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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.

She’s struggling to get men to vote for her and endorsements from Taylor Swift won’t help that gap. https://www.npr.org/2024/09/10/nx-s1-5106660/election-poll-harris-trump-debate

Yeah, but in context of modern media diets being consumed by the the MAGA cult, Fox News is considered downright woke. Another liberal rag with a liberal woke agenda. RINOs. Fox News according to the faithful is equivalent to MSNBC now.

Boom What the last debate did to Joe Biden, tonight’s debate did to Trump. She picked up voters. He convinced more of his to stay home.

What she did do is alienate herself from the republican base that liked her for being willing to speak truth about Trump. She basically told her own supporters to go to hell, all while trumps supporters will never forgive her for being against him in the first place. While those risks are clearly present in todays heated political environment, I seriously doubt that former President Bush based his decision on fears over his personal safety. In fact, I doubt it to the point of finding it absurd.

Where do bad rainbows go? 🌈 To prism. It’s a light sentence, but gives them time to reflect. 💡🪞

Another hard habit to break is apparently political self-interest, specifically looking at how Nikki Haley has become so supportive of Trump. She is on-deck and ready to campaign for him and despite presenting herself as a strong person with principles and backbone has instead chosen to bend the knee and kiss the ring. Am more frustrated with her than GWB, but he certainly needs to heed John Stuart Mill: “Let not any one pacify his conscience by the delusion that he can do no harm if he takes no part, and forms no opinion. Bad men need nothing more to compass their ends, than that good men should look on and do nothing. He is not a good man who, without a protest, allows wrong to be committed.”