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At no point you tried to integrate the words "well regulated" into your rant. And you know why, it doesn't suit your narrative.

Okay, we got a list of media you do not trust. Cool. Can we get an example of media you DO trust and consider unbiased? You somehow managed to dodge that part. Stop hiding, stop the vague game of delegitimizing the opposition while showing NOTHING for your side. It's that simple: Where do you get your info from?

Mind you, I'm not saying you need to become a leftist catgirl this afternoon. I don't expect anyone to adopt my positions in full either. I'm saying if you're serious about being independent, follow the holy mantra and actually search for the information. I'm going to agree with @Aaron Blain , don't base your worldview on, I dunno, whatever Tim Pool says, because it's the only political thing you watch and Tim Pool says he's independent. Spoilers: he's lying. You cannot be an independent critical thinker by just accepting what another supposedly independent critical thinker tells you to think. It's harder to be independent than you think. Social media absolutely build an echo chamber around you despite your wishes. That also has a consequence: do not trust smart-asses telling you that you can't trust anything because everything is biased, blah blah blah, you gotta pick a side and stick with it. It is a spiel that tries to smear legit sources - go to the sources by yourself and take a sniff.

You dismissed my wide array of sources as "biased" without even blinking. What do YOU mean? What are the sources I'm supposed to be using?

I specifically diversified my links as much as possible, picking top google results that I haven't hit yet... Reuters, Fox, Texas Tribune, CNN, Las Vegas Sun, NPR, NYT, BBC, Deutche Welle... ... And you immediatelly know I'm using biased sources. You're unmasking yourself more than you think, you just want this dragged down into "no sources can be believed, it's all up to the only credible source, Tucker Carlson".

Poland is a holdout country massively influenced by their branch of Catholic church and their defacto leader Kaczynski is a staunch social conservative who led his party to first turn state media into propaganda tools, then control the judiciary branch by kicking out a large portion of the constitutional court members (through instituting an age restriction), then replacing them with loyalists. The new patsy constitutional court then went on to ban all abortions in Poland, leading to massive protests during the second wave of the pandemic (it's speculated the ruling was specifically targeted to hit when national quarantine was in place to suppress protests). The country is blatantly violating its own constitution and thinly covering it with the absolute majority legislating whatever they want, so the EU seeks to penalize Poland and reduce the billions of euros they gain from the development funds under the rule of law provision. Poland (and Hungary) are fighting this by blocking the entire budget for the upcoming 7 years, against the will of the majority in both Hungary and Poland. Good for them, but it just makes the rest of Europe band together against the two holdouts?

It's an investment lottery scheme. Bitcoin is inherently created as deflational, so using it as currency is stupid. Hodl & win lambos, who cares about "eating". Unless you're contracting an assassin like AndrewB there.

I'm sorry, is this a parody? You're calling me out on the republicans suppressing votes during their insane putch attempt in which they're literally asking judges in Pennsylvania, Nevada or Michigan to ignore the entire election and hand electors via court order or state legislation to Trump because "voter fraud". There are thousands upon thousands articles on Republican governors in Georgia or Texas using sneaky tactics like reducing voting stations in majority-black and/or metropolitan areas so people need to travel farther to reach them. They're suing to throw out tens of thousands of votes in Texas, because Houston allowed "drive through" voting from your car to limit the spread of covid, and that is somehow bad. They fight tooth-and-nail against every single day of extension for mail-in ballot reception in every state that allows them. They pass laws to require burdening identification when voting, in a country that famously rejects id cards and refuses to register gun owners for reverse reasons, very disproportionately disadvantaging minorities in the former case and advantaging whites in the latter case. And are you seriously trying to claim that republicans aren't fighting against abortion? They're currently ramping up a massive push to repeal Roe v. Wade now that they secured a conservative 6-3 majority on the Supreme Court. They can't ban abortion in... Oregon, but the next day Roe is repealed, Oklahoma is making sure not one fetus gets aborted. The appelate court for the 11th district controlled by Trump apointed judges JUST decided that banning gay conversion therapies is against the 1st amendment, because de-gaying your child is your religious expression (!!!!!!!!!). And Gorsuch, Kavanough and Barett were specifically picked for the SCOTUS because they champion desecularization, introduction of religion in education, projecting religious views into their opinions on minority rights, etc. That one is so obvious I won't even bother with links.

I get that you hate me, I saw your replies in other threads, but you need to do better than this. What part of my post(s) are you disagreeing with?

What the hell are you talking about? Republicans being anti-war? Republicans are neo-imperialists, republicans invaded Iraq over lies to secure oil. Republicans protecting free speech? They only care about the freedom to say the N word on Twitter - but they actively work to limit the most important freedom of expression: voting. American republicans are notoriously pushing all forms of active voter supression, particularly of the minority vote. And of course Republicans are far, far, faaaaar-right from an European's perspective. They champion despicable lunatic shit like banning abortions, allowing gay conversion therapy and reversing state-religion secularization. Those are unthinkable positions for Europeans with the exception of authoritarian hellholes called Poland and Hungary. edit: Important caveat: When I say republicans are neo-imperialist, it is crucial to point out that democrats are also neo-imperialists. Bill Clinton was as bad as George Bush when it came to selectively overthrowing governments in other countries by force, Obama was just very slightly better and Trump... is probably a tiny improvement over Obama in this regard, except for the fact he'd gladly invade Venezuela and Iran if his folks didn't dissuade him.

Don't worry, as an atheist I don't care about religious nuances and I'm fine with just agreeing that Jordan Peterson is an abject failure under his own criteria.

Jordan Peterson is an altright icon and a hypocritical asshole who preaches about personal responsibility and elevating yourself by cleaning your own room, even though he himself fell to a benzo addiction that almost killed him and his family had to ship him to a private clinic in Russia where they nursed him back to health so he could go back to lying about his own positions. Anyone admiring this person is blind to his lies. Go watch how he got deconstructed by Zizek, he's just a religious fundie in disguise.

Tbqh your OP also have a point I think we need answers hello yes @4shockblast

Now I shall proceed to having sexual intercourse with both your parents.

That's the wrong take, you don't get to fence-sit this one, sorry! Almost everyone making a deeper analysis pinpointed the same meaning, recognizing the zeitgeisty late 90's yuppie angst, lack of middle class man's purpose and gullible falling to a call for violent anti-systemic action. Fight Club has a very clear message that you're supposed to get from Palahnyuk's cynical writing. Getting stuck on the superficial level and admiring the bomb-throwing anarchy of Pitt's character means you got filtered and you probably think Starship Troopers is an epic movie about patriotic humans kicking bug ass.

Then perhaps they can fuck off to a GZDoom thread.

I'm going to accept as fact that you are George Costanza and this is how you order pizza.

Your point definitely stuck with me and I did use it as an argument for the simplest, most internally coherent and verifiable ruleset possible. Glad to see it actually translated into a practical implementation, this is huge for speedrunning staying relevant and future-proof. Big props to kraflab & the team.

Mind sharing what got you cancelled in particular? Don't worry, we'll all laugh at the silly sjews overreacting, surely you're not a shit person deserving to get ostracized.

So tasting a white snake makes you understand all the kittens, hmmm...

@Mr. Duk's response was pretty damn good (though fairly US-centric for me as an European). Here's an extra challenge: go to RCP and watch the fireworks. RCP presents itself as a news aggregator with a slight right-wing bias. That bias is actually quite enormous when you read their original editorials. With this knowledge, you can start to decypher the game: they try their best to pair up articles on the same issue from a left and right perspective, so you'll see CNN vs. Fox, or the Daily Beast vs. the American Spectator, or the Vox vs. Breitbart. I must repeat: overall, the entire RCP operation leans right heavily and tries to shift the Overton window with ridiculous "match-ups", but it's still an interesting spectacle to watch. I often click the most ridiculous headlines, because holy crap, do they really mean it that Hunter Biden is a pedophile lizard alien cuck crack-addict from Planet X? It seems so weird, yet RCP is considered as solid for polling aggregation as Nate Silver's project548. As a heavily leftist person, I use it to "know my enemy", but mostly I just laugh.

Fox News, Breitbart and many other dishonest media of the far right were specifically founded with the mission to bend and weave the narrative instead of simply reporting and analyzing it, because then your homeboys often look bad when they're caught doing wrong things. Roger Ailes was proud of this, so it ain't no secret knowledge. It's hilarious to see secret consumers of this drivel bend over backwards to paint everything else with the same brush. "Both sides are baaaahd" -Tucker lovers.

Maulotaur steak, medium rare.

Oh no, don't listen to this man. I tried it once and now we're stuck with zero press!

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