But roughly 49% of this country leans conservative

Right now...try to be successful at your careers, and start doing what they do:

leverage your position to support conservative causes

hire conservative people

get the conservative message out there

...but as a backup, be ready to defend yourself and your views....and convince other people that the day may come where they need to stand up

Too many of us are de-moralized

like you are @AWOIII

That's where they need us, demoralized and unwilling to stand up

Convince like-minded people to stand up.

Say the day comes....and a state needs to go autonomous

It only takes a small percentage of people standing up to make it not worthwhile to enforce.

Yes, but the problem is many of them bring their blue votes with them.

I feel for you, high school was similar for me. It was a lonely time @AWOIII

It gets better

Just don't be a defeatist...there are more people like you than you think, who just can't speak up in public

It's good for your mental development

It just isn't a fun childhood :/

@AWOIII you play any video games?

Dude, I play minecraft from time to time.

If you want to chill with people who don't make fun of your views

DM me sometime

We all have to stick together these days...it's tough having openly conservative views

👍

Yeah, many of them have turned into indoctrination camps

Many of these people take the left worldview as axiomatic

unable to be challenge

self-evident

Oh yeah....hahaha but college doesn't take attendance!

I just showed up for the exams! 😆

The smart ones are difficult to argue with.

Because unlike us

They live and breathe this stuff every waking moment of their lives

Yeah interestingly, these views have almost no substantial correlation with intelligence

The ones that are prepared, tend to be insanely so

They live and breathe this stuff

what's weird about humans

is we all take the same information

and come to different conclusions

most of us use information to support our worldviews, rather than form / change them.

I think I made a good statement on the politics-current-events channel just a few minutes ago

Really, I think they're the racists

^relevant to what you just said

But also about them being racist

They use black people as pawns to make themselves feel righteous

all while ignoring the real issues

The boy who cried wolf

I said that to one of my liberal friends and he had a melt-down

Anyway, I'm heading out for the day. Serious about that minecraft DM.

That goes for anyone, btw.

Later dudes.

Well you'll find better friends before you know it.

It just seems like forever when you're young.

Go Elon!

Think I Improved it:

@Argoblaster here were my results. This test did seem to be legit.

This is gold:

Feel like the progressive left is slowly transitioning down to that lower corner, while the right has been moving more toward the libertarian corner.

@Deplorable Me Your views probably stayed the same, while those around you shifted. (Graph based on data from the Pew Research center....same questions asked to the public in 1994 and 2017).

Heard someone today who described this aptly:

What do all of these fake hate crimes tell us about racism in America?

Simple:

The demand is much greater than the supply

@Deleted User Well many average people have bought into the hysteria propped up by MSM

Many people I know truly believe the world to be this racist

Good for you

These politicians don't just randomly say this stuff...they are partly doing it to get elected and maintain their power

...they wouldn't say it if there wasn't a massive base of people who think like this

At some point it partly feeds into itself...there are incentives in place to (over time) dramatically exaggerate victimhood ever since the left started adopting identity politics more heavily

The politicians exaggerate the narrative to cater to the most politically motivated, the media supports that narrative to install the politicians they support, which turns the average people with those views more extreme...pushing the extreme further down the hysterical rabbit hole

And it continues feeding itself.

I hate that the entire face mask thing became political

I think a large part of it is because we were originally told they wouldn't help...and now many people are just kind of like "fuck off already"

They do help, the CDC only said they didn't so there wouldn't be a supply shortage for doctors early on.

Well not only that

but I firmly believe the CDC is incompetent after all of this

Their original tests didn't work

(which everyone blames on Trump)

and they're guidelines keep shifting between contradictory standpoints

?

I don't understand what you're trying to say

We've had dozens of pandemics throughout history, with most of the major recorded ones happening before humans had knowledge to manipulate chemicals (to any substantial degree)

Toxic Shock syndrome is a symptom from severe bacterial infection

What does this have to do with chemicals?

Many viruses live better in a cold, low-humidity environment

"live"

I don't understand the point you're making? I'm not trying to be obstinate or insulting, I just don't see how the dots connect here

yes, almost daily

along with black tea like Earl Grey as well

yes

yes

1.) I still don't see where this is going

2.) Where are you getting this information from? Through what mechanisms is your body detecting and ignoring these toxins, and how is green tea manipulating this process?

This sounds like the buzzwords a self-help, pseudo-science juicing vegan uses

That's BS dude...you can't make baseless claims about toxins