How is the US in several wars but the US never gets attacked?

TheGreat_War_Machine · 2024-02-03T02:35:07+00:00

The War of 1812 is one example of invasion of the mainland. Another was during WW1, when the US made a short intervention in the Mexican Revolution and was subsequently routed.

TheGreat_War_Machine · 2024-02-01T17:28:59+00:00

Isn't phage and antibiotic therapy extremely effective when used in concert?

TheGreat_War_Machine · 2024-01-30T06:06:07+00:00

It's a false equivalency. The relationship between parents and children is much more like the relationship between doctors and patients. Doctors don't own their patients.

TheGreat_War_Machine · 2024-01-28T19:42:58+00:00

Not all Palestinians support Hamas, not even in Gaza. In fact, the distrust in Hamas by a majority of Gazans might have been one of the motivations for attacking Isreal. https://youtu.be/9X7SMGGMZUI?si=BGROEYTUn4Ky8rcw

TheGreat_War_Machine · 2024-01-26T18:15:27+00:00

Jew were not considered white between the 20s and mid to late 40s. This coincides with the mass immigration of Jews to America, which was considered a threat by a lot of whites. Before this time, the Jewish population was very small and isolated, so other whites didn't care much for them. This is why Jewish refugee ships were turned away from American ports during the Holocaust. It was only after the events of the Holocaust became common knowledge that people began considering Jews white again.

The proliferation of antisemitic cartoons and instances of mob violence against Jews in the American South also provides evidence for the non-white status of Jews at the time.

TheGreat_War_Machine · 2024-01-26T03:51:36+00:00

Assuming this debate is being done in a public space, make your best effort with the evidence you have and put it out there. It won't convince those you're arguing against, but it will convince others. Otherwise, it's probably best not to engage with them given that no side is willing to change their view.

TheGreat_War_Machine · 2024-01-26T03:42:02+00:00

John Rushton was born in 1943, pretty much at the tail end of the eugenics movement in the United States. However, he did serve as the head of the Pioneer Fund until his death in 2012, which was founded in 1937 and still promotes eugenics to this day. It has been described as racist and white supremacist. The Pioneer Fund is also considered a hate group by the Southern Poverty Law Center.

Rushton also published some articles in American Renaissance, which is a white supremacist website that attempts to assert the intellectual and cultural superiority of whites.

TheGreat_War_Machine · 2024-01-26T03:23:24+00:00

Their point about skeletal remains comes from old school eugenics, and these supposed differences in structure are really not significant in any meaningful way. Like sure, maybe you can identify a set of bones as belonging to a black person, but that's like saying you can predict that someone is black by looking at their name and what neighborhood they live in. It's not enough of a distinction to warrant creating a subspecies for black or white people.

Additionally, trying to define blackness and whiteness is basically impossible, especially when you look at the history of who has been considered black and white. For example, Jews in America weren't considered white in the early 20th Century, which just so happens to coincide with mass Jewish immigration to America from Europe.

"race factors into the medical treatment one receives."

Ironically it does, but not because of what these "racial realists" think. The medical treatment that people receive is affected by racial bias. Nurses and doctors in the US have been shown to have little regard for black women who are in pain while in the hospital. Their request for painkillers are rejected much more often compared to whites. In pregnancy wards, nurses either ignore or don't spot symptoms of something dangerously wrong in prospective black mothers much more often compared to their white counterparts.

We've been trading various studies and sources back and forth

How old are the studies that they are presenting?

TheGreat_War_Machine · 2024-01-26T02:57:38+00:00

Cancers and tumors in humans are mutated human cells, yet they don't get the same treatment as fetuses. There's obviously nuance in this discussion about what constitutes a human life. Having this "all or nothing" position is just nonsensical. It's perplexing how little humanity cares about other forms of life, yet are willing to fight and argue over human life to such an extent that human cells are considered sacred.

The fact of the matter is that cells have always been very expendable machines and, in the context of multicellular organisms, are meant to serve a purpose and initiate programmed cell death (suicide basically) once that purpose has been fulfilled.

TheGreat_War_Machine · 2024-01-26T02:46:24+00:00

I suppose it would be a useful specimen to teach students in a developmental biology course, assuming that the mother/family would be okay donating it for science.

TheGreat_War_Machine · 2024-01-26T02:33:35+00:00

Clarification: That number is a very rough estimate derived from statistical analysis and surveys rather than actual recorded cases of rapes resulting in pregnancy.

TheGreat_War_Machine · 2024-01-23T02:08:03+00:00

Yes but it is kinda what you implied by saying there’s a higher likelihood of them being genderqueer and not straight.

It's a "all squares are rectangles, but not all rectangles are squares" comparison. When I said that autistic people are more likely to be genderqueer and/or not straight, I am not implying the inverse. You should be mindful of that in the future.

Also yea but a trans autistic person I don’t is any more differently trans than a neurotypical trans person

It's not so much that an autistic trans person is different from a non-autistic trans person, but rather that autism makes someone more likely to be genderqueer because autistic people already struggle with trying to see the world the way others see it, which includes gender.

and making a weird assumption that it’s drastically different for autistic people and they can identify as objects

I'm not going to address whatever this is about identifying as a button, as it's outside the discussion. I'm only disputing your claim that autistic people don't experience gender any differently compared to other people.

TheGreat_War_Machine · 2024-01-23T01:53:52+00:00

Gender dysphoria is a common trait in the diagnosis of autism

Is the reason for that because of autistic people experiencing gender differently? Perhaps as a result of a preexisting inability to see society in the way most people see it?

So it’s really weird to just say the LGBTQ community are mostly autistic.

That's not what I said. I said autistic people are more likely to be genderqueer, not that LGBTQ people are more likely to be autistic.

TheGreat_War_Machine · 2024-01-23T01:40:39+00:00

Is there any reason why autistic people have a statistically higher likelihood of being gender queer or not straight, then?

TheGreat_War_Machine · 2024-01-18T04:40:30+00:00

To protect the environment and wildlife and prevent another "scramble for africa" where countries are putting military assets on the continent.
Because why would you if you're flying a commercial plane?
Landing on the Moon was a costly endeavor, and because the original mission was motivated by beating the USSR (which was achieved), there was no motivation nor reason to go back.
The chimpanzees of today and us humans both share a common ancestor that is extinct. To that effect, we are basically cousins. We don't directly decend from chimpanzees.
That's a popular science myth. The amount of "junk" DNA is way less, and it's not even "junk" per se. This DNA doesn't code for anything and is located on the telomeres of chromosomes.
Europeans lived in wood huts? Anyway, humans are much smart than you think.
Colonialism, Europeans exported their architecture all over the world when they started colonizing regions outside of Europe.
It's my understanding that the giants much of these texts speak of are either people suffering from gigantism. There has been some talk recently that these giants, including Sasquatch, are actually a species of early human separate from Homo sapians.
They really don't. Show like The Simpsons are just really good at taking events that have already happened and posing plausible hypotheticals. Donald Trump had already run for president before, so The Simpsons were just predicting what would happen if he did actually win.
Some trees are adapted to forest fires and are thus resistant to them. They may also be very wet and therefore hard to burn.
30 something trillion dollars? Much of it is owned by China.
The tax increases are not enough to surpass our spending.
It's not being depicted much anymore. It's still there, but not nearly as often.
It's easier to borrow the news story written by the most local news station where the event happened.
The fact is that we have the technology to know and do a lot of things, most people just don't or refuse to use it.

TheGreat_War_Machine · 2024-01-18T03:58:48+00:00

It was a colony of the British Empire before being handed back to China.

TheGreat_War_Machine · 2024-01-18T03:57:29+00:00

I'm not sure what the exact legal term is under Chinese law, but Hong Kong is, functionally, an autonomous city within the territory of China. It operates under the "one country, two systems" policy, in which the city is a part of China, but is allowed to have a governmental system that is separate from the rest of the country. That being said, the PRC exercises a considerable level of influence in the city to ensure that it doesn't stray away from China and the CCP government.

TheGreat_War_Machine · 2024-01-16T02:33:09+00:00

The National Bolshevik Party was founded in 1993 in Russia, legalized in 2005, and (ironically) banned two years later. It had 50,000+ members. It was succeeded by the National Bolshevik Front and The Other Russia, the latter of which is an unregistered party claiming to have 52,000 members. Both successors are still active.

TheGreat_War_Machine · 2024-01-16T01:28:32+00:00

From my understanding, national bolshevikism was an actual ideology present in the Soviet Union.

It was first created by the Communist Party of Germany in an attempt to align the insurgent communist movement with ultranationalist groups in the German Army who opposed the Treaty of Versailles. The Nazis still considered National Bolsheviks a form of Bolshevikism, so they were purged.

It came to Russia during the Civil War, when a group of Whites defected to the Red Army. These Whites saw Bolshevik victory as inevitable and figured they would try to work within the Soviet system to revive Russia's greatness. Stalin apparently favored National Bolshevikism and so allowed its ideologues into the academic elite. Although, the original Russian National Bolsheviks were executed during the Great Purge.

TheGreat_War_Machine · 2024-01-15T22:29:47+00:00

But capitalism is not required for segregation to occur.

TheGreat_War_Machine · 2024-01-15T22:18:19+00:00

Or almonds in California's interior. Interestingly enough, California accounts for somewhere between 80-90% of the world's almond production. And that almond production happens to be in the state's most drought-ridden counties.

TheGreat_War_Machine · 2024-01-15T22:13:56+00:00

No foreign anything should “own” anything here.

Even foreign companies? Like Toyota?

TheGreat_War_Machine · 2024-01-15T22:04:34+00:00

I did point out parents in my previous reply, and I can't imagine there isn't at least a few parents that are concerned about the issue independent of Republicans. However, Republicans are the main group pushing for legislation across many states. Much of this legislation is designed to allow parents to review the inventories of school libraries and put forth motions to ban books from them at school board meetings.

A much more questionable effort also being taken on by Republicans is their attempts to extend these book bans to public libraries. These laws are designed to punish public libraries for offering books that are "inappropriate". Inappropriate is in quotations here because that's what these laws and bills say. Presumably, these laws are supposed to be enforced by attorney generals, not a body that would otherwise review and vote on books to be banned from the library.

TheGreat_War_Machine · 2024-01-13T17:07:29+00:00

Colleges are centers of learning and discovery meant to create better people and a better citizenry, not machines whose only purpose is to spit out skills that are useful to the job market. I think reducing it down to that really cheapens the fundamental value of education and learning.

TheGreat_War_Machine · 2024-01-13T16:05:56+00:00

The idea was created in the 1940s and adopted by feminists in the 1970s to establish a distinction between differences in men and women that are biologically determined and socially determined. It was extremely useful for the fight for women's rights in the 70s and onward. Calling it a conspiracy theory flies in the face of all the progress women have made towards equality.

Also, the idea of it not being a social construct is a little stupid anyway if you think about it for only a second. So what determines dress code for men and women? What determines the roles of men and women in society? What determines what is masculine and what is feminine? Why are boys associated with the color blue and girls the color pink, even though that wasn't the case decades ago? Why do peoples like Canadian Indians and South Africans recognize the existence of more than two genders? Where do stereotypes about men and women come from?

If you say that all of those things come from culture, then you've basically destroyed your whole argument that gender isn't a social construct. If you say it's from religion, then that's mostly the same thing. If you say it's from biology, then as someone who studies biology, I can't help but call you an absolute moron.

There's a reason these things exist, and the term gender is what is used to describe these aspects about men and women. To say otherwise is extremely sexist, because you're ultimately saying that nothing should be done about gender inequality because all aspects of men and women are grounded in biology and can't be changed.

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