Raze

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  1. There was an islamic golden age when the muslim countries began rapidly progressing while the christian europe was in the dark ages, but during the crusades Europe collected a lot of valuable information from the muslim countries. The muslim countries got spooked by the crusades and other wars from invaders and became closed off and nationalistic and started developing slower, while Europe took the information and started rapidly developing with the renaissance. More recently, muslim countries have had lots of war and revolutions because they didn't develop secular democracies in the same way as the USA or Europe. The western countries discovered valuable resources in the muslim countries, and started kind of exploiting them and doing things like supporting unpopular or backwards leaders just because they give them better deals on resources. Or taking out advancing leaders because they start questioning or being hostile to their relationship with the USA. You can read analysis for Noam Chomsky on the details. They are progressing, but their situation is precarious and they could collapse back at any time. Also it probably doesn't matter because climate change is going to cause mass suffering and chaos in those countries in the coming decades.
  2. Just learning about basic sex ed and MLK like that isn't stage green. The schools in America are only starting to become fully stage green now. Example in this video from 49:30 to 51:02 (ignore the other parts of the video), I picture schools like this as stage green.
  3. To add onto Leo bringing up Eckhart Tolle, what is more dangerous than money is praise from other people. Eckhart said it doesn't affect him because he doesn't have a self that they add too and he feels as though he isn't the one doing anything, so when people feed his ego to him it's like they're talking about someone else. You probably cannot avoid realizing devilish tendencies from things that feed your ego, but that isn't a bad thing, you can see it as it's bringing the devil inside of you out for you to deal with.
  4. Yeah, but that's because your own ego is getting in the way. You're making many assumptions. >he was excited that is why he stumbled how do you know this? What is he excited about? Talking to russell brand? Kind of weird since he's worked with many high profile celebrities and he and Russell are friends who have talked to each other for years. He's stuttered in many videos and he also blinks rapidly, those are just physiological functions. >he excused himself because he talked too much. He said that the work of Russell is very important. I don't understand what the problem with being polite is. >Then he talks quite a bit about politics. He didn't really talk that much about it, and it's not like he's picking a side or something.
  5. But this is an example of the limitation of libertarianism. It eventually turns into a oligarchy of corporations that control society. What happens when a few corporations control every aspect of society and can un-person people, no bank accounts, no internet presence, can't buy a home, banned from buying things online, can't buy an airplane ticket. It may not be that big a problem now, but the more the companies control every aspect of life, the closer we get to giving them complete control of people. Maybe it's easy to look away when people you disagree with get censored, but it will never stay that way. Heres another example, he was banned from his bank, all major social media sites, paypal, airbnb, etc. https://itmattershowyoustand.com/2019/02/chase-bank-shuts-down-proud-boys-leaders-personal-bank-account-blp/ He has alternatives, but in the near future it won't be surprising if he won't, as corporations get larger and control more aspects of society. Even if you find him repugnant, this is setting a precedent that will destroy free speech because outside of legal action it is making a situation where certain speech puts you in danger of destroying your life. It's easy to be ok with that when you find the speech they are punished for vile, but like I said it's naive to think that's all it will be limited too.
  6. Ok, but let's break down that argument. Let's compare two situations, a female boss slaps her male workers ass, and a male boss slaps his female workers ass. Is the male boss's situation worse? If you say yes, why? They both did the exact same thing. You may say because women are victims more often then men. Why does that matter? This is a specific instance, the rate of other crimes is irrelevant to it, no one in this situation controls the rest of society and therefore shouldn't be punished differently for it, judging people by their group and not individuals is Jim Crow logic. You may say because the guy is more dangerous to the woman because he is stronger. First off, even if that is true most of the time it may not always be, secondly, why does it matter? Sure she would be in more danger if the male boss tried to go for a full on assault than the female boss, but the male boss didn't do that, he only slapped her ass, why should he be punished harsher for slapping her ass because he could have done something worse which he didn't? It's a simple breakdown of logic. The legal system should not take into account societal trends over fairness and looking at the individual situation. This is why so called stage green people are hated, because they abandon notions of fairness, individuality, and equality in favor of judging people as groups and giving worse of special treatment to compensate for perceived societal injustices. Never said that doesn't have it's place, but not in every aspect of society.
  7. Forcing someone to have sex when they don't want too is rape. There was a 13 year old kid who got drugged by his older female neighbor and raped while he was unconscious, he was traumatized and needed therapy for years, he never got justice and not only that the rapist had his kid and forced him to pay child support. Imagine what that was like, this is what attitudes like what Leo is suggesting cause. This isn't even like the metoo conversation which is based on if someone might be innocent, we are talking about guilty people here. The asymmetry argument is ridiculous, imagine going up to a male rape victim and telling him it doesn't matter because mostly other men rape other women. That has nothing to do with his situation, a crime is a crime.
  8. Very offensive and sexist comment and not remotely true. Data shows many women orgasm during rape, would you say they enjoy it and should just accept it? No you wouldn't, same for guys. Rape is wrong no matter who it happens too, even if the person who got raped doesn't think so (but they most likely would). Leo what in the ever loving fuck are you saying. If what you're saying is not ok with the genders reversed, it's not ok. There have been men who were raped by women and they were traumatized for life. Even if you believe these things you shouldn't post about it because someone will quote it and try to cancel you. Just because women raping men doesn't happen that often and most men are physically stronger then women does not mean it never happens or it's not a problem. Many men who go on to become rapists or kill women were actually molested or raped by older women as a kid, and they never got help or even realized they were traumatized because of behavior like this, and they ended up just hurting more people. If you cannot empathize with men, realize that in the end it will only hurt women. Are you seriously going to call people SJW's for saying you shouldn't say rape victims are at fault when you accuse people of being egoic for mild criticisms of feminism. https://www.theatlantic.com/science/archive/2016/11/the-understudied-female-sexual-predator/503492/ At least study the topic before making insane ignorant comments. Being raped by someone physically weaker than you is not abnormal because of things like drugs or weapons.
  9. He's not nervous lol. He has little/no self, he said he doesn't even really feel excitement anymore. I've watched a lot of his interviews and he rarely ever brings up politics, when he does it's in a general abstract way so as not to say anything that offends anyone. He does maintain that he thinks humanity will self destruct unless there is a worldwide enlightenment.
  10. I mean, watch the video I posted, Warren explains some of it.
  11. The new family unit that is becoming popular is not healthy and anyone who tries pointing out the issue gets blacklisted by the left.
  12. Why is that not valid? There is plenty of data that break-up of the family is damaging to society (and women), and hypersensitivity of some feminists hurts people/ruins lives, closes all the dialogue, and makes feminism look bad.
  13. I didn't say it did, but he clearly understood feminism and read many books on it. He was friends with and worked with many of the most famous feminists, though they all ghosted him after he started saying things they disagree with.
  14. What is your opinion on Dr. Warren Farrell then? He was the most high ranking male feminist, but now he criticizes the movement and says it is damaging gender relations. Here is his debate with Vaush.
  15. how many books critiquing feminism have you read?
  16. I believe it is because humans have a subconscious fear of death and that shows itself in the 'ego' where they desire to assert their identity, so when it's attacked they react violently.
  17. you should break up with her and get therapy to learn why you value yourself so little you're staying with someone who hits you.
  18. Do you watch porn? If you do stop, and try no fap.
  19. https://harpers.org/a-letter-on-justice-and-open-debate/ Recently Noam Chomsky refused to sign a petition by students to remove Steven Pinker from the linguistic society for tweets, J.K. Rowling got attacked for tweets called transphobic, and a few years ago Atwood was criticized for criticizing #metoo.
  20. The problem with cancel culture is it is mob rule and anarchy. As a result we have situations like this: https://quillette.com/2020/02/23/how-anonymous-unproven-accusations-turned-mike-tunisons-career-into-metoo-road-kill/ He lost his job, can't get a new one, all based on 0 evidence from an accusation by an anonymous person. He has no mechanism to prove his innocence or get recourse from what happened. Cancel culture basically created a weapon for anyone to abuse to take down people they don't like.
  21. http://archive.vn/pPvFP Also worth noting this was an in-person survey, so it's possible some people lied. Most likely some single women lied reducing their sex amount, and some single men lied increasing it.
  22. https://thehill.com/blogs/blog-briefing-room/news/502975-california-man-fired-over-alleged-white-power-sign-says-he-was Random guy loses his job because someone snaps a picture of him doing an ok symbol that because Trump does it they believe is a white power symbol. He says he was just cracking his knuckles, and he's mexican. How is it not going too far?