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I’ve been thinking about one day in the future adopting a kid or a pair of siblings to create a family of my own, but one thing that makes this seem impossible is that, should I adopt them, I would have to go out of my way to find someone biologically related who is willing and suitable to take and raise them. Surely there’s someone in the family tree who would be willing and it would be my obligation ethically to not deprive them of that opportunity. If the family is unknown, then it is still my obligation to reunite them with a family member by doing my best to find a paper trail and having them genetically tested. The databases of companies like 23andme or ancestry would be sufficient to eventually find and contact family members. So in either case, I don’t see how there could be a scenario where I wouldn’t find a single related and suitable person who wants to be reunited with their kin. So how would I be able to create a family with this method?

He is an ex-Muslim atheist and an Arab Zionist as well. His attack was because Germany wasn’t doing enough to stop Muslims from migrating into the country. He’s been a well known Zionist and Islamophobe on X the past year. https://nypost.com/2024/12/21/world-news/germany-magdeburg-christmas-market-driver-taleb-a-identified-as-anti-islam-activist/ “In social media posts days before the attack, the suspect criticized the German government, claiming it was promoting the European nation’s Islamization” Merry Christmas.

This was a great watch, thanks for sharing. I enjoyed this.

Seeing religious Jews being the biggest group of Israelis that hate Arabs is so sad to see. These guys are cut from the same cloth as us in terms of values, these are people I'd expect to feel closest to us. Such a shame.

The copium in here is crazy. Where you have conservatives who are brain-dead and think people can't be born attracted to the same-sex, you have liberals who think people are motivated by bitterness over their own sexuality when it comes to disgust towards human behavior that is so anomalous, non-relatable and carnal. Oh brother. I guess our collective disgust towards pedophilia, bestiality, incest is all bitterness and sexual repression too. Puh-lease. What an underwhelming echo chamber. They need to hurry up and make apps on our cellphones that can change our genes in real-time. I want to see the reaction of liberals when they click on the option to experience being biologically conservative. A lot of your pet theories will be gone in no time.

@zazen this part is crazy. They knew the fall of Saddam would bring a Shia Iran-aligned Iraq and that it would be part of a new “contagion” that they can leverage to make the Arab nations become friendlier with Israel in the face of this new Shia influence in the region. It’s crazy because they gaslit the public that the fall of Saddam would bring democracy and freedom, whereas they knew it would bring a religious “radical” and “disruptive” force. It’s also crazy because Netanyahu said fall of Saddam would bring positive change that would reverberate throughout the region whereas they knew it would create more problems, especially in terms of Iran and the Levant. And they wanted to capitalize on that—what they describe as a new contagion.

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How so?

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It's hyperbole. A theme that can be found in a large fraction, obviously not all, is that they were bullied, rejected or felt socially isolated. Anyways, this is a good resource for why kids became school attackers (this also includes attacks using different weapons): https://www.secretservice.gov/sites/default/files/2020-04/Protecting_Americas_Schools.pdf

Israel has destabilized the middle east. Netanyahu lobbied for the West to go to war in Iraq, saying they had weapons of mass destruction that threatens "the region". Israel's subjugation of Palestinians has caused so many spill-over wars in Lebanon, not to mention brought great suffering to the Palestinians. It also bolstered the Arab Nationalism movement that gave birth to the Ba'ath party that brought us dictators like Saddam and Assad. As well as bolstering Iran's disastrous involvement in the Arab world. Israel already has two buffer zones. One inside Israel borders and the other is a wide stretch of land within Syria. Golan Heights is not Israel. It's a Syrian land inhabited by Syrians. You don't need a third buffer zone. This gaslighting of security is ridiculous. Go to the Israel deception thread and find my post where its just clips of Netanyahu successfully gaslighting the world.

Iran wants friends in the region. It’s been sanctioned for a while and America is a threat to the regimes survival. Using the Palestinian cause is easy PR to acquire or keep allies in the region, which can protect you. Like using militias in Iraq, Lebanon, Yemen and once Syria to attack American bases or its ally Israel in retaliation to any of its aggressions against the country. Saddam once used the Palestinian cause to help his declining optics by hitting Israel with a missile. It wasn’t successful but it’s an example of how the Palestinian cause can be used for a self-serving agenda.

All of what you wrote can be true without negating that women’s reproductive role far exceeds a man. All a man has to do is ejaculate into a woman. He can leave her without knowing she’s pregnant with his child. But he does not spend months carrying a child, multiple times over in various pregnancies. He does not spend time feeding the child. He does not have the same nurturing predisposition as the woman. There’s no parity. All of humanity’s primary function is to survive and reproduce, but a man historically shouldered more of the burden of survival, whereas the woman took on more of the reproductive burden.

Trump is the establishment.

The gender war needs to end. It’s childish and long overdue. In the same way we protect against misogyny we need to protect against misandry, and all can be better.

Only one I read was the unabombers, but that one is an exception only because he was intellectually gifted.

I’m saying if I was severely mentally impaired, I don’t see a problem with another creature, like a highly evolved lion, ethically putting me out of my misery and making good use of my body. Giving back to the world that gave me life is a proper gift to give. Only problem is it wouldn’t be a dignified way to go out and family would have a problem. But if that wasn’t the case, I don’t see an issue. This whole anti eating animals seems exaggerated to me.

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I mean who would want a mother who is a porn star. Obviously that would threaten someone’s wellbeing. So using threaten as a word to shame someone as weak for wanting to live with dignity is odd use of language.

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Is that a biological female? And is this a type of femcel rage?

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lavon_Affair Failed Israeli terrorist false flag operation. In 2005, Israel awarded the plotters certificates of appreciation.

At the entry level sure you might not get paid as much, but the more experience you get and the more complicated stuff you can do, the salary becomes a good one. I have two friends that get paid extremely well, one of them holds an important position with Respawn Entertainment for the Apex Legends game. There's nothing wrong with pursuing it if it's actually something you want to do.

Programming was fun for me.. until it became hard. Prior to taking computer science classes in highschool, I was creating websites. I was designing the look in photoshop and then I would code it with HTML/CSS and got some experience with php/mysql. That and the first year of computer science (11th grade) was when it was fun. But come 2nd year (12th grade) of computer science and I absolutely hated it. Sure non-web programming wasn't it for me, it was unenjoyable to the point I crossed off computer science as a potential major. But it also made me realize I didn't care for web programming anymore. That chapter was over. So I agree with Leo, you should try it first before you major in it. Could save you time and money if you decide to switch majors during your studies. And try it with the more annoying programming languages like Java or something. And push yourself to where you're past the basics and trying to do more advanced stuff.

This is disingenuous. He never never made a direct comparison. He used an analogy to say the reactions of mass disapproval from the public over the spectacle is what you would see if someone did something extremely horrible. You can use any situation that fits that criteria and that analogy would still be true.