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God no. I can't imagine a more horrific punishment than to be childless.

I wish we had more than the two we have, but my wife and I started late. My daughter (12) sometimes asks how many children she could realistically have... a good sign that she hasn't been tainted by whatever mental illness it is that the "childfree" people have.

Reuters has this nasty-assed paywall I only noticed just the other day. Not sure if it's new or if I just somehow managed to miss it.

20-30 million people each died from China and Russia during WW2, fighting the Nazism threat.

The Nazis or their ideological allies in Eastern Europe never set foot in China. Did China send troops to Europe to die? Was there some little known front in central Asia that they never taught me in school? Did the Chinese employ psychic soldiers to fight against the occult Nazi threat like out of Hellboy, whose souls were promptly eaten by Cthulhu?

Russia's a given. Everyone knows about that. I don't dispute it. China? China didn't fight the Nazis that I am aware of. I don't feel like I'm alone in being unaware of that. Enlighten us.

but in reality fascists were always opposite of socialists.

Not sure what this means. If you're saying that the two have conflicting ideologies, sure. Again, never knew anyone to dispute that. Even the people who make the comparisons are coming from a third and distinct ideology, which sees little functional difference between the two. They're not equating them to be literally the same.

The correct term is Nationalist Fascist, or NatFash.

If you say so. I didn't realize we were playing stupid word games where you think you've struck a blow for global Marxism by insisting that they should be referred to by a slightly different label, 30 years after most of the last of them died of old age.

Then please explain the "China have been historically the main protagonists against Nazism" statement. I'm having trouble making sense of it. I agree that Russia/USSR was one of the main protagonists (if not the main one), but China?

I'm just not following.

Ok, historically the Soviet Union deserves alot of credit for kicking Nazi ass. Most of it, even.

China? Huh? Are you talking about the Japanese? They were allied with Nazis, and they were bad, but they weren't Nazis themselves. And this is an important distinction, because if you refuse to make it, then "Nazi" means nothing more than just a really strong synonym of "bad".

Given how much "bad" there is in the world, then nearly everything and everyone becomes "Nazis".

Cats are people, people are morally obligated to not hurt other beings, the conclusion is plain and impossible to get wrong.

What makes you believe ivermectin has any efficacy at all? Are you aware of some super-secret biological mechanism that the rest of us are ignorant to, that makes it effective medicine, either preventatively or therapeutically? Or did you just latch onto it months ago when everyone was panicking, and now you're engaging in magical thinking?

If you're unaware of a mechanism, that's ok. Sometimes things work and no one knows why. But we're able to prove that with large-scale double-blind studies. Please point to those that show ivermectin to be effectively either prevenatively or therapeutically.

No, but you can convince them by being close enough to them that your distaste for their nonsense is palpable and constant.

That can't happen if you've chased them off though.

I have no idea what "greatest" means. It's a superlative word, but implies no meaningful measurement that can be tested and verified.

Also the word "believe" is problematic. "think" might be better. Or "hold the opinion".

Both of these points support the idea that you're asking about an emotional state, rather than a intellectual position. Basically you're asking "why do people like the place that they live and mindlessly cheer for it when sociologically appropriate moments for such displays become available". That's a question that answers itself, is it not?

You are doubling down unnecessarily and dying on the wrong hill, mate. Stop.

No.

I'm not "dying on a hill". How will I be punished exactly?

This is simply untrue.

It's simply true. Perhaps you think you can do it, which means that everyone else can do it and easily. You are atypical.

For everyone else, this is effectively gone. Even for the people who'd hang out in r/piracy who can be counted on to be slightly more technically savvy, it's effectively gone. I know how to download your link (I even know how to find it without your help). I know what a 7z link is. I know or can find out what format those posts are in (json?). But I'll be damned if I can search through them to find anything useful or interesting, and I know even less than that about how to index them to make them easily searchable by anyone else.

They're dead. Dead and buried. In giant concrete containment vaults like some scragged nuclear reactor.

Aggressively asserting that I'm wrong isn't the same thing as making an intelligent argument.

The scrubbed data is here, not hard to find, all in a 91 MB 7z archive. https://old.reddit.com/r/piracy/b3zzzp/

Sure. And I can go read cuneiform tablets to find out what the ancient Babylonians had to say.