Hardkill

https://www.cnn.com/2022/08/01/politics/ayman-al-zawahiri-death-white-house-joe-biden/index.html

A couple days ago, Congress finishing passing the CHIPS and Science Act, which will subsidize U.S.-made semiconductor chips and increase US competitiveness with China and Taiwan with regarding to chip-making. Proponents of this bill have said that this is absolutely necessary for the following reasons: - America needs to become much more self-sufficient on the chips instead of relying on Taiwan and China to produce and deliver them to the US, especially given how much the pandemic finally exposed the weaknesses in the global supply chain. - America needs to be able to manufacture enough of their own semiconductor chips as insurance against possible economic problems that could happen if China were to invade Taiwan in the future. - Fund tens of billions of dollars to scientific research, and incentivize innovation and development of other U.S. technologies. - Create a lot more good paying manufacturing jobs throughout the entire country. - Help Cut overall families' costs in the long run. However, Bernie Sanders voted against this bill because he says that it will become just major corporate handout for the five biggest semi-conductor companies including Intel, Texas Instruments, Micron Technology, Global Foundries and Samsung, that already made a combined total of $70 billion in profits last year. He also says that this Act won't ensure that any of these manufacturing companies will do any of the following things: - Agree to issue warrants or equity stakes to the federal government - Commit to not buying back their own stock. - No longer outsource American jobs overseas or repealing existing collective bargaining agreements. - Remain neutral in any union organizing efforts. Yet, Secretary of Commerce Gina Raimondo met with the caucus virtually Thursday afternoon, and reassured them that the legislation does have those guardrails that Bernie Sanders has been demanding. Also, every other Democrat in the Senate and practically every Democrat in the House, including every progressive voted for the bill. Even AOC stated on her twitter feed that "Our government often gives HUGE incentives to companies - in the case of the COMPETES Act, $52B for semiconductor research & development - with few strings. So, we successfully added an amendment to stop companies from using that $52B on stock buybacks or dividend payouts." https://www.washingtonpost.com/politics/2022/07/28/house-vote-semiconductor-chips-bill/ So, will this Chips and Science Act actually be a good thing for the future of entire country or will the government just be wasting an exorbitant amount of taxpayer money on these manufacturing companies?

I know that it's generally considered creepy to be talking explicitly about sex with any girl you just met or barely know, especially if bring it up at such a random time in the conversation. But in this modern day and age, particularly in 1st world countries, sex has become so much less taboo than it used to be. In fact, most men and women in 2nd and 1st countries are not ashamed about sex. Also, many advertisments, tvs, movies, have been projecting and displaying sex since the 80s. In fact, since the 90s to early 2000s, there has been an increasing amount of movies and tv shows out there that have become quite pornographic. Actual porn, including both softcore and hardcore porn has become even much more mainstream and much less taboo than it used to be. So, why is it actually still creepy to explicitly talk about sex when talking to a girl you just met or don't know that well?

Okay, I see what you're saying, but one night stands, friends with benefits, having sex with a complete stranger you just met only about 15-20 ago, orgies, and other kinds of casual sex are all considered taboo or outside the norm too. Yet, a lot men and women still do it. Why is that?

How does asking what kind of porn she watches or what her favourite sex position is make her automatically think that I am asking her those questions because I just want sex? Besides, tons of girls out have all kinds of casual sex or only want to use guys for just sex and nothing more.

Yeah, I agree with@something_else. Rarely, if ever, have I ever heard of a man say that they have a problem with any woman seeing them as a sex object or being used as a sex object. I actually I used to feel uncomfortable with kinda being seen as a sex object back during my middle school, high school, and college years. Some girls would out of the blue playfully harass me, make sexual jokes with me before I ever got romantic or sexual with them, slap my butt, or during some random point in the conversation right way ask if they wanted to hook up with me or be my girlfriend, in a joking manner. Though looking back, I actually kinda now don't feel embarrassed or upset with any of those moments in my life. In fact, in some ways, I am flattered by what all of those said or did to me during those years. Also, I have had sex on a first date with a few different girls before.

But what about the fact that many advertisements, movies, and films out there have using the idea sex sells these days like never before? Why don't people say that Hollywood, the music industry, advertisement agencies, etc. are all becoming too obsessed with sex? Why is it considered okay if not cool for a cable tv show or a movie to show a sex scene that's bordering on porn?

Wait, you've actually had girls be that sexually explicit with you or bring up the topic of sex first? How? I am curious. Why is it necessarily desperate if I am just asking her what kind of porn does she watch or what is her favorite sex position or what makes her cum?

I thought that girls like it when you play dumb.

Well, okay I don't ever right away ask a girl for sex or tell how I want to fuck her. But why is making sexual jokes or talking about favorite positions or talking about porn with a girl you just met also still creepy these days?

So, I've already watched a number of Leo's vids on society, politics, spiral dynamics, and consciousness and what I've learned is that people in low-income countries actually rather have conservative leaders authoritarian rule their country in an authoritarian manner than have liberal leaders govern their country in a more democratic manner. Leo has said that the reason for this is because individuals under great stress have a strong urge for rigidity, predictable rules, conformity, and order in order to survive. So, if that's the case, then why do most why do most poor people in the US vote for liberal and Democratic politicians when those voters are struggling to survive themselves?

According to the most recent data, if the current trends in demographics, then by around 2045 around the minorities will become the majority of America. Since approximately, the early 200s, this has been widely thought to become major asset for the Democrats and a major liability for the Republicans for future elections. However, this currently doesn't seem to be this case. In fact, the Democrats in recent years not only have been losing more and more of the working class voters, but also they have been losing a significant amount of support from Asian American, Blacks, and Hispanics voters than they used to. What do you guys think?

Why are conservatives more reliable voters? The Democrats did not rig the primaries against Sanders. It’s a left wing conspiracy theory. Just because the polls show most people are for many of his policies, most people in America are still too tradition oriented. That means that most people in America are still not willing to give up enough of their traditional cultural beliefs for serious progressive policies. For example, the polls may show that a majority of people want Medicare for All, but most voters still have too much of an aversion to it. A lot of people don’t like the fact that everyone’s taxes will have to increase and everyone will have to give up their own private health insurance in order for Medicare for All to actually happen. Also, most Americans still automatically associate Medicare for All or any government run healthcare program with the scare words socialism or communism. Furthermore, moderate Democratic voters (which have always made up about half of the Democratic Party throughout the entire country) were immediately turned off by the fact that Bernie calls himself a socialist, even if he calls himself a Democratic socialist. Watch Leo’s vid on Why Bernie Sanders Lost in his blog section.

Even though the electoral college is what ultimately decides who becomes president and who doesn't, the results of the popular vote for each presidential election since 1992 still point out that more individual Americans have always voted for the Democratic candidate than the Republican nominee since since the early 90s (except for 2004). Also, again, since the 1930s the Total number of Democratic senators in every congressional term has almost always represented some majority of the American people. Why is that? You say that the majority of the people in the US actually support the Democratic platform. Why is that even though most Americans are stupid and vote base on their gut emotional instincts and the Republican Party has generally been better than the Democratic Party at using fear, anger, and other emotions for rallying up voters? It's still not clear to me.

Oh haha. Yeah, less attractive girls aren't always easier than more attractive ones. But what does that have to do with treating a girl or girls like disposable objects?

Yeah, most people in America are indeed too stupid and too underdeveloped, which is basically why they are more easily influenced by right-wing propaganda than left-wing propaganda. However, Trump lost to Hillary Clinton in the popular vote by a lot in the 2016, and Trump lost to Biden in both the popular vote and the electoral college decisively (though you could also argue that Biden was about 43,000 votes away from losing the electoral college given his three narrowest state victories—Wisconsin, Georgia, and Arizona, all of which he won by less than a percentage point). Also, the Republicans lost control of the House in 2018, failed to gain back control of it in 2020, and lost control of the Senate after the entire 2020 general election finally ended. Why do you think those results happened? Also, why have the Republicans never won the popular vote for any presidential election since 1992 (except once in 2004)? Furthermore, why has the US Senate always represented way more Democrat voters than Republican voters since about the 1950s? https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2021/mar/12/us-senate-system-white-conservative-minority https://www.vox.com/2015/1/6/7500935/trende-senate-vote-share You go back even further than the 1950s, and you'll see according to wikipedia than the US Senate actually never represented the majority of American voters since 1933 (except for perhaps one short period from 1947-49, when the Republicans had about a 3 seat majority in the Senate and when both Democrats and Republicans each represented big states and small states). Why is that?

I agree with a lot of what you're saying here, but in what way do any of the working and middle class people who have voted Republicans think or feel like their lives have significantly improved in any way from voting for Trump or any of the other Republican politicians? Yeah, Trump and the Republican controlled Congress presided over a good and strong growing economy during his first three years of his presidency. However, they ultimately let the whole whole economy get fucked up like never before during Trump's last year as president. Yes, the beginning of the COVID crisis did coincide with the general election year, but if Trump and the Republicans in Congress had done a much better job with preparing everyone in America for the arrival of the COVID pandemic, had a much better public health response, truly helped workers, had not greatly cut and dismantled the safety nets that were much needed for the COVID crisis, took enough responsibility for state and local struggles all around the country, and genuinely tried to help small businesses, then the damage done to millions upon millions of lives, economically and health-wise wouldn't have been nearly as terrible as it was. As for Republicans taking pride in being more of the party of "Law and Order" than Democrats are. What a joke. During 2020, Trump presided over the worst kind of civil unrest that ever occurred since the 60s. Experts even said that the extremely racist dog whistles and extremely divisive rhetoric of Trump, the right-wing media, and GOP were all largely responsible for most if not all of the chaos and disorder that occurred during that year. Let's also not forget which party was responsible for the almost unprecedented barbaric Jan 6th capitol riot incident. Also, since the late 70s, Repubs have always been for extreme levels of economic deregulation, absolute gun rights for everybody, anti-health mandates, anti-environmental regulation, and no moderation of any kind of speech (even if it incites any kind of violence and promotes any kind of dangerous conspiracy theories). If anything, I think that Democrats, particularly moderate Dems, have always been the true party of Law and Order. Regarding the notion that Republicans have been better at maintaining border security and protecting our country from foreign enemies, what have have Trump and the Republicans done to increase our safely from foreign enemies or foreign invaders? As for the military and foreign affairs, we all know that the GOP have always had worse military and foreign policies ever since the Bush era.

The problem is that a lot people have an excess of fat cells from having been overweight. Unlike muscle cells, fat cells can actually multiply when you gain too much body fat. That's why even if you eventually slim down a lot after having been overweight, you still end up having a greater number of fat cells than those who have always been slim or lean. Obese individuals particularly have even way more fat cells than those those who have been overweight but not obese. https://sites.tufts.edu/hkerstjaaalislai/?page_id=549 https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/29991030/

I now get why JP supports Trump, but I think it's still scary that more and more intellectuals like him have been supporting Trump. They've been manipulated by the Devil and they don't even realize it. Btw, Kyle asked JP in the above vid if he agrees with the idea that it's the corporations and the wealthy donors that have been the root cause of all of the corruption and the problems associated with our country's core institutions, particularly with our entire government. JP response to that was that he and other people he has talk to like Russell Brand, think that the main problem is really when anything gets too big, whether it be large businesses getting too big or the government getting too big. Do you agree with that assessment? Or does someone like you, who has always been for bigger government think that actually the government should always be the biggest and most powerful institution in any country?

How do you guys know that the OP, was objectifying her when he was interacting with her? Just because he's telling us that this girl was ugly?

https://www.cnn.com/2022/07/19/politics/congress-members-arrested-abortion-protest-supreme-court/index.html The progressive Democrats in Congress are fighting like hell against the conservatives and Republicans over abortion rights, but Biden and the establishment Democrats in Congress are not.

One the other hand I do agree with that. Although, I do wonder if these protests will end up doing anything good over time. Well, yeah she didn't have to pay a really big fine and I don't think she will be going to jail or prison for what she said, but this was an act of civil disobedience, which is technically against the law. However, what progressives like her are doing are fighting against unjust laws. Then again, maybe you're right about this protest not getting anything done.

I just realized something. With the rise spike in gun ownership and gun sales over the past couple of years and the GOP having constantly promoted gun rights like crazy for decades aren’t Republicans essentially signing their own death warrants? Don’t you think that rich white conservatives and Republican politicians should especially be very worried about getting shot by some disturbed individuals or by some very disgruntled poor people or by some highly indignant black and brown people? I of course don’t care if they did get hurt in some way from a gunshot. In fact, I would probably laugh at them for being such dumbasses who got what they deserved.

I am getting really tired of hearing others who give these kinds of advice: "Stop trying so hard to look for a girl. You will find the one when you focus on succeeding in your career or life purpose, having a happy and positive outlook on life, and just enjoy being with your friends. The right woman will then naturally gravitate to you." "You will meet the right woman when you least expect it." "You will get results with women when you finally learn to stop caring."

Because they are stupid and irrational. I mean I can already imagine some psycho going to a gun convention, trying out a bunch of guns there for shits and giggles, and then many people dying there because of that. Okay, gun sales did go down in 2021 compared to 2020; however, the total gun purchases throughout the whole country still was significantly higher than the pre-pandemic record of 16.7 million gun purchases in 2016. https://www.forbes.com/sites/joewalsh/2022/01/05/us-bought-almost-20-million-guns-last-year---second-highest-year-on-record/?sh=6ceb318f13bb