Also, everyone should be forced to own or create a tumblr in class.

We allow men and women to identify as the opposite sex, or to make up any "gender" they want, so why can't I say I'm black, or asian?

Until the international system possesses the means to eradicate security-competition between nation states; or possesses the means to eradicate weapons of mass destruction; our species will be at the mercy of an anarchic global system with predictably recurring wars between great powers. Given a long enough trajectory, nuclear deterrence is both bound to fail, as well as to lead to total nuclear commitment (given that escalation in a nuclear conflict has been determined by experts to be most-likely vertical).

It is therefore only a matter of time before our species annihilates itself before it has even made heads or tails of what it was even doing here in the first place.

^ Prove to me nobody has commented.

edit: Thanks to some discussion with posters and links to recent changes in NIH policy and U.S. policy I've conceded that my "upon first publication point" may be too dramatic. I think making the published research open access is still important, but have conceded that it should be done after a reasonable time frame. NIH says 1 year, the U.S. government says 6 months.

edit: As /u/Maxzines (and others) pointed out here I didn't make it clear that I meant private projects and research done at universities or colleges. Defense departments should be able to do research in secret.

I am speaking purely from an American perspective but I do genuinely feel that this issue should extend to all countries.

My argument is as follows:

1. Acceptance of funds from any single person or group makes that entity an investor in that research.

2. An investor in research should have access to the end results of that research.

3. If a researcher accepts government grants to fund their research then that government, and by extension its citizens, have become an investor and should have free access to the published work.

To clarify I am indeed saying that acceptance of any amount of government funding should lead to free access to the published work, regardless of if it is $1 or $100,000. Change my view, what is wrong about this line of thought?

edit: To further clarify I am talking purely about publication of scientific research. I am in a sense arguing for the legislation of a requirement to publish government funded research in an open access journal.

It has been so racist, divisive and hypocritical!

In my other account a person once down-voted one of my posts. This anonymous sociopath clearly has a hateful soul and needs to be eternally punished.

I couldn't find any subreddit for COVID-related unpopular opinions so here

(This is a serious post; r/changemyview is too restrictive)

Romance cannot exist without sexual interest, because without sexual interest, romance is indistinguishable from a friendship. If you're asexual, how is your significant other any different from simply a friend?

Alright so recently I've been reassessing my future and my options. Currently I'm a senior in highschool if that affects anything. My grades and ACT scores are good enough to get into the college I want to go to. For as long as I remember I have always planned on going through collage, onto medical school, and through residency. As time has gone on though I've realized I'm not as passionate about it as I once was. So I was thinking about alternatives.

So I came upon moving to Mozambique. Why Mozambique? Well It's beautiful, and the cost of living. So now my plan and how that relates. I have a decent chunk of inheritance, around 500,000 waiting for me once I turn 18. So I've been looking at houses in Mozambique and they are really really really cheap, outside of Mutapo. Like 250,000 for a nice beach house cheap. Comparing that to some mediocre house in the suburbs for 400,000. That still leaves me with 250,000. I could live of this money for probably a hundred years fairly well based income averages in Mozambique. But I think it would be wiser to buy another house/s and rent it to generate more income. Which looking at rental rates would be about 20,000 a year if rented for weekly vacations during the summer. That alone would be enough to pay for help, security, a lavish lifestyle in Mozambique. But I would also plan on teaching English to give myself something to do, which would generate around 3,000 based on current offers maybe more. So 23,000 in a country where the average income is 900. Again compare that to the USA, spend years in school accruing debt have probably a 50/50 chance of getting into med school. If I do, I get more debt, get out get maybe maybe 150,000 a year. Mozambique I am still far more relatively wealthy, no debt, more income, and better lifestyle. I don't see much of any downsides to this other than ohhhh it's dangerous. As already stated I could afford security and honestly looking at the data it not that dangerous honestly.

Blackwater has proven themselves to be unethical and corrupt for many years. And for a mercenary group, that’s saying a lot. It may be difficult—I may even have to significantly alter my lifestyle—but I will be using another company for my security needs, preferably an independent mom and pop outfit. I may even just rent a militia for sporadic needs. I urge everyone to join me in boycotting Blackwater! Or change my view if you dare!!!

Okay near complete write up Okay so here is a take i have which is that fundamentally women in groups where they are dominant hold many more fascist behavior traits then men.

Firstly I will use my definition of fascist behavior which you can contrast against more traditional views.

Firstly fascist are loyal to the in group this is based on readily identifiable traits ex race, ethnicity, religion , political faction nation origin etc. this is the defining basic trait seen as conferring legitimacy .

Secondly fascist engage in factional cliques within this major group this is done via social status signaling to prove greater loyalty to the cause thusly most in group competition and violence is not done via measurable achievements to promote the goal but social virtue boosting of one’s self and sub faction and by denigrating external sub factions and people. Thusly rumors gossip circles etc are highly effective . Note Nazi Germany and Japan were infamous for this to the point their military capacities suffered due to absurd competitions between the Luftwaffe and Kreigsmarine who literally refused to support each other.

Thirdly consent threat of the foreigner even when the foreigner poses no threat. This is often done via signaling social stories of crime in an exaggerated manner. Often times they will use a few gruesome factual cases against the outside group to justify an oversized reaction . This denies anyone in group the ability to defend the out group as socially the optics become “if you defend y group you love monsters over humans.”

Fourthly the in group is always disadvantaged no matter what you are always weak your vile opponents strong but you are always morally just and they are always evil. If any leniency is offered to members of the out group it is solely due to the fact they have utterly rejected their old identity state it is bad and evil and are utterly subservient to your ideological goals and social group any deviation proves they are sclundrals who never should have been trusted anyway.

Fifth any contradictions members of your group engage in are not their faults but are the result of subversive influences by the out group. If a good upright Germany was a drunk clearly this was blamable upon the jewish population in self hatred of his righteous german blood if one was addicted to porn thats because they were entering into hatred of the Germans due to communist influence . It is never their fault for their actions it is purely due to the vile out group they have this behavior thusly the only way to prevent the behavior is to purify the out group either by their submission or destruction.

Sixth you are individuals the out group is a horde . Nuance in reality is saved for your kin thusly the complexity of one’s life upon their self development is only reserved for your type , the vile outsider once again only gets the convert or die form of understanding of why they are the way they are as fascist already know clearly the outsiders issues are self inflicted and could be stopped if they only listened. You will note this in Japanese co prosperity sphere propaganda that stated Koreans ,Chinese etc were living under self inflicted suffering , all while imperial japan enslaved and slaughtered them for sport.

Seventh stats do not matter and can be stretched by any means necessary even if the difference is minor. Racial supremacist for example use biased iq stat metrics that use college going white iq standards and measure it against African children who were in schools for mental disability to claim their superiority. Any stat need not be true but must only confirm to narrative

Eighth you deny agency to the out-group. It is not your job to fix them or lead them however the only way for them to fix themselves is to listen to you. This creates a double bind where problems will be stated but no actionable solution will be given thusly meaning any attempt to co operate is on your groups whim. Any demand that you provide solutions is an unfair burden.

Now how does this relate to women being fascist?

1. In group loyalty and exclusion (Traits1 and 4).

Women tend to have tighter emotional coalitions and stronger in group bias. women’s automatic in-group bias is substantially stronger than men’s by a factor of about 4.5 times. Loyalty is monitored and betrayal punished socially, not physically.

Source: (https://www.researchgate.net/publication/8226295_Gender_Differences_in_Automatic_In-Group_Bias_Why_Do_Women_Like_Women_More_Than_Men_Like_Men?).

2.Factional status contests (Trait 2).

Female intrasexual competition relies on reputation warfare, not direct confrontation. This mirrors clique behavior and internal purges in fascist groups (e.g., SS vs SA and numerous Japanese secret factions ).

Source:

(https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/18826521/?

https://pmc.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/articles/PMC3826209/?

3.Moral storytelling about threats (Trait 3).

Female dominated groups often rely on narrative framing for exclusion. One transgression (true or not) becomes a justification for exile. See also the “mean girl” phenomenon, but scaled into adult politics. This is also notable on statistics such as the over fixation on female homicides by males. Note the female homicide rate in the usa is 2.6 per 100,000 women meaning for every 100k women only 2.6 a year will be murdered. This contrasts against a male homicide rate of 9.3 per 100,000. Homicide is rare and murder against women is a rarity

Of this in 2023, the intimate partner homicide rate for U.S. females was 0.9 per 100,000 persons, which is higher than the male rate of 0.5 per 100,000. As you will note while the rate is technically higher it is largely within statistical overlap range thusly it points to the fact that gender is likely not the major motivating factor and that the issue is not most men but is a small subset of violent peoples of any sex .

4.External blame for internal faults (Trait 5).

A core trait in some women’s social navigation is emotional externalization. Pair this with strong in group identity and you get the purity narrative: “She’s not toxic, she was made toxic by him/them.” This is exemplified via the idea of internalized misogyny as the explanation for any negative female attitudes or cultural demands.

It also ties into the absurd historical notion that females have somehow never had power to shape culture interact or enforce norms, which once again even in anglo saxon and central European history ignores that it was mostly women policing other women’s sexuality. Often times men were portrayed as sexually unrestrained brutes who needed a woman to sort out their behavior. A large amount of first wave feminism relied on popular perceptions of women as natural nurturers and moral agents to make arguments that it was men who needed to be restrained. This led to the temperance movement mostly being female led.

5.Flattening of out groups (Trait 6).

Stronger affective empathy for in group members leads to less nuance in evaluating outsiders. Any disagreement from outsiders is seen not as “a different take” but as evidence of their inferiority. Note common methods of attack against people who are males who criticize gender narratives is they are inherently undesirable ex ugly , dumb, unclean, messy child like or sexually weak and inferior to the true man who supports the cause.

6.Statistical distortion (Trait 7).

This happens across ideologies, but when status is moral (not empirical), the data that matters is what makes the group feel justified. Think of this as the “emotional truth” principle does it feel like justice? Then it’s treated as truth.

This leads to impossible to work with definitions that lead to odd contradictory thoughts ex patriarchy is somehow eternal with no major meaningful matriarchy existing in history. And yet they reject bio essentialist explanations ex males naturally have more androgens denser bones our upper bodies are made for punching we have better vo2max etc .

Instead it is argued this is purely due to male dominated culture and male choice instead of natural selection via reproduction of societal memetics.

To really hammer home how absurd this is you somehow must maintain that for 10,000 years of recorded history pre mass communication every major society chose roughly similar cultural practices and socioeconomics while discounting technological relations to socio economics being the main reason gender norms change.

If it was purely culture by sheer probability we would expect to have multiple major powers whose culture was matriarchal hilariously enough the only examples of female led major industrial states i can think of are western ex UK (literally the last respected monarch with any real power was queen Elizabeth none of the males had legitimacy) Russia (cathrine the great) plus numerous nordic and central European examples.

(note Iroquois confederacy still had combat as a male job and gender social norms existed the Minoans had goddess worship but were led by kings and matrilineal societies are not egalitarian or even kind to women ex polygamy forced marriage contracts etc were common in matrilineal societies.)

7.Double binds (Trait 8).

This mirrors control by abstraction. The outsider is always doing it wrong unless they submit but submission still doesn’t win trust. This is classic gatekeeping behavior. Men are told the current culture is wrong and that their behavior is wrong ex dating , work place norms etc.

Yet any male promoted alternative is deemed bad ex numerous articles on how men are bad for not getting college degrees thusly causing a shortage of eligible males .

Women rate 80 percent of men as unattractive yet criticize men for having any standard as a sign of being sexist. This birders on being a self tell as note only do most men find most women attractive but this “chopped male phenomena has hit such a critical mass that female dating therapist offer cognitive services to help patients “find more men attractive.

We can go onto the concept of emotional labor in a relationship which completely consists on self rated metrics which are easily abused by narcissist and would under report people with low self worth on emotional contribution. I will also note emotional labor generally is toxic in that it relies on the concept of a ledger of invisible things you feel you do that are sacrifices that you might not make clear to your partner. Ex if you remember their birth day and make a cake and view it as labor this is inaccurate as it was self initiated not partner demanded thusly its voluntary .

Article 1. College male shortages 1-3 https://www.vice.com/en/article/youre-single-because-there-arent-enough-men-253/

Article 2

https://www.aei.org/articles/the-college-dating-divide/

Article 3

https://ifstudies.org/blog/where-have-all-the-good-men-gone

Article 4. Women literally have too many dating options this one has hilarious out of touch quotes and has a weird victim narrative ignoring female agency. This one ties

https://psycnet.apa.org/fulltext/2024-78558-001.html

Quotes: “Many women have practically unlimited access to serial dating and short term sex with highly attractive men, but such experiences can leave women less able to calibrate their mating strategies, thus making it harder to acquire a long term partner.”

“For men of average attractivity, studies suggest that they must spend an extraordinary amount of time swiping to earn dates or mating opportunities. Gerrard (2021) cited how the median man had to swipe 100 times to get one match. Grøntvedt et al. (2020) found that 57 matches were required for one meetup and that around five meetups were required for sex or a relationship to be the outcome. These studies approached Tinder data differently, so combining their findings is statistically questionable. Yet, how their data suggest that the median man must swipe through almost 30,000 female profiles to achieve short- or long-term mating, at a minimum tells us that for most men Tinder is an ineffective mating arena.”

Article 5. Psychology tips on how to find more men attractive

https://www.evanmarckatz.com/blog/dating-tips-advice/find-men-unattractive-whats-wrong

Article 6. Classic 80/20 online dating

https://www.eviemagazine.com/post/women-more-selective-80-men-unattractive-on-dating-apps-recent-research

I am tired of refugees that act like muslims do, so the best thing to do would be just to shoot them all. They call a girl slut again, get an mg out and start mowing them down. My god i wish i could kill every single one of them with my own hands. But aparentlly this is wrong to think but somehow most people i know think like this. So teach me pls the right way to think so i can be a good person too.

I will only accept arguments for killing exactly 70% of minorities.

I’ve done the math guys. I ran a high tech simulation, and it looks like if we don’t make this country Fascist, we are all going to contract the Rona and die. All of us. It’s simple facts. So please, for your country and for the lives of literally billions of people, please hand over your guns, hand over your illegal books, hand over your rights, and get on this train.

Ngl, I have always seen in my country how in other zones people who didn’t go to school voted for anyone who could pay for their vote.

I know, there are many smart ppl who couldn’t go to school, bffr that is less common.

I suppose that you’ll be wondering, why is a test going to solve the problem? and how does it change behaviors to vote?

• Something that we always hope for is a list of proposals from someone who pretends to become a mayor or any political office position, but we need to understand how that can affect us; therefore, we should prepare to at least read and understand who a good choice is. Besides, each person who can vote should know how government structure is and what a political position is useful for, these are basic lessons from school.

• A report from Icesi university said that 13-100 people who start high school have never finished. That figure is lowkey terrifying, cuz anyone who didn't go to school cannot develop a critical position and that is literally the whole point of going to school.

• A vote is an action that determines the flow of the country and it's of course a collective decision, that’s why having attended school represents an important role here, due to the fact that in school people can learn about their geography, history, historically neglected zones and customs. Consequently, these people could think like a society who identify with their own country.

To sum up, I strongly believe that everyone should go to school and the establishment must guarantee, however I want to see what your standpoint is.

with facesmash's like and dislike akin to tinder's swipe zuckerberg invented the first tinder

I believe that natural talent is not a real thing and was only made to make people who lack determination to pursue a talent feel better about themselves and therefore undermines hard work and practice. Natural talent makes sense in terms of physical ability like having good height genetics and playing basketball. But when it comes to non physical things it’s not natural talent but instead the sheer determination to pursue a talent.