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Strawman/red herring 2. I said nothing about indoctrinating masses. Indoctrination can happen at the individual level, and we absolutely have learned from our tribal elders and parents and shaman whatever beliefs they held. We’ve done this since the beginning of human history and even before. Stories have been passed on and oral tales sung to each other around fresh kills and campfires since even the earliest of the apes hunted cooperatively. To suggest we derived these simpleton beliefs like are found in Christianity in some sort of a vacuum… without pressures of social chosen or without a genetic predisposition to trust those in our family and community units while we’re still vulnerable toddling children… is laughably absurd. Red herring 3 All you’ve done thus far is evade and deflect. If your evidence is so ordinary, where is it?

And yet it’s based on faith and nothing more, and further purports to explain everything that’s ever existed across the entire cosmos. There. FTFY.

This isn’t a blog for your random brain turds. You should consider working on framing topics for meaningful discussion. Right now, this may as well be an entry in your diary.

You’re arguing nothing. You’re asserting and time wasting. Boring and unsurprising.

Just checking: You do realize even one counter example renders this false, correct? As a follow-up: Nobody argues that belief in god(s) doesn’t exist. That’s your first red herring. The conversation was about whether god(s) exist. Stop trying to move the goalposts.

Nice! Storage shed or drinking tavern? 😂 I redid our deck. Intended to just reskin and replace the boards but everything below was rotten and joists deflected up and down more than 1/2” each way so regraded it, new posts, new rails. Then I taught myself how to build stairs. 620 pounds of concrete into footings I dug 42” to be below the frost line, handcut stringers using 2x12x16 treated (5 of them), some Simpson strong ties into the concrete pad below, and mechanical linkages with blocking on the landing. It’s sturdy and pretty as hell, but I spent a lot of calories calculating and checking and cutting and lifting it all. I’m still tired even though I finished weeks ago. I understand now why deck replacements cost so much money. That was a lot of work. Note: I saw your image but did have to take the risk of opening it

Then do so. You’re laughably mistaken and it might be entertaining to watch you introduce red herrings and meander aimlessly around the central issue that you have faith and literally nothing more.

We need not argue there is no god, only that there’s no valid reason to think there is. Faith is what every belief in god(s) boils down to, and for some of us faith simply don’t and enough reason to accept something so extraordinary as true. Extraordinary claims require extraordinary evidence, and theists don’t even have weak evidence in favor of their position.

Unless you believe students in other countries around the planet are magically better at coping with social difficulties than students in the US, then you’re doing nothing but trying to displace the conversation and distract from the actual root cause. It’s easier for frustrated white boys in America to get a gun than to get laid, and the consequences of this simple fact are obvious to us all… especially the tens of thousands of students being put into lockdown in schools every year and being forced to do active shooter drills every few weeks starting in kindergarten.

It’s gotten worse in the 6 years since then (with an only temporary drop due to Covid lockdowns)

In fairness to NightFM, regardless of what we do with guns there is an opportunity to find those who feel powerless in schools and help them with better strategies for dealing with it. This can easily be a Both/And situation. However, the shootings occur for reasons beyond "I got bullied" so any solutions need to apply beyond that, too. Saying "it's a mental health issue" or "bc kids bully each other" is definitely more of a red herring than an actual attempt at solving the problem of school shootings, but that doesn't mean we can't as a society do better with both mental health in youth and bullying issues in schools. It's just that we ALSO need to do something about the guns, and that's a pretty tough nut to crack given how pervasive and easy to obtain/create they are.

Nobody suggested otherwise. However, sex ratio is a factor that ignoring leads to danger. Specifically, against women. Why is it so hard for you to wrap your mind around this simple point?

Not all americans

You’re the only person speaking of motives. You may as well be telling me that my answer in math is wrong bc I didn’t write it in purple ink. My comment was, as a man: When’s the last time you had to question whether it was safe to be alone at a gathering where everyone else was a different gender from you? Women are at greater risk from men. They must exist with knowledge of that fact and daily adjust their behavior as a result of it. This isn’t exactly rocket science. You're trying so hard to ignore and deflect from this self-evident truth that you’ve ventured into the realm of the absurd.

Good call. I noticed this when it ID’d a pic of a groundhog we got in the front yard a week ago. Wasn’t the scientific name, but I probably could’ve clicked it to learn more And sure enough: clicking it brought me to the wiki which told me the scientific family

Download the iNaturalist app. Take a picture. It’s really good about telling you what it is, including the scientific name

Hence my “for the most part” qualifier

Obviously, it’s the one where my own preferences are prioritized above everyone else’s. 😂

Context? This is a decades long issue that’s been studied by economists and is supported by labor statistics supplied across organizations and ideologies No, it’s based on the fact that women are regularly hurt by men. Not all men hurt women, but for the most part only men hurt women. It must be blissful to be so unaware of this danger that women face daily their entire lives.

And yet my question remains:

We already have a word for this: Constitutional Republic And you’d be correct https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Types_of_democracy

Democracy is the worst form of government, except for all the others.

It’s been argued that God cares whether or not you eat pork, too. Try harder. There’s also:

Depends on how much funding the lab has access to

Not all men do, and as Charon noted there’s a larger global trend occurring whereby divisions are getting more pronounced between men and women. It’s sometimes more a predictor than income level and education. In my small universe, they tend to be tech bros. The types who think Joe Rogan and Elon Musk represent the ideal (or who join sites like ours to defend incels, for example). It’s not local to Trump, but is absolutely being reinforced on social media and information bubbles. And with our insanely tight county-by-county voting within the long outdated slavery-protecting electoral college system, those tiny changes in turnout and choice at the margins matter quite a lot.