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He had one. He employed millions. Nice lol As a truth seeker you should ask it how similar you are to Palpatine. I want numbers.

Another important point is that we are way too busy nowadays and spend too much time working. Our whole culture centers work as the reason why we are alive down to our language. We define the time we spend not working by its absence (IE. time off work, down time, etc.). Spending so much time working comes at the expense of communal bonds, relationships and learning about the world and ourselves. People are too busy trying to make ends meet to make sense of our politics for example, which has consequences for the kind of people we vote in. It makes the whole system opaque. I think it is not possible to reverse the declining birth rate without also changing our work culture.

The end game of throwing money at the problem is the mom hiring immigrants to look after her child for her at least 50% of the time. At least the kid will have some good old fashioned blue Asian values instilled into them. They'll grow up with big red ears.

It's a cute idea, but doesn't work. Welfare state give all sorts of benefits to women, including paying them, but they still have a birth rate below replacement. There's no substitute for communal bonds, that's the real issue in my opinion. The breakdown of communal bonds and subsequent atomization of society has made families too poor, both financially and socially, to effectively raise children. You can pay to substitute those communal bonds, what daycare essentially is, but it is incredibly inefficient. Even when run on bare minimum cost, a daycare is incredibly expensive. The government would have to pay billions just to hope to incentivize more people having children just to mimic a fraction of the power that is grandma helping out with looking after your kids for you. Daycare should really be seen as a luxury. We are so placid about our own survival as a culture that it doesn't occur to us that certain problems we can solve ourselves without big brother government telling us how to live.

Yup. "Race" doesn't exist. It is a social construct with a certain degree of reality to it relative to how much people buy into it, similar to how money works. The tendency of race to overlap with demographics and ethnocentrism makes it feel more real however. Americans are obsessed with race. It's shapes their entire thinking, how they relate to different people and talk about themselves with each other. For no other country is race a more hut button topic. Undermining race as a concept can feel like undermining slavery and marginalization, though both are true in my opinion. The concept of race has a definite traceable history, going back to the 16th century. America bought into race a lot early in its history, which makes it harder for them to transcend the concept since there is a lot of trauma linked to it.

Thinking in terms of power relations and race/gender is typical American identity politics.

I thought conspiracy theories was against the rules...

Strut your balls proud, my guy. Are you scared of letting that dog out?

The fecal tax 💩 Shitty system.

Absolutism as an argument is inherently redundant when it comes to right and wrong within the relative domain since it doesn't make those distinctions. You could use that argument to justify rape for example. Does that make it true and correct to rape? Arguably yes, but it's not a very constructive position to hold outside of spirituality. And that doesn't justify raping women either. Or self-harm for that matter.

It's like your up but your soul is still in bed. The time before you actually get out of the bed is just the lag between your body and your soul. I've observed this many times.

This is just every man over 35.

You can find exceptions to everything. If most people suffer and breakdown during war then it's not a failure to make generalized statement about the nature of war in that way even though there exists people who grow stronger and evolve in war. That is not necessarily a failure of imagination. I see what you're saying, but I think self-harm in that context is still frivolous and lacking in substance. I wouldn't exaggerate the point your making either if it encourages those destructive habits in others since the majority of those who would consider self-harm have issues (I consider watching gore to be a form of self-harm as well). I think it is unethical and unaesthetic to treat gore as a frivolity on top of that. That is not a conformist position.

All or nothing market philosophy is stupid. The market for high octane shooters is completely saturated, dominated by games that established themselves before the market was nearly as saturated. People have limited time and patience if they are already playing them other games. Such a brutal way to develop games. Millions down the drain. All the eggs chasing that Fortnite dragon money when all your offering is essentially Apex with mounts. It's like gambling for execs. Lasted longer than Concord though. If you want to make a live service game your draw should be sex appeal. Mihoyo games do extremely well and as games in of themselves they are kind of shitty, but people love their goon bait. People always have time for more goon bait. Goon bait can run on a phone as well, broadening the market.

Was it that boring lol?

@Cred You have to put your theory to the test. Borrow a fursuit and throw yourself to the wolves. You have nothing to fear but fear itself.

Tradition runs the show for religious people.

People love to comment on the bucket, but it doesn't mean anything. It was just a simple and cute picture I found.

You could say the same about cutting yourself. Not convinced. Like, why are you so attached to it? there's 99% chance that it has nothing to do with growth.

Well, don't you think donning a mask makes them act unrestrained. It's known that people become more unhinged when they are masked, like protesters or ICE agents. When they put on the mask the beast comes out. That's not a reflection of wholesomeness in my opinion.

I don't know. They are arguably less human since they are embodying an animal. Letting their craven fantasies run them like instinct.

Thoughts on crinklers?

Maybe Dubai chocolate will finally be priced normally.

Argument by exception. The majority of people who watch gore do so for entirely unwholesome reasons. And I don't believe that you need gore to grow. That's ridiculous. You can grow tremendously throughout your life and not seen one gore video. It's also just aesthetically ugly. Watching the worst moments of people's live for entertainment. That's gross and makes you look freak.

The notion that you necessarily experience trauma from sexual assault is conformist. People can react differently and experience different levels of distress. Some people have been raped but didn't experience it as particularly traumatic. It's possible. It's a bit like with cheating, how you are supposed to feel that it is this big dramatic betrayal. Fun fact, most people break up after cheating due to social pressure. Not because they actually want to end the relationship.