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Do you masturbate to porn? Have you ever tried pornfree or nofap? I'm not saying this is what's causing your brainfog, but it's easy to confirm or discard it and it's free. Both of them.

Thanks for sharing. It's really sad, all those innocent people in the plane... I don't think there will be a war, not like in Irak. But I wouldn't say this is over, If Trump gets reelected and this kind of actions and confrontations work for his interest, as other industries close to him like the military, there may be more. They don't care about the human lives, they care about americans more if they can choose, but the death of american soliers or a bunch of citizens won't stop them either. I don't think the Iranian government made an agreement with Trump to sacrifice Solemaini, but you can bet they'll make the best from this, flagging martyrs must be as old as the first human wars. People will tend to defend the Iranian government now, the truth is they were attacked, one of their most important leaders assassinated and it was done cowardly and against all international laws, and nationals by the way, there's no way around of it. Iran looks deeply blue, as you say, actions like this make your development much harder. We need more conscious and less selfish people in the White House. Not saying Iranian leaders are saints, I'm saying exactly the opposite, but we need not to make it more difficult for the people living it there to work for a better situation. It will take generations though, but sooner or later will happen. Will be sooner if an international bully doesn't empower their retrogade government and really works with the interest of the real people in there in mind, not their own agendas.

Bernie on this events. Glad to hear he has a reasonable position, I think most people do as well. Trump made a bad step here, apart from his inconditionals, I think a lot of republican voters will question his recent trajectory. Causing an unnecessary war with Iran is a lot to swallow. I've also read a bit the comments on the video, I don't follow CNN or any US channel, but apparently Bernie's followers were quite dissatisfied with the coverage this candidate has been having there until this interview. He's given the opportunity to share his other propositions too, comparing to Biden and Warren, and they appreciate that.

@DivineSoda There are many industries pushing for things like this and eager to make huge profit, as they have been doing for decades. But we cannot detach from the fact that Trump is on the lead and he has the authority to green light attacks like this, like indeed he did.

@Bno I see, well, as said, they worked with what they had then, I think they did fine. No impeachment is likely to end his presidency anyway, as republicans have majority on the Senate, but it had to be done somehow. If you ask me, this unilateral war crime is a much better reason to go, but as I was telling you at first, this is now and the impeachment was three weeks ago. But, I insist, seems a bit forced that the debate deviates to the Democrats and their decisions, when it's Trump's administration and the Republicans who are entirely responsible on this last event. Maybe Hillary would have done worse, maybe better, but let's stick to the facts.

@Bno The two party political system of the USA sucks, I know, and Democrats are as part of it as Republicans. But this event is entirely on Trump and the Republican party, it was their call and action, that's the fundamental fact here that we should not get out of sight. The Democrats put the impeachment in motion with what they had then and considered best, it's certainly better than the motives for impeaching Clinton. Maybe you could send your suggestions to the Democrat senators and candidates though, if you have an interest on advising them. But I don't think you were ever in favour of impeaching Trump in the first place, were you?

@Bno There are better reasons to impeach Trump now, indeed. But three weeks ago wasn't now. Democrats didn't assassinate Soleimani, republicans did, under Trump's direct command and without consulting or agreeing with the congress or his European allies. Let's stick to the facts for once, this is not on democrats, it's on Trump.

Every moment decides the future of human kind. If you suggest something big happening that drastically changes the course of history, not likely, but not impossible either. Nuclear war, a deadly virus, climate change...

I'd say "to all of us" is a bigger problem. Maybe if it had been "to some of us" or "just to me"...

More repercussions, Iran may abandon the nuclear deal limitation agreed with the Obama administration in 2015. Trump had unilateraly withdrawn it, who the Hell knows why, there is no way Iran is going to accord any new deal with the USA now. In the end, Trump has shown they will attack them whether they continue with their nuclear program or not, they may as well build the damn nukes. I don't like it, but I can understand it. Look at North Korea, they have nuclear weapons, so if anybody fucks them, they are going to fuck them back and everybody knows they are totally capable of doing it without hesitation. There's the explanation for the final peace making between Trump and Kim Jong Un in person. I guess Iran wants the same negotiation power, they got the excuse now.

Trump has now threatened to destroy Iranian cultural heritage. There is a consensus among different countries and civilizations of the world that some monuments, for their historical or cultural value, belong to humanity as a whole and are worth to preserve even in times of war, for future generations to inherit them. The most radical groups like ISIS don't respect that and make such monuments their target, isn't it funny that Trump behaves just like them? Well, funny is not the word, but it is an interesting coincidence that I wanted to point out.

But that wouldn't be unique to the Middle East. I mean, if you had decided to establish your piece of land in the middle of the USA, Russia, China, Brazil, to mention some of the big ones, they would have crushed you with all their power for violating their borders and sovereignty. You could only do that in an underdeveloped land, being more violent that they have ever been to you, Israel has not been a nation of peacefull angels, as it's been said. There is also the thing that you people have a very deep religious identity, as the natives of that land have. If we can learn something from history, that is usually a recipe for clash. But don't act like this is not on you, they were there before you and you are the ones that came last, at least you could admit your part on this and stop blaming entirely others.

There was probably a part of that too, but you forget the part of the protests and riots that took place in the country. The dictator couldn't calm his citizens even with hard repression. I have not seen anything like that in Iran, have you? Their citizens probably are going to defend their retrograde government even more now. This is not the same by any means. What the US has done is closer to a terrorist attack. Are you going to address it or maybe we can open another threat about Libya, it is very interesting too.

That's not true. This general has been killed by a US surprise attack. Gaddafi was captured by the rebels of his own country after a period of protests and a siege, and violently killed by the mob. Dissidents of Libya had international help then, NATO intervened, but circumstances are totally different from what has happened now. But why are we speaking about this now, what's the point?

I don't think so. Americans would get defensive if their leaders were attaced, so will Iranians, this won't moderate them, it will make them hate America more, maybe with reasons. Of course Iran won't ever attack American soil and will be very cautious on attacking their forcers internationally too. That was true before and after this attack, what changed? How much are American militars going to tense the situation? What if the next general is more radical? That would be ideal for the military industry, business goes first. In the meantime, we can turn our heads from other issues like healthcare, inequality, environment, etc. A win for them. But what about the lifes lost? Very irresponsible and very selfish.

Wouldn't it that be like a foreing country striking against the secretary of defense of the US? Wouldn't that be seen as an act of war? Wouldn't the people in the US react by going even more radical? So how do you think Iranians will react now, going more moderate or more radical? They are justifying this attack saying this man is responsible of hundreds of deaths of american soldiers. I don't know exactly how, but when you go to war, isn't that to be expected? How many Iranian deaths have happened because attacks like this, soldiers and civilians? They also justified this attack as preventive. It's very convenient, when you are preventing something, you will never have to prove that indeed was going to happen, who the Hell knows, the man is dead. In the past America used to retaliate after being attacked, like in Pearl Harbor, now just they say they are preventing attacks. This is crazy. I think Trump wants another war, the millitary industry has to make a living once again. I'm sorry for the loses of Iranians and american soldiers that will be if they get what they want.

There are different ways of discussing ideas, valid in different ways. I don't like the term safe space and even less the negative connotation that they have taken lately, but the truth is they have existed since always. For example, a church or a mosque is a safe space for those religous people, where they can discuss and develop their beliefs and ideologies. Would it be constructive to have a religious fundamentalist telling scientists on a lab that they are wrong about whatever they are doing or maybe it's better to keep it as a safe space from those unnecessary confrontations? Democratic or republican party offices, where people interested in certain type of policies discuss about them and maybe make them better, aren't they safe spaces too? A meeting of fans of Justien Bieber would be a good place for them, but what would be the point of a heavy metal fan going there to tell them he doesn't like their music? Sometimes a group of people with a minimum consensus is the best setting to develop ideas in a positive way, someone just disagreeing all the time would not help and would only sabotage their efforts. But sometimes is good to confront opposite ideas on debates, to see how they hold against each other and having to defend them can also help to develop them in some ways. So you could go for both. Sometimes find your similars to discuss your ideas, maybe others you could try to debate with people with different ones. Don't try to change the views of others, but express yours without shame or fear. Sometimes you agree about some things, but disagree about others, you can point both things. If a discussion becomes uncomfortable for you, you have no obligation to continue, it's true some people can get quite offensive. Edit: I think as safe space you meant a place where feelings are taken more in consideration, even when disagreeing. Well, wouldn't be bad, but don't count wiht that. in some cases it's good to give certain people some of their own medicine, so they taste a bit of it too and, who knows, maybe reconsider some things.

The universal basic income seems very advanced to me, in fact, it's probably too soon for our society to digest it, for that reason I don't think is the best policy for a candidate to present as his signature. I like it though, I think we as people and our economy would flourish with it. Jobs would still make us earn more money than what the basic income covers and people are not as lazy as the right thinks, we tend to find things to do that fulfill us, sometimes to earn more money, sometimes for other reasons, it would depend on each individual anyway. But I don't understand how he can be so conservative about medicare for all. It's so obvious healthcare is a basic human right, meaning should be accessible for all, and there are so many countries that have already implemented it.

Poor snowflakes, they get triggered by people saying Happy holliday instead of Merry Christmas.

Have to be very cautious with money. But never ever? Nah... A friend lend me some money short ago and I have all the intention to give back as soon as I get my income again.

An interesting analysis and contextualization of the recent UK election results, by Abby Martin (rightist's favourite journalist) and a british guy known as Lowkey, I didn't know him.

There are different ways of looking at the same thing. This binary / non binary gender identity debates, I honestly think both visions can be valid in their own way, even if they contradict each other. I don't think Rowling or anybody is necesarilly transphobic just for having a strict binary gender view, in fact many trans people do as well, and I agree with her that firing someone for expressing that is not right.

I agree, but I think is also a bidirectional influence. I mean, laws and conditions established by the politicians mold the game society plays, even for those who don't like or agree with it.

That is not true, he recently called out against a fake book announced as Jordan Peterson's in another thread in the forum, obviously done by some leftist troll. I remember because I had not been in the forum for a long time and that caught my attention for some reason. The problem is or should be information being false or erroneous, not right or left. In this case it's at least erroneous, he did fine calling it out, for a moment I thought that was legit.

Indeed, I'm from Europe and I live in Africa now, people are as religious as my grandparents were 75 years ago, as a society even more, very blue. There's no conflict or violence per se here, but very poor and economically basic individual survival oriented red state, I would even say they need to get more into blue yet. The most advanced are already at state orange, very business oriented. There's almost no green, just a few signs in some young people. I don't perceive it as you do though, of course people have their opinions, but in a sense it's like everywhere else. People are friendly here, that I can tell too and I honestly like that very much.