Current Affairs Culture wars & The rise of grifting

[Charro]

I'm not religious in the slightest mate.

My spirituality is with mother nature and the elements hence why I am very scientific and factual in my outlook.

What you're seeing lately in recent years is an attack on science by the PC left in the same way religion attacked science in the dark ages.

Disinformation.

Thoughts on the right and their constant fight with scientists regarding climate change?

Again, I don’t see many examples of the left being anti-science, but plenty of the right.

 

[Jebus_lives]

Potentially but that would typically see an increase not a huge increase mate.

Mental health illnesses for me are depression, anxiety, bi polar, grief, alzheimers disease etc. Im not trying to play down conditions such as body dysphoria these conditions certainly do effect people negatively however again for me its more down to how our society is constructed that conditions like that exist whereas for example depression and anxiety will exist regardless - they exist in animals that are not bound by any society.

How do you know that a sloth or a hippo doesn't experience body dysphoria?

 

[Lobster Johnson]

How do you know that a sloth or a hippo doesn't experience body dysphoria?

Cos he has a unique connection with mother nature who, remarkably, confirms all his prejudices.

 

[JimmyJeffers]

How do you know that a sloth or a hippo doesn't experience body dysphoria?

Do any male Manatees want to be called Womanatees? Really opens up a whole world of research

 

[Walken]

The 5 Conditions of Mental Health Model by Professor Franklin Blue (1992)

Foreword by dave rubin

 

[LostLegend]

Kanye Odemwingie

 

[Noisy noise annoys]

Kanye Odemwingie

There needs to be a word for people like this, Kanye, trump, musk etc who get so embroiled in their own hype that they think they can do/say anything and it’s acceptable . Most of it seems to stem from Twitter echo chambers and being surrounded by yes-men. You can actively see them losing the plot in front of your eyes.

Not healthy

 

[verreauxi]

Bore off Professor Frink.

I figured one of your four neurons would overheat when confronted with data. That's on you, not me. No doubt you are intimidated by things like numbers, charts, tables, graphs, since it causes a short-circuit in the YouTube algorithm that jump-starts your brain each morning.

But let me help.

Think of the pie chart like your daily budget that shows how much time you allocate to a given task. For example, in your case, let's outline two tasks that you do: 1) time spent smoking JPS Player's Superking cigarettes (call it X) and 2) time spent watching GB News (call it Y). If we tallied up how much time you spent doing these two things, we could convert it to a percentage: % time smoking JPS cigarettes = X/X+Y x 100. And 1-%time smoking JPS cigarettes would give us the percent time you spent watching GB News. Then it is a simple matter of coloring in the portion of the circle, as a percentage, that visually shows how much of your day you do these two things.

Now if we constructed a pie chart of how much time, over your life, you actually spent reading Solzhenitsyn (versus just hearing about him on idiotic right-wing blogs or name-dropping him on internet forums), then that pie chart would be empty, a blank circle, just like your head.

 

[Moomin]

I figured one of your four neurons would overheat when confronted with data. That's on you, not me. No doubt you are intimidated by things like numbers, charts, tables, graphs, since it causes a short-circuit in the YouTube algorithm that jump-starts your brain each morning.

But let me help.

Think of the pie chart like your daily budget that shows how much time you allocate to a given task. For example, in your case, let's outline two tasks that you do: 1) time spent smoking JPS Player's Superking cigarettes (call it X) and 2) time spent watching GB News (call it Y). If we tallied up how much time you spent doing these two things, we could convert it to a percentage: % time smoking JPS cigarettes = X/X+Y x 100. And 1-%time smoking JPS cigarettes would give us the percent time you spent watching GB News. Then it is a simple matter of coloring in the portion of the circle, as a percentage, that visually shows how much of your day you do these two things.

Now if we constructed a pie chart of how much time, over your life, you actually spent reading Solzhenitsyn (versus just hearing about him on idiotic right-wing blogs or name-dropping him on internet forums), then that pie chart would be empty, a blank circle, just like your head.

 

[Daveysgingerlovechild]

 

[Jebus_lives]

Kanye Odemwingie

 

[COYBL25]

The problem is you (and others) look at trans/gender identity in the same manner as homosexuality but its completely different and so are its origins yet we treat it the same as it falls under the LGBTQ "umbrella".

Homosexuality is a natural thing - its proven to transcend humans and is witnessed in many other species of animal. The difference when it comes to gender Identity/fluidity imo (as a scientific free thinker) is that it largely stems from human culture and the norms/values drilled into us all from an early age in society regarding gender roles.

You dont see a female peacock longing to be a male peacock - and in general terms for example "body image" you dont see a male rhino get depressed because its horn aint as big as the other males in the water hole.

We as humans have created our own societal values and for me a portion (not all or even majority) of those who go down the road of gender reassignment could have been prevented with proper support and a change in what values we hold in society (currently a lack of spirituality and the obsession with fitting in and certain desirable characteristics for a modern man/woman) but we're not allowed to investigate such things in fear of being "transphobic".

Dont get me wrong I have no issue with trans folk I can only imagine the mental struggle many must go through. If a fully developed adult who has gone through many years of support and counselling still wants to transition then all power to them I say - the issue I have is these parents/media pushing young kids down this road with little acknowledgement of how the feelings, values, mental health and self worth/identity of an average 14-18 year old tend to be radically different by the time when they're 35, 40, 50 etc.

I also dont agree with the increasing fetishism of sexualising younger trans with the big fake boobs etc by these rich old men.

 

[Lobster Johnson]

I figured one of your four neurons would overheat when confronted with data. That's on you, not me. No doubt you are intimidated by things like numbers, charts, tables, graphs, since it causes a short-circuit in the YouTube algorithm that jump-starts your brain each morning.

But let me help.

Think of the pie chart like your daily budget that shows how much time you allocate to a given task. For example, in your case, let's outline two tasks that you do: 1) time spent smoking JPS Player's Superking cigarettes (call it X) and 2) time spent watching GB News (call it Y). If we tallied up how much time you spent doing these two things, we could convert it to a percentage: % time smoking JPS cigarettes = X/X+Y x 100. And 1-%time smoking JPS cigarettes would give us the percent time you spent watching GB News. Then it is a simple matter of coloring in the portion of the circle, as a percentage, that visually shows how much of your day you do these two things.

Now if we constructed a pie chart of how much time, over your life, you actually spent reading Solzhenitsyn (versus just hearing about him on idiotic right-wing blogs or name-dropping him on internet forums), then that pie chart would be empty, a blank circle, just like your head.

I would recommend The Gulag Archipelago... the rest? Not so much.

 

[Chewbacca]

There needs to be a word for people like this, Kanye, trump, musk etc who get so embroiled in their own hype that they think they can do/say anything and it’s acceptable . Most of it seems to stem from Twitter echo chambers and being surrounded by yes-men. You can actively see them losing the plot in front of your eyes.

Not healthy

Many many words

That I’d get banned for

 

[Jebus_lives]

Potentially but that would typically see an increase not a huge increase mate.

Mental health illnesses for me are depression, anxiety, bi polar, grief, alzheimers disease etc. Im not trying to play down conditions such as body dysphoria these conditions certainly do effect people negatively however again for me its more down to how our society is constructed that conditions like that exist whereas for example depression and anxiety will exist regardless - they exist in animals that are not bound by any society.

Remember in lockdown when nobody could get a haircut, then suddenly they could get a haircut....it's probably a bit like that.