In order to survive and flourish, a society needs to have either a central authority which everybody...

ChestRockfield comments on Feb 26, 2022:

A nice break from the usual. Thank you and good post.

Which came first, the chicken or the egg?

ChestRockfield comments on Feb 26, 2022:

That is not the crux of the question. There is an answer, and I know what it is. I'll give you all a chance to come up with the answer, and, more importantly, the *reason* for the answer, on your own before I post it. A hint: The most important question you need to answer to find out which came first is, is a chicken egg what comes out of a chicken or what a chicken comes out of. As for the meaning of life: there is none; we are an unfortunate accident.

The Republican Party is cracking under the stress of the influence of 🦧.

ChestRockfield comments on Feb 26, 2022:

Yes, the Republican party is seeing a divide. But so is the left. I contend that the left's is much more significant in its effect on elections. In the Republican primary in '16, the candidates were saying unbelievable shit about about each other. Several of them even banded together in a plot to deny Trump the nomination in never-Trumper fashion. As soon as he did, however, these candidates and prominent members of the Republican party changed their tune and started kissing his ass to unite the party at the polls. The Republicans are amazing at this. They hate the liberal ideology so much, that come the general, the R next to your name can absolve you of any sin you may have committed... except *mayyyyyybe* child molestation. While Roy Moore did *barely* lose his Senate seat election by two points (let that sink in, almost half of Alabama was cool with a child-molesting US Senator to prevent a liberal one from winning) there were allegations Trump raped an underage girl and he had the highest average approval rating among one's own party in 60 years (see graph below). So how about the Democrats? We know they have huge disagreements in the primaries as well, albeit less bitter and disgusting, but do they fall in line and vote their party in the general? I don't think so. The Bernie Bros were a very loud, very vocal group of dissenters. There have been a bunch of studies on the percent of Bernie primary voters that defected and voted for Trump with results ranging from 6-12% (see one below comparing numbers of defectors to Trump's win margin in swing states), while one of those studies found that virtually 0% of Clinton primary voters voted for Trump. Could this have cost Clinton the election? Is it at least evidence that party loyalty among Democrats does not come close to matching that of the Republicans? Add to all this the fact that much of the anti-Trump fervor will be absent in the mid-terms and the fact that Biden's approval ratings are absolute shit, and I think it's the recipe for a slaughter this November for the Democrats.

Free speech comes with an apparent irony Launched by Trump on Monday, Truth Social billed itself ...

ChestRockfield comments on Feb 25, 2022:

That's a fragile bitch.

There is a serious possibility that the US will have to face this question if not now, sometime in ...

ChestRockfield comments on Feb 24, 2022:

Better us than some small country that has nothing to lose. If we allow the conquer of sovereign nations, how long until one of them defends themselves with a nuke? If I was a small country about to be conquered and I had the ability to nuke my aggressors in a bid to try to save myself, why should I just roll over?

Just considering the times with a bit of historical context.

ChestRockfield comments on Feb 24, 2022:

Republicans are and/or support racist/Nazi scum.

Just considering the times with a bit of historical context.

ChestRockfield comments on Feb 24, 2022:

There *were* ???

As far as cosmology is concerned, I’m a thoroughgoing materialist.

ChestRockfield comments on Feb 24, 2022:

You say you're not an apologist. Then you like to keep everyone on their toes by proving yourself wrong.

Liberal Version of White Lives Matter?

ChestRockfield comments on Feb 24, 2022:

I forget, which of the "dark countries" agreed to a nuclear deproliferation of 3,000 nuclear weapons on the condition its borders were respected? Also, please list the unprovoked attacks on sovereign nation carried out by the US and Isreal.

They might differ on the specifics, but for Republicans, President Biden is woefully mismanaging the...

ChestRockfield comments on Feb 23, 2022:

Personally I wouldn't be handling it the way he is. He's privy to a lot of shit I'm not. Would that stuff change my opinion? Possibly. But I think we need to take any and all measures to protect Ukraine. That said, I don't agree with a single other thing the Republicans are saying.

Human life is the result of a glorious evolutionary accident. - Stephen Jay Gould

ChestRockfield comments on Feb 23, 2022:

Glorious?

Jerry's Wisdom: Choose wisely

ChestRockfield comments on Feb 23, 2022:

This was posted before. It was bullshit then. It's bullshit now.

Just asking...

ChestRockfield comments on Feb 23, 2022:

Technically, everyone *could* have inherited Solomon's wealth. If you gave everyone in the world a billion dollars, no one's wealth would increase, but some people's wealth would decrease. Wealth isn't really a measurement of what you have it's a measurement of how much more you have relative to others.

Do you personally know anyone to whom this wise cowboy might well be speaking?

ChestRockfield comments on Feb 23, 2022:

I do have family members who think that way, I did try to reason with them (but they are too stupid for reasoned arguments to make a difference) so I haven't talked to them in over 5 years, and I wouldn't start now just to send them this meme. I think we'd all be better off to cut toxic morons like that out of our lives.

What would your choice be?

ChestRockfield comments on Feb 23, 2022:

There's so many assumptions and false statements in that I wouldn't even know where to begin. My choice would be to stop reading shit written by that person...

Why aren't you a Trump supporter?

ChestRockfield comments on Feb 23, 2022:

I didn't read all of that. I didn't even read most of it. I quickly saw the direction it was taking and surmised two things: 1. That's a really long winded way to describe a single thing we don't control because humans lack free will and 2. this author won't have the balls to take this to that clear and obvious conclusion and actually say it. You can tell me if I'm right.

Do you personally know anyone to whom this wise cowboy might well be speaking?

ChestRockfield comments on Feb 22, 2022:

This has had a rude comment removed because I was ill informed.

In my continuing effort to understand why so many people who claim to prefer science over faith are ...

ChestRockfield comments on Feb 22, 2022:

Snore

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ChestRockfield comments on Feb 22, 2022:

How about: Wishful Thinking?

Morning all

ChestRockfield comments on Feb 22, 2022:

That's why I want to die in my sleep ASAP. Can't miss out on anything if I'm dead...

Is it possible this Ukraine gambit by Putin is meant to distract us from Trump's problems here?

ChestRockfield comments on Feb 22, 2022:

There's no arrest or trial and no imminent election. Don't think so.

You ever feel like you found the perfect sexual partner then he turns out to be a complete 💩bag ...

ChestRockfield comments on Feb 22, 2022:

Like something you experienced for the first time is something you're really into now? That's not that strange. Don't keep us in suspense though, you can tell us.

What a wonderful world it would be -

ChestRockfield comments on Feb 22, 2022:

Sadly everything is about money. Teachers don't create astronomical amounts of revenue, so they don't get compensated well or even fairly.

A brilliant idea!

ChestRockfield comments on Feb 21, 2022:

Counterpoint: what kind of psychopath goes to someone's house unannounced these days? You should never be in a situation where you don't know who, when, and why someone's going to knock on your door.

Keeping it real...

ChestRockfield comments on Feb 21, 2022:

You have a link for that profile?

MURDER MOST FOWL Is it ethical to kill animals if you then eat them?

ChestRockfield comments on Feb 20, 2022:

To be honest, I don't really know is there's an answer to that or even how to determine what it is if there is. That is why I only concern myself with being logically consistent on that point. If you play both sides, and there is an answer, you're definitely wrong somewhere, but if you're consistent, you still have the possibility of being right. Two small side notes: 1. 'Fitness' of organisms has, for billions of years on Earth, been directly related to how well they could destroy other life forms, consume them, and use those resources to make more copies of themselves. 2. It is likely impossible for a human to exist on this planet without killing other animals either directly or indirectly.

Oh gosh.

ChestRockfield comments on Feb 20, 2022:

Oh, that bitch is cray. She blocked me too for nothing more than playing Devil's Advocate to her side of an argument she had with someone else. Take it as a compliment.

Just a Male here. Trying to get some tail. Which one of you gorgeous females will it be?

ChestRockfield comments on Feb 20, 2022:

😳

Marketing failure. 😝

ChestRockfield comments on Feb 20, 2022:

1. It *is* a guitar. It's literally called a bass *guitar*. 2. Bass solos happen all the time... in jazz. Sorry for your ears that you never listen to jazz. 3. I'm torn. On one hand, I agree, on the other, band members get laid like crazy, so maybe?

I'm wondering if the biggest difference between the original/originary fascist movements of the ...

ChestRockfield comments on Feb 20, 2022:

I don't think they're *trying* to destroy the planet and mankind. I just think they're that stupid. They have such distrust of liberals and science they probably think every doomsday scenario is fake and designed to take away their freedom. But we are fucked. In so many ways. We're staring down the barrel of a global collapse of democracy (including the US) and the long held practice that advanced liberal democracies don't attack each other. And along with that, apocalyptic disasters resulting from climate change. You can already see the start of it. Once-in-a-century events happening at exponentially shorter intervals, more powerful storms, etc. Thawing permafrost that is creating its own global warming positive feedback loop. The Thwaites "doomsday" glacier ticking away. We're going to see mass migration, starvation, booming disease vectors. And people are *still* having children. I don't understand that AT ALL.

Candace Owens on Twitter: "STOP talking about Russia.

ChestRockfield comments on Feb 20, 2022:

Nothing but a spotlight-chasing, dumb, vapid, cunt.

Perfection…is not always subjective…

ChestRockfield comments on Feb 19, 2022:

Is that a real person? Her face almost looks computer generated.

What do think about this dude?

ChestRockfield comments on Feb 19, 2022:

I wish I looked like him. But I also think that's a fake penis in his pants. Look at how it starts right of midline. But I guess if you looked like that, you're still getting laid whenever you want even if your dick is so small you need to take pictures with a prosthetic in your pants.

To me, you are all beautiful trees.

ChestRockfield comments on Feb 19, 2022:

Debbie Downer alert for the paragraph that follows, sorry. It's a nice thought, until you think about any longer than three seconds. Trees in a forest don't try to scam your grandmother or hack into your online bank accounts. They don't take away your reproductive rights or prevent you from marrying the person you love. They don't vote to allow the people who wish to shoot up your child's school to have unfettered access to firearms. They don't poison your drinking water and pollute your air just to increase their profit margin. They don't molest your children and hide behind the cloth. They don't dismantle democracy and try to hide behind pardons and immunity. So while yes, maybe there are some superficial "you're toos" we could dispense with by turning people into trees in our minds, I just can't appreciate all those humans that are rotten to the core *just the way they are...*

Because it's been in the news lately, whether Jewish is a race, culture, religion or ethnicity.

ChestRockfield comments on Feb 18, 2022:

I really wish we could be done with all this petty, stupid, arbitrary nonsense. I get that there has been thousands of years of oppression, objectification, slavery, murder, etc. because of "race" but the *human* race is about to start drowning and starving en masse and we're forever distracted by designations that will mean nothing in the future (if we make it to the future, that is).

I hate it when that happens.

ChestRockfield comments on Feb 18, 2022:

I laughed way too fuckin' hard at this.

New study finds ivermectin ineffective against COVID-19 | St. Louis News Headlines | kmov.com

ChestRockfield comments on Feb 18, 2022:

A *new* study? Haven't we known this for a long time?

If I hear one more person say "No one is above the law.

ChestRockfield comments on Feb 18, 2022:

Cops are totally above the law. They even have a fucking saying for it, "The blue wall of silence".

Does anyone care to predict the outcome? - [bbc.com]

ChestRockfield comments on Feb 18, 2022:

He going to appeal until he wins... Don't count on any of them having to actually testify.

Who takes vitamins in large quantities?

ChestRockfield comments on Feb 18, 2022:

The problem is the fat soluble vitamins A, D, E, & K. The rest you can just pee out.

I do KFC vegan.

ChestRockfield comments on Feb 17, 2022:

My old favorite was KMart's fried chicken. 8pc dark for $2.99 baby! Amazing and a unbelievably good deal. Now that they're closed, I go to SweetBerry and get it from their prepared foods section. Not as good as K's but the best I can get these days.

80's Throwback.

ChestRockfield comments on Feb 17, 2022:

It's always good when you can see yourself in a girl's pants...

"It is curious that while good people go to great length to spare their children from suffering, few...

ChestRockfield comments on Feb 17, 2022:

For sho. Humans should stop having children for the next 80 years to get all of these problems under control.

Yeah.

ChestRockfield comments on Feb 17, 2022:

I can't even understand what that's for. And did they tell on themselves?

Every Day I Grow To Hate People More.

ChestRockfield comments on Feb 17, 2022:

Oh man, killing it! 2 days in a row... Wordle 243 2/6 🟩⬜⬜⬜🟩 🟩🟩🟩🟩🟩

Arguably one of the best love songs of all times and Etta James owns it.

ChestRockfield comments on Feb 16, 2022:

I assume you've seen this: https://youtu.be/6WahdIES7Gg

New to social media. Do you get a notice if you been blocked by someone?

ChestRockfield comments on Feb 16, 2022:

No. A couple clues that might show up: 1. You click on a notification and it brings up an error message. That happens when it would bring you to content you can no longer see as a result of the block. 2. You click on the person's name or try to search for them and it says they are unavailable.

Every Day I Grow To Hate People More.

ChestRockfield comments on Feb 16, 2022:

Wordle 242 2/6 ⬜🟨⬜🟨⬜ 🟩🟩🟩🟩🟩 Sorry, had to. But if I didn't score a 2 today, it wouldn't have been worth making that joke.

Why is an abuser still working as a priest? [bbc.com]

ChestRockfield comments on Feb 16, 2022:

Why was an abuser working as president for 4 years?

This did not age well at all

ChestRockfield comments on Feb 16, 2022:

She's a vile cuntbag.

“Every myth is psychologically symbolic.

ChestRockfield comments on Feb 16, 2022:

That guy obviously doesn't know what "atheist" means...

More heartbreak.

ChestRockfield comments on Feb 16, 2022:

Wait, you think the *Rams* got help from the refs? Not the Bengals getting a 75yd TD off an egregious face mask missed call? I didn't really care who won before that, but that made me want LA to win. All I could think about was how pissed I'd be if "my team" lost by less than 7 in a situation like that.

I assert that the generation born from 1917 to 1940 is truly deserving of the title “The Greatest ...

ChestRockfield comments on Feb 16, 2022:

It, unfortunately, also put them in a position to take all that for granted and allow a narcissistic asshole with aspirations of dictatorship to bring democracy to its breaking point.

What a response! 😂😂😂

ChestRockfield comments on Feb 15, 2022:

I hear horse paste and RU486 cures that.

Just what the world needs, more stupidity.

ChestRockfield comments on Feb 15, 2022:

Correct me if I'm wrong, but isn't people shooting a god that can resurrect himself and use that to prove his divinity a good thing for them?

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ChestRockfield comments on Feb 15, 2022:

Yeah, it's great.

Do you shop at WalMart and if so does it bother you or do you think it is just capitalism at work?

ChestRockfield comments on Feb 15, 2022:

I do. It's essentially impossible not to patronize conglomerates anymore. At least where I live. And to be honest, people expecting you to pay more than you have to for your goods and services by guilting you into thinking it's your duty is the same kind of responsibility shifting that corporations did with the recycling/trash problem. Congress has the power to level the playing field and they don't because they're too accustomed to getting their beaks wet to do the wrong thing. There really is no way to stop them without legislation, either. They have too much money for boycotts to work against them, there needs to be laws. Chipotle moved in to town almost right next to this mom & pop Mexican burrito joint that was really tasty. Chipotle proceeded to run special after special for free burritos running at a huge net loss until the mom & pop finally went out of business. I mean, if you're well off and you want to pay full price for your burrito, that's awesome for you. But if you're broke and you can get dinner for free instead, how do you pass that up (especially if you like Chipotle, personally I wouldn't even eat it for free, but it's not because of principle, it's because I think it's trash).

So I'm realizing this app is for old ffffff ppl... Can anyone prove me wrong? 👀

ChestRockfield comments on Feb 15, 2022:

You guys, give him a break. He bought the same bill of goods a lot of the rest of us did about this being a dating site.

Once upon a time there were 3 bears.

ChestRockfield comments on Feb 15, 2022:

Lovely story. Just don't mistake fairy tales for reality. He's not gone and could be our next president.

Do the American people support their government on Ukraine-Russia?

ChestRockfield comments on Feb 14, 2022:

At one point, Ukraine had the 3rd largest nuclear arsenal in the world. A condition of dismantling them was that their borders were respected. If we have a vested interest in global non-proliferation and preventing nuclear war, this seems like a no-brainer.

Can you choose what to believe?

ChestRockfield comments on Feb 14, 2022:

You cannot. Period. @Fernapple is more diplomatic in his response, and it will probably turn less people off than my blunt 'no' by saying "at best". But if you couple what he said, "only chose from the selection offered to you by your brain" with the correct statement @skado made, "People can believe only what they find believable" you can start to get a sense of the truth. You can't choose what propositions enter your conscious mind as options, and you can't choose which of those options your brain doesn't immediately reject as implausible/impossible. You also don't choose the physical or chemical composition of your brain at the point any of these "choices" need to be made. (Nor do you choose to be born, who to be born to, what they believe, how and where they raise you, what they expose you to, etc. People will argue that they *eventually* get to choose where they live and what they expose themselves to, but...) It's in these options that remain after all that that people believe they have free will. If you look at the science, though, you'll see that there's no room left, so to speak, for free choice.

I could see my son doing this some day:

ChestRockfield comments on Feb 13, 2022:

We are always desperate for enough players for a Magic draft. We actually joked about hiring 'tutes just to play cards.

THE TANGO: VACCINE - A Randy Rainbow Song Parody - YouTube

ChestRockfield comments on Feb 13, 2022:

He's amazing.

Trump-Backed Cheney Challenger Says She Doesn't Know Who Won 2020 Election

ChestRockfield comments on Feb 13, 2022:

Well, Cheney just lost her job.

Has Barry removed his art from Spotify yet as he threatened? [bangkokpost.com]

ChestRockfield comments on Feb 13, 2022:

I wish they would just get rid of Rogan. The whole point of having a paid subscription to a music streaming service, at least for me, is to be able to ask to hear *any* song I want.

Toyota is one of the auto manufacturers financially impacted by the anti-vax truck blockade.

ChestRockfield comments on Feb 13, 2022:

I haven't looked into it at all, but I don't understand why they don't start issuing citations, arresting people, and impounding the trucks.

@GreenAtheist just blocked me.

ChestRockfield comments on Feb 12, 2022:

Name sounded familiar so I clicked. I'm blocked too. That person must have been a real Cuntly Cuntinstein.

I’ve got to admit I enjoy blocking.

ChestRockfield comments on Feb 12, 2022:

That dude has some fucked up views about abortion. You should have seen the arguments we got into.

Trump pushes false claims that Pence could 'send back' votes SPREADING A BARRAGE OF LIES TO ...

ChestRockfield comments on Feb 12, 2022:

Doubt this can even pass. Even if it does, it doesn't stop any of the SCOTUS-sanctioned voter suppression that's getting codified all over the country at the state and local level.

Maybe these laws will help keep him out of our face...

ChestRockfield comments on Feb 12, 2022:

Am I the only one seeing the problem here? It clearly states, "anyone *holding federal office* who is convicted of this crime". He is not currently holding federal office...

UNFIT X45 RUNNING WILD WITH THE FRINGE Republican Wyoming Rep.

ChestRockfield comments on Feb 12, 2022:

Same ol' song and dance. They all claim they don't want Trump, until the other option is a Democrat, then they all fall right the fuck in line and vote their party. They are so much more cohesive than the democrats it's not even funny. Do you remember the shit the other primary candidates were saying about him before and after he got the nod? Night and fuckin' day. If you just looked at the words no rational, sane person could ever guess they were taking about the same person. All they care about it winning. Mark my words, you'll hear all kinds of shit about a fractured party and discord all the way and those on the left will have a false sense of security about voting their conscience, and before they know it, the unity of the Republican party will walk away the victors.

Well yeah, so what?

ChestRockfield comments on Feb 12, 2022:

She's an asshole. It's quite difficult to make friends as an adult, especially an adult male. I lost all my friends when my ex inherited them (she stayed at my old job with them and I didn't- obvious choice for them). Now, for a multitude of reasons, there's no effective way to make new meaningful friendships, especially during a pandemic and with a job 40 miles from my home.

I voted for the bengal's what about you guys?

ChestRockfield comments on Feb 12, 2022:

Where is the "couldn't care less" option?

Here is an interesting article on whether or not we should stop calling addiction a disease.

ChestRockfield comments on Feb 12, 2022:

"There's good reason to speculate whether addiction is actually a disease. If yes, one must formulate definitive causes, symptoms, treatment protocols, and the likely time required to cure it completely." False. Idiopathic diseases have unknown causes. Some diseases have patient specific symptoms. Some diseases have no treatments. Some diseases have no cure. "increasing willpower as opposed to other ailments such as typhoid, cancer, and diabetes." False. The belief that someone can overcome addiction by choosing to increase their willpower is as idiotic as a belief that someone can overcome diabetes by choosing to increase insulin production. If one could simply choose to increase their willpower, why doesn't everyone have maximum willpower? "People today face numerous issues such as domestic abuse, poverty, obesity, unemployment, social isolation, but these problems need not be termed as a "disease" to find solutions." False. The author is conflating causes and effects here. "Instead of medical intervention, it's better to deal with them by providing social and psychological support, education, employment opportunities, nutritional consults, etc." False. Just because supportive services could have a positive impact, or even a majority of the positive impact, does not mean medical intervention is unnecessary and thus it's not a disease. Incurable diseases necessarily will benefit more from supportive services, but that doesn't mean they're not diseases. I don't think I need to continue to waste my time on this...

Mormons or Jahovahs witnesses.. What group is worse??

ChestRockfield comments on Feb 11, 2022:

Well, if the Mormons didn't exist, Parker and Stone wouldn't have been able to give us The Book of Mormon, so...

So our brain gets better with age.

ChestRockfield comments on Feb 11, 2022:

Watch the Brain Games episode Battle of the Ages for some specifics of what gets better and what deteriorates.

COVID associated hospitalizations higher amongst the unvaccinated. [usnews.com]

ChestRockfield comments on Feb 11, 2022:

Hoax.

Maybe China too.

ChestRockfield comments on Feb 11, 2022:

I love that there are still morons that say, "But her emails" and don't care once bit about the million protocols Trump shattered.

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ChestRockfield comments on Feb 10, 2022:

Can wait until we have self-driving semis...

'Soup Nazi': Rep. Marjorie Taylor Greene Confuses Gazpacho With Gestapo In Attacking Pelosi

ChestRockfield comments on Feb 10, 2022:

It's so fucking embarrassing that the American electorate selects the dumbest fuckin' people alive, over and over again.

Is "tar baby" a racist term?

ChestRockfield comments on Feb 9, 2022:

The way I look at it, if you have to question whether or not something's racist, it doesn't much matter if it's *actually* racist. If you're questioning it, others are too and some have probably decided that it definitely is. Even if you're right, and it's not, is that really the argument you want to have? The hill you want to die on? It'll be a pyrrhic victory AT BEST. My crazy QAnon uncle who I stopped talking to years ago (you can guess why) got into a huge argument with his gay son and his gay son's black husband about how "Get your cotton-pickin hands outta there" was never associated with racism, it was simply a thing his Italian mother said to her Italian kids when they were into something they shouldn't have been. But even if you don't know it, or see it, if it is, or even seems like it might be, save yourself the headache and just use one of the hundred other ways the English language affords you to say what you want to say.

One in five applicants to white supremacist group tied to US military | The far right | The Guardian

ChestRockfield comments on Feb 9, 2022:

Fucking. Hate. Republicans.

Tru dat. 😆

ChestRockfield comments on Feb 9, 2022:

I'd be curious to know if there is a correlation between hand dominance and burner selection.

Which of these do you believe the Earth to be?

ChestRockfield comments on Feb 8, 2022:

Fuck me, is there really a flat Earther on this site?

Yeah, I MIGHT be a deviant in our so-called modern society.

ChestRockfield comments on Feb 8, 2022:

Maybe it's because I don't want to be alive anymore anyway, but I'd rather die than fuck a girl that doesn't want to sleep with me.

Supreme Court allows Alabama voting maps that advocates say disenfranchise Black voters

ChestRockfield comments on Feb 8, 2022:

We're fucked. Hope I'm dead before he's president again.

They are rare to find nowadays……though a few still exist.

ChestRockfield comments on Feb 8, 2022:

But acting like a moron is a recipe for success when your base is full of idiots...

LMAO!!! 😂😂😂 I bought new dishes.

ChestRockfield comments on Feb 8, 2022:

But *she's* so cute!!

Trump tells Joe Rogan to 'stop apologizing' for Spotify controversies on covid misinformation, ...

ChestRockfield comments on Feb 8, 2022:

Wait, Trump is telling a racist to not apologize for being racist? And he wonders why people think *he's* a racist??

...only if you dare?

ChestRockfield comments on Feb 8, 2022:

Did you try it? I'm thinking of ordering some.

The older they get, the worse it looks

ChestRockfield comments on Feb 7, 2022:

Did anyone else think, "I bet immediately after that picture was taken, the dog said, 'Whatcha takin pictures of muthafucka?' in Samuel Jackson's voice"?

Ok, I was born in Southwest Louisiana and didn't live north of Interstate 10 until I joined the Air ...

ChestRockfield comments on Feb 7, 2022:

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A recent interlocutor informed me that Evolutionary Psychology wasn’t real science, so if that’s...

ChestRockfield comments on Feb 7, 2022:

Yeah, I don't think that's very scientific. I read all of what was linked, but the controls and group formations don't take nearly enough steps to ensure even moderately reliable results. Even the term "more intelligent" is really hard to nail down *scientifically* speaking. Then, even if you have all that sorted out, it *still* doesn't grant you the cause:effect that's being postulated. There could be a correlation between irreligion and intelligence independent of anything related to evolution or instinct. If a group of people 18 and over still believe in Santa were less intelligent than a group of people who stopped believing in Santa before they reached that age, or conversely, if really unintelligent people were never told of Santa when they were young so they never *needed* to stop believing, those could cause correlations that are independent of evolution, and the same could be true for religion.

This seems accurate.

ChestRockfield comments on Feb 7, 2022:

This is so vague it's meaningless. And if they do mean *actually* alone for any appreciable amount of time it's probably outright false.

There may be a reactionary attitude creeping into this site's administration.

ChestRockfield comments on Feb 6, 2022:

Looks like the other post and user are no longer available. Unless that person blocked me, but I don't ever remember coming across that name before.

Is this guy single?

ChestRockfield comments on Feb 6, 2022:

Fuck all of that.

The apologist and the ax murderers accomplice.

ChestRockfield comments on Feb 6, 2022:

Wrote this a long time ago. I think I even posted it here because I remember getting into a ridiculous argument with TMW (who I won't bother tagging because he refuses to talk to me anyway) about it. It is quite possible that religious moderates are not only part of the problem, but the biggest part of the problem. Their large base gives an air of legitimacy to the belief system and provides an environment in which religious extremism can survive and thrive. Compare the "crazy" beliefs of the marginalized with those of the religious. How different are they, really? A man wearing a tinfoil hat pleading for people to heed his warning about alien abductions and the anal probes that went along with them is not taken seriously by anyone, *except maybe those that are also wearing similar hats.* So how is it that we're legislating morality based on stories that contain taking snakes and donkeys and people that rise from the dead? It's because there's a huge portion of the population that doesn't think these are ridiculous things to believe. Without religious moderates, religious extremist groups would have no where to recruit members or obtain funding. They would, in effect, be reduced to another crazy, yet powerless person we ignore in the course of our everyday lives, albeit with more asinine headwear.

The last 2 paragraphs are important to understand.

ChestRockfield comments on Feb 6, 2022:

Scathing, brutal assessment of the US. It also happens to be 100% true.

Some poetry for the denizens of pinata-ville about one of our all-time favorites...

ChestRockfield comments on Feb 6, 2022:

Too bad only about .03% of red-cap-wearing idiots know all those words.

Why has Neil Young not spoken out against the Canadian protests?

ChestRockfield comments on Feb 6, 2022:

Wow, bro, really? You don't understand that Spotify is a business entity that he has contacts with and a central hub where demand letters can be sent (and someone to haul into court to sue) and protesters are, well, the exact opposite of that? Who is he supposed to send this letter to? Just post it online? Where anyone can say they didn't see it? And when they keep sort of using his song is he supposed to chase them down and ask for their names and addresses so he can name them all individually in a lawsuit to make them stop? Also, are they using a parody song? You realize that parodies are protected under fair use at least in the US, right? SMH