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Vaush is 'cancelling' the online left

Except in far east asia there is a big difference

The only data your link provides is 'In June, Dr. Stephen Diamantoni, Lancaster County coroner, said six members of the Old Order Amish died from COVID-19-related illnesses over just a few weeks.' Terrible article. Affected can mean lots of things. It does not look like the Amish feel like they are dying in significant numbers. They seem quite relaxed. https://nypost.com/2021/03/28/amish-group-could-reach-covid-herd-immunity-health-official/

I am not shure about the US but in general I think the left-wing doesn't care much about it. You see that in this forum. You might be an exception. For me conservatives are more tribal and therefore can take lessons from history because they think things did not change much regarding struggle for power but the left-wing feel they can not take much lessons because it shows outdated systems.

I think history is mostly liked by conservatives because it is mostly old school tribal competition. Progressives may want to forget big parts of history to be open to create a different world.

I don't think this forum cares much for history. The ones who care approach it like a fun action movie.

Why was India conquered so easily ? https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=AvCsn-EDS5o

Could not stop myself:

Scientists have to eat even if they can not discover stuff so some might get 'creative'

https://www.sciencemag.org/news/2021/01/new-biden-scientific-integrity-policy https://www.nature.com/articles/d41586-020-03063-0 https://www.nytimes.com/2019/12/28/climate/trump-administration-war-on-science.html

very interesting

I wonder what job perspectives a political scientist would have if he would argue that the military should be reduced by 90 per cent. I guess not so good. https://www.scientificamerican.com/article/trial-sans-error-how-pharma-funded-research-cherry-picks-positive-results/

People are mostly not so smart to figure out what is good for them, specially if powerful people have an interest to lie to them. https://www.npr.org/sections/thetwo-way/2016/09/13/493739074/50-years-ago-sugar-industry-quietly-paid-scientists-to-point-blame-at-fat

who is we?

nice one

@BadHippie I know what you mean. I am one of the guys who have to tone down my speech here. Still there are realities that have to be taken in account. If you don't do it it might hurt more than usual. Anyway in general I agree but reality does not agree it seems.

@BadHippie The hippies lost and new ideologies compete for survival. If you want to survive you have to deal with the reality and power of these so called made up concepts. But you can try and live in Lala land.

How can we enlightened when there is no you and I?

@BadHippie You can say it is for pragmatic reasons. It makes organizing the forum so much harder with opening gates for right wing people as a side effect plus it raises the chance to be cancelled.

https://www.news24.com/news24/world/news/uk-report-denies-systemic-racism-prompting-angry-backlash-20210331 Maybe there is a conspiracy to deny systemic racism