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Tucker Carlson's monologue tonight did a great job of incorporating this news into a summary of how perversely destructive drugs for depression, Alzheimer's and Wuhan Flu have turned out to be and the history of how these drugs have been promoted and in some cases forced upon the citizenry. I'll be on the look-out for a YouTube video on this.
 
Is the eating of Swedes common in NZ?
Please tell me you do know what I'm talking about, lol. I can't have a cultural misunderstanding mean that you think NZers are cannibals :oops:

Although, the Maori people used to be.... But shhhh, we're not allowed to talk about that!
 
Please tell me you do know what I'm talking about, lol. I can't have a cultural misunderstanding mean that you think NZers are cannibals :oops:

Although, the Maori people used to be.... But shhhh, we're not allowed to talk about that!

Wow, the Maori will talk about it but the white people don't want to.

 
I've never read that article, or heard about the book mentioned.
Basically, it's sort of known that the Maori were cannibals, but it's not supposed to be mentioned. We never learned about it at school. Learned about all their gods and traditions and stories, but nothing about how they killed and then ate their enemies to absorb their energy. I didn't learn about that until I was an adult, and even now it's just not talked about. Because the Maori were always perfect you know....

This quote is particularly relevant,
She said Maori cannibalism was not referred to by many historians because it was counter to English culture.

"You will get your English-based historians who come out of an English culture who don't understand it and avoid it because they don't understand it.

"If you don't understand it you're risking misinterpreting it badly if you try to address it.''

Prof Mutu said she knew of no Pakeha historians who knew how to balance parts of the Maori culture they could not see an equivalent to in the English culture.

"If you don't understand the things you are talking about you take one hell of a risk.''

She said Prof Moon did not understand the history of cannibalism and it was "very, very hard for a Pakeha to get it right on these things especially when they don't know how to interrogate it from within the culture and interrogating it from within the culture means interrogating it from within the language.

"He is braver than I would be,'' she said.
Essentially, we're not allowed to address it because we'd misinterpret it because we're white. But she's Maori, and she's even afraid to address it 'He's braver than I would be.'
 
I listened to Tucker and have to disagree with lumping everybody into the same group. A typical liberal will state facts without context and lead you to a particular conclusion that THEY want. Tucker did that and I didnt appreciate it. There are definite NEEDS for those in chronic pain but not every user is an abuser. Not every abuser started with legal narcotics. It is time to distinguish the true abusers and fight THAT problem and stop penalizing Dr's and patients. The truly needy people already feel like crap and don't need artificial condemnation from those who have no dog in the fight. We need fire extinguishers not flame throwers.
 
I listened to Tucker and have to disagree with lumping everybody into the same group. A typical liberal will state facts without context and lead you to a particular conclusion that THEY want. Tucker did that and I didnt appreciate it. There are definite NEEDS for those in chronic pain but not every user is an abuser. Not every abuser started with legal narcotics. It is time to distinguish the true abusers and fight THAT problem and stop penalizing Dr's and patients. The truly needy people already feel like crap and don't need artificial condemnation from those who have no dog in the fight. We need fire extinguishers not flame throwers.
I disagree with your take, because to fully accomplish the nuance you're demanding of Mr. Carlson would be to expect him to produce a 2-hour-long documentary that almost no one would watch. I heard nothing that said ALL drugs are bad or that no one is helped by them. His point is along the lines of this: promises were made about efficacy; the drugs were heavily promoted by the pharmaceutical companies to doctors, who took what they were told at face value and pushed them on their patients. The doctors have plausible deniability about the whole thing, because don't you know that their intentions were compassionate. But it's inescapable now that the medical community almost entirely failed to inform itself about the true nature of oxycontin, SSRIs and meds for hyperactivity. Meaning well only goes so far, especially when the meaning-well industry rakes in billions of dollars of profits and billions of dollars of salaries primarily based on being the gatekeepers between drugs and those who want quick fixes.

How often, for example, do doctors take the time to teach their patients how to manage their pain rather than trying to obliterate it with drugs that never work long-term and have a thousand side effects? Rarely; it's just too easy on both sides of the equation to write a script, fill it and suck down the pills. And don't worry; most people on SSRIs won't shoot up school buildings, commit suicide or engage in chaotic domestic violence -- but what should be made much more transparent is that every person put on these drugs becomes statistically more likely to do any of those three, and that's not close to the end of the known negative side effects.

Just because not every user is an abuser doesn't leave this system with a clean bill of health. When, as is the case right now, over half of all American citizens are on psychotropic medicines, the system has gone light years beyond saturating those who truly need such meds -- they are also cavalierly dumping psychoactive drugs out into our community that will be sold on the black market. THAT is exactly what happened with both the most recent heroin and methamphetamine epidemics, each of which was responsible for more senseless deaths than Wuhan Flu ever came close to producing.
 
Please tell me you do know what I'm talking about, lol. I can't have a cultural misunderstanding mean that you think NZers are cannibals :oops:

Although, the Maori people used to be.... But shhhh, we're not allowed to talk about that!
We have no understanding of anything that is a swede, Swedes are the only thing that comes to mind, but we wouldn’t believe that you are cannibalistic.
 
Is this normal bear behaviour though? It came back to hurt her out of spite. There was no other reason to. No food there or anything. I'm glad they hunted it down and killed it.
Bears are very unpredictable, very smart, unbelievably powerful and yes sometimes spiteful... and fast, VERY FAST. They stalk and eat people and pets. They look like lumbering good natured teddy bears, but don’t believe it, it’s a clever ruse.
 
We have no understanding of anything that is a swede, Swedes are the only thing that comes to mind, but we wouldn’t believe that you are cannibalistic.
 
Bears are very unpredictable, very smart, unbelievably powerful and yes sometimes spiteful... and fast, VERY FAST. They stalk and eat people and pets. They look like lumbering good natured teddy bears, but don’t believe it, it’s a clever ruse.
I knew bears were dangerous and smart, obviously, I would never mess with one. I just didn't know they were smart enough to be vindictive.
 
Ohhhhh! Rutabaga! I thought you meant blond nordic type people.
 
Somehow “long pig” seems like a very apt description of some people, but then I realize that I am in the same category.
*sigh*
 
Pork meatballs. Following contact with Europeans, Maori and other pacific islanders called humans for food "long pig" because of the similarity in taste.
I was gonna say that, deleted my post and changed to meatballs. I figured people would think me even more strange for knowing that little tidbit of trivia. Glad you took the brunt of it for me 🤓
 
Somehow “long pig” seems like a very apt description of some people, but then I realize that I am in the same category.
*sigh*
Well, as a goat keeper I didn't appreciate the bible likening believers to dumb ole sheep. But now that I keep sheep and appreciate them....I take comfort in it.
 
"He began screaming “bear, bear” and rushed out of his tent to use bear spray against the animal, while his wife blew her whistle. "

1. Sleeping in a tent in bear country is stupid. It's also wolf country too.

2. There's a reason I carry a .45 all the time. I also keep a rifle nearby too. And I know a lot of people like the Ar-15 in .223 but for a semi-auto I'm all about the Ar-10 in .308 because if you need to kill a bear it's best to kill it on the first shot and not the 20th.

I've never seen a bear in our valley but they're not that far away from here.
The wise man once said, if you’re going to shoot a bear, you better kill it.
 
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