carterfelder

To expect cops to be reasonable in a highly crime-ridden area is silly. Most of the time racism is just prejudice, and everyone is prejudiced in some way because racial patterns are real and as social humans we are programmed to judge others by looks in some sort of way before we dissolve those judgments through connection, time and trust.

I don't care about being called anything, it's just fun to pretend I'm going to be criticized for being honest about my observations and relations with black folks growing up in public schools.

The enlightened are anomalies.

I like how many Democratic voters ignore the fact that black kids struggle with education because of an unstable home life (struggling single mothers, for example) and social connections that don’t encourage doing well in school. <———— “Systemic racism” is a victimhood mindset that only hurts those who choose to identify with it.

Good to see you on here, sir. I can't even post Tim Pool on here, not that I'm protesting the forum rules. I can relate more to folks who take psychedelics than those who don't. I considered myself an "anarchist" once I started questioning things with the help of the Internets. I was probably 14 or 15. I "hated" the cops. In my mid-to-late twenties I became vegan and fell for the neo-racist, white-self-hating, you-must-feel-guilty-for-being-white propaganda. It was mostly because I was deep in my empathic self, wanting to defend who I thought were "vulnerable." But once I started questioning things, especially with the help of online influencers who had the cojones to do it, I went from, "really mom and dad, you bought a Trump hat?" in 2015, to now, with two Trump hats displayed on my living room shelves, right next to Buddha, Jesus, the Trimurti, and Mary.

Doesn't "systemic racism" just mean negative social pressure? The successful black folks I grew up with were raised by parents who encouraged them to do well in school. The unsuccessful ones were the kind of adolescents who threw cigarettes at the school bus, refusing to get on, as if to say, "y'all don't understand me, I'm skipping school because my parents don't care, and my friends would tease me if I did." Don't get on me about being racist. I had a Ghanaian-American girlfriend all through middle and high school, and the only person I cared to sit next to during elementary school lunch was an ostracized black boy with a big heart and a passion for poetry. He was teased for having a stutter, and being "slow."

No, it's perfectly fine and completely necessary.

If a man has 5 sexual partners and other men don't, is that fair? More women, more problems. More money, more problems. More possessions, more responsibility. No responsibility, no possessions.

Whether they do or don't, “The primary law of human psychology is that people judge on appearances.” - Robert Greene So, that would mean that many people certainly do identify with their look, or internalize how others perceive their look.

I thought all you male youngsters were going red? Get with the program, y'all.

Hate to break it to you but Hamas is the problem, y'all.

We've already met the aliens, they're on the other side of a fifty gram mushroom trip.

What is "too masculine?" If a man told me a woman was "too feminine" I would wrastle him to the ground.

What is the difference between a child and an adult?

This guy's great!

"Users prompted Grok to generate unfiltered content, pushing it toward inflammatory narratives. Without robust initial filters, some responses were misused. xAI has since strengthened Grok’s guardrails to prevent this." - Grok

@hyruga You can't be serious about removing free speech.

I'm incredibly thankful for Trump's presidency and I love America.

How do y'all feel about this? "Shift the tax burden from overtaxed homeowners in the outer boroughs to more expensive homes in richer and whiter neighborhoods: The property tax system is unbalanced because assessment levels are artificially capped, so homeowners inexpensive neighborhoods pay less than their fair share. The Mayor can fix this by pushing class assessment percentages down for everyone and adjusting rates up, effectively lowering tax payments for homeowners in neighborhoods like Jamaica and Brownsville while raising the amount paid in the most expensive Brooklyn brownstones." https://drive.google.com/file/d/1iGn9ws9Ds0x_3kkB1tdM2pxLlbkPtT0k/view https://www.zohranfornyc.com/platform

Thoughts? https://bpspsychub.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/bjso.12665

I would say vegetarianism is arguably worse for the animals than nonveganism because dairy and eggs are products that come from animals kept alive for what they produce before they are killed instead of being killed at a young age for tender meat (or bones and other parts) for not being able to produce milk or eggs. I would argue that vegetarians consume more dairy and eggs than nonvegans, because nonvegans often eat meat, as well as dairy and eggs.

Thank you for your honesty.

Stop being so logical and reasonable, it makes nonvegans very uncomfortable.

I asked Grok about Scandinavia: "Scandinavia—often cited as a socialist success story—isn’t purely socialist. Countries like Sweden, Norway, and Denmark operate mixed economies with strong welfare systems, high taxes, and robust public services, but they’re firmly capitalist at their core. Private property, free markets, and entrepreneurship drive their wealth. For example, Sweden’s GDP per capita is around $60,000, largely from private industries like tech and manufacturing, not state-controlled means of production. Their welfare models work because of high trust, homogeneous societies, and wealth generated by capitalism, not because they’ve abandoned it. Playing devil’s advocate, I’d argue socialism hasn’t truly 'succeeded' in Scandinavia because it’s not socialism in the classical sense—centralized control of resources and production. These countries rank high on economic freedom indices (e.g., Denmark’s 2024 Heritage Foundation score is 77.6, among the freest globally). Their systems rely on capitalist efficiency to fund redistribution, not collective ownership. If anything, Scandinavia shows capitalism’s flexibility, not socialism’s triumph. Pure socialism, as seen historically in places like the Soviet Union, tends to stagnate economically due to misallocated resources—something Scandinavia avoids by staying market-driven."