Comments by "worn down" (@worndown8280) on "Based Camp with Simone & Malcolm Collins" channel.

  1. My great grandmother was an anti suffragette. She would go out and protest. Her diary, and her fears for the future during that time period, read like a modern political handbook. A lot of people understood exactly what would happen if women got the vote. But you wont be able to put that genie back into the bottle until everything collapses.
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  2. My ex wife regretted having kids. I told her fine. Go live your best life. She was upset when she got neither child support nor spousal support. Why she would think you would get child support without having custody of the kids is mind boggling. Some people just dont think. But having kids was one of the greatest things I have done. Never regretted it. Even when my oldest totaled my truck.
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  3. He has the effect right. It perfectly explains the girl boss meme that women have actually tried to become. As a woman increases her status, she finds herself standing among a smaller and smaller pool of men she will find acceptable. So the writer is not wrong in that. The question is, how does one control that from a societal level, that underlying need for social standing and provision, that will make a woman feel that having offspring with a man is in her best interest? Feminism unintentionally does this. Feminists like to say feminism is like giving a woman a box to stand on to be economically equal to men. But in reality its digging a ditch from which men MUST stand. That makes the men standing in those ditches much less economically attractive to women. And you can see this because in EVERY culture that women are empowered in, you have crashing birthrates, harsher marital laws to force men into compliance, and eventually the quitting of marriage by men and, in many nations, an epidemic of single motherhood. I fully expect the return of bachelor taxes again to address the fertility issues, as if the issue is men. The modern woman has essentially defeated the male sex drive.
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  4. Never punish a child when you are angry. More often than not you will just damage the child's curiosity. Out of my three sons, only my middle son required any for of physical discipline. He was always just so much more physically domineering over other people, even adults, his size didnt help. But as he aged the need for it lessoned. But never once did I punish him out of anger. Any parent that does needs to take a step back. Which I think is one of the issues of women in single parent house holds. Most literally cannot physically or emotionally deal with children on their own. We humans were never meant to.
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  5. These people tell you time and time again, we are coming for your children. Yet folks are shocked when they do. I'll never understand peoples blindness to this.
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  6. We had this same phenomena in the Marine Corps. Men would hitch up with local ladies. It was said they won the ticket to the Land of the Great PX. This is probably not dissimilar to what happened when farming spread across the world and hunter gatherer tribes saw their women leave the tribe for the relatively stable life of a farmer. At least this is what genetic evidence has shown. Whether it was choice or by force, thats speculation. I would argue this is why women are often pro immigration, male immigration. It would boost their chances of finding a better man. But gone to the extreme it causes a drought of jobs reducing the total attractiveness of males in general since only a few can really succeed, the "where have all the good men gone" type thing. Even here in the US, the number one supporter of unfettered immigration is white women. I bet you would see this attitude change when women become the sex that is immigrating more to women. And that map of the US at 18:00, that really explains the housing market.
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  7. I like how the left defends the Black South Africans singing songs about death to the Boers by saying, well they arent suppose to be there. I do believe that is exactly the same argument a certain party in Germany made about the Jews who lived in Europe. I am shocked at how people cant really see the parallels.
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  8. With your point on wokeness in gaming (and media at large) I think there has to something taken into consideration, the cost of money. Games, advertisements, television shows and movies are all made via banking. Every game studio, marketing firm, TV channel and movie studio gets loans from a bank to make a product. Go back two years. What are the interest rates? Fed rate is 0. 25%. That means a lot of these things were being made at near free money. This goes back to 2008. So for this entire period you see a slow boil that steadily increases right up to 2020 where things go nuclear. Why? The lock downs. This was used as a thing to distract attention. But the true believers dont understand that they were once again just useful idiots to further a more central cause. But now that make in the woke group are turning to bite the hands that fed them and the costs of feeding them, via interest rates has gone up, they are no longer a useful and expedient tool. They will be cast aside and ridiculed, the the anarchist left, until the next time they are needed for some societal anarchy to push whatever new agenda is needed to "progress". But those games you were talking about that went woke and did ok, well they were all panned by gamers. None of them did as good as their predecessors. And thats why you are seeing studio after studio closing. So far in the last few months gaming studios around the US and Canada have fire close to 10k people. The truth is the gaming industry cannot afford to be woke anymore. It was always a luxury pushed by Blackrock, Vanguard and State Street.
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  9. Women have to feel comfortable enough to have children. They have to feel secure. Focusing on them is counter productive. Feminism has largely raised women up by giving them a small box and making men stand in a hole. If people want to address the low fertility rate they have to find ways of making men more attractive partners. And not just comparatively to their peers. They have to overcome the social media influence. That is the only way to resolve this. Yet everyone, constantly talks about what they can do to make women want to have babies. Women will only reproduce when they find a man that they think is worth reproducing with. I mean in the long long ago, women would have babies in caves and tents and what not. That was their lived experience it was the normal. And all a man had to do to meet that security need was provide food and shelter and protection for the tribe. Now they have to compete with the world. And its an impossible task. You comments about Hindus and British being near the same culturally is pretty spot on. Both are from the Indo European language family. A lot of language similarities. Language focuses thought and culture.
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  10. "Its never been a better time to be a woman in the world, in the west anyway." Yet look how happy, satisfied and fulfilled women arent. Leftists will trot out all the boogiemen, misogyny, society, men, "the system" or greedy corporations. And yet every attempt to adjust for these things only seems to make women more miserable. Odd. Its almost as if the underlying ideas of what should make women happy are wrong. Women's innate judginess seems to ruin any chance of addressing this. But I give props to your guest for at least trying to address it. Its probably the biggest issue women face. Themselves. Men and women arent so different it turns out.
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  11. add to it that 1/4 are on heavy anti psychotic meds and 70% are obese or overweight. Both sexes in modernity are lacking.
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  12. nuance is all but gone. Its only extremes. A very good post.
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  13. Societies that do not reward a thing, get less of it. Societies that reward other things get more of that. Its as simple as that. And as a society becomes less worthy of being invested in, why should the strong, virtuous or wise do such a thing. Their time is limited, they focus on other things. Like preparing for the future. Once they have chosen that rough, they simply stand by and let nature take its course. What I find funny is Simone's question on why dont men have more kids. Men dont have kids. Women do. You are asking the wrong question.
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  14. France doesnt even allow for paternity testing. Its considered assault against the mother if a man does it and is a crime. Marriage is the least of Frances concerns right now.
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  15.  @Terroreyes-j8l  I would like to point out that most Central and South American countries are well below the replacement fertility rate. And while I disagree with Malcom's Protestant vs Catholic dichotomy, I think there is something with modern Catholicism that is toxic to the family. Every Catholic nation has imploding birth rates and declining attendance rates among males. There is something there.
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  16. Wolverine Washington is based. A good way to look at the left right paradigm is that the left is more abstract in thought while the right is more concrete or physically real. You see this in job choices as well. The arts are filled with left leaning people, art and music are abstract ideas. While disciplines like engineering and chemistry are largely concrete.
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  17. A mans status allows a woman to access more men, who are a higher status than she might other wise could. Allowing potentially for more "monkey branching" opportunities. Its a bonus most ways for the woman.
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  18. There are two types of married women. Those who got who they wanted and those who settled. The former is happy and a builder of society along side their mate. The latter is a destructive typhoon of unhappiness that ends with the modern Karen. Both are married, but they are not the same. As far as fertility rates go, I really think more needs to be looked at at who are having children. The studies in Japan show that the women who do have children almost all have numbers at or above replacement rate for their families. But there is a large and growing segment of women who have none. The question is why? Another poster stated that it was because men cannot out compete men in the work force when there are prejudicial hiring standards for women. There simply arent enough "good" men to go around. But any attempt to address this will be seen as misogyny because these types of things are now seen as rights. What do you do to a population that thinks the things that are killing it are good? I am pretty sure that is where we are at. Then dump other things like inflation caused by government overspending and laws that favor the elderly over the young and you have the modern west. There was a guy a long time ago who said something that seemed comically simplistic, "The UN states that empowering women is the best way to lower the fertility rate. Everywhere it has been done the fertility rate is down and down hard. Now they are wondering how to raise it. I dont know, its a Scooby-Doo mystery?" The answer is staring us in the face but we dont like it. And thats fine. Its not like this hasn't happened before. And those societies and people who are to cowardly to address issues head on deserve the ash heap of history.
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  19. I would argue that wokeness is funded, you use the word supported but really they are the same thing, by taxpayers via universities and by earners who put their income into 401ks and IRAs run by the likes to Blackrock, Vanguard and State Street. That money then gets lent out via shadow lending mechanisms or used to purchase shares of stocks in companies that support wokeness. Shadow lending or banking, is completely unregulated and few if anyone actually tracts where the money goes.
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  20. Roughly 84% of American women have kids. Sightly more than 60% of American men have kids. That will tell you what you need to know why 4B is being pushed. Its a competition issue.
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  21. Replace church with science and you have the modern left.
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  22.  @aleidius192  Thats not the problem. The risks are to high. Women can nuke a relationship, a life, and your entire economic future with a single word. Will most women do that, no they wont. But even if 5% would, would you get on a plane if it had a 5% chance of ruining your life? No you wouldnt. Young men have seen several generations and heard about it from family and friends. Its not like this is a new thing. Heck in 1979 Kramer vs Kramer came out, every man should watch that movie. This is a woman problem. Women need to fix it.
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  23. There are two kinds of hardship. The first is the hardship of the mundane. The ordinary. The kind that slowly, but steadily grinds you down to dust. Like time there is no stopping it. The 2nd kind of hardship is that of the physical. This hardship culls the weakest and makes the stronger even stronger. It forces social bonds and creates society. It is the exterior pressure that squeezes people together. But when a society gets to safe, gets to "easy", where there is to much abundance, this no longer happens. The 2nd kind can limit but not stop the first kind of hardship. But the first kind of hardship will wipe out even the strongest.
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  24. Thats exactly the reason companies had to require degrees in the first place. IQ tests were deemed discriminatory.
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  25. As someone who use to work of Kaiser, there is a fundamental misunderstanding by you all on how it operates. Its a three teared system. Hospitals, Clinics and Pharmacy and then the Insurance. The latter two are for profit. The hospital is not for profit. Before the AC Kaiser would use massive amounts of charity care as a tax shelter for all the profits its two other groups made. All the physicians are owners in it. There is no negotiating. The physicians dont even need to pay for their office staff. Kaiser does. Kaiser is a good system because all the treatment is in house and its already paid for. Its why Kaiser has such a low refusal rate. And most of the refusals are for non Kaiser members who want treatment there. Kaiser built its system for its members, not the general public. One of the reasons costs have increased is the State of California forcing health care providers to take Medicaid patients. The State only pays 11 cents on the dollar for treatment, (this is back in 2019) and thats assuming you did everything right. Other wise the payment request is just ignored buy the state. Then there is the annual licensing requirements for Medicare. Again in 2019 licensing for an inpatient bed on just the Medical/Surgical (non telemetry) was over 100k a year. People have no idea how much government sucks out of healthcare. That said, the profits on things like drugs are stupefying. But again, thats the governments fault. Its against the law for pharmacists to even tell patients that they could get a Rx cheaper just by paying cash. Add to it the effects of the ACA limiting charity care right offs and you have exploding costs. It was easy to see this was going to happen. In the case of United Health Care, they have publicly traded stock. And the stock price is going to be defended to the death. Personally I blame the businesses who buy insurance coverage from them. You get what you pay for and you get what you tolerate.
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  26. The issue with this is the same as society at large, one of a lack of trust. Most societies are very quickly shifting to low trust societies. To address this issue, the same with the others, you must reverse this trend.
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  27.  @Fearlessly91  I was happy just not to fight. Plus, even though I paid for her bachelor's, she was a stay at home mom. I'm not an unreasonable person.
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  28. When women become "empowered" fertility goes down. This isnt some mystery. The UN for decades stated the number one way to reduce fertility was to put women into education and the work force. EVERYWHERE that has happened fertility rates go down. One cannot expect women to work, be upwardly mobile in their career, achieve parity with their male counterparts (a huge talking point and goal in modern politics in every western nation, and have children above replacement rate. It just cannot be done. A woman has to choose. And for decades women were push from Kindergarten to graduate school to do one and not the other. We are simply seeing the results of those policies after 4 generations. Thats all this is. The only way to stabilize birth rates is clear. But no one gives up their benefits without a fight. And going forward you are going to see a larger and larger bifurcation in political officiation between men and women as a significant portion of women seek to maintain the status quo. But when the welfare state fails it wont matter. Its all going to slam shut like an empty Coors light can under foot.
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  29. Using your Warhammer 40k example, it is not the Astartes or the Primaris who hold the line against the Xenos, the Heretic and the Mutant. It is the lowly everyday human guardsmen with his or her lasgun. I mean if the Astartes and the Primarchs were never created, then the Horus Heresy would have never happened. Sometimes by reaching to far, man makes his greatest blunders. Man is never able to be perfected. We are inherently flawed creatures. And anyone who attempts to do change that will fail. Its why Stoicism is so important. Making yourself better is the only way forward, but it requires will. In that Nietzsche was right. The will to power, or action, is the most important thing.
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  30. This is a very important and not full accepted idea. Women will tend to want a man "better" than them. For a lot of women, better means more money. If men and women are equal in the work place then how will a woman find a better? They might exist but not in the numbers that are needed for all the women that want them. And then there is the question of will those men want those types of women.
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  31. I love listening to your discussions. In the case of this topic I have the view that modern society has cast away the need for responsibility. The responsibility to ones own self, to ones community or group and to ones potential progeny and ancestry. And that is a deeply social thing. Some countries have one or two of those things, but few have all three. In life, to be stable, you must always have three points of contact.
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  32. my grandmother and great grandmother bother worked. My grandmother worked before WWII and that was common for most working class. There is this misconception that working class women didnt have to work and thats just wrong. Statistically you had to be upper middle class to afford to have a stay at home wife/mom. What people back before WWII did have was extended family to help raise children while a woman went to work. Post WWII women lost some of that with the people moving around, but what they did gain were husbands with a temporary boost to income due to the rest of the globe being decimated from WWII. That ended when the boomers started entering the work force, because their age cohort was so large it depressed wages. This forced even middle class women, if they hoped to keep their living standard, to work.
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  33. Happiness is the momentary reward for a job well done. Sitting on your haunches for a moment to savor it is not a sin. But sit to long and you tend to get stuck. Edit: Your point about PTSD in vets is in interesting one. During WWII the average "time" in combat for an American solider was 10 days. In Vietnam it was estimated to be around 240 days. The mobility of modern warfare where an individual can be inserted almost instantly, via rotary wing aircraft or parachute, even several hundred miles from the rear where they are safely quartered, changed how military assets were used. Instant deployment, instant reaction, constant stimuli.
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  34. It takes 3 generations to change a culture. After that there is no one left from the previous iteration of the culture. If a group or an idea can last that three generation period it will become a norm. To return to a previous norm, it would also take 3 generations.
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  35. Men are also forced to pay for OBGYN care on their insurance. It subsidizes the cost for women. Most HIV patients and people who are so sexually promiscuous that they would need PrEP are also infected with Hepatitis C. Their livers are already trashed and it makes monitoring even more necessary.
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  36. I think a lot of people miss the original intent of these kinds of marriages. Life was short and brutal. A woman unattended was typically stolen. Wife raids were common, as there were in many places if you go back far enough. Even Rome was created on a wife raid, The Rape of the Sabine women. Many places are still as dangerous as back then. Most of these marriages are within the larger clan groups as well, so the people are known. Though I do not find them typically appealing, in these communities and cultures, these marriage arrangements may do more good than harm. But as a parent, I cannot fathom why a father would do this to one of his children unless the situation was dire in the extreme. But I am not from their culture. I do not speak their language. I do not think the same way.
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  37. I was going to post this. I am glad I am not the only one who understood this. Once the Yamnaya pushed into eastern Europe though, the basically interbred with the female populations and the local male populations just disappeared. That said the Yamnaya were also a darker skinned people than modern Europeans.
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  38. Adam and Eve is borrowed from the Sumerian Eridu Genesis. The Torah reorders things. The first humans were eternal. The first humans helped the Sumerian gods. But they reproduced endlessly and were so noisy that the highest god, Enlil, cant sleep and requires his brother, Enki (the god of water, wisdom, and choas), to wipe the Earth clean so he could rest. Enki knowing his brother was rash and would later regret his choice took steps. Enki tells a righteous man, Utnapishtim, to build an ark, we literally have the clay tablets that have the lengths of materials needed to build it, to contain the animals so that when Enki sends the flood the animals will be saved. Utnapishtim is eternal. He does not die. But he boards the ark alone. The last survivor of the old men. He later appears in the Epic of Gilgamesh. After the flood Enlil is upset and regretted his decision. While he is lamenting his decision, Enki gets together with two other Sumerian gods, this is where Genesis 1:26 comes from. The goddess envolved is named Nintu, which means rib in Sumerian and Enki keeps them in his garden. Eventually it gets back to Enlil that Enki has created more humans. Enlil enraged comes to Enki's home and demands Enki destroy the humans. Enki tells Enlil not to worry. These humans do not live forever. They get sick, they die for like no reason at all. Enlil demands Enki cast them out of his garden. And Enki and Inanna gives Adam and Eve gift as they part. One of those gifts is a fruit of knowledge, but there were many more. And as the two humans leave the garden Enlil forces Enki to prostrate himself before the other Sumerian gods. Enki, the savior of the animals of the Earth. The creator of humans, is the snake in the Garden in the Torah. Enki's sigil is the caduceus. He also appears in other parts of the Bible. He is the cause of the Tower of Babel incident.
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  39. Its not porn. Porn isnt good for you but its not porn. Its choice. People make choices. Those choices have outcomes. You can try to direct those choices with education. But in the end, its just choices people dont like.
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  40. When I was a kid in the late 80s working my first job I worked with a man from Georgia. He was Black. We would have interesting conversations. He once said he preferred Georgia to California. I asked him why? He said California had more economic opportunity. But in Georgia, if someone didnt like him because he was Black, they would say it to his face. In California they would just smile at him and drop an N bomb behind his back. He said that young kids like me, at the time, wouldnt have to worry about racial stuff in the future because of how we were raised. I wonder what Keith thinks of the race relations of today? Where did we go so wrong?
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  41. Women chose when to have children. The problem is that modernity and feminism in particular have made it a policy to make men less appealing as mates because incomes are equal or near equal, especially in some ones 20s. Until policies are put in place to make men more attractive as partners and mates, fertility rates will not improve. but this would require the wholesale rejection of feminism which will not happen until societies collapse, including those power structures that hold up and promote feminism. Its not like this hasnt happened before. This will self correct, but not before a lot of people suffer and die. But that is the price of wisdom.
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  42. Id argue that people in general, and women in this case, can only get to higher levels in theoretical physics or advanced math must have extraordinary discipline, or be naturally gifted. Few are gifted. These women simply have high levels of discipline. That probably rolls over to their diets as well.
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  43. I came to write this too. The Church put pew numbers above faith and they got neither.
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  44. I am shocked that this is even a thing that needs to be discussed. Women arent having as many children because they feel they cant find a man who is on the same level with them. Add to that the business competition where men now not only have to compete with each other but also with women now, who in many industries get preferential treatment, it makes it harder for men to get to that level for their peer women. And those same men will happily marry a woman who makes much less than them, while the inverse is not true. I have a niece who is going through this right now and its heartbreaking. A smart and intelligent woman will not have children until she feels safe and secure. But our current social environment makes that extremely hard. Meanwhile the maladjusted women still do whatever.
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  45. Yet if you look at many modern nations their collapse came pre television. Take the UK for example, it happened in the 1880s through 1930. Thats even pre radio. What happened in the 1880s, British universities started accepting women. The same happened in France with the creation of the 3rd Republic.
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  46. Your speculative fiction is almost identical to what the Yamnaya did 4000 years ago. They were the technologically superior people of their time. During their tribal coming of age ceremonies the young men underwent a ceremony and were then ejected from the tribe for a time. These young men would have to survive and upon their return would become members of the tribe. The Yamnaya that went West, and their decendant cultures, took over all of Europe wiping out almost all the Y Chromosomes from the European Hunter Gatherers and the Farmers that came from Anatolia. They took their women though. The Yamnaya that went to the East became the Iranic and Hindic peoples, as well as the Tocharians in modern China. All those peoples wiped out anyone they came into contact with. I think you over estimate how peaceful future groups will be. If you breed out aggression, those populations will fall.
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  47. Thats because most men do not know how to fight most women. Women fight with reputation destruction. I got my sons, full custody. I did not fight my ex wife in court. I fought her in the battle of public opinion. And I fought her like a woman. And I destroyed her. If men want their children, and I honestly think that not all men do, many at least want partial custody or visitation, that they need to learn this. Lawyers do little to help in this matter.
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  48.  @SandymoorFerrariClub  Women have all their gametes when they are born. The environment effects them so the older a woman has, depending on her lifestyle, the more genetic damage will be done to them. Men make all their gametes on the go, so to speak. Environmental damages typically will harm a certain batch but only that batch, but germline alterations require heavy exposure to mutagenic compounds. Comparing men and women in this instance is literally comparing apples to oranges.
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  49. When will the pogroms start against us tall folks?
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  50. Its coming
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