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Social Contagions, Big Tech, & Corrective Action

Social Contagions, Big Tech, & Corrective Action

Lucas Necessary

Reading Time: 3 minutesBig tech suppresses certain ideas through social mechanisms and disallowing certain interactions. You’ve seen the playbook, which includes things like removing dislikes from ideas they support, prohibiting sharing of certain information entirely, banning heterodox thinkers who seem most open and might attract others, posting “fact-checks” which are factual though not truthful (and in some cases which are purely fallacious), and promoting certain concepts while disallowing others. 

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Live Not by Lies: Therapeutic Destruction of Meaning

Live Not by Lies: Therapeutic Destruction of Meaning

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Reading Time: 6 minutesIn an age that seeks to force you into mental compliance, because surely you alone are left, do not give in, no matter how the temptation is packaged. Live Not by Lies.

Christians: Netflix and Your Children

Christians: Netflix and Your Children

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Reading Time: 3 minutesWe should be nice to everyone, treating them with gentleness and respect, PERIOD. However, we also need to stand firm against moral decay. Netflix recently posted this thread about the damage of misgendering pre-pubescent kids:

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Tyranny in the House of Mouse: Disney’s Role in Upholding the Gender Patriarchy

Tyranny in the House of Mouse: Disney’s Role in Upholding the Gender Patriarchy

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Reading Time: 2 minutesDisney blatantly shoves Mulan back into the closet, and forces him to erase his clear signs of male identification so that he presents as female and marries a man. This narrative is harmful to all womxn and non-binary folx— Disney specifically targets young girls; an audience that is historically incapable of independent thought.

Educating Bigots: Why Do Regressives Still Call a Female’s Fronthole a Vagina?

Educating Bigots: Why Do Regressives Still Call a Female’s Fronthole a Vagina?

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Reading Time: 3 minutesYes, vagina can be used, but it’s to be used for people who have had surgery to make it. It doesn’t exist in nature. You can’t just find a vagina out in the wild.

CA Law Mandating Female Boardmembers Results in Many Gender Transitions

CA Law Mandating Female Boardmembers Results in Many Gender Transitions

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Reading Time: 4 minutesA new law in California is having surprising effects. In September of 2018, the governor of California signed into effect a gender diversity bill, which mandates that any corporate board in the state have at least one female board member. Further, beginning in July 2021, the bill requires a minimum of two women directors on boards with five directors and at least three women on boards with six or more…

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Thinking about Suicide (Though Not Considering It)

Thinking about Suicide (Though Not Considering It)

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Reading Time: 4 minutesSuicide among young folks in America has been on the rise. The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention recently found that from 2007 to 2017, the rate of Americans ages 10 to 24 who died by suicide rose by 56 percent, from 6.8 deaths per 100,000 persons to 10.6. (For all ages, see their overview here.) Why is this? What causes a person in a first-world country to kill themselves?…

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Transgenderism and the War on Women

Transgenderism and the War on Women

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Reading Time: 16 minutesABSTRACT: Transgenderism has many challenges for the modern world. In sports, it is damaging the ability of genetic women to have physical success in competition, which also limits their ability to academically succeed through scholarships. Transbeing has been shown to be rising as a social construct and spreads memetically as a social contagion, with the recent inclusion of transitioning young children as supported by the American Academy of Pediatrics. The…

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