There is a spike in cases, but not deaths. Basically, more people are getting it because people are getting sick and tired from being inside. Go to the supermarket and you'll see, people are close again, they aren't staying 6 feet away.
Anony Mous
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Anony Mous
I believe racism and religion is innate in people. They both stem from long, evolutionary processes that have been proven quite helpful in the past. This has been proven in young children, even controlling for a range of factors such as education and personal beliefs of the parents.
The explanation is quite simple: If you are in an area with low resources, you find out grouping is beneficial, but too large a group is not. So you make a small group, you need to keep them together so you make up stories about the darkness outside the range of the campfire, this fear of the darkness is quite natural, because people that wander out there are more likely to get eaten => religion is born.
So you have a small group, there isn't enough resources to grow the group, you find another group, you kill them. Now you are sentient enough to know killing is wrong, because killing within your group is bad for survival (you kill the hunter, you starve, you kill the healer, you get sepsis), but you just killed others that act and look like you. So you come up with stories about how they are "different", "less human" => Now tribalism is born, racism is just a form of tribalism.
These things have been tested in groups of young children and both close and remote ancestors of primates. Groups form when there is sufficient resources but too much danger for individuals. Tribalism forms when there is a shortage of resources for a larger group.
Kids tend to share and form groups as long as there are enough toys. When you take away some toys so they don't have enough for everyone, kids will start to form groups and fight, those groupings don't necessarily make sense, but generally along the lines of observation, how they look, race, gender, smell, even clothing items, clothing colors etc. As kids get older, they make more nuanced distinctions and come up with more elaborate stories about these distinctions.
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What`s wrong With American Politics ?
by smiddy3 inwhat`s wrong with american politics ?.
96% of american people who got off there arse to vote, chose hillary clinton to be president of the united states of america over donald trump.. and the electoral college overode the will of the majority of the people who bothered to vote , and gave the office of president to donald trump who was the 2nd choice, an also ran , of the will of the people.. it`s a furphy to say that some larger blue/red states can dictate to smaller red/blue states or vice versa to rig the elections ,simply because people can, and do change there preferences in any one state whether it be traditionally red or blue.. both democrats and republicans are both guilty and responsible for the gerrymander that is the electoral college.. there i`ve said it ,.
nobody else seems to be able to say it how it is ,.
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Anony Mous
He is trolling, from another perspective, Trump won 2,626 counties while Clinton took 487 of them nationwide.
Yes, Hillary nearly won the election with just 15% of all US communities voting for her. So there you go, Trump won 85% of the vote and nearly lost to Hillary.
So if you want to talk about fly-over country and the majority of the country having the feeling they are getting ignored, this is why. The cities (NY and CA in particular) get all the attention, all the funding, all the political capital and people in rural areas and their local issues get largely ignored.
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Eliminate the Oil Industry?
by Anony Mous ina lot of countries are on the side of eliminating the oil industry altogether as well as zero-emission alternatives like nuclear power.. in the us, biden has promised to eliminate all federal lands oil production when he takes power in 2021 (30% of the united states) as well as native american tribal lands which account for 8 percent of all oil, 9 percent of all natural gas, and 6 percent of all natural gas liquids from 96,000 wells (10% of the total wells in the us).. in europe, oil and gas production has been largely eliminated except for the nordic countries and the uk (which the eu recently lost access to), germany is funding a major oil pipeline as is china from russia and russian-controlled portions of ukraine, even after trump cut off all builders from russian oil pipelines, the russian government is now trying to build the pipeline themselves with potential disastrous results.. venezuela's economy collapsed largely due to the government taking over and eliminating the oil industry companies.. in the mean time, control for most non-us energy sources is now wholly dependent on russian and middle eastern governments.. california and germany eliminated oil-based energy sources and now mandate 30% of their power from 'green' wind and solar alternatives.
germany energy costs now hover around 25c/kwh and california is not far behind with 16c/kwh both experiencing rolling blackouts in major cities and importing 60% of mostly coal and gas energy from their neighbors.. the world currently has 300 years worth of oil at the current rates of usage which have stagnated due to improved efficiencies.
co2 emissions in the us have dropped in the last 3 years for the first time in decades despite (or because) reduced oil and gas regulations.. do you think given the above facts, eliminating the oil industry is a good thing?
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Anony Mous
We rely on hydroelectric (Niagara Falls) which has been operating since Nikolai Tesla convinced Westinghouse to build it. Natural hydro is cheap, nuclear is cheap. We pay 2c/kWh where I live (4c in the winter), from hydro + nuclear in the north-east which is cheaper than the natural gas which is 6c/kWh (not account for inefficiencies converting BTU into kWh).
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Biden Voter Fraud Admission
by Simon inhe's either admitting that they are relying on voter fraud, or he's a decrepit senile old fart who's unfit to be president.. which is it?.
did he also just claim that they committed fraud to get obama elected?
what a joke.. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ma8a2g6ttp0.
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Anony Mous
The phrase "Can I change my vote" has been trending in the top 100 Google searches for the last few days, which surprisingly, some states allow you to. Many, many people are just finding out about the extensive corruption within the Democrat party.
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If a JW becomes inactive is he then labeled as an apostate?
by Pallbearer ini have heard a rumor that if a jw becomes inactive he or she is considered to be an apostate.
is this true?
has anyone here on this forum had such an experience?
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Anony Mous
Official JW.org doctrine: Apostasy is abandoning, deserting or rejecting Jehovah’s organization [the Watchtower Bible and Tract Society]; so by definition, anyone that 'abandoned' (or has let themselves become "inactive") is an apostate.
Contrast this with the regularly accepted definition of Apostasy: Apostasy in Christianity is the rejection of Christianity by someone who formerly was a Christian.
So you can be an apostate in the JW simply by abandoning the WTBTS organization (becoming inactive), whereas in most churches you must reject the entire Christian faith (so you can change churches, denominations etc) to be considered an apostate.
My experience:
I have been officially inactive for a decade, I am officially also still an MS, I am also labeled an apostate by many. Mostly because they tried to but failed to disfellowship me, but I was able to hold any change in status with legal action and they've since forgotten about me. I'm sure someone at some point will simply throw out my publisher card.
The apostate label does not follow any status in the JW organization, it is something you can be labeled whenever you disagree with the ever-changing WTBTS official doctrine. By definition, anyone inactive is disagreeing with the WTBTS doctrine that you have to attend meetings to be "saved", so yes, inactive ones are apostates.
If you post here, as many a faithful JW do, you are considered an apostate.
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Eliminate the Oil Industry?
by Anony Mous ina lot of countries are on the side of eliminating the oil industry altogether as well as zero-emission alternatives like nuclear power.. in the us, biden has promised to eliminate all federal lands oil production when he takes power in 2021 (30% of the united states) as well as native american tribal lands which account for 8 percent of all oil, 9 percent of all natural gas, and 6 percent of all natural gas liquids from 96,000 wells (10% of the total wells in the us).. in europe, oil and gas production has been largely eliminated except for the nordic countries and the uk (which the eu recently lost access to), germany is funding a major oil pipeline as is china from russia and russian-controlled portions of ukraine, even after trump cut off all builders from russian oil pipelines, the russian government is now trying to build the pipeline themselves with potential disastrous results.. venezuela's economy collapsed largely due to the government taking over and eliminating the oil industry companies.. in the mean time, control for most non-us energy sources is now wholly dependent on russian and middle eastern governments.. california and germany eliminated oil-based energy sources and now mandate 30% of their power from 'green' wind and solar alternatives.
germany energy costs now hover around 25c/kwh and california is not far behind with 16c/kwh both experiencing rolling blackouts in major cities and importing 60% of mostly coal and gas energy from their neighbors.. the world currently has 300 years worth of oil at the current rates of usage which have stagnated due to improved efficiencies.
co2 emissions in the us have dropped in the last 3 years for the first time in decades despite (or because) reduced oil and gas regulations.. do you think given the above facts, eliminating the oil industry is a good thing?
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Anony Mous
A lot of countries are on the side of eliminating the oil industry altogether as well as zero-emission alternatives like nuclear power.
In the US, Biden has promised to eliminate all Federal Lands oil production when he takes power in 2021 (30% of the United States) as well as Native American tribal lands which account for 8 percent of all oil, 9 percent of all natural gas, and 6 percent of all natural gas liquids from 96,000 wells (10% of the total wells in the US).
In Europe, oil and gas production has been largely eliminated except for the Nordic countries and the UK (which the EU recently lost access to), Germany is funding a major oil pipeline as is China from Russia and Russian-controlled portions of Ukraine, even after Trump cut off all builders from Russian oil pipelines, the Russian government is now trying to build the pipeline themselves with potential disastrous results.
Venezuela's economy collapsed largely due to the government taking over and eliminating the oil industry companies.
In the mean time, control for most non-US energy sources is now wholly dependent on Russian and Middle Eastern governments.
California and Germany eliminated oil-based energy sources and now mandate 30% of their power from 'green' wind and solar alternatives. Germany energy costs now hover around 25c/kWh and California is not far behind with 16c/kWh both experiencing rolling blackouts in major cities and importing 60% of mostly coal and gas energy from their neighbors.
The world currently has 300 years worth of oil at the current rates of usage which have stagnated due to improved efficiencies.
CO2 emissions in the US have dropped in the last 3 years for the first time in decades despite (or because) reduced oil and gas regulations.
Do you think given the above facts, eliminating the oil industry is a good thing? I understand migrating to a more dense fuel source (eg. nuclear) would be a great thing, but there is a lot of resistance to that for various political reasons. What are you doing to reduce your CO2 footprint? Do you think it's safe to have your country or even the entire world's energy dependence until we make such conversion to full solar/wind/nuclear in the hands of two of the most ruthless dictators, Putin and Mohammed bin Salman or is this a worthy sacrifice?
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Hunter Biden—Will He Affect The Election?
by minimus ini think he’s done incredible damage to biden.
he must be in hiding in his dad’s basement too.
i think this is the october surprise people have been wondering about.
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Anony Mous
Both candidates have admitted their internal numbers look closer than the public polls. That's because they use different measures, small groups of "likely voters" is not really representative.
The Biden campaign made a tremendous mistake calling a lid every day and staying in the basement for the last 2 months. They were thinking the media was going to cover for them and they did. But now the Hunter Biden story, Trump exposing the deep corruption within the Biden family on public television, the first time ANY major network covered these facts, the failed censorship and exposing deep corruption ties with social media (both Twitter and Facebook spokespersons on the issue were proven to be Biden plants) and failing to stack the debates in their favor put them into a frenzy and now Biden is hurriedly tracking all over the country.
They've been going so fast, even Kamala Harris doesn't know where she is at any moment, asking on a hot mike the other day whether she was in Cleveland (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cFe5pqJ_MtA).
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Trump/Biden Debate
by minimus ini liked the format and i think donald trump destroyed joe biden.. your opinion?
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Anony Mous
It's interesting that the left wing is mostly disappointed in Joe Biden for being too old and dotering, it was on full display last night. All the left-wingers also ignored all the substance though, he pretended to be a politician and in a single sentence was able to contradict himself not once but at least 3 times:
- When Trump said "NY did worse than anyone with COVID (fact check: true), Biden said "I don't believe in red states or blue states ... but red states did worse with COVID"
- When Trump said "you'll stop fracking", Biden said "I never said that, I never said I'll ban fracking in the US, I did say I'll ban fracking on federal land"
- When Trump said "you'll end the oil industry", Biden said "I never said I want to end the oil industry, however I am going to do this, I am going to end the oil industry by 2030"
- When Trump said "Hunter biden went and picked up bags of cash from China and Russia", Biden said "Me and my family never profited from my position, we never got 1 cent from foreign sources. What Hunter did in, what are we talking about, China, nothing was unethical".
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Hunter Biden—Will He Affect The Election?
by minimus ini think he’s done incredible damage to biden.
he must be in hiding in his dad’s basement too.
i think this is the october surprise people have been wondering about.
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Anony Mous
Right now the polls are tightening considerably. Trump is now within error bars of Joe Biden in most battlegrounds states, this morning polls came out that showed him 49/47 (Biden/Trump) across the country while there were others that showed him 6 points down (which is just out of the 5 point bounds from Clinton/Trump in 2016).
This morning a Hunter Biden associate, life-long Democrat came out and said he was being smeared as a Russian disinformation while he confirmed the e-mails existed (this is now the third and fourth independent source that produced evidence) and even the fact that Joe Biden has been on the take from Russia and China.