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greyhammer90 said:
My BS detector is going off like crazy. No picture of the crazy person, no source, no link to the actual group. Smells like a made up story. If true though, yikes.
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Walther just published an article titled "The persistence of American carnage":

President Trump would like you to know that despite all the naysaying from outside his administration — and apparently from within it as well — he is making this country great again. He has gone so far as to suggest that the American economy, thanks to the recent decline in unemployment and the precipitous increase in the price of tech stocks, is better than it has been in decades, "booming like never before," in fact.

The president might be right about this. But if he is it tells us how little "the economy" matters when we assess the common good of a people.

It is true that there are fewer Americans looking for work and unable to find it than there have been in two decades, and that the number filing for unemployment claims is lower than it has been in half a century. I am happy to admit that lots of us are employed. But it is all too often in two or three ill-paying jobs.

Wages have been stagnant since Dark Side of the Moon was released, but the rich have never gotten richer faster. We may be only a few years away from seeing the world’s first trillionaire. Meanwhile, many of us have no job in the traditional sense but are slaves to the gig economy, driving strangers in our own vehicles for less than minimum wage. Much-vaunted new manufacturing jobs are concentrated in Southern states, where pay is low, benefits non-existent, collective bargaining virtually prohibited by law, and safety conditions appalling. Meanwhile Ford is on the cusp of laying off thousands of workers in Michigan.

This is to say nothing of a thousand other non-economic measures, some of them more tangible than others, that suggest that America is not booming like never before. Millions are poisoning themselves with drugs; more of us die of overdoses each year than were lost in the whole of the Vietnam War. Anxiety and depression are ubiquitous. Children are cutting their bodies to pieces, taking their own lives and those of their classmates and teachers. A sizable percentage of the population now believes that schools are so dangerous that teachers must arm themselves at all times and be prepared to shoot their students. The elderly are abandoned to squalor while profiteers rob their families and the public purse. We are becoming appallingly fat. Real cooking is now a luxury, even and indeed especially in those parts of the country where most of our food is grown. The cost of health care is bankrupting what is left of the middle class. Single Americans stay in bad jobs because making more money will mean that they lose subsidized access to their medications. Former students hold a trillion and a half dollars of debt. The average family cannot spare $1,000 for an emergency. In many parts of this country more black babies are being aborted than born.

From this hell Americans find solace in pornography, in video games, in the tawdry mysticism of crystal healing and "essential oils." They gorge themselves on junk food or else make an idol of exercise and fitness. They pretend that someone — loud obese racist morons who deserve to have their Medicaid taken away, snowflakes pissing themselves in avocado diapers on college campuses where they earn degrees in genderqueer Marxism — is the enemy and that the country can only be saved when this enemy is destroyed forever by someone or something else — a vague entity called "the Blue Wave," the goon living at 1600 Pennsylvania Ave.

Forgive me for suggesting that one number that a few hundred economists can make sense of means almost nothing set against all of this. The truth is that the "American carnage" decried by Trump during his inaugural address shows no sign of abating.
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And Commentary's Sohrad Ahmari just published an article titled "No Children of Men":

Modern Western man is dying. I mean that quite literally: Total sperm count among Western men declined nearly 60 percent from 1973 to 2011. That’s according to the first-ever comprehensive meta-analysis of 7,500 studies, by researchers at the Hebrew University of Jerusalem. The analysis was published last summer, but it seems to have mostly eluded media attention until this year.

The most alarming finding? “When we restricted the analysis to studies after 1995, we found no sign that decline is leveling off,” said the Hebrew University’s Dr. Hegai Levine, one of the lead researchers. “In other words, the decline continues.” The implications for the species and modern Western societies especially are existential. As a GQ essay put it, “the human race is apparently on a trend line toward becoming unable to reproduce itself.”

Lest you think that’s a magazine scribe’s hyperbole, here’s Shanna Swan, another of the paper’s lead scientists: “You can ask, ‘What does it take? When is a species in danger? When is a species threatened?’ And we are definitely on that path.” Absent a dramatic reversal, that path might one day lead us to the opening scene of Children of Men, the 2006 movie based on P.D. James’s dystopian novel, in which a distraught crowd in a coffee shop watches news coverage of the death of the youngest person on earth—age 18.

With global fertility at zero (in the movie), that untimely death brings mankind one grim step closer to total extinction. Then a seemingly miraculous pregnancy does take place, and it falls to our protagonist, Theo (Clive Owen at his scraggly, depressive best), to escort the expectant mother through a post-apocalyptic Britain to a safe place where she might give birth and renew the face of the earth.

To be sure, men and women are still having babies in the real world, though fertility rates among most Western nations are well below replacement. Lower fertility means fewer young workers, which in turn causes all sorts of social problems: slow growth, welfare competition, unmet pension obligations, loneliness, depression. The human race may not go extinct for a long time, but the immediate effects are bad enough that we should make rectifying the male seed deficit an immediate priority.

And that’s where things get complicated. Because scientists can’t seem to reach any sort of agreement about what’s causing men to produce fewer little swimmers. Is it environmental degradation? Is it the chemicals and plastics that saturate modern life? Is it stress? Smoking? Diet and nutrition? All of the above? No one can say for certain. Another point for verisimilitude for Children of Men: In the movie, it is never quite made clear what is behind the global fertility crisis. It’s just there almost like, well, a biblical curse.

The West’s reigning scientism would never permit us to look beyond science for an answer. Scientism—as opposed to science properly understood—says that scientific knowledge is the only kind worthy of the name. It seeks to supplant and indeed vanquish other claimants to truth, especially revealed religion, with its injunctions to “cleave to a wife” and “be fruitful and multiply” (rather than play video games and cavort with sex bots). But the persistent mystery of the missing sperm is another reminder that the scientistic, contraceptive society may not be as durable as its sunniest boosters imagine it to be.
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One might mention something known to biochemists for many decades (at least before the 1970s when this decline began to be measured): MANY of the organic chemicals used in industry to produce not only herbicides, pesticides, and agricultural "additives" but also plastics, polymers, and "inert" organics of all sorts, are ESTROGENIC mimics. They act hormonally like the dominant female (code: anti-sperm-creating for one thing) hormone when accumulating in male systems.

This impact MIGHT be sort of "OK" if it were held down to very minor parts-per-million but the chem-industry pollyanna talk falls criminally on its face when those substances are bio-accumulative --- one translation---> Lipid or "fatty" like so that they absorb in body tissues rather than dissolve into the blood stream and get urinated. Once the internal soup concentrates the external soup of estrogenic organics, you get failing "male" systems.

How anyone thinks that this is suddenly news is a tribute to the Big Money Machine which, newsflash, is really not our friend. The executives of these deliberately falsifying companies should be lined up against the wall and shot. The materials that they make, spread into the culture, and lie about are "slow bullets" and they know it and they lie about it, and they don't care. .... the definition of sociopaths.
 
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I honestly thought the one for guys was a joke in response to the one for women.

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You do not have to give up gaming for kids..... confirmed.


What does the woman one even mean? "Give up ho'ing??" I mean that's usually what causes pregnancies these days....
 
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BEN SHAPIRO: A GENIUS ACADEMIC HOAX EXPOSED THAT LIBERAL ARTS COLLEGES DON'T CARE ABOUT TRUTH | OPINION - NEWSWEEK

This week, three professors—medieval religious scholar Helen Pluckrose, author and mathematician James Lindsay, and philosopher Peter Boghossian—revealed that they had pulled the greatest academic stunt in history. Over the course of ten months, they wrote 20 hoax papers in a field they termed “grievance studies,” and then proceeded to seek distribution in the world’s finest academic journals. Fully seven of the twenty were approved; four were actually published, and another three were in the process of publication. The authors were even asked to peer-review other papers based on the expertise they displayed in their academic papers.

So, what were the papers? Well, first there was “Going In Through The Back Door: Challenging The Straight Male Homohysteria, Transhysteria and Transphobia Through Receptive Penetrative Sex Toy Use.” This masterpiece appeared in Sexuality and Culture. Its thesis: straight men should be anally penetrated by sex toys in order to become more receptive of feminism and transgenderism, and to fight rape culture.

Then there was “Human Reactions To Rape Culture And Queer Performativity At Urban Dog Parks In Portland, Oregon,” as published in Gender, Place and Culture. This article theorized that heteronormativity was underscored by watching dogs have sex with each other. This piece received an award for excellence.

Perhaps more to your taste would be the paper, “Who Are They To Judge?: Overcoming Anthropometry and a Framework for Fat,” published in Fat Studies, in which the authors argued that fat bodybuilding should be pursued.

Or how about “An Ethnography of Breastaurant Masculinity: Themes of Objectification, Sexual Conquest, Male Control, and Masculine Toughness in a Sexually Objectifying Restaurant,” published in Sex Roles, in which the authors investigated why men visit Hooters restaurants.

The list goes on. And it’s spectacular.

What was the goal of the hoax? The authors explained that they had amassed evidence that there is “a problem with bias in fields influenced by critical constructivist approaches and assumptions.”

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Irish YJ said:
Someone posted this in another thread I think as well. It's funny AF.
Academia is unhinged. WTF do we trust our children to these people.
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I posted another report on the same thing in the PC thread...
 
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Portland sounds nice these days...

<blockquote class="twitter-tweet"><p lang="en" dir="ltr">This is the type of street anarchy that routinely happens where I live. Here is video from 6 Oct showing Antifa directing traffic in downtown & threatening people who don’t obey with violence. Mayor <a href="https://twitter.com/tedwheeler?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">@tedwheeler</a>, who really runs this town? <a href="https://t.co/OgjZNByxat">pic.twitter.com/OgjZNByxat</a></p>— Andy C. Ngo (@MrAndyNgo) <a href="https://twitter.com/MrAndyNgo/status/1049310554953641984?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">October 8, 2018</a></blockquote> <script async src="https://platform.twitter.com/widgets.js" charset="utf-8"></script>
 
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Irishize said:
Portland sounds nice these days...

<blockquote class="twitter-tweet"><p lang="en" dir="ltr">This is the type of street anarchy that routinely happens where I live. Here is video from 6 Oct showing Antifa directing traffic in downtown & threatening people who don’t obey with violence. Mayor <a href="https://twitter.com/tedwheeler?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">@tedwheeler</a>, who really runs this town? <a href="https://t.co/OgjZNByxat">pic.twitter.com/OgjZNByxat</a></p>— Andy C. Ngo (@MrAndyNgo) <a href="https://twitter.com/MrAndyNgo/status/1049310554953641984?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">October 8, 2018</a></blockquote> <script async src="https://platform.twitter.com/widgets.js" charset="utf-8"></script>
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<blockquote class="twitter-tweet" data-lang="en"><p lang="en" dir="ltr">And here is video of an elderly man who didn’t heed their street orders — so they chased him down. <a href="https://twitter.com/hashtag/Portland?src=hash&ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">#Portland</a> <a href="https://t.co/AeXvhUKijO">pic.twitter.com/AeXvhUKijO</a></p>— Andy C. Ngo (@MrAndyNgo) <a href="https://twitter.com/MrAndyNgo/status/1049311168953630720?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">October 8, 2018</a></blockquote>
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<blockquote class="twitter-tweet" data-lang="en"><p lang="en" dir="ltr">Saturday’s street take over was just one in a string of events where the city’s leaders abdicated responsibility to uphold the rule of law. Here’s an example I investigated from the summer that lasted for weeks: <a href="https://t.co/0tukZ1cMih">https://t.co/0tukZ1cMih</a></p>— Andy C. Ngo (@MrAndyNgo) <a href="https://twitter.com/MrAndyNgo/status/1049317557914632193?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">October 8, 2018</a></blockquote>
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Coming to a city near you if the left gets back in power!
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If they tried that shit in the hood I grew up in (south side downtown Indy), we'd have beaten their asses. Ever seen "A Bronx Tale" were the Bike Gang rolls into their hood. It would be like that....


"Now yous can't leave"

Definitely worth a watch if you never scene the movie. Def in my top 25

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Irish YJ said:
If they tried that shit in the hood I grew up in (south side downtown Indy), we'd have beaten their asses. Ever seen "A Bronx Tale" were the Bike Gang rolls into their hood. It would be like that....
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What a bad way to handle such a situation. Those Antifa kids are important and they have feelings. They deserve to be destructive and violent because they've been oppressed by old white men and the patriarchy. Their feelings trump your reality, the law, and common sense, you fascist pig.
 
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Bishop2b5 said:
What a bad way to handle such a situation. Those Antifa kids are important and they have feelings. They deserve to be destructive and violent because they've been oppressed by old white men and the patriarchy. Their feelings trump your reality, the law, and common sense, you fascist pig.
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lol. F them. I saw a group of them chased away by some prepster kids downtown ATL once. It was hilarious. They were cowards when confronted on their BS. I gave up my hood fighting roots a long time ago, but I could see myself regressing with a quickness if ever in the presence of these jack asses.
 
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<blockquote class="twitter-tweet" data-lang="en"><p lang="en" dir="ltr">And here is video of an elderly man who didn’t heed their street orders — so they chased him down. <a href="https://twitter.com/hashtag/Portland?src=hash&ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">#Portland</a> <a href="https://t.co/AeXvhUKijO">pic.twitter.com/AeXvhUKijO</a></p>— Andy C. Ngo (@MrAndyNgo) <a href="https://twitter.com/MrAndyNgo/status/1049311168953630720?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">October 8, 2018</a></blockquote>
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<blockquote class="twitter-tweet" data-lang="en"><p lang="en" dir="ltr">Saturday’s street take over was just one in a string of events where the city’s leaders abdicated responsibility to uphold the rule of law. Here’s an example I investigated from the summer that lasted for weeks: <a href="https://t.co/0tukZ1cMih">https://t.co/0tukZ1cMih</a></p>— Andy C. Ngo (@MrAndyNgo) <a href="https://twitter.com/MrAndyNgo/status/1049317557914632193?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">October 8, 2018</a></blockquote>
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This is crazy.

My youngest son moved out to Portland a couple of years ago. After just a couple of months he moved back. He said the people out there were crazy. He offered to give a homeless guy $5. The homeless started yelling at him for not giving him more.
 
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Whiskeyjack said:
Walther just published an article titled "The persistence of American carnage":
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Interesting article. This article gets at the very essence of neoliberalism. It takes economic indicators and dissassociates them from any type of social and or environmental context. That being the case “consumption” and “growth” and measures like GDP become the only baselines for what is considered a “prosperous” society.
 
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Irish#1 said:
This is crazy.

My youngest son moved out to Portland a couple of years ago. After just a couple of months he moved back. He said the people out there were crazy. He offered to give a homeless guy $5. The homeless started yelling at him for not giving him more.
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I love Portland! Been there a bunch of times on tour and gotta say it was a blast. Definitely blows most of the Mid West out of the water in terms of interesting stuff to do and see and good times to be had. I wonder if Bill Ray’s Dive Bar is still around?
 
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Bluto said:
I love Protland! Been there a bunch of times on tour and gotta say it was a blast. Definitely blows most of the Mid West out of the water in terms of interesting stuff to do and see and good times to be had. I wonder if Bill Ray’s Dive Bar is still around?
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I've only been to Portland once and was surprised by how dirty and beat up it was. I guess i expected this very green, very nice looking city and what I got was a somewhat green and very dirty run down wasteland... maybe it was just the time I was there or the area I was in but the optics were really bad. I didn't get any of the culture it's known for one way or the other.
 
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Portland once fell under the "undiscovered" urban beauties if you could take the rain. Underneath the surface has always been a racism and the same rural-urban tensions in a lot of America. Quirky or unique, too. If you have ever seen Portlandia, that is close to home and have Portlandians laughing. A great public transportation system, wonderful riverside activities, microbreweries and vibrant night scenes, booming tech industries and difficult to rival outdoors opportunities. A beautiful nearby valley is abundant with vineyards and fruits are nearby. Long-term Oregonian are generally friendly.

Change happens. Like Seattle and Denver as a couple of examples, people are attracted to all of those advantages. It now struggles to manage its growth and maintain its identity as a unique city advocating tolerance. Oregonians know that the fascist elements invade them from elsewhere with a large contingent across the river in Washington that draws from that until recently was quiescent, which they attribute to Trump's appeal to radicals.

Newcomers from California and Asians and elsewhere do not share the same cultural identities, housing prices have skyrocketed, roads in the city and on weekends to outdoors beauties are clogged, the antifa are also not reflective of their values, towns that used to be separate have been swallowed up by growth, an element of antisocial homeless attracted to the city for its attempts to deal with that population and legalized marijuana and a new poverty and substance abuse associated with the booming economy that has left them behind.
 
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