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Snargorf
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Comment #12230079
Thanks. It seems I have been censored, however. My new posts no longer show up when I'm logged out. No reason given. I also can't create another account. My guess is it's because I…
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Comment #12230058
Yeah, it was disappointing to read the cringe-y kowtowing apology edited onto the end of the article. This stuff is just everywhere nowadays.
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Comment #12228777
I've actually found it works a lot better if both people just allow the contentious statements. Just let each person say, "Oh that's ridiculous because..." and the other replies wi…
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Comment #12223174
Intelligence is roughly: 80% hereditary 0% from childhood environment 20% from unknown factors https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hTF_XVspfDM
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Comment #12223166
A surplus just means "more than you need". Other poster isn't necessarily making any statement that Americans are dumb overall. But there is a surplus of low-IQ people. In the mode…
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Comment #12219545
Wikipedia is wrong (due to massive leftist egalatarian bias in Wikipedia and their media sources). The best research using twin and adoption studies puts IQ heredity at ~80%, with …
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Comment #12219544
Wikipedia is wrong (due to massive leftist egalatarian bias in Wikipedia and their media sources). The best research using twin and adoption studies puts IQ heredity at ~80%, with …
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Comment #12214563
There's a rule that works very well: If a headline is a question, the answer is "No." It works 99% of the time, including this time. Saved you a click!
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Comment #12184660
That's not "the patriarchy", it's just traditional gender norms. There is a very big difference.
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Comment #12175730
It's pretty trivial to apply these signals to nearly any collectivist social movement. 1. Action for action's sake - Black Lives Matter protests to block highways. 2. Exploit the f…
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Comment #12148486
You seem to have it backwards, predictions that have been made have consistently overestimated climate change. Typically the real temperature change is at or below the bottom of th…
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Comment #12148480
You think the mainstream news avoids people making dire predictions? Dire events and predictions are their entire business model (along with identity politics squabbles and celebri…
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Comment #12134699
Wait wait. So: 1. White people commit racism and violence against blacks causes 2. White people flee to the suburbs causes 3. Urban centers to deteriorate. Let's examine: 1->2 So w…
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Comment #12130324
>If women are disadvantaged Except they're not. In fact, in tech, they're advantaged. Female names on resumes get more callback than male names. This has been studied. The reason t…
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Comment #12089894
It was a fine article up until it repeated this Great Lie: "The amount of senseless shootings and beatings by the police towards other people of color is alarming." No, it isn't. P…
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Comment #12074854
You don't even need to look that hard. Poor eyesight has no adaptive benefit. Yet many, many people need glasses. I guess it's just 'difficult' for our genes to grow a sharp eye fo…
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Comment #12068823
There are reasons. China has a long history of advanced (for the time) civilization and a high-IQ population (~105). They were backward for just a few centuries because of a series…
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Comment #12067493
The hypothesis I put forth (implicitly) is that homosexual genes are still around because of the massive social pressure to have children and to never admit being gay. Now that thi…
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Comment #12067487
It's not in every culture, it's between cultures as well. Africa adds 30 millions people every year. Pretty much everywhere outside of Africa is below replacement fertility. In the…
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Comment #12066542
Not in 200 years. What we're seeing now is a partial die-off. Eventually, evolution will re-assert itself. The sub-populations who, for whatever reason, continue to grow in populat…
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Comment #12028221
Families breed with other families similar to themselves.
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Comment #12024865
My old hypothesis is that in a reasonably free society, families reach their "destination" socioeconomic status after 3 generations. Even if they immigrate as refugees on rusty boa…
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Comment #12021282
Blacks aren't poor because of some external injustice. They're poor because, as a group, their culture and low average IQ leave them poorly equipped for modern economic life. That'…
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Comment #12014154
Everything you described is simply ways that rich people avoid living around poor people. Yes, it generally excludes blacks, but that's incidental and only because blacks tend to b…
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Comment #11964979
A Baphomet pentagram hidden under the arrow would've been a lot more amusing.