@houseoftolstoy

"There are lies, damn lies, and statistics."

As you know, the shock factor surrounding these reported numbers is the point: their accuracy is irrelevant, and the examples you gave prove it. It's all in service to The Narrative.^TM

But something has changed. These reports of huge numbers of people being something other than normal come from surveys... not estimates. This isn't GLAAD pretending that 10% of people are gay based on a small survey of male prisoners... these are people who self-indentify as LGBTQAII+, so it's worthwhile to peel back the onion.

The first thing to notice is that this trend is heavily concentrated among young people in school, where such nonsense is trendy. As people enter the world of adult responsibilities they tend to shed their childhood foolishness. Even the acid-dropping, tie-dyed wearing, free loving Boomers are now wearing MAGA hats, driving Buicks, and going on Carnival cruises.

But the Boomers did a lot of damage in the meantime, and by sheer weight of numbers they caused the culture to shift: they certainly didn't adopt the morals of their grandparents. My question is where the current crop of kids are going to push the culture. Just as the Boomers still embrace the "free love" philosophy they acquired as teenagers in the 1960s (geriatric STIs are at epidemic levels), will the Gen Z kids retain their "non-traditional" sexualities when there's no cultural pushback because they control the cultural narrative?

I used to think that anything other than heterosexuality was extremely rare, but that may be because the US I grew up in still had vestiges of Christian culture, but having lived among Muslims a couple of times... yikes! Homosexuality is rampant. They will swear up-and-down that it's not, but that's because they use a different definition than we do. Just as Amerisluts don't count some encounters in order to lower their n-counts, Muslims don't count gay sex as homosexuality unless there's a romantic aspect to it... if it's just sex it's acceptable. Ask anyone who deployed since 2001 about "Man Love Thursday" or about the "Dancing Boys." Degeneracy is being normalized in the west, and I'm not sure how far this train will get before it jumps the tracks.

@lurkerhasarisen I don't for a moment believe the 10 percent figure. We already know that those on the left will distort and stretch every figure they can to push whatever agenda they want. For example, padding the numbers of "sexual assault" by considering things as mild as being cat called or unwanted attention as sexual assault in order to push a narrative that there is a rape epidemic. Behold, "1 out of 3 women in college were raped or sexually assaulted!" Sounds pretty bad, but when you realize a lot of those numbers should not be any means be considered close to that.

Or another example, asking people in surveys if they think sometimes they do not eat as much as they should or if they ever skip a meal in order to push a narrative that there is a large problem with people not getting enough to eat.

Both of these do have real numbers behind them, as there are women who are raped or legitimately sexually assaulted, and there are people who struggle to afford food. But the numbers in these cases are inflated to push an agenda. And I think that is the same with the "10% of people are LGBT." No, I don't believe 1 out of 10 people are gay. Unless your only sample size is the city of San Francisco.

@houseoftolstoy Regarding the article Carnold recently posted on the topic; don't underestimate the health effects, for example rates of childhood asthma climbing despite great reductions in air pollution and smoking.

To ascribe this to The Libs and dismiss it at that is to miss the real issues at play, probably by design, a blue pill to prevent an effective response from ever getting mounted.

First of all consider the population of the world roughly doubling every generation or so and all those people wanting gas.

Next, for much of my lifetime gas has been far and away the more economical option per BTU for domestic heating needs. All electric houses had notoriously higher utility costs than gas equipped ones in most energy markets.

Part of the reason was during the age of petroleum exploration gas was ranged from byproduct to nuisance to outright danger with most new deposits freshly tapped. They would flare off millions of cubic yards of gas right at the well site, in some cases for years while extracting liquid petroleum fractions as the primary product. Technology and delivery infrastructure improved and matured to minimize such waste.

However, as population growth converges upon untapped deposits no longer existing, humanity is racing towards a still preventable crisis of giant population and no petroleum to sustain such numbers.

Prior estimates of peak oil and decline, even carefully calculated ones, got destroyed by advances in extraction technology like steam injection. However this bag of magic tricks won't produce miracles forever, and gas is likely the first petroleum product to reach long term shortages.

Once you consider the hard technical aspects of an issue, it becomes easier to catch and sidestep propagandists interpretations that come along, often by design as a distraction.

@redpillschool Which is why the American left fights against all voter integrity laws. Yes, signature verification has some subjective aspects to it, but the principle of it's use still has merit in revealing obvious cases where the odds of hundreds or thousands of individuals all having the exact same writing style is pretty much 0. And it was pretty clear the election was not going to be legitimate when the current governor of Arizona was the one who was running the election there without entertaining the idea of recusing herself from the process.

Perhaps our elections have never been all that sound in the first place, but this string of cases where they are not even subtle about covering their tracks shows how doomed we are. They simply do not fear any consequences for blatant cheating or being caught.

@houseoftolstoy

I am all for raising the voting age for women in their 20s to 30 if they are just too immature

This isn't about brain or character maturity or integrity of values. It's about female nature that's largely separate "operating system" from these and much more important in female decision making.

This is one of the easiest things to grasp when it comes to TRP concepts, and you need to reread the sidebar if you don't get why that is.

Or perhaps we just bring back the old system of a man having to appeal directly to the father to have permission to pursue a woman.

This basically means mandatory marriage for men, we had that, it was subverted and taken over by gynocentrism via praying on male instincts. IOW you want us not only o be forced to marriage, you also want to install female sexual strategy as almost universal and primary social value. Top idea indeed.

You are a BP and need to stop. I'm gonna ask that before you post your next comment, you need to submit it to mods for evaluation, just like with little child would read it to parents.

@HouseOfToyStore