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TheEncogitationer wrote:
I doubt much credible “counter-culture” comes from a band who “Fights The Man” for $Millions of Dollars a show and sells over-priced logo gear made in the very “sweatshops” they claim to disparage.

Noted, at least in a counter-counter-culture way. I’m relatively new to Rage Against the Machine, always having (in…[Read more]

Unseen wrote:
Both Russia and Ukraine have the same problem: Their crack forces are mostly dead or injured and they are forced to recruit or draft amateurs and quickly train them how to fight or in the Case of Russia to use mercenaries or troops from allies like the Chechens. […]

Now, Ukraine’s recent gains almost seem too easy. One can’t com…

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I’m not asking just Jake, but would it help our contextual understanding any to use the example of Putin (as the exploiter/authority) and his Russian soldiers and/or Ukrainians as his long con/experimental subjects?

Also interesting (emphasis mine):

jakelafort wrote:
The point is that it is the appearance of AUTHORITY that causes the rank and…

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_Robert_ wrote:
Pope that report did not mention that “Patriarch” Kirill was a Soviet KGB agent, LOL.

WOW! This is Darth Vader shit now.

Another aspect I didn’t think to look at until now:

I agree that per human cultural history, flaws that all humans have has led to this point. While Putin’s history since before he even got into politics led him to dominate Russia and Russians. I often wonder how Russians in particular historically succumb to these dominations. I think if Russians could learn more about what Putin is doing to them…[Read more]

There are different types of intelligence across all animals. If this wasn’t mentioned in any of the videos above, one of the most obvious (to me) differences is about pack behavior. Dogs evolved from wolves, and going to a dog park pretty much always shows how social they are. Cats are less social by nature, more independent, and (I think) more…[Read more]

_Robert_ wrote:
I always take these kinds of studies with a grain of salt. How can one assume child rearing is a bigger factor than genetic predisposition? Dysfunctional parents are not only bad parents but probably bad seed suppliers as well. It’s not like if you took 1,000 kids, raised them the same exact way, they would all turn out exactly t…

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The evidence sways me enough to think there’s a sociological approach to mitigations, e.g. by diagnosing and treating potential mass shooters as having a disease. That’s not just a leftie’s way to excuse them (as some politically regressive idiots might say), but as a possible way to detect early which kids present the most risk, and integrate…[Read more]

Unseen wrote:
However, this study seems to discount income differentials.

That’s also been my take for years, as young school shooters have been mostly white and middle class, with one or two parents often clueless that there’s a problem lurking. My impression, sans sociological studies. But if fatherless families correlate with higher risk kids,…[Read more]

Unseen wrote:
But the fact remains that boys from single-father homes are quite a bit less likely to end up as career criminals, drug addicts, or mass murderers than boys from single-mother homes.

Can you point us to the best study that you know of to support this claim? It might also help me assess possible “fixes”. E.g., what percentage of…[Read more]

Why not? We could all just move to Palestine.