Logically, this follows that a single parent would be as ineffective at raising a child as two parents of the same gender, no?
It is ineffective in my opinion but that should not be a reason to take children from their biological or adopted parents if they divorced that would be a cruelty.
I genuinely don't understand your argument. Can you please explain further these 'behaviour models' and provide some evidence that children need separate gendered parents for a happy, healthy childhood?
You really don't see a difference between male and female model? Ok so let's go by example how the father is supposed to properly explain to his daughter how to handle her period? He can't since he never had one same goes for mothers and sons with solely male sexuality connected matters since women are also incapable of fully grasping it. I won't even raise an aspect of being embarrassed to speak about those matters with opposite sex.
I was refering to the fact that I belive that a child needs both parents to properly grow.
Logically, this follows that a single par… moreent would be as ineffective at raising a child as two parents of the same gender, no?
It's not about a personality. What I meant was female and male behavior model to learn from.
Why? What behaviour can a woman teach a female child that a man cannot?
I genuinely don't understand your argument. Can you please explain further these 'behaviour models' and provide some evidence that children need separate gendered parents for a happy, healthy childhood?
North Korea is definitely worse in my book. The control that the king and clerics have over the population simply pales in comparison to th… moree state religion surrounding the Dear Leader. You'll be brutally persecuted in Saudi Arabia, but you probably won't starve or be shot for making internationl phone calls. Also, if you read about North Korea's prison camps, there's really no comparison, besides maybe Auschwitz or Imperial Japan's Unit 731.
Rojava has a president so thats an autority and hierarchy, you can't have a society without that. Oh yeah, the classical oppressor argument.… more There is no oppressor in a democratic free state like say USA. You can do whatever you want. Dont like your Macjob go sell flowers or wahtever.
So do you think single mothers/father should have their children taken away from them and given to a family with a male and a female parent?… more
I don't know if my english is off or something but you don't get it. I wasn't refering to single parents at all, nor taking those children from them. I was refering to the fact that I belive that a child needs both parents to properly grow. A mother (female) and a father(male). Before you say that there is nothing wrong with having one parent yes I agree but would you prefer to have one or both?
Also, can you name ONE 'female' personality trait that no male ever has had? And vice versa? Just one.
It's not about a personality. What I meant was female and male behavior model to learn from.
If you're not sworn to a party, why would it make sense to be able to affect who gets the nomination.
Because I have to vote between choices that I didn't have any part in choosing come election time, and that's not fair. The fairest way would be to drop this nonsense of primaries and just let voters choose between all candidates at election time.
But since that's not going to happen in the United States, states should at least make it possible for those who are independent or unaffiliated with any parties to vote in the primaries, or else we're not going to be able to vote for anyone in the parties, and that's not fair at all. Like I said, it's punishing people not affiliating themselves with one of the major parties, since they don't get to vote for anyone in primaries, and democracies are not supposed to work like that.
Worse is getting people who thought they were registered under one party and they are under the other. Honestly I don't have a problem rest… morericting votes in primaries to party affiliations. If you're not sworn to a party, why would it make sense to be able to affect who gets the nomination. I just hated having to ask people what their party was to give them the right ballot.
I forsee a hammer, a gaint warhammer, a THREAD MJÖLNIR!!!
Seriously, though. Lately, a great deal of these discussions on this have been becoming more and more heated. And other threads prior illustrate how that ends up.
Personally, I do not have a political party. I am not officially affiliated with any party, nor do I wish to be.
I am a rather conservative individual, yet not to the point where I don't live on planet Earth, so to speak. - (As a brief example, I am not 4 homosexual marriage, yet I do not believe that people need to be married, in order to have sex.
I think that as long as people are responsible about it, and that they use condoms, and proper birth control - or if a pregnancy does result, and both people are willing to take responsibility for the life that they created - then there really isn't an issue.)
I believe in people being held accountable for the decisions that they make, believing that that is the price freedom.
I believe that all people should be treated with dignity and respect, as you would treat any human being, yet I do not believe that equality should be a license for people to just do whatever they want to do, without any regard for the feelings of anyone else.
I think the Bill of Rights is an excellent bill, and for the time being it serves as a legal guarantee that our rights will be protected under the law. But I do not believe it will always continue to be so.
I believe that the government quite frankly, is only interested in its own power, and how it can to advance that power, and that it does not give a damn about you or me.
For example, in 1942, there were Japanese citizens living in this country, who were in good standing in the community, and yet the government threw them into detainment camps because their parents were not born in this country. And this was at a time when Americans needed their rights the most, the government just took him away.
Also, look at the way the government treats are veterans when it when they return from war. they send them they're under the impression that when, if they return, that the government will tend to whatever issues they may have. But when these men to return, all battered and traumatized, the government runs and through miles and miles of red tape, before they can even get up sliver of what they were promised. And often times because of this, many of these veterans die before they ever see a dime.
If the government to the people who fight to protect its interest, what makes you think they won't do the same thing to you, if it would suit their purpose?
I also do not believe in voting people into office. Politicians are known to be liars and criminals. And they're being able to get into office, and stay in office, often boils down to how many votes they can get around election time, and also whom they can get to vote for them.
So they have to be very careful to do just enough, so where they won't piss anybody off, because of someone's really pissed off, they won't vote for them. And if that person happens to be someone of influence, maybe someone who has a lot of money, or who owns a big Corporation, then they just lost a potentially very powerful political allies, and may have just ruined their chances the other to get elected, or to stay in office.
Not to mention, they make all of these big promises about things that they're going to fix, but they never go into detail as to exactly HOW they are going to fix them.
So my reasoning is, if you can't trust the people that you are electing, and if you can't trust the government that you're electing them to run, then why would you even bother with voting in the first place?
Plus, I do not want to be responsible for whatever these people do, whatever harm they cause while they're in office, because of having helped to vote them in in the first place.
Logically, this follows that a single parent would be as ineffective at raising a child as two parents of the same gender, no?
It is… more ineffective in my opinion but that should not be a reason to take children from their biological or adopted parents if they divorced that would be a cruelty.
I genuinely don't understand your argument. Can you please explain further these 'behaviour models' and provide some evidence that children need separate gendered parents for a happy, healthy childhood?
You really don't see a difference between male and female model? Ok so let's go by example how the father is supposed to properly explain to his daughter how to handle her period? He can't since he never had one same goes for mothers and sons with solely male sexuality connected matters since women are also incapable of fully grasping it. I won't even raise an aspect of being embarrassed to speak about those matters with opposite sex.
I also do not believe in voting people into office. Politicians are known to be liars and criminals. And they're being able to get into office, and stay in office, often boils down to how many votes they can get around election time, and also whom they can get to vote for them.
Personally, I do not have a political party. I am not officially affiliated with any party, nor do I wish to be.
I am a rather conservati… moreve individual, yet not to the point where I don't live on planet Earth, so to speak. - (As a brief example, I am not 4 homosexual marriage, yet I do not believe that people need to be married, in order to have sex.
I think that as long as people are responsible about it, and that they use condoms, and proper birth control - or if a pregnancy does result, and both people are willing to take responsibility for the life that they created - then there really isn't an issue.)
I believe in people being held accountable for the decisions that they make, believing that that is the price freedom.
I believe that all people should be treated with dignity and respect, as you would treat any human being, yet I do not believe that equality should be a license for people to just do whatever they want to do, wit… [view original content]
Not to mention I don't see why it's unacceptable for a male to talk to their daughter about a natural bodily occurrence. It's not like a male can't be educated on and understanding of the topic.
his daughter how to handle her period?
Easy. Female friends exist. It's not like single fathers of daughters never enable their chil… moredren to learn about periods.
Also schools educate female children about periods before they get them, same with sex ed!
I never said that they're not enabled I said that the particular parent would handle that better. Also don't you think that the child would rather discuss it with it's parent than let's say a female friend or a teacher?
his daughter how to handle her period?
Easy. Female friends exist. It's not like single fathers of daughters never enable their chil… moredren to learn about periods.
Also schools educate female children about periods before they get them, same with sex ed!
Where have I wrote that it's unacceptable? Also yes men can be educated but truly understanding it? Impossible. You can't have true understanding without experiencing things.
Not to mention I don't see why it's unacceptable for a male to talk to their daughter about a natural bodily occurrence. It's not like a male can't be educated on and understanding of the topic.
I was a Stalinist Russophile for a while back in my teen years. Got into Holomodor denialism and everything. Eventually, I just realized how absolutely stupid it was and went back to being a Left-Liberal almost overnight.
Looking back on that shit is pretty cringey now. I still have my "rants" saved to my computer as a remind me of those days. Eugh.
Anyone else ashamed of their political past?
I was a Stalinist Russophile for a while back in my teen years. Got into Holomodor denialis… morem and everything. Eventually, I just realized how absolutely stupid it was and went back to being a Left-Liberal almost overnight.
Looking back on that shit is pretty cringey now. I still have my "rants" saved to my computer as a remind me of those days. Eugh.
My 16 y.o. theme song.
https://youtube.com/watch?feature=youtu.be&v=DKjUyyoPYwc
Often, no. I know I was much happier learning sex ed from teachers rather than my parents. It would have been very awkward. And I don't think I'm any worse for it.
I never said that they're not enabled I said that the particular parent would handle that better. Also don't you think that the child would rather discuss it with it's parent than let's say a female friend or a teacher?
Ha! I dodged that particular bullet. My parents are both liberal, so I was raised on a steady diet of not liking Bush. I saw part of his inauguration at a friend's house (2nd grade) and I knew I didn't like it, though I didn't understand why at the time.
Got into Holomodor denialism and everything
Dammit, season 6 starts Sunday, don't spoil it already.
(My failed attempt at a Game … moreof Thrones joke. I know it failed, and I'm still posting it. Because I just don't give a fuck~ #swag)
Also, yes, when I was in elementary school in 1999 I listened to my father and said I supported George Bush shiver.
Anyone else ashamed of their political past?
I was a Stalinist Russophile for a while back in my teen years. Got into Holomodor denialis… morem and everything. Eventually, I just realized how absolutely stupid it was and went back to being a Left-Liberal almost overnight.
Looking back on that shit is pretty cringey now. I still have my "rants" saved to my computer as a remind me of those days. Eugh.
My 16 y.o. theme song.
https://youtube.com/watch?feature=youtu.be&v=DKjUyyoPYwc
Ha! I dodged that particular bullet. My parents are both liberal, so I was raised on a steady diet of not liking Bush. I saw part of his … moreinauguration at a friend's house (2nd grade) and I knew I didn't like it, though I didn't understand why at the time.
Also, that joke... 2/10 for effort.
If you find it completely acceptable then your argument is void of any meaningful point. If you find it acceptable that a male can teach this, then saying a male shouldn't teach this because a female should teach this makes no sense.
Also yes men can be educated but truly understanding it? Impossible. You can't have true understanding without experiencing things.
I disagree. I think oftentimes being on the outside (not experiencing) with a more objective view of the situation can leave you in a position of more understanding, not less. In this particular instance I think experiencing it first hand or "only" understanding what is happening is really negligible. Ovulation really isn't as big of a deal as people make it out to be. Especially in terms of just talking about it, it's physical side effects, and how to handle it's physical side effects.
Where have I wrote that it's unacceptable? Also yes men can be educated but truly understanding it? Impossible. You can't have true understanding without experiencing things.
But well after some of my relatives down the line suffered through Holodomor and one of them even got executed.
I don't really mind, nor do the fates of my relatives affect my opinion, but I simply disagree (to put it mildly) with both of these views. Good thing you no longer hold them, then.
I know it's probably meaningless, given they suffered almost a century ago, but I'm sorry about what happened to your relatives. I can't imagine what it must've been to live through that. It makes Russia's current actions in Ukraine (and the world's apathy towards them) all the more chilling to think about.
Yeah, I was an intellectually dishonest shit. I didn't really disbelieve Holomodor happened, but I assumed it was mostly a.) not Stalin's fault and b.) mostly the Kulaks faults for burning their crops/livestock. Denialism exists because the most convenient way to deal with the horrors of your preferred system is to decide it never happened, or at least that didn't happen like they said it did. I was impressionable, incoherently angry and I believed Marxism-Leninism had all the answers. If the Ukranians suffered under that system, it had to be their faults, right? In a sense I developed the same callous, puritanical attitude of other Stalinists.
Eventually, pure curiosity led me to learn more about it. I learned about the cannibalism, the NKVD terror and the summary executions. I was forced to confront the fact tha I was wrong, and that rather than being a consequence of kulak fuckery, the Holomodor was a concerted effort to destroy Ukraine's national identity and self-sufficiency through starvation and violence. In short: genocide. Stalin basically admitted as much in political correspondence.
I'm not proud of the horrible drivel I wrote and spouted, but it's an interesting reminder of how much my worldview has changed in the last seven years.
But well after some of my relatives down the line suffered through Holodomor and one of them even got executed.
I don't really mind, nor … moredo the fates of my relatives affect my opinion, but I simply disagree (to put it mildly) with both of these views. Good thing you no longer hold them, then.
P. S: "Katsap ways", lol.
I know it's probably meaningless, given they suffered almost a century ago, but I'm sorry about what happened to your relatives. I can't im… moreagine what it must've been to live through that. It makes Russia's current actions in Ukraine (and the world's apathy towards them) all the more chilling to think about.
Yeah, I was an intellectually dishonest shit. I didn't really disbelieve Holomodor happened, but I assumed it was mostly a.) not Stalin's fault and b.) mostly the Kulaks faults for burning their crops/livestock. Denialism exists because the most convenient way to deal with the horrors of your preferred system is to decide it never happened, or at least that didn't happen like they said it did. I was impressionable, incoherently angry and I believed Marxism-Leninism had all the answers. If the Ukranians suffered under that system, it had to be their faults, right? In a sense I developed the same callous, puritanical attitude of ot… [view original content]
Strong state yet the one that do not interfere into its citizens life too much (in amount of regulations of daily life stuff). Absolute free… moredom of speech, f**k political correctness.
Semi-conservative, since I don't believe in God yet I came to conclusion that church is the shield and sword of my people's culture despite having numerous flaws that needs to be addressed. Capitalism all the way since it's the best working system in my opinion. socializm limited to the very nessesary minimum you don't work you don't eat as a general rule. Anti-migrant, Anti-islam, anti-EU.
Have nothing against Gay or Lesbian people being married but I'm against adoption for those people. LGBT activists, 3rd wave feminist, Black Lives Matter people royaly piss me off as well as all those who preach ,,tolerance" multi-kultural ideology.
I don't hate the west, I like the west of 80's where the leftists had no power and it was a force to be recogned with. Poverty in Eastern Europe has nothing to do with migrants but with communism which was installed here for 60 years. But that doesn't mean I want to add to the problem and have terrorism here as well. The videos are undeniable, people throwing rocks at border guards, cutting fences, blocking roads. Those are illegal activities, I believe EU should stop messing around and just open live fire on illegal border corssers. Migrant crisis solved in 1 day.
Oh nothing, I just got it wrong from another thread.
The 10USD/h salary people get in US at MacDonalds is the salary of doctors and scient… moreists where I live
I guess you're living in eastern countries then. That would explain the "west" hate.
I think that there's more a link between poverty than just because "muh muslims" but it's a question of appreciation I guess.
The problem of videos on internet is that you don't know the context and you can't reliate to the source about it. Also there are native who put problems (last example: some students hitting the police in france), but since the media prefers to talk about "muh muslims going trash" one talk only about their accidents, not the rest.
Used to be an Objectivist. After reading the Fountain Head, I was genuinely won over by the book (I was ten). When I first played through Bioshock, I read through it again, as well as reading about other philosophies. It was not long before I realised how stupid it was.
Anyone else ashamed of their political past?
I was a Stalinist Russophile for a while back in my teen years. Got into Holomodor denialis… morem and everything. Eventually, I just realized how absolutely stupid it was and went back to being a Left-Liberal almost overnight.
Looking back on that shit is pretty cringey now. I still have my "rants" saved to my computer as a remind me of those days. Eugh.
My 16 y.o. theme song.
https://youtube.com/watch?feature=youtu.be&v=DKjUyyoPYwc
I also do not believe in voting people into office. Politicians are known to be liars and criminals. And they're being able to get into offi… morece, and stay in office, often boils down to how many votes they can get around election time, and also whom they can get to vote for them.
So..you want a dictatorship?
Or anarchy?
I forsee a hammer, a gaint warhammer, a THREAD MJÖLNIR!!!
Seriously, though. Lately, a great deal of these discussions on this have been becoming more and more heated. And other threads prior illustrate how that ends up.
I say you should #$%& off you said yourself you can't truly understand without going through said thing, so how do you know it is so horrible having gay parents?
I never said that they're not enabled I said that the particular parent would handle that better. Also don't you think that the child would rather discuss it with it's parent than let's say a female friend or a teacher?
You say that as though it hasn't happened yet.
Israel-West Bank Barrier
You've also lost afterlife points for implying the Holy Land doesn't belong to the Caliphate.
I say you should #$%& off you said yourself you can't truly understand without going through said thing, so how do you know it is so horrible having gay parents?
Often, no. I know I was much happier learning sex ed from teachers rather than my parents. It would have been very awkward. And I don't think I'm any worse for it.
If you find it completely acceptable then your argument is void of any meaningful point. If you find it acceptable that a male can teach this, then saying a male shouldn't teach this because a female should teach this makes no sense.
Re-read what I wrote because I'm getting tired of explaining this. I said females arre better SUITED to explain female things to girls/women as are males explaing male stuff to other men. That's all, So stop putting words i my mouth
I disagree. I think oftentimes being on the outside (not experiencing) with a more objective view of the situation can leave you in a position of more understanding, not less. In this particular instance I think experiencing it first hand or "only" understanding what is happening is really negligible. Ovulation really isn't as big of a deal as people make it out to be. Especially in terms of just talking about it, it's physical side effects, and how to handle it's physical side effects.
This might work from purely physical part of things. But emotions are other matter here. You can't truly understand them without experiencing them first. It's like learning everything about the car and all the road rules but does that makes you a great driver? No.
Where have I wrote that it's unacceptable?
If you find it completely acceptable then your argument is void of any meaningful point. … moreIf you find it acceptable that a male can teach this, then saying a male shouldn't teach this because a female should teach this makes no sense.
Also yes men can be educated but truly understanding it? Impossible. You can't have true understanding without experiencing things.
I disagree. I think oftentimes being on the outside (not experiencing) with a more objective view of the situation can leave you in a position of more understanding, not less. In this particular instance I think experiencing it first hand or "only" understanding what is happening is really negligible. Ovulation really isn't as big of a deal as people make it out to be. Especially in terms of just talking about it, it's physical side effects, and how to handle it's physical side effects.
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It is ineffective in my opinion but that should not be a reason to take children from their biological or adopted parents if they divorced that would be a cruelty.
You really don't see a difference between male and female model? Ok so let's go by example how the father is supposed to properly explain to his daughter how to handle her period? He can't since he never had one same goes for mothers and sons with solely male sexuality connected matters since women are also incapable of fully grasping it. I won't even raise an aspect of being embarrassed to speak about those matters with opposite sex.
Probably...still it would be like 1st and 2nd shittiest countries in the whole world...
Just one thing caught my eye that I could not leave alone.
coughPATRIOTactcough
I perceive that as a matter of preference, as you said, not necessity.
Because I have to vote between choices that I didn't have any part in choosing come election time, and that's not fair. The fairest way would be to drop this nonsense of primaries and just let voters choose between all candidates at election time.
But since that's not going to happen in the United States, states should at least make it possible for those who are independent or unaffiliated with any parties to vote in the primaries, or else we're not going to be able to vote for anyone in the parties, and that's not fair at all. Like I said, it's punishing people not affiliating themselves with one of the major parties, since they don't get to vote for anyone in primaries, and democracies are not supposed to work like that.
I forsee a hammer, a gaint warhammer, a THREAD MJÖLNIR!!!
Seriously, though. Lately, a great deal of these discussions on this have been becoming more and more heated. And other threads prior illustrate how that ends up.
Personally, I do not have a political party. I am not officially affiliated with any party, nor do I wish to be.
I am a rather conservative individual, yet not to the point where I don't live on planet Earth, so to speak. - (As a brief example, I am not 4 homosexual marriage, yet I do not believe that people need to be married, in order to have sex.
I think that as long as people are responsible about it, and that they use condoms, and proper birth control - or if a pregnancy does result, and both people are willing to take responsibility for the life that they created - then there really isn't an issue.)
I believe in people being held accountable for the decisions that they make, believing that that is the price freedom.
I believe that all people should be treated with dignity and respect, as you would treat any human being, yet I do not believe that equality should be a license for people to just do whatever they want to do, without any regard for the feelings of anyone else.
I think the Bill of Rights is an excellent bill, and for the time being it serves as a legal guarantee that our rights will be protected under the law. But I do not believe it will always continue to be so.
I believe that the government quite frankly, is only interested in its own power, and how it can to advance that power, and that it does not give a damn about you or me.
For example, in 1942, there were Japanese citizens living in this country, who were in good standing in the community, and yet the government threw them into detainment camps because their parents were not born in this country. And this was at a time when Americans needed their rights the most, the government just took him away.
Also, look at the way the government treats are veterans when it when they return from war. they send them they're under the impression that when, if they return, that the government will tend to whatever issues they may have. But when these men to return, all battered and traumatized, the government runs and through miles and miles of red tape, before they can even get up sliver of what they were promised. And often times because of this, many of these veterans die before they ever see a dime.
If the government to the people who fight to protect its interest, what makes you think they won't do the same thing to you, if it would suit their purpose?
I also do not believe in voting people into office. Politicians are known to be liars and criminals. And they're being able to get into office, and stay in office, often boils down to how many votes they can get around election time, and also whom they can get to vote for them.
So they have to be very careful to do just enough, so where they won't piss anybody off, because of someone's really pissed off, they won't vote for them. And if that person happens to be someone of influence, maybe someone who has a lot of money, or who owns a big Corporation, then they just lost a potentially very powerful political allies, and may have just ruined their chances the other to get elected, or to stay in office.
Not to mention, they make all of these big promises about things that they're going to fix, but they never go into detail as to exactly HOW they are going to fix them.
So my reasoning is, if you can't trust the people that you are electing, and if you can't trust the government that you're electing them to run, then why would you even bother with voting in the first place?
Plus, I do not want to be responsible for whatever these people do, whatever harm they cause while they're in office, because of having helped to vote them in in the first place.
Easy. Female friends exist. It's not like single fathers of daughters never enable their children to learn about periods.
Also schools educate female children about periods before they get them, same with sex ed!
So..you want a dictatorship?
Or anarchy?
Not to mention I don't see why it's unacceptable for a male to talk to their daughter about a natural bodily occurrence. It's not like a male can't be educated on and understanding of the topic.
I never said that they're not enabled I said that the particular parent would handle that better. Also don't you think that the child would rather discuss it with it's parent than let's say a female friend or a teacher?
Where have I wrote that it's unacceptable? Also yes men can be educated but truly understanding it? Impossible. You can't have true understanding without experiencing things.
Anyone else ashamed of their political past?
I was a Stalinist Russophile for a while back in my teen years. Got into Holomodor denialism and everything. Eventually, I just realized how absolutely stupid it was and went back to being a Left-Liberal almost overnight.
Looking back on that shit is pretty cringey now. I still have my "rants" saved to my computer as a remind me of those days. Eugh.
My 16 y.o. theme song.
https://youtube.com/watch?feature=youtu.be&v=DKjUyyoPYwc
Dammit, season 6 starts Sunday, don't spoil it already.
(My failed attempt at a Game of Thrones joke. I know it failed, and I'm still posting it. Because I just don't give a fuck~ #swag)
Also, yes, when I was in elementary school in 1999 I listened to my father and said I supported George Bush shiver.
Often, no. I know I was much happier learning sex ed from teachers rather than my parents. It would have been very awkward. And I don't think I'm any worse for it.
Ha! I dodged that particular bullet. My parents are both liberal, so I was raised on a steady diet of not liking Bush. I saw part of his inauguration at a friend's house (2nd grade) and I knew I didn't like it, though I didn't understand why at the time.
Also, that joke... 2/10 for effort.
Hmm.
Hodor, Mordor, Game of Thrones, Lord of the Rings I just didn't know where I was going...
I sincerely apologize and will make amends.
I apologize for my Katsap ways! X_X
Mind you this was long before the whole Russia invading your country thing.
If you find it completely acceptable then your argument is void of any meaningful point. If you find it acceptable that a male can teach this, then saying a male shouldn't teach this because a female should teach this makes no sense.
I disagree. I think oftentimes being on the outside (not experiencing) with a more objective view of the situation can leave you in a position of more understanding, not less. In this particular instance I think experiencing it first hand or "only" understanding what is happening is really negligible. Ovulation really isn't as big of a deal as people make it out to be. Especially in terms of just talking about it, it's physical side effects, and how to handle it's physical side effects.
But well after some of my relatives down the line suffered through Holodomor and one of them even got executed.
I don't really mind, nor do the fates of my relatives affect my opinion, but I simply disagree (to put it mildly) with both of these views. Good thing you no longer hold them, then.
P. S: "Katsap ways", lol.
I know it's probably meaningless, given they suffered almost a century ago, but I'm sorry about what happened to your relatives. I can't imagine what it must've been to live through that. It makes Russia's current actions in Ukraine (and the world's apathy towards them) all the more chilling to think about.
Yeah, I was an intellectually dishonest shit. I didn't really disbelieve Holomodor happened, but I assumed it was mostly a.) not Stalin's fault and b.) mostly the Kulaks faults for burning their crops/livestock. Denialism exists because the most convenient way to deal with the horrors of your preferred system is to decide it never happened, or at least that didn't happen like they said it did. I was impressionable, incoherently angry and I believed Marxism-Leninism had all the answers. If the Ukranians suffered under that system, it had to be their faults, right? In a sense I developed the same callous, puritanical attitude of other Stalinists.
Eventually, pure curiosity led me to learn more about it. I learned about the cannibalism, the NKVD terror and the summary executions. I was forced to confront the fact tha I was wrong, and that rather than being a consequence of kulak fuckery, the Holomodor was a concerted effort to destroy Ukraine's national identity and self-sufficiency through starvation and violence. In short: genocide. Stalin basically admitted as much in political correspondence.
I'm not proud of the horrible drivel I wrote and spouted, but it's an interesting reminder of how much my worldview has changed in the last seven years.
It's fine, what's done is done, but I appreciate it.
It's never a bad thing to admit that you were wrong. Kudos for that.
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I don't hate the west, I like the west of 80's where the leftists had no power and it was a force to be recogned with. Poverty in Eastern Europe has nothing to do with migrants but with communism which was installed here for 60 years. But that doesn't mean I want to add to the problem and have terrorism here as well. The videos are undeniable, people throwing rocks at border guards, cutting fences, blocking roads. Those are illegal activities, I believe EU should stop messing around and just open live fire on illegal border corssers. Migrant crisis solved in 1 day.
Used to be an Objectivist. After reading the Fountain Head, I was genuinely won over by the book (I was ten). When I first played through Bioshock, I read through it again, as well as reading about other philosophies. It was not long before I realised how stupid it was.
No I don't want that.
But you don't want people to be voted into office? If it's not a dictatorship, nor anarchy, nor democracy, then..what is it you do want?
I'm a terrorist.
Stay outta muh countrey Zap! M.A.G.A.
I'll blow up your wall and everyone inside it, الله أكبر!
هههههههههه لا
Don't make me call Israel and have them beat you up again!
Simple, we will build a wall around the Caliphate that Israel will pay for, WE WILL MAKE DAESH GREAT AGAIN!
#Trump'sLogic
You say that as though it hasn't happened yet.
Israel-West Bank Barrier
You've also lost afterlife points for implying the Holy Land doesn't belong to the Caliphate.
Yuuuussss we need thisss
I say you should #$%& off you said yourself you can't truly understand without going through said thing, so how do you know it is so horrible having gay parents?
Oh my!! Time to go pray a bit to regain those points again :P
I don't, that's just my opinion on that matter.
Matter of preference then.
Re-read what I wrote because I'm getting tired of explaining this. I said females arre better SUITED to explain female things to girls/women as are males explaing male stuff to other men. That's all, So stop putting words i my mouth
This might work from purely physical part of things. But emotions are other matter here. You can't truly understand them without experiencing them first. It's like learning everything about the car and all the road rules but does that makes you a great driver? No.