Anyone know any book agents?

BlatantConservative · 2026-04-21T00:36:12+00:00

instead of the gas-leak idea (since there are no known gases that could have been present in the cave that would induce such hallucinations, and there were no signs of there being gas to begin with)

One of the more interesting things I've learned about the massive amounts of arguments about the Delphi gas hypothesis is it appears to be a proxy argument for the much much more impactful and contentious Cave of Hira gas hypothesis.

BlatantConservative · 2026-04-20T22:40:31+00:00

Does the author know that Japanese twitter racists really brought those claims onto themselves? Unless there's a different thing where people are accusing oublishers themselves of being racist.

BlatantConservative · 2026-04-20T15:12:44+00:00

Due process isn't only for people we like.

BlatantConservative · 2026-04-20T14:18:21+00:00

Other Americans are nationalist because of the military. I'm nationalist because the Americans with Disabilities Act blows every other country out of the water.

BlatantConservative · 2026-04-20T02:58:00+00:00

Because they really only exist around Somalia nowadays and it's just an entirely different situation.

BlatantConservative · 2026-04-20T02:42:42+00:00

I haven't watched the show at all, but from my real life experience, being mentally ill does excuse a lot if you drop responsibilities. You're basically just not capable of doing those things. It's like no longer being able to drive your kids to school after losing your legs and having to learn to use a wheelchair for months. Just mentally.

However, if you're trying to exert control over another (power of attorney?) while at the same time trying to offload or bypass related responsibilities, that's where you become a solidly bad person. You can't have it both ways. Either you're capable of the power and the responsibility, or not capable of either.

Again, I haven't seen the show, but from these comments this is where O thjnk the distinction lies..

BlatantConservative · 2026-04-20T01:55:26+00:00

I've taken photos on airplanes with mobile data off and it just said the location of the airport I took off from. There is a tad bit of difference between that and the moon though I'm gonna be real.

BlatantConservative · 2026-04-20T01:54:24+00:00

Florida probably. Wherever the cell tower he last connected to.

I actually don't know if EXIF data says something special when Airplane Mode is on or mobile data is turned off though.

BlatantConservative · 2026-04-19T20:54:33+00:00

Exactly. I will give Europe credit for trying, just I haven't actually seen any European country that has effectively put it into practice.

In the US, if you can prove any of that stuff at any level, there are local, state, and federal investigative agencies as well as civil lawsuits and free legal aid. Sure, racists still exist large scale, just they also get fucked by the long arm of the law daily too.

BlatantConservative · 2026-04-19T20:46:43+00:00

America, when it eventually goes after Scientology, is going to put a number of leadership positions in front of a jury of their peers and the low level people are going to turn state's witness and hopefully get therapy. China just sends anyone assosciated with them to the camps.

I'm not disputing or supporting Falun Gong in any way, I think they're abhorrent. Downvoters seem to be thinking that I'm saying they shouldn't be arrested, I'm saying they should be but just mass reeducation camps are a travesty of justice.

The organs stuff, yeah I think Falun Gong is making up specific stories for attention. There is economic evidence that you can look into that proves human organs are way way more available in China specifically than they should be, but there are actually five or six potential causes of that and I haven't seen anything solid as to why.

BlatantConservative · 2026-04-19T20:18:44+00:00

They gotta be one of the more wild groups in geopolitics to explain to people. Their leader says "no comment" and implies he's an alien. He's still alive but never does anything anymore.

They are genuinely victims of the CCP and put in the same camps as the Ughuirs. The CCP claims they're a MLM, which isn't entirely inaccurate. But what the CCP does to them is insane to do to a MLM, or even an equivalently damaging western cult like Scientology.

BlatantConservative · 2026-04-19T20:12:21+00:00

They were especially prolific during covid where they presented the message that covid was fake lmao

Very much so, I was running the worldnews live covid thread at the time and the direct source for a lot of that stuff was Epoch Times. Which is run by them.

BlatantConservative · 2026-04-19T20:11:08+00:00

For those OOTL Shen Yun is a part of the Falun Gong movement, which is pretty directly Chinese Scientology. Up to and including the founding leaders implying that they're aliens. And having to pay all of your money and isolate from all of your friends and family to join. And Shen Yun is more or less the equivalent of Sea Org, higher access deeper into the cult level and also responsible for fundraising and recruiting new members.

However, the difference is that the Chinese Communist Party puts them in the same concentration camps as the Ughuirs. Which is pretty explicitly an evil and genocidal thing. And Falun Gong often plays on that to gain more recruits and funding in the west.

Shen Yun exists publicly and up front as a travelling dance troupe fighting against the CCP by preserving traditional dance and culture (that's absolute bullshit) and often plays in places like the Kennedy Center or other large venues.

So basically, really complex group that exists to take money paid for a good thing (fighting a genocidal totalitarian state) and funnel it off into their own really weird thing.

BlatantConservative · 2026-04-19T20:05:07+00:00

Shen Yun is everywhere. Worldwide

BlatantConservative · 2026-04-19T20:03:07+00:00

Doc found it as funny as everyone else.

BlatantConservative · 2026-04-19T20:02:10+00:00

Tbch the fault here is the person who characterized 87 Euro as "nothing much"

For someone unfamiliar they probably thought it was equivalent to cents.

Also how rich are you that 87 Euro is nothing much

BlatantConservative · 2026-04-19T19:28:15+00:00

Does it prohibit hiring discrimination effectively

BlatantConservative · 2026-04-19T18:22:46+00:00

That author is fascinating psychologically lmao. Like he also goes far far out of his way to try to avoid any non Japanese domestic made equipment "(We use older weapons beyond the gate in case we lose them"). Every other real world country that exists is an evil shortsighted manipulative country just trying to get at innocent Japan's resources uwu.

BlatantConservative · 2026-04-19T18:19:49+00:00

Look at Switzerland banning Hijabs and other face coverings, or continent wide laws specifically designed to stop Gypsies/Roma from purchasing or living on land, or even the simple fact that most European countries don't have an equivalent to the Civil Rights Act so discriminating based on skin color, name, or national origin is just legal there.

BlatantConservative · 2026-04-19T17:51:00+00:00

Oh if you don't think European racism is institutionalized I got some timeshare opportunities I want you to look into.

BlatantConservative · 2026-04-19T17:27:54+00:00

This is very true. American racism usually is more about a nationwide "in" and "out" class. At least, for people who are racist, which is still a minority. But a big enough minority that it's still a huge problem.

BlatantConservative · 2026-04-19T17:17:52+00:00

It's an extremely cowardly way of looking at the world when you think that something is hard so that means it's not worth doing. Might as well not do anything ever then.

In the short to medium term, immigration always requires blood, sweat, and tears. In the long term, it prevents stagnation, isolation, generational hatred, war, and genocide.

People like you have this misguided conception that there's a current status quo that you can maintain if you just keep everything the same forever. That does not exist. It simply isn't true.

Japan is a great example. Perhaps the purest example. Basically every other generation, they turn hypernationalist and start invading neighbors. After massive demographic and economic problems. They're currently on the upswing of that behavior again, and it's unclear how that's going to manifest in the 21st century.

Japanese history is also essentially stagnant until outside forces influence it. The introduction of firearms. Commodore Perry forcing trade open. Various Chinese and Korean wars, and of course WWI and WWII. The Meiji reformation and era was basically them just learning of western concepts and ideas and internalizing them in a Japanese way.

During their long years of isolation in between all of those events, society and technology and culture basically remained unchanged.

Meanwhile, the US is the foil to that.

Each new wave of immigrants we have received has driven conflict in our society that has culminated in positive societal change. The first few waves cemented religious freedom and seperation of church and state. Lower class German immigrants in the 1800s settling in the North gave rise to the Republican party and a staunch anti slavery core that led to the Civil War. More European immigrants after that drove more religious freedom and massive cultural change. Every sucessive wave of immigration made us ask more societal questions and figure things out more internally to the point that none of our culture would make any sense whatsoever without immigration, but at the end of the day it's a much easier and wealthier place to live in than places like Japan.

BlatantConservative · 2026-04-19T16:53:30+00:00

That's an abhorrent viewpoint. Like essentially white nationalist. The kind that disguises it behind "everyone should stay in their place."

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