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Philosophy, Religion & Society / Re: Coronavirus Vaccine and You
« on: September 17, 2021, 10:58:43 AM »
He’s almost certainly vaccinated. He’s a descipable grifter, but he’s not an idiot.

Why are you slandering Mr. Carlson?  He's the only one with the courage to find this man in Trinidad with giant balls to clear Nicki Minaj's good name.


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Philosophy, Religion & Society / Re: Coronavirus Vaccine and You
« on: September 11, 2021, 06:25:05 PM »
It's not exactly a mandate. You do have the option to jam a q tip up your nose every week for the rest of time.

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Philosophy, Religion & Society / Re: President Joe Biden
« on: August 30, 2021, 03:40:02 PM »
Has anyone considered the possibility that the new PM of Israel is just really really boring?

Maybe he was telling the Biden about how he couldn't buy a hammer at 2am in the West Bank.

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Philosophy, Religion & Society / Re: The Taliban Won
« on: August 27, 2021, 06:48:57 PM »
After evacuations have ended, is the US military willing to stay in Afghanistan to help with the original mission of helping the Afghan people lift themselves out of poverty while maintaining human rights and human dignity?  Can we help provide NATO support which I think everybody, including the Taliban, will support if its in a peaceful, non-warring state?

Kabul airport is a good place to start.  We already have military and Taliban working together to secure the evacuations.  Perhaps we're evacuating to many people and is why bombers are acting up again.   

Are we ready for diplomacy again?  Can we accept the new power structure in Afghanistan and make peace with the Taliban for the sake of Afghani's and the 20 years work our soldiers put into Afghanistan?  I think it might be easier then everyone thinks.

 

I don't see why not. The republican party is now strongly pro taliban.

Seriously though in favor with negotiating with the government of Afghanistan, which is now the taliban, if it leads to less misery for their people.

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Philosophy, Religion & Society / Re: The Taliban Won
« on: August 26, 2021, 12:40:26 AM »
this couldn't have turned out any other way because, as turnip points out, the entire thing was his idea. this was his plan. biden wanted to stop the process, but he had no choice because turnip had already set everything in motion and it could not be stopped.

No other way? How about evacuating the American citizens before you withdrawal and not leave behind caches of weapons?



Trump didn't happen to mention if his surrendering to the Taliban had anything to do with this?



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Philosophy, Religion & Society / Re: The Taliban Won
« on: August 23, 2021, 07:13:43 PM »
The Taliban doesn't seem so bad. Aside from the treatment of women as a culture, I don't see many faults with them otherwise.

- They eschew alcohol, tobacco, porn, and drugs
- They hate liberals and Zionists
- They don't allow their women to act like whores
- They have zero open homosexuals or lesbians, and no trannies
- The Taliban banned the Covid-19 vaccine
- Taliban are enemies with ISIS. Usually when people are enemies they have opposite beliefs.
- The Taliban hates drug hustling - "The Taliban enforced a ban on poppy farming via threats, forced eradication, and public punishment of transgressors. The result was a 99% reduction in the area of opium poppy farming in Taliban-controlled areas, roughly three quarters of the world's supply of heroin at the time."

Exactly.  Thank you for admitting this.  I've always been baffled as to why the conservatives hate radical Islam so much.  They seem to like all the same things.

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Philosophy, Religion & Society / Re: Terrible Political Memes
« on: August 23, 2021, 07:12:20 PM »

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Philosophy, Religion & Society / Re: The Taliban Won
« on: August 18, 2021, 07:47:41 PM »
This is interesting.  A pocket of resistance.

https://www.reuters.com/world/asia-pacific/afghan-envoy-says-hold-out-panjshir-province-can-resist-taliban-rule-2021-08-18/

Of course by the time I post this it could have already been eradicated by the friendly neighborhood Taliban.

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Philosophy, Religion & Society / Re: President Joe Biden
« on: August 18, 2021, 06:57:03 PM »
There's two aspects to this that should not be conflated but probably will be.

1.  A failure to get our people out of there.  Clearly Biden's fault.

2.  The country falling to the Taliban.  Really this has more to do with the past 3 presidents.

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Philosophy, Religion & Society / Re: The Taliban Won
« on: August 18, 2021, 07:13:33 AM »
If I'm going to play the devil's advocate I'd have to say that these incidences with women being forced out of jobs and such are happening during this sort of violent/peaceful exchange of power.  It's possible that a few of their guys didn't have their shit together and that the policy moving forward will be different.

It's kind of unlikely since what's the point of being an extremist if you aren't extreme?  But maybe.

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Philosophy, Religion & Society / Re: President Joe Biden
« on: August 18, 2021, 07:11:12 AM »
Some of our allies are dead.  I've haven't heard of any american citizen dying during all of this.

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Philosophy, Religion & Society / Re: The Taliban Won
« on: August 17, 2021, 08:15:01 PM »
The taliban are nice guys now? Did they get #metoo'd?

I feel that some people arguing that things are going to be different under the taliban now are overdosing on hopium.

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Philosophy, Religion & Society / Re: The Taliban Won
« on: August 16, 2021, 06:42:36 AM »
The best way is to keep out of their affairs and stop trying to police them entirely.

How do you propose keeping out of their affairs and…
 
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deal with the terrorists on a national war-like level.

What? 9/11 occurred because the US was meddling in their affairs. The US was the aggressor who attacked those people with their actions and presence and created terrorists. If you send soldiers into a country to police and control people or resources you can expect some terrorists. They didn't just attack the US out of the blue. If you don't want terrorists, stop messing with foreign countries.

Why didn't Bin Laden attack a skyscraper in India? Because the Indians didn't meddle with them. The solution is to be more like the Indians and stop warmongering over resources and policing foreign nations.

India's not really well known for their skyscrapers.

Out of curiosity which particular instance of meddling were you referring to?

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Philosophy, Religion & Society / Re: The Taliban Won
« on: August 15, 2021, 02:38:05 PM »
Yes but thats not the issue.
Its public fear.  This is why you do terrorism.

Americans, at least, have never really been afraid of terrorism. When 9/11 happened everyone was just pissed off. Never mind that the hijackers came from Saudi Arabia, all the sand people look the same so we may as well go to Afghanistan because it's strategically significant. In hindsight it was obviously a bad idea to go over there, but I can see why they did it. We could have lit up Iran and Pakistan if we wanted, had control of a huge swath of airspace in the Middle East, and had the closest possible base to India.

Fear leads to anger.

And anger leads to hate...

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Philosophy, Religion & Society / Re: The Taliban Won
« on: August 15, 2021, 04:41:03 AM »
Some painful lessons to be learned from this.

1.  We continue to be terrible at nation building. Bush senior knew this.  To bad his son didn't talk to him more.

2.  Our government has been lying about this, a lot.  We've been wondering for the last 19 years, why the hell are we still there if we won?  And every president since then has dodged the question.  And now we know why.  Because the Taliban will overrun the country faster than we can get our people out of there which will look really bad for whoever is in charge.

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Philosophy, Religion & Society / Re: The Taliban Won
« on: August 14, 2021, 08:05:14 PM »
I don't know if that's quite comparable.  Those African nations that demanded their independence probably didn't have a psychotic death cult waiting to take them over the instant Britain pulled out.

Also I believe the Afghan government wanted us to stay.

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Philosophy, Religion & Society / Re: The Taliban Won
« on: August 14, 2021, 06:13:23 PM »
I have to wonder at this point if maybe the people of Afghanistan actually prefer taliban rule. They don't seem to be particularly motivated to do much about it.

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Philosophy, Religion & Society / Re: Trump
« on: August 13, 2021, 10:08:36 PM »
I've only watched the first 10 minutes of what Tom posted.  But one of the lines of reasoning they used to claim the election was stolen was a lot of people who rarely vote decided to vote this election and that they went out and knocked on their doors and a lot of people didn't answer the door.

This was sufficient evidence that these were fraudulent votes.  The fact that an orange faced maniac would bring out people who rarely vote or the fact that no one in the right mind would answer the door if Mike Lindell was knocking was never mentioned.

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Philosophy, Religion & Society / Re: Trump
« on: August 13, 2021, 04:33:47 PM »
Quote from: AllAroundTheWorld
I watched a bit of one of the videos, the fact that he says at one point that more people voted in certain age groups than were registered tells me immediately that he's using out of date or wrong data.

Dr. Frank has three PhDs. I am pretty sure he knows more about how to use data than what you find likely.

Quote from: Rama Set
I looked him up and apparently he presented his findings in a case in MI. In that case a few things came out that mean his results are not indisputable as Tom says. For example, he performed his calculation only using people who registered up until the beginning of October and counted anyone who registered in the subsequent month as a phantom voter.

He used data from October because voters were injected into the system to pump up the numbers during election. Remember when multiple states started adding massive dumps of Biden voters on election night?

Regardless, the correlations he saw shouldn't happen in data from October either. Pretty poor argument.

Quote from: Rama Set
So any physicist that says the earth is round is correct, got it.  Physicists are never wrong.

Actually, the FE Wiki is saying that the physicists are correct in their findings that the physics of RE don't really work. I would suggest you read it.

You guys very weakly claim that it's "cherry picking," but there are numerous physicists cited stating that the three body problem doesn't work, while you have provided none saying the opposite. Same for the other articles in there. If you want to claim something is cherry picked you have to actually show the overwhelming evidence of the opposite, which you guys have continuously failed to do so.

Look at what AATW just said:

"Maybe he's Schrödinger's physicist - the things he says are either right or wrong depending on whether Tom agrees with him or not on any particular topic."

If you want to claim something is cherry picked, you actually have to provide the opposite evidence by qualified sources. AATW has not provided contradictory evidence or analysis from qualified sources to contradict Dr. Frank. He doesn't know what "cherry picking" is. If you want to claim that something is cherry picked you have to show that there is overwhelming evidence of the opposite from qualified sources.

Yet, rather than actual mathematical or scientific evidence, he cites court cases in which these arguments from Dr. Frank did not even appear in as his "evidence". How bad of an argument is that? It's like I'm arguing with sixth graders here.

Relax Tom.  You won, okay?  Trump is president again.  But I'm sure the fake news media will take their sweet time informing the American public.

So just kick back and drink some liberal tears.

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Philosophy, Religion & Society / Re: Trump
« on: August 11, 2021, 09:50:43 PM »


Look.  He presented the evidence.  I don't see how you could interpret it any other way.

I don't like it anymore than you do but I guess Trump gets to be president again.

Where's Tom Bishop?  Back me on this.  You see it, right?

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