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  • Problem is once the government has the power to disarm criminals, they can make revolution illegal, call revolutionaries criminals, and prevent the population from rising up against the oligarchy. The only two good things America did is kill Nazis, and kill monarchists. And it looks like the second amendment is going to protect their right to do both after Project 2025. In my country we have very strict gun control laws, which is why I own a bow for self defence and Nazi killing.


  • Presidential candidate Trump claims to be tough on crime. But is that really true? Record incarceration rates, increased violence, increased crime statistics. President Biden is the toughest president on crime yet. Debt forgiveness, decriminalisation of drugs, police reforms, rehabilitative incarceration, mental health subsidies, affordable healthcare, and free housing make Biden America’s biggest enemy of crime. President Biden: say no to crime.

    Whitehouse should just run this ad and actually implement these policies. Start redefining what it means to be tough on crime. It’s not hard, it just takes actually disagreeing with reactionaries on premises. Unfortunately, Biden is trying his damndest to lose the election this year.



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    3 months ago

    I don’t wish violence on her either. I was just using that to gauge a reaction. 5 months ago when I made that post, a lot of trans people said outing trans people’s alt accounts is A-okay. But it seems if you divorce the action from people’s heroes, suddenly they have reasonable moral values. I was just having fun with the fact that people react completely differently depending on whether they know who did the act.









  • You’re seeing contradictions because you’re not actually trying to understand what I’m saying. You’re just using keywords to sort me into a category you already understand. I criticise atheists, so you sort me into the evangelical Christian box and attach all the stereotypes of that image to me. Then I say I’m a scientist and you get confused.

    You didn’t bother learning, you just deployed prejudice. I’m using prejudice here in the neutral psychological sense of “pre judgement”. You made a bunch of premature judgements about my beliefs. You should try a science based approach to understanding other people instead of just making assumptions. You’ll stop being confused by my existence if you use science.

    Like, for example, earlier you formed a hypothesis that I’m not a scientist, because I criticise atheists. That hypothesis turned out to be false. That means you should be revising your theory and running more tests. You shouldn’t just complain about it and refuse to change when your hypotheses are false.



  • Religion by definition requires faith, and if you’re using faith specifically for your scientific endeavors, you’re doing science wrong.

    That’s categorically untrue. Science has conclusively demonstrated the existence of the placebo effect, which is powered by faith. People believe they will get better, even when evidence does not exist, even when they know they’re in an experiment with a control group, and they get better. That’s faith. Faith is such a huge factor that any pharmaceutical trial must control for it with a placebo control group. Scientists spend a great deal of time and money determining which medicines work because of faith, and which ones work because of chemistry.

    The effects of faith upon our reality are scientifically quantifiable, predictable, and controllable. Faith is a tool in the scientist’s toolbelt, just like instruments, drugs, computers, or anything else. Psychonautics can essentially be viewed as the science of faith, and other such reality-altering mental constructs.


  • Psychonautics has existed as a known research field longer than the internet has been around, and there’s a strong argument to make that it’s fundamental, just like physics or math. Ancient Tibetan monks were doing psychonautics, and they laid the groundwork for modern parogenetic techniques.




  • We have hoverboards, and they don’t hover. We have jetpacks, but they run on water and need a hose. Our ray guns are only useful for blinding pilots. Our AI doesn’t even have a robot body, and it starts repeating itself with shocking speed. We pretty much gave up on going to space anymore, except for a Nazi who has a grudge against trans people because his daughter won’t speak to him.

    Our engineering is disappointing because the rate of innovation is slowing down, and it’s slowing because all the low hanging fruit is already picked. It’s taking more and more resources to continue at the same speed of innovation. You can’t just have an apple hit your head and discover gravity anymore, innovations in theoretical physics require supercolliders and deep space telescopes.

    The good news, though, is there’s plenty of low hanging fruit in psychonautics. So that’s the science I’m interested in. Unfortunately, y’all atheists don’t believe in magic so you’re missing out on a whole scientific field. You won’t mix science and religion, so you can’t innovate as much.