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Everything posted by gambler
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Well a lot of that can all be true but I've known gay males who were never attracted to females, nor can they find that attraction. It's not different with heterosexuals. Russel brand tried to experiment with his sexuality, did gay things with gay men and didn't find any of it arousing or any of the men attractive.
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The appeal of Jordan Peterson is he steelmans what has long been characterized in an uncharitable way. One example of a cartoonish narrative that is seeped deeply within western culture is that the patriarchy is just men hungry for power and unashamedly want to oppress the poor members of the opposite gender. It's way more interesting to hear a perspective that challenges this one-sided view than listening and repeating the existing narrative.
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If this was true, then homosexuality in cultures that find it problematic would be solved. All homosexuals would be bi-sexual and would be perfectly content with being with a female. Instead we don't see that happening. What we see is that homosexuals find females sexually unattractive.
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gambler replied to LambdaDelta's topic in Society, Politics, Government, Environment, Current Events
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Woah. Henry Kissinger got a Nobel peace prize? There’s just no way
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As the Japanese say: Naisu.
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And I'm a walking meat bag.
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When he says my country he is including the West bank and Gaza. And there it is. There is no justice for the Palestinians in this conflict because it's simply "my land" and you need to get out. Doesn't matter if there was no resistance, no anti-semitism, etc. because if Palestinians were all incorporated from day one, there would be no room today to keep bringing Jews from the outside because of overpopulation. So what you would've had is a majority Muslim country until the very end, which doesn't align with the objectives of a Zionist project; which is to have Jews have a state they can go to as their own. So it all boils down to "you need to leave because it's our land". Everything else was, and has always been, just theatrics.
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A nobel peace prize for the Abraham Accords but it's probably the case it contributed to more tension between Hamas, Iran and Israel because it didn't directly address the Palestinian conflict and sidelined the Palestinians. Not only that but those that signed off were nations who were not in any conflict with Israel, like Saudi Arabia for instance already had a relationship with Israel.
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I’m not sure why, but at my lowest point this song helped me.
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Loooooool
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The sky at dawn.
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It’s sold in stores in Canada.
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I’ll speak to your first point. I share in your frustration about the hypocrisy of the right. It was cringe when the right became this party that’s allegedly “the party of free speech”. This is the same group that was pleased with having people like Mahmoud Abdul Rauf, Helen Thomas, and Phil Donahue cancelled back in the pre-social media days. This is also the same party that expected people to be politically correct when it came to critiques against America, where the PC thing to do is to be “patriotic” and nationalistic. They also whine about identity politics and anti-white rhetoric but are completely unrestrained to play identity politics and engage in racism when they want to, like when Ben Shapiro infamously tweeted that Jews love to build while Arabs love to live in open sewage; and therefore the choice to back one ethnic group’s expansion of settlements at the expense of the other should be an easy one for everyone to make. So none of this is surprising to any of us. We all saw this coming the moment they started fronting as if they were standing up for principles. They don’t stand for principles, they're tribal, they stand for their team. That’s how it’s always been. It also used to be that the left was good at making the right look stupid when highlighting their hypocrisy. Nowadays it doesn’t feel like that’s the case, probably because the cultural ideals of the left has since moved further away from what a lot of people are comfortable with.
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gambler replied to Princess Arabia's topic in Spirituality, Consciousness, Awakening, Mysticism, Meditation, God
True, everyone dies and there is no wasted life. So I'm not sure why I, if I'm not mistaken, recall you writing about lack of female rights in the Middle East some time ago. -
Well. That sucks to know :(.
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I will also block the ignorant, and I'm starting with you. Blocked.
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Israel's truth isn't always the truth. For example, Israel's propaganda was that upon nationhood, Palestinians weren't expelled but instead left on their own accord because they were scared. However this obscures the truth. The truth was that Ben Gurion himself told IDF soldiers to sabotage Arab villages in order to get them to leave. You can watch the Tantura documentary where IDF veterans testify this and they (researchers in the film) even bring up old documents buried in IDF archives more or less corroborating this. This confirms the unspoken and known implication that when Israel got nationhood, that there was no room for the Arabs. That they would have to leave and become refugees. A "transfer of population". This is just one example against your stance to firmly stand by "her truth". You talk about nuance and being part of the problem, but to be convinced that a nation's narrative (i.e. propaganda) is the truth and you'll stand by it demonstrates your bias. This is why I don't even bother replying on this topic. There is no nuance. There is just the Israeli narrative.
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even if my raps is poor, and my choice of words is uncreative, i would like to dedicate my efforts to the creative side of me. if i were to bleed, in my moment of weakness, i would see, clearly, what needs to be. to go from this point to the point that i want to go to, and know it's all true, that the problem lies in my inhibitions, conditioned to be caged from saying what i want to say, or to have the conviction to believe in my beliefs. i must succeed. every try is a step closer to unclosing the steps that can form my path. to attain, perfect, and come to know a better version of my craft. every good thing produced was learned from a number of past iterations, therefore repetition is the key but meaningless attempts is a waste of time, to get with the time, every attempt must be quality to prevent wasted time. on the path to something better. hoping to find the secrets and glimpse the success of a trend-setter.
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Of course they were going to let it slide, when people hold such a massive bias for their artist, their judgment is obscured. Funny thing is when MGK dropped that track, people said it was terrible on the YT comments but if you look now, many people seemingly hold the view that it was in fact, pretty good. Anyways, good on MGK for coming out of that beef and doing well for himself. Like you said, it turned out alright for him.
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I liked MGK's diss against Eminem, still think he got the best of him to this day. I was definitely in the minority on this take, and still am. But I think Eminem is an easy target if you just poke at his insecurity of how he's viewed in terms of his rap skills (if you call him overrated), how he's fallen off music-wise, and how he's too old to be acting like this way. At least pivot to being an adult rapper like a Kanye or Jay-Z. Just my two cents. Candace's takes on Eminem are spot-on. His behavior is cringe given his age.
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In the generations of the past and even in generations of most people’s parents in other civilizations, there wasn’t this idea of being fulfilled from ‘being in love’. There was no concept of soul-mates either. All this might complicate the expectations of marriage. And is probably unsustainable too. What you just said sounds healthier and more sustainable.
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Yup. It wasn’t about having the town square be politically neutral, but having it as a vehicle for the other side.
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I haven’t smoked marijuana in over a decade but it calls to me from time to time during the most unexpected times.