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jakelafort wrote:

As far as being woke and all the implications ya really need to be specific. Don’t lump it all in to a i can’t stand wokeness, i hate it all. There is definitely a good aspect of wanting to address issues involving various forms of hatred. From what i gather the movement has gone too far at times like revolutionaries always see…

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_Robert_ wrote:

There are concerns way more nefarious than words that have a racist-related past used without malice, often thoughtlessly.

Nothing to worry about, then, I guess.

TheEncogitationer wrote:

Now, “peanut gallery?” Mumbo Jumbo?” When did these become verboten? One of the Lefty shitposters on another Forum I’m on calls the rest of us a “peanut gallery” and I find it entertaining.

The question is whether they should be verboten or avoided, not whether they are to be verboten or avoided.

At the heart of my contributions are these questions: Can’t one use “unwoke” terminology without actually being racist? If I say, for example, that Biden sold liberals down the tiver with his environmental policies, is that OK or not?

Does one have to stop (or should one stop) using expressions that once upon a time had a racist connotation even…[Read more]

jakelafort wrote:

rhonjon, you’ve copied text without adding your own!

Pot calling kettle black (wait, is that racist?). Maybe you should take some time and learn to use the quote function.

jakelafort wrote:

Unseen: Undoubtedly, some will survive any nuclear holocaust and, as the saying goes, “Anything thst doesn’t kill you makes you stronger.” After we receive our collective Darwin Award, we can look forward to being ever better at being human Have you read about the survivors of Nagasaki and Hiroshima? Yikes. Much better to have…

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rhonjon wrote:

No, I wasn’t aware of a racial connotation for calling a spade a spade.

In my early youth, in the 50’s, blacks were referred to as “spades” becsuse, presumably, spades were a black playing card suit. Of course, there were other words for blacks like “coons” and “jiggs” or “jigaboos.” By the 60’s, with the civil rights movement a…[Read more]

jakelafort wrote:

Call a spade a spade. I have a foggy memory of that phrase being a public issue some time ago. I think many are unaware of any bigotry associated.

Is bigotry a mere colloquial vocabulary choice or an intended use? Words and expressionse that once had racist meanings: “peanut gallery,” “paddy wagon,” “mumbo jumbo,” and “off the…[Read more]

jakelafort wrote:

I think nuclear war is the greatest existential threat in our immediate future. Old patterns are continuing. Conventional war, even world war fought that way (good luck with that) a few hundred million, a billion…idk but nuclear war is a different story and the aftermath..wow.

Undoubtedly, some will survive any nuclear h…[Read more]

Conflicting Reports Thicken Nord Stream Bombing Plot

None of the emerging narratives surrounding the Nord Stream pipeline bombing really contradicts Seymour Hersh’s central allegation that Biden authorized the operation.

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The question of whether Hersh’s story is accurate — either in whole or in part — is of monumental significance, and the…[Read more]

With DNA manipulation that can only be done in a lab, one can either do what’s called a “gain of function” or  speed up evolution to make something happen that evolution might bring about given enough time.

Dr. Jeffrey Sachs headed a group of expert researchers for Lancet, the top medical journal, who think that a natural evolution of the virus…[Read more]

@Robert

Excellent example of the tu quoque fallacy. (That’s the one where you say essentially, “Ignore his arguments. He has special interests.”) I recognize you did examine some of his arguments but in the end you seem to be invoking tu quoque.

So, what about the other two videos on the Cochrane Library metastudy showing masks outside…[Read more]

@Robert

The bulk of your post is an ad hominem character assassination. You imply Dr. Makary unqualified to have an opinion on the matter because he’s a gastroenterologist. In fact, he “teaches public health policy as Professor of Surgery and Public Health at the Johns Hopkins Bloomberg School of Public Health.”

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Martin Adel Makary is a British-American surgeon, professor, author and medical commentator. He practices surgical oncology and gastrointestinal laparoscopic surgery at the Johns Hopkins Hospital, is Mark Ravitch Chair in Gastrointestinal Surgery at Johns Hopkins School of Medicine, and teache…[Read more]

Two more experts discussing the Cochrane Library metastudy:

An epidemiologist speaks:

This doctor drills down on the Cochrane study at about 6:00:

I was told that in Heaven the “saved” praise God constantly.

Sounds like fun(?).

No thanks. I’ll take extinction over that.

_Robert_ wrote:

Throughout history, Muslims like the “KJ Reports” team led by Kasim Javed and Ahmed Ajmi, have never overly pro-democratic. It just doesn’t work well with such a restrictive religion.

So, how religious are they? Where do they normally worship? Or are you just stereotyping on their Middle-Eastern names?

@Robert

Unless I grossly misunderstand the reasons Dr. Campbell has changed his mind (and also apologized for being a mask proponent till now), any difference a mask makes one way or the other would be within the margin for error anyway when it comes to virus-sized bugs, hardly worth the damage they have caused.

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