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I've seen a lot of theories floating around, but imo all of them are wrong. Here's the actual truth: democrats lost the election because more people voted for republicans than democrats. Duh.

[I'm not sure if I picked the right flair, I think my question most applies to "Classical Theism" conceptions of god, so an intervening god of some kind]

Basically, what the title says.

One of my biggest contentions with religion, and one of the main reasons I think all religious claims are false is that none of them seem to provide any practical benefit beyond that which can be explained by naturalistic means.

For example, religious people oftentimes claim that prayer works, and you can argue prayer "works" in the sense of making people feel better, but the same effect is achieved by meditation and breathing exercises - there's no component to prayer (whether Christian or otherwise) that

It doesn't

I just came out of a COVID-is flu (tested multiple times, not COVID), and I lost my sense of smell. I did a few caps through my Mighty while I was sick, and it kinda didn't taste all that well, in fact, I mostly just got high but did not experience much flavor at all, which was not a pleasurable experience for me.

Luckily for me, the loss of smell was temporary, so mine is almost fully recovered, but it got me thinking: people who went through COVID and came out with your sense of smell completely dead forever (and I'm really sorry if this happened to you, it sucks so much!), does vaping still work for you? Did you change anything about how you vape as a result?

I've seen Vaush talking about Thomas Sowell, calling him a joke and a right wing pundit n shit, and I've seen a number of conservatives bringing him up in arguments (especially around affirmative action), so I kinda get "black guy agrees with me" vibes from how people use him in their arguments.

I don't have any opinions on the guy myself. I've read his Wikipedia page, and it reads like the guy has done some respected work, but at some point went for a "well actually it's a stats error" take on racial disparities, and never really recovered from that. Obviously, having read Wikipedia I now know everything there is to know any the guy, but what's yall opinion?

Also, is there any (reasonably

Let's set aside the question of empirical or analytical veracity of the Bible for a moment. If you were to come up with the morally or ethically worst thing in the Bible - not like in general (so answers like "slavery" or "infinite punishment for finite crimes" don't count), but a very specific point: a verse, an idea expressed, a moment in a story, a specific commandment or anything else that isn't an abstraction from the body of the text - what would it be?

I thought about this question, but I don't know the Bible well enough to even suggest a likely candidate for a top ten. For me personally though, I find myself often coming back to the story of Sodom and Gomorrah, specifically the

This subject has come up a few times here and there, and I have opined on it too, getting somewhat conflicting reactions (an initial wave of downvotes, followed by a long tail of upvotes). I found that interesting, so I wanted to see more of y'all opinions on it - why do people agree, why do they disagree, maybe provide some personal examples of one or the other. One thing I would ask is, please no judgemental takes. If you think something I say is transphobic - great, let's talk, tell me what you think. Also, I'm high as balls, so this is going to be a lengthy bit of introspection - if you're not interested in that, that's fine by me, go read some other post.

So, I am one of those people w

TL;DR I'm high

I've seen some anti-trans people making the argument of, calling people by their preferred pronouns (and trans people in general) is "denying reality", which, if we take them at their word, is about biology. (we know they're being essentialist and biology actually has nothing to do with it, but let's grant them this for the sake of argument)

So, when I was a kid, my parents got divorced, and I stayed with my dad and his new wife. I grew up calling her mom, and for all intents and purposes she's my mother in every way except literally being my biological mother.

Would me calling her "mom" also be "denying biological reality" by that criteria? Like, she's not my mother, she's

https://www.atlanticcouncil.org/blogs/natosource/rogozin-rumors-about-nato-base-in-russia-a-provocation/

Bonus points:

https://www.rferl.org/a/putin_backs_nato_use_of_ulyanovsk/24545218.html

Comments aged like fine wine lmao

Also, they're full of shit.

Let me get this right off the bat: Putin bad, imperialism bad, 2014 Yanukovich ousting wasn't a "western backed coup", so please do not post any comments about that: I already agree with you. (and if you have a different opinion, please fuck off kindly, because i'm not interested in debating RT talking points yet again)

Now, to my actual question: I keep hearing Vaush referencing Putin threatening to withhold economic aid from Ukraine unless Yanukovich cracked down on protesters harder. Is there any source for that? I could not find any. The one thing I did find was when Yanukovich stopped talks with EU, Putin offered a sweetheart deal to them, but it did not come with any stipulations on h

I am looking for a specific episode where Kyle talked about how Hitler did "world's biggest speedball" and made a hilarious Hitler impression. Does anyone remember where that was (or if there was a video of that specific moment available)?