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whatlike_withacloth 8 points ago +8 / -0

Not only that, but we knew the data were so bad just by doing a little digging into the methods and caveats. We weren't stupid, we just weren't lazy in taking the narrative at face value. Particularly when it flew in the face of common wisdom and precedent.

Scott Adams is an arrogant prick who, because he's such an arrogant prick, can't admit that he got it very wrong (particularly when it's clear he could've gotten it right with just a little more due diligence on his part). He needs to learn some humility, but he's too far gone for that it seems.

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whatlike_withacloth 5 points ago +5 / -0

Commotio Cordis? More like Commotio Cord IS bullshit.

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whatlike_withacloth 3 points ago +3 / -0

just lost his mind and started ranting about how all pedophiles are straight men

Fact check

He is 100% wrong.

Although I have heard the absolute muckbrain defense of his statement that "Just because a grown man rapes a young boy doesn't make it homosexual! Pedophilia knows no gender!"

I could get that person to concede that homo meant "same" and sexual meant... sexual... but they went on about how "little boys aren't really sexual" or something to defend their point. Piss poorly I might add, but they were so committed to this defense that it really didn't matter that it made no sense at all.

That's what we're dealing with. I worry some of my gay friends might be the same; it hasn't come up (as I work with some of them, and others I just don't see often enough).

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whatlike_withacloth 1 point ago +1 / -0

Ha, how long? They've dug up ancient bones and found genomic evidence of Trisomy 21. And how "modern" on the vaccine regiment? Cowpox inoculation for smallpox was around the dawn of the 19th century, while Down's was first characterized in Western medicine around the mid 19th century. I think chromosomal staining for detection was late 19th/early 20th century.

History aside - Trisomy 21 always comes first. It can be detected the womb just as soon as you can detect fetal cells in the mother's blood (around 9 weeks last I checked). Amniocentesis gives the best information for diagnosis, but regardless, we can see if there are chromosomal anomalies long before the first vaccine is even considered for the infant.

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whatlike_withacloth 4 points ago +4 / -0

It's not reasonable. Down's is Trisomy 21, meaning you have an extra chromosome 21 (you should have 2, if you have 3 you have Down's, putting the tri in Trisomy). Chromosomes are large sets of genes. Incorporating a single extra gene is problematic enough; incorporating an entire extra chromosome through injection (well, and having the subject survive) is just not currently possible. We can barely do it in E. coli, which are much simpler and much more resilient than humans as you probably know.

Now, in 10, 20, 50 years? Maybe. But incorporated-gene therapy has been the holy grail of synthetic biology in medicine since the discovery of DNA, and so far we haven't had much success. The best we've done is free-floating DNA/RNA + delivered to cells by lipids or adenoviruses. But still once we reliably cross the hurdle of incorporating a single gene into a human genome without killing the patient (and CRISPR/Cas9 will probably facilitate this), that's still a far cry from incorporating an entire chromosome of 200-600 genes (depending on the chromosome) all at once.

Again, to reiterate, and keep the patient alive.

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whatlike_withacloth 10 points ago +10 / -0

Cool. Just like Iceland "eradicated Down Syndrome." Like, no you didn't. Not in a medical sense; you can't cure Down Syndrome. You just killed all the people with Down Syndrome.

If the prescription for every type of cancer is a medical-grade bullet to the head, you can't claim you cured or eradicated cancer. Well I suppose you could, but you'd be wrong.

Anyway those groups won't condemn the plan because they don't consider it unethical. Life has no value to them except to be the best-functioning slave you can be with the off-chance that you might become or be born into being less of a slave than other people.

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whatlike_withacloth 8 points ago +8 / -0

Their message is clear. Choose Jews or Lose.

Makes you wonder who Israeli in charge doesn't it?

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whatlike_withacloth 2 points ago +2 / -0

The killshot, though, was fired in 1963. It just took a lot longer for the body to decompose.

Agree, the US had always been an expansion of British and European imperialism (to call Europe an "empire" of sorts), and all of the innovation, progress, and success was largely due to that legacy. Then some assholes decided that the US was actually just magic soil and would succeed regardless of inhabitants (despite clear evidence to the contrary, i.e. the people that were conquered).

Idk if it was stupid or nefarious, but it was clearly the wrong decision.

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whatlike_withacloth 7 points ago +7 / -0

Probably the biggest problem is that Oz didn't motivate any reds to show up because he's so milquetoast that even a literal retard presents viable competition.

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whatlike_withacloth 12 points ago +12 / -0

A buddy(ish) of mine was talking about how "ingenious" the MI state dems were in funding all of the opposing primary campaigns so in the general the dems would win because their competition was such garbage.

I said "Dude... have you never heard of 'strawmanning' candidates? Because that's as close as it comes IRL next to literally building a strawman and putting an 'R' sticker on them. This is what uniparty authoritarian regimes do to make their regimes seem democratic and legitimate."

And he thought it was "ingenious!*" It's astounding how bafflingly stupid seemingly-intelligent people can be when it comes to politics and governance. Myopic, I suppose.

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whatlike_withacloth 4 points ago +4 / -0

This could actually roll up to the feds/POTUS for pushing OSHA and the vax mandate, because it seemed imminent before SCOTUS stepped in. I think a company large enough to afford good lawyers could... ah fuck, put the bill on all the taxpayers.

Man I hope the budget to pay that back is drafted as "fixing Biden and the Dem's royal fuckup to the tune of several trillion dollars" bill. Or something more witty - Ted Cruz is pretty good with naming bills.

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whatlike_withacloth 1 point ago +1 / -0

His name appears to be a play on Biden’s status as commander-in-chief of the US armed forces.

We'd be better off if the dog were running the show.

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whatlike_withacloth 3 points ago +3 / -0

I feel like if you still use reddit and you're not permabanned you're not doing it right. All of my new accounts last a day lol.

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whatlike_withacloth 6 points ago +6 / -0

Streisand effect in full... effect now too. I didn't really care to hear another conspiracy (true or not), and now I'm digging into it.

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whatlike_withacloth 9 points ago +9 / -0

I noticed r4chan has taken a decidedly-left turn (careening, if you will) as well. Don't even recognize the sub anymore... after just a few days.

But yea whatever, it's reddit. We've seenit and haddit with reddit.

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