No wonder this guy is 50 years old and single. He believes in white supremacist conspiracy theories with no evidence. Don't talk to people who support QAnon, they are a lost cause, they lack critical thinking skills. There are real conspiracies (Oliver North peddling crack to black communities, the Tuskegee syphilis experiments, the UFOs seen from the aircraft carrier in 2004) but those actually have real evidence and research behind them. QAnon is a bunch of Neo Nazis living in a fantasy land.

You don't think you hold subconscious biases that you cannot deprogram yourself from? I care about actual social sciences, sorry. I like to read.

We're all racist. We have all kinds of biases ingrained in us. The question is whether or not you are actively seeking to deprogram yourself, and seeking an answer as to the social and historical causes behind the inequalities in the world. When someone says, "I'm not racist!" I just roll my eyes. They tend to wear a red hat, and quite often fly a treasonous flag on the back of their truck.

dug myself in what hole? like I care about the opinions of people who benefited their entire lives by holding black people down, forcing women into lower pay grades, denying LGBT people jobs and housing? what exactly makes you proud to be an American? pride is the worst of the seven deadly sins, as it keeps you from recognizing the other six. and America has sinned a lot and done little to nothing to atone for it

I don't think many, if any, of those younger women are real people. sorry bud.

the only way one can believe this is if you are someone who has little to no idea how to verify legitimate sources, and believes a mass coordinated disinformation campaign, yet has so much pride they refuse to believe they could have possibly been fooled by propaganda

probably the only good president we've ever had was Jimmy Carter, and he was just good, not great

ok, I'm proud of our scientific research and art, and Kansas City barbecue. good enough?

Tool? More like KoRn Crimson

excellent band but i wouldn't call them metal at all. Superjudge and Dopes to Infinity are just awesome albums. got a chance to see them on the God Says No tour in high school and it was killer.

my cat just had three kittens. they were premature (possibly because she's on antiepileptics) and she wasn't nursing them. she was abandoning them. but after scouring various forums for an hour or so I read a post of a woman who said she put the mom and babies in the carrier, cut off the amniotic sacs herself with a utility knife, and then mama nursed them. and it worked for me, holy macaroni. she's nursing them. i wonder how long i have to lock them up before she stops abandoning them. because they probably won't die, but it's mammal instinct to sometimes abandon premature babies in favor of yourself.

MIRIAM SANTIAGO has given birth to CRUSHER, DESTROYER, and MUTILATOR (ok those are temporary names cause i havent checked genitalia yet)

Nope, I find national pride kinda silly. Especially because our greatness is based on genocide, slavery, and perpetual war. It's probably pretty great if you're an old white straight Christian man, but I think people other than me have some legitimate things to complain about. Partially because my fellow mayonnasapiens have issues with critical thinking and empathy. Pretty disgusting. I generally don't talk about the fact that I'm a military veteran but I'll mention it here.

this is cool but i already have DOSBox w/ Windows 98 set up with hundreds of games. Ultima 7, Realms of Arkania 3, Thief Gold, Descent II, Homeworld, Quest for Glory 4, X-COM, Need for Speed Hot Pursuit, Wizardry 8, Syndicate Wars, Day of the Tentacle, Beneath a Steel Sky, some of my favs for sure. Pirates! Gold is my absolute fav but I actually run that on WinUAE, the Amiga CD32 version is the best

i'm a retro game fanatic. i like the new ones too of course, love my PS4, Switch, and Steam library. and in fact many of the old games have much, much better versions released on modern consoles.

unemployment being low means very little when wages are so low and healthcare isn't provided. congratulations, you've got a **** ton of people who can't pay rent. probably working two 39.5 hour jobs so that they can afford the bare minimum health insurance that one job won't provide 'cause their boss won't let 'em have 40 hours.

the stock market being high means absolutely nothing. do you even own capital? tell me about your factory. tell me about your restaurant. do you even own your house? are you still making car payments? why would you support capitalism in any form? pretty much the only socialist programs we have these days are corporate bailouts

but I will tell you straight up, don't argue with old white people. most of them drank the Kool-Aid loooong ago, especially the men. their brains simply don't accept new information. they were alive at a time when you could work a minimum wage job and still pay for university, a car, and your own place. try doing that now, especially in a city where gentrification quadrupled rent prices and drove out the natives.

TRUCK

Cave, Nick, and the Bad Seeds 8)

Anyone like black metal? I'm listening to the new split between Spectral Lore and Mare Cognitum. It's two hours long and hard to digest in one listen but A+ A+ A+

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LC9QmRy8gFI

Well, hate to break it to you, but basically every guy does that. You have to get creative. Tame a crocodile for her. Learn banjo and make a bluegrass song talking **** about her ex-boyfriend. You know how it goes.

First convert? I don't even know the dude and this is not something I just got into when reading this thread. I'm certainly not following anything he said. I'm following my own knowledge from books, documentaries, and studying the behavior of people like you who pretend to be followers of Christ.

Drunken posts? Oh no. I like to get on the Internet when I'm drunk instead of having sex with strangers I meet from dating sites. Your idea of "bullying" also seems to be getting called out on your typical old, stubborn white lady nonsense. Turns out the real SNOWFLAKES are boomers who need to get back to their safe space. Yeah, get back to me in three years.

"2.4 billion Christians are wrong"

Not inherently wrong, but they aren't following the actual words of Christ. They're following the words of Paul and Nero, and those who edited various translations in the 2000 years after.

The dude actually knows his **** and does his research. I wouldn't say it's a cult, it sounds like someone who's, you know, watched documentaries like 1999 "Who Was the Real Jesus Christ" or perhaps read the book "Deconstructing Jesus". Actual historical evidence, linguistic analysis, archaeology. If YOU had ever done any research on this yourself, you would see he's alluding to a lot of pre-existing research that's been going on since the time of Reimarus.

No, most people aren't teachable, they were proverbially (har har) beaten with the Bible and refuse to question it.

I'm in the Philippines temporarily, right? I started getting heavy into actual theology and historical analysis. So one thing I love doing is discussing the Bible with strangers. And guess what? None of them actually read the damn book. Like maybe I've met a few people who can actually quote verses and that's it. I gave up. I thought, y'know, talking to strangers in a 91% Christian nation would be a great way to get to know the Bible but it's hopeless.

I really love discussing the Epistle of James (yes, this was Jesus' elder brother; James the Lesser, James the Just, and James the son of Alphaeus are all viable candidates, but NOT James, Son of Zebedee) and also the apocryphal Gospel of James. But nobody here knows anything about that, and it's just so depressing. Yet people have church services so loud that the speakers are blown and sound terrible. They wear t-shirts talking about God and Jesus. Their dating site profiles quite often call themselves a SERVANT OF GOD or LOVER OF JESUS, etc. but to me they're all Pharisees. Oh it's a sad situation.

I already got it. I'll message you the picture. Not a joke.

A catapult, and a 100 kg supply of fertilizer.