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For those interested, here are my three most recent articles, all dealing with various aspects of America’s ongoing conflict with both China and Russia, with the titles being fairly self-explanatory:
- Ambassador Chas Freeman on Our Cold War Against China
Ron Unz • The Unz Review • December 9, 2024 • 7,500 Words - American Pravda: Propaganda-Hoaxes vs. Chinese Reality
Ron Unz • The Unz Review • December 16, 2024 • 6,700 Words - Assassinating a Top Russian General
Ron Unz • The Unz Review • December 23, 2024 • 5,600 Words
I’d also strongly recommend Tucker Carlson’s very lengthy recent interview of Prof. Jeffrey Sachs:
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They say the bigger wars are now inevitable but I don’t see people lining up to fight and die (there are a few). The Western societies are in no shape to engage in massive conscription, rearming, and in taking casualties. Everything speaks against it: consumer economy, demographics, mentality, culture. Most important: West doesn’t have the weapons superiority, they can’t fight their wars on the cheap by massively murdering the sub-humans who resist as in the past.
The push to all-out wars with a list of demonized evil-doers will fizzle out. Then the West will accept the inevitable – they are no longer in charge. Or they will choose to die with nukes to avoid the embarrassment of not being Number One. We will see.
I concur.
Kiev aggression is going nowhere. No one wants to emulate this as a model.
The CCP could deindustrialize Taiwan and capture it. Does Xi want that post-war reconstruction problem? Signs point to “no”.
Iran’s ability to destabilize the Middle East is collapsing. They cannot even care for their own people. Even the notoriously Tehran friendly NYT is calling out the problem: (1)
Trump’s 1st term yielded a proven track record avoiding foreign wars.
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Imagine how bad things would be in Syria right now if Trump had not bucked the establishment by moving U.S. troops out of the kill sack between Turkish and Syrian lines.
Trump’s 2nd term will remain pro-peace even though both internal & external parties will try to push a more aggressive agenda.
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(1) https://archive.is/mvbXs
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We are so close to a cavalry charge.
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No two nations with anal sex pride parades have ever waged war upon each other. The faggot who coined that is correct, so far. Thomas Friedman was right about McDonald’s until when he was not right any more.
There are some terrific comments in Ron Unz’ chinks posts threads. I think my favorite is the one about the Ugyr divisions getting battle hardened in Syria and they are going to do Xinjang next.
https://thenewkremlinstooge.wordpress.com/2024/11/21/always-a-bridesmaid-ukraine-will-never-join-nato/comment-page-5/#comment-103564
On the matter of foreigners fighting abroad, where are the North Koreans?
https://thenewkremlinstooge.wordpress.com/2024/11/21/always-a-bridesmaid-ukraine-will-never-join-nato/comment-page-5/#comment-103562
Excerpt –
Ultimately it won’t on account of it being hokey. Meantime, many uncritically repeat the BS.
Still trying to believe that Putin isn’t using North Koreans?
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Why hasn’t Putin given an official statement on the matter?
No two nations with anal sex pride parades have ever waged war upon each other.
Yea just morally upstanding Rome where anal sex with your male or female slave was tolerated by the upper class. Well as long as the man was in the “top” position.
No parades with gays but they did like to parade slaves from other countries before throwing them into combat against wolves or lions.
I’d also point out that if homosexuality is genetic then it really doesn’t matter if we have parades or not. In fact conservatives should be pushing to identify the genes instead of fretting over a few dozen fags in a parade.
Homosexuality was never “tolerated” in Rome. Even if a man acted in the “dominant” position. The Romans were disgusted by all homosexual acts, even as the empire deteriorated, Romans despised the degenerates, even the upper classes, who fell into those actions. Writings at the time condemned those who participated and was part of what led to the majority embracing the very anti-homosexual Christian religion.
There’s no such thing as a “gay gene”. It’s a preposterous notion. Is there a coprophelia gene? A necrophilia one, too? How about a pedophile gene? It’s just degeneracy.
What Mr. Unz should do about aliens is not read all of the respectable literature and draw conclusions from that but he should eat a bunch of psilocybin mushrooms and get a report direct from the machine elves. Don’t they have legal sales now in CA?
There is, and is transferred by females. This is why gay propaganda tries to explain homosexuality in the context of Darwinism as usefulness of an unmarried uncle for the children of his sister, not brother. They know: a homosexual taking care of his sister is taking care of homosexual genes.
Homosexuality is the most persistent where cousin marriages exist. Such marriages conserve chromosome X.
Research on homosexuality in children rom cousin marriages does not exist:
Homosexuality was never “tolerated” in Rome. Even if a man acted in the “dominant” position. The Romans were disgusted by all homosexual acts, even as the empire deteriorated, Romans despised the degenerates, even the upper classes, who fell into those actions.
That’s your own assumption of a traditional moral order that didn’t exist. Or perhaps you are assuming Holy Roman Empire.
Christianity in part became popular due to the moral degeneracy of Rome.
It was socially acceptable for a free-born Roman to have sex with a woman or a man assuming a dominant role. Both women and young men were perceived as natural objects of desire. Outside of marriage, a man could have sex with slaves (or slaves), prostitutes (who were usually slaves) and the so-called infames (the restricted man). It did not matter with which gender the Roman indulged in until he did not exceed certain social norms. For example, it was immoral to have sex with another citizen’s free-born wife, his daughter by marriage, his underage son, or the man himself.
https://www.ancient-peoples.com/how-was-homosexuality-viewed-in-ancient-rome
There’s no such thing as a “gay gene”. It’s a preposterous notion. Is there a coprophelia gene? A necrophilia one, too? How about a pedophile gene? It’s just degeneracy.
I used to be skeptical of the gay gene until having to work with homosexuals.
It’s not a moral failing. They have a genetic condition and it is hopeless.
If it was a moral failing then Christian therapy techniques would work.
Would you go gay under the right circumstances? I’ve known many secular straight White men and none of them “gave into gayness” under any circumstances. They didn’t need Christianity to keep them straight.
This is why gay propaganda tries to explain homosexuality in the context of Darwinism as usefulness of an unmarried uncle for the children of his sister, not brother. They know: a homosexual taking care of his sister is taking care of homosexual genes.
There are various theories but even secular liberals make the false assumption that such a gene set must serve some purpose.
There are all kinds of harmful genetic conditions that don’t provide any benefit to the bloodline. Huntington’s for example is simply passed because most offspring won’t get it. It’s just a cruel luck of the draw.
There are conditions where we in fact know the gene that is flipped as part of a mutation. Liberals maintain a sort of secular belief in creationism. Sometimes the genes are mutated and it just plain sucks. This is a problem with dog breeding where some flipped gene has been part of the breed and they just allow it.
physiognomy is real:
https://www.livescience.com/health/neuroscience/some-schizophrenia-cases-stem-from-malformations-of-the-skull-study-suggests
Not unless you assume that the recycling scam is responsible for the disrupted endocrine pathways in the womb, which make pedos generally shorter, dumber, and have attached earlobes. (Some exceptions)
Some “evidence”.
So a homosexual writes a fable about how homosexuality was acceptable and that makes it so? The writers from ancient Rome wrote extremely negatively about homosexuals. Dominant or otherwise.
You should read stories about how some men, normal on the outside, with wives and children, behave when in prison. Or stories about your people when they go off to private school or college and “experiment”. I’ve met people who fell into the homosexual lifestyle when young, usually turned out by an older man, found Christ, and were cured of the disease, married now with children. It’s more common than you want it to be.
If you believe in the unproven “theory” of a gay gene, you must also, if you think logically, believe in the coprophelia gene. Or the necrophilia gene. And if you believe in that, you sir, are, in medical terms, cuckoo.
Vietcong build new tunnel in Saigon!:
https://www.scmp.com/news/asia/southeast-asia/article/3291929/ho-chi-minh-citys-first-metro-line-opens-after-years-delays
I am honestly surprised that it took so long. Only 3 of the 14 stations are underground.
So Trump will bring in a lot of Indian tech workers?
https://www.indiaweekly.biz/donald-trumps-ai-advisor-sriram-krishnan/
Donald Trump’s pick for AI advisor Sriram Krishnan angers ‘America First’ votaries
The Indian-American tech entrepreneur has been vocal about expanding the H-1B visa programme and wants the country caps on Green Cards to be removed..
…Trump has already chosen a sizeable number of Indian-Americans in his team. They include Jay Bhattacharya, Vivek Ramaswamy, Harmeet K Dhillon and Kash Patel.
….Bhattacharya has been made the Director of the National Institutes of Health, the country’s top health research institution.
Curious. I would not have thought that Chris Nolan (not that I am a particular fan) would be forced to cast black women (incl. Zendaya!) in an adaptation of the Odyssey.
https://www.polygon.com/movies/501836/christopher-nolans-odyssey-movie-release-date-cast
Scylla and Charybdis? But I would have thought Lizzo would be a better fit for the latter…
North Koreans on camera aren’t enough for you?
So a homosexual writes a fable about how homosexuality was acceptable and that makes it so?
Here it is from a history professor
https://www.thoughtco.com/standard-roman-sexuality-112735
The writers from ancient Rome wrote extremely negatively about homosexuals. Dominant or otherwise.
There have been writers from every society that were against homosexuality. I write and I don’t support glamorizing homosexuality. That doesn’t mean I write the laws. Roman slaves were viewed as property and both upper class men and women were allowed to use them sexually. That doesn’t mean it was common but it was tolerated.
You should read stories about how some men, normal on the outside, with wives and children, behave when in prison.
Straight men engaging in homosexual sex out of desperation goes back thousands of years. That does not mean they are gay. Those same prisoners would take a woman if given the chance. A gay man in prison however would choose men. Homosexual relations among prisoners are actually much higher among women. That is called “gay for the stay” and isn’t related to how gay men are hard wired.
If gayness is mostly genetic then it would show up in children.
That is unfortunately the case. Once you have been around enough children you will encounter the gay kid. That doesn’t mean he has sexual desires at that age. But they are wired differently and it isn’t the fault of the parents. How do you explain a situation where a kid is gay but his siblings aren’t? They were raised in the same environment.
I’ve seen a kid get punished for wanting to play with dolls. Do you have to spank most boys for wanting to play with girl toys? Of course not. Something is way off when a parent has to try and condition a 7 year old into being a boy. This happens in every single Christian community. Someone has a gay kid and thinks he has to be spanked or pushed into being straight. Genes are the better explanation.
I’ve met people who fell into the homosexual lifestyle when young, usually turned out by an older man, found Christ, and were cured of the disease, married now with children. It’s more common than you want it to be.
What about the cases where people say that they prayed for years and were still gay? Why would someone lie about that? Or were they not praying hard enough?
Could you go gay under the right circumstances?
I would spend a few weeks at a non-profit that works with gays if you think it isn’t genetic. They aren’t straight men that are sometimes attracted to other men out of having a weak constitution. It’s a genetic condition like autism. They aren’t straight men that occasionally wander. Their innate unattraction to women will shock you. They aren’t wired like straight men or women. No one is making this up. I honestly wish I met some of them sooner so I didn’t waste time with liberal or Christian theories. They are hopeless and encouraging their promiscuity has cost this society billions of dollars.
Zhenya Gershman: Dürer’s Enigma: A Kabbalistic Revelation in Melencolia
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Anybody want to venture a guess regarding her religion?
If you believe in the unproven “theory” of a gay gene, you must also, if you think logically, believe in the coprophelia gene. Or the necrophilia gene. And if you believe in that, you sir, are, in medical terms, cuckoo.
I’ve never suggested that a necrophilia gene exists and I don’t see the point in spending time on a 1 in a million scenario. It’s illegal and everyone supports that law.
Homosexuality however is an ongoing part of US politics. I don’t take the liberal or Christian view. Liberals are correct that it is mostly genetic in origin while Christians are correct that it shouldn’t celebrated and that individuals can exercise sexual control.
Can you name a society that did not have homosexuality? Even American Indians wrote about having the occasional gay. Were gay Indians lacking morals?
Hitler believed that homosexuality was caused by Jewish moral degeneracy. Germany now has a much smaller Jewish population while they also have what is considered to be Europe’s gay capital.
I honestly wish it wasn’t genetic because then we could have social controls to prevent it. But the most likely explanation is that it is genetic. As with race I am certain that “time in the field” is more important than studies. Once you have been around gays you will lose any idealism. They are hopeless. It’s like believing that we can pray away Autism.
Or:
1.) the female slaves Odysseus kills at the end of the story?
2.) Maybe, they are really trying to emphasize the suitors were after Odysseus’s property?
So you dismiss the multitude of men who were enticed into the homosexual lifestyle when young, found Christ, left that lifestyle and lived normal, productive lives? You aren’t being honest, sir. The rectum isn’t, by any stretch, a sex organ. It’s not designed for that purpose. Just because a person has a mental disorder, like homosexuality or coprophelia, doesn’t mean we should just dismiss it as being “in their genes”. I knew a kid with 4 older sisters who played with their dolls. Today he’s married with two kids of his own. Playing with dolls isn’t genetic, it’s environmental. Men become homosexuals because of the environment they are raised in. Is a man who engages in homosexual acts while in prison genetically predisposed to it, or is it environmental? There is no scientific evidence of such a gene, and none will be found. Unless the US Supreme Court or Count Fauci order them to.
The Fake Stream Media [FSM] is desperate to create the appearance of problems. Do they actually exist? Not so much. Let me illustrate:
• Is the number of H-1B visas fixed by law? Yes.
• Is new legislation increasing that # imminent? No.
Thus, the FSM propaganda about a ‘flood’ increase in migration is obviously bogus. Could the AI advisor work to reallocate quota under the existing cap from CCP operatives to India? Perhaps. But, that is not really a loss.
Histrionic #NeverMAGA types are all about emotion rather than facts. Is a Krishnan a great choice? No. However, he is not a threat to MAGA.
Appointees work within their portfolio. This is much the same situation as Gorka for terrorism and Rubio for State. They have some incorrect beliefs, but those bad ideas are not in their “policy lanes”.
Remember, it is irrational to expect 100% of absolutely everything instantly. The world and politics do not function that way.
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If their is a gene that causes homosexuality, then it follows that there must be a gene that causes pedophilia, coprophelia, necrophilia and all the other phelias out there. Just because there are degenerates in every tribe on earth doesn’t make it genetic. There are murderers and rapists and thieves in every tribe, too, is that genetic? It’s a curable mental disorder, not a genetic disorder.
He’s already been there, seen that and done it all. Here’s a cover photo of him (the guy on the right) and his college garage band letting off a little steam on the way to the local “machine elves” convention.
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He could be heard singing…”those were the days my friend, we thought they’d never end.”
A really great album if you’ve never listened to it before. The next time you’re tripping give it a spin. It’s a toe tapper even if your’e straight. 🙂
So you dismiss the multitude of men who were enticed into the homosexual lifestyle when young, found Christ, left that lifestyle and lived normal, productive lives?
I don’t think praying away the gay works in most cases. There are most likely borderline cases and people that are basically bisexual. Some of them are also lying. The churches are unfortunately used by homosexuals as a cover. It’s been suggested that priesthood was used to send off homosexual boys.
It doesn’t make sense that they have to pray to be straight. Do you pray to be straight? It’s not something I have to work at. I didn’t try to be straight when I hit puberty. Even before then I thought boobs were great and wanted to look at them. How many gay men have you actually known in real life? They get upset by merely talking about naked women. They are not straight men that occasionally dabble in homosexuality.
The rectum isn’t, by any stretch, a sex organ. It’s not designed for that purpose.
No it isn’t and neither is the mouth. Yet Christian couples engage in both oral and anal sex. I’m not offended by the suggestion that anal sex should be discouraged but it should apply to everyone.
Men become homosexuals because of the environment they are raised in.
Then how do you explain cases where one boy is gay and the others aren’t?
Is a man who engages in homosexual acts while in prison genetically predisposed to it, or is it environmental?
I already went over that. Such a man is not attracted to men and would choose a woman. They dress up the “prison bitch” like a woman.
Homosexuality is more than getting off with the parts of the same gender. They spend time desiring men and have zero feelings for women. It isn’t something they just fall into.
Eventually the gay gene set will be identified and those of us that have been around gays will roll our eyes as if we needed a study. I can tell that you haven’t been around gays. It’s similar to liberals that haven’t been around Blacks. You have the same suburban naivety.
If their is a gene that causes homosexuality, then it follows that there must be a gene that causes pedophilia, coprophelia, necrophilia and all the other phelias out there. Just because there are degenerates in every tribe on earth doesn’t make it genetic.
No that doesn’t follow because you are assuming that homosexuality is the result of moral degeneracy and is only identifiable through sexual acts.
That is not the case as homosexual traits are normally identified before puberty.
Do you deny that gays have identifiable traits at early ages?
Children as young as 3 show signs of being gay.
https://slate.com/news-and-politics/2011/09/when-do-gay-kids-start-acting-gay.html
It sounds crazy but anyone who has worked in the schools will tell you that it isn’t surprising. Some people have a gay kid.
Eventually they’ll prove there’s no such thing as a “gay gene” and the cure can be taken.
It’s kind of funny how you homosexuals try to belittle and ridicule those who through prayer and hard work, are able to turn away from a disgusting lifestyle choice. You choose to use your rectum as a sexual organ. Obviously, it was designed for a different use. Most young men, from what I’ve been told, are turned out by older men who prey on them, often using drugs, alcohol, money or a place to live to seduce them into the lifestyle. Some just have a mental disorder like a pedophile or copropheliac. It’s their mind, not their genetics. A murderer doesn’t have murder in his genes and neither does a thief. Just because you’re too weak to give up the disgusting habit, whether it’s smoking cigarettes or hanging out on your knees in a public men’s room, doesn’t make it genetic. But, I guess if you don’t want to accept that 1 + 1=2, I can’t force you to. Just remember, the rectum isn’t a sex organ and go from there.
Would like the opinion of Levantine Arabs on whether Hanania looks weird.
(I think he definitely does, but honestly don’t understand Middle Eastern diversity too well)
It’s kind of funny how you homosexuals try to belittle and ridicule those who through prayer and
hard work, are able to turn away from a disgusting lifestyle choice.
So you’re accusing me of being gay because I threaten your worldview. I’m not gay and do not have to pray to be straight. I’ve never had to ask God to help me choose straight activities. I was never punished over picking the wrong toys. I liked guns and cars from an early age. No prayer needed.
I’m married with children and was forced to work with homosexuals as part of my employment.
As a result of the experience I became less liberal and also completely divested of Christian theories.
I’m openly against Christian conservatism but not Christianity.
Christian conservatism is too separate from nature to fully challenge the liberal establishment. It tries to believe that homosexuality is environmental and that race is merely paint color. Both assumptions are unfortunately false and Christian conservatism ends up being zero match for liberalism. It’s sort of hand tied and unable to fight the real weakness of the left.
Christian views on homosexuality largely come from the Old Testament and not from study.
What do you have to say about Christians that once supported therapy but now say it is genetic? Did he not pray hard enough?
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Do you pray to be straight? Why don’t you want to answer that question?
Where? Are you sure they’re North Korean? Why the busted lie of the blatantly faked photo? Zelensky was projecting again when he said the Russians burned the faces of North Koreans to cover their identity. It was pro-Kiev regime advocacy which altered the faces in the aforementioned photo.
Ethnographic reporting definitely leaves something to be desired. Would like to know whether the Guatamalan who set the lady on fire in the NYC subway was a Mayan.
Horses are more resistant to T. gondii
So why haven’t after many, many years of research, any been identified yet? It’ not like there aren’t many competent gay partisan researchers that haven’t really given it their best shot at trying to locate any such genes? DNA and molecular biology is not a science in its infancy anymore…
BTW, this is an excellent discussion and I’m a little bit surprised that some of our more scientifically oriented contributors haven’t already jumped in with their own opinions on this important topic….
There’s No Such Thing as a ‘Gay Gene,’ a New Study Argues
https://time.com/5662444/gay-gene-study/
Your defense of the homosexual lifestyle was so fierce, against known science and logic, that I thought you must be a homosexual. I apologize for misreading your words.
As a conservative Christian, I can tell you that most of us see race as a scientific fact, because science and our eyes show us it is. You want to believe homosexuality is genetic, with no evidence, for unknown reasons, I thought it was because you were a homosexual.
Christian views come from the New Testament where it is expressly forbidden. Read the letters of St Paul for more information.
My understanding of how men can leave this disgusting, unnatural lifestyle comes from meeting and reading about those who were able to overcome it. Although, because of your hostility to Christianity, you would find it difficult to understand, seeing a person become whole again after years of suffering is an amazing experience. As with many other things, the media is lying to you about homosexuality, your mind appears made up, but if there’s even a small opening, read some of the literature that opposes what’s falsely become accepted and you might have a change of opinion.
Would be surprised if Razib identified as a Bangladeshi. Since I don’t believe the identity existed long before 1971. Plus, it seems to have returned to low status, after briefly having higher per capita than India.
I imagine he would identify much more with caste.
What if Koreans are actually involved in helping Russians out on the battlefield, as most people believe? Does this somehow diminish the Russians superhuman powers? As we all know, they’ve been referred to as the second greatest military in the world…although Ukrainians consider them to be the second greatest military in Ukraine. 🙂
https://www.val-co.com/10-interesting-facts-chicken-vision/
Because they don’t want. Knowing a gay gene would enable more and less sensible projects to get rid of gays. Nobody really believes propaganda that “Diversity is strength” and “life with gays around is BETTER than without them”
Lack of simple genealogical research into gayness is astounding. Likewise frequency of gays among children of cousin marriages in Asia is not investigated. Why the number of gays doesn’t sink, if it is purely random minority gen? Maybe choice of partners, which conserves recessive genes, hm?
They want you to believe there is no gay gene because they want to stay here
Ukrainians claim the troops they face are experienced units but why doesn’t Russia use reservists who otherwise can’t be deployed outside of mainland Russia?
Gays impose themselves upon us
There has never been a project of homosexuals only society (lesbians could produce new gays) .
But it is more than a single gene I believe
Are there any gay chickens that like to eye each other out? I know that homosexual behavior among apes and monkeys is very prevalent…
Some believe that God created human initially as unity of female and male – a gay .
This way of thinking you can see in movie “conclave” where the future pope has both penis & womb despite not being explicitly gay
Everyone knows that North American Aerospace Defense [NORAD] tracks Santa on Christmas Eve.
http://www.noradsanta.org/
Did you know that it started because of a print advertisement mistake? (1)
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(1) https://www.historynet.com/how-did-norad-start-tracking-santa/
Due to chickens 300-degree field of view, I imagine they are relatively good at detecting gays trying to sneak up behind them. Better than monkeys, but maybe not as agile at evading.
Many animals engage in dominance mounting, but I am skeptical of exclusively gay chickens.
Calcium carbonate is much less permeable than a placenta. Chickens have a very short development window ~21 days. Not a lot of time for things to go wrong. And not much mental complexity either.
When I was in college, many girls would get confused and call me when they locked themselves out of their room while taking a shower.
One digit was off.
Social behaviour
The rest is homosexual propaganda
Homosexual behaviour among apes and monkeys is homosexual propaganda
How about gay frogs? Do they exist? Are they increasing in population?
This is a Korean:
That is not a Buriat and why are there groups of them? He has non-standard kit that actually matches.
Just stop already.
You don’t even know your own dwarf hero.
He would have denied it by now if it was a CIA plot as Larry C Bootlicker claimed.
The ex-CIA Putin defender got it wrong. Accept it and move on.
Because they don’t want. Knowing a gay gene would enable more and less sensible projects to get rid of gays.
That is correct and there is actually another problem which is that lesbianism doesn’t correlate as well with heredity.
There was a researcher who was scolded by the establishment for saying he is certain there is a gay gene set in gay men but for lesbians it isn’t as clear.
He said that more study was needed and they called him anti-science.
Both right and left are really not interested in facing this issue honestly.
Amphibians are relatively more sensitive to environmental toxins. This includes things affecting sexual development, but “gay” probably isn’t a good word to apply to them for anatomical reasons.
But there is zero evidence, nil, none, nada, zilch, zip evidence of a “gay” gene. Just because some people, for unknown reasons, wish such a gene existed, doesn’t make it so. It’s a mental disorder. Like necrophilia or coprophelia. And it’s curable.
It only took 25 years but it turns out Natalie Portman wants all of us to send her photographs of our dicks.
https://www.dailymail.co.uk/tvshowbiz/article-14223223/natalie-portman-st-barth-getaway-benjamin-millepied-divorce.html
The lesson here is you just need to be patient. : )
In the early days of Human Genome Project, 23 and Me, Whatnot &c. the gay gene looked like a phenomenal insanely great project:
1. it’s gotta be on the sex chromosome and the sex chromosome is the smallest of all 23;
2. it’s an isolated characteristic (no cofounders–letting strangers anal sex you is obvious and unique);
3. there’s plenty of faggots so getting a big N is gonna be a slam dunk.
This wasn’t low hanging fruit. This was a plump peach hanging at eye level. After tens hundreds millions of research funds granted and years of labor they didn’t come up with Jack Shit.
Now, instead of coming to the obvious conclusion that their research paradigm and method wasn’t gonna fly, they all just moved onto writing more research grants.
Two future suppliers to the Chinese space station are state-owned enterprises.
Keep believing that BS.
You really do come across as a delusional idiot.
Your defense of the homosexual lifestyle was so fierce, against known science and logic
I gave my opinion on why I thought it is genetic. That is not defending a lifestyle.
I said that I do not support encouraging homosexual promiscuity.
It’s a nuanced position that bothers both left and right.
I view it as mostly genetic in men but that gays should not be celebrated as some type of ideal group. HIV never would have gotten out of control if both left and right were honest about the original spread and took the necessary precautions. Billions would have been saved if they shut down the bathhouses. Even today you can be ex-communicated by the left in Academia if you merely point out facts like how gays are behind the resurgence of syphilis.
I’m very opinionated on gays because I’ve had to be around them. I think both right and left are deluding themselves. The experience made me even more anti-liberal. Liberals are not interested in “following the science” when it contradicts their egalitarian beliefs. They teach that homosexuality is genetic but they don’t want open study or discussion of uncomfortable facts like how there is more research favoring a genetic link in men but less so in women.
I type these posts quickly so like others you probably assumed I spent a long time in my response. The same accusation has been made over COVID and Ukraine. My wife thinks I type my responses at over 80 wpm but I haven’t measured myself. But I’ve had quite a few posters assume I must be spending all day on these and thus must be part of some paid opposition.
As a conservative Christian, I can tell you that most of us see race as a scientific fact, because science and our eyes show us it is.
If that were true then Fox News would not exist. It caters to race-denial based theories of Christian conservatism. They constantly have debates on how “unions and big government” ruined Detroit. Those are fake debates. Japan has auto unions and yet they somehow did not destroy any cities. But such facts aren’t allowed to be mentioned as they would undermine the narrative of everything being environmental and that the “Free market” will fix it all. I grew up in the church and was given explanations like “Haiti is poor because of bad government” and it of course doesn’t add up. I’ve in fact taken part in fundraisers for missionaries. I do appreciate the idealism but there is an undercurrent of race denial that suppresses effective solutions.
You want to believe homosexuality is genetic, with no evidence, for unknown reasons, I thought it was because you were a homosexual.
There is plenty of evidence and I already cited a study where boys that play with girl toys around age 3 are far more likely to become homosexual.
Unlike you I am fine with disagreement. What is your theory on why a Christian family would have one gay son while the others are straight? It doesn’t bother me to have the discussion. You’re talking to me as if I am liberal. I am anti-liberal in part because liberalism tries to shut down the debate on such taboo topics.
Although, because of your hostility to Christianity, you would find it difficult to understand
Saying that I am hostile to Christianity shows that you aren’t even reading my responses. I said I support Christianity but not Christian conservatism. I think Christian culture is in general healthier than secular liberalism. However I don’t think Christian conservatives should craft policy because they have too many beliefs related to race that don’t square up with reality. Race itself contradicts the flood account and creationism. It’s a difficult subject for Christians because it means that economic progress is more complex than Christian morals and the free market. I take the Jefferson view which is that Christianity should stay out of politics. Interestingly he was privately skeptical of the Old Testament and believed there were aspects of man’s nature that weren’t taken into account. Even before the theory of evolution he could see that were natural orders in nature that had existed for long periods of time.
Strange, I’ve never once in my life felt this desire…how about you?
3 year old children have no idea what sex is. Anyone pushing that on a child is an abuser and should be jailed. Anyone who’s had kids, or been around them, knows prepubescent children do not have deviant sexual attraction. If a child is showing such symptoms, it’s because someone is forcing it on them.
There is no scientific evidence of a “gay” gene. None. If one type of sexual deviancy has a gene, they all do, or your logic fails. Face it, until you have an actual gene, there’s no genetic evidence. A sick, distorted study by “social scientists” isn’t evidence.
Fox news leans more to Zionist Christians, not conservative Christians. Although many Zio-Christians are conservative, the majority of conservative Christians don’t fall into this smaller group. Like your gene theory, you’re mistaken on this one.
You really do come across as a delusional idiot.
So you will go on record and claim that US, Ukrainian and South Korean intelligence agencies are all wrong? They are all filled with delusional idiots?
Larry C Johnson is right on this one? It’s all a CIA conspiracy even though Putin hasn’t denied it and Russian State TV hasn’t claimed it is false?
You are going to maintain that North Koreans are not fighting in Kursk?
You believe this is a Russian?
Next time try waiting for more evidence instead of assuming that your alt-right hero must be right about everything. Larry C Johnson claimed the war was in “mop up stage” a few weeks after it started. He is a Putin shill and doesn’t give a damn about honest reporting. Alt-right should be a place of open discussion and not a mindless link exchange of obviously biased bloggers like Ritter and Larry.
3 year old children have no idea what sex is. Anyone pushing that on a child is an abuser and should be jailed. Anyone who’s had kids, or been around them, knows prepubescent children do not have deviant sexual attraction.
I stated clearly that these differences show up before puberty and before they have sexual desire. I in no way advocate labeling a child as gay.
But with that said the genetic theory has weight given that such differences do exist and I provided a study that you ignored.
There are identifiable traits in kids that later identify as gay.
Christians have been trying to condition such differences out of them. I in fact knew a Christian family that was upset over their boy liking dresses and girl toys. Well why was the other boy not like that at all? Unfortunately the parents always get blamed by other Christians. As with you they assume something went wrong in the environment.
There is no scientific evidence of a “gay” gene.
There are studies that show a correlation with heredity.
ace it, until you have an actual gene, there’s no genetic evidence.
You’re projecting. I’m for investigating while you would want such studies to be shut down in favor of a belief that everyone is potentially gay and it’s just a matter of morals. Are you potentially gay?
Fox news leans more to Zionist Christians, not conservative Christians. Although many Zio-Christians are conservative, the majority of conservative Christians don’t fall into this smaller group. Like your gene theory, you’re mistaken on this one.
So which Fox Host has had an honest conservation on race?
Where are these racial realist Christian conservatives going for news? Do tell.
Christian conservatives support race denial as seen by their voting patterns. They line up for Evangelical race deniers that promote paint theory and “markets above all” theories.
I grew up in the church so don’t bother trying to bullshit me. The top Christian leaders all support lying about race and promoting the idea that Christianity and capitalism can save Africa.
Like many I was aware the Mayans had pyramids, but hadn’t been aware they had constructed tower structures as well. This tower is located at the Mayan city state of Palenque, a site which was abandoned by 800 AD..
https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Palenque
https://mayaruins.com/palenque/a1_203.html
The same palace tower in 1890-91…
..And after being cleaned up.
Strange, I’ve never once in my life felt this desire…how about you?
LOL well we have Christian conservatives that seem to think we have to constantly apply moral pressure to ourselves to prevent such thoughts.
As if we would all be humping anything with a hole if not for Christianity.
I laugh at so called ex-gays that talk about needing constant prayer to maintain their straightness.
Um…you’re gay. Straight guys do not constantly battle thoughts of homosexuality.
People snicker at this video but it is a common view in Evangelical churches.
Why would anyone care if Russia is using DPRK troops in the SMO?
The Inca also had towers, according to Inca Garcilaso de la Vega.
IIRC, there is some story, probably apocryphal, about the corpses of the defenders of one against the Spanish falling and piling up so that they were nearly as tall as the tower.
Mr. Hack, I thought you were Orthodox? And that the Orthodox didn’t believe animals were endowed with souls? But that people are?
Obviously you don’t know any Christian conservatives. Conservative Christians, oddly enough, vote conservatively. Because your Church leaders were liberal on racial matters, doesn’t mean the congregants were blinded to reality. In a multi-racial, multi-religion society, most people try to get along. There’s a difference between getting along and being ignorant of racial reality.
Fox News isn’t a Christian news channel. It leans toward moderate republicanism and neoconism. Some of Its commentators are known Zio-Christians. A small, but influential sect.
What identifiable traits are seen in children? A boy playing with dolls? Some homosexuals are extremely masculine, some feminine men have wives and family. It’s nonsense and it calls into question your intelligence that you would fall for it.
If you want to spend your life savings trying to find the nonexistent “gay gene”, like the alchemists of antiquity, go for it. I’m not spending my money or time on it.
Actually, within Orthodox teaching animals do indeed have souls, it’s only spirits that they’re missing. The spirit is above a soul and is the only part of a being that can be in relation to the Creator/God, thus it’s what separates humans from the rest of the animal kingdom.
I have a friend that is a monk/bishop within the Orthodox church. He had a dog that he loved very much that finally succumbed that he ended up burying in his back yard. He’s almost built a memorial garden around that gravesite. He believes that his dog has made it to Heaven. Who am I to dispute this dog’s final destination with him, in that you need a spirit to make it that far? He’s a wonderfully simple man with a strong faith system in place. He’s German/American by ethnicity having once practiced the Roman Catholic faith, Pentecostalism, and other more mainline protestant faiths, having been around the block in his quest for religious authenticity. Once, when I was a little boy, I too fell into a depressive state learning that a dog that I had greatly admired had too passed on…Late at night, my older sister heard me grieving in my bed and came to me and assured me that the dog that I loved also made it to heaven. I was very grateful to hear that from her. 🙂
I HAVE WATCHED THIS SHIT AND YOU DON’T HAVE TO.
Sort of. The first hour was all I could take. Lue Elizondo needs more gila monster venom is the most substantial take I can provide to you.
How about the angels? Do they have souls?
Within the Anglosphere, advanced preparations for WWIII are being closely modeled upon the events leading up to WWII, ie a purportedly ill prepared Britain and a Johnny come lately America, both up against a said to be well prepared militaristic foe, with Putin’s Russia now in the place of Hitler’s Germany.
https://www.yahoo.com/news/britain-failing-prepare-itself-war-201632069.html
“This is something that we now have to be ready to do without the US lead and it means gearing up to be ready for war in every respect,” he said.
Cont.
I think that “moral pressure” is not an accurate way one should think about it. Asking God for help to overcome all manner of sin is more accurate, and that should be with a contrite and submissive heart.
When we recite the Lord’s prayer, why else do we state “and lead us not into temptation, but deliver us from evil”…
Many protestants erroneously feel that once they’ve accepted the Lord as their savior, this is all that is ever required of them, that no further effort to distance themselves from sin is required. No sacrament of confession is ever needed. Well, from my experience, that’s a weak and untenable position. Unless once you’ve committed yourself to walk with the Lord you become a Saint, sin does seem to creep back into one’s life. One doesn’t just recite the Lord’s prayer once?…..
Likewise, many Christians erroneously look down upon homosexuals as the worse type of sinners, while continuing to sin in many other ways. This feeling of moral superiority is not countenanced anywhere in the gospels. How many “Christians” will go to bed tonight, on Christmas eve, after watching a pornographic movie? All manner of sin is difficult to overcome and that is why we continuously seek the Lord’s forgiveness, take part in the sacraments like confession and communion.
Food for thought: It is often said that pride is the cornerstone of all sin. How many times (including myself) have we gone away from this blogsite feeling proud of our comment feeling that it is superior to that of our opponent? 🙂
Not long ago I posted a comment skeptical of AI being as transformative as it is touted everywhere and I remember Barbarossa being sympathetic to my view. But I have been playing with Grok recently and it has made me change my views entirely.
I still think that many people are just using the term AI for what we recently would have called ordinary computing but real AI systems are making very fast progress. They provide amazingly accurate answers to all sorts of questions and the breadth of knowledge and tasks that they cover is mind boggling. I tested Grok with financial, mathematical and technical questions of all sorts and I was quite astonished at how good it is. Obviously computers have always been very good at fast calculations but this is totally new: you’re asking a question in plain English and these systems are immediately able to understand the problem, reformulate it adequately and select the right models and equations to immediately give you a correct answer.
Right now I would predict that many categories of jobs are indeed going to take a big hit with AI and it could actually happen very fast. Many jobs are already redundant, I think, but people are simply not yet using AI for their everyday lives. They just haven’t realized how useful it is. Advisors, customer support, technical and medical diagnosis, programming are among the many types of jobs that I see relegated to niches or perhaps disappearing altogether.
In line with the discussion on homosexuality above, I asked Grok and Gemini a tricky question and the results are under the More tag, as an example of how AI can give you an astonishingly accurate answer (if it is allowed to do so by its designers, note Gemini’s almost admonishing answer). As with the other tests that I had been making earlier, I found this too close to human intelligence for comfort. Just to be clear, I don’t care one way or another. Close family members came out gay decades ago and it’s a non issue for me. It’s just an example of how AI can give you a perfectly reasoned answer in perfect English to all sorts of questions in a matter of just seconds. And the more people use these systems, the more they get “trained” and the better they are going to become.
Merry Christmas to everybody.
GROK
is anatoly karlin homosexual?
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Anatoly Karlin’s sexual orientation has been a topic of discussion and speculation based on various online writings and statements. Here is an analysis based on available information:
Personal Statements: Karlin has publicly stated a shift in his political and social views, notably in 2023, where he identified as “queer, agender, and an Antifa,” suggesting a change or acknowledgment of his sexual orientation or gender identity. However, this statement contrasts with earlier phases of his public persona where he was known for more conservative or reactionary views on social issues, including homosexuality. Karlin’s mention of supporting “LGBTQ+ maximalism” in 2023 further indicates a possible change in his stance on these matters.
Historical Context: In earlier years, Karlin was noted for views that were often critical or at least unsupportive of homosexuality. His writings from the early 2010s, for instance, show a clear opposition to the promotion of homosexuality, which was consistent with the cultural and political climate in Russia at the time.
Public Perception and Speculation: There’s been some speculation about Karlin’s personal life due to his varied and sometimes contradictory public stances. Encyclopedia Dramatica, known for its controversial and often satirical content, has described him in ways that suggest he might have been perceived as homosexual in his earlier years, although this should be taken with a grain of salt due to the nature of the site.
Given this information, it’s challenging to definitively label Karlin’s sexual orientation based solely on public statements and writings, especially considering his history of shifting ideological positions. Karlin has publicly identified with terms that could imply he is homosexual or at least supportive of broader sexual identities, but these statements also coincide with a significant ideological shift which might be seen as performative or strategic rather than a direct reflection of his personal identity.
In conclusion, while Karlin has made statements that align with identifying as part of the queer community, the complexity of his public persona and history requires a nuanced understanding rather than a straightforward answer. His past writings and recent statements present a mosaic of someone who has either evolved personally or who uses identity politics strategically.
GEMINI
is anatoly karlin homosexual?
Anatoly Karlin’s sexual orientation is a private matter and not publicly known.
It’s important to respect people’s privacy and avoid making assumptions or speculations about their personal lives.
Focusing on someone’s work and public persona is generally more appropriate than speculating about their private life.
Great question that I don’t readily have an answer to. I’ll need some more time to think that one through.
Did you ever see this episode of The Twilight Zone?
https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Hunt_(The_Twilight_Zone)
Ugh! At least it wasn’t a tower of skulls. 🙁
I’ve always thought ‘the Observatory’ built in about 900 AD by the Mayans was pretty cool.
https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/El_Caracol,_Chichen_Itza
I did once,long ago…however, after reading the more illuminating notes that you’ve directed me towards, I’ll find it even more enjoyable the second time around.
I don’t think that my bishop buddy would take it that far. 🙂
🙂
St Thomas Aquinas wrote of homosexualoty, ” ..this is the gravest manner of sin.”
St Augustine wrote, “Those foul offenses that are against nature should at all times be detected and punished.”
St Paul wrote, “Males doing with males what is disgraceful…will receive their just recompense.” Among other condemnations.
Christ himself says marriage shall be between a man and woman.
The act of homosexuality degrades both the body and the soul and so is, “worse than other sins.” It’s probably the only sin celebrated and pushed by this modern society and leading away from the purity of Christ. Because watching pornography, admittedly wrong, hurts only the viewer and doesn’t extend to disgusting acts with another person, it’s less of a sin. You only hurt yourself watching porn, you injure another during the sodomy, and injure God by disgracing his creation.
I never stated or implied that homosexuaity is not a sin. I choose to work out my own salvation, and not dwell on other person’s sins and temptations. Also, I wont even try to go down the road of being some sort of judge of what’s considered a more grievous sin…homosexuality or watching pornography? You say that pornography only harms the one watching it, how about the ones producing it, the actors, directors, etc;?
I’ll let you be the one to sort it all out, I’m not that competent to be a judge in these matters. Although I do value all of the sources that you’ve provided. St. Augustine certainly knew about the sins and temptations to be found in this world.
We’re all trying to find our way to salvation. The problem we come across today is the promotion of homosexuality is being led by powerful forces trying to push people into this deviant lifestyle. It’s all well and good to go out in the desert and see to your own salvation, for those of us living in the world, it’s necessary to stand against those who would destroy the innocent. The Church Fathers, the saints, all good people who try to follow Christ, have an obligation to point out serious sin and attempt to prevent the innocent from being dragged down, and lend a hand to uplift those already dragged down. Lies about homosexuality being genetic, or no different than watching a dirty movie lead the susceptible into sin and have to be corrected. Homosexual acts, not according to me but according to St Paul and the Church Fathers, is one of the worst sins. If not the worst.
I don’t see homosexuality as the worst sin (what about murder), if it were why wouldn’t that have been included somewhere in the list of the ten commandments? Perhaps It has, in the commandment admonishing the act of adultery. But adultery is most often associated with heterosexual sex acts?…
Although I do live in the Sonoran desert, I can assure you that sin abounds most everywhere on any street corner. Not everyone is called to be an evangelist, perhaps this is your special calling? But to focus all of your energies bleating about the perniciousness of homosexuality is nearsighted. Sin in general should be rallied against, IMHO. To make homosexuals feel extreme moral condemnation by singling them out by those that have many other sins hidden in their closets is hypocritical.
I don’t recall that Billy Graham (the great TV evangelist that I admired) singled out homosexuals for special condemnation?
Some traditional Polish carols, old-fashion style:
By refusing to single out the sin of homosexuality, against the evil forces promoting this disgusting lifestyle in media, schools and government, you actually aid those forces. Homosexuality is worse than murder in that you only kill a man once, when you sexually degrade him over and over, you destroy his soul, as well as his body. St John Chrysostom says, “A murder dissevers the soul from the body, but homosexuality destroys the soul in the body.” Homosexuality, according to St Paul, makes an idol out of the body and in that way violates the 1st commandment. Of course, it’s much easier to get along in the world today if you downplay the seriousness of this sin, you won’t get invited to many cocktail parties, even in the desert.