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Advocate for freedom and tolerance even if you say things I do not like

Adversary of Fediblock

Accept that I'll probably say something you don't like and I'll give you the same benefit, and maybe we can find some truth about the world.

Ah... Is the Alliteration clever or stupid? Don't answer that, I sort of know the answer already...

I do need to point out that when rbg died I did make a joke about someone finally smashing her phylactery, but there's a real difference between someone who is old as shit dying of being old as shit and someone barely out of their 20s being murdered in cold blood.

I thought about how my son would feel if he lost me, and realizing how he'd cry and never fully recover really got to me.

People used to being protected by the system.

I remember as far back as the 2000s watching the daily show and they had a skit where one of the minorities on the show was laughing about how whites were going to be a minority in 2040.

So there's literally nothing to debate. Americans are being replaced and they're celebrating and have been for decades. If that's offensive take it up with them.

I'm surprised it's that low.

Those made a lot of people really sick, even without a single conspiracy theory. Seems totally probable that the strong reaction to it would take some people out.

One thing about Plato's allegory of the cave: It isn't about what most people think it's about. Most people think it's about using reason to escape from the fallacious nature of mundanity. In reality, it's about his theory that there exists a perfect "form" of everything in a spiritual sense and that only philosophers can gain closer access to the forms.

The thing is, the forms are an almost pre-modern form of epistemology. It's the idea that there is the spirit of perfection of everything, and we are merely seeing poor manifestations of that spirit.

Good point.

Might be time for some common sense leftist control.

I do think that the attack on the unh ceo wasn't necessarily left wing. I think it's just a spoiled rich kid who lashed out because he hurt himself doing spoiled rich kid things and took his frustration on not being immediately cured by current medical technology on the CEO of a company he didn't even have a business relationship with.

win every battle (against unarmed people who aren't fighting)

lose the war

shockedpikachu

I thought the secret passphrase was "I have a kilogram of cocaine hidden somewhere in my body".

Always works for me.

I'd agree entirely with your tl;dr. Makes actual research a good idea.

But I've known some people on heavy anti-depressants, and the higher the dose, the flatter their affect, the less they care about anything at all, forget about just emotional pain. It's fine.

Metaphorically, a state like that has to be emergency first aid. Some people with fibromyalgia do end up on opiates for the rest of their lives, but it's not heathy for their body or mind in the long term. If there was a way to just cure it, that would be infinitely preferable.

A lot of the anti-depressants are like morphine for the soul.

The problem is that you kill the feeling, but the pain isn't the problem, that's just warning you about the damage. If you walk around on a broken leg, you're grinding bone on bone and eventually your leg will never heal.

Some people do have Fibromyalgia and the physical pain goes off for no apparent reason, but even that's a condition we don't know how to cure, but would prefer to if we did know how.

The problem is that if we're using the broken leg analogy, then that might explain why the United States, a country with a uniquely powerful child psychiatric drug culture, has things like school shootings -- One of the risks when you walk around on a broken leg is that a vein or artery gets cut and you bleed out internally.

that isn't to say that every single kid will go out and do it -- most would never -- but on the other hand, we know that virtually every school shooter was known to have major problems ahead of time. The columbine shooters famously were one signature away from being locked up for some of their behaviors. Oh, will you look at that, one of the two was on SSRIs.

Imagine for a second that you took someone who should be basically stuck in their room they're so broken, and then you turn the volume down enough that they can pretend to function. They're still broken, and the shards of bone didn't go away. They're just floating around and maybe everything's fine, but maybe one of those shards cuts something vital.

Can confirm: Canada is a psy-op. It's not real.

'“We are happy to report that the Metro officers assigned to protect the multimillionaire failed presidential candidate are back on the street fighting crime,” the union’s board told Fox News Digital.'

holy fuck, I never expected the LA police union to say something so based, even by accident.

Looks a little like Bill Nye in a skirt, no doubt.

Which I think would make Bill happy.

I know what you're saying, but I kind of get a kick out of the idea that Carney has to clear it with Trump's team.

Well, we are officially in recession, conflicts from other continents are erupting in virtually every province, pretty sure we've still pissed off the leader of the Free World...

Let's go for a jog.

This article makes the same obvious error I see often: "when the bad man is gone maybe they'll treat us better"

When you're facing an abuser, the scapegoat going away doesn't change their behavior. They just find a new scapegoat.

Trump could die today, and in 15 years they'd treat him like the Democrats treat George W. Bush today -- as a respected elder statesman who isn't like the bad man today, and is a sign of a more respectful time before all this division.

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