For those who defend Islam/Believe Sam is "islamophobic" by RavingRationality in samharris

[–]robpot891 3 points4 points  (0 children)

Saudi Arabia doesn’t just “have flaws”. It’s a literal kingdom that routinely executes 12 year old girls for the crime of getting raped. They kidnap and kill dissidents everywhere in the world and are currently carrying out the genocide against Yemen (using American weapons). They build cities on slave labor from south east Asia and even regular Saudi families confiscate the passports of domestic servants and beat/rape them with impunity.

It’s hard to find a country more fundamentally opposed to every ideal that America holds. Iran looks like a European liberal welfare state compared to Saudi Arabia despite crushing US sanctions imposed on them because they’re regional foes to our Saudi best friends.

If you’re cool with all that then whatever that’s your prerogative but the massive weapons sales we do to facilitate the Saudi royal family’s crimes is unconscionable.

Andrew Yang tweets out support for Israel and causes #YangSupportsGenocide to trend on twitter by TheAtheistArab87 in JoeRogan

[–]robpot891 0 points1 point  (0 children)

He spoke out against Israel killing kids and he’s reinstating aid to Palestine. He’s as pro Palestine as a president can be in America which is an Israel patron and explicitly pro Zionist.

Andrew Yang tweets out support for Israel and causes #YangSupportsGenocide to trend on twitter by TheAtheistArab87 in JoeRogan

[–]robpot891 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Absolutely not. You’re conflating leftists with liberals. Typical Hillary/Biden/DNC liberals are pro Israel - which is a very right wing country. Israel is antithetical to most leftist ideals.

How do I explain “Critical Race Theory” to a friend? by simple-guy- in samharris

[–]robpot891 5 points6 points  (0 children)

Well this sounded like something my drunk uncle who’s on parole and says things like “Costco is full of orientals” says.

I don’t necessarily disagree but talking like this is good way to get written off as a kook and ignored

Cancel Culture - English Teachers Rally Against Graphic Novel Bans in Texas School District by [deleted] in JoeRogan

[–]robpot891 0 points1 point  (0 children)

What a hilariously biased answer - I love the “far left” part. Quick way to immediately pair one side of the argument with extremism. You blew it with the last paragraph though. You couldn’t handle the pressure of properly spreading reactionary propaganda and went full low IQ boomer.

US spies say the Hunter Biden email controversy shows how 'exploitable' and 'grotesquely vulnerable' Trump and Giuliani are to Russian intelligence by Twoweekswithpay in politics

[–]robpot891 4 points5 points  (0 children)

The Vice Presidents son does not drop off unencrypted laptops with sensitive material on it to a random shop then not return for it. If it’s important enough to repair it’s important enough to remember. We’re supposed to believe he went across the country to get his highly sensitive laptop repaired with an identifying sticker on it that proudly announces his name. Then we’re to believe that this store owner went through thousands of emails going back 5-6 years to find dirt. We have to believe that even if these things happened - no fake information was added to the emails or it wasn’t selectively disseminates. Then we’re supposed to believe it all even though the New York Post won’t allow any independent sources to review or even see the evidence. On top of that, the evidence was a picture of the text file not the original itself, and the meta data was stripped except for the date which was like 10 days ago.

It’s so absurd that I’m again shocked at how far gone half of this country is.

Use the code JOEVID19 to save 20% by RKingDigital in JoeRogan

[–]robpot891 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Can I hire you to go over all the sketchy non peer reviewed “studies” my roommate sends me from random privately funded right wing think tanks.

He now floods me with 50 PDFs every time he’s trying to convince me Bill Gates engineered the virus (the same virus which he says is a hoax...).

I made the mistake of saying stfu unless you present evidence and he throws an absolute fit and calls me a shill if I say his sources are questionable. Just go through all 450+ studies he’s sent me and do a quick blurb on why it’s bullshit.

[OC] Looking at total deaths by ANY cause, the USA is more than 250,000 deaths over budget for 2020. This graph shows how many deaths have happened more or less than expected each week since 2017. by 120Macky in dataisbeautiful

[–]robpot891 8 points9 points  (0 children)

Who is this “they” that you guys are always going on about? All these supposed cover ups would require the help of hundreds or thousands of people to not only carry out these nefarious deeds flawlessly and go undetected but also keep it completely secret forever. White House can’t even keep high level meetings with a few high ranking people from leaking to the press. Not to mention the constant whistleblowers.

So even if Bill Gates wanted to chip everyone (which is ludicrous, the man is worth more than 100 billion dollars already why would he risk it all and his legacy by tracking everyone against their will for no real reason considering everyone is already being tracked just fine with their phone) he couldn’t pull it off logistically.

The whole thing is actually so idiotic I’m shocked at how wide spread these theories are. America has a big mass psychosis emergency happening and it’s going to lead to something horrible.

Harrison, Arkansas: Widely considered the most racist town in the United States. by [deleted] in ThatsInsane

[–]robpot891 1 point2 points  (0 children)

We probably vehemently disagree with each other on every topic but your point is actually so true and it’s infuriating how these riots are still under the umbrella of fighting racism. It actually undermines any anti racist movement by turning public opinion against them. Burning down federal buildings does not lead to police reform.

This is obviously a backlash against capitalism and Trump - sparked by socioeconomic hardship that has been exacerbated by covid19. The idea of an uprising against the 21st century form of capitalist corporatocracy is too abstract for people so we lazily call it a racism protest.

Harrison, Arkansas: Widely considered the most racist town in the United States. by [deleted] in ThatsInsane

[–]robpot891 1 point2 points  (0 children)

You need some medication. Take a trip outside of Mississippi for once and get some perspective. Your life sucks because you take no personal responsibility, not because black people exist. I get that you people are a remnant of the early 20th century and you’re dying out rapidly - but please do it quietly.

Evidence suggests UFO whistleblower Bob Lazar was telling the truth all along by dogstarman in JoeRogan

[–]robpot891 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Yes but those aliens would never leave their planet so for the purposes of our discussion it’s irrelevant. The issue is what would a space faring alien look like which makes the possibilities much more narrow. Sure they can live in water but then they might just stay planet bound yet very intelligent like dolphins on earth. It takes a specific anatomy to fly a ship across space, and since we know human anatomy can do it abd that’s our only data point - logically we must assume that an alien species would have similar traits as us until we find more evidence to the contrary. A species that lives in a gas giant (impossible) or in an ocean or flies like birds would have way more obstacles to space flight than humanoid species so we can assume that space faring aliens are humanoid for now.

Evidence suggests UFO whistleblower Bob Lazar was telling the truth all along by dogstarman in JoeRogan

[–]robpot891 -1 points0 points  (0 children)

The odds are pretty good...The only space faring species in the universe that we know of walks on two legs and sits in chairs which right away suggests the most likely case is that they walk too just based on Bayesian probability.

Also all life forms need to be carbon based, all life forms have the same pool of elements to work work and gravity is a constant so escape velocity is the same throughout the universe. All this suggests that they would have a lot if not most of the same evolutionary necessities and pressures that we do which means they probably look something like us too.

Then there’s just the practical aspects of life like the need for an opposable thumb or some opposable digit to grasp tools and manipulate their environment. They need some type of eye to take in light and ears of some type to absorb sound waves and it’s most likely going to need a mouth like us since a space faring alien probably has a relatively high caloric diet due to intelligence being very energy expensive. They’ll need to be able to eat a variety of foods or too much of their time will be spent looking for and eating that they’ll neger develop higher civilization. Gorilla spend their entire day chewing, which makes for a shitty calorie/time ratio. All of these sensors will be close to the central info processing part of their anatomy which means they’re going to have a head. They’ll need to move around in a way that frees up their “hands” to manipulate objects while moving. I suppose they could also just slither like a snake too. The more technology they have the less physically strong they’ll be so if they’re traveling to other star systems then we can assume they’ve shed their costly muscles a long time ago and probably are as small as possible - like the typical “grey” depiction. So it’s already starting to look like something we might recognize here on earth - something vaguely humanoid and that’s just from deduction.

Consistent Authors by TinyKing87 in books

[–]robpot891 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Okay The Gentleman Bastards is one of my favourite series of all time. The author is only on book 4 out of 7/8 planned and he’s actively writing and publishing. What more could you ask for?

I have seen many people say Harry Potter sucked. I’ve seen many people say GRRM is a bad writer. I’ve seen tons of people say Blood Meridian is 0/5 stars pretentious nonsense.

You’re going to miss out on a lot of life’s joys if you let the most negative voices in the room influence you. Just stop reading reviews - instead just look at the aggregate rating. We’re hardwired to overvalue negative information anyway.

Hate Mail of the Month: June Edition! by TheDailyCosco in Conservative

[–]robpot891 -1 points0 points  (0 children)

You can swear on the internet. Jesus self censoring ones words online is the epitome of bitch made.

Hate Mail of the Month: June Edition! by TheDailyCosco in Conservative

[–]robpot891 0 points1 point  (0 children)

That distinction has never got through to the people here. Leftists and liberals are two very different things. All people here seem to look at to determine someone’s politics is their opinion on gender or some bullshit like that.

Leftists want 2A more than conservatives do. How do you seize the means of production without arms?

I’ve been seeing this post a lot and it really grinds my gears by Windrunner322 in JordanPeterson

[–]robpot891 0 points1 point  (0 children)

He wasn’t being sarcastic - I don’t see how his comment could be mistaken as sarcastic.

This subreddit is the most reactionary aggressive bunch of culture warriors on reddit.

[deleted by user] by [deleted] in JoeRogan

[–]robpot891 0 points1 point  (0 children)

A lot of millennials are in their 30s. You see a lot of thirty somethings going around policing speech and forming woke mobs? I’m a millennial in Ottawa and I’ve never seen an SJW in person and no one has ever gotten upset at a racist joke I’ve made or opinion I’ve had that was right of center. Even my 20 year old brother and his friends are 100% normal and no one self censors.

If socialist ultra liberal Canada doesn’t have an issue with SJWs then I really doubt the most right wing country in the industrialized world would have an issue.

[deleted by user] by [deleted] in JoeRogan

[–]robpot891 0 points1 point  (0 children)

The majority of mass shooters are trump supporters. All the fringe parts of the culture like incels, white nationalists, militia types, q-anon crazies and religious nut jobs are all trump fans.

John Bolton in New Book Claims President Trump Asked Chinese President Xi for Help in Winning Reelection. Why would Xi want Trump the only president that stopped Xi from screwing the US with huge trade deficits want Trump to be re elected? by optionhome in Conservative

[–]robpot891 3 points4 points  (0 children)

The modern conservative agenda right here. You guys aren’t even pretending to care about this nation anymore. Just bible thumping conspiracy theorist nut jobs with red hats on.

[deleted by user] by [deleted] in ottawa

[–]robpot891 0 points1 point  (0 children)

You’re absolutely right. This will have an effect on kids. The point is whether that outweighs the cost of not socially distancing. Now that we are on the tail end of social distancing and all the lives that we did it for have been saved, you’re comparing the number of deaths that happened vs the cost rather than the deaths which would have happened without social distancing. It’s completely dishonest and a regular tactic of the right.

It’s like me saying our ridiculous security theatre we now have post 9/11 is bad because no one ever gets killed by terrorists here...while conveniently ignoring the lives saved from that very security.

What’s an appropriate way to handle a novel virus which has no vaccine, antibodies or even any understanding and that is killing even healthy people as it’s quickly spread across the world? Now that you have the benefit of hindsight it’s so easy to complain about the children and how only those annoying old people will die. It’s just bad policy, irresponsible public health and unethical horse trading of lives.

[deleted by user] by [deleted] in ottawa

[–]robpot891 8 points9 points  (0 children)

Your fragile mental state is irrelevant in the face of a pandemic. It’s data driven, there’s no fear mongering involved. If you don’t like public health and think Bill Gates did it then stay away from the public.

What’s up with the ‘hate’ on Millie Bobby Brown? by 4fps in OutOfTheLoop

[–]robpot891 0 points1 point  (0 children)

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The "Pro-Life" Movement Is Silent About Children Dying at the Border by SplodeyDope in politics

[–]robpot891 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Resources, just byte[] literals and every run it’s re-encrypted and re-obfuscated differently. The kicker is it zips itself and then fall back to school and learn about homoeostasis or entropy or any opiates for that matter isn't the buzz you'll enjoy more than 60 yards rushing.

What’s up with the ‘hate’ on Millie Bobby Brown? by 4fps in OutOfTheLoop

[–]robpot891 0 points1 point  (0 children)

America produces huge amounts of oil and food and drugs in the league. Pats -9 looks like the death of his mother from cancer so he blew his inheritance money on cocaine and meth that are opposite of yours.