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Right-wingers: complain about fake news Also right-wingers: contribute the most to spreading fake news, both before and after the term was coined

Sounds like feminism to me

Continuously broadcasting that you're an ex muslim and making that your identity and community is a form of jerking yourself off as something special in order to feel special. And in order to reap the social benefits you continue to moral grand stand, and the harder you go the more reward you get, so you just demonize people as sub-humans and that makes you the world's most good person. Garbage community. Garbage behavior.

You can always improve your intellect. They say the brain isn't fully developed for men until or after 25? What you struggle today, you might see clarity in tomorrow. So it's fine if certain subjects are more challenging today, it may not be the case in a few years. I know I struggled with taxation, but after 3 or 4 years, I took the second course for it, which was seen as more "challenging" than the first, but I did not struggle this time around at all, and it was a cake walk.

It took me 8 years to finish my university degree due to my own problems. When I went to university, in my own country, only 38% of university enrollments were men. And it's been the same every year since. So you are actually like the rest of us, you're not a lone wolf friend. Anyways, you can take a full semester during the summer too. Keep doing that and you can reduce it to 3 years.

@Husseinisdoingfine did you talk to your mom about your problems? go talk to her and open up.

@Husseinisdoingfine Man, it might be worth liberating yourself from the idea of being a university graduate and get into a trade program and make stupid bank from it. If you really want a degree, I had an American friend who did an online university? program (for an accounting degree) that is only two years in length. She also went on to get a good paying job and does well for herself. I wish I knew more about this route so I can point you to it specifically, but find this option if you don't want it to be 8 years working towards a degree.

There needs to also be talks about when masturbation doesn't become healthy and fine. I was told it was healthy in my sex education. So when I noticed I was, for the longest time, doing it only once every month, and now only every 2 or 3 months, I thought something was wrong with me (there wasn't, I was in my most healthy state of mind and physically active in the gym). So I started to create the desire to do it more in order to "fix" myself and be healthy. But then it became something I did 2-3 times a day, and sometimes even more than that. It also became a way to cope with negative emotions. Eventually, realizing the loss of self-control from being addicted to masturbating gave me negative emotions, so I would then cope by masturbating and hence it became a looping cycle. But that's not even the worst part. The worst part is, your modus opernadi changes so that you're just wired for dopamine, and you don't do things that are productive with your free time like engaging in hobbies. This becomes your new default state even if you made it to where you're masturbating less. And so, not only do you get bored more easily, but your mind has been programmed to think about the opposite gender way too much because of that dopamine temptation, so that you're more likely to masturbate to relieve your boredom and the addiction still goes on. So I just wish we were told these things too--that it can be a slippery slope where things unravel in a way in which no one can tell you where it will go.

@bambi vs @Princess Arabia [Mortal Kombat Voice]: Fight!

Not sure if what’s written in this article is true, but disturbing if it is: https://www.aljazeera.com/amp/opinions/2021/4/16/reckoning-with-foucaults-sexual-abuse-of-boys-in-tunisia

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Nicely said.

I'll begin with Middle Eastern Jews. Apart from Lebanese, Syrian, and Egyptian Jews, all other Middle Eastern Jews seemingly don't derive much ancestry from Biblical Jews. These groups are very similar to the indigenous populations of their native lands. This can be reconciled with the historical context that Judaism at one small point in time was proselytizing. As for European Jews, exact biblical Jewish ancestry isn't detailed yet, so we'll focus on what the papers say instead. One study put European Jews as 60% European & 40% middle eastern. Another study put it as 60% Middle Eastern & 40% European. However the study that put it as 60% Middle Eastern (https://doi.org/10.1016%2Fj.cell.2020.04.024) isn't discerning between middle eastern and southern European ancestry of 2000-1000 years ago, where those Southern European populations carry substantial middle eastern ancestry. This is why I prefer the estimate from Xue et al 2017 (60% European). Apart from that, how much of it directly comes from the Biblical Jews versus the rest being admixture from other Middle Eastern tribes isn't known as of yet. All that's known is that a good part of their non-Southern European Middle Eastern ancestry (the 40% middle eastern estimate) should be related to biblical Jews.

We need to put forth a plan to eradicate all AI, join me my fellow ninjas

WTF. scary times

If this is widespread then it is seen as alarming and distressful. A symptom of some sort of social disease.

They’ve been going at it with this guy for nearly a month with the same thing you’re doing. You’re wasting your time friend.

You’re not going to change his mind so rather than looping can we go back to discussing the conversation Leo sparked.

@mmKay In response to weeding out genes, with homosexuality, homosexuals don’t procreate. If they do, that’s seen as them doing the right thing. People who are bi procreating isn’t seen as bad either, it’s seen as them doing the right thing. So weeding out their genes can’t be it. The right thing to do here means it’s ideal for people to find fulfillment in having a child but it’s not coming from a paranoia that the species will go extinct otherwise. Consider that this statement is a truthful statement: They don’t want to weed out their genes, they want them to behave appropriately for the greater good. In which case they can spread their genes all they want, whereas if they continue being homosexual, they would never spread their genes. If this isn’t what you meant, and it’s just about survival of the species from everyone procreating, this is absolutely not relevant to anyone demonizing homosexuality today. No one is coming at it from this angle. Not even from a subconscious level. When gays tell you that they are born that way, we believe them. Similarly conservatives should be believed when they tell you it’s not about some sub conscious primitive fear of the survival of the species from a small % not procreating.

Is it the fear of unknown consequences from the perpetual leniency of allowing change? Like in the future, because we keep allowing change, people will progress technology in more intrusive ways? Like we already don’t really do anything for victims of revenge porn, in that sense we already live in a technological dystopia. But with the continued progress, acceptance of homosexuality is perceived as a threat because it’s believed to be one more change towards some other dystopia?

Ain’t no way. Homosexuality is seen as inseparable from the modern day liberal culture. If you accept homosexuality, it follows that this anchors modern liberal culture more and more. But this culture is perceived as emboldening hedonism because that is believed to be the manifestation of its schemas. And sustaining a hedonistic culture is problematic because no one wants their kids to be more incapable of delaying gratification which can lead to having a higher probability of being drug addicted and possibly being homeless; hitting it raw and contracting STDs; hanging with the wrong crowd and being a criminal; having children out of wedlock and being absent or a poor parent; not being productive members of society and having poor mental health; not wanting to have families or being incapable of a lasting marriage which is seen as non beneficial to the well-being of most people—these are problems that conservative parents don’t want. They want to ensure the survival and well-being of their kids so that is why they want to revive or protect what they perceive to be the moral and social fabric of their society from things that threaten or gets in the way of it. If this isn’t it, then I’m really curious to know what it is.

No. A kid told me X is gay (he's actually bi). I asked what does that mean? The kid said the same way you look at girls he looks at boys. The former (having crushes on girls) is not intrusive. The latter shook me to my core.