Drugs like amphetamines are dangerous and need to be illegal for your protection. Unless you are an 8 year old who won't sit still in a desk for 8 hours, then amphetamines are safe and effective. If you don't get it, you aren't trusting the $cience hard enough

Antarchomachus · 2022-02-01T19:40:05+00:00

I'd have to go with greed here.

Greed makes people do terrible things, and some of the other 'deadly sins' just seem less bad.

Pride: Can be a good thing too, would not say greed is ever really 'good'

Lust: Not really so bad, we need to procreate after all

Wrath: Maybe they deserved it

Gluttony: Greed applied only to food?

Envy: Circumstantial greed?

Sloth: Laziness seems less harmful than greed in terms of the world's problems

Antarchomachus · 2022-02-13T21:54:08+00:00

Ha! My favorite kind of agreement, the kind I never agreed to.

Antarchomachus · 2022-02-17T19:32:57+00:00

Yeah you should be fine here. You won't be banned for asking questions or having controversial opinions. Don't threaten anyone with violence, try to sell anything illegal, or post pornography and you should be fine. There are some other rules, but they are vague and not really enforced unless you are outrageously out of line

Antarchomachus · 2022-01-21T01:06:54+00:00

Preach Trident! I was in the leftist camp for a while, and this is what has made me an ex-democrat. My body my right is something I believe in, I am skeptical that killing an unborn child is really consistent with that -, but I kinda just went along with it tbh.

However, when all the "My Body My Right" leftists suddenly wanted to force me to have a vaccine that doesn't even protect others, this was the last straw. I am absolutely furious at the hypocrisy and having been gaslit like this.

I don't know how I feel about abortion anymore to be honest with you, but there are people like me who were on the left that have been alienated by this, and are rethinking their positions.

Antarchomachus · 2022-02-12T21:14:12+00:00

If we wouldn't let a 15 year drink a beer, smoke, or drive a car by themselves, why on earth would we let them do this to themselves

Antarchomachus · 2022-02-08T00:02:02+00:00

Not a big fan of any politician personally, but Miss Gabbard is less reprehensible than most. Hypocrite or not, she is correct, and no other politician on the left has the testicular fortitude to make a statement like this

Antarchomachus · 2022-01-20T08:13:47+00:00

Yeah those bastards knew this the whole time, but with effective treatments you have no EUA, and no way to make billions off a patented vaccine. Thanks for killing 1/2 a million people Fauci

Antarchomachus · 2022-02-11T00:30:48+00:00

You're in the right place. Open-minded debates are welcome here.

Antarchomachus · 2022-02-23T19:28:40+00:00

I'm not sure its working, I voted, and it says there is 1 total vote, but it looks like you did it as well, so there should be at least 2

Antarchomachus · 2022-02-18T05:25:16+00:00

Uh.. socks you know he called a couple Jewish people Nazi supporters right?

Antarchomachus · 2022-02-05T18:05:15+00:00

I don't know this seems like a bit much. You have a rich guy using his money for political influence. I'll admit some of these conspiracies seem a little farfetched, but how is this any different than the Bill Gates conspiracies (who is not Jewish).

Not saying anti-semitism doesn't exist (it clearly does, I see it on this site all the time), just saying I am not convinced anti-semitism is the motivation for the Soros hate.

Antarchomachus · 2022-01-18T23:54:46+00:00

Happy to be here. This does look like a far freer place of expression than reddit. Would like to be part of making this a more active community for others who are also frustrated.

Antarchomachus · 2022-02-17T21:33:42+00:00

The pyramid rules are almost never enforced. You will see people engage in ad hominem and name calling all the time. You would really have to be intentionally looking to cause trouble to get banned for something like this, and that doesn't appear to be your motivation. I wouldn't worry too much about this

Antarchomachus · 2022-02-06T21:28:39+00:00

And of course there's nothing wrong with the photo,

Cmon socks, you mean to tell me there is nothing wrong with the optics of a lawmaker in a room full of children not having to wear a mask while they do?

It makes a mockery of the necessity of wearing masks with ridiculous and nonsensical double standards

Antarchomachus · 2022-02-06T19:58:57+00:00

I have mixed feelings about AOC. I like when she stands up to the evil establishment for the working class, but she takes some of this wokeness shit wayyyy to far

Antarchomachus · 2022-02-02T03:01:28+00:00

hahahahah!!

Antarchomachus · 2022-02-01T17:44:41+00:00

Maybe an unpopular opinion...but I've always kind of liked Tulsi (as much as I'm capable of liking pols anyway)

Antarchomachus · 2022-01-23T02:20:16+00:00

This.

This is exactly why I joined here this week, I haven't been back on Reddit since, and couldn't be happier about it. Fuck reddit

Antarchomachus · 2022-01-19T21:35:55+00:00

I have a totally different theory altogether. They will claim victory in the War on Covid, and use their 'success' as justification to gradually introduce a surveillance state using the internet of things and a social credit system. The conspiracy theorist in me enjoys all this speculation a little too much, lol

Antarchomachus · 2022-02-23T04:42:45+00:00

Trying to figure out what kind of catgender I am

Antarchomachus · 2022-02-19T20:52:47+00:00

Sounds exactly like the kind of vague non-sensical sounding charges I was expecting

Antarchomachus · 2022-02-19T19:30:50+00:00

Can someone explain to me why anyone should care about what Bill Gates has to say about anything?

They shouldn't, but the reason they do is the billions of dollars of research money he controls through BGMF and other entities

Antarchomachus · 2022-02-13T02:32:21+00:00

Hey Shalom, agree these particular fellows are concerning, but I'm going to try to challenge your perspective a bit, and maybe have mine challenged as well.

Federal prosecutors have charged an “alt-right” podcaster who espoused strong anti-government views with assembling an arsenal of weapons

Looks like this white supremacist and his father were gearing up for a race war.

It does in this instance, but I would urge caution with generalizations like this. I'm not a white supremacist, but I do hold anti-governmental views, so this kind of talk worries me in that it sounds like we are trying these guys in the court of public opinion for:

Having the wrong opinions
A violent crime they never actually committed (pre-crime if you will)

The only real crime here is a possessions charge based on a pretty arbitrary distinction between classes of firearms, which admittedly they knowingly failed to follow.

Personally I think racism is stupid, and my distaste for it stems from that, but as someone who holds views that are often unpopular or outside the norm, I also am sensitive to discriminating against people based on not liking their beliefs. If this was a couple of Jewish guys stashing illegal weapons in Hitler-led Germany would you apply the same standards?

Again, my intention isn't to defend these guys, and I think in this instance you are probably right that arresting these guys was in the public interest. My intent is more to discuss objectivity in general, and how to maintain fairness when dealing with people we have strong distaste for.

Antarchomachus · 2022-02-12T21:27:08+00:00

In the event of a collapse of the magnitude you are preparing for, fiat currency would have no real exchange value, you would be looking at a barter economy. You might be able to use cash this way for a while, but people will quickly catch on that cash is worthless.

Antarchomachus · 2022-02-10T19:07:25+00:00

No its just a sign he doesn't himself believe the bullshit he tells us.

Antarchomachus · 2022-02-10T04:25:21+00:00

LMAO!!

Antarchomachus · 2022-02-09T18:55:23+00:00

Not wanting to bang a tranny's inside out penis doesn't make me transphobic.

They can do whatever the hell they want for all I care, just leave my penis out of it please

Antarchomachus · 2022-02-06T19:49:16+00:00

Good investigating jet, was wondering who was behind all this

Antarchomachus · 2022-02-05T18:08:53+00:00

Seems to me Bill Gates gets similar treatment despite not being Jewish. Why is this not simply a billionaire using his money for political influence thing? That seems sufficient to explain the Soros hatred.

Antarchomachus · 2022-01-23T04:28:09+00:00

As a 30 something myself, I'm slightly offended and amused to be referred to as a boomer.

I think it is more complex than you are make it seem, if someone really wants to mutilate their genitals and take hormones I think it is insane, but truly don't give a fuck, so I 'support' their right to do it.

What I do not support is that they should be some protected class where we can call people bigots for making jokes about them.

Just my 2 cents

Antarchomachus · 2022-01-21T09:29:43+00:00

Wow, this is fucked

Lets all go green except for the rich people who can actually afford it.

I have a better idea, how bout they can fund the new green agenda using only yacht taxes

Antarchomachus · 2022-02-19T20:20:07+00:00

Was wondering this as well, the news sources aren't giving the charges.

Is it a crime in Canada to organise a peaceful protest?

It is not normally, but it seems like Trudeau's emergency declaration may make it one?

Antarchomachus · 2022-02-18T06:29:41+00:00

This is ridiculous socks. This is the same broad stroke painting that racists do. Saying vaccine mandate protesters are white supremacists, and anyone who supports them is a neo-nazi, is no different than saying Black people are stupid, or Jews are greedy.

do not believe they can be criticized for supporting hate groups.

No, Jews can be criticized for supporting hate groups, but its insane to accuse them of supporting anti-Jewish hate groups. These two individual Jews support protesting vaccine mandates.

Antarchomachus · 2022-02-18T02:55:52+00:00

Doesn't seem like a winning business strategy in Russia

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