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I am amazed to learn that there is a thing called the 'Anthony Fauci Courage in Leadership Award'. It's certainly one to display on your mantelpiece, right next to the 'Kim Jong-Un Excellence in Democracy Award'.

Here's a young rural Thai kid, who suddenly gets put under the glare of a global spotlight. Then he is ripped away from his home, his family, his country and everything he has known before and is transported to a totally alien environment in terms of weather, language, food, and culture by unthinking do-gooders. He could not let his 'benefactors' down, and it seems he couldn't stand the alien environment. Who on earth thought this was going to end well?

That is not "statistically significant" since the average attention span of any Thai about anything is about three-tenths of a second.

I wish that all the governments who mandated various forms of one-size-fits-all 'solutions' over the past three years had known that simple fact.

Yes, it's one of those irregular verbs, isn't it? I post absolute truth as determined by the government You post things from non-credible sources He is a purveyor of dangerous misinformation

Your answer is clear, succinct, and totally wrong. Almost all studies on Covid-19 and vaccination refer to the "healthy vaccinee effect", which is the finding that people who took the vaccines were on average from the more healthy cohort of society. The old and sick were less likely to get vaccinated. This is so well established in the medical literature that it is now treated as a benchmark when examining other aspects of Covid treatment.

That's the given answer. The question which generated it was: "ChatGPT, please write a brief sentence on the 2016 Brexit campaign updated for the 2023 Voice referendum in Australia."

Given that almost one-third of current Australian citizens were born outside the country, and that four of the six top ethnic groups of new Australians are India, China, Vietnam and the Philippines, that over 5% of the country's population is ethnic Chinese, that there are significant minorities of over 40 foreign ethnic origins, your remark is so nonsensical as to not even rank as being offensive.

They'll be back. The activist types will continue to push this, keep it at the forefront, and try and try until they get another referendum, and if necessary another and another. The ABC has already decided that the essential message of the result is that: "Stupid old rednecks block human progress." I paraphrase, of course, but their analysis of the data states explicitly that older Australians, and those with "less educational qualifications" were responsible for the results. https://www.abc.net.au/news/2023-10-15/voice-results-explained-map/102978520

Hamas believes that everyone inside the borders of Israel is fair game - if they are Israeli citizens, adult or child, they are usurpers and colonialists; if they are foreign workers (like the 24 Thais killed), they are serving the Zionist state; if they are tourists, their money is funding the Zionist state. Given that, Israel has the right in turn to consider all inhabitants of Gaza as supporters of Hamas and therefore fair game. What is sauce for the goose is sauce for the gander. I expect and hope, however, that the Israeli authorities are more merciful, smarter, and more pragmatic than that.

That's because Israel uses rockets and artillery to defend its citizens, while Hamas uses citizens to defend its rockets and artillery.

Who do they think it was? The Maryknoll Sisters? BlackPink? There's no fence to sit on here, but Thailand seems to have built one in double-quick time.

The collectivist types love these computer models and their "official" projections of 7 million Covid deaths. But they always neglect to mention the hard data such as the fact that the median age of Covid deaths was around 82 years in the UK, and likely similar in other developed countries with equivalent demographics. Was the heavy-handed response worth it? No. By any measure, economic, social and even health-related, the "cure" was many times worse than the disease. A man-made catastrophe, indeed.

That is undoubtedly true. But don't forget that the citizens in the West were subjected to the most psychologically sophisticated and sustained propaganda campaign ever mounted. It literally broke many people; even now you see them walking around cowering behind their masks and becoming abusive towards others who are not wearing them. It is a form of PTSD. They were scared out of their socks and are unable to get back to normal functioning. Another reason to never forget, never forgive.

The perpetrators of the Covid pandemic response are now falling over one another to pretend that it was somebody else's fault, or that they didn't really say things that they publicly did, or that nothing really happened anyway. That tells you all you need to know about the people involved, and their continued bad-faith actions. If you forgive and forget, you simply hand them free license to do it all over again for some other reason.

'Behind' being the operative word. I can remember the first time I landed in the US (with considerable jetlag), and after about an hour watching TV, especially the advertisements, thinking that every American had hemorrhoids, adult incontinence, and that their false teeth were forever falling out.

Read back through the thread and the links are there.

You'd probably miss an alien invasion. Transgender Inc. is hardly backwards in advertising its "products".

A pointless and ridiculous hypothetical question which goes straight into the waste-paper basket. You may think it amusing to joke about widespread surgical mutilation carried out on children, but I don't.

Circumcision does not come close to the definition of 'mutilation' which implies severe damage and/or disfigurement, such as that inevitably caused by transgender "care-affirming" surgery.

Since it doesn't turn them into neuter freaks who need lifelong post-surgery treatment, I don't object to it.

Can you imagine what future generations will make of this barbarity? "They did what?! Chopped off the body parts of healthy children for profit after telling them it would make them feel better? What sort of savages were they?" 21st century savages, that's what. History will look back on the practitioners of these crimes rather like we think of the Inquisition, or the Aztec priests, with a bit of Josef Mengele thrown in. I hope it is not too long before the soulless ghouls associated with this sick and evil business are viewed with utter horror and contempt, and those who were seen supporting it are shunned, as they should be, by a decent society.

Neither. Just like Murder Inc.

Transgenderism is relentlessly promoted by the media, by the government, by bureaucrats and the legal system, in schools and kindergartens and of course by Transgender Inc. itself, which benefits to the tune of billions of dollars by turning healthy children into grotesque freaks who need lifelong attention to maintain their crippled physiques. It is a sick and evil business.

There is absolutely no reason to take seriously any organization just because it decides to call itself a "fact-checker". To do so is not a rational stance, but a merely political one.