ArcticGong

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  1. The practice of stealing wife’s on their wedding seems to go back to the epic of Gilgamesh, through prima nocte (first right to surfs women) seen in Braveheart.
  2. This psychological framework of how to counter identify bullying tactics. It was developed by Norwegian Ingjald Nissen and later Berit Ås. Very practical common sense stuff.
  3. The actualised quotes are thought provoking and are worth contemplating, however, I see this mistake over and over. Words like “because” and “which”are used for subordinate clauses- to add information about the main subject, and should not be used for main clauses. I felt it was worth pointing out. A more correct way would look like this. “No one will bullshit you as effectively as you bullshit yourself, because you automatically believe yourself.
  4. Drawing a harsh conclusion, comparing this interview with the one Joe did with the Donald, this one was much more interrogative. The one with 45-47 Joe was a lot more careful less questioning.
  5. Not entirely accurate, the Haitian were not completely racist. They spared some Poles that Napoleon sent whom defected and joined the Haitians and they received the title honorary blacks for their service in helping to liberate Haiti. https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Polish_Haitians
  6. Love to all leaders that wear their traditional attire like the gulf nation, India and other.
  7. This mofo’s shamelessness gives someone secondhand cringe on his behalf.
  8. A keen observation in the latest lecture by Snyder is that libertarians tend to pivot toward fascism or the far-right route. I’d like to add that many of those types have entitlement issues and feel that they are entitled to their parents’ standard of living-plus more- sometimes with less work. Quite an uncharitable take on my part. Related to this point is that we live in an era where authoritarian countries like China are growing rapidly, and some believe that free countries could copy that formula to revive some old glory. All in all, a very illuminating speech by a lecturer I had never heard of before today.
  9. When dealing with the 47th, you can’t appeal to reason or logic because those mostly insult and confuse him. It is more effective to flatter and inflate his importance.
  10. The quota were negotiated without Ethiopian, Kenyan and Ugandan agreement from the colonial era when Britain negotiated in their name. This is a tangential point from the main topic.
  11. Shitting in the information ecology or public epistemic pool by releasing new content every week xD. Loved that metaphor.
  12. Spotify has many audiobooks recordings for free there, Libravox recordings, in the public domain.
  13. I cant A textbook example of how not to act and speak in that situation. The idiocracy gets more real every day.
  14. I found approximately one in five of the quotes to be relatable and profound.
  15. There is a lot of wisdom in the latest quote about not having strong opinions about stuff. However, it is pretty difficult to disregard current events.
  16. He wants Greenland, Panama Canal, Canada, the oil and adult film actresses. Everyone is for sale in his worldview. He’s simply a thief and 80 million voters tacitly approved his criminality. Good ol conservative values.
  17. Easy answer ,in my opinion, the right hates Trudeau because he is liberal and they feel that he virtue signals. He embraces everything they hate like other cultures and progressive values overall. For example, when he speaks French, the right sees that as a beta appeasement move. Houses have become unaffordable in Canada and some may hate him for those kind of things to. About Rogan, I think he ceded his authority to Musk. He worships him and when Musk started to endorse Trump. basically accelerated Rogans descend into MAGA.
  18. Picking fights with friends while trying to get closer to adversaries.
  19. Ayn Rand has a rape passage in one of her books. I Can’t remember if it is atlas shrugged or fountainhead. I was kind shocked when I encountered that.