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Ok. i think really what you mean is it shouldn’t matter.

it shouldnt matter whether a black guy or a white guy or a woman or a man is elected, because we are all people, all created equal, and all can only choose to act from a certain limited range of human response options available to us all in equal measure.

and i agree with that. but

I think the reality is that while there’s a range of possibilities on how a given man or a woman sees the world, there are qualities unique to being a woman that make that range different than men.

so while i agree, from a perspective of how the world ought to be, we all ought to be judged on the content of our viewpoints, i think the reality is, just as we select our final candidate based on emotion, the candidate is also emotion and hormone driven.

therefore, sex matters.

(i wonder if “fear of being controlled” is largely a male fear? or if it is a fear spread equally among the sexes, whetehr or not the type or nature of control that is feared varies widely in distribution across sexes.)

i feel extremely controlled having been raised as a child in a particular society. the govt was the least of it!

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[quote=sdduuuude]Does it really matter ?
We don’t elect a gender for VP, we elect a person. The merits of that person are what they are, regardless of their gender.[/quote]

if women see the world fundamentally different than men, it matters. i think there’s an argument that they actually have different brains. like, people are not all the same.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Female_Brain_(book)

i think based on my very anecdotal evidence of living with just one female over many years, they a re different. they are “people”, but not the same kind of people as men.

also, women just recently started participating in democracy, as in my gramma couldnt vote in an election when she was young. and even when i was a lad, women were kind of not taken seriously. I remember women still being kind fo a joke when i was young. how they were limited in many ways. i myself thought of women as weak and not suited for many roles. so i think a female vp might have some symbolic value. kind of like female MMA fighting and combat roles are very important.

we are all allegedly equal nowadays. but im not persuaded … when was the point in time when everyone started getting treated equally, blacks, women… 1972? 1986? 1991? or was it a gradual process, where we all became equalified into the current state of utter equality we enjoy today?

when i went to college, the alumni were still upset that women had been admitted to our school. i recall letters to the editor about how outraged they were.

i dont have a daughter, so i dont really have a girl in this fight, but I think the balance of power should switch more to the female type brain. i say this in spite of the fact that dealing with the female brain drives me nuts. but then again, i possess a Male Brain.

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non-vegans and republicans skew to the old. Over 55, veganism very rare in the usa. old people dont change, for the most part. Republicans and meat eaters dying every year. the republicans may be replaced, but the meat eaters are on the decline.

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The planet cant take it.

https://www.theguardian.com/books/2019/oct/06/jonathan-safran-foer-we-are-the-weather-saving-planet-begins-breakfast-review

this author changed my life.

im way more concerned about the health of the planet than i am about covid, but im pretty damn worried about covid

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maybe; past performance doesn’t predict future results. that last crash was in the face of a lot of uncertainty about covid. the next crash might be different.

it was painful for me to be a buyer today. so i bought some, because i did not want to.

I expected some consolidation. i thought we would be in the 1900s for a while, screwing around, waiting for news on a vaccine or something. gold seemed almost afraid to break 2000. But i also wouldnt be surprised to see this thing melt upwards, maybe not now, but some day not so far away. when people scramble for the exits, that money has to go somewhere. usually it’s the dollar. now, i’m not so sure where people think “safe” is anymore. i dont think it’s that we printed “too many” dollars. I think the underlying cause will people lose faith in the USA because they think, yeah, this country is fucking nuts. i mean, we have a strong advantage just the way the system’s structured now, but look around. half the nation thinks trump is a good president. we cant seem to not kill ourselves from covid. our people are dumbshits. yeah, we are good athletes and make objectively better movies, but looking forward, is the dollar really where you want all your eggs? things change….gold could be the bridge…

if we woke up in the morning to 2200 gold, i would not be shocked.

however, i would take anything i say with a grain of salt, because i have been overweighted gold for a long time. even a stopped clock like myself is right twice a day, aand not that far off the correct time, even more often than that! its painful to sit on losses for years. but i stay married, dont charge careers and refuse to budge on my position that the dollar is doomed.

on the other hand, i have been buying like crazy the last couple months.

i didnt quite have the guts to go all in…what i know now, that i didn’t know 10 to 20 years ago, is that I’m pretty dumb.

the only things i actually know, if you are an ordinary person want to be financially successful, is

1. pick a good mate, preferably a moneymaker who doesnt spend.
2. be cheap.
3. have a financial plan and stick to it not involving market timing. invest with a long time frame in mind
4. dont get divorced.
5. avoid debt and big expenditures.
6. try to make money

all the other bs i spouted, ever, just shit i read that resonated with me on some emotional level.

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im kinda with spdrun on this one. except instead of less meat, I’d say we need to immediately ban all meat.

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so worthless. just a useless piece of scrap.

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[quote=zk]There are so many kinds of smart and so many kinds of stupid. And maybe certain kinds of smart and stupid are more common in men and certain kinds are more common in women.

In most species males and females have different roles as a result of natural selection. There is absolutely no reason to think that humans are any different.

In some species, males spend a lot of time trying to attract mates where females spend a lot of time caring for offspring. Those males don’t do that because they’ve come up with logical reasons for it. And the females aren’t thinking, “why does Jim get to fly around strutting his stuff all day while I’m stuck at home slaving over these screeching brats?” They do their thing because that’s what their instincts tell them to do.

I’m not saying that these are the roles that humans naturally have, and I’m definitely not saying that humans need to behave this way. My point is that nature gave male humans and female humans different roles. And nature did that by giving the male of the species different instincts than the female of the species. Male brains work a little differently from female brains, because those differences were selected by nature for optimal survival of the species.

No matter how much some of us would like there to be no difference between our brains, that just isn’t the case. None of this is to say that we can’t have a society that gives males and females equal opportunity or equal treatment. We can and, in my opinion, we should.

While men and women in general are different, it’s not a binary situation, and there is some overlap. So we can’t judge any individual by their sex. But we can generalize. And, if we want to understand the human condition, I think we must.[/quote]

Im with you. But im starting to think the world needs more female less male. Because male dumbness feels like its gonna kill us all.

I was more slighlt anti female leadership. I thonk ive swung over to, get these old men OUT

My wife read out loud from this book to my sons ..
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Female_Brain_(book)

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https://www.forbes.com/sites/duncanmadden/2019/01/11/ranked-the-25-smartest-countries-in-the-world/

We too dumb.

Taiwan iq. No. 4

Us. No. 25.

Is the nation mentally decaying?

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Now im pro duckworth

She gave birth at 50, vet with no legs.

First infant on senate floor. She tweeted a pic of her kids outfit, inc tiny blazer, per Senate rules

Good story.

Plus shes good looking.

Now ill be sad if its not duckworth.

Make pence look like the little tiny twerp he is.

Question. Is IVF covered under senators insurance? How exavtly did she pay for this?

Egg-gate.

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The usa is kinda full of shit. But we used to at least maintain appearances. I am genuinely concerned the world knows we are doofuses. For this reason, i think gold up, dollar down, long term. Even if trump loses, the world knows, half the nation thinks he da bomb

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So close. 1993. Maybe its time to consolidate.

I cant trade. If i buy, im in for at least 3 to 5 years.

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[quote=OwnerOfCalifornia]Too bad about loan cabin…as of this writing, they’re advertising 1.75% and 0 points (not necessarily the same thing as $0 cost) for a 15-year refi. I submitted online three days ago, haven’t heard from them yet. I think all these internet places, while offering crazy teaser rates, are just massively swamped.

I just closed a refi for 2.625% 15-year in April (about net-$500 out-of-pocket) and thought that was nuts.[/quote]

Beautiful.

A nice fresh 2.625 mortgage is a veautiful thing. Whenever you feel down, just think of that nice mortgage. Its lovely

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Forgiving all student loans makes me sad. She seems like she will not help me one bit.

I think for my age and income vracket, id like trump to die, ill vote romney

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I was cleaning out some mouse poop in the garage and my wife said put on a mask, hantavirus. I was like, fuck, right, just my luck to die of hantavirus during covid epidemic. Yesterdays plague.

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