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And then people who love money and danger sell this stuff with added shit to any poor soul that can't handle the shithole some places currently are. Some of them even see this as their gateway out of the shit they're into. And then you get gangs of people trying to rob people and sells addictive shit, otherwise they're stuck in the race and class separation they were put into the first place. There are thousands of factors that play into addiction. The substance is far from the most important one.

Counterhistory is not a serious argument. Christians were as fanatic, and in some regards more fanatical than Muslims in the middle ages. The roots of nationalism also have its roots in the Crusades. I could also argue that Nazism would never come into being if it weren't for the Crusades. It is simply not fruitful to analyze the past on basis of what could be, being more useful to analyze it as it is.

Source: voices from my head.

Are you talking about that time in history when the British Empire couldn't sell their trash industrialized products to the Chinese, therefore creating a deficit due to their constant purchase of silk, porcelain, and tea from the Chinese, so they started to push their India-produced opium into the country to addict the Chinese people and recoup their losses? The control of drug trafficking by governments and empires is as old as walking forward. The drug war just ensures that no one else profits from it besides the corrupt part of the state.

There is no difference between the state you described and barbarism. The whole problem we are stating here is that the rules proposed to theoretically increase the survival rate of people (what we call society) became corrupt and now we are having the opposite effect to the benefit of few people, and to the detriment of 99% of people, especially the people you cited in paragraph 2. What progressives see, that conservatives don't is that as technical progress comes about, moral progress fails to entail it. We have never had more abundance and knowledge available, but we are not utilizing it, because of the limited scope of concern of people who control most of these resources. You talk about "natural selection", but the reality is that we are artificially selecting. Many capable people are prevented to improve their condition because the system does not select the best but selects the ones that promote the homeostasis of those already in power. The population at large is so far apart from the mechanisms of acquiring power that the checks and balances of corruption are rarer and rarer. Just see what the average politics and business world have been in the last 20 years you'll see how your position comes from a lack of a more holistic perspective on the matter.

Do not think that this isn't biased. The whole point of ideology is that you are unaware that you're reproducing it as you do.

I'm introducing my friend to Vampire: The Masquerade and his main opposition is Anderson Totter, a playboy millionaire human trafficker.

My father taught me to read in two months when I was 4. I got into my "literacy" year in school (the one most focused on teaching writing/reading) knowing how to read. Khan academy taught me calculus better than my university degree. Of course education is important, that's why you can't let the school spoil it.

Tate is literally a serial rapist.

North americans* If you take central and south american into account, you had 100 million + deaths. Most of them of disease. The rest through slavery/war/scarcity.

The best lies are half-truths. They mix enough important information in the pool of indoctrination so you can feel a little bit better for wasting the first 15 years of your child.

Your will be done, on earth as it is in heaven.

Sure, but the dominant position was from the right winger, so I took on the role of displaying his disingenuousness. The leftist was simply not educated enough to answer these questions. His ignorance stops him from being less confrontational.

Be glad you don't have to. Even in those communities, it seem the practice is getting obsolete.

The young girls are encouraged and they try to display no pain as it's seem as moral courage in many cultures that perform these rituals.

This is reductionist. There are plenty of other traditions upheld by men too. Traditional morality is perpetuated by men and women alike. Using one of your examples, John Baptist was a pivotal figure for Jesus too, so there's that.

Value comes from the exercise of that creativity and talent. A master musician that plays at home adds less value than a mediocre one that plays for 100 people.

This is labor too. Administrative labor. No, you just managed work better, and that is valuable too. As I said, management is labor too. The value of the final product has both of your labor and the labor of the worker combined into it. Learning shit is also labor. Is intellectual labor.

About the Social Credit System: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Social_Credit_System#For_government_institutions The Chinese Government suffers more sanctions of the system than individuals in China. The system is a credit score system, that encompasses more than financial behavior. Many countries have credit scores, China ties its system to civil behavior besides simply financial behavior. The alarmism of the west about it is ignorance. The Jack Ma stuff is just conspiracy: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jack_Ma#Disappearance_from_the_public_eye The Indian Genocide figure is truly farfetched. The estimated population of American Indians was about 150 million before Europeans reached the continent. The remaining population after 200 hundred years was between 5 and 10 million. Critical Theory is the actual name of the movement that the Frankfurt School and Antonio Gramsci were a part of. When asked "Who coined the term Cultural Marxism?" to GPT-4, this is the answer: The term "Cultural Marxism" has a complex and controversial history, and it's not entirely clear who specifically first coined it. The term is associated with a conspiracy theory that suggests there's a subversive effort to undermine Western values and institutions via cultural institutions, influenced by the Frankfurt School and their neo-Marxist ideas, also known as Critical Theory. However, it's important to note that the term "Cultural Marxism" itself was not used by members of the Frankfurt School or by other Marxist theorists. Rather, it has been used in the late 20th and early 21st centuries primarily by critics of these theorists and by those who assert the existence of the aforementioned conspiracy theory. In academic contexts, the term is rarely used, and when it is, it's often in critical discussions about its problematic use in popular discourse. It has also been popularized by right-wing commentators and politicians who believe that various social changes—such as multiculturalism, political correctness, and certain types of social justice advocacy—are part of a deliberate attempt to undermine traditional Western values. It's important to recognize that this term and its associated theories have been widely criticized as simplistic, misrepresentative, and potentially harmful in their framing of complex cultural and social changes as a deliberate and monolithic plot. As such, the term's use is often contested and controversial. Critical Theory just states that culture itself is a means of perpetuating the liberal paradigm, exerting deep control over people's opinions and biases. Many Critical Theorists would agree with right-extremists on how the media control people, they talked about this 80 years ago. He then mixes up postmodernists and "deconstruction". Postmodern thinkers didn't even like critical theory and deconstruction is a tool for discourse analysis. If he actually read all this philosophy, he wouldn't make these mistakes that a 3rd-period student of philosophy undergrad would know is bullshit. As a Brazilian, I can't oversee the mischaracterization of Paulo Freire. Here's the abstract of Freire's theory of education: Freire outlines his theories of education. The first discussed is the banking model of education. He believes the fundamental nature of education is to be narrative. There is one individual reciting facts and ideas (the teacher) and others who just listen and memorize everything (the students). There is no connection with their real life, resulting in a very passive learning style. This form of education is termed the banking model of education. The banking model is very closely linked with oppression. It is built on the fact that the teacher knows all, and there exist inferiors who must just accept what they are told. They are not allowed to question the world or their teachers. This lack of freedom highlights the comparisons between the banking model of education and oppression. Freire urges the dismissal of the banking model of education and the adoption of the problem-posing model. This model encourages a discussion between teacher and student. It blurs the line between the two as everyone learns alongside each other, creating equality and the lack of oppression. There are many ways the banking model of education aligns with oppression. Essentially, it dehumanizes the student. If they are raised to learn to be blank slates molded by the teacher, they will never be able to question the world if they need to. This form of education encourages them to just accept what is thrust upon them and accept that as correct. It makes the first step of humanization very difficult. If they are trained to be passive listeners, they will never be able to come to the realization that there even exist oppressors. The Gramsci quote is also bullshit: https://socdoneleft.substack.com/p/that-capturing-the-culture-quote The cherry on top of the shit cake of implying that any of that was good faith from the side of right-wing propagandist "debater" is simply misleading. The boy was uneducated, not acting from bad faith.

The highlights for me are warnings to Iran and Belarus, and the heavy criticism of the military movements of China and North Korea. It is worth noting that yesterday (July 12th) North Korea announced on their national TV the successful launch of a transcontinental Nuclear Missile. For its part, Beijing accuses Nato of thinking "like during the Cold War". Moreover, Nato "confuses right and wrong" and has "ideological prejudices that China firmly rejects", a Chinese foreign ministry spokesman said on Wednesday. Nato claims to be a defense alliance, while encouraging its member states to constantly increase their military spending, expand their power beyond their borders and provoke confrontations in the Asia-Pacific region as well, the spokesman said. China, on the other hand, sees itself as a "promoter of world peace". Let's discuss some geopolitics. What do you think will develop by the end of the year?

https://www.nato.int/cps/en/natohq/official_texts_217320.htm Nato released an official statement from their annual summit.

When people talk about the labor theory of value, they mean socially relevant labor.

I think you might benefit from reading this again:

You can make a similar argument for many conditions and many practices people do. Living is harmful to health.

There are plenty of ways of getting there. Rolling in jiu jitsu takes you to the moment and develops awareness of yourself and your environment. Is a nice way to integrate many things that your body need.