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8d ago
State interests is far too strong to allow this. There is zero reason I am unrelated third party should have to pay for the kid. Which would generally happen because the person carrying the child is generally poor and renting out their body for 9 months.
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8d ago
This is obviously not science though I guess without clear science picking 9 months post conception as sentient sort of works. But there is no science that makes outside of mother as suddenly sentient being. Somewhat similar to how we have different ages for adulthood but they’re basically made up.
The religious people have the better science argument of just declaring we don’t know when it’s sentient so let’s do none of this.
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8d ago
No expert on those countries. I just see plenty of criminal cases where I think the person deserves more jail than less.
America has a lot of crime and it ruins the commons.
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8d ago
I’m not touching them for a while. Ayahuaca has too many reports of negative reactions and outcomes that I don’t have that on my list to do anytime.
Everything I’ve seen on psychedelic mushrooms is they are safe to take and people don’t end up doing bad things while hallucinating. Along with having low addiction rates. Personally though it felt dangerous to me and I could see someone doing something bad while on them. Plus I think controlling your dose is hard.
I am basically mixed on whether people should try them.
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8d ago
“It would be strange that the US has the fifth largest incarceration rate and isn’t incarcerating enough people“
I would expect a country with a high incarceration rate to have a lot of crime. This is essentially saying it’s weird people use a lot of Air Conditioning in the summer.
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10d ago
I purposely took what was suppose to be 3 grams of mushrooms in chocolates. The prior time I had took 1.5 grams and it was like cool visuals. My gut says poor quality control and they weren’t mixed well and I had a bigger dose. So hypothetically for some insanity defense when I took the shrooms I thought I was taking a reasonable and wouldn’t go crazy.
When you take a big dose of shrooms there’s something called an ego death. I guess I did something like that. I did imagine I was died and was in purgatory plus some things about thinking I was like Jesus brother which feels like a big ego to me.
My purgatory was hallucinating and seeing people in my life like my mom or gf. But they always turned out to be demons and I was robbed of having any human love. It got to the point where I would give anything to spend a moment with the person I find most annoying. So now in real life I love people more because being robbed of friendship and humanity is really not fun. I accepted I was in purgatory and would spend thousands of years of god molding me to be good or hopefully it doesn’t take that long.
I was begging for what felt like hours to get out of the alternative reality I had created. Purgatory is in fact quite painful.
Also I did shrooms with Jews. And obviously Jews are demons in my purgatory. They tempting me with unlimited power and wealth if I rejected Christ and joined them.
Whatever shrooms do to your mind I don’t know any cases where you end up killing the people your with. But I did have no sense of reality.
I have no idea if I would recommend for someone to do a big dose of shrooms or a similar thing. I had a semi-religious experience and I think some good mental work. But it was not fun. Purgatory is not fun.
But I’m writing this here because that’s my best understanding of some kind of temporary mental illness where you could like kill your kids but not understand what you are doing.
She may have had reasonable doubt by the jurisdiction standards but then basically every murderer has reasonable doubt.
By my male standard every women is a little crazy but that shouldn’t mean you get to kill people.
One time I did mushrooms. I had taken the same brand a time before and got very little effect. This time I did twice that dose and it put me in another reality. I eventually assumed I had died and was in purgatory. Everyone around me I thought was demons. Suppose I got a knife and started stabbing my friends who I thought were demons. Should I go free?
I kind of think for society it’s best I’m executed. We can’t just let people murder even if it’s a mental illness and they didn’t know what they were doing. You still need to have that standard.
The mushroom chocolates I took I think were not mixed well. The first time I took them I had three and looking at trees was a lot of fun. The second time I took them I had 6. I went to an alternate universe. So I expected a stronger experience but not alternate world.
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10d ago
This is America. Land of opportunity. So yes you need an “approved” reason to reject a population. And even then it’s hard to reject a person because their tribe is on net bad and you need to judge them as individuals.
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10d ago
I always compare suburb life to urban life in Buenos Aires because I live there half my time. They have grills and we do an asado all the time.
“No smart planning…strangers”. This is why I’m anti-immigration. What if your neighbors are not strangers? What if your stranger is someone who’s genetically and culturally the same as you? Then they are just a friend maybe a friend you have not met yet.
If you replace stranger with friend in a non multicultural world then you kind of like having them around.
“do I want Richard Hanania in my boat with me or the median suburban dad?“
No I don’t trust him. I trust AOC more than him because she’s honest. So if where doing gulags yes hang him. He knew better. But keep the AOC people because they made a mistake.
I wouldn’t punish a good man who just wrote what he thought was true.
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11d ago
I’ll give him the respects I think he is EHC. Also probably put myself in that group. He was a really good writer with interesting opinions. It’s how he built a following. He’s changed whose he writing too and gone down market and thinks he’s the protector of inconvenient truths.
Still a wordcell EHC but he does have talent.
Jake Paul some reason reminds me of him since I started seeing him promoting betr. He’s already rich with plenty of ways to monetize, but choosing to monetize your brand promoting gambling just feels wrong to me. Just reminds me of Hannania going down the path he is now. Feels wrong to sacrifice the truth for outrage and probably money.
I guess I accept politicians will play political games and be dishonesty and build outrage. But I just don’t see a point of reading a writer that wants to be inflammatory. I guess the media has a niche here too msnbc/fox have definitely done it. And it makes money. But I think Hannania did have actual talent so I am sad to see him go down that path.
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11d ago
Refused to read his writing. And I do think some people prove themselves to be not worth reading. I do think he’s an amazingly talented writer who can have great insights. I won’t read him because I don’t believe he writes his true beliefs and writes to be inflammatory. I don’t believe a writer like that is worthy of my time. I want to have honest debates. Few people want that so he probably makes more money being inflammatory. I also don’t listen to Tucker Carlson or Candace Owen’s.
Most of the time I disagree with you. I’ll still read what you say because I think you are writing your true understanding of the world and perhaps will say something I didn’t think about or make me think about how I can express my view better. I’ll listen to AOC because I think she’s genuine and want to know why she thinks the way she does.
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11d ago
It’s likely true that suburbanization was increasing as cars became viable but I think it’s also fair that city crime and decline of amenities also encouraged suburbanization. Some % of the population would have preferred to remain in cities if the QOL in cities had not declined.
University of Chicago is probably the most obvious area where declining QOL prevented the formation of an industrial cluster around the university.
Most things do have multi-factors but I do think declining QOL significantly accelerated the move to suburbs.
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11d ago
I 100% believe he doesn’t post serious beliefs. That’s why I call it trolling.
When you know the intelligent counter argument and likely believe the intelligent counter argument but post the inflammatory other opinion I consider it trolling.
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11d ago
It’s called sanewashing. Both sides obviously do it.
I do think the IDF comment is a bad area to do it and is basically antisemitic. Why do I say this? I have a lot of respect for the NYPD and honestly think they do a really good job and if shouldn’t get criticism. NYC does actually have low crime rates. Though sometimes I think this may just be filtering and superior demographics of the populace similar to how Florida’s superiority with Hispanic education is likely superior demographics and heavy selection of rich white Latinos.
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11d ago
It’s tough to know because American cities suck. And that’s my point we’ve done a lot of mitigation to unacceptable levels of violence post Great Migration.
A good city you could let your 6 year old walk to first grade a 10 minute walk away because you weren’t worried about a dangerous homeless person giving them trouble. You would have parks nearby. All those amenities are in the suburbs now. And things would be cheaper.
So I understand why you like suburbs better because cities are not good for kids today. And they have lower amenities.
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11d ago
He has had an honest conversation where he admits he just does things for clicks and money. I think it was Corfnas that talked about that. His earlier writings were much different. Then he changed.
It’s common with influencers. They are much different with the camera off than they are in person.
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11d ago
Hanannia is just a troll now. His old schtick is troll the right wing regardless of whether he agrees with what he is saying. He’s completely posts-truth now and just playing for whatever he thinks generates the most musks bucks.
I don’t think he’s truly a left-wing Democrat now. Probably votes straight Republican but he thinks he gets the most money now trolling. I don’t think he’s worth reading anymore.
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11d ago
90% * 10 kids = 9 kids 10% * 0 kids = 0 kids The average is therefore 9 kids. Which is far more family than you get being middle class. If the goal is protect the women and children then taking the 10% death rate for a chance for huge wealth is the smart play.
It’s a Frey move. Walder Frey could just have more kids and wives. The rest of the Lords though usually did use their money to have bastards. And the only reason trueborn kids were protected is because the family name and honor had real value.
I think I would gladly take that bet provided it didn’t feel like suicide as that is banned by my god.
Blacks die earlier too. So funneling money to old people would disproportionately favor whites over blacks. If this was not true and SS benefited blacks more then potentially we would have killed SS in the ‘90s and gone to a 401k for all system.
Though Europe does a lot of old people stuff too so I don’t think that’s the driving force.
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11d ago
It kind of fits. I guess nothing is a perfect parallel. Lincoln personality wise isn’t Caesar and the issues he faced seemed less like Caesar’s time while modern America seems much more like Caesar. FDR does seem to be the start of true Empire America.
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11d ago
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K-shaped economy and a struggling native class. Widespread slavery made the rich very rich in Rome but the average Roman Citizen saw lower wages.
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Bread and Circus. Basically the policy proposed today. And he’s definitely done circus.
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Legal attacks and threats of imprisonment followed by a crossing of the Rubicon and winning.
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Assassination. Trump did survive.
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Potential - An adopted son taking over after death. Vance obviously. Though Kushner could fulfill this role
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I think Rome also had a fall in morality and falling tfr in the native population
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11d ago
Are you female? I ask because for the average man with 3 kids the risks is well worth it. I will probably have 3 kids. If I had 500m I would likely have 10 kids. The number of kids a male has is highly correlated with wealth. The math makes sense for a guy to take these risks. Less so for a female.
The modern American state is fairly good for poor high IQ kids. College is essentially free. So this feels like a very good risks reward trade.
Can we just agree Trump is now Caesar?
I think it’s clear the American Republic has fallen. The question is will we get an Augustus?
Democracy just doesn’t work in non Anglo and definitely non European societies. It’s time for an emperor.
Edit: I’m probably being too dramatic. It likely felt like the Republic had fallen during the last migration wave in the thirties and fourties. But we likely only have a window to fix it.
All the data seems to indicate it’s not that danger and safer than every thing else people use recreationally. Except it’s not addicting.
Now they did seem powerful to me. And having a psychotic break for a couple hours feels like it should be dangerous. It’s not in the data. It felt a lot more dangerous than drinking alcohol so that admittedly makes me confused. I would like to have a good explanation for why this is the case.
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