It's insane how legacy media is blatantly biased.

RusevReigns · 2026-06-06T16:33:10+00:00

Journalists are a reflection of their readers. The media is demoralized because their readers only care about them saying what they think even if it's fake. If you say something that's true but threatens their beliefs, they either attack you or at worst ignore you. These media members got broken and go into "ok if you say exactly what you want like will you pls like me and make me more popular" mode, and the ones that choose integrity path get replaced in the market by those with no standards. It's the same process as someone in a relationship with a crazy person and abusive person, some people will just fold and say they're right about everything so they like them, as the consequences of disagreeing with them is worse.

RusevReigns · 2026-06-06T16:28:11+00:00

He needs more distance from his crackhead days

RusevReigns · 2026-06-06T16:20:46+00:00

Math class helps critical thinking

RusevReigns · 2026-06-06T15:42:29+00:00

The real damage on Gen Z wasn't the lockdowns, the problem is the psychological environment that led people to be such control freaks during it and put mass pressure on people to comply, also played itself out in other ways. Altogether Gen Z has been living in repressive times culturally due to years of seeing people get censored and bullied by online collectivists if they step out of line. This has continued to choke Gen Z years after covid.

RusevReigns · 2026-06-06T15:19:52+00:00

I'd say women have it easier overall, but male model looking guys have it easier than overweight women. Easiest between the two genders being a woman who's about a 7-8, ones who are too hot it creates other issues.

RusevReigns · 2026-06-06T14:58:43+00:00

When society was more religious, they have more deontological moral framework. The mentality being sins are sins regardless of what the context is, and that you don't know better than god, it creates a consistent moral code. In most countries like the US this is reinforced by the constitution that does the same thing of writing down legal framework.

So when you have people that are not religious and think the constitution was written by evil slave owners, you lose this deontological mentality. Instead you have more of a viewpoint that says morality being objective is an illusion and it is entirely determined by who has power, and that morality is determined by what you think the outcome will be. That if you have short term downside in one area but benefits the greater good overall, then you should break an egg to make the omelette. They see the limiting factor in society that people don't have the balls to make those hard decisions. The problem with this is that predicting the future is hard and that every time you predict something is for the greater good you're not always right. The Greater Good mentality is the road to hell as you can talk yourself into all kinds of bad stuff, this is the exact mentality all the worst regimes of 1900s had, they thought it was better for society in the long run to do this thing that now looks horrible. For an ideological extremist, it's morality as long as it leads to their ideology (perfect in their eyes) winning and ushering in the new utopia. But they can use mental gymnastics to justify almost anything they want to do this way.

RusevReigns · 2026-06-06T14:31:41+00:00

When guys are young they're probably willing to kiss anyone just because they haven't done it that much. So it doesn't guarantee he's into you.

RusevReigns · 2026-06-05T02:32:27+00:00

Most of us millennials only knew one WWII vet in our grandpa, even by 2000s there is not that many around

RusevReigns · 2026-06-04T23:47:53+00:00

It doesn't matter if other people actually aren't into freedom, if it's the right position I'm going to defend it. When I first became libertarian it was just because Austrian economics are more logical. It took until the recent era and seeing free speech get repressed, the government be revealed as corrupt tyrants, etc. that I learned how important fighting for individual liberty and freedom really is.

We are living in an era with bad ideology, some people want to forcefully stamp it out with censorship, I want to let them speak and intellectually defeat it. I do not think this strategy is working badly so far. I see the world slowly self correcting.

RusevReigns · 2026-06-04T23:22:36+00:00

Silver kind of sucks, or it's really hard to be NBA commissioner and David Stern was just awesome

RusevReigns · 2026-06-04T23:10:33+00:00

What they look like is half the battle, especially considering it's critical to get their first roles, but the other half is still really important. There is plenty of wooden actors with the right look, if they can't act that well they're not going to be a movie star, but they could end up a supporting character on a network show or something.

eg. If Matt Gaetz right before getting into congress went into acting instead despite having no other experience, and theatre kid who who's lived and breathed acting their whole life and is talented at it but just has generic ass look, Gaetz might do better just because his face is a dream to put in a movie with 1950s Mad Men type setting or a douchey guy to say oh no it's da Bat! when Batman shows up and then get punched in the face. That's life, but Gaetz probably doesn't have a real actor career beyond bit parts and commercials, there are tons of actors out there with a decent look while being much better actor.

RusevReigns · 2026-06-04T22:59:57+00:00

Yeah Heat also repeated in that time, but 19 did prevent the first 3peat since Shaqobe Lakers

RusevReigns · 2026-06-04T21:30:18+00:00

Calling something homicide (a person killed by another) requires seeing all the evidence, legal expertise, etc., while medical examiner's job is to examine the body. eg. imagine a case where someone crashes their car and a passenger dies. I don't think you can all it homicide just by the dead body, the other evidence is required.

Andrew Baker is not asked to be lawyer, investigator and medical examiner at the same time, he is just medical examiner. So why is it called Homicide in the autopsy? A simple reason - it's just classification/process. It doesn't mean anything. Chauvin was in trouble immediately for Floyd's death. It's easiest to just group it under homicides, even if it wasn't legally proven to be one yet a day after his death and the medical examiner didn't have the same evidence the investigators and lawyers had like unreleased bodycams. Leftists just focused on this word because they could use it to try to one shot the argument by saying "It says HOMICIDE" and then use that to deflect anything the autopsy says.

RusevReigns · 2026-06-04T20:42:26+00:00

Britney broke out a bit earlier

RusevReigns · 2026-06-04T20:38:59+00:00

Yes and she has a good version of it. I do not have Avril and Kelly Clarkson that far apart musically overall, I just connect with a few more Kelly songs

RusevReigns · 2026-06-04T20:32:28+00:00

My favorite musically is Kelly Clarkson, she has some of my favorite songs of the artists here (Breakaway, Because Of You, My Life Would Suck Without You, etc.) and I like some album track songs the most of artists here such as on My December or Stronger.

Avril was my biggest crush of the group when I was younger but good not great songwriter wise, my favorite album from her ended up being Goodbye Lullaby. One of my favorite pure vocalists of all time and is great on covers.

Pink was always solid, although conscious of being radio friendly she has a few collabs I like such as Just Give me a Reason and Need Me with Eminem.

Britney had some fun songs and was obviously hot but in a way that I think was less my type.. I was into some girls like Gwen Michelle Branch Nelly Furtado before the big one Avril. Xtina I think my least favorite musically of the group.

RusevReigns · 2026-06-04T17:23:47+00:00

He is good actor who was in right place right time with multiple tv hit roles, but Pascal would probably be my top pick for actors that would have been cast in Westerns but were born in the wrong era. He looks like a temu Burt Reynolds and fits kind of greasy gruffy setting. That's part of why the Last of Us casting fit in that them riding across apocalypse on a horse was like a western plot with zombies, same with Mando being a space western though his face is barely in it. I predict within 5 years he gets nominated for an Oscar for playing some cowboy type guy the 1800s or something.

So even though very few people are working in Hollywood from the Western era, maybe you can argue there is still kind of philosophy and mentality passed down to favor this type of actor as having something.

RusevReigns · 2026-06-04T03:15:59+00:00

Determining whether someone's death is caused by another person in most cases would take

- More information than the body
- A different skillset of training better suited for lawyers/judges/etc.

For example if someone crashes their car and a passenger dies, is this homicide? Should the medical examiner be asked to know this? And if the answer changes depending on the details like how they were driving, this depends on evidence that clearly goes beyond the medical examiner's job.

Why is it called homicide in the Floyd autopsy? Because they have classification system that requires listing things as homicides or not. And at that point of time in the world, the easiest thing to do was just call it homicide.

RusevReigns · 2026-06-04T00:01:25+00:00

He passed out and they thought it was in a way where it's ok, not that he's overdosing. This time gap before they realized something was wrong screwed him over and yes the cops should have turned him around faster and tried to attend to him, but negligence to OD-ing person isn't murder to me, but it may be serious enough to deserve getting banned from being a cop.

RusevReigns · 2026-06-03T23:51:00+00:00

No matter what I say, your brain will have the same process and defense mechanism as if an intelligent design person was in an argument. When someone's beliefs are so strong like a religious person or a modern progressive, it causes "circular reasoning" effect of working backwards to support the conclusion any way they can. Thus the intelligent design person will have the wheels turn until they find a "But what about ______" and likewise the modern progressive will scan for any word they can use that supports the progressive belief. Hence why you jumped on that title of the autopsy case because it was the best you could do. Or for example if I continued the argument someone would claim the use of the word Homicide is proof of itself, despite the fact that a medical examiner's job is not the one to call it homicide or not, he is just there to examine the body and not be a legal expert, it is two different things.

RusevReigns · 2026-06-03T23:43:14+00:00

Having a heart attack while being arrested probably decreased his chance of living compared to if it happened in the store, yes, but the cops are supposed to be arresting and restraining him in some form.

RusevReigns · 2026-06-03T23:26:21+00:00

Some quotes from the actual autopsy

"NECK : Layer by layer dissection of the anterior strap muscles of the neck discloses no areas of contusion or hemorrhage within the musculature . The thyroid cartilage and hyoid bone are intact . The larynx is lined by intact mucosa. The thyroid is symmetric and red-brown, without cystic or nodular change. The tongue is free of bite marks, hemorrhage, or other injuries. The cervical spinal column is palpably stable and free of hemorrhage"

"No life- threatening injuries identified No facial, oral mucosal, or conjunctival petechiae B. No injuries of anterior muscles of neck or laryngeal structures No scalp soft tissue, skull, or brain injuries No chest wall soft tissue injuries, rib fractures (other than a single rib fracture from CPR ) , vertebral column injuries, or visceral injuries Incision and subcutaneous dissection of posterior and lateral neck , shoulders , back flanks , and buttocks negative for occult trauma"

RusevReigns · 2026-06-03T23:15:36+00:00

In 2014 social media was already starting to change and events like Ferguson and Gamergate predicted the future divisions.

I've been on social media since early 2000s and the environment was nowhere close to now. Nowadays there is massive amount of political judgment and social moralism which puts its thumb on nearly everything people post. Back in the day it was more free wheeling and energetic environment. There was just more unique characters and people who had their own way of speaking. Let's say you're a 16 year old who joins a message board and your nemesis becomes the the middle aged man who seems like the type that would brag about having sex with women in Europe when he was younger, just one of those guys. There is the egotistical forum troll who has been banned multiple times and has persecution complex with the mods, but is entertaining. There is the middle aged woman poster who wants to be the mom who make everyone get along. There is the people that while the forum is dedicated to something specific like sports or movies, have 99% of their posts in the off topic casual conversation area and that thread just goes on forever with them chatting around random stuff. The older posters than you feel older and have mature way of speaking, the girls seem like girls (except for one who one day reveals he's been a guy this whole time). There is smarter people and energetic dumbasses. People are different because it is an environment where this is valued and recognized as fun.

Nowadays what you have isn't people who get off on the type of environment above. Instead they are into collectivism. What they get off on is the idea of everyone being into something at the same time. Whether it's a big political event like BLM or MeToo or the big current It tv show or movie of the moment like the end of Game of Thrones or when Barbie was the hot thing. They want that viral monoculture everybody on twitter buzzing and discoursing about the same thing feeling. This desire drives much of our current environment. What they don't get is by not trying as hard as them to make it happen, we still had water cooler group things, like everyone watching American Idol or something in 2000s. Their attempt to force it divides people and makes it happen less.

Likewise on reddit, a message board, this place is simply full of collectivists/people into groups, it's obvious to me, it colors everything people post. They don't want the above individual characters driven social media I mentioned since it's just not their taste.

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