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Why? It was always considered possible, not a fringe conspiracy theory, the contempt for the conspiracy theorist was that they were repeating it with certainty, "convicting before a fair trial". China has a known bioweapons program. They were known to be researching sars vaccines at that facility, so there's little more reason to lie than to just save face about poor safety protocols at the lab which were already known as well. "Members of the US intelligence community heavily suspect that the state of China had, as of 2015, at least 42 facilities that may be involved in research, development, production, or testing of biological agents.[3][4]" Voice of America www.voanews.com Chinese Lab with Checkered Safety Record Draws Scrutiny over COVID-19 Apr 21, 2020 — Wuhan Lab was cited by Chinese and US officials for safety violations, feeding suspicion it played a role in outbreak

No one is saying they want a slave. Basic gender norms are being ignored here; men want their women to be happy and well cared for, women like to give their input on decisions but don't like making medium to large decisions in general. Men generally don't care about small things, women do and like making these choices. Healthy men cherish their woman and would never put their own needs in front of hers, but the man is still the one that leads, makes the decision or whatever. Many women are not brainwashed by post-modernists to believe different than this, they already want this dynamic and see the flow and harmony with it.

If anyone studies Christianity I've found this guy very insightful and very thorough, he researched a lot of very old resources even for his time back in 1650, all of his work is online for free. http://digitalpuritan.net/john-trapp/ John Trapp (5 June 1601, in Croome D'Abitot – 16 October 1669, in Weston-on-Avon), was an English Anglican Bible commentator.

For me they're quite useful, and expose my own blindspots, but not for anything deep, meditation seems to be the ticket for that. I don't watch them very often though, I don't think it takes much to get the benefit. I've recently watched some Destiny stuff since you've introduced me to him. I've gotten on ted talk kicks in the past like during the pandemic, I watched most of them up to about 2 years ago, you can learn a ton of very niche and life changing information. Better than garbage entertainment or pass-times if you enjoy them like I used to that's for sure.

I think online dating, just like social media, has bypassed an important personal element for some human relations. With dating it's only the initial phase, but that is the most daunting for someone with little experience and a lot of social pressure. This is where redpillers are right; women are very often terrible to men with online dating, they're flaky, just flirt for attention, and they lead guys on. But I blame online dating not women, it's scary for women. But the solution is simple for both pillers, get an in-person group hobby rather than online video games, and do stuff where you meet women in real life. They need a real red pill to wake up from their narrow worldview. Blackpillers are dead wrong, anyone can get a woman, just work on yourself however you want to be.

You're acting like we're saying this relationship works great for everyone, we're in no way implying that. We're talking about this for ourselves; loving, compassionate, thoughtful men.

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And public backlash toward the problem areas will likely lead to desired changes by the company.

I'm not defending the use, I denounce the use, I defend the access to cocaine.

This video just conveniently popped up, I'm not really into Alan Watts but to me this is the crux of our differences on this issue. I agree people will suffer from TickTok but aversion from all difficulty or suffering isn't the path I would choose, not that you can actually choose it anyway. I support getting the word out about the harm, publicly shunning it, but banning will have negative repercussions I think. With public pressure the owners could alter it obviously.

I don't think you're that, I was only referring to the solution. I apologize. I think TickTock is often dangerous, I'm not disagreeing with that.

I think the action required is public discourse about the problems like we're doing right now, along with better parenting, the infantalization I keep referring to is not just of the children using the app but their parents as well. Banning the app is the government parenting the children, which infantalizes the parents by subconsciously signaling they don't need to think about parenting because the government does it for them. So in regard to cigarettes and fast food, how do you think society as a whole evolves and develops toward what we want? I think it does it through having problems like cigarettes and fast food, I don't think Tony Robbins or Sadghuru type lectures or books are what do it for the society we're working with.

Yeah I agree people will get harmed, addicted and not recover, BUT, without TickTock are those same people going to lead a life within the realm of what you would want for them. My schtick here is really the law of unintended consequences, your intentions are good but I think you're overlooking the grander picture of infantalisation. My comment on cigarettes and fastfood was actually coming from me seeing a benefit of society going through those issues, I think we're coming out of them better than if they were banned. Yes many individuals were severely harmed by them but society grew from it and would have regressed to more infantalisation had they been banned.

Do you think society would have been better off banning cigarettes and fastfood, or letting society learn they need to think for themselves more and not trust salesmen and ads? When something is banned everyone's agency is taken from them.

@Danioover9000 Do you really think the majority of people will continue using it in a destructive way after they figure out the problems? Like do you think we should ban fast food? This sort of social fascism infantalizes society, it's like "The government will keep me from making any mistake therefore me no need to thinky.".

I don't think TickTock is the Achilles heel.

Thanks for sharing, I'm wanting to do a fast like that and never considered that problem, nice for the heads up.

? To all guys whining, complaining and having a full mental breakdown over some comment criticizing Leo on the internet, GROW A PAIR OF BALLS. Stop being so defensive. Grow some thick skin. Don't be pussy.

That wouldn't be sexist.

Yeah it will make a huge difference if combined with the normal dating stuff.

I'm saying that "hypothetical opinion" is biased, you being "biased to all" does not make it not biased. Only the yes answers to " "Women do / are xyz": " are generalizations, the only non generalized yes answer would be is a woman a woman (the definition of a woman). And any bias at least shows a proclivity toward bias, and to the point about sexism, this is a 22 question test called " sexism toward women", it's not like it's a random question on the SAT. Short tests are short for a reason, short questions get more test completion. It's obviously just a coarse measurement.

That's all typical, I say it's from believing your enjoyment is rooted in your circumstance, particularly what society deems an enjoyable circumstance, that's bullshit, enjoyment is always an option in every circumstance, life cannot take enjoyment from you. The "kicking to the ground" has also always been tied to that same belief as well for me, it's always desiring what society deems I should desire or be or have and then I'm "kicked to the ground" because I don't, maybe it's something different for you but it's always that bullshit for me.