Well, he wasn't a 'handshake' as you call them. And he got a decent number of upvotes with no downvotes despite the obviously horrific nature of what he was advancing.

There is a fair amount of sentiment on here that thinks the US should bomb the Taliban. It's nothing out of the ordinary. I'm not going to investigate each person whose comments I read. Do you believe that there is a lot of anti-Afghan or anti-Taliban sentiment on here? What do you personally believe the US should do regarding the Afghan situation? I'm sure you'll agree that there is currently no known GAW consensus on the matter

You may think I've added zero clarity or value with my comments but you're engaging, albeit not in the straightforward manner you should be. Look at all the downvotes I attract. That must mean I'm 'over the target', right? using the logic of this site. Very rarely are people on this site straightforward. Most times they completely dodge straightforward questions. There have been one or two refreshingly open encounters, but they are the exceptions which prove the rule unfortunately.

I have had to pull teeth on here just to get a straight answer out of folk. My questions are all simple and clearly put.

I would have to disagree with you in the strongest terms when you allege that people debate and discuss things on here. I have been banned for asking uncomfortable but absolutely pertinent questions. I have had select comments - completely innocuous parts of a conversation - just deleted. A hive mind is a wrong thing to be. Look at all the accusations of shill. It fosters an atmosphere of peer pressure to just say the same things, have the same opinions, don't question or discuss anything.

I am going to start a new post to see the lay of the land on COVID, based on Joe Rogans Insta post. I do hope you'll contribute. And I hope you'll do so in good faith.

It looks to me like you are equating natural medicine, of the type found in the bible, with synthetic medicines such as those found today. I don't think they equate at all.

Nowhere did I say I was against medicine or pharmaceuticals anyway (I'm absolutely against unnecessary pharmaceuticals). You put words in my mouth there, made a strawman, not played with a straight bat.

Do you believe that someone in Joe Rogans condition should have taken all those drugs he took for COVID? How do you justify someone as fit and healthy as him electing to override his own immune system with a large cocktail of synthetic drugs and chemical compounds? Do you think his natural defenses would have had more than enough to cope with COVID or do you believe COVID is so dangerous that these types of interventions are absolutely required, even for trained athletes and fit and healthy people like Joe?

Well, he wasn't a 'handshake' as you call them. And he got a decent number of upvotes with no downvotes despite the obviously horrific nature of what he was advancing.

There is a fair amount of sentiment on here that thinks the US should bomb the Taliban. It's nothing out of the ordinary. I'm not going to investigate each person whose comments I read. Do you believe that there is a lot of anti-Afghan or anti-Taliban sentiment on here? What do you personally believe the US should do regarding the Afghan situation? I'm sure you'll agree that there is currently no known GAW consensus on the matter

You may think I've added zero clarity or value with my comments but you're engaging, albeit not in the straightforward manner you should be. Look at all the downvotes I attract. That must mean I'm 'over the target', right? using the logic of this site. Very rarely are people on this site straightforward. Most times they completely dodge straightforward questions. There have been one or two refreshingly open encounters, but they are the exceptions which prove the rule unfortunately.

I have had to pull teeth on here just to get a straight answer out of folk. My questions are all simple and clearly put.

I would have to disagree with you in the strongest terms when you allege that people debate and discuss things on here. I have been banned for asking uncomfortable but absolutely pertinent questions. I have had select comments - completely innocuous parts of a conversation - just deleted. A hive mind is a wrong thing to be. Look at all the accusations of shill. It fosters an atmosphere of peer pressure to just say the same things, have the same opinions, don't question or discuss anything.

I am going to start a new post to see the lay of the land on COVID, based on Joe Rogans Insta post. I do hope you'll contribute. And I hope you'll do so in good faith.

It looks to me like you are equating natural medicine, of the type found in the bible, with synthetic medicines such as those found today. I don't think they equate at all.

Nowhere did I say I was against medicine anyway. You put words in my mouth there, made a strawman, not played with a straight bat.

Do you believe that someone in Joe Rogans condition should have taken all those drugs he took for COVID? How do you justify someone as fit and healthy as him electing to override his own immune system with a large cocktail of synthetic drugs and chemical compounds? Do you think his natural defenses would have had more than enough to cope with COVID or do you believe COVID is so dangerous that these types of interventions are absolutely required, even for trained athletes and fit and healthy people like Joe?