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Bill Gates, Steve Jobs, and Mark Zuckerberg are gifted outliers. For a person of average to above average intellect, college is still the pathway to efficiently acquiring skills that will guarantee an upper middle class life. It would be nice if the educational system were more flexible early on. Bu...

Useless, yet highly-privileged, people who hate themselves, their life choices, and the society that they live in. Sounds like you just described the "red pill" crowd to a tee. If one were educating a child today in a developed country, I would advise them to pursue the arts as a major, S...

I guess being banned by Google or Twitter for advocating racial violence is culture. If they had a better culture they wouldn't be having their rights infringed by multinationals. This brings up an interesting question: what exactly is conservative culture and what innovations has it developed in r...

Be it black or white redneck, everyone in a society should have competent math and literacy skills so that they can make other choices in life than "livin' with yo mama" while trying to make it as a "gangsta rappa". Be that a apprenticeship to learn a useful trade, attend colleg...

Blame yourself first, and you have a better chance of improving your situation. Parents and peers are also huge influencers, damn shame you can't ick the former. That's a good attitude to have but it does not come naturally nor easily. Plenty of historical evidence to back this up. All successful s...

Wow your math. Holy lavender, HUGE error. 39 out of 100,000 isn't 7000 out of 100,000 it is 39 out of 100,000. 1 in 15 black people isn't a murderer 1 in 2564 is. Not even wrong. Nice to see you around, Enki. Shame we didn't meet when I lived in New York and I hope you are staying safe. Col. Sun is...

i thought these where all the depressing oxy addicted shithole whitebread places, how does that work for all the big progressive cities and the BLM problems ? Parroting Mr. Perfect, I see. Repeatedly debunked but your opinion hasn't changed in years. Intellectual ossification has taken hold of this...

Nice change up Zack. We were talking about Apple. Not the country as a whole. Whose suicide numbers as a whole are well undocumented. Are you just trolling? What don't you understand about this ? The average rate of suicide in China is 22 per 100,000 people per year. That is, the suicide rate at Fo...

Very true. For months now it seem pretty obvious that all the pre-election shenanigans were engineering an election that would instill little confidence and be very easy to contest. There were no pre-election shenanigans and the election has proven very difficult to contest because there has been s...

Selectively. The anonymous "Tyler Durden" occasionally makes an interesting/novel observation re the financial markets. The rest is mostly shills shilling their product. When truthfulness is not a constraint, novel observations are very easy to generate. It would be even funnier if the NY...

Unlike you, Zack, I believe local residents have at least some right to how their community develops. I didn't say anything to the contrary. I am saying local residents can't exclude black people, for example. Also, in terms of Western Civilization, it may surprise you to learn that 'racism' is not...

You mean the richest individual person in the world? Soon to be the richest person on Mar as well? Yeah, have you ever used any of his products? How often do his companies touch your everyday life? Have you ever used Wall street financial products ? Have you ever directly invested in any business a...

Doc wrote: ↑Thu Jan 07, 2021 10:06 pm BTW Musk today became the richest man in the world. Must be something in the Texas water

You ever used any of his products?

You're advocating for a utopia. How far from the Western intellectual tradition you have strayed when you argue that outlawing the erection of barriers to disadvantage entire groups of people you dislike is "utopian". First of all, forgive me for saying so but people like you are typicall...

The BLM/Antifa violence - looting, arson, and murder - even if it was studiously ignored by the mainstream media along with the blatant hypocrisy of some politicians does not justify the rioting at the US capital. False. CNN / MSNBC / Fox played all summer on TV here at home. All three channels sho...

Unfortunately too many people are not interested in regularized voting procedures. Regularized voting procedures are fine so long as they are not rigged to exclude minorities. What happened in Georgia is beautiful: voter suppression made it appear to be a red state but thanks to the efforts of Stac...

i thought these where all the depressing oxy addicted shithole whitebread places, how does that work for all the big progressive cities and the BLM problems ? Parroting Mr. Perfect, I see. Repeatedly debunked but your opinion hasn't changed in years. Intellectual ossification has taken hold of this...

There is no question the US is headed for a reckoning at some point, probably in the medium term (5-10 years out). Anecdotally (haven't checked the stats), inflation is picking up in food items, and certainly in housing, health care, and various technology goods (although these are due in large par...

Gee How ungrateful those Indian workers are not appreciated being used as slaves by our most valuable company is headed by a proudly gay man. They must be homophobes !!! Right ZacK? But do note that there is a silver lining in the video The CCP is quick to point out that In China they know how to t...

Gee How ungrateful those Indian workers are not appreciated being used as slaves by our most valuable company is headed by a proudly gay man. They must be homophobes !!! Right ZacK? But do note that there is a silver lining in the video The CCP is quick to point out that In China they know how to t...

CPP-Virus Locking people into their homes until they die. Massive flooding Food shortages and now no electricity in the winter, because there is no coal to burn Since the CCP won't let Australian ships full of it into the country. Gawd you are such a joke. There is little doubt that China's death r...

in between sips on the moonshine jar and nibbles on the squirrel casserole, billy-bob picks up the phone and tells the urban progressive corporations and governments to make life harder for the black folk. after completing this critical task, he goes back to gently rocking on the chair and trying t...

We agree on the dates. The tribalization of American society began when free association was effectively made illegal and the government started using force to make people live with, go to school with, and do business with everyone and anyone, even those with whom they who didn't get along. It just...

As Doc said, all those protesters were liberal arts majors or people who shortly after the Vietnam War went into real estate. Probably at least half the remainder have since recanted. Those who didn't are teachers or lawyers or they work in the media. This is false. Most of the engineering and scie...

Sure. Anecdotal "lived experience" always trumps data and evidence. Straight outta grievance studies. You mean like your anecdotal "lived experience" that suggests the problem is black people being allergic to education? Straight outta conservative fantasy land. "Leading th...