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Ya like sports have many positives too: Especially burning energy, and as a distraction from much more insalubrious activities like gaming and pot. But I admit sports are also the epitome of group think where fat lazy people spend a fortune to watch millionaires tackle each other.

Absolutely. It is overkill. Partisanship has gotten way out of hand. We are too polarized. We need to scale it back.

I love your perspective on this and it's very insightful. One counter point I would add is that you might not care about politics, but politics cares about you. It's our duty as citizens of a democracy to be informed and involved with politics as much as possible and the more the better. Those who don't involve themselves in voting, news, and politics are asking for, and acting like they live in, a dictatorship.

I prefer to pick the log out of my eye before taking the spec out of yours. Your biases, if any, are way smaller than any of your critics'

For now I would just work on getting the sound to be better cleaner and the background noise to be less

Why do you fear isolation so much? What would happen?

Yes Leo has said it is too. Its obviously stage red and also really stupid if you listen to the lyrics. I find it it funny how much we criticize religious people on in this forum for leading an epistemologically unquestioned life but rarely mention how stupid the people are who devoted their lives and who's whole personality is wrapped up in a culture that has anthems about fucking hoes and cars and are somehow off limits.

Getting distracted by minority groups is what led Hitler to defeat. All that time, resources and energy could have been used for actually winning WW2 yet Hitler spent it on solving the completely fabricated and non existent "Jewish question". I see immigration as a similar red Herring to our real problems of billionaires hoarding wealth and manipulating elections, raising the cost of living and thus creating homelessness, creating online misinformation, and fentanyl use being shipped in from China.

Regardless these are still very profound answers. Cool post!

"Through many a dark hour, I been thinkin' 'bout this— That Jesus Christ was betrayed by a kiss, But I can't think for you. You'll have to decide Whether Judas Iscariot had God on his side" -Bob Dylan from the song "God on our side"

Ya it's astrology for people who like science

You also didn't ask what I meant and you assumed that I assumed something. And you also assumed that my words are something to get sad over and then you got sad by them. But please clarify by what you meant if you feel like my response implies a misunderstanding.

This place is a turn off for everyone. We are here because at this point on our lives we have nowhere better to be. Minorities always have the unfortunate dilemma of never being sure if an argument is caused by ideas or prejudice.

How do you know that the women are treated differently or worse? Everyone is treated poorly here in my opinion at least some of the time. I've seen women on here act horribly. Ive seen two guys get into the stupidest arguments. Women: Stop feeling sorry for yourselves. You don't deserve more delicate treatment because you are a woman.

How did you transcend the male/female divide?

Laying bricks is a privilege ? I would say spending time with your kids is a privilege but that's just me.

Wizard of Oz tried to warn us

You forgot to add: "We see your divine feminine, and perfect rationality, we cower and it's beautiful light"

A) So you admit you were coming from a place of anger and then are surprised you are met with anger in return? B) this is a desire for control, which nobody has on the Internet and why it's so frustrating to talk to people on it. IRL we subconsciously rely more on social hierarchies to determine who is right. C) this is how all people treat each other on the internet men regardless of gender. Women on this forum do every single one of the negative behaviors you described above.

Welcome to the internet. The online disinhibition effect is one of the biggest problems of our time.

The question we need to ask: Are women human? Or are they angels? They could be angels: Women commit less crime and violence, are more intune with their bodies and emotions, have more friends, live longer, are healthier, are more educated, out perform boys on almost every metric, are better hunters and runners (apparently), can give birth, are better with kids, rape and abuse kids less often, make better managers, are less impulsive, and of course are more beautiful. Isn't it time that men start worshiping the divine feminine, maybe stop arguing with them in forums, and realize the true nature of what women are?

Wasn't the whole debate about how all throughout history women made better hunters and were actually more butch and competent than the men?

You are very talented. Do you have a substack or blog?

This is a great insight. I think the problem is that Leo's strength is also his weakness. He is incredibly blunt and direct. This cuts through the bullshit, reaches more people, and can be much more persuasive BUT this is antithetical to loving communication in relationships. So we as fans have to be careful not to adopt Leo's tone even though Leo's style is was worked for us.

Pretty good point. Also, what does winning a debate look like on this forum? What do people expect? Do they expect the other person to go "wow you are absolutely right and I have nothing more say" ? Sometime I argue on this forum and then days or weeks later I realize the other person was right or at least had a good point.