This is a based thread. Simply the best.
@Reveille
What do you think of this?
Its been stated in multiple studies that male testosterone and sperm is going down in the world. Hell, apparently men of today have less testosterone compared to their forefathers.
And we see in the media continuous assaults on men and we even have this:
Men are more likely than women to die of the coronavirus, so scientists are treating them with something women have more of: female sex hormones.
www.nytimes.com
So lets pump men with female hormones.
And we have the whole transgender pushing which as we see is very heavily focused on MTF's .
Its been said by analysts and governments that young men with nothing are very dangerous as they can do violence or rebel against the government. Men have fought the wars and revolts and revolutions.
And yet men and boys are pushed down by the state, education and women cause of feminism.
Feminism and the state and corporations are all heavily involved with each other.
Hence to me, there is an agenda to weaken men. Either turn them all trans or weaklings who will never question or fight back against the establishment and feminism is part of this movement to weaken men.
What do you think?
@Lanmandragon
How about you?
There is a substantial difference between male and female mortality with COVID-19. Namely, men die far more often than women. Like 2.4 times more:
Objective: The recent outbreak of Novel Coronavirus Disease (COVID-19) is reminiscent of the SARS outbreak in 2003. We aim to compare the severity and mortal...
www.frontiersin.org
They think Progesterone might have a positive effect. There's a reason for this. COVID-19 kills the fuck out of people with high blood pressure. Progesterone drops blood pressure.
Research from Weill Medical College of Cornell University and other institutions provides new evidence that the sex steroid hormone progesterone is also a vasoactive hormone that directly affects blood vessels. This finding sheds light on both the drop in blood pressure that usually accompanies...
www.nyp.org
Of course, that raises the question as to why they can't just try and drop their blood pressure with blood pressure medication, instead, instead of resorting to hormones.
The decline in sperm counts and sperm quality is very concerning, because over the long-term, that is an existential threat. It's probably an environmental or dietary factor. Pollution, electrosmog, hormones in food, et cetera.
As for the whole weakening men thing, I think wars have done more to weaken men as a group in the past hundred years than anything. Modern warfare is a meat grinder that takes the highest-testosterone, most aggressive males out of a given population (an all-volunteer army, for instance), and kills and maims them, reducing their numbers. In this way, the State disposes of its most troublesome and most independent subjects.
This war on men is very, very old. It didn't start yesterday. It started over a hundred years ago, sending them to die on the fields of Verdun. That's my opinion on the matter. After all, what better way to take fullest advantage of the nature of men, than by luring men with the thrill of combat and the promise of the hunt? The Elites on both sides don't care for their nations' men and boys. They see them as competitors for the seats of power.
While remaining enemies in public, the Elite shook hands and exchanged pleasantries behind closed doors, and they slathered the battlefield in the blood of warriors, as they've always done.
Both sides of the political aisle wanted it, even if for somewhat different reasons.
And the average Joe didn't care about these rights much, if he even knew he had them.
If both sides of the political aisle wanted it, then it stands to reason that they don't have the Average Joe's best interests in mind, doesn't it?
Afghanistan was hiding OBL. Until OBL felt fire under his ass and moved to Pakistan through the notoriously theoretical border between them.
Inquiry says US failure to attack al-Qaida's leader at Tora Bora had far-reaching consequences
www.theguardian.com
The commander of a U.S. military force so secret that many believe it does not exist has told American television how soldiers under his command found Osama bin Laden - but let him slip through their fingers.
www.dailymail.co.uk
Report says Al Qaeda leader was unquestionably within reach of U.S. troops in the mountains of Tora Bora when American military leaders made the crucial and costly decision not to pursue the terrorist leader with massive force.
www.foxnews.com
After that, staying in Afghanistan was part maintaining appearances and part making sure he doesn't come back.
And then after he got killed, it was mostly appearances and unrealistic expectations, which is where we are now.
True, true. He probably spent most of his time in Pakistan though.
And now that he's gone, we're just handing power back to the Taliban because they were better at running the country than the ineffectual, sycophantic morons that we put in charge. Same deal with Iraq, really. Why is it that when America tries to install a democracy in place of a dictatorship, we put weak, pathetic little yes-men in power who cannot command any respect from their soldiers or from the populace, and promptly get overthrown?
Even our guys on the ground know what's going on. They're not stupid. They're much sharper than our dumbass politicians.
This is how the proverbial sausage of geopolitics is made. The western left would be far better off paying less attention to that and focusing more on its own backyard. Its no skin off their backs after all, this kind of concern scatter is not good for anyone.
When I was younger, anti-war discourse was central to the Left. Obama used the anti-war crowd to get elected to power, and then, he started more wars. I mean,
this is very clearly what happened.
Obama pulled the funding rug right out from underneath these groups the moment he got into the Oval Office. They just kind of "went away". Nowadays, if someone says they're anti-war, they're derided as a "single-issue voter". Candidates like Tulsi Gabbard can't get any traction at all. The media is
calculated to discredit and destroy them. One of the latest and nastiest tools in their toolbox is plain ol' McCarthyism. If in doubt, just call someone a Russian asset. That oughta do it.
Also, is it just me, or does Medea Benjamin look like one of Floop's Fooglies? Just sayin'.
Unlike this. The left likes to put this story as a humanitarian problem, while in practice, well the sky is blue, water is wet, and communist China abuses its people in a myriad of ways, what's new there?
The more interesting part is that this is the labor offer that China competes with. Of course its far cheaper than doing it in the west. Doubly so with all the people wanting even higher minimum wage. That's the real problem. Then the centrists liberals in the west craft elaborate theories about "jobs Americans/Germans/British won't do" (yeah, sure, obviously they won't do any job for half a dollar an hour) and "natural competitive advantages", but it's all smoke and mirrors, it's not about anything natural. The simple fact is that China is willing to offer ridiculously cheap labor and also go easy on some other expensive regulations, all to get international business to put their factories there, pay them tax money, and share technologies (willingly or not so much).
The question of how is your country going to try compete with that (or if its just gonna fold) is the really inconvenient question which touches upon the very top of great power politics. Its a question different answers to which can kill corporations, whole business models, economies, and even start wars.
China does more than just abuse their own people. They've historically devalued their currency to keep their export markets strong, and they've also been trying to steal American R&D for decades, going as far as using their citizens here on work visas as their eyes and ears. Much of the value of the US economy comes from research and development, and they want their hands in the pie, the bastards.
China is like that one D&D minmaxer at the table that nobody likes. They're not an actual participant in the global system. Soft power is just warfare by other means for them. They spend more money on PR than the next several countries combined. The way they've tricked everyone into constantly kissing their ass while they've bought up huge stakes in our social media corporations is fucking disgusting.
What's worse, China knows they're overdue for replacement, and they don't like it. Factory wages in China have been rising steadily over the past decade, and you know what that means? It means Western businesses are going to be looking to re-outsource those jobs. That's why everyone has their eyes on Africa as the next source of cheap labor. China's not stupid. They know this. That's part of the reason why they've been trying to get their foot in the door in Africa for years. That, and all the resources, of course.
Those "islands" China built in the South China Sea are fucking disgusting. Those aren't islands. Those are coral reefs that they churned up and dumped dirt and gravel on top of with fucking dredgers. The ecological devastation is fucking unbelievable.
A foreign affairs spokesman said that countries ringing the South China Sea could lose up to $100 million a year from the loss of fish breeding grounds.
www.nytimes.com
These ecosystems will basically never recover. They were fucking obliterated.
Far from all:
en.wikipedia.org
For the sake of US presence in Afghanistan, the US has to maintain appearances and suffer the frenemy status of Pakistan. But that doesn't mean that the people in national security apparatus have forgotten or ignored it. Pakistan is playing stupid games and gravitating more and more towards China, so the balancing of US relationship between Pakistan and India for the sake of not making either an ally of China is becoming pointless. So far the only major reason not to heavily reevaluate this relationship is the supply route needed for the presence in Afghanistan. Which, as i've mentioned, is not really continuing for a good reason either.
Well, the answer is simple, then. We need to get the fuck out of Afghanistan and side with India. Get them sucking the NATO defense contractor teat. They suck at building their own weapons. They need to buy a few of our tanks, jets, and missiles. That'll get them all set up.
That was mostly French wanting an intervention for a bunch of their own reasons and Hillary Clinton wanting to pad her resume, under pretense of USA avoiding another France-NATO relationship crisis over lack of support which France wanted.
Sarkozy was a fucking creep. Gaddafi was his friend, and he stabbed the guy in the back.
Former French president questioned over claims Libyan regime gave his election campaign €50m
www.theguardian.com
The former French president is accused of accepting campaign cash from the Libyan leader. The rush to bomb Gaddafi gets a necessary second look.
theintercept.com
There's a reason for this. For decades, the CFA Franc has been used to establish French colonialist control over North Africa. These countries all pay a reserve into French banks. Every single country that has tried going off the CFA Franc since the sixties has suffered coups and assassinations of French origin. The independence of the Évian Accords was independence in name only. In reality, France has continued to exert financial control over North Africa all the way up into the present.
François Mitterrand warned that France would be irrelevant to twenty-first-century history unless it maintained its control of Africa. Its instrument for so doing is the CFA Franc — a colonial currency entrenching French rule more than fifty years after independence.
www.jacobinmag.com
Most people don't know about this uncomfortable fact. Even if we shove it in people's faces, they don't care. They'd rather believe that we're the good guys, that there are heroic democracies and evil dictatorships that oppose our freedoms, or whatever. No. There are rich nations and there are poor ones, and the poor ones are lorded over by the rich in every conceivable way.
There is a pattern developing here, US movers and shakers tend to be somewhat too prone to wishful thinking for their own good. A lot of the time they find great allies in some exotic lands that only want to fight for freedom and democracy, these great allies just fuck off with the guns and money the moment they feel like it.
As i said, sausage making. Also again seeing allies where there are only conmen and opportunists. The people not deeply interested in politics will take whatever the media says, the left will be outraged about something anyway so who cares, and the neocons are happy that they have found the allies and terrorists they wanted to find.
We had the benefit of hindsight, though. We knew what happened the last time we did this shit. The Taliban came into power. Our leaders cannot possibly be so stupid that they can't see that, can they?
Part of it is political theater, part of it is most US mainstream media declaring total war against Trump, not Obama, and part of it is that the open progressive influence on the left has rapidly risen over the last decade or so.
The Left were joined at the hip with the Liberals in the US to the point where, in common discourse in America, Liberal
means Left, and vice versa. That's not how it is in other countries, of course, but in the US, that's the way it's been for decades. If someone was left-wing, they sided with the Democrats. However, it's become increasingly obvious to some Americans, especially those on the far-left, that the Democrats never really served their interests to begin with.
And now that the Left and the Liberals have begun to split, the Left in America is looking less like its own coherent movement and more like a weird tumor excised from the Democratic Party's belly. All of a sudden, you have these Left-wing career politicians going around making ridiculous demands, making a laughingstock of themselves. Like in some puppet show, the specter of Communism has been raised and the Left have been made exceptionally easy to discredit.
This scary, mean puppet has appeared, wearing an ushanka and a pendant of a hammer and sickle, waving its clawed hands in the air and stomping around, and I'm just sitting here thinking, y'know, we just wanted the drone strikes and indefinite detention to stop. Who the fuck are these people making these ludicrous, fiscally-impossible demands and proposing trillions of dollars in social programs? Who are they useful idiots for?
Don't exaggerate. Syria and the region in general were a powder keg for many reasons (starting by being a poor country consisting of various ethnic groups that don't exactly like each other united under an authoritarian, heavy handed ruler belonging to a rather small and disliked one), something was bound to happen eventually. The details were up in the air and plenty of intelligence agencies worked hard to adjust them, but no one sane is going to say that Syria was a land of sunshine and rainbows until those damn Americans meddled in it.
Of course it wasn't a land of sunshine and rainbows. Civil war was inevitable, what with rising food costs and everything. That said, if we'd kept our hands out of it, then Assad would have quickly quashed the rebellion and we wouldn't have this massive refugee crisis on our hands. They're smuggling people into Europe, and for what? What is the point?
With how COVID-19 has torpedoed our economy and is threatening our food infrastructure, we may be looking at a repeat of that, here. Nothing makes people flip out and start civil wars faster than a lack of food. It's the most basic thing.
They have money and 90% of politicians have no idea what the information traders are doing, how to regulate them or why. Does anyone really? But they do know how to shut up and take money, that was always part of their profession. Its something that will take a lot of time to hammer out in a reasonable and fair way, while the issue is here and now already.
It's literally their job to know what the information traders are doing. These corporations have established, in essence, a form of double government.
Democracy as we know it is a lie. Voting is a distraction. All our candidates are bought and paid for by wealthy special interests with their own agendas that run counter to what the masses want, and nobody seems to care about this at all.
International organization "for a cause" up to usual shenanigans, who would have thought. This shit is why the global right tends to be distrustful of such organizations.
See: WHO-China kerfuffle.
The international watchdogs that we're supposed to rely on to bring accountability into the mix are essentially putting a rubber stamp of approval on the official narrative without so much as questioning it. That's a problem.