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How many guys are we talking about Pioneer, five, a dozen? The problem with your reasoning here is that this is just your personal experience, anecdotes. It’s not data. You’ve heard the story about the blind people feeling different parts of the elephant and coming away with a completely different understanding of what the animal is? Your personal experience is analogous to this so you touching the elephants tusk and thinking the whole elephant is smooth and hard, get it?

Sorry, I thought that was obvious no, of course not. I missed that question. I don’t think so but I guess it depends on what you mean by it.. A ”little something?” Dude you said you read the book multiple times and parts of it in various languages that’s more than a little something.

White men generally look older than Black people of the same age and he looks just straight up younger than her so I’m not surprised he’s younger.

If she wind, that would be quite an accomplishment.

Now that you mention it, I have heard this before. John Oliver did a segment on it with news anchors, saying it and complained. They didn’t know what it meant.. You explained what it meant, but I still don’t get it. I guess my brain needs to understand it’s ovation like why is 6/7 anonymous with duh? Not in my opinion. Keep in mind many of the pictures you see of them have been optimized. They’re not exactly candid shots.. Now I’m not saying the sisters look bad. I’m just saying they don’t look like 20 year-old women. in fact, in the photo that you just shared, the white boy looks younger as she does do you know their respective ages? I would not be surprised if he’s actually younger. @Pioneer1 do you look at successful black men who have married white women and want to find you a white woman because that’s what they did? I know humans are generally pretty dumb, but you are giving him zero credit. You may want to emulate someone who successful in a specific field and completely ignore who they’ve chosen as a partner. Women who want to be a professional tennis player can aspire to be like Serena and also understand her partner has absolutely nothing to do. What with what made her successful in tennis.

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Yes, this and everything else you wrote help make my point and our conversation about the relative influence of religion versus social media. You’ve invested enough time to read the book multiple times in various languages, and you often quote it to support an argument. To dedicate so much time and effort in it and claim you’re not religious, you must get something out of it. What is it then?

I’d argue that point. Many religious people say they are religious, but that’s all they do., attest to a belief. They don’t regularly attend services or do anything to support their belief. Social media on the other hand is actively used by the majority of people on the planet. Some estimates say 2/3 to 70% of the people on earth are active on social media. I don’t think the same percentage of the planet even goes to a mosque, church synagogue or temple on a weekly basis and if they do, I guarantee you a substantial portion have their phones out scrolling through TikTok while they are there Globally religion is on the decline and social media usage is on the rise.

in the first photo, she’s wearing a dress and looking like Trinity from the matrix. In the second photo, she’s wearing stilettos, earrings, long painted fingernails, a necklace, tattoos, are butterflies and another feminine imagery. I don’t see all the muscles pioneers talking about she’s a petite and an excellent physical condition. She looks more like a woman than a man to me. I did not know she was lesbian until AKA mentioned it just now. Maybe that is why GQ put her in that “man issue” I don’t think that’s a particularly good look, but I don’t care about the magazine. I think positioning Cynthia that way was more of an effort to attract attention. (It worked on Pioneer) than a diabolical plan by the mysterious “They” to masculinize Black women. Even if it was a plan, it’s failing miserably as there are plenty of female, presenting, cis-gender, man loving, black women out there. This is an example of making a mountain out of a molehill a social media, fueled frenzy in increasing white-boy wealth.

I had not heard these stories. I tried to look them up one that kept coming up was about Trey. Reuters report he committed suicide https://www.reuters.com/world/us/autopsy-rules-death-black-man-found-hanging-tree-mississippi-suicide-police-say-2025-09-19/ Does anyone buy that? Why or why not? What about the other two?

Social media is more influential than religion and probably more powerful. It is definitely the new gospel.

Because they/we are. it doesn’t. There is a big difference between social media and the national enquirer you have to go out your way to pick up and pay for that Newspaper. Social media is “free” constantly with you and aggressively hacking into your brain. I don’t know too many people who are driven to suicide by the national enquirer. You and I were adults before the advent of social media and I believe this makes us less susceptible to it, but not immune. I think the difference between you and I is that I’m more involved with the tech and engage with far more people involved with it, so I believe I see the effects more than you do and I believe I’ve read and studied the subject more as well. Please define what this means?

I would not be surprised if the current president does not serve out his full term.

Yeah, I was one of those Black folks that did not think Trump is merely a racist. He is greedy, narcissistic, and showing signs of cognitive decline but racism is only a tool to advance his wealth, another arrow in his quiver so to speak. Yeah, making the parks no longer free on the black holidays is very petty at best and racist at worst. I’d say the action is both petty and racist designed to appeal to the mega base, which would include all white racists. I guess if it looks like a racist, acts like a racist, talks like a racist then I it’s a racist, huh? Occam’s razor. I heard this story and June 14 corresponds with flag day — though not a national holiday but when you’re a narcissist….

Yeah, I guess you’re right about this; to some people kissing dogs in their mouth and sleeping with them in the bed makes sense… Both the brother’s actions and reasoning defy logic and make no sense — unless of course you’re illogical or insane. @Pioneer1 I don’t think any of your linguistic and rhetorical contortions will change any of this.

Very entertaining post @Pioneer1! The accompanying sound track was sublime.

Kissing dogs is not uncommon in their culture. A dog licking their owner on the lips is a common sight. These action is becoming increasingly common in ours Many people sleep in the bed with their dogs. On more than one occasion, I’ve seen people have their dogs sitting in a chair, eating at a table in the restaurant. I don’t like either activity. Dogs in baby strollers getting cooked meals and all kinds of things would’ve been considered completely absurd, or what eccentric rich people did, when I was a kid, is common place today. You used to only see this in places like New York City now you see it in the pretty much everywhere — even here in the south with dog she’s asleep under the house and eat scraps from the table. Shoot beloved family dogs weren’t even allowed in the house. If they were lucky, they had a doghouse in the backyard. So… the picture of a happy looking sista with white boo kissing their dog does not surprise me in the least it doesn’t even warrant a double take from me, but I completely understand why you might be taking aback @Pioneer1 Times, they are a changing.

That question is unanswerable. All you could do is speculate, and your speculations will be based purely on the stereotypes you hold. So the answer your question is, I have no freaking idea besides the very promise of the question is really nonsensical. Here we go… using what you’ve personally seen on social media is one of the worst ways to prove a point, even your personal anecdote would be superior. You don’t control what you see on social media some little white boy in Silicon Valley decides what you see and they’re only goal is keep you glued to the screen. If you take any advice from me stay off social media. It’s not a source of useful information. It’s not your friend. All it cares about is controlling your attention for as long as possible, and by any means necessary.

Laugh out loud funny! I do believe young people are influenced by the images in the media especially socially media. “Influencers” are a thing for this reason. I’m just not sure how much they are influenced by two middle-aged women and their run of the mill looking white boy mates. I prefer someone from my ethnicity than someone from an entirely different one who I gotta explain basic shit to. But everybody’s different. some people want someone who’s from a completely different culture? They get off on it. If we’re visited by aliens, we all know there’s gonna be brothers that’s gonna wanna screw them . (funny they made a big deal of Captain Kirk kissing Lieutenant Uhuru back in the 60s but didn’t say a single thing about him, kissing that green chick.)

@Pioneer1 do you believe that anyone parted the Red Sea so that people can walk across it? Do you believe someone walked on water? Do you believe someone was raised from the dead? Do you believe someone was conceived by immaculate conception? Are these mistakes? Are they allegories? To your way of thinking there can be no holy books. People determine what is holy. The Bible is holy the Quran is holy it doesn’t matter what you I think. These books are holy IMHO. wars and many millions of people have died over them. Our president has to put their hand on one when they swear their oath of office. People have to put their hand on a Bible before they take witness stand. many people have put their hands on Bibles then immediately proceed to break the 9th commandment, with the apparently no ill effect. Trump is a multi billionaire and he regularly breaks numerous Commandments. Someone will say eternal damn nation awaits him. But all he has to do is ask for forgiveness in his final moments and he’ll be good — at least that’s my understanding…. Thief on the cross.

People tend to imagine us vividly before we even exist. --- shoot we better Open the pod doors Hal!

Of the two names I have a personal preference for “Cynique” but as Shakespeare said a rose… 20 years is a long time the Kola Boof era seems like a lifetime ago. I don’t think I’ve seen her in a good 10 years and when I did, she seemed perfectly normal Our discussion forums pre-dated social media; launching around the time of NetNoir. Melanet, Black Planet and other black owned platform— ancient history in terms of the World Wide Web. It was a period when Black people really enjoyed and we’re proud of using black owned properties. Indeed we were trapped on copy serve in America online constrained by their rules.. the World Wide Web opened up opportunity for Black people and we took advantage of it Today Black people would rather strive to be popular on white owned ones platform. It is a variation of the white man’s Isis holder of the house, Negro paradigm. White own properties exploited what apparently is an innate human characteristic to seek the approval of others; accumulate followers collect likes. It is really changed to behavior of many people people sharing on social chasing the “like.” Of course everyone has not fallen under this spell, but many have, too many if you ask me. @ProfD describes the form as a coffeehouse. He is not the first one to do that. I think the interactions here are more reflective of the real world than social media. At any rate, I appreciate the participation of everyone even those I disagree with — which will be everyone from time to time

Agreed. That is they are just crude or undisciplined. If you are joking or trying to make a point cursing is generally appropriate depending upon the room. Interestingly, most of the Black people I speak to from across the Diaspora what are they from Europe, Africa, or the Caribbean a better versed on colonialism and white racism than most Americans. They have a global perspective. At least that is true for the ones that I’ve spoken to here in America. But it’s probably a class issue…