Epikur

Maybe it is just your perception

It might be also the ROI. You might get less back than in the past for your effort. In the study it was said it was not possible to create a good environment for teenagers. For children in worked better.

I think you are just not ready for the forum rhetorically. Because your beliefs are so different you have to have the tools to sell it without triggering people on this forum. If you do not have that skill get it in another forum and when you are ready you can do it here. It just takes time to get a feel about if you crossed the line. You are a guest in this forum and nobody owes you anything even if you are right. It is normal to want to bring your truth but it is probably not the right place and time. Just give yourself time. You do not have to save the world right now, or do you? I crossed the line here many times and it was a growing process.

This is amazing in so many ways. Sorry for bringing JD but he did a good job here.

Do not ask these questions

Though Trumpism is now pro vaxx.

Except in special cases like when to apologize the Taliban once in a while because hey it is their land.

I thought it is quite accepted that socialism is the secular version of christianity. I would go farther back and say it is partly the bigger version of tribal equality. I call it tribal socialism. You might have it still in some countries like the Philippines. If one has money in the family he gets so much harrassed till he shares his money.

Tucker, Shapiro do a lot of propaganda. It is a lot of work to separate the truth from propaganda. It is better to bring their arguments from a different source that is more trustable. Tim Pool is not so bad but his propaganda and grift is more subtle and adds up after a long time. Then it becomes obvious. Same with the liberals. Don Lemon, Chris Cuomo, Brion Stelter. You do not want to waste brain cells for these guys.

This forum just does not have the ressources and the will to take on the job. For that you have to create a different forum. Chances are that it will fail because people will use every subtle way to do their propaganda.

I am a centrist so I know what you mean. I love criticizing the left but I do not like to criticize the right. The reason is the conservatives specially in the US a lot of times come from the religious perspective. That often means there is no reasoning from the beginning. I am much more ok with Atheist conservatives there is some reasoning possible.

Talking to each other when the opinions are so different is exhausting.

https://www.sciencealert.com/iq-scores-falling-in-worrying-reversal-20th-century-intelligence-boom-flynn-effect-intelligence https://www.telegraph.co.uk/education/educationnews/4548943/British-teenagers-have-lower-IQs-than-their-counterparts-did-30-years-ago.html

To contain stupidity

Do not forget CNN. It helps the right a lot too with their lies.

He is the second best. Nice to have an honest philosopher for a change.

Of course that is the point. Your progressive countries are actually not that progressive depending on the metric. Talking about success and progressives. Taliban took Kabul.

To be fair there could be one with the koran

https://www.washingtonpost.com/world/2021/08/12/who-origins-embarek/

https://nypost.com/2021/08/12/covid-19-lab-leak-theory-probable-hypothesis-who-scientist/

The west is progressive as long as it does not hurt them. https://www.nrc.no/perspectives/2020/the-10-countries-that-receive-the-most-refugees/ https://www.aa.com.tr/en/americas/us-war-on-terror-killed-half-million-people-study/1307258

I would use developed mainly for technology and power. If your tribe has equal rights but gets destroyed by a stronger group that is not success. Historically equal rights did not mean much. What will happen in the future we will see.

The minimum level would be to survive against the pressure from other societies and countries.

So is this a test run in the context of legalising drugs?