This again. No examples, just spin. I'm not sure what is going on in Russia regarding COVID, but I do remember an early full closure of borders with China, now they close entry to all foreign nationals, they are building emergency hospitals and so on.
It seems they are taking this threat at least somewhat seriously.
These people think we are stupid so they can continue to push this crap forever. Maybe they are right.
This is ridiculous. Oriental Review and Geopolitica are niche blogs with a very small reach. We are not talking about Moon of Alabama or Unz Review size here, they are really small.
How is the fact that they will post articles with all sorts of differing and not very well thought of opinions about the corona virus any indication that a Russian government campaign is going on?
You go all "there you go buddy" like you are Jordan Peterson and I'm Cathy Newman, but all there is in that article is hot air. They have a crapton of links to their own pages, but what else is there besides a couple of barflies blogs? They even talk about Dugin! Dugin!! All that is missing is a reference to Potemkin villages.
Mostly posts on "hot button" political topics that can wielded as wedge issues, aka chelsea manning, iranian airstrikes, and DHS. I'm guessing this is someone's alt account.
I saw that chart in the article and thought "the predicted warming correlates with the level of wokeness of the country" From Russia 1.83 to Canada 5.64.
The status quo in the region is that Iran is winning and the USA is not winning. Perhaps this is an attempt to provoke Iran into making errors, but I doubt that will happen.
I think not much will (visibly) happen. The USA will keep on not winning, because they don't have any Soleimanis. Have you heard American generals speak? It's all TED Talk level BS. Decadence is a powerful force.
This is not at all "well known". Well, at least I don't know that. I haven't read the study yet, but it's based on a survey on Mensa members, so probably only representative of Mensa members.
What about people with both testes and ovaries? If those were working flawlessly, they would produce eggs and sperm. Your definition labels them female. If you're happy with that, good for you, but it seems misleading to simply label such a person "female" based on egg production.
If you'd like to exclude such people from your definition, and restrict it to people who are (for want of a better term) "stereotypical" male or female, that seems like a circular definition.
My definition in wrong in the same sense that Newtonian physics are wrong. How many people have lived with working ovaries and testes? These extreme conditions do not create a different sex. My definition is good enough.
It certainly is good enough for you, if you say it is. It's not good enough for me (and not good enough for people who don't neatly fall into it; luckily for them your simple personal definition isn't the legal definition in many societies), but fortunately I (and you, I assume) are happy existing in a world in which other people have different ideas (many of course are not, and would happily burn people who don't fit neatly into this definition).
Given the problems we see in society, this definition is clearly not good enough for everyone and not good enough to satisfactorily deal with the problems arising; I might wonder what use a definition is if it doesn't actually guide us in solving problems. Perhaps this definition must be compromised when encountering reality in these situations.
I am ready to accept a better definition, but I have not seen one.
Why do you need one? Why not just accept reality as it is - that reality simply doesn't match the simple, "everyone is a man or a woman" model? Sure, sometimes reality is just too complex to work with and we need to create a simplified model of it to work with, but this really isn't a complicated concept.
What are you talking about?
I'm talking about the wider problems caused by refusing to accept reality; gender segregated facilities, for example, that cater only to those who fit neatly into a binary definition. Problems caused by legislating, for example, that the only acceptable genders of record are "male" and "female", and in doing so excluding people who don't fit. Those kinds of problems.
There is a lot of good advice here, but some things will just never return. That is life. Read the Bible.