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Look at the actual list of "most dangerous jobs."

Police are nowhere near the top 10.

Same experience with EverQuest.

I credit that game with helping me get over my shyness.

It's their resources but also their location with coast line, and the pipelines that allow them to take a cut or Russian natural gas sales to Europe.

Meh. I don't hunt, but we've killed off most of the predators that keep deer populations in check. They can boom real fast if left unchecked, and then you get to play frogger with them on highways and interstates.

Regressives believe that their preferences are divine law. Therefore, anything that allows you to do something they don't like without shitty, unnecessary consequences is "encouraging immorality."

One step further, and they enjoy coming up with more shitty, unnecessary consequences to aid the "divine plan" of making people miserable if they don't conform.

You can see this across the board - they're make shit illegal, then conflate the natural problems of the behavior with the added problems of the legal system, and pretend they're all unavoidable.

They hate that gay and trans people have any acceptance, because it makes those same people less likely to be depressed and suicidal, which makes it harder for them to lie and say those people are depressed/suicidal because they aren't cis/straight, rather than because they're treated like crap.

Not the original person you responded to, but I type 120ish wpm. The trick is to try to tap into the same part of your brain that verbalizes words when you talk, rather than the part that composes stuff when you write.

This. It's all a giant, "Nuh-uh, you!"

They create a specious argument, present it as a straw man of "what democrats want," and then ridicule it as if they didn't make the whole thing up themselves.

It's dumb as shit, but it's all on purpose. These people are ivy League lawyers who took speech and debate. They know what a fallacy is, they just choose to use it for its effectiveness in mass psychology rather than actually governing or leading.

The blue checks will still exist, and they'll follow him to his next project. He's probably hoping they'll become his neurolink guinea pigs.

They understand. They just know if they say the shitty thing, it will give their bubba voters a misogyny hardon, which translates directly to votes.

There's a concept in politics called the gish-gallop. Also called firehose of lies. It's a time honored tradition, but in the past it was usually multiple people spewing crazy shit until they got called out too hard, at which point they'd quiet down and someone else would rotate in to take the heat.

With the way congressional districts are drawn, and now that they've seen Trump successfully accomplish this as a single person, to me the simplest explanation becomes that these liars lie because they know there won't be any immediate consequences, and that the more they can squeeze out, the less likely any given piece of it will be addressed.

Russia stopped pushing Jill Stein quite so hard once they compromised the major parties (democrats by releasing their emails, republicans by using their email trove as kompromat.)