departments while my father, who was less educated, worked in chemical plants. I didn't like not having a parent at home, so I chose the opposite. I have been attacked on line and in person by other women for my choices. So no, men aren't trying to control me. Women on the other hand will try to strip me of my womanhood for not bowing to their ideals. That's life outside your bubble. I'm not anomaly either. It's been going on for several years. My family also dates back to Jamestown as an indentured servant (he was the 2nd son to a royal) and before because his great grandson married a Native. I don't know why you added that, because it doesn't make you special or more authoritative. Edit: I am college educated and could practice child psychology. So I'm not a stupid hick or anything either. All the women in my family, going back to my grandmother who was born in 1918, are college graduates. While none of the men are Edit 2: Correction. My great grandmother was a school teacher. I'm the first in 4 generations to choose to not work outside the home. All born and raised in the same red, religious, state. This was on top of running a small cattle ranch. Being told you can't work and everything else, never applied to poor and rural people which my family was.
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  3272.  @xX_Kino_Xx If just doing whatever I want to make me happy is the only moral, then absolutely nothing beyond that in your long winded attempt to justify your position matters nor does it belong in anything beyond yourself. You’re attempting to decide what makes others “happy” based on your own idea of it. You can’t even explain what happy is because it’s just an emotion. It’s not an achievable state of being because like all emotions it’s controllable and involves choices. Conscious choices. I’m not sure why people seem to believe suddenly that emotions are this uncontrollable force. They aren’t. Every single emotion is controllable with enough practice and effort. If all I’m supposed to do is make myself “happy” than what makes me happy could be something extremely destructive to everyone else and according to you, that’s perfectly fine and moral. Morals are ethics. They are a set of guidelines decided on and enforced by a society and culture. They are based on what is most beneficial to that culture and society. They have nothing to do with the individual’s desires and in fact often go against them for the betterment of society. Edit: Even before civilization existed we had societies. Small societies, but they still existed because we are social animals. Groups animals. Just like every animal we adopt what’s most beneficial to the species survival. That’s what morals are based on and why they change overtime. What’s beneficial to my survival based on my limited knowledge during prehistoric times is completely different than what’s most beneficial to our survival as a species today. If I steal from my neighbor, it’s very likely to shorten my life and harm society. Therefore it’s not a moral good. It’s really not that complicated. You’re personal anything has no bearing on what’s morally acceptable in a society.
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  3566. If you say you aren't justifying it and then say "had no other choice", you've lied in the first part. He's a part of the WEF and good ole Klaus had mentioned how proud he is of him in several speeches. He doesn't hate globalism. He just wants to be the one in charge. In the speech to his troops before the invasion he praised Lenin and he's buddies with China so trying to claim he's against communism is complete BS. He also doesn't give a crap about Nazis. Russia is home to half the world's population of them. The former Russian PM sent Dmitry Demushkin and other neo Nazis into the separatists regions to fight Ukraine. Putin has only outlawed 5 groups of them in the last 2 years because he was pressured to due to their extreme violence. We're talking mass murderers. These groups even officially register to the government so they know who they are. Everything you just wrote is complete BS and inaccurate. It's propaganda plain and simple. You talk about centuries and don't give a single reference to what happened, only the USSR for a second which didn't exist for a century so your history isn't "centuries" in explanation. Russia is still very much Communist in similar ways China is. Their major exports are nationalized and controlled by Putin or his oligarchs. Just like it was under the USSR. It may no longer formally be communist, but there's little difference outside the economy. The government is very much still exactly the same. As for Ukraine. It's made up of several different countries. Part Russia, Poland, Romania, etc. Part if Poland that Russia took with Germany ended up now part of Ukraine. When the USSR took an area it intentionally mixed up the population to create strife so they wouldn't trust each other. That's why Yugoslavia split into so many different countries that can't stand each other. Putin is using the intentional displacement of Russians during that time to take parts, or in this case all, of previous Soviet countries. He's stated that any country that contains people that speak Russian belongs to Russia. He's used these same excuses in all 5 or so invasions of neighboring sovereign countries. NATO "expansion" is a direct result of those invasions. Everytime he does this, former Soviet countries get nervous and some of them ask to join NATO. So he's conveniently complaining about a problem of his own creation which is typical government honestly. Add in that since it's existence Russian leaders are judged by how much they expand the empire and you'll just start to understand Putin and his motivations. He's old, he's not going to be in power much longer, and to take the largest ex Soviet country back into Russia would leave him with a nice legacy. The fact that you or anyone else tries to justify the slaughter of people that have every right to determine their own fate as a nation, is disgusting. That Russia should be allowed to bully it's neighbors to be a sacrificial lamb in case Russia gets invaded, is sickening (that's what a buffer state is). That against their will, they have to sacrifice their livelihoods, their rights, and even possibly their lives to protect a bigger country is fine to people sitting comfortably in their homes in the West far away, is beyond tone deaf. It's elitist and it's proof that the West has no principles or morals left.
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  3572.  @DinoDino118  I'm correcting your arguments. Don't want others talking about your points, don't post on open forums. Yes I understand socialism, but most that argue for it don't. Venezuela is "privately" owned by those in good graces of the leader as an reward for their loyalty. Not unlike a monarchy. Giving someone a business the government controlled and can take back control of at anytime, isn't "privately owned". It also means there's no competition which drives innovation. Socialism doesn't allow an individual true ownership of property. That alone makes it a big no from me. I brought up Venezuela as an example since you kept claiming everyone but you is stupid. I like your personal attacks. That's a clear sign of not having facts to dispute the argument presented and instead resort to an attempt to bully. Since you don't like Venezuela, how about Vietnam then. They achieved the idea of people owning everything. It didn't work either. Their rice production dropped because people realized they got the same benefits regardless of effort. They had to import rice to feed the population. Unfortunately, because their economy went that direction, they had massive inflation of up to 900%. The country went broke just trying to feed them. They did it twice with the exact same results. Would you like more examples of socialism failing? The fact that I can point to examples and explain why they failed shows I have an understanding of socialism. Attacking another economic system with zero evidence or explanation of why it isn't working, shows you don't. Again, poverty in capitalist countries is completely different than poverty in other systems which I pointed out and you ignored. I'll give you more than that the poor in the US is still in top 1% of the world's economy. All but a very tiny portion of poor in the US with be a part of the middle class at some point in their life. That means the majority that are in poverty now, won't remain there which means a lot of upward mobility. I'll even go further. Where I live the cost of living is very low. Living in poverty here means you live pretty comfortably. I know, I lived it. While you can't afford some luxury items, you certainly can meet all your needs. Even more so with the government programs you get. You can afford a car, rent (it's about $600-$700 for a 2 bedroom apartment and there are cheaper), enough food to feed your family, and most have internet or data on their phones. The government also pays for your healthcare with Medicaid (we have extended so that includes eye care and dental). Please explain to me how horrible that is. Again I lived it. Yes, it was upsetting that I couldn't afford nice things for my children that my brother could for his children, but our needs were met which is far more important. I understood the difference between needs and wants as well as necessary and luxury. Just because someone else has something doesn't mean I should too. A lot of it I don't even want. You set the poverty line at $2, which is extreme poverty. The US doesn't have 10s of millions living in that state. Not even anywhere near 1 million. I don't feel like doing the math, but it's 0.11% of the population. Then you'd have to factor out those that choose to live like that in the mountains, so less than that.
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  3597.  @oleonard7319  "Other countries have socialized healthcare that works much better than ours". False. If that was true, people from those countries wouldn't travel to the US to receive treatment and they do all the time. The US provides the overwhelming majority of the world's medical research which is paid for by the costs. Those types of healthcare systems are fine if you're relatively healthy, but they're terrible for those with rare diseases and sicknesses. 500,000 die under those systems a year waiting on heart surgery alone. They only purchase medicines to treat the most common conditions, so if have a rare one that requires special medications they won't be available to you. An example is adrenal insufficiency. It's rare. While the steroids to treat it are available as they're common medications used for the treatment of many things including infections that's available. However an emergency injection kit is also required to prevent what's called a crisis that occurs when the body gets stressed and requires a large dose to prevent a coma and organ failure. They are not available in those countries because it's not cost effective for the government to purchase them for such a small number of people. They won't get a big discount because there's no need for a large purchase so they simply don't purchase them. I have no problem getting one in the US. I have experienced Canadian and US healthcare as I've given birth in both countries. I used a government hospital in Canada. Both were high risk pregnancies. I recieved far superior care in the US than in Canada and my care in the US was free because I was on Medicaid.
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  3716. ​​​ @ultr0shot440  I'm an independent. As you've touched on, the Democratic party has gone off the deep end. That tends to happen whenever a party has power for too long. Unfortunately it tends to happen more rapidly for that party. I think it boils down to them needing such a large coalition to win it causes them to get pulled further and further to maintain it. It's funny that I see people claim the other party has moved far to the right because when you look at actual policy they've maintained their position and the Democratic party has moved much farther left. I'm old enough to remember the last time they did price controls. Carter did it to oil and gas. It was horrible. Long lines, rationing, etc. It was crazy. To even just suggest it on food is pure insanity. 44% on gains is bad too. It means I'll lose almost half my retirement when I cash out my 401k. Meaning I'm going to have to save almost twice as much and work longer. Pretty much the entire platform is crazy. Notice how I'm sticking to policy and not talking about personalities, likeability, anything to do with either candidate personally. The ONLY thing that should matter is policy. As for abortion, it went back to the states and the current platform is it remains there. The Supreme Court ruled Plan B can't be banned and condoms have been available for free since the late 80s or early 90s due to AIDS. I'm personally sick of all the fear mongering about every single issue. I'm also laughing at the party that opened the boarder and caused the problem are now suddenly running on fixing it. The party in power that claimed for almost 3 years they couldn't do anything about it suddenly cares and is going to fix it. I just can't. Edit: As for Trump and his daughter, Biden did the same thing with Hunter when he was VP. Hunter would fly to China on the government's dime with his dad and make business deals. I'm supposed to care Trump did it and ignore Biden did the same. How about nobody should do it, but neither side has the ethical high ground on it. Plus, honestly, that's the least of my concerns at the moment because unlike everything I listed, it doesn't really effect me.
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  3838. I currently have one in my home. I don't care for the breed personally, but I don't take that out on my son's pupper. I'm actually grateful he came to live with us because had he stayed with just my son and his girlfriend, he would have ended up as statistic because they have no clue how to handle or train a dog properly. I know my som grew up with them. He just never paid attention to how we trained them. Even so, just due to his size and compactness of his build, my Red Heeler has had a leg broken. They were less than 6 months old rolling around playing, and the Pit ended up rolling onto his leg and breaking it. Red Heelers have long, slender legs and are already prone to leg injuries. He is NEVER outside with the other dogs without strict supervision. The minute he starts showing signs of being tired and grouchy, play is immediately stopped and he's brought in. I work with him individually on training and tricks daily. My two dogs ( Red Heeler and Blackmouth Curr) are much smarter than him. He takes 3 times as long to learn. He's not aggressive at all, but I'm not stupid enough to not understand that can change in an instant given the right circumstances. I've owned a lot of different breeds. My Border Collies are the only ones that have bitten anyone. She nipped our lawn care guy on his heel when he was on the riding mower. The herding instinct is extremely strong in that breed and you can never fully stop it. She didn't like lawnmowers in general so her instinct was to nip it's heels to herd it out of the yard. She didn't do any damage to him, but we made sure she was inside when they'd come after that.
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  3867.  @mmeditatio  Men didn't pick their spouse either. Arranged marriages were arranged by the parents of both, so I don't understand how that is only seen as bad for women. Plus arranged marriages only happened with the rich or nobility, not the majority of the population. The concept of romantic love is very new. You're wrong on so many things. My grandmother and her sisters all graduated college. None of the men in her family did. They all worked too and she inherited the property of her parents, which according to you didn't happen. She was born in 1918 btw. Florence Nightingale worked, Marie Curie was a scientist in the late 1800s, Cleopatra, Elizabeth I, Joan of Arc, it was Isabella that sent Columbus, the largest slave owner in Louisiana was a woman, and many many other women that were leaders and led armies which you claim wasn't possible because women weren't allowed outside their homes. None of what you stated is true on a large scale. Young boys were r@ped too and still are and men were enslaved just as much as women. Women are just as abusive to their spouses and children as men are as well. Women have owned and ran businesses for centuries too. I'm so sick of this false narrative that women were helpless, constantly abused and r@ped, and held back by men. Yes, women were from time to time throughout history treated poorly, but it was by no means the norm and wasn't all of history. Pretty much everything you described was mainly only well off families and wasn't the experience of the common man. Women worked beside their husbands in fields, shops, all nurses were women, and teachers. So how were they not allowed to work or leave the home, yet were the only or main ones in those occupations? This is the problem when you listen to propaganda and ignore facts.
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  4023.  @tigervalley62  We don't only have two parties. We have several. The current Democrat Party control of the Senate is from 2 independents creating a coalition with that party. Technically Republicans have more members. It's 48 Democrats and 50 Republicans with the Vice President voting to break any ties. I honestly would be upset if I was Canadian. Trudeau's party didn't receive the highest percentage of the vote, but by creating a coalition with the NDP (and a couple of tiny ones) were still able to hold onto control. How is that truly representing the vote? It means that in order for the people to remove him from office, an overwhelming majority will have to vote for something they don't really want. Israel was in a similar situation with their PM if everyone remembers. I'm sorry, but I really fail to see how that's "better". Edit: They don't choose him, the party that didn't really win did. So they are stuck with a PM, that according to the rest of the Western World is just a tiny step below a tyrant until he decides to hold another election, the other parties get enough balls to hold a vote of no contest (which he can just disband parliament before the vote because of his emergency powers he's given himself), or 4 years. Meanwhile, I vote for who gets to run and for who I want to ultimately have that seat in the government. That way people with different ideas can run within the same party and the people decide who's ideas they like best. That usually helps keep, not just the government, but also the parties controlled by the people.
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  4090. ​ @bobhiggens1106  Trad is not rushing to get married. He wasn't traditional and doesn't seem to have ever claimed to have that expectation. She expected him to want something he didn't. He complained almost immediately that she was no longer working. Did she even talk to him before just doing that? Trad or not, she made fatal errors for any relationship. She failed to communicate her wants and expectations prior to marriage and he did the same. I'm talking about her instead of him because she's the subject. She's now telling other women not to consider Trad based on her own experience which she's partially to blame for. I don't know the situations of the other influencers she's talking about either. What I do know after 26 years of marriage is that sometimes, especially in the early years, it's not always very pretty and the relationship can be bad, not abusive, for periods while you work out your differences and learn each other inside and out. You learn boundaries you weren't really aware of until a situation presents itself. The ones that survive that are the ones that push through it and instead of building resentment, learn and move forward. It takes a serious commitment and dedication. We had some serious fights early and when faced with outside stressors. Now we never fight and work like a well oiled machine. It's one of those marriages everyone watches and is amazed by. That's because before we got married we both agreed divorce wasn't an option. We both only wanted one marriage. You have want the same things and be able to communicate those things before you get married. I also made it very clear I wanted to be home with our future children. He agreed and said he'd work two jobs if he had to make it happen and at some points he did.
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  4191.  @gregbors8364 Either you don’t know what’s going on or you’re intentionally being disingenuous. Sports are dominated by what is considered an oppressed group. So of course they aren’t being targeted. Unless you live in the UK or another Western country where after every soccer/ football game there’s article after article complaining that the team is too yt. That happened in the World Cup a lot. Meanwhile over here in reality and professions that are important you have standards being dropped or even eliminated because the ratio isn’t “equitable”. So because they think oppressed groups, their words not mine, aren’t smart enough (they excuse that thinking by saying they’ve been so oppressed by the system they just aren’t able to reach the necessary level) obviously the requirements are racist and are intentionally preventing those groups from entering so they must be removed. You’ve got the BAR association and various physician groups saying they’re going to limit the number of licenses available to yt people in order to attempt to even out the numbers, places like Washington and Oregon removing passing the BAR, you’ve got a reduced requirement for pilots by hundreds of flight hours, you’ve got colleges and advanced schools reducing the requirements of admission and programs based on race (proven by a lawsuit), etc. Before you try to claim there’s no proof and it’s not caused any problems, a bridge collapsed because they prioritized having an all female group of engineers instead of going by merit so yes it’s happening and no it’s not a good thing.
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  4204.  @0trynewthings0  What resources does NYC or LA have? Hollywood? They don't grow food, they don't have mining, they don't have oil, etc. They are piled on top of each other like sardines so they don't even have land. They are big cities. They built it with certain things like Broadway to attract the rich. Then the rich wanted good food so chefs from around the world came. The wealthy being there creates jobs and businesses to fill their wants so they spend their money. The people that live there benefit from them by also having access to things they otherwise wouldn't. The people voted in bad politicans and bad policies and are now reaping the benefits of their bad decisions. Those bad decisions now effect their economy. That's not because of capitalism. It's because of poor government decisions. Capitalism isn't a government system, it's just economic. Unfortunately, government decisions effect the economy. I'm a perfect example of how wrong you are. I've been on foodstamps and welfare. Me and my husband are now well on our way to becoming millionaires. We made choices and saved to get here. I'm not responsible for you or anyone else deciding that buying a $40,000 car ,when a much cheaper used one will get you there, rather than saving that money is what you choose to do with your money. I'm not responsible for you going away to a college for $60,000 a year rather than one within driving distance for $20,000 or less. You are responsible for your choices and the consequences of them regardless of how long that consequence lasts. I'm not going to suffer because you're impatient and want everything right now. If you are a Millennial, you're already better off then my generation was at your age so cry me a river.
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  4237.  @yinyangsaladgang8789  The Church didn't do the egg hunts and stuff though. Easter, as far as the Catholic Church is concerned, is a special Mass followed by a feast like most holidays. It was the pagans turned Christian that added the rest to combine their traditions with their new religion. While it's true that the Church didn't pushback against this combination, mainly because it was local priests and missionaries rather than the Church handling these areas, that doesn't mean the Church is responsible for the combination that occurred. While you can certainly make the argument Easter falls where it does to align with previous pagan holidays, it really makes more sense that every religion celebrates the changing of seasons and these holidays were just Christianity's version of that rather than that the Church incorporated these holidays for pagans. Judaism also Mark's these occasions and they certainly weren't trying to lure people to their religion. It's really a chicken or egg argument, but it's more plausible that these celebrations existed already in Christianity and the pagans were the ones that combined their old traditions into the new religion. Edit: We know that the resurrection was extremely important to the early Christians, before the Church came to be. They marked their graves with the fish symbol (to represent a whale for Jonah and the whale story) to signify it. It was on the graves of very early Christians in Jerusalem and it's been found in symbols on floors that would have been hidden by a rug.
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  4255. ​@makhnothecossack4948​ Are you referring to when an entire new economy had to be created because all the manufacturing jobs that used to be relied on were sent overseas? The problem with repealing that legislation was Congress failed to rework To Big To Fail legislation. Glass-Steagall had pretty much already been destroyed by court decisions and amendments to it over the decades and was already extremely weak. It was replaced by the Gramm-Leach-Bliley Act. I also find it odd why people blame the government for individuals being dumb and taking out flexible rate loans. Too many people taking those so they could afford a bigger loan and therefore house isn't the responsibility of the government. If you're too ignorant to understand the risk of such a loan, you probably shouldn't be trying to get one in the first place. It's never been the responsibility of someone else to protect you from your poor decisions. That said, the TBTF needed to be reworked under the new regulations and wasn't. Meaning by legislation Obama couldn't let them fail. Which is the complaint most people have with what occurred afterwards. Edit: Complaining about the nuclear family which has been a thing since 1300s Britain and the term to define it coined in 1920 as suddenly becoming a thing in the 1970s shows how little you actually know about what you're claiming are these massive ills brought on by a certain group. Nuclear family just means the parents are married and both in the home. A concept that's exsited in almost every civilization. Including tribes. Especially since having both parents in the home began to decline in the 70s and has continued to decline.
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  4501. People are misunderstanding what submission means. It's being said by Christian women. It's directly from the Bible. The Bible also says the man must submit to his wife. It's not a one-way street. It simply means putting others before yourself. Which if both spouses do that, it means you're both thinking about how everything impacts the other person instead of only thinking about yourself as a child does. I'm a "trad" wife. I'm a Christian woman who fulfills her Biblical role. The man is the head and the woman is the neck. She controls where the head faces. Yes a wife should do what she can to support her husband's career because when he is successful, the family benefits. That doesn't include doing his work for him because that's fraud and against the Bible. This doesn't work if both don't understand their roles and what's expected of them. This is why if you want to enter into a traditional Biblical marriage, you both need to know what that means. It seems like her husband had no idea she wanted that role or expected that from her marriage. That's why I always dated a minimum of 2 years before even considering marriage. Even so, I was engaged 3 times, asked 4 or 5, but only walked down the aisle once. Her saying she didn't understand he was abusive means she never had any other relationship in her life and I find that very hard to believe. My husband understood what I expected before we got married and agreed to provide. Me wanting that and having the qualities I do, is why he wanted me to be the mother of his children. Not because of what I financially brought or my looks. My morals.
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  4567.  @deadpooldan9862  If something that hasn't happened does happen, that's by definition "new". Words have meanings as annoying as that is for you. That attempt at an explanation of his new sexual orientation is laughable. The show hasn't even made that claim, but you're writing fanfic and making it lore in your head. He was married to a woman on Gallifrey and is married to a woman as The Doctor. Her name is River. The lore was he simply changed forms, not became someone completely different. Only in the last two, which saw fans tune out, did he start taking on traits of whoever's face he copied. He's not taking over their bodies so it makes zero sense. I'll explain why it doesn't work. In Scifi and fantasy you're asking the audience to suspend a certain amount of belief. However, if you push the audience too far outside those boundaries, it becomes too much for the mind to accept. That's what's happened. Saying it's "magic" or it's "scifi" isn't enough for people fans of that genre to just automatically accept it. It must make sense in the context and boundaries that's been established in the lore. When you toss those established rules aside without a logical explanation for the change, it's called world breaking for a reason. That Davies said he was going to alienate fans means he knew he was asking too much suspension of belief for the majority of the audience. He's aware it leaves him with just consumers of a product rather than a fandom that will keep it alive. That's why he's set it up how he has. He knows it's no longer going to have a fandom willing to introduce it to their children or friends to keep it going for another 50 years. You're what's called a low information viewer. Someone that just watches or consumes something no matter what tripe gets handed to them. A consumer. Judging by the massive audience decline, it is indeed not good. Like it or not, our opinions are just as valid as yours and a lot more share ours than yours. Like StarWars and many others, Doctor Who has fallen for the mythical new modern audience that doesn't exist. These franchises are now dead because they courted an audience of consumers that when it dies due to ratings won't care, won't buy the seasons to rewatch, won't buy the merchandise, and will simply consume the next thing and forget it ever existed.
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  4622.  @jones1351  One huge problem with that strawman you just built. That letter of intent isn't binding. You can also leave the military. You just have to pay back the government or smoke some pot for a dishonorable discharge. You can't replace your ovaries or testicles. As for top surgery, correcting it is very difficult and a lot more expensive than chopping them off. You have to slowly inflate a balloon to create skin to close around the implant which will be difficult due to scar tissue and it will be nearly impossible to make them look right. That's why if you have a mastectomy you're asked beforehand if you plan on reconstruction because the surgery will be done differently. I can find studies that claim the wonders of a lobotomy and that smoking is healthy. Psychology is a soft science so screaming about the scientific method when it comes to that field is laughable. There are too many variables that can't be included a study because it's genetics, environment, and several other things. A parent saying no about a piece of candy when you were 3 can change your outcome to someone else. Edit: I'm an actual child psychologist so if you want to play the appeal to authority card, I've got that covered. Just so you're aware, those that practice psychology and those engaged in research don't usually agree. We're the ones that have to deal with the fallout of all their studies and the real world results. We're dealing with a second adolescence because of parents reading "studies" and researchers publishing books.
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  4694.  @Mikerille  It was the Japanese that were cornered off after WWII. The Chinatown in San Francisco has existed for 170 years. It was an immigration point of entry for the Chinese in the 1800s. They were created by Chinese immigrants because there was an economic downturn and they were driven out of jobs in the gold mines. They lived near each other and supported each other's businesses in that area and thus Chinatown was born. Just like there are little Italy's, Chinatown was created similarly. As for your claim about leftists, the Democratic party is 40% "Progressives" which are the ones pushing the censorship, socialism, and the woke mess. Democrat leadership and voices (like journalists) have been calling for those that supported Trump be rounded up and put before Reconciliation councils, that they be denied jobs until they repent, and various other things to prevent them from daring to do that again. I guarantee you more than 10% agree on some level with the Progressives, so no the left is no longer a majority of moderates. That's why it's been bleeding moderates and continues to do so. Since you don't know anything about the history of Chinatowns, it's not surprising you don't know what's been happening now. There are an estimated 11 million illegal immigrants currently in the US so I have no idea where you get 40,000. Yes the majority of citizens speak English. It's required for citizenship, which my husband just got Friday. It's required for the majority of jobs as well. That's why almost all products have a label in English only unlike in Canada which has English and French. I'm curious why people like you are fine with illegal immigration when it directly affects the ability of minorities to get jobs, especially blacks. It's also interesting that you're fine with their low wages and few protections under the law. If they get seriously injured on one of those hard labor jobs, they don't get anything because they aren't covered by Worker's Compensation and can't receive disability. To me it's little different than China's labor force and how they are treated and not far from slavery honestly. I guess you're argument is they do jobs white people don't, when the reality is they do jobs well off white people won't.
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  4701. Ignoring Tolkien, it's still bad. Galadriel is horrible and I don't think she's supposed to be. It does look expensive either. The costumes are cheap. There is a lot of 3D printed and plastics that are clear on screen. Jackson had some cheaper stuff too, but they made sure the camera never lingered on any of those pieces so it wasn't noticable. They aren't smart enough to do that. It's jarring when it goes from something shiny and new to something they tried to make look older. Everyone, especially the Elves, must have teleportation because they just zap somewhere far away without changing clothes or needing to camp anywhere. Apparently it's perfectly safe for the Elf (I don't feel like looking up proper spelling) to travel 2 weeks alone after the Dwarves refuse to see him, even though they know orcs, goblins, and other dark creatures are still around. The fighting is ridiculous. The stranger can make the trees blow around but the Hobbit is mysteriously unaffected by the wind. Fantasy is great, but it needs to be grounded in reality or it comes off too unbelievable to the point you can't relate to it and the mind rejects it. Don't get me started on the dialog. It's just bad all the way around. I'd need a book to go over how much lore they've broken and to explain how, outside of names and places, this isn't anything Tolkien wrote. You are correct that they've taken things from lots of different other books and games and smushed it together. I'm going to be taking bets " the stranger" is going to be Belgarion from David Eddings book. Not in name obviously, but the character will still be him. I can't wait for the lawsuits to start because if we can identify where these things come from, the writers of them will as well.
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  4912.  @MrCantthinkofaname10  He did write about it. The first and 2nd Age is the Silmarillion. Numenorens are blessed by Eru (head, big god) for helping in the war against Morgoth. They are very similar to Elves, just not immortal. They are very tall and the greatest warriors. Sauron's army fled from them in fear. The fall of Numenor occurs after the forging of the rings. Sauron is captured by them and help prisoner. The king (Melian was supposed to be Queen but never ruled because her cousin usurped her throne and forced her to marry him) gets corrupted by Sauron and allows him in his council. Some Numenorens are angry and envious because they fear death and want to immortal like the Elves. Sauron uses that to convince them to worship Melkor/Morgoth. They performed child sacrifices and other horrors in their rituals. Then Sauron convinces them to attack Valinor. Now they had been warned to never sail past the point that they could no longer see their shores. In retaliation and punishment for their acts, Eru makes the world go from flat to round. This creates a tidal wave that sinks Numenor and it separates Valinor from the world. That's the fall of Numenor. They were jealous of the Elves immortality, not about them stealing their jobs. Galadriel at this time is building her kingdom with her husband Celeborn who she met in the 1st Age and their children. She traveled to Middle Earth, not for revenge because Elves are reincarnated, to build her own kingdom to rule. No, it doesn't follow the lore in the slightest. Edit: Galadriel wasn't a warrior. She could talk to people in their minds and persuade them because of her strong foresight and tore down a city opening it up to the sunlight after the defeat of Sauron. Her powers kept the forest of her kingdom in perpetual bloom. She didn't need a sword.
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  5002.  @easternrebel1061  See you can't have the US or the Constitution if you eliminate liberalism. The US is founded on liberal ideals. The Constitution is built on their foundation. This isn't Europe where there are different types of governments to pull from or try to return to that weren't liberal in history. Every political party in the US, at least major one, is liberal. Progressivism has advanced here to the point it has become illiberal. You should also be made aware every political party has everything from slightly the opposite to hard left/right historically. It's only recently that one party has become solidified and driven out most of its moderates, centrists, and slightly leaning the other way. As you've pointed out, it's not Republicans. Contrary to how you're framing the left (they are no longer really liberal as they embrace more and more progressives), it is not a good thing that they are so cohesive. As those not in line get pushed out, it weakens the party's political power and ability to maintain a majority. Either you're European or you don't understand or aren't as educated in US politics as you're attempting to make yourself seem. A lot of people tend to confuse conservative with religion as well. That's because Reagan focused the party to cater to them to get them as a large voting block. It's not because conservatives identified with them. Just as the party is now starting to focus on the working class because they have been abandoned by the left. The focus of parties change as the political needs of the people change. The parties always contained a mix because it forces them to compromise on issues so the country functions better and the people are represented.
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  5084.  @fuchsiasecret120  "plenty of racist people only beat on someone because of the color of their skin". Certainly not "plenty". Plus "hate crimes" can only occur to protected groups. Meaning an attack on a person in the majority can't be charged as one. In order to do that, you have to find a different demographic than say race to pursue it under. That makes a person within the minority's life more valuable legally than a person within the majority. That's not legal equality, which isn't supported by the Constitution. If someone throws out a slur during an attack and has a history of saying racist stuff doesn't mean the attack was based on that. Unless you can read their mind, that's just speculation which is all that's required to charge to it. The ADL is notorious for listing crimes from people belonging to supremacist groups as a hate crime if they're charged with something like domestic abuse thus skewing the numbers to appear much larger than it truly is. That means when news groups or even the FBI, because they use the ADL as a major source, site the numbers it's reporting false numbers. I'm pointing that out to show that your estimation of "plenty" isn't accurate. Edit: A good example of committing a crime due to racism that isn't charged as a hate crime but would be otherwise is Darrel Brooks. Known to be associated with black supremacist group, drove through a parade swerving to hit white people, but wasn't charged as a hate crime. You can't have different standards under the law based on immutable characteristics.
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  5235. ​​ @trash.heap.collective  I had pre-eclampsia with both my pregnancies. Do you know the cure? Giving birth. Either way the baby has to come out. Dead or alive is completely irrelevant because it's the hormones causing the high blood pressure. They don't reduce until several days after giving birth. Meaning, there's no medical reason to terminate the pregnancy. Pre-eclampsia doesn't occur until the baby is near viability or most commonly midway through the 3rd trimester. There's no way to predict it will occur before it does so a doctor or nurse claiming you'll get it so you need to terminate is bs. My first pregnancy was high risk from the start because my cervix wasn't tightening like it should risking him just falling out. My pre-eclampsia didn't happen until 3 weeks to my due date. My second was high risk once pre-eclampsia showed during the 8th month. Even then, you have time before you risk going toxic. I was induced 3 weeks after my blood pressure first was high and was fine. I didn't even need to be induced with the first. I was however given blood pressure medication during labor during the first because it was getting dangerously high. Perfectly fine as long as you aren't breastfeeding. You have no idea what you're talking about. Sorry, but your friends first mistake was going to Planned Parenthood instead of an OB where they'd be given every possible scenario including how likely anything bad would happen instead of just generic "very risky." With my first everything that could be done was laid out to me clearly. Every possible medical intervention to save it and the odds of it being successful. Including what would be done if attempts were unsuccessful if I got pregnant again to ensure success the next time. Edit: Nobody walks into PP without already having decided their choice. So saying that's where you're friend went spoke volumes. Those looking to try if at all possible go to pregnancy centers.
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  5361.  @pinchebruha405  Did who have reasons for what? If you mean the Austrian with the funny mustache that ruled Germany, his "reasons" are explained by himself that you're free to read. As to "Palestinians" in that area, they were never supposed to be there. It belonged to Egypt and Israel gained it during the 6 day war. In 2005 the UN forced Israel to abandon it to create a buffer between them and the West Bank. "Palestinians" flooded the area and took it for themselves. That's why all the infrastructure is from Israel. They built it. Nobody forced them to move into it. It was their choice. It's Israel's right to defend itself and its citizens from attacks and maintain their safety. That's the single biggest reason governments exist. The government in that area makes it clear in their Charter, they exist solely to destroy Israel and eradicate all Jews and non Muslims. One is to protect its population, one is only to kill and destroy. If you don't know which is good or bad then that's your own moral failings. Edit: Notice the non Muslim part. Since you say religion is the problem then you're an atheist. That means they want YOU eliminated too. Choose wisely. If you think appeasement works I'd suggest a look back into history because that tells us it never does. It only emboldens and causes the problem to continue to grow and expand. Edit: Contrary to what you seem to believe, H didn't just eliminate Jews. He caused the death of at least 5 million others. They included blacks, Gypsies, gays, disabled, etc. He wasn't Christian either. He was agnostic maybe but like many leaders from that time, closer to an atheist. So you're "religion causes everything" claim is complete bs. Communism, which enforces atheism on the population, has killed far more in war and persecution than any religion ever did.
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  5363. I'm seeing some people defending the banks for what happened in 2008. Yes the government told them to give loans to some even though they were higher risk. That's not what caused the problem. The removal of regulations let the banks give everyone and anyone a high risk loan and they happily did. It's called predatory lending. The bank would qualify you for a certain amount of money based on a flexible rate loan. This allowed people to qualify for more than they could afford if interest rates went up. A home loan is for minimum 15 years, but most are 30 years. The odds of interest rates increasing at some point in that time period is high. So when interest rates went up, they had all you had paid into your loan up to that point and now also get to take and sell your house as well. It wasn't really high risk for the bank, it was only high risk to you. Unfortunately a lot of people did that and Tim explained how they hid it from the public. I bought a house then and they pushed that loan hard. The difference is we had already negotiated a price for the home before we went to the bank and I refused everything except a fixed rate loan because I fully understood the potential for the other ones. This narrative that the "big mean government" forced the "poor defenseless banks" to give those loans is garbage. The banks were making out like bandits until it all came crashing down. Most of that, like the bailouts, went into bankers pockets in bonuses. I'm surprised so many seem to think the government scratching the big guy's back and the media lying to you is new. It's been standard practice for a very long time. Edit to add: The regulations still aren't fixed. At least they weren't under Obama and now Biden is pushing for those loans again. Be careful if you're purchasing something long term after that.
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  5374.  @patwinlawrence6948  Then you're thinking is incorrect. There aren't enough past black students to where 52% of each class would be black applicants and get accepted. Acceptance rates generally don't include those let in as legacy because they typically don't go through the same application process. Letting students in who barely graduated high school or can't pass tests that the other students do doesn't help anyone. It hurts them because they can't do the work, drop out or fail out, which causes lower self esteem. Instead of focusing on acceptance rate as some weird determining factor on if certain group is somehow now better off, look at graduation rates of that group. It's low in Ivy League schools for black students because they're accepted knowing they're incapable of doing the work at the level required just so people like you can go "We're doing something!" when in reality you aren't. These schools are Ivy League not just based on money, but in high standards to get in AND high graduation rates that go along with higher earnings based on the faith employers have on the abilities of their graduates. Because they have higher standards to get in, they are able to employ a higher level of professors who can teach at a higher level of understanding than a state university. It's the equivalent of sending a student that can barely do basic math to MIT and claiming you helped him. People need to stop just looking at these schools as a play ground for the rich because they're not. They earned their reputation and are listed as top universities based on the level of education you receive at them. Edit: Also the number of legacy students allowed in is capped so that they don't take up all the resources. I know because I worked my a$$ of to try to attend one for law school. I had the grades, I had the test scores, I even grew up in poverty. Unfortunately I was the wrong race. Making race a deciding factor is the definition of racism and you cheer it on. By the way, I went from foodstamps and welfare to now the upper middle class. Upward mobility isn't gone. It requires risks just like it always has and too many people are no longer willing to take them. They want opportunity to move in nextdoor instead of seeking it out.
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  5377.  @oshitomaha  First off I'm not a "bro" and how dare you assume my gender. I just looked him up. First sentence "an American Marxian economist". That's his publicity information so yes, he calls himself that. Socialism is the economic side to Communism. It's based on workers owning the means of production. The only way that is possible is to do away with personal property rights. The reason is the owners name is on the lease for the building, they buy the equipment needed to make product, etc. Thus the workers can not own the means of production as long as that is recognized as the property of the person that purchased it. Unless the workers invest equal amount into creating the business, they should not be treated as equal because they aren't equally at risk. If the business fails, it's not the workers that the banks will come after or suppliers. It's also my name and reputation associated with the product which is another level of risk that's added that a worker doesn't face. I guarantee you can't find thousands willing to take on the risks the creator does in order to have a decision in what's done with the profits. Democracy isn't something that's just handed out like candy. It's something that's always required sacrifice. To push that workers should have that decision making ability without taking any of the risk isn't remotely reasonable. We have Unions that negotiate contracts with employees. If employees really wanted some say, they would form one, yet Unions are down across the board. You can try to blame right to work states, but Unions are still alive and well in them. I know because I live in one and my family have all been Union members. That says the majority don't really want a say. I don't know why you threw in healthcare when that's totally off topic as we're discussing Marxism and how the economy works and why his vision of the economy wouldn't. I love how you throw out "you capitalist" like it's some type of insult only to admit you are one and don't agree with him. Capitalism has existed since civilization was created. Even bartering is a form of capitalism. It's worked for thousands of years and socialism has failed everytime it's been tried. I also am aware of something you and him appear not to be. We don't have a capitalist economy, it's a mixed economy. So all his bashing of capitalism isn't even applicable. Edit to add: A living wage is a very subjective term. What's a liveable wage where I am, is not a liveable wage in NYC. That's why it shouldn't be determined by the federal government. It's too large of a range. My son makes $14 an hour which is almost as much as a dual income family averages with his overtime and our cost of living reflects that. Businesses here should not be forced to pay what a living wage in New York or California would be. Currently our minimum wage is $11. We voted that in a few years ago. If we want it to be higher, we'll make a petition and have it added to the ballot. If people in other states want theirs to be higher, I suggest you do the work and do the same instead of waiting on someone to do it for you.
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  5392. I've got to correct Tim on Juneteenth. It's not when slavery ended. Texas was not the last state to have slaves. Entering Texas was the last of the Confederate states to be officially taken. The Emancipation Proclamation only was for the Confederacy who were no longer under US rule so it meant nothing. The passing of the amendment after the end of the war ended slavery because 4 states that stayed in the US still had legal slavery. They freed their slaves after the amendment and the government compensated them for the loss of their slaves. That was the end of slavery in the US. Juneteenth is revisionist history because it was only EVER a local celebration, not a national one. So we're now celebrating as a national holiday the day slavery ended in the Confederate States. Technically it didn't end even after the amendment because then the government had to negotiate with the Native tribes that still had them to free them, such as in Oklahoma and other territories at the time, but then you get into the were they more a sovereign territory or not issue. As for your two cases, they both deserve serious time. She's a lawyer which makes her crime particularly egregious. She took an oath when she was accepted into the BAR, she planned it, she handed out explosives to other people making them participants in her act of terror, and still shows no remorse for her actions. She should get minimum 10 years without probation and disbarred. The Capital case he should absolutely get 7 years. I know it's not a popular opinion, but he did some horrific things. He helped that officer be shot by his own stun gun multiple times, which could have easily killed him. It's a lethal weapon. Not as lethal as a firearm, but still lethal. He also encouraged and got his own child to participate in the beating of the officer which is disturbing. So I think he got what he deserves. Had it not been a heat of the moment and been planned, then he'd deserve the same sentence as I said for her. Edit: The fact she's trying to claim anxiety and depression as an excuse for her actions is ludicrous and she knows that as a lawyer. She wasn't mentally insane so no amount of mental illness short of that gets you criminally excused for your behavior. Even then you're sent a psych hospital for years.
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  5401. On the date nights weren't a thing and marriages were successful she's 100% wrong on and this is why people need to stop pretending she does research or knows what she's talking about. While definitely not called that, adult alone time absolutely was a thing and a priority in every type of civilization until recently. It got phased out because modern society values parental interaction with children over adult interactions once a child is born and because the dual income family dynamic makes it difficult to prioritize adult time on with giving attention to children. Children were seen and not heard as a rule until modern times. That means their lives rotated around the parent's world. Unlike today where the parent's world revolves around the child. They absolutely spent a lot of time away from their children. Not alone because it was usually a social gathering focused on adults interacting with each other. The children would all be sent to a different area of the house or outside under the supervision of the children on the cusp of adulthood. The children stayed there until the parents came and got them which could even be the next day. They were not to interrupt the adults unless someone was dying. Everything else the older children took care of. This was true in tribal life as well. It's only recently that that's changed so going back to something that prioritizes adult interactions on occasion instead of only prioritizing the children is a step back to recreating that balance that was, even according to Pearl, more successful. Edit: Why someone gives credence to a woman that's only had 1 boyfriend, never married or even asked, and pushing 30 as some type of expert is beyond me. If her advice was sound, why isn't it working for her? Because it's bs.
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  5619. ​​​ @Aaron-fo1sy  She shouldn't be monetized on social media. When someone enters office they have to divest from everything else. If she's making a lot of money from social media that will influence her decisions when it comes to them. Speaking fees has long been a way for large corporations and lobbying groups to funnel money to politicians for favorable decisions. Just like Congress has made it legal for them to engage in insider trading. They've made themselves exempt from it. Book deals too is how money is laundered to them. They write a book and large donors make large orders. That's why Bernie was able to buy his 3rd house and finally be a millionaire after he bowed out for Hillary. His book deal was his payoff. We know this because honest politicians like Thomas Massey aren't shy about spilling the beans about how it works in DC. He refuses to engage in any of that stuff. He's explained multiple times why when someone enters Congress even if they're just a regular person doing it for the right reasons they become almost immediately corrupted. Edit: If you want to know who's honest and who's benefiting themselves from their position, look at how they answer if Congress should be barred from trading while in office because they control the bills that impact companies and their stock prices. They know what's coming before anyone else. If they say yes, they're honest. If they say no, they're using their position to enrich themselves. AOC says no. That she "needs" to own multiple houses. She also committed campaign violations by paying her boyfriend with campaign donations. You're either young or just became politically aware because everything I typed has been known for decades.
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  5664. You're right. People who want to make informed decisions for themselves is just insanity. Everyone should just listen to the experts. The problem is which ones because they aren't in agreement? Should it be WHO and the UN which now say lockdowns should only be used to reallocate resources or governors who order lockdowns, but make exceptions for certain industries like Hollywood? If their decisions were based on science, there would be no exceptions. How is Walmart, where a ton of people go touching everything and is so crowded you can't social distance, safer than my mom and pop store that has fewer people go into it? There's nothing scientific that says that. Should I believe the pharmaceutical company that's making billions off of this vaccine or should I believe the 100 scientists, including a head UN scientist and the former head scientist of said pharmaceutical company, who say this type of vaccine is very dangerous? Should I believe the media who is telling me all these instances of reactions while also telling me it's fine, or should I listen to the UK who has added warnings and to an Illinois hospital who's suspended giving it out due to the number of severe reactions? I'm high risk and have already had the virus. So which science do I trust? The science that says I'm immune with a slight risk of getting it again and if I get again it won't be worse than my previous case of it which was very mild? Or do I take the vaccine that they say I have to even though it's not known if it will actually prevent me from getting it or just make me asymptomatic or mild, which I already was, and still able to spread it? According to the science, they are the same outcome for me, so why should I risk a bad side effect for no different protection? This is the upside to having a complex medical situation. I've learned to be very proactive in my own treatments, because all doctors aren't equal in skill. I research every medication that's suggested to make sure it's not going to affect one of my other conditions. Multiple times I've been prescribed medications that were dangerous to me including one that had a black label for my heart condition. Doctors aren't infallible and should never be treated like they are. I don't know why people treat them that way when malpractice is the third leading cause of death.
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  5712. Yes and no. If the market was functioning as it should, this would have affected little. The world economy is in the shitter, yet Wallstreet has been fine even gaining. Now why is that? If the market was working as it should, it would reflect the real economic situation. The reason it doesn't is because it's broken. People would not be legitimately investing in new companies in the current economic climate because risk of failure right now is high. Even in new tech startups because of the censorship and that Big Tech is intentionally destroying any competition. Yet " investors" have been making billions in the market while the rest of us are losing our jobs and far too many are now food insecure. Like I said, the system is broken. It's broken because they aren't really "investing" in companies anymore. They are investing in other investors and betting the other investors will like a particular stock. That's it. It's all just a scheme and game of rich people trying to manipulate each other and who can mess with the normies enough to change the trajectory of a stock so they can make more money. Because a very large group of normal just took a crap in their sandbox, they know they don't have the control. That means they lost faith in being able to continue to game the system which makes them think longer and more carefully about investing because it's increased their risk. Contrary to what they are saying, that's a good thing, because that's how it's supposed to work. Edit to add: They leveraged more stock than what exists at 140%. Unless the board allowed their stocks to be leveraged, that's illegal. They got caught with their pants down, and THEIR actions almost crashed the market. Blame should be to them because THEY created the risk.
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  5946.  @Memento_Mori_Morals  You're applying your own personal anticedal evidence as fact that ALL children are just as intelligent as you claim you were. If you were, which there's zero proof of, that makes you the exception and not the norm. Intelligence is mostly inherited from the mother. So all that means is you were fortunate enough to be born from a mother with intelligence on the higher end of the scale. Then you claim to have been a tutor and that you know most students aren't intelligent enough to go to college. So these are contradictory statements. You're claiming children are more intelligent than people think based only on your own personal (non proven claims of) intelligence while simultaneously claiming they aren't. Those two things can't be true at once. I studied child psychology in college, when it was still difficult to get in, and these people are 100% correct on how a child's mind works. It's conditional therapy which is used to remove a negative response and replace it with a positive one or to create a positive response. Positive reinforcement. A humans brain doesn't reach full development until around the age of 25 and teenagers especially, due to hormones, aren't developed enough to understand longterm consequences. That's why they commit suicide, are in fatal accidents, and engage in general dangerous behavior than you see later. All of this is well known and well documented. So I think I'll pick the numerous studies conducted for many years over someone who claims to be intelligent on the internet. Edit: All children go through a phase where they are constantly asking why and how. That doesn't make them special, it makes them normal and that's not "challenging" a teacher.
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  6257.  @nolwino  This is to your evolution, picking mate thing. Humans also have these things called contraceptives. We also have pills that prevent implantation. Because we have evolved brains, we can make decisions for ourselves like who we have sex with that we are all very aware could result in a pregnancy. There's such a thing as personal responsibility. As to Down Syndrome, because you are disabled and hate yourself, you're projecting that onto the unborn. Most Down Syndrome children born now are self sufficient. The reason they weren't in generations past is because they were hidden and not taught. Society viewed them as unable to learn. That's not true. Those that grew up, especially after Gen X, went to school, got an education, and are able to live alone. Tossing someone away because they aren't perfect is detrimental to the gene pool. A wide variety of different genes creates a stronger species. As a species evolves, those evolutions will be seen as birth defects because they are different. So eliminating every possible pregnancy that has a birth "defect" will prevent the species from advancing. Unfortunately society goes through periods were it tries to create and force perfection. The group lead by the funny mustache man wasn't unique at that time in that endeavor. Those periods of time are always looked back at in horror and as unethical. Just because we're living in such a time now, doesn't mean everyone has to be forced to participate. Edit: Sickle Cell isn't a birth defect. It's only an issue in the west. It's an evolutionary response to malaria. People born in areas with malaria it's a bonus, not a defect. Hence my advancement point. You clearly aren't a person that needs to be deciding what is and isn't a defect.
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  6503. Religion came to be in conjunction with human evolution from being purely driven by instinct into questioning the world around us. It goes hand in hand with our development of logical thinking. It's evidenced in seeing some apes now building what appear to be small monuments and partaking in some form of ceremony in conjunction with it. We know that even Neanderthals engaged in ritual burials. Whether atheist like or not religion is required for civilization and society to function properly. It is the foundation of morality which sets enforceable boundaries within a society. It's because early humans noticed when certain things occurred it created bad results. They believed they were being punished for those actions and thus morality was born. As we continued to evolve and our ability to reason increased we began to understand that the rain didn't come because we didn't make enough sacrifices, but it didn't come due to natural occurring forces at work in nature. Then our religion evolved to encompass more about the impact certain actions had upon society as a whole. New morals were created to deal with our new level of understanding. The mistake is believing our level of understanding has dramatically increased since then. It has not. Science still has not answered the questions religion answers. Why am I here, what is my purpose. As much as atheists like to claim they don't need a God to be moral, they fail to understand that the reason they have the morals they do is because they come from the prominent religion the society they were raised in held. Logic can't dictate why murder is wrong. The entire concept of it being murder stems from religion. Those morals from that religion became law. Those laws benefited society because society shared a common core religious belief system. The other issue with believing a society can be based on pure logic comes from not fully understanding the lack of intelligence by the general population. The majority of any population does not have the intelligence or inclination to spend hours analyzing everything around them to try to determine if they're being purely logical. Frankly it's a ridiculous demand to be made upon them and looking down on and belittling people who aren't capable or interested is just more proof most don't have the morality or empathy they claim they don't need a religion to achieve. Edit: Science is limited by the technology available to observe the world around us. So many things believed to be factual by our previous level of observation have been proven later to be untrue. This new demand that what's "true" be the end all doesn't recognize that what's true today could easily be proven false in a new experiment tomorrow. It doesn't acknowledge there's a limit to our own current understanding. That's the gap religion fills. Destroying religion doesn't get rid of the gap, it just exposes it. It's that gap that wokeness fills. It's that gap that allows the idea that truth is subjective to thrive because that preys on the fact the truth can change with more research. It's that gap that allowed research to be coopted because research is now the key to "truth" and societal morality.
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  6513.  @chrissgchriss  That's not true. Actors just want to act. They love death scenes. Very few actors give a crap about the character they're portraying. Leonard Nemo famously was thrilled when they killed Spock because he got to act out a death scene. It was only later that he realized how much it damaged the character and the fans that he understood the importance of the character. To them it's just a role. The Rock cares because he's been a character his entire life as was his father and because it was in wrestling he has a different view. How his character acted directly impacted his fans which in wrestling are who makes you money. So he always understood the relationship with fans. This is why they say Tom Cruise is the last movie star. He's the only actor people will go see a movie because he's in it. He's cultivated a fan base and been careful with his character choices. Most actors don't do that. Certainly very few younger ones. Used to actors were much more concerned with how they were perceived by the audience from role to role. Now they only care if a role is going to let them do something they like to do. Edit: Patrick Stewart is a good example. Even though he's played Picard for years, he doesn't care about the character at all. His main concern is being able to act in away he hasn't before. If that means that character acts completely differently than he would before, that's a bonus to him. They only care about showcasing their abilities, not who the character is supposed to be.
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  6621.  @manny3712  No I don’t. “Helping” irresponsible people isn’t helping. It’s being nice instead of kind. You sound like the really brainless people that say just give homeless people a home. You don’t understand or care about the long term consequences. Not only for society as a whole but also the people you’re “helping”. It’s such an awesome unbelievably utopian concept of how anything works. You’re also talking to people who don’t want billions going overseas so that entire premise is crap. Forgiving debt also has nothing to do with national security like the wall does. Yes it’s expensive and this will only make it more so because it removes the small last hurdle that kept it slightly in check. Making it worse on the whole to benefit the few, very few because most debt is held by people with degrees like the woman Biden highlighted not undergraduates, is never ever good for society. Giving an even bigger leg up to the top 3-4% , that’s based on what they’ll earn with master degrees and above over their lifetime, is “helping” how exactly. List how it benefits the people now being forced to take on that debt. Edit: I care about helping Americans that earn it. Somebody that makes $100,000+ a year on their own because of the education that teachers sold them (it’s their labor and the cost of their degrees that factors into the cost of education) is perfectly capable of paying that debt. They don’t need help. Since you’re so worried about helping Americans wouldn’t that be better spent helping mentally injured service members get the treatment they need from the damage caused by what the government had them do, off the streets, and become productive members of society than go to someone who doesn’t need it at all but just wants it? Since you’re all about either or there’s one for you chew on.
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  6649. That's not what they're for. It's to limit movement and driving to reduce emissions. I don't know where you got the community thing from. Most people in cities already don't go far from where they live, except for their job, and don't have a "community". Most don't know a single person that lives in the same building or only a couple. No "the left" doesn't give a crap about the majority of men because they're huwhite. When the current skyrocketing rate of them self harming gets brought up, it's laughed off and sometimes even cheered. "Suburb is what demolished the community in the US". Wrong. You'll find the sense of community still pretty strong in most suburbs and in rural areas. A city center isn't required for a sense of community and I don't know why you think it is. In rural areas where populations are spread out due to being heavily agricultural there's no center because it's so rural that large businesses, which is what populates city centers, don't operate. The school or church is what the community rallies around. I've lived where there was a population of less than 100 people and a single store. No government buildings, no "city center" and the community is extremely strong. The sense of community doesn't really exist in cities because of population density. It's too many different people with different enjoyments crammed into a single area. I don't need to "look it up" since I've lived in every single type of place from a large city to tiny towns. "The left isn't 16-25 year old women. The left is huge. Half of people" I guess you don't understand the significance of the age range you even wrote. He's focusing on Gen Z who are currently 16-25. This isn't about the entire population because the rest of us don't have the issues that he's discussing. We're married and had our children for the most part. By the way, women are 51% of the population so half and yes it's women that predominantly vote left. No the current young left is not nationalistic. The majority hate the country, that's according to polls. You can deny it all you like, but reality doesn't care. Edit: Since I'm from small towns with strong communities I attempted to treat people the same way when I moved to a big city. They didn't take kindly to it. They found my attempts at out reach, like making them a meal or making Christmas treats and giving them to everyone, unsettling and creepy. You know, the things that are typically done in an area with a strong sense of community.
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  6782. There's nothing you can do about ponzi schemes. The government currently doesn't prevent them. It only comes in after the damage has been done. Look at Madoff, who ran one for decades. Transportation safety isn't laws. It's regulations. The majority of those regulations are 40 years old or less. Just the idea that they're somehow a necessity when they're fairly new is odd. The only one that's a law is wearing a seat belt, which again is fairly new and falls on the operator. Not the car company. Before all the regulations, they'd just be sued if there was a known issue. Once that happened a few times, they started doing recalls and repairs once something bad was reported. Which is why you don't see lawsuits today. It has nothing to do with the government. Food safety was only put in to increase confidence in grocery stores, like the USDA. Before everyone purchased directly from the farmer or the local store said what farm their stock came from. Most of the regulations were put in place by the lobbiest for the company that created the product to limit competition. Heinz, for example, lobbied the government to put in sanitary regulations for bottling because ketchup became popular. Lots of knockoffs hit the shelves quickly with varying degrees of pricing. The cheapest had sawdust, for example (which is still found in foods today). The cheaper a product was, the lower the quality, which again is still true today. So Heinz sent a lobbiest to DC, scared the politicians, they made regulations, and the cheaper options were immediately removed from competition. The same thing happened with Coke. The idea they're there to protect you isn't true. They're there to raise the barrier for competition. Just look into what the USDA allows in your meat, and you'll understand that. Though I warn you, you might not want to buy any ever again if you do. A good example of the market doing its job is chicken. People didn't want antibiotics and some wanted free range. The market responded and now those are all readily available. A prime example of customers demanding change without the government stepping in to force it. Edit: Also, look at just a few years ago with outbreaks of salmonella poisoning from bagged lettuce. All those regulations didn't prevent it.
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  6893. The offering to test the homes is not for safety reasons. It's for their comfort. So they can see and know it's safe. The air has been tested and everything else before people were allowed back in the area. Yes wildlife will be affected because they drink from surface water. Humans don't. We drink from groundwater or reservoirs far away from the train derailment. I understand the distrust of government and companies. I understand the overreaction from people not used to chemicals. This is not some massive coverup or some super rare scary situation. To me ,who grew up around chemical plants and a dangerous materials disposal plant, I find everyone freaking out entertaining. All the dead fish just look likes a fish kill before spring to restock which I'm assuming most people haven't seen or experienced. This person has no idea how long those fish have been dead. Most animals avoid eating other dead animals so they could have been dead for a week already. It's cold so they're not going to decompose very quickly. Spills like this, though this is a big one, happen ALL the time. Though this is a good example of why it's better and safer to transport oil by pipeline rather than rail. Oil spills by rail are far more common than they are on pipelines. If this was a coverup, the townspeople would have been visited by company men to sign stuff, police or security would have run that girl off very quickly, and the local news wouldn't still be covering it. Edit: Believe me, there will be tons of lawsuits. This is ambulance chasers wet dream. The plant my father worked at got sued for algae in the pool by a person that lived behind the plant. One evacuation caused by a spill, but no damage, there was a massive lawsuit for being inconvenienced.
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  7008.  @marygard4608  Inflation, per the definition, is caused by the printing of money which devalues the value of it. What you are referring to is just economics. Also supply vs demand economics in one instance. That's not inflation. They expected to have to combat inflation post COVID because over 1/3 of our money supply was printed during it. Thus causing inflation. Annie is correct in everything she is saying. The reason feminism caused things like housing shortages is because with the introduction of the no fault divorce, a family now had multiple homes instead of 1 because the mother AND father had separate households. Keep in mind it caused the divorce rate to jump to close to 60%. Divorce was available for abuse or infidelity long before that, so this idea that women were forced to stay in abusive relationships is bull. As noted, during those times teachers and nurses earned good money and were exclusively jobs held by women. This is all coming from the US so you don't get confused that I'm talking about another country. Yes men had to legally financially provide for their wives even if they didn't live together. This was mostly seen in the upper class. Women could legally marry other women in the 1800s as well. It was for women who were financially independent because it was thought normal that women needed the company of other women. As for voting, nobody but land owners could vote for a long time in the US. Once it was opened for all men, a literacy test was required. Since most men had to go to work on the family farm or in a factory (child labor only ended fairly recently) most only had a grade school education and couldn't pass it. My grandfather only had an 8th grade education, but one of the most intelligent people I've ever known and I know rocket scientists. Intelligence doesn't correlate to job or degree either. MENSA is full of stay at home wives and mothers, including me. Yes we are told we are slaves, we are members of the patriarchy, we are less than, etc by feminist all the time.
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  7154. "Management/compliance is oftentimes more expensive that (assume it's than) the actual tax that has been collected". Why does that matter? You're not the one that gets the tax so how much you personally pay to keep track of it is irrelevant to the amount of taxes your sells generated. You add the sales tax after the sale so it's not coming from your profits anyway. It's from the customer unless YOU aren't taxing them. If you have a business that provides products you've always been subject to adding sales tax. If you sell your items on a platform like Amazon, they do that for you. If you're doing it on your own website there are plenty of programs that figure it and keep track of it per state and add it at the time of sale. They are tax deductible as a business expense. If the program is too expensive for the number of sales you're doing than increase the prices or hope your sales improve. The same would be true if it was a brick and mortar store. The threshold to be required to collect sales taxes in most states is over $100,000 per state. Only 3 or 4 states is it below that and their threshold is $10,000. If you're needing to register and collect sales taxes in 12000+ locations, you're NOT a small business. If you're making those kinds of sales and can't afford the software to do it for you, you're bad at business. Edit: I did see things about affiliates and taxes but if you're an offical affiliate you're under contract which also requires that you're producing a large amount of sales or you're on a selling platform that figures all that for you as part of your registration fees.
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  7181. Allow me to put some calm into this situation. It should have been explained by officials, but they're so mistrusted I doubt they'd be believed. It's pretty much impossible to leech into groundwater supplies. They aren't feed by surface water at all. Groundwater is water that's gotten trapped and flows beneath the surface. That's part of the reason the oceans are rising. We're taking water that's been out of the water cycle for a very long time and adding it back in, but it's returning as surface water instead of back underground. It's a very slow process for water to refill these cracks between the layers of the Earth. That's why wells dry up. You've used all the water that was there and you need to find a new source. As for the surface water, you can't remove the contamination. You can remove things like oil because it isn't water soluble. This stuff is. So as it mixes with more and more water, it will become weaker until it no longer has any effect on the water. Unfortunately that does mean fish and wildlife will be affected, but not humans as long as you don't drink. Burning it put it into the sky which is full of water vapor. Just like in surface water, it will mix with the water vapor and become less acidic. Rain in largely populated areas is slightly acidic, but that's from naturally occurring oxides. There's little to no danger of acid strong enough to do damage. The reason it used to is because things were exposed to it repeatedly which won't be the case here. It's not surprising chickens are sensitive to it. They're respiratory systems are much more fragile than humans and the slightest irritant in their air sac can cause pneumonia and quick death. The same is true of domestic ducks. Most wild fowl are hardier. There's also no danger of increased risk of cancer. To develop cancer from something it takes exposure for an extended period. Since all of these are water soluble, they'll clear out pretty quickly. I have no clue why they think FEMA or the Red cross would be there. Nobody's homes have been destroyed. This would fall under Environmental Protection Agency. I lived in a town with 3 chemical plants. Spills were a fairly common occurrence. Not once was anyone in any real danger outside the driver or clean up. The main thing we had to be concerned with was a red cloud. If we saw a red cloud we knew to run away and not inhale it. That was bromine. One plant manufactured hydrochloric acid. Edit: The foaming stuff seen in the water could be from the cleanup instead of the spill. Often a watery foam is used to dilute it in the clean up. I don't believe hydrochloric acid foams in water. It's clear and just increases the ph level.
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  7401. In this time period in the books, she's already that person. She's 1,000 years old. She's running her own kingdom with her husband and daughter who later marries Elrond and they have a daughter that becomes Aragorn's wife. She had nothing to do with Anatar. She never trusted him. She certainly didn't have a love affair with him. Celebrimborn being a smith was not old and scrawny. Elves stopped aging once reaching adulthood. The only thing correct about the lore is names, places, and that Dwarves mined mithril. The rings are completely out of order. The 3 rings Celebrimborn made were made last and by him alone. Sauron made the One ring himself in the fires of Mordor. If they don't do that, and it appears they're not going to, it completely destroys LotR because Frodo wouldn't need to throw it into those same fires. Sauron being defied by the orcs and killed by them is disgusting. He was no weakling. He was a demi-god. They've degraded every single character. Edit: Galadriel was the most powerful magic user among the elves. Even Sauron feared her even though he was more powerful. She studied for centuries with a Maiar who'd settled in Middle Earth because she fell in love. She had no need for a sword. She dismantled Mordor after Sauron was finally defeated using her magic. People point to Gandalf using one to try to justify doing it to her. He was limited into how much he could interfere. The population of Middle Earth had to win the war themselves. He was only there to guide them.
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  7417. The people and companies that have enabled these activists and their bot armies need to never be allowed to forget what they've done. They've allowed this small group demanding a utopia of safety to inflict their demands onto the rest of us rather than make them live in reality with the rest of us. They've destroyed every beloved franchise in the hope of attracting the bots even though we tried to tell them they aren't real and won't buy anything. They managed to limp along, but they're hitting a wall. Too many see it now. I like to think the LotR fandom has caused some of this. They've come at us from all sides, using their tired rhetoric trying to shame us into silence but it hasn't worked. They are floundering now. Trying to shift their marketing from "fixing" Tolkien and making it reflect the world today to claiming they didn't change anything and it doesn't reflect today because Tolkien is timeless. If you just watch it you'll see. All the other fandoms, they ignored and belittled. Saying they don't need them anyway because they're looking for a new audience. They didn't understand that this isn't just another movie franchise. It's considered sacred to fantasy. Rather than treat us and the work with kid gloves and respect (like Jackson did) and understanding doing anything with Tolkien is a minefield, they chose to only focus on diversity and how Tolkien's work needed to be updated. Bezos shot it in the foot at the start by proclaiming it will be turned into GoT. Now they have worse than hatred for their upcoming series because at least that will attract hate watchers. They've caused apathy. Their trailers and interviews getting millions of views, but extremely low engagement. That's a death sentence for anything you're promoting and I love to see it.
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  7500. ​​​​​​ @jojobizadTRASH  It's not in China due to laziness. That's a completely uninformed statement. It's there because the government creates massive amounts of regulations that make it almost impossible to make here. Once China was allowed into world trade organizations, it was the end for most manufacturing in the US. You can't compete against a country with a massive population suppressing wages on their working population. When China was allowed in, there was a huge worldwide protest of every group, every age, and people that voted for every party. In the US it was called the Battle in Seattle because the conference was being held there. In other Western nations it was at the Chinese or US embassies. It's because everyone was aware of the future consequences of that decision and it played out exactly as expected. Oil and gas is produced and refined in the US. We don't need to import it. What is imported is what's called dirty oil because we still have a couple of very old refineries still functioning that can handle refining it without it destroying the equipment. That's why the pipeline from Canada was so important. It would ship down from the tar sands in Canada (extremely dirty oil) to one of those refineries. My grandfather, husband, and now son have all worked in oil refining. The dirtier the oil, the cheaper it is. Edit: Pay and benefits are great. $50 an hour at most plants plus a real retirement plan instead of just a 401k. With overtime my husband makes close to $200,000 a year with only a high school education.
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  7583.  @Foolsjoker  "...the use of immigrants and homeless policies that some states are using to push their own problems onto other states simply to not have to deal with it" while simultaneously talking about unity. Immigration isn't a state issue. It's a federal one and when the federal government refuses to do its job and instead make it the problem of just a few states, those states have control over their own borders. You have a fundamental misconception of the role of government as outlined by the Constitution. No state works for the benefit of the federal government. The federal government works for the benefits of the states. If a state decides to make policies they get enjoy the consequences of those policies. So are you simultaneously saying that a state shouldn't share a burden created by the federal government with the rest of the states while also saying the states should share responsibilities for each other? Isn't that a benefit to the whole or does that only apply to certain things? You're doing what's called talking out of both sides of your mouth. Basically you only want things that benefit where you are while chastising someone else for wanting the same. Edit: Illegal immigration has been primarily a financial and resource burden for the southern states for decades. The states people like you like to sneer at for being poor. Now that policies that were overwhelmingly voted for by states who thought they'd never have to deal with it are getting just a slight taste of what it's really like, they're still not getting the bulk, you want to cry foul while claiming "we should work together for everyone's benefit". Well, taking some of that burden is exactly what you're claiming will benefit everyone so suck it up buttercup. Now that they're getting a taste of what it's like, they will vote for policies that support EVERYONE that's a citizen instead of calling people dealing with drastically reduced resources that benefits everyone else names.
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  7586.  @drewsimoncomedy  Their sense of purpose back then has nothing to do with their job. Their sense of purpose was defined by what they were doing was for the betterment of society. They were not as focused on the self as we are now. They were much more focused on community, family, and God. Doing something only for yourself would have been looked down on. That's why people in cities in the roaring 20s that were focused on partying and indulgence were looked down on instead of envied like today. 100 years ago saw more people living in cities than rural areas for the first time in the US. So no, most people wouldn't have been self employed because a large population in a small area can't support that. I think you are confusing farming to feed your family and selling any extra as "self employed" instead of understanding it was for survival. That's like calling settlers "self employed". If your grandparents were sheep farmers, they would have been considered wealthy so not the norm. My grandmother's family were cattle ranchers. They were wealthy enough to send all their daughters to college. I have furniture from that side and it was considered expensive at the time(still is. 1 item I have would go for around$2-3,000 today). My grandfather family worked the family farm and were poor, struggling to survive. They had very little. My grandfather went to work at the oil refinery when it opened to support his family. Because your family was well off, it clouds your understanding of what it was really like for most causing you to romanticize it. Edit: This isn't a dig at you. Had my grandmother not married below her station, and she reminded my grandfather of that regularly, I would have had a similar understanding of that time period. Because she did, my family grew up poor (I live in the south and didn't have air conditioning until I was in middle school and my mother didn't have indoor plumbing until the mid 50s) so have a better understanding of what it was like for the majority at the time.
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  7632. ​ @Sherif1958  Why would they think about segregation when they'd already removed all the minorities? Why do you only talk about Isreal and not Egypt who also shares a border with Gaza. The West Bank has nothing to do with this. These Palestinians were thrown out of the West Bank for attempting to overthrow the government because they lost the election. That's why the UN forced Isreal to give up Gaza after they'd won it when Egypt attacked them and it was defeated. This group of Palestinians attacked Isreal multiple times since the day they were put there. Why is that okay? Why can't a violent neighbor that won't stop attacking you be dealt with? If Mexico was constantly attacking any American they saw near the border would the US just sit back and let it happen? Shooting missiles several times over decades into the US? Would the US have let it continue for 40 years until an October 7th happened or would the US have gone in after the first missiles were fired and destroy Mexico? When tanks rolled into Ukraine did you say Ukraine shouldn't defend themselves? Ukraine has attempted to take areas in Russia. Have you complained about that? Or do you think Ukraine has a right to defend themselves? If you think that, then why doesn't Isreal have that right? Egypt won't allow a single Palestinian into their country from Gaza. Why don't you care about their treatment of them? Because they're both Arab so it's fine for Egypt to refuse aid? They refuse medical treatment, which Isreal allows them to come in and be treated? They couldn't enter Egypt to work, but they could Isreal. Isreal allowed them in, Egypt refused, but Isreal is the bad neighbor? You know NOTHING about this particular group of Palestinians yet you think the talking points you've seen online give you some moral superiority.
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  7813.  @user-wp5fe8ec6l  We already have private police, fire, roads, and ambulances. Many fire departments are volunteers and not paid. Private security is private police as is a neighborhood watch. We even have a private army they were called Blackwater. Private roads are definitely a thing and my town has a private ambulance service aside from the city. It's much cheaper. You can purchase a year's subscription to it and they accept what your insurance pays and have a flat price for those without it. Education wasn't centralized under the federal government until Carter in the 1970s. That's when our world ranking in education started dropping and it continues today. I realize this is kind of old, but you claim to have lived in various areas yet aren't aware much of what you're questioning how it will work already exists. As for your claims of how violent it would be, we've got huge government and just got out of the most violent period of our history in the late 1990s. Contrary to what movies portray, the "wild" west was less violent than it is now. Even though they didn't really have a centralized government. Each town/community made their own rules. As for your concern for others because the government wouldn't be handing out money to those less fortunate, private local charities have much better success rates than government in that area. That's based on studies. It's because people that live in the same place understand better what is needed for someone to improve their circumstances than a giant government that doesn't know anything about it. It doesn't waste funds like the government either. Right now only 30% of the budget for welfare and food stamps gets to the people. 70% is overhead. If you look back throughout our history, you'll see a drop in outcomes when government gets involved and creates programs to "help". It's expensive and inefficient. As for business and government working together being right wing, I guess the Democratic party is the real right wing, because that's been happening openly for the last year and still is. In our current political times, it isn't though because all authoritarian government is left (more laws, regulations, huge government) and small government is right wing. Both parties in the US right now are pro big government, so we have no real right wing. That's the problem with trying to use old definitions and concepts and apply them the same way today.
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  7814.  @user-wp5fe8ec6l  We already have private police, fire, roads, and ambulances. Many fire departments are volunteers and not paid. Private security is private police as is a neighborhood watch. We even have a private army they were called Blackwater. Private roads are definitely a thing and my town has a private ambulance service aside from the city. It's much cheaper. You can purchase a year's subscription to it and they accept what your insurance pays and have a flat price for those without it. Education wasn't centralized under the federal government until Carter in the 1970s. That's when our world ranking in education started dropping and it continues today. I realize this is kind of old, but you claim to have lived in various areas yet aren't aware much of what you're questioning how it will work already exists. As for your claims of how violent it would be, we've got huge government and just got out of the most violent period of our history in the late 1990s. Contrary to what movies portray, the "wild" west was less violent than it is now. Even though they didn't really have a centralized government. Each town/community made their own rules. As for your concern for others because the government wouldn't be handing out money to those less fortunate, private local charities have much better success rates than government in that area. That's based on studies. It's because people that live in the same place understand better what is needed for someone to improve their circumstances than a giant government that doesn't know anything about it. It doesn't waste funds like the government either. Right now only 30% of the budget for welfare and food stamps gets to the people. 70% is overhead. If you look back throughout our history, you'll see a drop in outcomes when government gets involved and creates programs and cabinets.
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  7815.  @user-wp5fe8ec6l  We already have private police, fire, roads, and ambulances. Many fire departments are volunteers and not paid. Private security is private police as is a neighborhood watch. We even have a private army they were called Blackwater. Private roads are definitely a thing and my town has a private ambulance service aside from the city. It's much cheaper. You can purchase a year's subscription to it and they accept what your insurance pays and have a flat price for those without it. Education wasn't centralized under the federal government until Carter in the 1970s. That's when our world ranking in education started dropping and it continues today. I realize this is kind of old, but you claim to have lived in various areas yet aren't aware much of what you're questioning how it will work already exists. As for your claims of how violent it would be, we've got huge government and just got out of the most violent period of our history in the late 1990s. Contrary to what movies portray, the "wild" west was less violent than it is now. Even though they didn't really have a centralized government. Each town/community made their own rules. As for your concern for others because the government wouldn't be handing out money to those less fortunate, private local charities have much better success rates than government in that area. That's based on studies. It's because people that live in the same place understand better what is needed for someone to improve their circumstances than a giant government that doesn't know anything about it. It doesn't waste funds like the government either. Right now only 30% of the budget for welfare and food stamps gets to the people. 70% is overhead. If you look back throughout our history, you'll see a drop in outcomes when government gets involved and creates programs and cabinets.
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  7964.  @littledancingfawn  It was about shopping. She hadn't done the grocery shopping like they'd agreed to it appeared. He was also in the middle of his heart problems where it was being crushed meaning he wasn't able to do anything physically straining. No lifting, little movement, nothing that will increase your heart rate, etc. He wanted her to take an Uber and leave the car for him because he was going to go by his parents house, his father helps run the business and is in charge of booking. She wanted it but wouldn't give him a time frame of how long she'd be gone and was going to do some other shopping with her friends. So it wasn't just for neccessary items. She ridiculed his family in that clip too. Having been married for 25 years, a SAHM, and pregnant twice I have some experience here. All of my pregnancies were high risk. The first higher risk than the 2nd until the 3re trimester then the 2nd was much more so. I took care of my mother, grandmother, and father throughout the 2nd one. My mother was recovering from quadruple bypass and aorta bypass, my grandmother had breast cancer, and my father was working 12 hour shifts. She's relying on the sympathy being pregnant draws from the public. People seem to think it's a disability when it's most definitely not. If she was going shopping with her friends, she was perfectly physically able to go purchase food while she was out. He needed her to step up and take care of him, but she clearly had no interest in doing so. It reminded me of my youngest son's ex girlfriend. She expected him to drop everything and take care of her if she just had a mild headache, but when he got very sick with the flu she wouldn't even go into the room to check on him. She was trying to manipulate him into giving into her demands and he was clearly tired of it and had run out of patience when it came to this subject. That's all. If people could hear some of the arguments me and my husband had, especially within the first few years, they'd think we were both horrible depending on the subject.
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  8054. You’re comment contradicts itself. “The founders didn’t give us states to be experimental” “The power comes from the states…not the founders”. Since you acknowledge the founders created the states then yes the power of the states comes from the founders who created the Constitution that outlines that power. They created the states, they didn’t “create” the states. The states came together to create a country. The states are so that each person can live under rules and laws they most agree with. The way the power structure was laid out, it was intentionally so change would occur slowly and new ideas could be tried by different states with different ideas, economies, resources, etc. If the new idea worked in most areas, Congress could then decide to add it into federal law. If it worked for some but failed in others, the states it worked for would be able to keep it and the ones it didn’t could reject it. That way every state would be unique and the people could freely move between them to under laws they found more to their liking. It was never supposed to be homogeneous or states imposing laws onto other states. I’d suggest reading the Federalist papers and other writings from the founders to understand their vision instead of deciding what you think they meant. They were pretty clear. Originally your loyalty was to state and then country. It was following the Civil War that a more powerful federal government was pushed and loyalty only to the country.
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  8086. ​ @mosesbrown4126 ​ When they complain about egg prices and someone responds with it being market forces caused by millions of chickens (and dairy cows) being put down due to bird flu, they then try to make fun of the fact people are aware of what happened. I think trying to present it as a conspiracy theory. We simply paid attention to the news. A few weeks ago there was an article about it. Which said the flocks were being put down, and California had lost almost all its dairy cows. I went to the store that day and stocked up on eggs and chicken because I knew prices were going to go up. To me, they're just proudly admitting they don't know how economies function and to cover their own ignorance, pretend everyone that does are spreading "disinformation." If I can stomach it, I'm going to watch the MSNBC of YouTube, Midas Touch, and see what they're actually being told, so I'll kind of understand what they believe. To answer your question about regulations, particularly at the state level, they're redundant. The federal agency that regulates food sold in grocery stores already has all the safety guidelines required. You're state might have some that go beyond those, but they don't actually create a safer product, or so little it's negligible. That's called over regulation and it's used to prevent competition from smaller producers. It forces them to sign contracts with the big 2 chicken companies if they want to make any money because it makes it too expensive for anyone else.
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  8145. A booming economy affects wages more than a Union. Plus, that first part was rather childish and off topic. There's a big difference between a worker's Union, which you were fully aware this video is about, and the creation of the country. Since you started with that, so will I as it appears you don't know history. The colonies did not " unite" in the way you are describing. The representatives from each colony were selected by individuals already unhappy with England. That was not the majority of the population so they were not elected, but appointed. Secondly, the states viewed themselves as seperate until after the Civil War. After that, language was intentionally adopted to make the states feel invested in each other. That was when using "we" when talking about the US as a whole came into practice. Now that I've corrected how you're incorrectly using the word "Union" when it comes to this country's history, I'll address the rest. Most Unions aren't as effective as some seem to believe. The refinery my husband works at recently blew up injuring 6 people, with 5 literally catching fire. One is still in ICU fighting for his life. It's Unionized, yet they were unable to improve safety issues that were well known. So this idea that Unions improve all this stuff is complete BS. As for wages, they still make less than the industry standard, so again BS. The only thing positive the Union has done is allowed a couple of guys that were being discriminated against, sue the company. When the economy was booming before the virus, wages were increasing, benefits were expanding, and conditions were improving. That was due to competition for workers because the unemployment rate was so low. That did more to benefit workers than any Union has in decades.
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  8195.  @soulsphere9242  Not on me! I had no restrictions during the pandemic. Neither did Sweden. Do you call them "selfish"? It's illegal to restrict us in the US. Our freedoms of movement and everything else are enshrined in our federal and state Constitutions. Some governors violated those rights, and some did not. Because they are enshrined the lockdown was ruled unconstitutional by the court in Wisconsin and subsequent cases involving what happened are being ruled on as violations against our rights since then. Meaning, according to the law, they can't happen again since there are now court precedents in place. The states I lived in didn't take an economic hit because we didn't follow the advice. In fact the opposite. We've enjoyed an economic boom as companies and people continue to flee to them. No fines were levied, nobody denied employment or services because they didn't take a medication that doesn't protect anybody else. The lawsuits are flying and being won against companies and governments. There's a saying by a Founding Father in the US. Those that sacrifice freedom for safety deserve neither. So yes, we put freedom first. It's not new and it's why we ended slavery, had the Civil Rights Act, and everything else because we've always viewed freedom as the most important thing and take the words written in our constitution seriously. Willingly sacrificing freedom for security is how you eventually get tyranny. Just because you tolerate tyranny out of fear doesn't make you the better person.
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  8279.  @t-rozbenouameur5304  First of all what world were you living in where the media delegitimize Obama? The only time mainstream media said really anything bad about him was when he wiretapped them. Meanwhile, they were delegitimizing Trump before he was President. Immediately it was Russian collusion, the election was stolen, massive election interference, etc. There's 100% proof that the Obama administration set into motion everything they could think of to disrupt Trump's term. The Pentagon was lying to the people and the Commander in Chief about troop counts and actions. The dossier that kicked off the near 3 year investigation was bought by Hillary to distract from her emails. All of this is known and all of this has been proven with documentation and testimony, yet now you don't understand why people don't trust the powers that be? In just the recounts election results have changed, but there's no need to look into it? If it was you that had lost and then won or vice versa, I imagine you'd see it differently. Before the ink dried on the first count, there were 3 prosecutions of fraud of hundreds and thousands of votes, but you want to wave it away as nothing to see here. At the very least, this proves we need more secure elections and a better way to count the vote in some states. Fortunately I live in a state that purges voter rolls regularly and has voter ID so I know mine was fairly secure. What you and others fail to understand is that it's not just if fraud occurred, it's if it's possible that should be the concern. For the record I'm independent and despise both parties. I'm not a rabid Trump supporter, but did get on board when he banned CRT because that philosophy is a violation of the Civil Rights Act and should be stamped out.
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  8316. You're making a lot of assumptions about a court case you clearly didn't read. The judgment is that they can't have female only workout areas in a gym open to both. This has nothing to do with anything else. It's not changing areas, bathrooms, saying a gym can't be female only, and all the other assertions you made. It's a very limited ruling. It also only applies in that state, not everywhere in the US. It has no bearing on if a female only app is legal within the US. As for allowing private businesses to segregate male or female only, I'm fine with it and always have been. There is a biological difference between male and female. There is not when talking about race, religion, etc. If we accept your premise that you're either against all segregation or for all segregation, then that would mean every religious building would have to cater to every other religion and practice them within that space. That would send the religious to feel they can only practice their religion in secrecy to keep it intact and not influenced or taken over by another one. It would also mean Women's shelters that help women escape an abusive spouse will have to close because they won't be allowed to bar the abuser from entering. The reason segregation of the races was ended is because there is no biological difference between them. The reason it's allowed when it comes to biological sex is because there is. This is probably one of your worst takes, mainly because you didn't research the court decision you pointed out that you think somehow is relevant to the female only app. It isn't even remotely relevant to it because it's about segregation within a business that allows all.
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  8364.  @Moneyman-33  I am not a big Trump supporter and have no issue with vaccines as long as it's not forced. He did try to end lockdowns several times, but governors have that power over their state, not the President. I do NOT like that he didn't pardon Assange and that he should have addressed 230. He put in legislation to make it easier to fire federal employees, which is extremely difficult because they are unionized. You seem to be pissed because you believe the President has more power then they do. Those in the administration have said he had maybe a dozen people that actually supported him. Everyone else was openly bragging about how they were doing everything they could to stop anything he wanted. Even going so far as to lie about troop numbers and movements to the Commander in Chief of the military. I put blame where it is rightfully deserved. I don't like the legislation about bump stocks either, but I do understand the knee jerk reaction because I'm not devoid of reason or unable to view things objectively. Just like the Brady Bill was a knee jerk reaction so too was this. I'm aware he spent too much time listening to the establishment RHINOs because he honestly didn't know better, but I appreciate the times he pushed back on both sides. This idea of wanting a perfect President can never and will never be reality because people aren't perfect. He accomplished far more than I expected and listened to the people more than any president in my lifetime. I'll take that over an establishment crony that is constantly talking out of both sides of their mouth and are nothing but empty campaign promises. This idea that a leader should do everything you want is no different than the left demanding that society bend to their will.
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  8426.  @thetomdillengerescapeplan3525  Explain how the US system was so much different than that in the beginning either. We were not united as we think of it post Lincoln. Loyalty was to your state and the federal government was last place behind family and God. They had completely different laws, different currencies, and imposed tariffs on each other. I'm from what's now called the Powhatan Confederacy. We had divorce, we had a permanent capital, each family was responsible for growing their own food (so personal property and responsibility), we had cots and beds, and many of the same creature comforts the settlers had. We even taught them how to take care of themselves and were extremely polite at first. We hoped once they learned how to live, they'd leave for a different area. Unfortunately language barriers prevented good communication. This idea that we all lived liked the nomadic plains tribes is completely false. Just as false as the left putting us on some Communist/socialist pedestal claiming we didn't believe in ownership and private property. The different were tolerated within our society and we happily welcomed huwhite people and freed/escaped slaves into our tribe. So we had divorce which could be done by the man or woman, tolerated and found a place for those that didn't fit into our norms rather than reject them, and didn't give a crap what color you were or where you came from. Things that took the US centuries to achieve. So yes, we were more advanced in some ways. That's not including that the founders incorporated some Native tribes forms of government into their system and that our methods of forest fire prevention and farming are still used today. Edit: Since Europeans claim the advances of every European no matter where they lived, then you can add a far superior understanding and mapping of the solar system and solar events. Even though the Americas were settled by humans about 10,000 years after Europe, it was only a few hundred years behind technologically wise.
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  8650.  @James-cb7nb  What about geology? The people that actually study the history of the planet. The global temperature is usually 70 yet for some reason coming out of the last ice age, the Earth got stuck at 60. The plates have shifted which has changed the flow of the ocean which has been the biggest factor in the oceans warming which also is contributing to the rising CO2 levels. There are many times in Earth's past that CO2 levels were the same and much higher and increased rapidly, but we don't know why. The most stable time in the Earth's history was during the dinosaurs when the ice caps were gone or tiny and the world was tropical. As for the idea we've got to do something NOW, even at the extreme rate of 1 inch per year, it will take 2000+ years for the ice caps to melt and the oceans rise the 200 feet they predict. The places being affected now, like Miami, should never have been settled because it's supposed to be Everglades all the way to Orlando. Even once the ice caps are gone, which large ones aren't normal in Earth's past, Florida won't be underwater. Mostly it will affect islands, which will disappear eventually anyway because erosion is a thing, and areas currently below sea level. Basically we're trying to force the Earth to remain in a state that's not normal for it because we're somehow superior and still, contrary to all the evidence, think we can control everything. The majority of this warming is just the Earth trying to finish coming out of the last ice age. By the way, it's also not unusual for the Earth's temperature to swing quickly either way by 10 degrees. It's been as high as 80 and life flourished. We know that because alligator fossils have been found within the arctic circle. You can attempt to argue that glaciers are older than the last ice age so obviously there were polar ice caps. The problem is the oldest ones were found buried below the level the sun warms the surface which actually supports them not being normal or the surface ones would be much older. Are humans contributing with CO2 emissions? Probably, but it's also much more complicated than just CO2 and also involves water vapor which has increased. They tend to go hand in hand, and that's mostly caused by the warming oceans which I already explained.
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  8667.  @mechadoggy  According to his letters, all the wizards but Gandalf failed and were killed. So the blue wizards failed in their task to unite a force in the East against Sauron. Tolkien wrote 7 versions of the Silmarillion and it was his first book. A lot of what was published after that was story ideas Tolkien had played around with to fill in the stories in it. That's why there's so much contradictions between them and the Silmarillion. Since we know Tolkien intended to publish the Silmarillion, it's considered canon. There's no evidence he ever intended to publish any of the other side stories. Which none of it matters anyway because they don't have the rights to any of it. This show is horrible and they made freaking female Nazgul. They've clearly added stories from the Silmarillion in and the Unfinished Tales too. I have not watched it, but watched reviews where they break every episode down. They've turned mithril into a magic ore that's only found in Kazad-dum that was created when Glorfindel fought the Balrog only they made the fight about a tree that is a Silmirill that never existed. Though they never name Glorfindel, anyone familiar with the 2nd Age would recognize that's who it was. The Elves are no longer immortal and Numenorens hate them because "they'll take our jobs" ( I wish I was kidding). Celebrimbor is an idiot who doesn't know how to forge two metals together until human Sauron tells him how, and the Dwarves don't like him. The 3 Elven rings have been forged with the help of human Sauron, but not the 7 or 9 and he's revealed he's Sauron and gone to Mount Doom. Mount Doom was created by a human using a sword that's a key to open a dam that floods tunnels orcs dug. It sends water into the volcano and makes it erupt. So a human created Mount Doom instead of Morgoth. It's so so horrifically bad and lore breaking. Oh yeah and Celeborn is dead. Sauron tries to put the moves on Galadriel because he says she'll make him want to be good. She says no, which makes him become the Dark Lord. It makes me want to vomit.
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  8712.  @borginburkes1819  What? "Until 10 years ago, movies were almost exclusively white". No they weren't. Beverly Hills Cop, Batman (Commissioner Gordon was Billy D. Williams), Nutty Professor, Demolition Man, Blade, StarWars, on and on. It's not everyone else's fault YOU choose to not consume those movies. You sound like the stupid people claiming women were never in powerful roles when Bettie Davis would even disagree. Let's see Barbershop, Straight Outta Compton, Malcom X, etc all majority black casts and all performed well at the box office which means they were watched by white audiences. TV wise shows with majority black casts have scored high on TV ratings from Sanford and Son all the way to Family Matters and beyond. Get out of here with that made up bs take. Edit: I was VERY upset black characters were added by Amazon in Rings of Power because those races look like they do for a reason. You're adding US race bs into other races making it stupid. Why would a race that dwells underground have a black member? There's humans in it which certainly you can put that into, because it fits, but not Elves and Dwarves. You don't mess with someone else's work because it's disrespectful to that work. As for the Little Mermaid, his daughters represented each of the 7 seas and were the race of the people that resides near that sea per the mythology. Meaning they could have changed her to a different character very easily. Or make one based off African mythology, which does have some with mermaids, instead of another culture. Before you claim mythology from Africa doesn't draw audiences I'll remind you of the Lion King. I'm sure you didn't know it existed until now either like every other movie with black people in it. You're also ignoring they told the audience these changes and decisions were made because of "representation".
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  8714.  @emmi2670  So you're also agreeing that a person can't identify with a character except only based on their race? If there's a character that grew up poor, had friends that were constantly in and out of jail as teenagers, their family is Church going everytime the door is open type, but they just happen to not be Native, I can't possibly understand them or identify with what's happening in their head because they don't look like me. That's insane and not how anything works. It's like saying I can't enjoy Viking history because I'm not one. A "native" experience of media would be stories about MY culture, MY religion, MY history. Just sticking a Native in a European story doesn't make it magically mine now or somehow now part of my people's culture. So if I changed every character in Boys in the Hood to Native, Indian, Asian, that's somehow going to make them magically understand those characters that they couldn't before? I hate to tell you, but it's not their "native" (I can't even begin to explain how offensive it is to use that in that sense) to have because it's not from their culture. They're not European. It's NOT a US story or myth it's a European one just like The Lion King is an African one. Since the Lion King is African does that mean I can't understand the story unless instead of lions they used American dog breeds? You see how stupid that is? It's the same as what you're proclaiming as good. Just change the different animals to different races. Edit: In case you don't understand, that's what the ideology behind "representation" is. That people can't identify with a character that doesn't look like them. So by claiming that native experience crap means you agree because that's the only way that bit makes sense. You're also ignoring it's supposed to be a live action version of the animated movie which means an almost shot for shot reenactment except in things it's just simply impossible. It's not. Most of the movie was changed including the setting so the race swap made sense. Basically you're telling people of other races and cultures their cultures and myths have no value unless a European one is adapted to create it for you.
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  8834. Welcome to war Tim. Communications from the opposite side is always removed not because they are hiding the truth or anything like that. It's to protect morale. The last thing either side wants is their citizens believing the propaganda from the other side because that's it's purpose, to demoralize the opposition. Yes Putin will remove any organization that doesn't follow what his regime dictates them to say. It's been done every single time he does this. During Crimea the propaganda RT was putting out about how evil Ukrainians are, it caused some of their most popular talking heads to quit on air because they couldn't take the blatant lies they were being forced to tell. I'm surprised he allowed "independent" media at all, but most likely it's the opposition that's allowed to exist to keep the dissidents from exploding. Even they have openly spoken out against this invasion which is extremely unusual. Their purpose is to be a valve and at least appear like he's not a dictator to the outside world, but to back him in anything major. Edit: As for the neo bad guys from Germany, you have to understand the history. That goes back to WWII when much of what we consider Ukraine was part of Poland. I believe he's saying liberalism has failed as the left here uses it. That because liberalism allows the existence of bad ideologies, it's a failure. That true freedom causes dangerous ideas to exist instead of being squashed and destroyed under the boot. He couches his speeches to intentionally contain ideas that's in the West. Hence the "anti fascist" rally. He's appealing to the far left because they want a revolution.
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  8867. I've got to give kudos to Amazon for reading the room and changing marketing right before it starts. It's changed from "We love Tolkien and are going to be faithful to his work! We swear!" To inspired by and based on LotR. Everyone knows inspired by and based on means we're using characters but it's going to be completely different. That means they need to change the title. If it's only based on it, it should be Rings of Power based on LotR. LotR should not be at the beginning. To get into what's wrong will involve some rumors/spoilers, but nothing most haven't already heard except possibly one which I'll heavily warn about. Hobbits don't exist in the 2nd age, which this is based on. That's one of the reasons they were able to resist the ring better than other races. They were a fairly young one. Gollum was an early Hobbit most likely Harfoot, so take that as you will when it comes to skin color. Celeborn, Galadriel's husband, is dead for some reason even though he's in LotR. I think it's funny even Amazon realizes their Elves don't look like Elves because they have Halbrand "a new character" lift Galadriel's hair to look at her ears. Elves should be easy to distinguish from humans on site. They are taller, more regal, and have an ethereal glow. Miriel is ruler in this series when she isn't in the books. Her husband is so, yeah. Can't have a weak woman. Spolier!!!! Halbrand is Sauron. I 100% expect him to have a "relationship" with Galadriel. Him disguised as a human mortal makes zero sense and never happened in the book. Why they think Elves and Dwarves would trust a human to form magical rings is beyond me.
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  8908. Lizzy Borden was underage and planned and murdered her parents. Lots of "children" have. How many 14+ gang bangers have killed very young children in drive by murders? Should they be exempt because of their age or should it depend on their actions? They committed a heinous crime against society. Yes 13 year olds are capable of planning and carrying out the crime of murder. As stated, some children are more mature than their counterparts. That's why it's done on a case by case basis. Teenagers are fully aware they'll only face juvie if they commit crimes and that record will be sealed once they're adults. Edmund Kemper killed his grandparents at 15 and went on to become a prolific serial killer. He only faced juvie. So just because a psychopath that's already committing murders is a child they should be unleashed back into society at the age of 18 because that's what happens under juvenile law? As for that girl, it's strange you're capable of understanding she's in full control of her decisions, but wants to let the murderer (a much more serious crime against society) free because they're a child? Murder is handled differently because it's a much more serious crime than statutory r@pe. Edit: 16 is also the age of consent in many states. If what she does is so well known in the area, maybe men should stop sticking their privates in her and control themselves. It takes two to tango. They're doing it of their own free will fully aware of the possible consequences. So is your argument fully grown adult males isn't capable of controlling themselves around a 16 year old girl?
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  9228.  @25taylorkw  Even "common sense" regulations were put in by corporations to stifle competition. In the US there's a case right now that's a good example of how this happens. When we put in food inspections, it was to increase the public's trust in grocery stores. Before that, they got it directly from the farmers so they could see for themselves what they were getting. Now the government is using the Commerce clause to come after local farms still selling like that under the guise of public safety. Forcing these local farms to go through and pay for government inspections will bankrupt them or drive the cost up so much that it's no longer as viable for the general population. So for your "safety" you won't be allowed to buy produce or meat from a local source even though you know them and their products, even though if you got ill from them you could have sued them. If it goes through, in a few years you'll believe it was because the government was protecting you, not consolidating its power over your ability to get food. Not to mention the increase to corporate farms and grocery stores. Even meat you hunt and kill will have to be inspected and food you grow yourself. I'm not kidding either. The court made the farmer in question get the food he was serving his children inspected. Edit: This is a unique case because the Amish farmer in question has a huge business and ships all over the country. However, that happened due to word of mouth and the quality of the products he provides. He's setting a model for other farmers to follow and that's dangerous to the industry. Imagine if other farms could mimic his success. That's what they want stopped because it is taking profits from big businesses and that market will grow to take more and more. A lot of people found out they could go to farmers and get products much cheaper during the pandemic when there were shortages and that's dangerous.
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  9647. 9:10 Its called workers compensation that anyone laid off is entitled to for 6 months-1 year. China doesn't hold most of our debt. Japan does. It's easy to look up. Trump is attempting to cut as close to 2 trillion from the budget as he can. To either eliminate or at least greatly reduce the income tax citizens pay. Or at least start paying down the debt. Our interest payment on our debt is 1 trillion a year. It's about to be the largest percent of our budget. He's hoping to be able to do both with tariffs making up most of what's lost from removing the income tax. If he succeeds, he'll go down as one of the best and most influential presidents in history. Beside Teddy, Lincoln, FDR, and JFK. I love how they've tried to spin US Agency for International Development as an actual aid agency when it was created by JFK to fight the Cold War. An agency that just gets blanket funding and has zero oversight. Oh the horror that it's gone. As much as I have heard leftists complain about the US engaging in color revolutions, I don't know why they're suddenly defending the agency responsible for them. Edit: I can explain why there's so much wasteful spending. If an agency doesn't use all the money budgeted to them, their budget gets reduced to what they spent in the next yearly budget. That incentives wasteful spending. Then when they're tasked with doing something else, their budget is just automatically increased for whatever they say they need. So if it's a short-term project, their money gets increased, but never decreased once the project is finished. It's an insane way to do the budget.
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  10022.  @DUDEDRUNK  Do not try to speak for me. I'm Indian American/Native. We do not "live in their own countries like a discriminated minority". Other than diseases introduced when Europeans came, we were the number one killer of ourselves. You clearly know nothing about our history or what's taught about it but feel you can speak on our behalf. My particular tribe conquered other tribes with the understanding they join or die after their defeat. We controlled 40 other tribes and recieved tributes from tribes far away to keep us away. How many other tribes did we wipe out? The Aztec subjugated the smaller tribes and used them as sacrifices. Do you honestly believe 200 Spaniards were able to conquer the million + Aztecs? No. It was the other tribes that banded together with them that conquered them. The Native population of the entire Americas are the same people so claiming we were wiped out is ludicrous when they're still the majority in South America. Canada, US, and all South American countries have the same Native population. In the US we don't "live in our own countries". We have reservations that our culture and religion is preserved on, but the majority of Natives don't live on them. We have the exact same rights and are subject to the same laws as everyone else. I'm sick of being told by people like you I'm a victim and my land was "stolen". We lost it through war just like all land has been determined throughout history. By that logic we "stole" land from each other constantly. When we conquered another tribe they assimilated or were removed just like throughout history. Why is it only considered bad and wrong when it was Europeans that became the strongest, but ignored or even revered when Genghis Khan did it? Do you think everyone he conquered were also Mongol? How about when China was united through conquest and the other Asian groups were forced to assimilate? Egypt saw the same thing. This has been going on since modern humans spread out and erased all the other humanoids, but because white people did it it's bad. Sick of this ridiculous rhetoric. Edit: How about when the Ottoman Empire conquered and forced populations to assimilate? That's from Africa so good or bad? If you view that as good then you need to take a hard look in the mirror. We don't hate white people. Most of us are grateful because any other point in history we would have simply been eliminated completely which you'd know if you read history.
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  10124. ​ @The_Haruspex  I'm in the US. There was never a time church and state were combined. Religion has never had anything to do with conservatives here. It's just been something put upon conservative by others. Both parties have always contained religious members. Look at Congress now. Almost all of them follow a religion. It's not just a conservative thing. So you claiming it is shows your own uneducated understanding. During the moral panic of the 80s and 90s, it was Democrats pushing for censorship and regulations. I'm fairly certain Tipper Gore, wife of Al Gore, has never been a conservative or a Republican. Somehow that's been erased and it's now considered something conservatives alone did. Conservatism in the US is about preserving the ideals of the Constitution and our founders. Which, as much as it pains you, means living up to those ideals like all people are created equal and have rights ordained to them. That's why "conservatives" were the first party with black people in political positions and the first openly gay member of Congress. Probably the first female in a political position but I've never researched that. They don't brag about it like Democrats do because they don't see it as anything unique or special because it's just how it was always intended. That's not "progressive" either. It's what this country was founded on, the vision of those that created it to be eventually reached. If you're not in the US then your political references are completely different and right and left mean something entirely different.
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  10152.  @Sebster85  The Thor movies have always done the worst performing in the franchise. So expectations $ wise was already lower. Yes Marvel movies are getting bad across the board. There's a reason for that. They are based on comic books which were intentionally written to become these movies. Some of the dialog may change, but the story follows the comic and ALL of those comics were woke. The male heros became portrayed as dumb and useless that couldn't defeat a villain without a woman's help no matter how strong they used to be. They created the multiverse, killing off the original versions and introducing new, more diverse ones from it. So now not only are there few old beloved heros, but there are no real stakes. That's because they can't have their new diverse heros lose or look bad. Only left over heros are allowed to be weak, dumb, and lose; and those were only the male huwhite ones. Understand it or not, that's what is coming across on the screen because that's what happened in the comics. Audiences might not fully realize that's what they're reacting to, but they know something is off and the movies don't feel right anymore. It took awhile for comic book fans to fully understand what had happened to their heros, but eventually it gets too in your face to deny it anymore. Sorry for the long post, but it took it to explain that yes it is woke that's causing the movies to do poorly by Marvel movie standards. It's just still subtler than it will be later, but it's still the reason.
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  10230.  @GarerBear It’s drying up. Contrary to popular opinion, it wasn’t ideologically driven. At least not at the higher levels. I read financial news. About 15 or so years ago, I don’t remember the exact year but it was after the 2008 crash and under Obama, articles started coming out about the “new, young investor”. That they were more concerned with supporting a company’s policies than about profit. How true those articles were given what we know now I can’t say. They were predicting this huge market shift in what people purchased. That companies that were more say environmentally conscious would get a huge boost in the market. I personally thought it was stupid because young people have been and talked like that since the 80s but once they start really investing once they have extra cash that flies out the window. In response, a couple of larger investment groups do what they do and gambled on the prediction in an attempt to get ahead of the shift. Thus ESG was born as a way for investors, companies, and potential customers to see which companies “cared” about all these causes. Every investor wants to be the one that heavily invests on the ground floor of the next Walmart or Amazon. They saw these little companies as potentially that so they invested. A LOT. When the summer of love hit it probably massively reinforced the belief in this new type of customer and investor so the funding really ramped up. I can see why they’d think it signaled a massive shift in culture and thus buying habits from high up in their penthouses. I will say I have little doubt there were younger people fresh out of college telling them all their friends care about this stuff and are really dedicated to it which only further pushed their belief that they were right and ahead on this new market. This is why you keep hearing “modern audience” and other buzzwords like it. It’s trying to appeal to the predicted new market. Unfortunately the results are finally showing and it’s bs. The opposite is happening. People are rejecting it and refusing to participate. They’ve lost billions if not trillions on this silly gamble. Activists simply took advantage of what was being offered and because of this silly market prediction, companies believed they’d help them navigate it. TL;DR: There was a massive shift of buying habits predicted based on what causes a company supports and if they’re environmentally conscious. Thus ESG was born to rate which companies these new buyers would support. Hoping to be on the ground floor of the next Walmart or Google they’ve lost billions if not trillions to a prediction that was never going to come true.
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