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  1. kickazz

    Politics Fascist takeover US 2025.

    The question is then, why do people vote for it?
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    Society/Culture Jordan B Peterson

    When you listen to people who are just way too sure of themselves and 100% think that they are right - you know what you learn? Nothing really apart from what it's like inside their head - because you are given nothing to work with or ponder for yourself. When you yourself are completely...
  3. kickazz

    Politics Aussie Fascists and (neo)Nazis

    https://www.abc.net.au/news/2024-03-22/neo-nazi-court-appeal-thomas-sewell-jacob-hersant/103619202 So the judge recons that Sewel has suffered enough during half a year in prison and that a stronger sentence is not warranted. I'll admit I'm not across the severity of the violent attack...
  4. kickazz

    Society/Culture Jordan B Peterson

    Yeah I got some "herp derp don't be a hypocrite" vibes from that chapter. A bit like those folks who tell Pat Cummins to shut up about the environment because he catches lots of planes. The conservatives love a black/white, shut up if you/the solution are/is not perfect approach to stifling...
  5. kickazz

    Politics Fascist takeover US 2025.

    Care to elaborate? Are you suggesting they would take direct actions, regarding the constitution to hinder democracy? Or is it more a case of putting the USA down a path that would be very hard to get back from?
  6. kickazz

    Politics Fascist takeover US 2025.

    Start with the wig.
  7. kickazz

    Society/Culture Jordan B Peterson

    Yeah this makes sense, but in my case I do separate the art and the artist. I don't know if that is right or wrong, I just do.
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    Society/Culture Jordan B Peterson

    Yes, it helped me find where I left my pills.
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    Society/Culture Jordan B Peterson

    My wife has an old Pete Evans cookbook. I've always thought he was a tosser but these recipes are good and are still worth cooking and eating. Do I look back at them with more suspicion now? Probably. But there is still some value there. I see JP's book the same way. My honest opinion is that...
  10. kickazz

    Society/Culture Jordan B Peterson

    Maybe not earth shatteringly ground breaking but Gralin what did you think about the part where he spoke about the difference between comparing yourself to the "cool/successful" guy/girl in small town Canada, and the more modern problem of comparing to people online? I think there is some value...
  11. kickazz

    Society/Culture Jordan B Peterson

    I don't get this, who says it has to? There are many medications for example that fall into this category but are very useful. I know you don't like the self help genre but they can be good for some people so long as they don't get addicted to them I thought some of the rules were a pretty...
  12. kickazz

    Society/Culture To what extent are Universities to blame for the current children's literacy crisis?

    Phonics should be prioritised, but whole word teaching does have its place, particularly in a language like English. Where they get the idea that reading is 'natural' and you just 'do it' or whatever they say - I'd like to see an actual academic paper that says that cos it sounds like bullshit...
  13. kickazz

    Society/Culture The Gender Pay Gap

    Yes. But without the discussion of all the ins and outs then it just comes down to a misused statistic. Which I think is the point you are kind of making anyway. It is interesting that this particular gap is highlighted and pushed hard. There's many other ways to slice and dice society and look...
  14. kickazz

    Society/Culture The Gender Pay Gap

    It's not so much wrong as sub-optimal. There is a critical point where it can become discouraging for the minority to enter that industry/company even if they are actually interested in the work - and there is also the cultural impact of "you can't be what you can't see" that might rule out...
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    Society/Culture The Gender Pay Gap

    My question straight after the bolded did ask if men/women want it to change, so there is that. In many professions, women may be discouraged from pursuing them (when they otherwise would be interested) simpy due to cultural factors that can arise from being so male-dominated. If otherwise...
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    Society/Culture The Gender Pay Gap

    Some food for thought on how norms/societal structure is so deeply embedded in all of this: Today is Feb 29th - the day that it is 'traditionally acceptable' for women to make marriage proposals to men. Yeah. We are still that backward. It got me thinking - as 3 or 4pm rolls around at the...
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    Society/Culture The Gender Pay Gap

    A really interesting topic, one where I feel sometimes the data is misused - but this is a really good step, publishing these raw, simple numbers. It will certainly get conversations started. For example - Jetstar has a big gap, largely because highly paid pilots are almost all men. Why is that...
  18. kickazz

    The Law Australian Police brutality thread.

    https://www.abc.net.au/news/2024-02-26/zachary-rolfe-kumanjayi-walker-coronial-inquest-nt-police-racism/103504898 Unfortunately I'm not surprised. And I think it is a systemic cultural thing. Had on occasion been around off-duty cops on the piss and yeah the racist s**t comes out, from folks...
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    Society/Culture Jordan B Peterson

    He is no doubt biased by the modern context of problems (social media and self esteem for example) many of his patients have had trouble with, whilst probably not exposed enough to the good things that the "chaos" of modern life have given us. So it's easy for him to slip into "it was much...
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    Society/Culture Jordan B Peterson

    Yeah, well with the money side of things he certainly seemed to ignore his Rule 7 in that regard. (Pursuing what is meaningful, not expedient)
  21. kickazz

    Society/Culture Jordan B Peterson

    Yeah that "cultural Marxism" phrase was shithoise, and every two bit RWNJ loves using it. I did like his early critiques of some aspects of modern progressives, it held us to account, but this was always best when he critiqued specific issues. Then when it all morphed into this nebulous...
  22. kickazz

    Society/Culture Jordan B Peterson

    Yeah, like any of those sorts of books it might not be that original but I found he articulated some points well; and there is a cohort of young people for which it could be really helpful. BUT. Geez some of his tangents were almost unreadable. Definitely needed some editing. Meth fuelled is...
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    Society/Culture Jordan B Peterson

    He often cited Nazi and Soviet behaviour when decrying the 20th century as quite horrible, so it surprises me he got on the Nazi propoganda train, when did he do that?
  24. kickazz

    Society/Culture Jordan B Peterson

    JP was good until he got really famous. The haters really got to him, and the acolytes got to him too, in a different way. He always said that anyone of reasonable intellect that had anything interesting to say would necessarily miss the mark at times, otherwise they would not be interesting...
  25. kickazz

    Society/Culture School Old Boys clubs - what is the obsession?

    If you have or will have children going there, then there's an obvious interest. Otherwise - association I suppose. We all want to belong, this is just another way of doing it. For some of the wealthier examples then old boys' clubs provide access to networking with powerful/influential/useful...
  26. kickazz

    The Law Australian Police brutality thread.

    Not really. If you are a victim of crime, their main energy is focused on the criminal. That is their job. Punishing and preventing crime. Society's whole approach to crime is very perpetrator oriented and the victims can please themselves. Indeed, all criminal matters in our adversarial legal...
  27. kickazz

    The Law Australian Police brutality thread.

    No, its pretty obvious. You put him on a watch list, you watch him, all of that stuff. But you don't go online and egg him on. That's the really stupid part.
  28. kickazz

    The Law Conscription/National Service

    I'm open minded on this - and I think National Service can have a much broader meaning than traditionally it has. It could well be mutually beneficial for the country and the participant. I have a friend from Singapore who says it was really good for him. If nothing else it imbues a sense of...
  29. kickazz

    The Law Australian Police brutality thread.

    It is not a stretch by any means to suggest that in this instance, the actions of the police actually made us less safe.
  30. kickazz

    The Law Australian Police brutality thread.

    I mean, if you write this as a fictional novel or movie script it would get rejected for being daft and implausible
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