Bro wants to sound important and educated soooo bad. I actually giggled reading “economical attributes”. Like I don’t think even you understand what you’re trying to say.

It’s social equality you’re meant to be working on, not getting a piece of the pie.

Leftists want this. You’re not saying something revolutionary. The problem is that in America, getting democratic socialism with redistribution of wealth is much more realistic than a total social overhaul like you’re suggesting.

Recognising and blaming distribution of wealth is literally opposing leftism because it’s acknowledging and giving finance power.

Uhhh no. Capitalism and the govt give finance power. Recognizing and attempting to use the system to better the lives of people isn’t the problem, it just isn’t the ideal solution. It’s a stop-gap.

You can claim “true leftism” all day, but I live in reality where half-assed solutions are better than nothing.

Old gonewild was pretty great too, before all the onlyfans spam

Honestly it’s not all great, lots of it I kinda check out through, but there are some great bits that make the whole show worth it for me at least.

But yeah being in on references to it is honestly great because of how original/memorable some of the bits are, I think.

When someone has grown up brainwashed into religious belief, being exposed to real logic that isn’t trying to dunk on them is a lifeline for many to move away from that.

I also think that while both can be necessary at times, for many the far more powerful factor is going to be emotional (feeling of god letting them down leading to questioning), and people who are already in emotional turmoil and questioning beliefs will react much more positively to a more graceful, logical approach, because logic, while it may disrupt their worldview, is reliable. So yeah it depends on the individual, but you absolutely can logic someone out of a belief they didn’t logic into.

Source: I’m a homeschooled Baptist PK with 5 siblings, and I’ve spent a lot of time and effort to know how to best provide the lifeline for my nieces and nephews that I was lacking for getting away from religious belief

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Past atrocities does not justify today’s actions by another at the present time.

I’m not saying that. I’m saying that holding America up as a standard and saying that we’re somehow better is hypocritical and dangerous because it helps to justify/overlook shit like what’s happening in Palestine rn, and I’m sick of the general mindset exactly because it has helped lead to the ignorance and complacency we see with a genocide that is fueled largely by American desire to retain influence in that region for capitalistic purposes, with no regard for human rights.

Vietnam has a much longer historical animosity with China than the with the US.

I mean yeah no shit, they’ve been at it for thousands of years lmao.

And, as I’ve said elsewhere I was more getting at the human rights atrocities perpetrated by the US which still have great effect on Vietnam.

I’m in no way trying to justify anything. Again, I’m just saying I’m sick of seeing people hold the US up as “hey look we’re better” because I really don’t know that we are. We care about human rights at home, to an extent, but we don’t give af who that affects in other parts of the world. Is that really better than China pretending to care about it’s citizens with communism while abusing their human rights and exercising insane governmental control over their lives?

The US has been and continues to be the direct and indirect perpetrator of a lot of evils, and the more I learn about these things, the more I dislike seeing America characterized as a standard of morality, because it directly reflects propaganda which has allowed for many of these atrocities to happen.

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Yeah I shouldn’t have used Vietnam as an example bc I am aware that they’re somehow largely favorable to the US still, but the lasting effects of US imperialism on the population there is what I was really trying to get at.

Why don’t we ask South America, the Middle East, and Vietnam what they think about the US?

but it’s clear which is the better option for many

… American tax dollars are at this moment funding the genocide of Palestinians.

EDIT to add: I should clarify I’m no CCP apologist, nor do I uplift China as an example of what we should strive for. But I also really get tired of seeing America put on a pedestal. America was built on genocide, slavery, and exploitation, I don’t see how it should ever be an example of how to do things better, BECAUSE that line of reasoning (“at least we’re better than them”) has been used to justify many of the horrors of our history.

By using that bit of propaganda, you’re contributing to things like Americans looking the other way/enabling - for the past 75 years - genocide. It’s the same “they’re savages” shit that was used to justify literally the most savage acts against Native Americans.

Our democracy also isn’t actual democracy. By definition, a democracy must represent the will of the people. Ours does not. It is already a failed democracy, and has been for my entire life. America also produces more propaganda than any other country. Do we have more personal freedoms in many areas than people in China? Absolutely. Are there many areas throughout society where I think America has pushed the world forward and made it a better place? Absolutely.

But I’m getting really sick of seeing America compared to China just to say “we’re better”.

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I’ve yet to get medicated. Last time I tried I had the wrong diagnosis and ended up in grippy socks, and I’m currently living by myself, so starting new meds is kinda frightening tbh.

I did drink/smoke way too much as a coping mechanism, because yakno meds that help someone be able to function like a normal person are EVIL, but letting ur kid go undiagnosed and untreated is so fucking healthy for their long-term mental health.

My parents also managed to fuck up my math track to put me a year behind, and when I found their error and tried to catch up, they didn’t support at all.

Homeschool parents are [very often] imbeciles.

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Well I didn’t have to mask, but I also didn’t get my ADHD, bipolar or anxiety recognized/diagnosed until well into my adult life, lmao.

I’m a product of homeschooling, and cannot begin to tell you how detrimental it was to my adult life and being able to function in society.

100% of my socialization growing up came from church. While I have siblings who grew up to be very successful, they all stayed in the church.

It’s a cult. It’s child abuse. You are robbing your child of critical life experience and social development. It also makes it so that anyone escaping from growing up in that will have an extremely difficult time rebuilding their life outside of religion.

Yeah that’s also what I’m getting at with keto.

Keto is just another diet. If you take the effort to go on a diet and improve what u are eating, ofc ur gonna be healthier. But I’ve seen no evidence that for the average person there is any benefit beyond that, and there are many negatives to it.

U r a clown for thinking that invalidates anything I said.

Oh no I didn’t use perfect syntax I guess what I said is completely invalid.

Clown.

Quite the opposite… it’s being used therapeutically for Parkinson’s disease

Like I said: unless u need it. I was told about the research being done for Parkinson’s and the original use as a treatment for epilepsy by the same dietician who laughed at it as a diet for [average] people looking to improve their physical health.

Just because a special diet is used therapuetically to treat serious cognitive issues does not mean that there is benefit for the average person.

Also, if you’d even read the link you sent, it was a sample size of 7 and 2 of them died during the 28 day trial period, with seemingly no placebo control. Not the most compelling evidence. It definitely seems promising and deserves more research, but it’s a far cry from “currently being used to therapuetically treat”.

The dietary treatment for these conditions is under the supervision of a doctor, and keto does quite literally starve your brain of carbs for days at a time. Ur brain consumes carbs. By ommitting that from your diet, your brain is starved of essential calories for days at a time. and again if u ask ur doctor, I can almost guarantee they’ll say something along those lines.

And like I said in my first comment, yeah ofc a diet where you’re making a concerted effort to watch what u eat is gonna be at least marginally better than a shitty diet. That doesn’t make keto better than just eating better. It’s not. Show me a single peer-reviewed study that says that for the average person, keto is more beneficial than any other diet of similar effort.

I guarantee you come up with nothing.

And u have no response, the only thing ur able to criticize is my improper writing.

Uhhhh no, keto is actually really bad for u if u don’t need it. Ask any actual doctor or dietician, and they’ll say going vegan is a much healthier choice, and ideally ur making sure u get a well-rounded diet, but keto is bad for you regardless. I literally got laughed at when I asked a dietician at Walter Reed about keto, while my last 3 dieticians/doctors have all either been vegan or were vegan/plant-based for a long time.

Obviously everyone’s needs are different, but the most-recommended diet is pescatarian, because it’s not as difficult to make sure ur well-rounded as vegan, and ur not getting most of the negatives animal products.

Keto literally starves your brain for days at a time, makes u miserable and lethargic, and does nothing to help weight loss beyond simple caloric deficit. It also greatly increases intake of red meat, which is bad for you. I literally went vegan while I was in the Army the same time my barracks-mate went on keto, and he ended up in the hospital at the next PT test while I set a personal best PT score and new company best 2-mile.

I also don’t pay special attention to my diet but have had perfect bloodwork every year since going vegan, and got told to stop taking supplements because I didn’t need them. I always had some kind of deficiency each year prior to going vegan.

This idea that carbs are the enemy is totally false. Most people get too few carbs and too much protein. And too much protein doesn’t actually help, despite popular claims. It just ruins ur liver faster.

The “empty carbs” you’re talking about are non-nutritious junk food, so to say that excluding that makes a diet healthy, but a vegan diet is unhealthy because it’s excluding vitamins is ridiculous. You’re making an apples-to-oranges comparison by just excluding junk food from one diet and pretending that the rest of the diet isn’t bad for you. (it is, most people still eat junk animal products, helloo)

It’s really not hard to eat healthy vegan food if ur comfortable cooking basic foods. I actually had a much easier time finding healthy non pre-packaged vegan food to eat compared to my squadmate trying to find keto food. And if all u eat is prepackaged (people on keto eat the same sorts of unhealthy substitutions vegans do) no diet is gonna be healthy.

A double-double wrapped in lettuce is still a double-double, the lettuce is still empty calories, it’s just water. It just has fewer calories than a bun. So people eat a few less calories with their greasy-ass burger, and don’t eat greasy-ass empty calorie fries, and think that keto is making them lose weight. No, they’re literally just choosing to eat less. That’s what’s making them lose weight. If they had the same level of self-control on any other diet, they’d lose the same amount of weight.