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Quote from: Dan on March 19, 2016, 11:36:54 AM

Tfw the democratic and GOP establishment have moved so far to the right that a centrist like Sanders is considered a leftist.
http://www.politicalcompass.org/uselection2016

Sanders is not a centrist; polcom is biased in favour of the Left, and is prone to presenting Left-wing parties and candidates as less Left-wing than they actually are.

Wanting to hike taxes by $15T and implement a single-payer healthcare system are not centrist proposals.

if they biased towards the left, then why would they portray someone like Obama as being nearly identical to someone like Romney? If they were biased towards the left  wouldn't they portray him as being more liberal than he actually is?

As far as Sanders not being a centrist, keep in mind that he's not a socialist and is probably more comparable to a New Dealer. He probably only calls himself a socialist as a way to market himself as unique and outside of the pack.

I couldn't keep my attention off that inch-long hair growing from Marty's neck.

The vast majority of people who smoke Salvia report negative, intense and confusing experiences.
No wonder it's legal.

Vote for Gary Johnson instead

Libertarianism is a bigger meme than Trump.

Anti-psychiatry is a silly stance for people to take, especially in the face of a plethora of evidence supporting it.

I wouldn't say I'm anti-psychiatry. I can agree that getting help from one can be helpful for those with extreme acute issues that could only be resolved with intervention. However, taking medication for chronic and less severe issues over long-term isn't ideal. Especially since they don't cure disorders, they simply give symtomatic relief.

Not to mention a lot of psychiatric drugs come with side-effects that are often worse than the problem the patient came in with in the first place. SSRI's have been shown to only be slightly more effective than placebo at reducing symptoms of depression. The risk isn't worth it considering the benefit is minimal at best, especially if the person has mild-moderate depression.

Health should be about being able to recognize what is it in that person's environment that's causing a person to feel depressed in the first place, and being able to get help to solve those problems rather than blaming it on a "chemical imbalance" and ignoring the issues in the person's life. The person's nutrition, diet and lifestyle are also big factors. That's what psychiatry should focus more on.

It isn't, but just for laughs imagine it is, and the best treatment was through hormone therapy or surgery; how is that any different than correcting chemical imbalances in depressed people with medication?

analogy is slightly flawed because depression isnt caused by an imbalance, or more specifically, low serotonin.

 there is no evidence that depression is caused by low serotonin. that's a myth perpetuated by psychiatry and used as a marketing tool, but is completely unfounded. the only way to test serotonin levels would be to do a spinal tap, which would be pointless because the amount of serotonin in the brain isn't relevant to depression.

all anti-depressant medications do is stop the reuptake of serotonin, so that you have more available. they don't correct any percieved "imbalance" because there isn't one.

Guess I'm moving from Bernie to Hillary. It's time to be realistic, in order for another "Bernie" to win in 2024 we have to keep up the left movement. Which can only be done with a progressive democrat.

This "Hillary is realistic and Bernie is idealistic" is one of the most annoying memes being propagated in this election.

If you participate in LARPing there's a good chance you have autism.

How long until EA shuts it down?

From the developer's website

Is this legal?

WE BELIEVE SO

Can you make a Star Wars game? Engine refresh of games has been around since the 80's and some have become very successful. Games like Black Mesa did it with Half Life and Renegade X rebuilt Command and Conquer in the Unreal Engine 3. This is a full conversion refresh, that being said you will have to own a copy of the orginal game in order to play Apeiron since we are using the orginal audio and music. At it's core Apeiron is the most intense KotOR modification ever.

Honestly, I don't know if this explanation will be enough to prevent it from being shut down.

state-run

You mean corporate-run.

- Common sense foreign policy. Preventing dangerous regime-change by our government.  Ending the mentality of "just bomb it and it'll go away" that led to the proliferation of ISIS.

- Climate change

- Ending the war on drugs

- Income inequality

- Healthcare as a right to all citizens.

Filthy degenerates.

Quote from: Verbatim on March 03, 2016, 12:28:55 AM

iirc, superdelegates can still change their minds at any point before or during the convention

so i mean, the writing isn't quite on the wall just yet

Super delegates are meaningless anyway, they'd never go against the popular vote since that would be suicide for the democratic party. The only reason they're being included into the count right now is to attempt to suppress voter turn out from the Sanders camp by making it seem as though he has to overcome impossible odds to win.