I will go out on a limb here as someone who has been diagnosed with 'unclassified impulse control issues' (I didn't really know how to keep my mouth shut and emotions in check), but is now just considered 'abnormal but we trust you to medicate yourself properly' which is a weird place to be in, while there may be an element of ableism in there, a large part of it comes from the fact that these people are on the very low end of the spectrum of their anxiety disorders and yet have found a way through self-medication to trigger and intensify it in themselves.

If they were higher on the spectrum with it, it likely would have triggered earlier, and they would be more self-conscious from having to deal with it when they were younger. This is, of course, assuming they had access to mental health care at all. The fact of the matter is that they are absolutely correct to be paranoid. We are being passively observed, usually illegally, and our data is then used to feed us content and products all the time, tapping into our greatest insecurities and FOMO to do so. Most anxiety-ridden people I know are anxiety-ridden because they have full understanding of this at all times and it absolutely paralyzes them, with the most common one I have personally witnessed being someone having a literal mental breakdown over choice and calorie anxiety from a fast food menu. Which they are correct to be anxious over because too much of that stuff is definitely bad for you. For myself, massive anxiety hits whenever I enter a big city, because it suddenly dawns on me that there are hundreds of thousands, of not millions of people living there, most of whom will never be aware of me nor I of them.

In this way, this kind of LLM induced anxiety is both stupid in its creation and ableist in not having sympathy despite the stupidity of it. TLDR: It can be both.

This is because people in this site are basically reactionary to libertarians (which I get it, see user name). Age of consent and other associated laws should exist and be enforced because of the potential for wild power dynamic imbalances and abuse.

However, there is absolutely no material basis for the idea that 'maturity' and 'adulthood' is specifically tied to any age past 13-14 when the physical maturation process kicks in. I have known incredibly 'immature' 40 year olds (who can't be trusted with simple tasks) who are clearly in some form of arrested development and very 'mature' (in that they very seriously think and plan for the future based on the information available to them, to a almost comical degrees) 13 year olds. However, it is clear to me that much of that 'maturity' comes from their ability to parrot the arguments of their parents, teachers, and role-models, not their actual understanding of situations. Which is fine, they are kids, I don't have that expectation. My point is that tying these nebulous cultural concepts to a specific age, or even 'brain development', which is itself a very poorly understood field, is ridiculous.

My second point is that because of this healthcare of any kind should not be barred by these concepts either, and certainly not by age. Erecting artificial barriers to professional care will only lead to people seeking amateur care which has the potential to create more danger for individuals seeking treatment.

That said, if you are part of a trans activist group, now would be good time to begin attempting to coordinate with groups in PR, supplying individuals with the latest scientific medical advice and material. What cannot be won in the courts and legislature must therefore be won on the streets.

They did. They just learned the wrong things.

Their first assumption was that Ukraine wouldn't fight back because most Russian (and Eastern Ukrianian) civilians consider them to 'brother-peoples'. In that way, they were legitimately able to take Crimea not only without a fight, but also without really any amount of internal resistance. Due to the general corruption of the Ukrianian government, they figured it would basically be the same deal, with them coming in as 'saviors'. In addition to this, they definitely believed the story of Desert Storm "Large mobile convoy with air support is able rush forward quickly to obliterate Iraq's army." without taking into account the two things that actually made it successful (which of course worked in Iraq but not Afghanistan due to the country being far less centralized, this also worked on Libya and Syria and to some extent Iran) which was, sanctions to impoverish the society and wide scale bribery to military officers with promises of clemency in the new administration to abandon their posts.

Russia did not perform sanctions on Ukraine even as they were in the middle of a low scale ethnic civil war, and this were not able to bribe a sufficient number of Ukrianian officers. It especially was not effective as cutouts in the U.S. have been bribing the Ukrianian government and military with funding and weapons for years, with promises of continued support if they sustained their aggressive ethnic policies towards ethnic Russian Ukrainians, and support if conflict ensued (even though no one in the Ukrainian government actually thought they were going to launch an assault on the country). Therefore, it was not, and could not be effective, and Russia fundamentally misunderstood the nature of their relationship with Ukraine.

Phew, with him taking another IMF loan I was beginning to fear he wasn't a real libertarian.

In his biography, William Herst (newspaper mogul) talked about this exact phenomena within newspapers and editorial staff. Basically, people who believed the lies you told would come work for the newspaper and within a generation the entire newspaper wouldn't even know they were telling lies, which (according to him) was incredibly dangerous because then you aren't controlling the narrative, the narrative is controlling you and you are unable to adapt and change the narrative to suit the market.

He basically said most of his job was trying to get his editorial staff to understand that they were shaping a changing narrative, not reporting truth (because he believed getting actual truth is borderline impossible, therefore not the job of a newspaper).

Yes let's go talk to 'Cubans' (are you really Cuban if you haven't lived there in 60 years?) in Florida, who have completely mythologized their actions and suffering at this point.

Also, dude literally has an American flag in the background of his picture, very not serious person

Unironically, do it. Let the flourishing of a thousand websites begin again.

I think the saddest thing about modern American engineering and tech is that they would all be fucking psyched about Chinese tech and cars if they were born in China. Like, the only reason these people are so blinkered about China is because they were born in the U.S.

They are so sure that they can see past the propaganda, that they are just eating shit the whole way down.

JP is literally the stereotypical dilettante that he says is miserable in his book. It's probably why he is so familiar with the topic, it's a self help book for himself. If you have ever seen any of his live streams, the man literally keeps a dirty office.

That said, all JP has inspired is school shootings and pressuring for sex, he is no comparison to the man around whom both the 20th and 21st century revolves.

I know this is the second time this shit has been posted, but most rail-less nations are not building railroads because they do not have the nessecery capital intensive industry to build railroads, let alone build a poor man's railroad and then redevelop it, because the world is being purposefully choked of development funds by the IMF and World Bank. God forbid demand gets fulfilled.

Imagine going from bragging that you are going to use JDAMs to having to deny that you used JDAMs. Absolutely absurd.

I've been watching the Ukrainian conflict off and on since 2014, you are fucking delusional. Fuck man, even people like Mearsheimer have been talking about this stuff for half a decade now. Fine, live in your bubble, it doesn't fucking matter what your or my opinion is, it's not like any of these processes are democratic in the slightest. Enjoy the show, war-piggie.