If Mort Divine ruled the world

Why shouldn't (should: v. used to indicate what is probable) it happen?

Because they're children: innocent and defenseless.

It's a natural outcome of war.

#realpolitikwisdom

Until then, I argue that they should, because it's a predictable outcome of war.

You say they should because they're highly likely to do it? That's one of the most idiotic empty statements I have ever heard and probably the most radical centrist thing anybody has ever said in the history of mankind. Does your fence also have a waifu graphic on it?

You've never supported a war in your life? Including defensive wars?

I meant wars that have happened in my lifetime.

A parent is supposed to protect their child. For not fleeing with their children, the French slavers are responsible for the murder of their children.

Right, the Haitian child slaughterers dindu nuffin.

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War predates mankind, and the young have never been more spared than they are in today's wars. I don't know what this whole argument has been on about.
 
Quotes from Richard Haier:
https://www.amazon.com/Neuroscience-Intelligence-Cambridge-Fundamentals-Psychology/dp/110746143X/

Intelligence test scores are related to brain glucose metabolism. This helps validate that the test scores were not meaningless numbers representing a statistical artifact. In fact, as neuroimaging studies of intelligence continue to increase, old criticisms about intelligence test scores having no meaning are less and less meaningful, if they were ever meaningful at all.
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We found a nearly perfect linear relationship between the g – loading of each subtest of the WAIS and the amount of gray matter correlated to each subtest score (Colom et al .,2006a ). Thus, we come to another important observation. IQ tests have the advantages of a standardized test battery but the scores combine the general factor along with other specific factors. So the question of how intelligence correlates to brain structure and function depends on whether the question is about g or about more specific mental abilities. Inconsistent results among these early studies likely result from confusion on this issue as well as from issues about sampling and image analysis.
 

Not to be a brainwashed peon, but this isn’t evidence that the NYT publishes biased reports—although that’s a nonstarter really because all news is biased.

Politicians have always forged inroads with the media, and it’s entirely unsurprising to hear that reporters give certain politicians a heads up when damaging stories/information are going to be published. This revelation (if it turns out to be true) doesn’t change the fact that the NYT still published its findings. It simply gave the Clinton administration a warning to expect bad news. There’s nothing unprecedented about that.
 
Not to be a brainwashed peon, but this isn’t evidence that the NYT publishes biased reports—although that’s a nonstarter really because all news is biased.

Politicians have always forged inroads with the media, and it’s entirely unsurprising to hear that reporters give certain politicians a heads up when damaging stories/information are going to be published. This revelation (if it turns out to be true) doesn’t change the fact that the NYT still published its findings. It simply gave the Clinton administration a warning to expect bad news. There’s nothing unprecedented about that.

There was never a Hillary Clinton administration (fortunately). It was the Obama administration. Was the Dubya administration given the same "courtesy"? Is the Trump administration given the same "courtesy"? We can be pretty sure of the answer. Furthermore, such an arrangement is indicative of sentiments, which - as you already noted by your acknowledgement of bias in media - shape the sorts of stories which are "newsworthy". There's no real journalism left within media houses. It's illeducated young partisan hacks writing drivel for people smarter than them but who ignorantly believe they are reading intelligent work by truthseekers. There's a significant amount of naivety among the intelligent. The upper half of the Dunning-Kruger effect. The lower half consist partially of a majority of journalists.

The internet has rendered the need for media houses close to zero. We can hear and read from the mouths of the horses themselves, as it were, as they so choose to speak.
 
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https://www.reuters.com/article/us-...stations-raise-stakes-in-unrest-idUSKBN1EP064

Some 13 people were reported killed on Sunday in the worst wave of unrest since crowds took to the streets in 2009 to condemn the re-election of then-president Mahmoud Ahmadinejad.


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There was never a Hillary Clinton administration (fortunately). It was the Obama administration. Was the Dubya administration given the same "courtesy"? Is the Trump administration given the same "courtesy"? We can be pretty sure of the answer.

Uh, the answer is almost certainly "yes."

We all know you disdain the media, so this is getting kind of old.
 
The media are so shit that when Trump suggested he was going to open up the *libel laws so if media organizations intentionally write false or libelous articles they can be brought to court.

As in, something that is already fucking done in America (Trump being too uneducated on civics to even know this when he said it) and what did the media do? Claim he was trying to censor the media because they're too ideologically hysterical to go with the actual story which is: our president is so fucking stupid he proposes to put laws into place that already exist.
 
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It's probably just as bad as misreporting: it's choosing to go with a #fakenews story that will generate emotion, outrage and fear rather than the actual facts which looks mediocre and passionless by comparison.