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All of your other concerns are valid, but let's get this straight. The Supreme Court will not invalidate the 2020 election and give it to Trump. As bad as SCOTUS is , it has enough wisdom to not play Trump's games.

Did a little bit of research on VeggieTales, the Christian kids show that teaches lessons about the Bible. Also I read a bit about Phil Vischer, its creator. I'm sure Europeans aren't as familiar with it but it was quite prevalent in America and was distributed to a lot of people. Here's a video of the story of Noah's Ark: From some skimming of this video as well as my memory of watching this show, we have one conversation about why Noah is building the ark at 10:40. For the remaining 98%~~ of the video we have cute images and positive messaging around God's plan with none of the horrid implications that comes from him flooding the entire Earth. Even the conversation at 10:40 is pretty quick. Even though it's propaganda, I would not say that the author intended to be malicious or negatively impact society in the way that Breitbart or these other sites do. What I mean is that the creator has a much better heart and probably wanted to just see kids laugh while teaching what he thought was the truth. In numerous other VeggieTales episodes, such as King George with the Ducky episode which teaches good moral lessons. These shows positively impacted many people in some ways while brainwashing them to the Biblical worldview as children --which comes with its own riplle effect. Taking a look at Phil Vischer's last posts on Twitter is pretty encouraging despite the moral obfuscation that takes place in some of the VeggieTales episodes. It's a reminder that not all Christians seem to be in line with Trump (or at least his followers). This is just from brief research into the guy but it seems to be in line with reality -- that not all Christians are into Trump...which is an important reminder.

Yes

Words are contaminated all the time, this is nothing new.

States in the northeast and west coast tend to be more even more highly concentrated in cities than the rest of the country, and they are populous. They have a more diverse population whereas almost every person you see in Wyoming for example is white. They have more wealth and are more highly educated, with better schools, etc. than in places like South Dakota or Alabama. There are other factors. When you are in a sparesly populated region of the country, you want to own a gun because it makes you better feel like you own all the land that your eye can see. If you are a big tech high executive in a Silicon Valley firm you are probably to busy to care to go to the firing range to practice to shoot. In the particular case of Wyoming, when I visited there it is extremely understandable why people vote Republicans. The issue of "climate" change for example is so ethereal and foreign to them, since the state is just too beautiful already, and they're ignorant to what's happening in other parts of the world because it is so sparse. It is a gorgeous state, just too gorgeous at the moment..

This should be a no brainer because any time you spend 1 minute on X you lose the potentional to spend that 1 minute on Y, Z, V, and R. And you have a finite time with your body. You invested some part of yourself into anything that you tried for that 1 minute, making you ever so slightly less invested in that other thing you could try. But other than that I don't think there's really a correlation.

There's still some quality posts here but in some regards this thread is becoming indistinguishable from any Trump bashing thread. We can celebrate a little longer But let's be careful about monitoring or criticizing everything Trump does for the rest of the winter. Although the damage done and his breaking of norms is unprecedented, and the news is important, the most likely scenario is that the institutions that be will remove him from the presidency, at which point the county will have to pick up the pieces. And that's all there is to it. Gloating helps manifest a spirit of disunity.

Brendan Keefe on Twitter is covering the Georgia elections.

Cyberbullying confirmed =( I tried...

I thought Pennsylvania would finish counting tomorrow @Preety_India?

Well Arizona has 11 electoral votes so that's probably it. One side calls it for Biden, the other considers it a battleground state.

I must say that I enjoy seeing the results come in from Arizona, I really hope we stay blue. People really liked John McCain here and Trump insulting him probably swung the state.

I really think lots of people voted for Trump primarily because of the "free speech" issue. Also it's much harder to lift 330 million people towards more healthy forms of thinking than what you'd see in the Nordic countries for example. And it feels like that democracy is barely sustainable for large population sizes in practice, obviously it's fragile in multiple senses as well...but we are heading to the point where it feels like elections almost do more harm than good. (But primal dictatorships isn't a good option either...)

“Without music, life would be a mistake” ― Friedrich Nietzsche I write this, listening to music

My main critique is that I'm unconvinced it takes this long to deconstruct science. You did a good job in the first 1-2 hours, there was no need to drag it past that in my opinion. I'll watch the other videos, but I believe they will just beat a dead horse.

People misinterpret the rioting and looting as an act of hatred against the country that seem to have descended upon the country out of nowhere. It is as if they believe that as an evil spirit that came completely out of left field (pun intended :] ) -- and a few hardcore Christians actually precisely believe this. Treat it like it is -- an often times desperate explosion of anger perceived as a last resort for an undending pattern of oppression. Yes some bad apples climb into the movement and seem to spoil it for outsiders, but by and large the Black Lives Matter movement does not come from an inherent desire to burn the country down. America has a horrible putrid history of racism and this was only amplified by concepts like states rights, where the "laboratories of democracy" allowed racism to incubate and isolate itself from the larger country, causing it to fester and simmer for centuries. Conservatives never believe there is a need for reconcilliation or healing because they are terrified of anything that implies America is not perfect. Implying America is not perfect would start to open a Pandora's Box of questions that the Republicans would rather ignore. As for Trump being in favor of free speech, it really doesn't feel that way when he is trying to discourage people from voting in multiple ways and he and his allies are saying, if you don't vote for me you will destroy this country

It's important to note that for every two ways Conservatives cite that liberal culture "encourages" transitioning, there are four reasons that culture discourages transitioning. I don't want to get too much into politics here, though.

you don't evangelize reality, reality evangelizes YOU! although to be honest it's a little silly to say in an argument that you can certainly 100% not be wrong. what do you expect this to do, shorten the argument? you should assume you're wrong about everything to continue gathering proofs, right up until the point where it impairs your ability to search for them =]

I think a small part of is it environmental factors like people have alluded to in this thread, even I won't deny it can have a small influence. However it's mostly hormones in utero and shortly thereafter. Yeah it's reasonable, and worth it (even if you bull-rush the entire process without much contemplation in my experience). Nonetheless it is wisest to contemplate it periodically in a quiet place and do some research into it until you're satisfied with an answer. You're semi-likely to lose family over it, that part isn't exaggerated, but I truly do believe that the transgender "regret" thing is exaggerated (mainly because people try to take ownership of your emotions for political points and like to say you are "regretful" when you are occasionally just "sad" that you couldn't get used to your "default" body) --OMG i am also sorta trying to score political points here! oh well.. Source: a trans with Kallmann Syndrome.

*cries* This conspiracy helps elucidate to what degree some people are fearful and angry towards transgender people --they'll being hallucinating figures in prominent spaces just so they can redirect and amplify their anger with society. How dare parts of reality defy gender norms at some points along the timeline? :thinking:

Why is it confusing? Both sides have a strong emotional investment in the outcome of this race. They'll apply whatever lens they need to to make themselves feel better. It's not inherently that bad unless you start fighting in the mud about it with other people, though. Also there's so many voices out there going on about blablabla their past records and why you should listen to them instead of the other millions of people on the internet, so it's not hard to imagine that one of these people will present their ideas and then their ideas didn't happen. Trump could win, but personally I see it as becoming more and more unlikely.

I actually compared psyopath's intelligence's to meteor's (rock's) intelligence; I was at no point referencing IQ.

I know there's a line to walk there but it is best to walk it. My brother hates the entire LGBT community and we had a falling out. I still try to send him christmas and birthday stuff because literally why not. I'm aware of this and I stand by my statement that they exhibit the intelligence facet better than they do the love/compassion facet of the universe. I think everyone has their own signature of each element of the universe despite it also being universal in a sense.

;P Can we call you a Cam sành Winter? Pretty please?