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Can I join your cult? It never made any sense to me although malfeasance makes much of it add up.

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Always plenty of room in the cult that makes no sense.

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Yes, we are the cult of inquiry and critical thinking.

The left has no sense of humor. Humor simply does not exist over there. Yes, they laugh when something horrible happens to anyone they don’t like, but that is sadistic glee, not humor. When we engage in humor, comedy or hyperbole, that truly take it at face value. They actually believe we want to arrest and imprison women her bob their hair because they cannot engage in humor or hyperbole. They belief and fully support all their side says.

Because we know humor and hyperbole, when the left makes absurd claims, we naturally assume that they too are engaging in humor and hyperbole. This is dangerous. They are making hyperbolic statements when they say T must be silenced to “protect democracy”. They truly mean it. When they say “lock ‘em up!”, they do. Steve Bannon just reported to prison to serve a sentence for contempt of Congress. Obama’s AG was also found in contempt of Congress as has the current AG. They have not, are not, will not ever see the inside of a prison cell.

These people are jealously self righteous. Because they, in their own minds, are always correct, anything they do is necessarily righteous and their jealousy cannot abide a single soul in opposition to them.

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When they say things like "mostly peaceful protest" to a background of burning buildings we think this is hilarious. But they actually believe it. They don't see the destruction of a building, but a peaceful vigil around a capitalist monument.

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Yep. They also have tunnel vision.

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FYI The male/female wage gap is a motherhood gap. Women who do not have children earn as much as men in comparable roles. However when women have children they tend to change jobs/roles to reduce working hours. This seems to be entirely voluntary and applies in every developed country where there are statistics. If you search for motherhood gap using your search engine of choice you'll find a lot of stuff about it

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Thank you for that. It is definitely one of the factors.

I know of a lot more factors. Also know that women also live longer than men, and I doubt this would be considered systemically "sexist."

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Women who have children are far richer than those who don't.

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Yes, and generally happier too. But neither gets much coverage

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