Fun fact, we evolved to eat raw meat, that's why we have an appendix. Then, when we stopped eating raw meat, we started to evolve away from the appendix.
Evolutionary arguments don't support the naturalist fallacy, because evolution doesn't work like that. It responds to environmental pressures. It's not some guiding light for what we're "meant" to be doing, it's the tools we've got to support what we already did.
Don't worry about it, even going back over ten years when I was active on Reddit I'd get downvoted to oblivion for my position on many things which everyone now agrees with. Mainstream society usually needs a bit of time to catch up to me. A year or two from now, everyone will have been against this. I can almost guarantee it.
The domination of children is fundamental for conservatism. Even leftists and liberals have been brainwashed into thinking the "traditional" family unit is a good, natural thing, when it is very clearly a vehicle for child abuse.
The Epstein class don't give even a little bit of a shit about protecting kids, of course they don't, they want to exploit them. The fact that the mainstream is actually buying into these lies is depressing. Everyone is accepting it with very little evidence.
A classic way of knowing your biases is to know what you'll accept without evidence.
Because the US (and the UK, a satellite state of the US) support ongoing US imperialist endeavors. Protesting Israel's continued genocide brings awareness to it, and the boycotts, divestments and sanctions (BDS) programs directly fuck up the bag, which is the entire point of colonialism, to get that bag.
Look, I totally understand the temptation to want to shunt everything bad onto Israel. Nobody wants to live in a country that does terrible things, because that makes us all feel a little guilty for not doing more to stop it. I totally get that, and absolutely there is nothing wrong with questioning it. The problem is that most people just arrive at the conclusion that the US is being controlled by Israel with very little understanding of the geopolitics of the region, because it makes them feel better to blame Israel for all of the evil happening.
We need to wake up to the reality of US Imperialism, and stop sticking our heads in the sand.
And in the west, we make monetized content exploiting them, making them perform like circus animals, and feel justified doing so because they're scammers.
With that level of reaction, yeah, you're definitely doing nothing except complaining. I didn't call you a nazi apologist, but now I gotta wonder. Waah waah wah, how dare people expect things from me.
I don't think so, really. Professional athletes sometimes have rare mutations which give them an advantage in their sport. More population is always going to yield more potential. Investment is obviously critical too, but investment also scales with population size, so you could say it's a second-order effect somewhat.
can we go just five minutes without bringing nazis and genocide into every conversation, it’s exhausting.
If you don't like it, do something about it. It's good that it makes you uncomfortable. That's a message from your conscience, maybe you could act on it.
I don't have it backwards, I promise you. Israel is a colony set up by the US and the UK with the explicit purpose of advancing their foreign policy goals in the Middle East. The US pretends that Israel is a sovereign nation because the US population would not tolerate their actions if it was their own country.
Israel destabilizes the middle east, making the region ripe for extractionism.
Not all US politicians are aligned with US/Israeli imperialist interests and thus they are bribed, but plenty of them aren't.
Trump is a puppet, but he's not Israel's puppet, he's the puppet of the primarily US-based ruling elite.
Look at all of the connections between Mossad and the CIA. They work together all the time.
I don't agree. I think small reforms will rob us of our energy. We need to end this shit, hard and fast, for the benefit of future generations. We need to take bold, decisive action. Small gifts from the ruling class will just make us complacent. We need to take them down hard and ensure they never ever get back up.
It isn't irrelevant at all, obviously population size is one of the most important variables when it comes to gold medals, another one is availability of winter sports, another is national wealth and investment in sports & athletes.
It's a good thing that Nazi USA didn't top the table. It is a disgrace that Israel was allowed to compete. The IOC is complicit with genocide.
They understand it perfectly, they just don't realize that eventually they'll be the undesirables who need to be scourged from society. That's how fascism works, by convincing people that they're safe, so they become complicit.
None of us are safe. White supremacy will become white anglo-saxon supremacy. The circle of acceptable demographics inevitably becomes smaller and smaller until the entire thing falls apart. Fascism is a suicide cult.
It just hasn't come into power YET. You are being hugely dismissive. I am European and I follow US and European politics extremely closely and I am outright telling you that Europe is a hair away from the same shit, if not worse, than the US. Many EU nations are punishing people for protesting genocide.
Capitalism can not be reformed. It cannot be regulated. It is like a force of nature. It will always lead to fascism. It is inevitable.
You don't know what anarchism is about, I'd encourage you to learn more about anarchism before dismissing it. I'd recommend checking out an anarchist FAQ.
Fun fact, we evolved to eat raw meat, that's why we have an appendix. Then, when we stopped eating raw meat, we started to evolve away from the appendix.
Evolutionary arguments don't support the naturalist fallacy, because evolution doesn't work like that. It responds to environmental pressures. It's not some guiding light for what we're "meant" to be doing, it's the tools we've got to support what we already did.