[Nekko Fox]'s diary
Written about Wednesday 2017-02-15
Written: (2837 days ago)
All thinking men are atheists. — Ernest Hemingway
"If people are good only because they fear punishment, and hope for reward, then we are a sorry lot indeed." --- Albert Einstein
Lighthouses are more helpful than churches. --- Benjamin Franklin
"I contend that we are both atheists. I just believe in one fewer god than you do. When you understand why you dismiss all the other possible gods, you will understand why I
dismiss yours." --- Stephen Roberts
Professor Stephen Hawking sets out to answer the question: "Did the Universe need a creator?" The answer he gives is a resounding "no".
"Gods are fragile things; they may be killed by a whiff of science or a dose of common sense." --- Chapman Cohen
"Men never commit evil so fully and joyfully as when they do it for religious convictions" - Blaise Pascal
"No man has ever been brainwashed by science" -- Unknown
"Which is it, is man one of God’s blunders or is God one of man’s?" ---- Friedrich Nietzsche
"A man is accepted into a church for what he believes and he is turned out for what he knows." --- Mark Twain
"Religion is an illusion and it derives its strength from the fact that it falls in with our instinctual desires." ---- Sigmund Freud
"Properly read, the Bible is the most potent force for atheism ever conceived." -- Isaac Asimov
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Since apparently the right-wingers on this hellsite have either forgotten that right-wing terrorism is a thing that still occurs to this day, or they willfully choose to ignore that fact, I chose to provide a little reference sheet so-to-speak. You know, of right-wing terrorism, of right-wing suppression of free speech, of vapid, inane, and violent bullshit spouted as they try to say “The Left is crazy” with shit like this:
1. Islamic terrorism is right-wing Conservative Terrorism
1. Islamic terrorism is right-wing Conservative Terrorism
This really, really isn’t up for debate. Any actual look at what Islamic terrorism is and pushes for will throw this in your face.
It is a terrorist movement to instill traditional, religious values in a society. it seeks the enforcement of a millenia-old book of morals not because they independently agree with those morals and found something that parrots them (like liberals who find a secular rationale to agree with Jesus), but rather “Because Allah said so.”
All of the Islamic terrorism in the world, ISIL and Al-Qaeda and San Bernadino belong squarely on the right side of the political spectrum. This is basic political analysis, based largely on strict adherence to political texts and a denial of religious pluralism.
Since I have no doubt somebody is going to shout obscenities at me for “lying about leftist Islam”, here are 3 separate sources on the matter (https://www.th
(Oh look, here come the Genetic Fallacy believers!) But let’s entirely rule out a large portion of right-wing violence going forward.
2. Right-Wing Institutions and Colleges deny Left-Wing Speakers just as frequently as Left-Wing institutions deny Right-Wingers.
The simplest way to measure this? Disinvitation from events and discussions, line panels or commencements or talks. These are all instances where a person was sought out to come to an event, invited, and then someone along the line took issue with them as people and their political stances. Them taking issue with these stances then ends the invitation process, and the speaker ultimately gets no-platformed for their political opinion.
Right now, the best people at tracking these (and similar issues on campus) would be F.I.R.E., the Foundation for individual Rights in Education. Browse through their articles and you’ll find them fantastic. They’re non-biased and come out strongly against all attempts at censorship in colleges across America, including Berkeley and Harvard both.
They’ve got a full database of all reported disinvitations from colleges across the country. It lists reported controversial speakers, the college where the controversy occurred, and whether or not the disinvitation attempt was successful. You’ll find that liberal colleges attempt to disinvite speakers slightly more often, and that conservative colleges are a bit more succesful when they try to disinvite someone.
You know that Milo gets disinvited from colleges and protested, but so does Ana Kasparian fromt TYT.
So, which is worse, being slightly more likely to try to disinvite someone, or having more power to actually disinvite someone? Because they’re both making roughly the same amount of attempts. Here's the resource on that ( https://www.th
3. Right-Wingers and Conservatives use violence over words plenty in domestic policies they dislike. And it’s only getting more common.
Let’s ignore the right-wing Islamic violence for now and just focus on domestic policies.
Let’s get the elephant out of the room and just state, for the record, the incredible amount of violence associated with the anti-abortion arm of the Right. This is where I could post a shitload of pictures of burnt-out buildings, exploded cars, dead bodies, but i’ll sum it up in one benign picture from an anti-abortion protest.
In terms of actual statistics, though, here’s the deal. In 2015 alone there were 3 murders, 9 attempted murders, and 94 death threats significant enough that police got involved and protected people, all tied to anti-abortion movements.(http://www.nbc
This has been a decades-old problem. And I immediately know that people are going to say “oh, it’s going down! From 7 down to 3″ except it’s actually going up again (re: previous citations).
Right-wing domestic terrorism as a whole is going up ( https://www.ct
Bet you missed it, but right-wing terrorist Glendon Scott Crawford was arrested for trying to make a dirty bomb to kill muslims and liberals ( http://www.den
A 52-year-old industrial mechanic who was the first person in the U.S. convicted of trying to produce a weapon of mass destruction under a 2004 law intended to stop terrorists from using radiation-disp
This was TWO MONTHS AGO
3.5 While republican administration
Meanwhile, republican President Trump is re-purposing the department that actually would investigate and combat domestic right-wing terrorism into something explicitly focused only on radical Islamic violence ( http://thehill
4. Fear Mongering about Nazis, and all of its inglory.
I mean, are people seriously trying to say “Leftists try to stir up fear and over-reaction over everything!” as if it’s something new, something unseen before? Even off the top of my fucking head this is laughable.
1.Leftists are coming to take your guns!! ( http://louderw
a. Obama signed federal bills expanding gun rights onto trains and national parks ( http://www.nbc
b.The NRA has literally called federal agents Nazi thugs in the past for enforcing existing gun control laws. ( http://mediama
2. FEMA Concentration Camps are coming! (http://www.inf
3. Democrats are going to kill your grandparents! (http://www.pol
a. Which is coming back around now that Trump is president. ( http://money.c
4. McCarthy. No source needed.
5. Sharia Law is taking over the country! ( http://www.tea
a. Here’s a two-fer. Obama is a secret kenyan muslim, (http://www.cbs
b. Donald Trump lied and misled people about Obama being foreign-born for political points. ( https://www.ny
I mean…give me a break. Are you serious?
I don’t need to go in-depth about crazy, radical-leftis
Fuck your confirmation bias.
Whether it is true, or whether it is false, cannot be verified or disproven. But whether it is true, or whether it is a hoax, it is an isolated anecdote that affects only its immediate situation and has no larger significance that impacts any broader issues.
Veganism is retarded. It's not cruelty free, affordable, and is definitely not the best choice for everyone.
It's not cruelty free. 500,000 kids, some as young as SIX harvest 25% of crops exported to the US. People are literally starving in South America because all the Quinoa crop is being exported mainly for white vegans who want to live “cruelty-free” but don’t care about brown people as much as they do about animals.
And, contrary to what vegans would have you believe, none of us can survive on a plant-based diet. We cannot manufacture B12, and the so-called “plant-based” sources of B12, it turns out, don’t produce it in a form we can digest. Not well, and not the amount we need.
B12 is found in all animal products.
Additionally, although humans can manufacture taurine (only found in meat), not all of us can manufacture enough taurine. This is why some people get sick when they go vegetarian.
To survive on a vegan diet you need to artificially supplement B12 and possibly taurine. Period.
A diet that requires artificial supplementatio
Then there’s protein.
For some people on thyroid medication, they are not supposed to consume large quantities of soy as it can make my thyroid worse, throwing off their dosage. You can have some, but cannot use it as a major protein source. This is also true for trans men (the phytoestrogens intefere with testosterone therapy), cis men with low testosterone (same reason) and women with a family history of breast cancer (elevates risk). Excessive soy consumption has also been linked to early puberty in girls (Again, phytoestrogens) and reproductive/s
This limits you access to non-animal proteins to beans and grains. If you were gluten intolerant as well, it would be a real problem. The only dairy substitute available to many is rice milk (and rice causes many of the same problems environmentall
Oh, but it’s better for the environment, right?
Nope.
In addition to the already-mentio
Studies indicate that if we all gave up meat tomorrow, all 7 billion of us gave up animal products forever, the good side would be the reduction in antibiotic use and greenhouse gas emissions.
How about the bad side?
1.3 billion people would lose their jobs overnight. 1.3 billion. 987 million of them are poor.
Another thing that Ban Eating Meat Tomorrow types forget is that veganism is not necessarily the most effective use of farmland.
Uh, what?
The statement that if everyone switched to a vegan diet we would need a fraction of our current farmland assumes all farmland is created equal.
It simply is not.
I suspect that a lot of this perspective either comes from city dwellers who have no clue about farming or from people in the US breadbasket where there is a lot of high quality farmland suitable for raising food for humans.
The last global census in 2008 said that at that time, if all 6 billion people went vegan, it would need 3,068,444,911 acres of arable land. At the time there was about 3,212,369,959 acres of arable land: That is to say land suitable for raising crops humans can eat.
However, we’re building on, or otherwise destroying, arable land at the rate of about 1% a year and the population has grown.
We literally do not have enough arable land to feed everyone a plant-based diet.
And there are parts of the world that have a worse proportion of arable land to land only suitable for pasture than the US. Scotland comes immediately to mind. People in these places would have to import most of their food. I’m not sure Iceland could survive without eating fish.
If we all gave up eating meat tomorrow many of us would starve. I’m not exaggerating or being alarmist.
I’m also not criticizing people who choose not to eat animal products (just please make sure you get the required nutrients).
I am criticizing the “I don’t eat animal products and nobody else should either” crowd. Because it’s not that simple.
Also, bluntly, vitamin B12 deficiency can cause mood disturbances and paranoia…
But again, if you have to consume artificial supplements for whatever reason (unless it’s a personal absorption issue) your diet is not healthy.
Sorry, it’s just not.
“i nearly had to address your point but luckily you have an anime header/furry icon so tough luck pal haha”
This is Art-Pants' half of our art trade.
My fursona!
My half of an art trade with Art-Pants on Tumblr, her OC character Buck Cypher and Dipper Pines from Gravity Falls.
Now colored!
My half of an art trade with Art-Pants on Tumblr, her OC character Buck Cypher and Dipper Pines from Gravity Falls.
Much of what we hear about the plight of American women is false. Some faux facts have been repeated so often they are almost beyond the reach of critical analysis. Though they are baseless, these canards have become the foundation of Congressional debates, the inspiration for new legislation and the focus of college programs. Here are five of the most popular myths that should be rejected by all who are genuinely committed to improving the circumstances of women:
MYTH 1: Women are half the world’s population, working two-thirds of the world’s working hours, receiving 10% of the world’s income, owning less than 1% of the world’s property.
FACTS: This injustice confection is routinely quoted by advocacy groups, the World Bank, Oxfam and the United Nations. It is sheer fabrication. More than 15 years ago, Sussex University experts on gender and development Sally Baden and Anne Marie Goetz, repudiated the claim: “The figure was made up by someone working at the UN because it seemed to her to represent the scale of gender-based inequality at the time.” But there is no evidence that it was ever accurate, and it certainly is not today.
Precise figures do not exist, but no serious economist believes women earn only 10% of the world’s income or own only 1% of property. As one critic noted in an excellent debunking in The Atlantic, “U.S. women alone earn 5.4 percent of world income today.” Moreover, in African countries, where women have made far less progress than their Western and Asian counterparts, Yale economist Cheryl Doss found female land ownership ranged from 11% in Senegal to 54% in Rwanda and Burundi. Doss warns that “using unsubstantiate
MYTH 2: Between 100,000 and 300,000 girls are pressed into sexual slavery each year in the United States.
FACTS: This sensational claim is a favorite of politicians, celebrities and journalists. Ashton Kutcher and Demi Moore turned it into a cause célèbre. Both conservatives and liberal reformers deploy it. Former President Jimmy Carter recently said that the sexual enslavement of girls in the U.S. today is worse than American slavery in the 19th century.
The source for the figure is a 2001 report on child sexual exploitation by University of Pennsylvania sociologists Richard Estes and Neil Alan Weiner. But their 100,000–300,00
MYTH 3: In the United States, 22%–35% of women who visit hospital emergency rooms do so because of domestic violence.
FACTS: This claim has appeared in countless fact sheets, books and articles—for example, in the leading textbook on family violence, Domestic Violence Law, and in the Penguin Atlas of Women in the World. The Penguin Atlas uses the emergency room figure to justify placing the U.S. on par with Uganda and Haiti for intimate violence.
What is the provenance? The Atlas provides no primary source, but the editor of Domestic Violence Law cites a 1997 Justice Department study, as well as a 2009 post on the Centers for Disease Control website. But the Justice Department and the CDC are not referring to the 40 million women who annually visit emergency rooms, but to women, numbering about 550,000 annually, who come to emergency rooms “for violence-relat
MYTH 4: One in five in college women will be sexually assaulted.
FACTS: This incendiary figure is everywhere in the media today. Journalists, senators and even President Obama cite it routinely. Can it be true that the American college campus is one of the most dangerous places on earth for women?
The one-in-five figure is based on the Campus Sexual Assault Study, commissioned by the National Institute of Justice and conducted from 2005 to 2007. Two prominent criminologists
“The estimated 19% sexual assault rate among college women is based on a survey at two large four-year universities, which might not accurately reflect our nation’s colleges overall. In addition, the survey had a large non-response rate, with the clear possibility that those who had been victimized were more apt to have completed the questionnaire, resulting in an inflated prevalence figure.”
Fox and Moran also point out that the study used an overly broad definition of sexual assault. Respondents were counted as sexual assault victims if they had been subject to “attempted forced kissing” or engaged in intimate encounters while intoxicated.
Defenders of the one-in-five figure will reply that the finding has been replicated by other studies. But these studies suffer from some or all of the same flaws. Campus sexual assault is a serious problem and will not be solved by statistical hijinks.
MYTH 5: Women earn 77 cents for every dollar a man earns—for doing the same work.
FACTS: No matter how many times this wage gap claim is decisively refuted by economists, it always comes back. The bottom line: the 23-cent gender pay gap is simply the difference between the average earnings of all men and women working full-time. It does not account for differences in occupations, positions, education, job tenure or hours worked per week. When such relevant factors are considered, the wage gap narrows to the point of vanishing.
Wage gap activists say women with identical backgrounds and jobs as men still earn less. But they always fail to take into account critical variables. Activist groups like the National Organization for Women have a fallback position: that women’s education and career choices are not truly free—they are driven by powerful sexist stereotypes. In this view, women’s tendency to retreat from the workplace to raise children or to enter fields like early childhood education and psychology, rather than better paying professions like petroleum engineering, is evidence of continued social coercion. Here is the problem: American women are among the best informed and most self-determini
MYTH 6: Men are the privileged sex
FACTS: Neither sex has the better deal. Modern life is a complicated mix of burdens and advantages—for each sex. Women are assumed to be the have-nots because a massive lobby devotes itself to proving Venus is worse off than Mars. Mars’ afflictions go unnoticed. So let’s consider a few of them.
When it comes to being crushed, mutilated, electrocuted, or mangled at work, men are at a distinct disadvantage. Most backbreaking, lethally dangerous jobs—roofer, logger, roustabout, and coal miner, to name a few—are done by men. The Labor Department reports that nearly 5,000 American workers die from workplace accidents each year. Ninety percent, more than 4,400, ARE male. We are often reminded that only 24 women are CEOs of the Fortune 500. But what about the Unfortunate 4,400?
Education beyond high school has been called “the passport to the American dream.” Increasingly, women have it and men don’t. From the earliest grades, our schools do a better job educating girls. Women now earn a majority of associate, bachelor, masters and doctoral degrees and their share of college degrees increases almost every year. The intersectional narrative tells us that males—especial
Finally, consider the mother of all gender gaps: life expectancy. On average, women outlive men by about five years. The numbers are starker when you factor in race and ethnicity. In the U.S., Hispanic and Asian women can expect to live to 88 and 85, respectively. For white and black men, the ages are 76 and 72.
Today’s women’s lobby deploys a faulty logic: In cases where men are better off than women, that’s injustice. Where women are doing better—that’s life.
Final verdict: If Mars needs to check his privilege, then so does Venus.
Why do these reckless claims have so much appeal and staying power? For one thing, there is a lot of statistical illiteracy among journalists, feminist academics and political leaders. There is also an admirable human tendency to be protective of women—stories of female exploitation are readily believed, and vocal skeptics risk appearing indifferent to women’s suffering. Finally, armies of advocates depend on “killer stats” to galvanize their cause. But killer stats obliterate distinctions between more and less serious problems and send scarce resources in the wrong directions. They also promote bigotry. The idea that American men are annually enslaving more than 100,000 girls, sending millions of women to emergency rooms, sustaining a rape culture and cheating women out of their rightful salary creates rancor in true believers and disdain in those who would otherwise be sympathetic allies.
My advice to women’s advocates: Take back the truth.
Funny how “toxic masculinity” comes from the same movement that gave us “mansplaining” and “male tears” and actively tries to keep people from talking about men’s issues, up to and including breaking the law.
Written about Sunday 2017-01-22
Written: (2862 days ago)
As a matter of fact men and women, under law, are equal, so in all reality, if you are a woman, and are attacking a man, he can defend himself in whatever way possible. The only reason people think that men can’t hit women IN SELF
DEFENSE is because of feminism, and feminists/ woman sympathizers in the justice system. I’m sure, also teaching children(i.e., and in particular, Boys) to never defend themselves doesn’t help at all.
Because of feminists, in fact, women get preferential (and more lenient) treatment in court, in domestic abuse calls, and in court claims regarding family and child rearing. This, even when men have been the obvious recipient of abuse, made the call for help, the woman was caught sexually assaulting a child, or when the father has been shown to be a better parent during a custody battle.
Equality.
I made Gravity Falls porn.
Because I can.
You go to a Five Guys Burgers & Fries restaurant but instead of hype shit on the walls it’s all just photocopied newspaper articles of people that went missing after eating Five Guys.
The farther back into the restaurant you, the more drastic the changes in dates. Some, you begin to find, are from days that haven’t happened yet.
Among them, an article with a photo of you on it.
You leave, shaken to your core.
You avoid Five Guys for fifty-five years, convinced it would be your end.
However, time, passes. You grow up, start a family, grow old. One day, your family is on a road trip. Your kids wanting to visit some far off place with your grandkids, and they take you along.
The evening wears on. They stop off at a restaurant. Five Guys Burgers & Fries. Instinctively, you recoil, stating you won't go in.You can't.
Your children are exasperated that you're still hung up on a ridiculous fantasy, or some vague nightmare, arguing that your grandchildren are hungry and there is nowhere else to eat.
You acquiesce. Reluctantly, you acquiesce.
You enter the restaurant. One of the cooks looks up and smiles at you.
"We've been expecting you, Jacob."
The whole restaurant goes silent, and all the patrons look at you with smiles on their faces.
"We've been waiting a long time."
You can't even scream.
Listen, no matter what your fave youtuber/”heal
Juice cleanses do not do anything health-wise! Except probably lead to you getting insufficient calories for the duration! There is nothing to “cleanse”, because…
Your body does not have a “build up of toxins” you can detox away. Either your liver and kidneys are sorting shit out, or you’re experiencing severe health problems and should see a doctor. In particular, the idea you have a build up of heavy metal in your cells is ABSURD. Trust me. You’d know. “Toxins” is a word with no legal definition which is therefore not monitored in advertising. It means nothing.
Detox/weight loss teas are just mild laxatives. I wish people would stop advertising these things.
Something being vegan, gluten-free, “all natural”, etc. does not mean it cannot be bad for you. It does not necessarily mean it is better for you. It just means… it is those things. And, as has been proved time and again, it usually doesn't even mean that.
If you ingest more of a nutrient than your body needs, the rest is wasted. It isn’t used by the body. Unless you have a vitamin deficiency, taking supplements is useless. And expensive.
Oh, and for the record, it’s not dangerous but you don’t need “eight glasses of water a day”. A lot of water comes from the food you eat. Also, any liquid that isn’t as strong a diuretic as, say, alcohol? Works to hydrate you. I mean, staying hydrated is good, but the eight glasses a day thing isn’t true. Just drink when you need water.
Show: “Islam dose not condone violence.”
Me: places a copy of the Koran on the table with sticky notes in it pointing out all 100 passages in the Koran that say violence is a good thing, and walks out of the room.
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