Thanks I’d already followed the fascist vs antifascist street fighting of the years prior and made a point to educate myself on the rise of the nazis. There lied a major decision point for America: crack down hard on the fascists or they will use whatever was done as part of a persecution narrative.

I feel bad for non-nonce andrews about it, but fuck is it funny

I called it our beer hall putsch at the time and was unfortunately correct

Yeah. I don’t care if you like your gas stove, I understand that I’m controversial in preferring electric, but the health data is increasingly clear, you are taking health risks when you use one. You should be free to make that choice, but the gas industry is actively propagandizing this unhealthy choice.

I actually prefer the pick your protein thing as a pescatarian, because it usually implies that there’s a meatless option like tofu, fake meat, or beans rather than just getting a “no meat” version that really wants for an umami core to it

The goal is to continue the ideological push towards overconsumption of animal products.

I enjoy theology and discuss it somewhat regularly with my wife who also is an ex catholic non Christian that likes discussing catholic theology. To me it’s like philosophy but more aspirational, distant, and constrained. It also provides a framework to process religious trauma, express frustration with bad Christians, and to process our feelings as people oppressed by Christiandom.

I say this to provide context, so that when I say I can’t fucking stand those people it’s not that I’m not comfortable hearing about religion or that I just hate it. I actually quite love it, and part of me is sad that who I am and my religion (paganism) block me from having more access to it. But Christians who are like that are rarely tolerant of things like religious differences (I sometimes got called a devil worshipper by protestants for being catholic growing up), lifestyle differences, and people who aren’t like that.

I also find that they are often religiously incurious. They find the solution that works for them, and stick with it, which I can’t judge, but when they study it they don’t ask about why other Christians think differently, they don’t apply the rigor that Jews and Catholics cherish, and they rarely bother learning about other religions either.

But then we get to the primary issue I have, I’m not Christian, and Christianity is regularly used as a tool to oppress me. I’m not interested in returning to it, and I’m frustrated at how much cultural and political power it has in my society.

Well yeah he fucks children and was famously anti black since the 80s, he’s also a massive misogynist.

I don’t know. Gone are the days of his first term where his cabinet refused illegal instructions. He’s old, demented, mainlining russian propaganda meant to encourage self destructive behavior, and surrounded by bloodthirsty sycophants who all want to play caesar. Unfortunately everything from invasion, to what you proposed, to forgetting about it are all on the table

Hey Ms. Lindsay, we could just help our long time friends and allies of Denmark and Canada while we reinforce Alaska if that’s actually a concern. We could gladly just offer the both of them whatever it is we’re going to use for defense and trust that as our long time friends and allies, if we quit treating them like shit, they’ll let us know if they need help. We already train with them. Both are in fucking NATO, that’s part of the point of it.

Fucking shit, we used to have soft power because we did exactly that.

Or when they’re in low speed population dense areas where bicyclists are part of traffic.

Yeah I hope they get a strong and independent free and secular republic out of this.

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I hate the idea that you shouldn’t freely provide joy to those around you for the sheer satisfaction of making it. The mammonite brain rot runs deep in a lot of people unfortunately

I want to work a reasonable amount, and have enough time and money to create for my own pleasure if I so choose. I don’t even mind content creation in theory, I see it no different from writing or doing art. It’s the constant pursuit of more, more, more, both status and money, that gets to me. I want freedom, security, and comfort.

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Yeah even when I awoke to a home invader, what was I going to do, groggily shoot someone I didn’t recognize that had started running?

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It’s flooding the zone, he’s always followed this strategy