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To quote someone else in this thread.
> Facts don't care about your feelings
I'm glad you agree.
> Who told you it was a lie...?
Reality, common sense, and mountains of data.
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> More diverse neighborhoods have lower social cohesion.
>Diversity increases psychotic experiences.
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>Diversity increases social adversity.
> A 10% increase in diversity doubles the chance of psychotic episodes.
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>Diversity reduces voter registration, political efficacy, charity, and number of friendships.
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>Ethnic diversity reduces happiness and quality of life.
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>Diversity reduces trust, civic participation, and civic health.
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>Ethnic diversity harms health for Hispanics and Blacks.
>Diversity primarily hurts the dominant ethnic group.
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>Ethnic diversity reduces concern for the environment.
>Ethnic diversity within 80 meters of a person reduces social trust.
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>Ethnic diversity directly reduces strong communities.
> Ethnically homogeneous neighborhoods are beneficial for health.
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> In America, more diverse cities have more segregation.
>Homogeneous polities have less crime, less civil war, and more altruism.
>States with little diversity have more democracy, less corruption, and less inequality.
>There is extensive evidence people prefer others who are genetically similar.
>Borders, not multiculturalism, reduce intergroup violence.
>Diversity reduces charity and volunteering.
>People who live in diverse communities rather than homogenous ones are poorer and less educated.
>Black people trust their neighbors less than do White people.
>Spanish speakers trust their neighbors less than do English speakers.
>Asians trust their neighbors less than do White people.
>Ethnically diverse workplaces have lower cohesion, lower satisfaction and higher turnover.
>Ethnic diversity reduces social trust.
>Ethnic diversity among members of the same race reduces infrastructure quality, charity, and loan repayment.
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>Diversity of any sort makes people more likely to defect in game theoretic scenarios.
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>Homogeneous military units have less desertion than diverse units.
>Diversity correlates with low GDP.
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>Ethnic homogeneity correlates with strong democracy.
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>Genetic diversity causes societal conflict.
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>Ethnic diversity causally decreases social cohesion.
>Ethnocentrism is rational, biological, and genetic in origin.
>Babies demonstrate ethnocentrism before exposure to non-Whites.
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>Ethnocentrism is universal and likely evolved in origin.
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>Races are extended families. Ethnocentrism is genetically rational.
>Ethnocentrism is biological in origin and a superior evolutionary strategy to altruism.
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>Humans are more altruistic to individuals who they are more closely related to.
>People subconsciously prefer those who are genetically similar to them for biologically rational reasons.
>Kinship between members of an ethnic group is greater than expected.
>Social trust is negatively affected by ethnic diversity: Case study in Denmark from 1979 to the present.
>Ethnic homogeneity and Protestant traditions positively impact individual and societal levels of social trust.
>“In longitudinal perspective, [across European regions], an increase in immigration is related to a decrease in social trust.”
>Immigration undermines the moral imperative of those who most favor welfare benefits for the neediest.
>The negative effect of community diversity on social cohesion is likely causal.
>In Switzerland, social peace between diverse factions isn’t maintained by integrated coexistence, but rather by strong topographic and political borders that separate groups and allow them autonomy.
>Increasing social pluralism (diversity) is correlated with increased chance of collective violence.
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>In Germany, residential diversity reduces natives’ trust in neighbors, while it also reduces immigrants’ trust but through a different pathway.
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>“Ethnic heterogeneity [diversity] explains 55% of the variation in the scale of ethnic conflicts, and the results of regression analysis disclose that the same relationship applies to all 187 countries."
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>Genetic Similarity Theory (GST) could help explain why diverse groups in close proximity increases ethnic conflict and ethnic nepotism.
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>Genetic diversity has contributed significantly to frequency of ethnic civil conflict, intensity of social unrest, growth of unshared policy preferences, and economic inequality over the last half-century.
>Using social science data and computer modeling, researchers found that policies that attempt to create neighborhoods that are both integrated and socially cohesive are “a lost cause”.
>The numbers and the genetic distance matter. Minority groups that get above a certain critical mass, and that are culturally distant from the majority culture, begin to self-segregate from the majority, moving society toward division and away from cooperation.
>School integration (forced proximate diversity) will not close race achievement gaps.
>As diversity increases, politics becomes more tribalistic.
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>Company diversity policies don’t help minorities or women, and they psychologically discriminate against White men.
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>Greater classroom and neighborhood diversity is linked to stronger tendencies to choose same-ethnic rather than cross-ethnic friends.
> Facts don't care about your feelings
I'm glad you agree.
> Who told you it was a lie...?
Reality, common sense, and mountains of data.
__
> More diverse neighborhoods have lower social cohesion.
>Diversity increases psychotic experiences.
____
>Diversity increases social adversity.
> A 10% increase in diversity doubles the chance of psychotic episodes.
__
>Diversity reduces voter registration, political efficacy, charity, and number of friendships.
_
>Ethnic diversity reduces happiness and quality of life.
____
>Diversity reduces trust, civic participation, and civic health.
____
>Ethnic diversity harms health for Hispanics and Blacks.
>Diversity primarily hurts the dominant ethnic group.
____
>Ethnic diversity reduces concern for the environment.
>Ethnic diversity within 80 meters of a person reduces social trust.
____
>Ethnic diversity directly reduces strong communities.
> Ethnically homogeneous neighborhoods are beneficial for health.
__
> In America, more diverse cities have more segregation.
>Homogeneous polities have less crime, less civil war, and more altruism.
>States with little diversity have more democracy, less corruption, and less inequality.
>There is extensive evidence people prefer others who are genetically similar.
>Borders, not multiculturalism, reduce intergroup violence.
>Diversity reduces charity and volunteering.
>People who live in diverse communities rather than homogenous ones are poorer and less educated.
>Black people trust their neighbors less than do White people.
>Spanish speakers trust their neighbors less than do English speakers.
>Asians trust their neighbors less than do White people.
>Ethnically diverse workplaces have lower cohesion, lower satisfaction and higher turnover.
>Ethnic diversity reduces social trust.
>Ethnic diversity among members of the same race reduces infrastructure quality, charity, and loan repayment.
__
>Diversity of any sort makes people more likely to defect in game theoretic scenarios.
__
>Homogeneous military units have less desertion than diverse units.
>Diversity correlates with low GDP.
____
>Ethnic homogeneity correlates with strong democracy.
__
>Genetic diversity causes societal conflict.
__
>Ethnic diversity causally decreases social cohesion.
>Ethnocentrism is rational, biological, and genetic in origin.
>Babies demonstrate ethnocentrism before exposure to non-Whites.
_
>Ethnocentrism is universal and likely evolved in origin.
____
>Races are extended families. Ethnocentrism is genetically rational.
>Ethnocentrism is biological in origin and a superior evolutionary strategy to altruism.
__
>Humans are more altruistic to individuals who they are more closely related to.
>People subconsciously prefer those who are genetically similar to them for biologically rational reasons.
>Kinship between members of an ethnic group is greater than expected.
>Social trust is negatively affected by ethnic diversity: Case study in Denmark from 1979 to the present.
>Ethnic homogeneity and Protestant traditions positively impact individual and societal levels of social trust.
>“In longitudinal perspective, [across European regions], an increase in immigration is related to a decrease in social trust.”
>Immigration undermines the moral imperative of those who most favor welfare benefits for the neediest.
>The negative effect of community diversity on social cohesion is likely causal.
>In Switzerland, social peace between diverse factions isn’t maintained by integrated coexistence, but rather by strong topographic and political borders that separate groups and allow them autonomy.
>Increasing social pluralism (diversity) is correlated with increased chance of collective violence.
____
>In Germany, residential diversity reduces natives’ trust in neighbors, while it also reduces immigrants’ trust but through a different pathway.
_
>“Ethnic heterogeneity [diversity] explains 55% of the variation in the scale of ethnic conflicts, and the results of regression analysis disclose that the same relationship applies to all 187 countries."
__
>Genetic Similarity Theory (GST) could help explain why diverse groups in close proximity increases ethnic conflict and ethnic nepotism.
__
>Genetic diversity has contributed significantly to frequency of ethnic civil conflict, intensity of social unrest, growth of unshared policy preferences, and economic inequality over the last half-century.
>Using social science data and computer modeling, researchers found that policies that attempt to create neighborhoods that are both integrated and socially cohesive are “a lost cause”.
>The numbers and the genetic distance matter. Minority groups that get above a certain critical mass, and that are culturally distant from the majority culture, begin to self-segregate from the majority, moving society toward division and away from cooperation.
>School integration (forced proximate diversity) will not close race achievement gaps.
>As diversity increases, politics becomes more tribalistic.
_
>Company diversity policies don’t help minorities or women, and they psychologically discriminate against White men.
__
>Greater classroom and neighborhood diversity is linked to stronger tendencies to choose same-ethnic rather than cross-ethnic friends.
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There's even more where that came from, but you should probably just take the L and move on.
(edit:Fixed some dead links, will fix the rest later. There's already more than enough there to discredit the baseless "diversity is our strength" neomarxist dogma though.)
https://www.quora.com/Why-has-Africa-historically-never-been-technologically-and-militarily-as-developed-as-the-rest-of-the-world
I've seen you attacking people for "being unwilling to change their stance" a lot but, maybe give this a read. Or if you're actually the "facts don't care about your feelings" guy and are so self assured in your "solid" opinion, maybe give this a read.
https://www.amazon.co.uk/Guns-Germs-Steel-history-everybody/dp/0099302780
Here's a short summary since I have a feeling you won't be that interested, and it is VERY short summary.
"To summarise some of the main reasons, 1 geography: in places like Europe the geography of the land contributed 2 main things to societal development, the first being agricultural access(or how easy it is to farm excess) and also the opportunity of trade mostly through water routes. The ability to easily farm lead to specialisations in societies, or people who specialised in specific tasks, enabling that civilisations to further progress. The ease of trade allowed ideas and technology to spread and take root in farther lands than the origin (the Mediterranean). Another big factoring this varied development of societies is domestic animals. While Europe had the cow, pig, horses, chicken, etc. places like Africa had almost no domesticated animals to help mainly agriculture and transport of goods."
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Guns,_Germs,_and_Steel This wikipedia article also breaks many of the key points down into smaller chunks to read over.
Classism definitely exists, but like everything else doesn't exist in a bubble. Class, race, gender, sex, age...these things all intersect and interact in ways that make social realities for people. Academics (which I am not) have different opinions about the extent to which one is more important than another. I would say yes, historically it has been far more difficult for a person of color to move up in American society and yes, that is still the case today. But I'm just a guy on reddit who likes to read. If you're interested in this stuff here's where I started: The Color of Law, New Jim Crow, Ta-Nehisi Coates, the autobiography of Malcolm X, The Warmth of Other Suns
I guess science and data are racist now lmao
Here ya go:
https://www.amazon.com/Bell-Curve-Intelligence-Structure-Paperbacks/dp/0684824299
The findings are pretty well accepted at this point. Scientific figures like Richard Dawkins have acknowledged the findings as legitmate, just "not useful to talk about".
But sure, go ahead and stick your head in the sand rather than engage in dialogue. Ignorance is bliss.
You do have this magical social instinct. You're posting online.
If you didn't have it, you wouldn't be asking because you wouldn't even be able to conceptualize it. You'd probably be institutionalized, in fact. Not just a brief spell, either.
If you didn't have a social instinct, you wouldn't understand anything. You wouldn't be able to read because you wouldn't give a shit why everyone cared so much about some stupid squiggles. You wouldn't be able to drive because you'd literally slam into the tailend of someone stopping for some kids crossing up the road and get your license taken away.
You may have worse social instincts than most, but you can work on that. Also, introvert/extrovert is a thing. This is a nice book.
Good luck.
I suggest reading A Generation of Sociopaths: How the Baby Boomers Betrayed America.
It goes over a lot of detail on this subject. How they took plurality power of the government in 1982, majority in 1992, and even now, still hold 2/3s of all government positions such as federal senate/house members, governors, and state house/senators (that number may have been lowered in the 2018 election, but they still hold the majority).
That we find it horrifying that the rich have too much control with the money in this country, yet, if you look at it, the Baby Boomer generation controls 70% of the disposable income & wealth in this country.
They're a generation which changed laws to help the young when they were young at the expense of their parents. They changed the laws to help the middle aged when they were middle aged at the expense of their children and parents (e.g. wanting to get rid of the estate tax when their parents generation started dying, and no way to declare bankruptcy for student loans anymore). And now that they're old, laws are being changed to help the old at the expense of the young (not so surprisingly, a lot of state government problems are due to pension issues, which just so happen to grandfather their generation into the huge pension payouts causing all the issues).
Iran's democracy was formed in 1906 in a popular pro-West Constitutional Revolution led by actual freedom fighters againt colonialists; Israel was officially "created" by the colonialists in 1948 on the smoldering heap of Palestinians dead bodies
https://www.haaretz.com/1.5262454
https://www.amazon.com/Ethnic-Cleansing-Palestine-Ilan-Pappe/dp/1851685553
Israel is a "Democracy" that has racially segregated schools and laws that prohibit intermarriage, among other things that would not be tolerated in any actual democracy
https://www.haaretz.com/jewish/.premium-could-you-marry-in-israel-1.5250455
https://www.thedailybeast.com/israels-most-liberal-city-introduces-racially-segregated-kindergartens
And government officials who shout about the Superior Jewish Race - literally
https://shadowproof.com/2012/06/03/israeli-interior-minister-this-country-belongs-to-us-the-white-man/
https://www.newsweek.com/jews-are-smartest-race-world-and-superior-humans-israeli-lawmaker-claims-977896
That's why the Gaza Strip today has a population of 1.8 million people, about as high a population density as Hong Kong, out of which 1.6 million are refugees who were forced there after Israel took their lands
Yeah I agree.
It's also really, really unnatural.
A lot of people don't believe it, but with every human step we actually had to work more. Initially a farming society might have worked less than a hunterer & gatherer society, but after a few decades they actually had to WORK MORE than earlier, mainly because of the growing living standard and society. Same goes for the industrialisation.
If you compare our live to that of a stone-age civilization, you'd actually find that we work far more than them. Obviously that has granted us a FAR higher living standard, but it's still unnatural.
Source: https://www.amazon.com/Sapiens-Humankind-Yuval-Noah-Harari/dp/0062316117/ref=sr_1_1?crid=2Z3M16F84J3NM&keywords=a+short+history+of+humankind&qid=1556869021&s=gateway&sprefix=a+short+history+of+human%2Caps%2C255&sr=8-1
Here is a direct link to the book. Seriously, you should read this. It is one of the most accessible books on the subject, and it's not merely "white men are all evil." It is a summary of good, mainstream scholarship. You will only come out better for having read it.
Ok. Get reading.
https://www.amazon.com/Bell-Curve-Intelligence-Structure-Paperbacks/dp/0684824299/ref=mp_s_a_1_1?ie=UTF8&qid=1549140481&sr=8-1&pi=AC_SX236_SY340_FMwebp_QL65&keywords=the+bell+curve&dpPl=1&dpID=51iCoWIekpL&ref=plSrch
https://www.amazon.com/Race-Differences-Intelligence-Richard-Lynn/dp/1593680198/ref=mp_s_a_1_1?ie=UTF8&qid=1549140556&sr=8-1&pi=AC_SX236_SY340_QL65&keywords=race+and+intelligence&dpPl=1&dpID=51s-4ElHCFL&ref=plSrch
https://www.amazon.com/Oreo-Wafer-23-1-Pound-each/dp/B00CHTYOKE here is the link for you
https://www.amazon.com/Oreo-Wafer-23-1-Pound-each/dp/B00CHTYOKE
What’s the bet they don’t taste the same
Here you go: Creamless Oreo Wafers! (In Bulk)
>https://www.amazon.com/How-Destroy-Man-Now-DAMN/dp/099982032X
There's a theory this was written by some neckbeard incel in order to incite. Someone tried to track its roots and found them to be incredibly amateurish.
Black Africans kept more slaves for themselves than were ever exported to the US.
Source: Thomas Sowell - https://www.amazon.com/Black-Rednecks-Liberals-Thomas-Sowell/dp/1594031436
https://www.amazon.com/Oreo-Wafer-23-1-Pound-each/dp/B00CHTYOKE/ref=sr_1_8_a_it?ie=UTF8&qid=1551031623&sr=8-8&keywords=oreo+wafers
they do.. https://www.amazon.com/Oreo-Wafer-23-1-Pound-each/dp/B00CHTYOKE
https://www.amazon.com/Generation-Sociopaths-Boomers-Betrayed-America/dp/0316395781
They do sell Oreos without the cream, though only in bulk https://www.amazon.com/Oreo-Wafer-23-1-Pound-each/dp/B00CHTYOKE
I think Oreo Thin Crisps are also similar to the cookie minus the cream.
I'm tempted to send this to the OP so I can hear this rant on youtube while the OP burns it.
introvert here but far from wimpy and quiet. I'm fine with people I am close to and my definition of introversion is not to be annoying outgoing. I don't need to speak to you just for shits and giggles and don't come bugging my ass when I'm in the middle of something. The power of quiet my friend.
This isn’t evidence but this book lays out the idea of how some vegetables may cause you harm from their natural pesticides.
The Plant Paradox: The Hidden Dangers in "Healthy" Foods That Cause Disease and Weight Gain https://www.amazon.com/dp/006242713X/ref=cm_sw_r_cp_api_i_FNyYDbRB0DC8E
Of course you don’t see or feel the privilege. And this is absolutely no fault of your own. You’ve had it your whole life. To you it’s perfectly normal, expected, it’s the status quo and it is invisible to you.
I had this very discussion with my uncle-in-law a little while back. He couldn’t understand how people of color and people in poverty can’t live “the American Dream” simply by working hard (ie “pull yourself up by your bootstraps). He kept pointing out the challenges in his own upbringing and how he had overcome them “all on his own.” He just could not see how his upper middle class upbringing which included a working father and stay at home mom both of whom were college educated, four bedroom house in a good neighborhood, and private schooling with after school tutoring had afforded him a level of privilege not available to people in poverty.
So here is my challenge to you. Go and find a black man any black man and ask them about how they have experienced racism and discrimination in their own lives; ask him how he responds to being pulled over by a cop. Find a poor family of color using government assistance and ask them about how they are talked to by everyday people while they work two full time jobs and go without food to make sure their kids have dinner. Go and find a person who speaks with a Spanish accent and ask them how often they are told to “go back where they came from.” Go and find a woman working in the same position as you do and ask her what her salary is. Go and ask a woman what she does to protect herself when she has to go out alone at night.
Then ask yourself why YOU have never experienced those things. The answer is because you are a white male. Still don’t believe me. Then pull out a book and read. Here are some great books that will educate you to the condition of people of color:
These are just a few examples. There are Oh so many more. Before you discount the idea of privilege make sure you educate yourself about the condition of the people under your feet.
YOU may not be putting people down to pull yourself up, but that doesn’t mean you didn’t start higher up the ladder than they did.
You're severely moving the goal posts.
>most Black and Hispanic people in the US were brought here / came here in extreme poverty and have been kept that way for centuries, whereas most immigrants (especially more recent ones) from Asia come from wealthy families who are actually able to make the move here
Your statement doesn't talk about police policy, nor do you specifically mention post WWII. That's why the Irish were brought up to begin with. Your premise based on the words you chose, was that black/hispanic people don't have the same opportunities because of poverty and racial discrimination. These are two things which were faced by other groups as well. Groups that now flourish.
Might want to check out Black Rednecks and White Liberals
Ooh, an actual unpopular opinion.
I agree with some of what you say, but like a lot of people (including the ones you’re attacking) you’ve conflated introversion with being shy or being socially awkward. Introversion is not either of those things. Shyness and social awkwardness seem to arise more often in Introverts because of the high social value placed on Extroverted traits in our culture, and the fact that Introverts often get treated as if there is something wrong with them from a young age.
Introverts also do tend have higher IQs than Extroverts. So yes, even though being an Introvert doesn’t guarantee you’re some kind of tortured genius, it does make it more likely that they’re further to the right on the IQ bell curve than a randomly selected Extrovert.
A good book on the subject - https://www.amazon.co.uk/Quiet-Power-Introverts-World-Talking/dp/0141029196
You can buy the bisquit in bulk on amazon. Its expensive as hell though.
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The meme works because as a generation, the boomers are sociopaths who have acted incredibly selfishly at the expense of all other generations. Read the book below as it lays it out very well.
A Generation of Sociopaths: How the Baby Boomers Betrayed America https://www.amazon.com/dp/0316395781/ref=cm_sw_r_cp_apa_i_teeWDbKWNQXG2
https://www.washingtonpost.com/news/morning-mix/wp/2015/04/14/study-finds-surprisingly-that-women-are-favored-for-jobs-in-stem/
" In fact, the bias has now flipped: Female candidates are now twice as likely to be chosen as equally qualified men."
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Pretty significant advantage, that.
You can't compare institutional racism, like what our police force does to the black and hispanic community, with sexism. It is disingenuous. I can point to that in data. Unlike the pay gap that is often intellectually dishonest in how it is presented I can point to solid data that shows, all things being equal, there are segments of the population that are abused by law enforcement.
I'm not sure what a valid reason is for sexism. That is what giving one side an unfair advantage is, right? Or do we repeat the cycle? Disadvantage one gender to the detriment of the other, then after a period of time reverse the roles and begin a new systemic imbalance? It is an interesting idea of equality.
While there are many terrible things that happen to women I doubt the preponderance of them are perpetrated by a sexist society at large. People are victims of crime, it happens. Men more so are victims of violent crime than women. As for physical violence, good ol plug for the second amendment here: Guns level the physical playing field (https://nypost.com/video/off-duty-cop-shoots-robber-during-nighttime-attack/). Guns have that magical ability to allow the smaller, weaker, older, and physically infirm to still protect their right to be safe. Were it not for a gun, that woman's life might have taken a very Silence of the Lambs sort of turn that night.
Then there is this self-inflicted problem wherein women are starting to fail to climb corporate ladders because of fear. https://www.washingtonpost.com/business/2019/05/17/metoo-backlash-more-male-managers-avoid-mentoring-women-or-meeting-alone-with-them/ . There is a very real need that #metoo began to fill. Inappropriate sexual behavior should never be tolerated or justified, to be clear. But people should be innocent until proven guilty, not the other way around. Increasing discovery of things like this ( https://www.usatoday.com/story/news/nation/2018/05/07/convictions-vacated-26-year-old-rape/588406002/ ) and books like this ( https://www.amazon.com/How-Destroy-Man-Now-DAMN/dp/099982032X ) highlight to men how incredibly, unfairly, vulnerable they are to unverified claims. This has started to create a generation of Mike Pence's that won't meet one-on-one with a woman under any circumstances without chaperones... because the society we have voluntarily created has made it a necessary precaution.
Amen
People just like to complain about the growing income gap (between rich and poor) or the rape culture or the growth in violence when in fact all statistics show that the world is a much better place now than it was 50 years ago: in these times being poor meant not having a fridge and not eating every day. Today it's having a smartphone that's not an iphone. Rape occurrences got halved over the last 20y and litteracy rates have gone up significantly in places where it was really low.
Just read The Rational Optimist which shows how the world is so much better than it used to, and humans have always found ways to avoid the catastrophy that doomsayers were announcing.
https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_companies_involved_in_the_Holocaust
These were run by the same people as pre-Nazi times. They were close to the Nazis due to cooperation not coercion. Even Peugeot was allowed to keep his factories after the invasion of France. This is very unlike the USSR and any socialist principles whatsoever.
So you’re saying the stamping out of pro-socialist organisation proves that the Third Reich was socialist? You’ve also ignored the NEP and Stakhanovite movement.
Also point to me where Marx says that workers should be oppressed by their government.
You seem to be basing your argument off of the USSR a lot despite huge differences (Central planning, the system of politics, etc all very different) and the fact that they had to invent the term “Marxist-Leninism” to describe the USSR’s system.
Then how exactly is the German Reich socialist when it doesn’t at all follow socialist principle and only barely follows socialist practice?
I love the part where the Reich was so socialist it invaded the USSR and killed millions of Slavs.
The 3 you list about the economy are wrong. They didn’t have control they had cooperation. Businessmen kept their companies and in return for making tanks and planes - WHICH THE NAZI GOVERNMENT PAID FOR - they were allowed to deny workers rights.
https://www.amazon.co.uk/Rise-Third-Reich-William-Shirer/dp/0099421763/ref=nodl_
If you want to at all educate yourself I recommend this. Hitler had absolutely no interest in economics whatsoever and totally misdefined socialism. What Hitler implemented was not socialist in the slightest and not only because big businesses were still run privately
> Killing a plant is not the same as killing a sentient animal that has thoughts, feelings, fears, friends, that care for their offspring.
You presume that plants are not sentient? How do you know this? Are you a plant? Have you ever been a plant? No? I thought as much.
Plants are alive, just like animals. They have all of the hallmarks of life. And based off the fact that they use poisons and anti-nutrients to ward off prey due to not being able to move, they therefore must logically have some kind of awareness, sentience, and feeling of pain.
Current research often means nothing, as in future, things can change once old dogmas about the world are demolished.
https://www.amazon.com/Secret-Life-Plants-Fascinating-Emotional/dp/0060915870
https://www.amazon.com/Primary-Perception-Biocommunication-Plants-Living/dp/0966435435
https://www.amazon.com/Blinded-Science-Matthew-Silverstone/dp/0956865607
In Primary Perception, Cleve Backster collates his research notes into his explorations into plant awareness. He accidentally, through boredom, discovered that plants can react very quickly to our behaviour, but their body movements are basically near-impossible for us to perceive on a macro scale.
Blinded by Science references Backster, and it's the only book I have a digital copy of, so I'll paste some relevant stuff:
> Backster worked for the CIA, specialising in interrogation.
He was an expert in the use of polygraph machines to interrogate
applicants who were looking for employment in the CIA. As a
young and innovative man, Backster found that this work became
less and less stimulating and decided to go freelance, setting up his
own school to teach polygraphic techniques in New York in 1965
and calling it the “Backster Research Foundation”. It was during
a quiet night in the office that Backster decided to investigate the
behaviour of plants and the speed at which water rose from the root
to the leaf area. He happened to have a large Dracaena plant in a pot
in the corner of the office that he thought he would experiment on,
and he wired it up to his polygraph machine.
> The first reaction produced surprising results, completely
opposite to what Backster had expected, but exactly the results
that Bose had shown seventy years previously. Plants do not like
being fed cold water; they go into shock and take time to respond
positively, and this is exactly what the lie detector graph showed.
> The initial tracing moved in a downward direction, but one minute
after feeding, the tracing exhibited a “short term change in contour
similar to a reaction pattern typical of a human subject who might
have been briefly experiencing the fear of detection”.
> For some unknown reason, Backster decided to challenge the
plant because the unexpected human contour pattern seemed to
bring out his competitive nature. He seemed to be saying, if that
is how you are going to behave, then let’s see what you do when I
do something that a human would react very strongly to, like being
punched in the face. The only equivalent idea that Backster had,
other than actually punching the plant, was to hurt it by burning it
with his cigarette lighter. [...]
> The room was small, it was close to midnight and there was no-
one around in the building, just Backster and the Dracaena plant.
Whilst Backster was searching for his cigarette lighter, knowing he
had the idea of burning the leaf attached to his polygraph, his ears
picked up something strange that stopped him in his tracks – the
polygraph machine was showing extreme movements. “The very
moment the imagery of burning that leaf entered my mind, the
polygraph recording pen moved rapidly to the top of the chart! No
words were spoken, no touching the plant, no lighting of matches,
just my clear intention to burn the leaf”. I don’t know about you, but
I think I would have immediately run out of the room screaming in
terror. The image of this reaction can be seen in the graph above,
the intent being shown by the huge jump at the right of the chart.
> https://i.imgur.com/meRr2qF.png
You say that from your modern day perspective. I'm pretty sure the natives were content not having more than half their population wiped out (by conservative estimates) so their grand children could live on reserves and have 90+% of all their treaties broken.
It's easy to say in retrospect that it was worth it when you're separated by centuries, but I really don't think that during those 200 years (1491 to 1691 roughly) where they were being scalped, hunted, raped and the like they say 'man thank god those white men fixed our shitty country'.
He had many accounts as in many encounters, and various other pilgrims said the same. Read up about Columbus and the Arawak tribe for perspective.
>"They...brought us parrots and balls of cotton and spears and many other things, which they exchanged for the glass beads and hawks' bells. They willingly traded everything they owned.... They do not bear arms, and do not know them, for I showed them a sword, they took it by the edge and cut themselves out of ignorance…. With 50 men we could subjugate them all and make them do whatever we want."
Here's a book to read.
https://www.amazon.com/Peoples-History-United-States-P-S/dp/0061965588/ref=sr_1_1?s=books&ie=UTF8&qid=1290192837&sr=1-1
Look up the Wampanoag and Plymouth Rock. That's another impressive example.
>he friendliness of the Wampanoag was extraordinary, because they had recently been ravaged by diseases caught from previous European explorers. Europeans had also killed, kidnapped and enslaved Native Americans in the region. The Plymouth settlers, during their desperate first year, had even stolen grain and other goods from the Wampanoag.
And you're calling me sloppy with your inability to properly capitalize, need for edits and lack of punctuation? I dunno man, I think my message is pretty clear.
Lyme disease is the fastest growing vector-borne illness in the US. It is 6 times more common than HIV/Aids and twice as common as breast cancer. The CDC estimates 300,000 -1million people will be infected this year.
You are right to question why more attention is not being given to Lyme disease, but you are looking in the wrong place. Why is this not being given greater attention by the media or government?
Lyme disease was first diagnosed in 1975 only 8 miles from Plum Island Animal Disease Center, where a secret Cold War era biological weapons program targeting animals was being carried out. Ticks would be an ideal transmission vector for such a project.
The upcoming book Bitten that is being released in two weeks addresses this theory. From the description:
>As a science writer, she was driven to understand why this disease is so misunderstood, and its patients so mistreated. This quest led her to Willy Burgdorfer, the Lyme microbe’s discoverer, who revealed that he had developed bug-borne bioweapons during the Cold War, and believed that the Lyme epidemic was started by a military experiment gone wrong.
>In a superb, meticulous work of narrative journalism, Bitten takes readers on a journey to investigate these claims, from biological weapons facilities to interviews with biosecurity experts and microbiologists doing cutting-edge research, all the while uncovering darker truths about Willy. It also leads her to uncomfortable questions about why Lyme can be so difficult to both diagnose and treat, and why the government is so reluctant to classify chronic Lyme as a disease.
I'm very much looking forward to see the evidence presented in this book. The implications of the US government covering up the release of a Cold War era biological weapon on its own citizens is staggering.
\>Riotors in Gaza
The Gaza Strip is a tiny strip of land, with zero economy but with a population density matching Hong Kong, where out of the 1.8 million people there 1.6 million are refugees who were ethnically-cleansed by Israel and now forced to live in the world's largest open-air prison surrounded by armed thugs who prevent them from importing things like chocolate, clothing buttons, or plastic lawn chairs. So the people in Gaza fight back against their own eradication by Israel. SO what? Any Israeli in their place would do the same. Why should we feel sorry for Israel?
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\>The Arabs
Note how the Zionists justify the ethnic cleansing of Palestinians on the ground that they're all just "Arabs" and so can be held accountable for the actions of the Jordanian or Egyptian militaries. This is a display of the tribalistic racism inherent in Zionism
This is such discredited and laughable nonsense that even Israeli historians have debunked long ago
The ethnic cleansing of Palestinians started before the 1948 war, when for example in places like Jaffa and Haifa they were rounded up into the local market, shelled with mortars and literally driven into the sea for the British Navy to rescue the survivors and take them to refugee camps in places like Gaza and Lebanon eventually
Here's historian Benny Morris admits that there were massacres and rapes of Palestinians by the Israeli forces (he defends it as a case of "breaking a few eggs)
FYI:
https://www.news.com.au/lifestyle/real-life/mans-life-destroyed-following-classmates-false-rape-allegation/news-story/05ba6eeffae4791c3b99993634afa226
A man who was falsely accused of rape by his ex-girlfriend has said it will take years to rebuild his life.
Paul Joseph said Kate Woodhead, 31, who was jailed for three years on Monday, left him with nothing when she accused him of rape at their home in Surrey.
He lost his job as an IT consultant, his home and his collection of cars.
https://www.bbc.com/news/uk-england-surrey-11676804
https://www.thenewamerican.com/usnews/crime/item/30257-always-believe-women-boy-s-life-destroyed-by-girls-false-allegations
There's even books for women on how to 'destroy a man...'
https://www.amazon.com/How-Destroy-Man-Now-DAMN/dp/099982032X
https://www.creators.com/read/michelle-malkin/05/18/step-one-to-stop-false-accusations-exposure
https://www.pumphreylawfirm.com/blog/the-unseen-impact-of-false-allegations-in-sex-crimes/
Tell me again why there shouldn't be like 'life destroying' sentences for those accused of making 'life destroying' false accusations...