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It is also true that pants were originally two separate legs, lashed as shown. But that might not be the reason we refer to them as a “pair of pants.”

Another possibility is that “pants” comes from “pantaloons.” Like some other nouns (“scissors” comes to mind), they appear to be plural, and so people tend to attach other designations of plurality to them.

https://www.britannica.com/story/why-do-we-say-a-pair-of-pants

Zionism is complicated, because “Jewish” can be a religion, nationality, culture, or ethnicity/race, or any combination of the above, depending on who is using the term and in what context.

MAGA is absolutely strongly correlated with evangelical Christianity in the US.

Yes, and I’m saying that religion had very little to do with Hitler’s inherently race-based ideology, even as a cover.

Religion still does enable violence. Just because you’re citing a specific example where it arguably did not does not falsify that.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Christianity_and_violence https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Islam_and_violence https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Judaism_and_violence https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Bible_and_violence https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Buddhism_and_violence https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hindu_terrorism https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Khalistan_movement#Militancy https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Religious_war

And let’s not forget the Aztecs, whose religion had them subjugating their nearby enemies, capturing their people, and sacrificing them to satisfy their deities. The Aztecs were so horrible that when the Europeans showed up and kind of rolled over them, those previously subjugated city-states went fucking ham on the Aztecs, completely destroying them. And the Europeans were all “Dude, that’s harsh.”

There are certainly also plenty of non-religious cases of violence throughout history, of course, for good and bad reasons. “Because a deity ‘said so’” is never a good reason.

Aryan race stuff, as exemplified in 19th and 20th century racial superiority, actually starts with lingustics.

Yes, and I’m saying that religion had very little to do with Hitler’s inherently race-based ideology.

Okay? You’re the only one talking about that, and nobody is disagreeing with you. Although I might add that Hitler and his ilk were kind of famously into the occult. Perhaps not a religion, but certainly religious.

lol you think you know me.

You’ve reversed the order, and that doesn’t work.

“Religion enables violence” is not the same as “All violence is caused by religion.”

But since you’re brought up Hitler.

He literally rigged the election and the news didn’t cover it lol

Posts link to reporting from Newsweek

In a blog post, the group noted that its findings are not proof that the last election results were “incorrect or manipulated.”

Make up your mind.

Again, if there was verifiable evidence, it would have been reported.

Truth is hard.

Religion is excellent cover for it, though.

If there was any real evidence of that being true, it would definitely have been reported on way more widely.

Real journalism doesn’t report rumors as though they’re true.

Yeah, I’m gonna need a source on that one.

https://www.malwarebytes.com/blog/news/2024/09/tor-anonymity-compromised-by-law-enforcement-is-it-still-safe-to-use

If you are doing anything that’s publicly visible, you’re not anonymous.

tl;dr: There are little “chimes” of different lengths that produce sound when struck. The sound is higher than what humans can hear. The four buttons on the remote lift strikers and then drop them against the chimes. It’s basically a toy piano.

We had one when I was a kid, hand-me-down from grandma. We also had a dog who wore a fairly loose stainless steel choker chain. When he’d bounce around, the chain links would clink, occasionally turning the TV on/off, changing the channel, muting the volume.

Sure there are. Not legal methods, but when has that stopped them before?

Definitely not if he’s successful, and probably not if he’s unsuccessful, if we’re being honest.

Warthunder forums IRL.

The last poll that mattered was in early November 2024.