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Skylab
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2yr ago
The pro Russian essayists I follow have argued that the retreat to the Oskill line was strategic and purposeful and that breaches across the river have been exaggerated with the only real beach head occurring in Kupyansk (SP?)
Of course this is exactly what I would expect to hear as a kind of cope for pro Russian bubble but a week after the breakthrough, Lyman is still held and when I look at the map it does look like Russia moved from a clear over extension to something that looks like an imminently defensive line. So I believe the strategic pullback is a plausible explanation even if it happened sooner or more quickly than they wanted. I have heard reports of abandoned equipment and vehicles, which is exactly the kind of thing you want to avoid in a strategic retreat.
Everything could change tomorrow but so far the Oskill Lyman line has held and apparently Russia withdrew from Kharkiv in the North, allowing Russia's border to function as a kind of political defense, (i.e. if you cross this line you have escalated the conflict and I can call the draft, threaten nukes etc.)
But either way it's clear that Russia is now in a much more defensible position as Winter approaches. Because of energy costs, it seems to me that time is on Russia's side as the sanctions destabilizes NATO countries. Or at the very least, Russia stands to refill their coffers as the price of gas goes up precipitously.
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2yr ago
Correct me if I'm wrong but Desantis's campaign coordinator said they were all given brochures of Massachusetts and info on Martha's Vineyard. Seems like if that's true then your points are completely moot. Hard to argue that you tricked somebody if you gave them a pamphlet of their destination in advance.
"Not only that, they all signed consent forms to go. And then the vendor that is doing this for Florida provided them with a packet that had a map of Martha's Vineyard," said DeSantis.
"It had the numbers for different services on Martha's Vineyard. And then it had numbers for the overall agencies in Massachusetts that handle things involving immigration and refugees. So it was clearly voluntary."
If true, this doesn't cover any and all accusation of deception but it does cover the ones you listed above.
So, from my newly conservative POV, I have to say that this looks like lawfare, which has become a favorite tactic of blue team in the last five years. The point being that it doesn't matter if the investigation is grounded on any kind of probably cause so long as it can be used in media stories as part of the "wrap up smear" technique explained by Nancy Pelosi.
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2yr ago
So we had the power to cure the flu this whole time and just didn't know it?
/s
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2yr ago
As long as you are grounded in reality and stick to your guns, then I have faith in your ethics and moral vision in a world gone mad. When the inquisition comes for you, don't squirm. Look them in the eye and hold your ground, even if it means losing your job, and inevitably later down the road, losing your life, like Bonhoeffer.
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2yr ago
Bonhoeffer
Bro, The Grand Inquisitor from Brothers Karamazov was right and they are coming for all of us.
Bonhoffer was hanged a few weeks before Germany surrendered.
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2yr ago
What is the health benefit of a sauna? When I go to the gym, I always finish with swimming a few laps, then jacuzzi, then sauna. It's part of my ritual. But is there any actual health benefit to sitting around sweating for five minutes at the end of a work out?
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2yr ago
I'm merely describing my lived experience.
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2yr ago
The maskers I see where I work are only about 5% of everyone. I see them as hardcore redguards. I know that they will likely be among those who interrogate me a few years from now before sending me to the gulag.
The Covid episode is mostly passed for now but the radicalized among us remain like sleeper agents, ready to coerce us into ever more experimental medical treatments at the slightest pretext.
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2yr ago
Speaking as a reverse doomer, (I believe that Covid deaths were exaggerated from the beggining with extremely high threshold PCR tests that give many false positives along with counting people who got hit by a bus but tested positive for Covid 59 days previous as a "Covid death." {With versus from.} Not to mention the flu completely disappearing from 2020, that was weird.)
So, having established my bona fides, speaking as a reverse doomer, I see Biden's statemement as the rankest hypocrisy. The emergency use authorization is still in place. Many places still have mandates for the neovaccines. Biden hasn't broached the subject of excess deaths in highly neovaccinated countries or the concomitant rise in cancers. The new mouse "vaccine" is a case in point. If the pandemic is over, then why are we approving medicine that was only tested on a dozen mice to be used on humans?
So I feel anger. This is a limited hangout.
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2yr ago
Evidence for this claim. And please do not link the Rolling Stones article saying that "Oklahoma's ERs are so backed up with people overdosing on ivermectin that gunshot victims are having to wait to be treated, a doctor says."
Why would anyone take horse Ivermectin when it is available for humans in pharmacies?
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2yr ago
Most women, regardless of circumstances, could never commit rape.
remember that the current FBI definition of rape is
"penetration, no matter how slight, of the vagina or anus with any body part or object, or oral penetration by a sex organ of another person, without the consent of the victim."
So if a woman were to tie a man up and have sex with him against his will, it would not legally be considered rape by the FBI, unless she penetrated his anus.
However, "made to penetrate" sexual assault, which is how the CDC defines women having sex with men without their consent is apparently much more common than previously acknowledged.
Indeed, in my own experience, I find that I have been "raped" (i.e. made to penetrate without my consent,) by four women in my lifetime. Always while I had been asleep. In one case, a new girlfriend mounted me while I slept without a condom, even though I had been meticulous in my use of condomes. In a second case, a different girlfriend tried to put a condom on me after I had passed out drunk. She woke me up with sex and the condom fell off at some point. In a third case, a girlfriend invited her friend to perform fellatio on me while I was sleeping.
#metoo functioned as a major redpill for me because I had a close friend falsely accused of rape. As I began to understand exactly how feminists now define rape, I gradually became aware that according to the feminist definition of the term, I had been raped by four different women in my life, and sexually assaulted by others. The absolute hypocrisy and lack of awareness deeply disturbs me to this day, since all of those same women who raped me are strong feminists who jumped on the "believe all women" bandwagon.
I don't know what the answer to the social problem of rape is. However, I do know firsthand that modern academic feminism is built upon glaciers of bullshit over decades and their approach to the problem consistently make society worse because of a deep rooted denial of reality.
Skylab
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2yr ago
In any discussion of rape, I think it is important to zoom out on homo sapiens as a species and ask if humans commit more rape than other species. Just to reach a baseline.
Because I think some of the default assumptions and first principles of feminism are not grounded in reality, evolutionary theory, or science, generally.
you'll recall that most of the dunking on Ivermectin was when people were going out and taking megadoses and getting sick.
The original "Duke Lacrosse" Ivermectin Article published by Rolling Stone.
https://www.rollingstone.com/politics/politics-news/fda-horse-dewormer-covid-fox-news-1215168/
The main message which you seems to have worked on you subconsciously:
"Oklahoma's ERs are so backed up with people overdosing on ivermectin that gunshot victims are having to wait to be treated, a doctor says."
This never happened. Nothing like it happened. Yet despite their update to the story which you may have missed, the damage worked. Millions of people have some sense that their biases are confirmed: stupid southerners among their despised outgroup are overdosing on "horse dewormer." Only an idiot would take horse dewormer!
Of course it makes no sense. Ivermectin is available for humans in most states with a simple prescription. I got my prescription online after 5 minutes.
This article, and many others debunk it. The hospital denies the foundational facts of the Rolling Stone article.
Rolling Stone issued their own update:
Update: One hospital has denied Dr. Jason McElyea’s claim that ivermectin overdoses are causing emergency room backlogs and delays in medical care in rural Oklahoma, and Rolling Stone has been unable to independently verify any such cases as of the time of this update.
So basically they are admitting that the lede in their original story was totally baseless. Rather than come out and say that, they pretend that it could be true, even though they found zero evidence for it.
...those who fell for the story included The Daily Beast's Justin Baragona, Daily Kos, Daily Mail, The Guardian, Newsweek, New York Daily News, The Hill, MSNBC contributor Jason Johnson, former CNN pundit Roland Martin, disgraced reporter Kurt Eichenwald, MSNBC host Rachel Maddow, and "Stephanie Ruhle Reports" producer Lauren Peikoff (who admirably fessed up and deleted her tweet, unlike Maddow).
So all of this goes back to the first point of contention. I don't believe that the editors of Rolling Stone are that stupid. And CNN, Guardian, Newsweek, The Hill, MSNBC, Rachel Maddow etc. Maybe some of them are. But it's a safe bet that some of them had financial interests in quashing Ivermectin in order to preserve the EUA upon which the neovaccines are founded. This looks like politics and money, not science.
Skylab
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2yr ago
I'm getting downvoted but I absolutely agree with my comment. Bravo!
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2yr ago
ARRR! I see what you did there, matey!
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2yr ago
Having looked at the evidence as presented by Alexandros, (and others,), the signal from Ivermectin is much stronger than previously believed.
What's disturbing is the multibillion campaign against Ivermectin. The water has been deliberately muddied by bad faith players who stand to make substantial profits so long as Ivermectin is suppressed.
When I consider these two facts, 1. Solid signal from Ivermectin plus extremely safe, (a great Pascal's Wager.) and 2. There is a well funded disinformation campaign against Ivermectin from some of the most powerful institutions in the Western world with obvious conflicts of interest,
I think it's foolish to not have Ivermectin in your house in case of Covid. There's nothing to lose and everything to gain.
Skylab
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2yr ago
The case of Keffals et al versus Jesse Singal?
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2yr ago
Like women have been oppressed by a patriarchy for ten million years.
Like 1 in 4 female students will be raped on campus.
Like confusing the pay gap with the earnings gap.
Like looking at black homicide victim statistics. (Police killing black men make up less than 1% of the total.)
et cetera...
Facts are progressive Kryptonite.
Skylab
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2yr ago
I don't know anything about internet atheist communities. But feminism and intersectional orthodoxies don't tend to stand up well to basic inquiry by those not within the academic social setting.
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2yr ago
The real issue is that the "muh private company" argument no longer applies to Twitter. There is evidence that the whitehouse, and the DNC have persuaded Twitter to censor their political enemies. That's the problem. That's a violation of the first amendment.
I also question that conservatives are pro censorship. At the height of their instutional power they put stickers on rap albums to warn of "explicit lyrics."
And that was seen as an overstep.
Skylab
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2yr ago
In a parallel reality where sense and rationality rules the land, your hypothetical utopia might possibly exist. But in this reality, there are very vocal trans activists that will hunt you down, dox you, petition your boss to fire you and try to get your kids expelled from their school if you say that homo sapiens are a dimorphic mammalian species.
And that's assuming that your account was suspended to begin with.
Skylab
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2yr ago
Counter argument: without censorship, online communities naturally drift rightward as the sacred cows of progressives are slaughtered one by one with simple evidence.
Well I have read dozens of times on Twitter that Lyman has been taken but to this day that seems not to be the case. (Of course you're right it could change overnight.) But the quick victory seems to have stalled out at a well prepared defensive line that would lend credence to the intentionality of the move, even if it the retreat itself didn't go as planned.
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