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19 Dec 2021, 5:28 am

Christmas is now an overly hyped event and nothing more than a retailer's yearly cash cow.



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19 Dec 2021, 5:30 am

I always hated holidays because I find them fake.



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19 Dec 2021, 6:10 am

Anyone that has good intentions to change others are actually the most dangerous people in all facets of society, because there's nothing more evil than forcing one's will upon another.

Those with bad intentions are at least honest about it.



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19 Dec 2021, 8:54 am

HighLlama wrote:
I always hated holidays because I find them fake.


Are you including Halloween?



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19 Dec 2021, 11:44 am

auntblabby wrote:
that reminds me of the first class/second class citizenship regimen described in robert heinlein's "starship troopers." not that i agree with it as that is the philosophy of the far right wing here, to not agree to universal civil rights to anybody who is not filthy rich other than the lackeys who fight their foreign misadventures for them.


Property ownership shows that a person has more invested in the nation, better reasoning and resource management ability, etc.



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19 Dec 2021, 11:46 am

no, just having more luck in having the right genes and nurturing early in life. 90% of life is just plain dumb luck.



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19 Dec 2021, 2:41 pm

I believe that the U.S general election was rigged purposely, so that Donald Trump would not serve two terms in a row, and will instead serve another term in 2024, as was the plan all along.

Trump might even be in on this, whilst pretending not to know and stating the truth that the election was indeed rigged.



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19 Dec 2021, 2:47 pm

I do not believe that in a fair election, this guy could have won against Trump. Not a chance.

I don't like either political party in the U.S - I would probably vote Democrat if I lived there, regardless of this guy who just makes me annoyed thinking about him.

Nothing wrong with being disabled or old, but running a country in that state? Nah.



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19 Dec 2021, 2:54 pm

I think you underestimate how many people would have voted for literally anything to keep Trump from winning.


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19 Dec 2021, 3:22 pm

Western medicine based on science and evidence is the only real medicine.



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19 Dec 2021, 4:57 pm

Relationships between people esp. romantic relationships are not sacred and the meaning of life



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19 Dec 2021, 4:57 pm

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Western medicine based on science and evidence is the only real medicine.


A lot of Chinese people would disagree. They often rely on 'traditional Chinese medicine'.

Medicines are in large part fuelled by sociocultural beliefs & the placebo effect.



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19 Dec 2021, 5:13 pm

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Anyone that has good intentions to change others are actually the most dangerous people in all facets of society, because there's nothing more evil than forcing one's will upon another.


This post is in violation of everything good honest virtuous up-standing people stand for, and i order you to delete it....for your own good.


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19 Dec 2021, 5:22 pm

blitzkrieg wrote:
Axeman wrote:
Western medicine based on science and evidence is the only real medicine.


A lot of Chinese people would disagree. They often rely on 'traditional Chinese medicine'.

Medicines are in large part fuelled by sociocultural beliefs & the placebo effect.


TCM is a complex system of nostrums and pseudoscience. It's also a major cause of exotic animals ending up on the endangered species list.



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19 Dec 2021, 5:50 pm

blitzkrieg wrote:
I believe that the U.S general election was rigged purposely, so that Donald Trump would not serve two terms in a row, and will instead serve another term in 2024, as was the plan all along.

Trump might even be in on this, whilst pretending not to know and stating the truth that the election was indeed rigged.


Trump was chosen by Clinton as an easy-to-beat candidate.

How the Hillary Clinton campaign deliberately "elevated" Donald Trump with its "pied piper" strategy

But two things went wrong. First, Trump did better than expected, because there was a lot of anger and people actually wanted a molotov cocktail candidate to just blow up the system.



Second, Trump let it go to his head, began to think he could win, and betrayed Clinton. Yeah, I think he was in it as a favor (or as a blackmail victim) of Clinton, and expected to lose, but then actually won.

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The Democratic primary in 2016 was rigged for Clinton, by the Democratic party and the chair of the Democratic National Committee, Debbie Wasserman Schultz, who used to be Clinton's campaign chair and took the DNC position from Tim Kaine (remember him? Clinton's running mate?).

The elections are rigged, not at the ballot box, but by the manipulation by the parties and the media. Clinton was a DNC-Media collusion candidate, that backfired because she was so tone-deaf that people didn't like her.

In 2020 there was an anybody-but-Bernie movement that picked, first, Kamala Harris, and when that didn't work, Pete Butigieg, and when it looked like Bernie was still going to sweep the primaries, picked Joe Biden.

‘Stop Sanders’ Democrats Are Agonizing Over His Momentum

Bernie Sanders should be in his second term, if the Media and Democratic party elites hadn't interfered.



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19 Dec 2021, 5:55 pm

TenMinutes wrote:
blitzkrieg wrote:
I believe that the U.S general election was rigged purposely, so that Donald Trump would not serve two terms in a row, and will instead serve another term in 2024, as was the plan all along.

Trump might even be in on this, whilst pretending not to know and stating the truth that the election was indeed rigged.


Trump was chosen by Clinton as an easy-to-beat candidate.

How the Hillary Clinton campaign deliberately "elevated" Donald Trump with its "pied piper" strategy

But two things went wrong. First, Trump did better than expected, because there was a lot of anger and people actually wanted a molotov cocktail candidate to just blow up the system.



Second, Trump let it go to his head, began to think he could win, and betrayed Clinton. Yeah, I think he was in it as a favor (or as a blackmail victim) of Clinton, and expected to lose, but then actually won.

Image

The Democratic primary in 2016 was rigged for Clinton, by the Democratic party and the chair of the Democratic National Committee, Debbie Wasserman Schultz, who used to be Clinton's campaign chair and took the DNC position from Tim Kaine (remember him? Clinton's running mate?).

The elections are rigged, not at the ballot box, but by the manipulation by the parties and the media. Clinton was a DNC-Media collusion candidate, that backfired because she was so tone-deaf that people didn't like her.

In 2020 there was an anybody-but-Bernie movement that picked, first, Kamala Harris, and when that didn't work, Pete Butigieg, and when it looked like Bernie was still going to sweep the primaries, picked Joe Biden.

‘Stop Sanders’ Democrats Are Agonizing Over His Momentum

Bernie Sanders should be in his second term, if the Media and Democratic party elites hadn't interfered.


I think there are probably multiple things going on with any political situation at a high level - and they cannot be comprehended by regular folk, or even by very intelligent people who are 'outside of the loop'/not in close proximity to the people they are speculating upon.

A Salon article might give an interesting new perspective of something that is happening, but the writer can't know what it truly happening unless they are 'in the game' itself.