take a question, respond with a question, and deflect without blinking

takes practice to do that smoothly

My personal favourite

Is to take it super-serious

And then gradually start flubbing words

Example, if you have one?

```Am I to interpret that you are indeed implyyyyyyyyy-ing that I might glean some educational value from this sixteen-minute video interview? I don't think you've yet quite come to understaaaAAaaAAAand the fabric within which the white man has weaved his cycle of oppression for so many centuries, thus in fact it is you who needs to learn about shortcomings, my esteemed individual.

I invite you to come stand next to me within a building of religious practioning designed with the darker-melanin-inclined in mind so you might understandublate the inherent biasnessness of your original statement and, perhaps, perhaps , reflectamise upon that which you said in the beginning, for I am Eric Dyson. ```

you mean like when Trump accidentally says "the people of Nambia" when no such place exists?

`understandublate `

`biasnessness `

`reflectamise `

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ah yes

words

DAE get headaches when Trump denies saying a thing that he's on vidoe record saying

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZppyrvmmpOc

Does anyone have any particularly good source material on the Scandinaian Socialism debate? I'm finding a lot of people talking about it and making arguments but nothing which is as empirically based as I'd like it to be.

No source it's just they have much lower population and conditions regarding weather etc

Any thoughts on the HighToryGang ? 😂

Social programs in Scandinavian countries are possible because they reap profits from capitalist investments.

Norway puts all their oil money into an investment fund, that invests into foreign economies, and withdraws up to 4% per year, to cover the social program costs.

Denmark exports food, so does Iceland.

Sweden exports steel, paper.

Finland is overrated.

So yeah, no socialist utopia, they heavily rely on capitalism to stay wealthy.

as far as i know, it's not even labeled as socialism

Too many double negatives, let me get this straight. Abortion in Ireland was illegal, there was a vote to overturn it, but now that vote to overturn is being overturned?

Pretty normal if you ask me

Yes, it was illegal, couple of years ago there was a vote, they said no

Now there's a vote and they said yes

RE the Scandinavian Socialism thing https://expathealth.org/healthcare-news/global-patient-wait-time-statistics/

Queues and wait times, I've heard, are another way these "scandinavian model" countries can cope with these healthcare programs.

Thinning out expenditures, essentially.

Thoughts on corporal punishment @everyone?

It boils down to. If you cane any of my God kids. I'll Cane you.

^

It doesn't work

I'm fine with it as long as it's only the parents that do it when their kid's being a disrespectful little shit

I'd advice dilomacy cus kids have long memories but also if you are losing control in the supermarket. Back to the drawing board

@McNukes
Same

Has Peterson ever talked about corporal punishment?

Off the top of my head, "Minimum Necessary Amount of Force" runs through many of his sidestories in 12 Rules

Yeah you don't get to claim moral superiority while hitting a kid

And you really can't teach someone morals without that