SydBarrett

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  Poor metabolic health increases your risk for heart disease, diabetes, and stroke.

  by was a new boy in

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  it’s all a big fat lie.

  more precisely a big low-fat, high-carbohydrate lie.. 'it took dr. paul marik 12 weeks to prove that conventional wisdom about dieting is a lie, and that was just to himself.

  he lost 35 pounds, and cured himself of type 2 diabetes.

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  I think the only sensible thing to do without being constantly confused by the latest diet advice is to eat mostly veg, fruit and lean meat like fish or chicken.
  
  I almost never eat bacon, but I do love a BLT in the summer when my homegrown tomatoes get ripe.
  
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  Wimbledon's attitude to Russian/Belorussian players ...

  by LoveUniHateExams in

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  ... is absolutely ridiculous.. last year, 2022, russian and belorussian tennis players were banned from wimbledon.

  let that just sink in.

  if you were a pro tennis player, and happened to be a russian or belorussian citizen, the all england club decided that you could not compete at their annual grass tournament.. let's explore that particular brand of discrimination and lunacy further.

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  "Fun fact II: the Nazi party copied a lot of their racist belief system from the US democratic party, but decided to tone it down because they thought it was a bit too strong. Think about that."
  
  And in 1968, the southern democrat wing of the party (the voters you speak of), being angered by the 1964 Civil Rights Act were welcomed with open arms (courted actually) into the Republican Party as loyal voters where they remain.
  
  The south was known as the "solid south" since the civil war, then in 1964 it flipped to Republican. Gee....I wonder why.... ..🙄
  
  
  
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  Babylon the Great and the Bio-Pharmaceutical Complex

  by was a new boy in

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  a biblical interpretation of the covid-19 vaccine fiasco.

  peter a. mccullough, md, mph™.

  jul 8, 2023. .

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  "Could it be that Pfizer and the rest of the Bio-Pharmaceutical Complex are a manifestation of Babylon the Great"

  
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  I'm now turned off by this site

  by purrpurr in

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  in one form or another i've been a member of this site for almost 10 years.

  in the past this was a great place for debate, news and support for ex jws.

  i logged on several times a day and posted several times a week.

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  I saw one thread, allegedly by a newly-PIMO elder............................ but it looked like it had been written by a 14 year old.

  
  

  
  
  So thats where ExBethelitePIMA ran off too.....
  
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  I'm now turned off by this site

  by purrpurr in

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  in one form or another i've been a member of this site for almost 10 years.

  in the past this was a great place for debate, news and support for ex jws.

  i logged on several times a day and posted several times a week.

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  "classic Hegelian dialectic."
  
  
  
  I'm scratching my head a bit at the bizarre mental hoops you're jumping through to link Hegel and this thread topic. I'm pretty sure you just got a kick out of getting a chance to use "Hegelian" in a sentence.
  
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  I'm now turned off by this site

  by purrpurr in

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  in one form or another i've been a member of this site for almost 10 years.

  in the past this was a great place for debate, news and support for ex jws.

  i logged on several times a day and posted several times a week.

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  If a Republican attains the label of RINO, it's usually because of an endorsement of some left-wing policy - like wokism. Or more crony capitalism. They wouldn't be "far" right if they just got a "boo" from a crowd?
  
  Its not just that. Goldwater voted against the 1964 civil rights act. In fairness, he had voted in favor of previous acts but voted against 1964 for minutia reasons. I'm not even claiming he caused it. Just where the current climate we live in got its start. If you wanna go way back.
  
  
  
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  How do you feel about Brexit?

  by SydBarrett in

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  the "independent scotland" thread got me thinking on this.

  there are a lot of brits on this board.

  what are your thoughts on brexit?

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  The violation of Belgian neutrality provided Britain with its official excuse for entering WWI. However, would it really have kept out of that conflict had things been otherwise?
  
  Impossible to know. It would have been a more difficult sell to the British public without the violation of Belgian neutrality. If they dithered long enough before joining, it may have been just enough to tip things in France in favor of the Germans. Each month that Germany isn't blockaded helps them.
  
  I think if France were going it alone, they collapse in 1916.
  
  
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  How do you feel about Brexit?

  by SydBarrett in

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  the "independent scotland" thread got me thinking on this.

  there are a lot of brits on this board.

  what are your thoughts on brexit?

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  Britain is part of Europe (a continent).

  Britain is not part of the EU (a supra-national political entity which came into existence in the early to mid 1990s).

  Please don't conflate Europe and the EU. It's a fairly common mistake.
  
  I'm aware of both of those things. I was referring to the 'splendid isolationism' and strain of Euro-skepticism in Britain, especially after 1815. The wishing to seem to be a major part of Europe without wanting actually to take part that dominated the 19th century. Even in WW1, if the Belgians had made a slightly different choice and chosen to allow the German army passage through their country unopposed on the way to France, it's unlikely Britain would have gotten involved, because there would have been no violation of Belgian neutrality to obligate them.
  
  That's all I meant. Of course Britain is geographically part Europe, but there has historically been ambivalence about how much it wants to involve itself in continental things. The luxury of being an island.
  
  
  
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  I'm now turned off by this site

  by purrpurr in

  1. jw
  2. friends

  in one form or another i've been a member of this site for almost 10 years.

  in the past this was a great place for debate, news and support for ex jws.

  i logged on several times a day and posted several times a week.

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  What's the throughline from Goldwater to today re the cultural divide?
  
  Even though he lost in 1964, his campaign was the beginning of the far right elements of the republican party being much more dominate compared to more 'traditional' centrists like Eisenhower or Rockefeller. Rockefeller was famously booed during his speech. Today, they'd label him a RINO. That sort of thing.
  
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  I'm now turned off by this site

  by purrpurr in

  1. jw
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  in one form or another i've been a member of this site for almost 10 years.

  in the past this was a great place for debate, news and support for ex jws.

  i logged on several times a day and posted several times a week.

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  "Right Wing Media learning from Covid that sensational hate filled nonsense is really the only way to get yourself notice"
  
  It goes back way further than that. In the United States at least, the current divide started with the 1994 mid-term elections. If you really wanted to stretch it, you could take it back to 1964 and Barry Goldwater.