Hyperion
7mo ago
Is it out of the box, or is her box just one filled with low status grifting? Even if I valued out of the box thinking, I wouldn't value the kind of thinking I associate with the underclass or sociopaths.
Hyperion
9mo ago
So yeah, unless Ben Franklin was a very weird outlier, I would say there's been an "expansion" of "whiteness" over time.
He's claiming Swedes aren't white. Swedes are obviously completely maxed out on whiteness genetically like all other Northern Europeans. We know Swedes, Germans and Russians are pale as can be and Franklin is an outlier and just plain wrong here.
Hyperion
9mo ago
Do you mean temporary alcohol induced psychosis or permanent schizophrenia? Alcohol can induce psychosis like symptoms since it blockades NMDA receptors and this reliably induces psychosis like symptoms. I have never heard of it triggering schizophrenia though.
Hyperion
10mo ago
At this point, I'm ready to declare family systems therapy a cause of psychogenic illness, whatever good it might have done it's now clearly driving people mad.
Scott had a whole book review where he strongly suggested this was true. One of the main practitioners of family systems therapy wrote a book claiming demons are real and he was literally exorcising spirits. Scott thought he was just creating psychogenic illness in people.
Hyperion
10mo ago
Telling southeast Asian people to side with us sounds a lot less impressive when it turns out that the Soviets did a fair bit of the liberating and at much greater cost.
I think people in southeast Asia care a lot more about their liberation from Japanese occupation then anything going on in Europe. WW2 wasn't just a European war.
Hyperion
11mo ago
Poland was always a more Western European country than Eastern European. The East Slavs have always been different and they are in much worse shape.
Hyperion
11mo ago
Jesus consistently presents his moral teaching as a return to the origins
So did Zoroaster and Confucius. So did Mohammed and Joseph Smith. This is the standard play book of monotheistic cults. They claim they are just reclaiming the truth that the one true god proclaimed thousands of years ago.
War is peace. Freedom is slavery. Ignorance is strength.
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