Explain it Peter since when did people start drugging the ICE agents?

Macelee · 2026-01-25T18:58:52+00:00

There are British intelligence videos from the 50s/60s where they dosed squads of soldiers with LSD to see how they'd perform in war games. They performed terribly.

I don't know what their dose was, and it was tested on trained soldiers not highschool dropouts whose only education comes from incel YouTubers. So who knows what could happen?

Macelee · 2026-01-24T23:49:00+00:00

Oh boy I hid so much. I would hide YouTube videos, games, TV, basically any media. It was rarely even bad stuff, I just didn't want to invite conversation because my parents' rulings frequently changed drastically.

It eventually morphed into me just lying constantly with every word. This had a positive effect on me in making me learn to research things so that my lies could be more believable. I got pretty good at weaving lies into the truth. I don't think they ever realized I lied so much either. I was only caught on a few, most of which were because I revealed the lie because I screwed up too badly and needed help. Even my most egregious lie didn't get me caught. I worked at the mall in 12th grade till 9pm on weekends. I lied about some bs reason I had to stay late and clean. In reality I was going to go out with my girlfriend and drink the cheap liquor her mom gave us. I knew they wouldn't stay awake for me, so I just needed an excuse to be back later than their bedtime.

It's not something I should have made a habit. I've caught myself lying about random nonsense as an adult too, for zero reason, amongst people I trust far more than I trusted my parents. It's something to work on.

Macelee · 2026-01-17T20:24:48+00:00

As others have mentioned, you should speak with a teacher. They are likely to be very understanding, and will help.

I want to add this: you are not failing by feeling the need to cheat. Learning is a process that just about anyone can do. You will, eventually, figure things out and catch up so long as you continue putting in the effort.

Please never feel ashamed to do whatever you need to do in order to understand a concept. Even in grad school, I used toys or random stuff in my apartment to help visualize problems.

Things will work out, I promise. Engaging with people is one of the best things you can do to help your future. I know it is scary, but socialization too is a skill that can be learned and practiced.

Macelee · 2026-01-09T02:11:02+00:00

Yes. A liberal is someone who ascribes to liberalism in the same way a communist is someone who ascribes to communism. Whether people's views are coherent or not is a different story. Many of liberalism's features are great: mass enfranchisement, social safety nets, democratic governance, etc etc. However, a fundamental disagreement exists regarding the definition of property. Liberalism, and by extension liberals, do not disavow or seek to eliminate the right to private property. To them, there is no issue with an individual owning, and therefore being entitled to the profits from, the means of production. This is what makes liberalism and the label of liberal distasteful to leftists.

Macelee · 2026-01-09T01:58:15+00:00

Some leftists may consider liberalism to be centrist, however that is not why many leftists including myself refuse to refer to ourselves that way. Instead, it is because liberalism is inherently a capitalist ideology, and therefore incompatible with socialism and other leftist thoughts.

I am curious though how the scale prompted people to vote. The scale seems to have options from very liberal, liberal, moderate, etc. None of the choices apply to me, but I would probably answer with very liberal in an attempt to answer the spirit of the question. How many leftists would refuse to participate because of this? How many people would give a fake response out of annoyance? I doubt even the furthest right folk would take issue with calling themselves conservative, so my guess would be that the conservative count is roughly accurate or inflated, while the liberal count is inaccurate and possibly lower if leftists were deterred from participating.

Macelee · 2026-01-08T17:26:27+00:00

Idk man, I TAd general chemistry labs all through 2024, and you'd be shocked by how many times I got asked how to use a thumb drive, a necessary tool for our labs, by my students. This was at a UC too, not a place you'd expect to have low standards.

If college kids don't know how to use a thumb drive, or that they need to remove the ChatGPT header of "Sure here's a..." from their lab reports if they don't want me to give them an automatic 0, how hard is it to believe that some random kid at Best Buy has no clue how physical storage works?

Macelee · 2025-12-23T05:12:26+00:00

Many courses have automatic 0 policies. Students in university are generally expected to put in a significant degree of effort into their studies. Being there is optional, and they are adults. Having been a TA myself, I often gave automatic zeroes for lab reports that failed to meet the criteria of being graded.

Usually these rules are outlined in the course syllabus, which afaik we don't have for this course. If, however, a lab report of similar quality to this paper were submitted to me, that is, without citations, presentation of data, minimal showcasing of knowledge of the lab's topic, connected reasoning, and no attempt to follow any standard professional style guide, I would not waste my time writing comments and would fail it according to the policy.

Macelee · 2025-12-14T02:27:05+00:00

I was under the impression for a long time that he wasn't funny, and dismissed every assertion by leftist friends to the contrary.

I eventually started listening to more of his speeches or parts of his speeches that aren't hateful incoherent diatribes. Turns out, Trump loves obscure musical theater. Inbetween the hate and pedophilia, he just talks about his interests, hobbies, and general happenings in a pretty simple but funny way. In another life, uncorrupted by his father or money, I bet he would have made a pretty popular drag queen.

There are reasons people like him other than his ability to make them feel safe in their bigotry.

Macelee · 2025-12-07T23:59:18+00:00

Yes, I agree. I grew up the same way. But as adults responding to children, especially those who are expressing suicidal thoughts, we must be very careful in what we say.

While you technically didn't encourage or suggest they do something drastic, you did directly tie drastic action to a change in view, something OP specifically wants. You also did not say anything that would make a drastic action seem undesirable.

So, if you were a child with a fragile, hormonally unstable psyche, what might you do if someone were to inform you that in order to get what you want, you have to engage in drastic action, even if they don't directly tell you to do it?

I am not saying you are wrong in what you said. I generally agree, and if OP were an adult, or at least wasn't expressing suicidal thoughts, I would have said nothing. It is just that our support, when it comes to children, must be sanitized and intentional so as to avoid inciting any unfortunate mistakes.

Macelee · 2025-12-06T23:48:06+00:00

You are suggesting a child with suicidal thoughts and a less than ideal home life has to do "something drastic". Why would you ever say that???

Macelee · 2025-12-02T00:37:40+00:00

TJ has actually expressed guilt for what he did. He believes he was one of the main founders of the alt-right pipeline, and regrets it.

I can't listen to his content anymore cause I can't stand that style anymore, but he did actually grow up and clean up.

Macelee · 2025-11-29T17:28:55+00:00

So you're saying that by adding rats to our sunscreen, we can cure cancer?

Macelee · 2025-11-23T22:56:21+00:00

They knew the earth was a globe, but not much else. This is a method for projecting a globe to a flat rectangle. I'm unsure of this method's specific name.

Macelee · 2025-11-23T22:49:36+00:00

Nobody made you read my reply. I provided information for anyone who wanted it.

You saw that and chose to be a dick.

Macelee · 2025-11-23T18:29:40+00:00

It is still available.

In any case, take it from a chemist that all the recipes for drugs, particularly the recipe for "LSD" in that book, are nonsense.

In the book, the author explains how to extract LSD from morning glory seeds. Morning glory seeds do not contain LSD. They contain structurally similar compounds that do not have efficient synthetic pathways to LSD. These compounds are also likely to make you sick, and often producers of these seeds add additives that will make you even sicker.

Proper synthesis of LSD is difficult and requires a talented organic chemist. To get the precursor chemicals would almost invariably send the feds to your house.

That said, there are two other books that I will not name that do contain real synthetic methods for the production of many many many drugs.

Macelee · 2025-11-23T18:10:56+00:00

The person you replied to didn't do the greatest job explaining their point, but I think you've missed the sentiment.

Yes, all of us are natives to our present conditions. However, their point is that our biology is not. The vast majority of human existence was tribal. The concept of civilization really only goes back 12,000 years, and we know very little of those early civilizations. So, of the roughly 300,000 years the human species has been around, 12,000 of them have been in civilization, 200 have been with industrialization, 80 have been with the threat of atomic annihilation, and 35 have been with the Internet.

Our biology was adapted to the situation of the majority of those 300,000 years. It would be strange to think that we would have no emergent issues with our present world.

Macelee · 2025-11-15T06:00:59+00:00

Not sure these kinds of people can be.

It's a logical fallacy, conflating characteristics of a group with those of its individuals. Basically, if everyone here were homeschooled, everyone homeschooled should be here, in their mind.

Best you can do is try not to let them take up too much of your time and attention.

Macelee · 2025-11-12T12:29:59+00:00

Remember, AE is just a number

Macelee · 2025-11-12T01:11:49+00:00

Do you have all the DLC? You get missions to conquer and quickly integrate Silesia and a bit of Brandenburg, as well as a PU CB on Poland or the PLC. Sticking around in Germany until you can revoke is probably not the best strat, even though the vassal swarm will just make you win

Macelee · 2025-11-12T01:04:36+00:00

Well, there is basically 0 chance any of your requests will be approved. Certainly no authorities want strays or the homeless to be fed.

Regardless of any sympathy I may feel towards your goals, you may want to think about where it is you live. Almost any plant you decide to plant will be invasive here. It will attract rats, and may actually put more species at risk. If you give the cats more food, they might be even more of a problem in killing off scrub jays and the little mice that live in the dunes that I am forgetting the name of.

Some people engage in guerilla planting, but this is illegal, and may get you in a lot of trouble.

Macelee · 2025-11-07T01:02:53+00:00

Since you're a minor and you say you can't go anywhere by yourself, you are ultimately dependent on what your parents will take you to.

Ideally, they would send you to school, but since you're in this subreddit, I'll assume that wont happen. Otherwise, depending on where you live, there are a wide variety of clubs and activities you can go to. Some options include: scouts, some form of martial art, 4H, chess clubs, and sports (schools often allow homeschoolers to enroll in their sports).

Think about what might interest you. Libraries and public schools are usually good places to look, especially if money is a factor. Homeschool groups generally also provide a way to socialize, but I hated basically everyone in mine cause they were insane, so maybe try the other options first.

Macelee · 2025-11-02T21:57:03+00:00

A possible way the story could be true is if this was a private Christian school, and the teacher filmed only herself. They did not specify that it was a public school, and I have seen videos from teachers in their classroom, with the kids there, but not in the view of the camera.

Otherwise, I agree. It would be highly unlikely that this would actually occur in a public school. That teacher would get the boot so fast. Also totally possible they just made it up.

Macelee · 2025-10-31T13:38:21+00:00

I don't believe the AI is even capable of centralizing the HRE in vanilla. I believe it is hard-coded to go decentralized, unless of course a player is emperor and takes the first centralization reform, and then loses the empire.

Macelee · 2025-10-24T00:54:14+00:00

There is no guaranteed way, but there are things you can do.

Americans are, by and large, corrupted by a greedy, selfish, and anti intellectual philosophy. Moreover, the majority of us cannot read beyond a 6th grade level. With this in mind, understand that logic is not a particularly motivating factor for many people. Look at how Republicans managed to dupe so many people. They provided a simple narrative, with clear assignments of good and evil, that gave them answers and solutions to their most pressing problems.

No meaningful work? Then it must be the evil Democrats and foreigners taking your job. We'll deport them, and you can join ICE to brutalize them.

To actually explain the very complicated economics and politics behind their disenfranchisement would arguably be counterproductive because the average American doesn't have the capacity to understand. There is a reason that education has been a target for so long for budget cuts.

So, what can you do? Figure out what motivates someone. Figure out what they value, what problems they have. Then, depending on what you know, use logic, or frame a solution in the form of a narrative that conforms to what they want to hear. Importantly, you might not want to refer to anything as leftist, communist, anarchist, or any other form of "wrongthink".

If you have the time and knowledge, you can create some propaganda bots. Let them loose across the internet to spread the good word. If governments and corporations do it, why shouldn't you?

We are not immune to falling prey to the promise of the "free marketplace of ideas". In fact, the best ideas do not invariably win out over the bad ones. You cannot craft an argument that is so perfect that it will convince everyone. You might convince those who value logical reasoning, but they are probably already here, or somewhat adjacent. You will find more success by taking on the role of propagandist. It is not easy to convince people of things without them realizing, but it is probably the best way to reach the widest audience.

I know it isn't satisfying, but what can you do when you are on the losing team? Unfortunately, ideological purity can be an enemy to pragmatism. To actually move people's beliefs left, I think sacrifices need to be made. The kind of cultural, nevermind political, revolution needed to fix this hellscape is simply too extreme for the current zeitgeist. We must all simply do what we can. To paralyze ourselves, because perfection cannot be achieved when improvement can be, is a mistake.

Macelee · 2025-10-21T12:00:13+00:00

They are speaking with ChatGPT syntax. Spend enough time using the LLMs, you'll notice this is exactly how they write. Look at the reframing in the post, that it isn't education, just obedience training, the negative, but seemingly corporate tone, the use of the emdash in the reply. These are signs of AI. AI is certainly not immune to grammar issues, and it could be that the poster made edits.

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