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[00:05:26] <AzumaHazuki> *groooooan*
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[00:36:11] <c0lo> =submit with-a-nod-to-our-resident-scotmen https://www.scotsman.com
[00:36:15] <systemd> ✓* Sub-ccess! "08"I'm Astonished That the Sculptor Managed to Capture Wallace's Expression When He Stood on a LEGO Pi" (11p) -> https://soylentnews.org
[00:36:43] <c0lo> =submit https://dronedj.com
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[00:46:00] <c0lo> =submit https://www.bbc.com
[00:46:54] <c0lo> =submit https://www.businessinsider.com
[00:46:57] <systemd> ✓ Sub-ccess! "03Reddit Shuts Down Forum for Texas Abortion 'Bounty Hunters'" (10p) -> https://soylentnews.org
[00:47:20] <c0lo> =submit https://www.nbcnewyork.com
[00:47:22] <systemd> ✓ Sub-ccess! "03No Vax, No Visit: Florida Doctor Won't Treat Unvaccinated Patients in Person" (1p) -> https://soylentnews.org
[00:48:23] <c0lo> =submit https://www.theguardian.com
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[00:54:25] <c0lo> =submit https://apnews.com
[00:54:28] <systemd> ✓ Sub-ccess! "03Labor Shortage Leaves Union Workers Feeling More Emboldened" (34p) -> https://soylentnews.org
[00:56:30] <c0lo> =submit https://slate.com
[00:56:37] <systemd> ✓ Sub-ccess! "03The Screens in Cars are Becoming a Problem" (27p) -> https://soylentnews.org
[00:57:32] <c0lo> =submit https://apnews.com
[00:57:34] <systemd> ✓ Sub-ccess! "03Idaho Hospitals Begin Rationing Health Care Amid COVID Surge" (32p) -> https://soylentnews.org
[01:03:58] <AzumaHazuki> unpossible. covid is a Chinese Democrat hoax meant to take our freedoms away and make us all magnetic
[01:07:27] <c0lo> =submit monetizing-the-rage https://www.dailydot.com
[01:07:30] <systemd> ✓ Sub-ccess! "03Google Finally Boots Gateway Pundit From its Ad Platform" (21p) -> https://soylentnews.org
[01:08:07] <c0lo> I don't think that this ^^^ will last very long inthe queue, but I don't have enough time to journal about it.
[01:08:38] <c0lo> "In July, Forbes reported that the Gateway Pundit earned $1.1 million in Google Ad revenue in eight months from November 2020 to June 2021 as it published misinformation about vaccines and last year’s election."
[01:12:32] <c0lo> =submit https://www.reuters.com
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[01:13:49] <c0lo> =submit I-suppose-its-their-right https://thehill.com
[01:13:52] <systemd> ✓ Sub-ccess! "03Whopping 70 Percent of Unvaccinated Americans Would Quit Their Job If Vaccines are Mandated" (19p) -> https://soylentnews.org
[01:14:08] <AzumaHazuki> fine with me!
[01:15:23] <c0lo> https://pbs.twimg.com
[01:15:55] <tedious> Wouldn't the economy collapse?
[01:17:45] <AzumaHazuki> i doubt it honestly. let's say 40% unvaxed, * 0.7, that comes to 28% of the workforce. they'll quit. for a while. then they'll bitch and moan and get vax'd and come back
[01:17:47] <tedious> We already have a hospital crisis because they laid off too many staff and nurses are tired of being overworked.
[01:18:18] <tedious> Yeah I dunno about that.
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[01:18:33] <AzumaHazuki> easy solution: anyone willfully unvaccinated and making over a certain amount of money (so it's not like they simply didn't have time due to working 3 jobs) is first to be triaged out of care
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[01:18:35] <c0lo> =submit health-care-is-not-a-right https://slate.com
[01:18:40] <systemd> ✓ Sub-ccess! "03Just Say It: the Health Care System Has Collapsed" (11p) -> https://soylentnews.org
[01:20:29] <tedious> I get the impression that the people who own/run hospitals are as bad as the people who own/run big pharma.
[01:20:46] <tedious> Just less rich and more local.
[01:21:07] <c0lo> =submit say...what? https://thehill.com
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[01:23:53] <c0lo> =submit https://www.nme.com
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[01:25:37] <tedious> AzumaHazuki: What about people who don't trut pfizer and their zero consequence legal immunity contracts?
[01:26:43] <tedious> It's not like we're getting these injections from a company we know and trust and can hold accountable if something goes wrong.
[01:30:55] <c0lo> tedoius, all the freedom for them. As it is for their employer too.
[01:31:20] <c0lo> s/tedoius/tedious/
[01:31:20] <SedBot> <c0lo> tedious, all the freedom for them. As it is for their employer too.
[01:32:29] <AzumaHazuki> i don't like that either, but we've at least seen the things work and are surprisingly safe
[01:33:32] <c0lo> =submit here-we-go-again https://www.bbc.com
[01:33:34] <tedious> Have you seen the data in the uk nhs reports where vaccinated patients are dying in greater numbers than unvaxed?
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[01:34:02] <c0lo> tedious and that means exactly what?
[01:34:34] <tedious> And vaers is just insane with more adverse reactions to covid vaccines than all the past vaccines combined.
[01:35:17] <tedious> c0lo: It means when you look at the chances of dying of covid they are something like 5.1 times higher for vaxed people.
[01:35:57] <tedious> Maybe it's ADE or maybe it's selection bias because only really sick and old people are getting vaxed.
[01:36:20] <tedious> Either way I can't blame somebody for not wanting to be in that higher risk group.
[01:37:04] <tedious> And if you even try to ask questions about the data you get destroyed by big pharma sponsored attack dogs.
[01:38:09] <tedious> What I can't understand is how people who didn't trust these companies in 2019 are now acting like they can do no wrong.
[01:38:11] <c0lo> Correlation, causation, things like this. I expect that getting the real thing *and surviving it* will confer a better immunity than the one acquired by being injected with just fragments of the virus.
[01:38:27] <c0lo> The problem is *surviving it*
[01:38:30] <tedious> I agree.
[01:39:13] <tedious> Right well people who aren't obese or have copd or lung cancer or any of the other obvious comorbidities have a tiny chance of dying.
[01:39:15] <c0lo> That's where vaccines help. Not a silver bullet, but still a bullet.
[01:39:54] <c0lo> tedious, old age will do. As will alergies. Quite a big segment of the population.
[01:40:07] <tedious> I'd rather be healthy on my own without trusting a pfizer product that I can't sue them if it damages my heart muscle.
[01:40:29] <tedious> Right let them take their chances however they choose.
[01:40:32] <AzumaHazuki> i trust my immune system. that's why i've given it a couple of controlled exposures to spike protein, eat right, keep a healthy weight, walk several miles a day, and take vitamins
[01:40:59] <AzumaHazuki> the covid shots gave me fewer side effects than the yearly flu shot, which i freaking dread
[01:41:02] <tedious> AzumaHazuki: You'd probably be fine without the spikes.
[01:41:15] <tedious> Yeah that's another thing.
[01:41:23] <tedious> Where did the flu go?
[01:41:47] <tedious> Why is nobody besides hospital staff getting fu shots anymore?
[01:41:49] <AzumaHazuki> possibly, but i'd rather not take that risk. delta, lambda, and mu are "leaky" in vaccine terms; i'm going to be exposed no matter what, so i'd rather have JUST the spikes without their replication machinery
[01:42:01] <tedious> How did flu deaths drop to nothing last year?
[01:42:21] <c0lo> You miss the flue, tedious?
[01:42:25] <AzumaHazuki> apparently keeping apart from other people and masking up helps. those South Koreans and Japanese are onto something
[01:42:34] <c0lo> s/flue/flu/
[01:42:35] <SedBot> <c0lo> You miss the flu, tedious?
[01:42:53] <tedious> Ok well the sinovax stuff is traditional inactivated virus that has dead replication machinery.
[01:43:09] <tedious> But if you try to get vaxed with that it doesn't count.
[01:43:49] <c0lo> =submit https://theconversation.com
[01:43:50] <tedious> c0lo: I want to know how it's possible that endemic virus that has been around for centuries just disappears at the exact same time as the biggest cash cow in medical history shows up.
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[01:44:53] <tedious> All of this smells like bullshit to me and I don't trust any of these plutocrats running things.
[01:45:09] <c0lo> =submit https://www.theguardian.com
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[01:45:23] <Runaway1956> If everyone could be like Azuma Huziki the world would be a perfect place!
[01:46:23] <Bender> [SoylentNews] - High Court Finds Media Outlets are Responsible for Facebook Comments in Australia - https://sylnt.us
[01:46:30] <Runaway1956> I expect you to be more like AH, tedious! Shame on you for disagreeing with her!
[01:47:06] <c0lo> tedious, you are free to take your own decisions. AMazon imposing minimal wage at the limit of survivability are running ahigher risk than accepting a vaccine that costs $50.
[01:48:04] <AzumaHazuki> genetic fallacy at work, tedious
[01:48:14] <tedious> I suspect that those people in the dr. martin video were right and this whole thing is the results of 20+ years of lab work and planning to sell medicine to people who aren't sick to make permanent revenue streams.
[01:48:28] <tedious> AzumaHazuki: What is?
[01:48:37] <AzumaHazuki> if it helps, think of all the other things as defense in depth strategy. whatever it is that started all this, you should still do what will up your chances of survival
[01:48:48] <c0lo> =submit https://www.engadget.com
[01:48:49] <AzumaHazuki> "Pfizer made it, therefore it has to be bad because Pfizer is evil"
[01:48:51] <systemd> ✓ Sub-ccess! "03Google is Reportedly Making its Own ARM-based Chromebook Processors" (3p) -> https://soylentnews.org
[01:49:16] <tedious> But you remember the patents and the engineering that went into this right?
[01:49:27] <AzumaHazuki> yes. yes i do. when you hear the explosion, it's too late to ponder how long the fuse has been hissing
[01:49:28] <Runaway1956> Didn't you already submit a Google ARM story?
[01:50:11] <AzumaHazuki> situation on the ground is the vaccines are almost implausibly good at preventing severe disease and death. whatever the motives for them are, the fact is they work
[01:50:23] <Runaway1956> Bad analogy 'Zumi - you hear the explosion, should you join the bombers?
[01:50:53] <AzumaHazuki> don't cut off your nose to spite your face. think of it as using their own tools against them, if it helps. surviving despite them, using their own vaccine
[01:50:55] * Runaway1956 watches her run down the road to enlist in the bombing crew
[01:50:58] <tedious> I'm going to keep doing what I can to stay healthy but no way am I going to trust people who lie cheat and steal for a living.
[01:51:33] <tedious> Your assuming that the vaccine actually helps but the data from uk and israel shows the opposite.
[01:51:58] <c0lo> =submit algorithms-are-causing-cancer-in-California https://www.theverge.com
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[01:52:15] <tedious> Unvaxed have better survival rates.
[01:52:45] <tedious> Ug we're going to have to do something about amazon too.
[01:53:03] <tedious> Before they eat the global economy.
[01:53:24] <tedious> Before they eat the rest of the global economy I should say.
[01:53:42] <AzumaHazuki> uh, no, they don't. if you mean "specifically people who got both shots and are severely ill with corona anyway" then you may have a point
[01:53:44] <c0lo> I'm gonna continue to do nothing about Amazon, as I did until now. ebay and aliexpress are good enough for me.
[01:53:59] <tedious> Yes exactly.
[01:54:12] <AzumaHazuki> think about this, tedious: the vax rate is highest among the elderly population, who very often are in poor health shape to begin with.
[01:54:26] <AzumaHazuki> if you're going to use statistics, use all of them and use them right
[01:54:29] <c0lo> =submit walks-like-a-duck-quack...wait-what? https://www.theguardian.com
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[01:55:11] <tedious> So why are they going to force young healthy to get the shots when the chances of covid death are small and the chances of adverse reactions and ADE are unknown?
[01:55:37] <tedious> We've known for about a year now that asymtomatic spread doesn't happen.
[01:55:53] <tedious> But they're still calling it a pandemic of the unvaccinated.
[01:56:31] <tedious> Those 4 words make me think this whole thing is a huge marketing campaign.
[01:59:16] <tedious> Fuck I hate what this world has become.
[01:59:48] <c0lo> tedious, asymptomatic spread does happen.
[02:01:02] <tedious> More among the vaccinated who have non-neutralizing immune response yeah.
[02:01:16] <c0lo> =submit plutocrats-in-action https://newatlas.com
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[02:01:22] <tedious> So lets make more super spreaders?
[02:02:02] <c0lo> Since we don't have a chance to eradicate covid19, preventing deaths is the best we can do now, tedious.
[02:02:12] <c0lo> Nothing more nothing less.
[02:04:13] <tedious> So why are we doing it with untested mrna technology from some of the most evil companies in the world who are going to make trillions of dollars off this virus instead of handing out cheap vitamins and telling pepople they have to quit smoking and get in shape?
[02:04:40] <tedious> If you want to save lots of lives there's the obvious solution.
[02:06:17] <tedious> I have a feeling we're going to wake up in 2030 and realize that 2 or 3 billion people have died because we were lied to.
[02:06:57] <c0lo> Because there is enough data now to know that the "mrna technology" produce less deaths than without it.
[02:06:59] <tedious> And there are still going to be people defending pfizer because their propaganda machine is damn near perfect.
[02:07:18] <tedious> You're just wrong.
[02:07:48] <tedious> The data coming out of health departments that aren't run by somebody named fauci show that's not true.
[02:08:33] <c0lo> tedious, the data from Australia confirms it and that's enough for me.
[02:08:47] <c0lo> Also, yes, I've been warned by your nick. My fault in getting dragged in. Will correct that now.
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[02:08:51] <Bytram> Regurgitator: please provide links to peer-reviewed studies supporting that claim?
[02:09:39] <tedious> The same place where 1 case justifies locking people in their homes for 3 months at a time for an entire region of the country?
[02:09:58] <tedious> Yeah I totally trust the australian government.
[02:11:06] <Bytram> that is not what I asked. You made a claim; please support it with actual peer-reviewed data.
[02:29:03] <Bytram> The silence speaks for itself.
[02:29:11] <Bytram> Good night.
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[04:28:16] <c0lo> Typo on the title of https://soylentnews.org
[04:28:18] <systemd> ^ 03Concert with Absentee Muscians - SoylentNews
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[07:18:01] <chromas> oh I forgot to tweet janrinok a brownie https://zeroindex.org
[07:19:07] <chromas> Samsung's camera software sure masturbates the pixels
[07:22:59] <janrinok> chromas, damn, they look good!
[07:23:10] <chromas> :D
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[07:57:39] <FatPhil> Woh, Ed Asner's died. I missed that headline when it was live.
[07:58:22] <FatPhil> He was in people's dead pools for a long time, and kept confounding them.
[08:05:36] <janrinok> that was a good 10 days ago?
[08:08:22] <FatPhil> I had a very busy weekend, I'm not that surprised that news like that could pass me by. I read "tittle-tattle" news quite seldom now.
[08:12:00] <janrinok> I think you did mention your weekend - before you went, on the train, and after you returned. You certainly seemed to have a good time
[08:16:40] <janrinok> I was very envious
[09:10:37] <FatPhil> 3 beer festivals in the last 4 weeks!
[09:20:02] <janrinok> It is always good to see a man who likes his job
[09:57:32] <Bender> [SoylentNews] - Analyst Predicts 3D XPoint Shipments Could Surpass DRAM (in Capacity) by 2028 - https://sylnt.us
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[12:59:15] <Bytram> fab23: Huh! I'd not heard of Ed Asner's passing until you mentioned it here. Many good memories. RIP
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[13:54:01] <fab23> Bytram: hm, you may have tabbed the wrong nick name.
[13:55:00] <janrinok> he did - perhaps its his age.....
[13:55:41] * janrinok won't disclose that it was his birthday yesterday - so please don't read this....
[13:57:27] <requerdanos> birthday cluster, my birthday comes up on Saturday. My age is increasing that day also.
[13:59:42] <Teckla> Bytram: Happy Belated Birthday!
[14:02:12] <janrinok> I thought I told you lot not to read that!
[14:31:57] <Teckla> Oops :(
[14:57:01] <FatPhil> Approaching my anti-birthday maximum, do I get to decrease my age?
[14:58:14] <requerdanos> depends on your speed, and the gravity around you, aiui
[15:05:00] <FatPhil> Or maybe at this time of the year I'm just ageing most slowly, heaven knows in 6 months time it way way quicker.
[15:19:37] <FatPhil> Fucksticks, Peter Boghossian has resigned. Another nail in the coffin of rationalism and reason.
[15:21:31] <FatPhil> https://bariweiss.substack.com
[15:21:31] <systemd> ^ 03My University Sacrificed Ideas for Ideology. So Today I Quit. - by Peter Boghossian - Common Sense with Bari Weiss
[15:28:29] <Bytram> janrinok: yes, I did. :(
[15:28:37] <Bytram> gtg -- laters!
[15:36:15] <janrinok> FatPhil, that is a pretty powerful resignation letter.
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[15:40:09] <FatPhil> I was a bit late to the party knowing who PB was, it was only when him and 3 colleagues did /Sokal II: The Bohossianing/ that he appeared on my radar.
[15:40:45] <FatPhil> https://en.wikipedia.org
[15:40:46] <systemd> ^ 03Grievance studies affair - Wikipedia
[15:43:42] <FatPhil> I should really have known him from /A Manual for Creating Atheists/, and his concept of street epistemology, that I was vaguely familiar with at the time.
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[15:45:21] <Teckla> FatPhil: Thanks for sharing that resignation letter link. Very interesting.
[15:45:48] <Teckla> In the U.S., at least, the "right" and the "left" have both gone off the rails into extremism-land. It sucks. :(
[15:46:14] <Teckla> I worry that we'll never find moderation again.
[15:46:46] <FatPhil> Teckla++ yup - as someone only slightly left of centre I feel alienated by all the noise at both ends of the spectrum.
[15:46:46] <Bender> karma - teckla: 12
[15:47:16] <FatPhil> Kinda glad I'm not in the US though, the rot hasn't quite set in here as bad.
[15:47:31] <Teckla> FatPhil: Ditto. I feel like I have no "tribe," politically speaking.
[15:51:49] <FatPhil> I think I get to vote in our local elections still, even though I'm no longer an EU citizen, so I should probably investigate the current range of fascists/socialists that are up for a quick powergrab, and try to find the sanest.
[15:52:32] <Teckla> In the U.S., people often don't pay enough attention to local elections.
[15:53:00] <FatPhil> I've noticed some friends have started to carry party paraphenalia around with them - fortunately none of them are showing the nazis' or commies' logos.
[15:53:47] <FatPhil> I have never had a general election vote here, that's strictly for citizens. I can live with that, local policy affects me more often than national.
[15:54:13] <FatPhil> Except when the tax rate goes up... which is threatened...
[15:57:34] <FatPhil> I came across Dan Savage's almost obnoxious rant on third party votes (in the US) the other day for the first time (he made it in 2015/16), and once I was past the shock he actually made an excellent point. In order to get a third party into power, get it into power at a more local level first. Once a Green or Libertarian state has demonstrated it can run itself better than Kodos and Kang would, then
[15:57:40] <FatPhil> there'll be an epidemic of interest in third parties in other states too.
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[19:00:54] <FatPhil> vodka
[19:07:22] <inz> room or freezer temperature vodka?
[19:12:42] <FatPhil> freezer temperature obviously, but drunk in a sauna
[19:12:57] <inz> sounds about right
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[20:45:57] <Runaway1956> Well, David Chipman is history - maybe Biden will nominate Beto O'Cork next.
[20:47:06] <Runaway1956> Good point about third parties FatPhil - that's why I vote for them at local and state level, not just federal
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[21:13:49] <FatPhil> ANyone have any insights into Texan demographics, vis-a-vis le election?
[21:14:47] <FatPhil> Some stats page says that 45% of women in Texas voted R, I'm wondering what proportion of that sub-population would self-identify as "Christian".
[21:16:58] <requerdanos> women voting R in texas are going to be almost all identifying as christian
[21:17:27] <FatPhil> Expecting a very high proportion, but it would be nice for a real stat.
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[21:18:10] <FatPhil> my first guess would be 42 out of the 45. Am I low or high?
[21:19:07] <requerdanos> I don't know. There are sources like https://texasalmanac.com
[21:19:08] <systemd> ^ 03Religious Affiliation in Texas
[21:19:18] <requerdanos> but they are not broken down by political affiliation
[21:19:48] <FatPhil> This stemmed from the g/f reading out the recent Bette Midler pronoucement, which I fully approve of.
[21:23:30] <chromas> don't believe her. Madonna promised BJs to Hillary voters and guess who never got one
[21:24:02] <FatPhil> me!
[21:24:35] <FatPhil> Not complaining. Not sure I'd want my important bits to go anywhere that mouth.
[21:24:46] <chromas> https://www.nydailynews.com
[21:24:47] <systemd> ^ 03Bette Midler will call your name in bed with her husband if you vote against the California recall
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[21:25:10] <chromas> I saw that one before the thing about a strike
[21:25:15] <FatPhil> Oooh, is that anothe rpronoucement?
[21:25:35] <chromas> Dinesh D’Souza Clowned for Disparaging Bette Midler’s Looks When He’s ‘The Leading Cause of Vaginal Dryness’
[21:25:40] <FatPhil> Apparent;y she's good at making pronoucements
[21:26:03] <FatPhil> Is Dinesh D'Souze the one who makes more or less sense than Deepak Chopra?
[21:26:11] <chromas> don't know
[21:27:38] <chromas> Pretty amusing though that our 'lefties' are proposing to exit Texas and have strikes on casual sex
[21:27:59] <chromas> "Hey, let's give them what they want!"
[21:30:11] <FatPhil> If the female lefties all go on sex strike, then the female righties will just have to take up the load.
[21:30:32] <FatPhil> And then they might regret the recent law change...
[21:31:46] <Runaway1956> If the female lefties go on sex strike, the pool of incels will merely double
[21:32:01] <FatPhil> Possible
[21:38:13] <FatPhil> If the lefty females leave the state, then I foresee a great culling as the incels rise up against the evil republican gun-nuts who brought about this situation.
[21:38:46] <FatPhil> As long as it's live-streamed, the rest of the world can be entertained.
[21:39:20] <FatPhil> And that's 96% of us.
[21:39:24] <FatPhil> Do it. For us.
[22:19:15] <Runaway1956> ROFL - incels are incels, and women leaving the state won't change that
[22:20:19] <Runaway1956> What do you really propose that incels might accomplish? They should capture the women leaving the state, and drag those women back to their mancaves?
[22:35:16] <chromas> or transition
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[22:35:42] <LXGHTNXNG> Transition only works if you're trans in the first place - and if you're trans, the same people who came for abortion rights are coming for your bodily autonomy too.
[23:31:10] <AzumaHazuki> the problem with a sex strike is that there are a nontrivial proportion of men who will simply take what they want. rape. which will very likely result in pregnancies...which then can't be aborted
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[23:47:42] <AzumaHazuki> oh, found a comment that got modded Spam when it should have been Troll or Flamebait. And it appears obviously to be Runaway Spam-modding Ari posting as AC https://soylentnews.org
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