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• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Checkmate Atheists!⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago⁩:

  Some atheists so believe in reincarnation I suppose, but memories are pretty universal. Whatever anyone believes, everyone remembers.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Checkmate Atheists!⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago⁩:

  The atheist afterlife is your memory and how people talk about you.

  So if you’re a good person, people remember you fondly and speak well of you.

  And if you’re Thatcher, people piss on your grave and openly wish you were in hell.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨I NEED to eat this!⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  Ghosts are the first and only pepper to make me puke.

  Doesn’t stop me from eating then, just smarter about making sure my stomach has lots of stuff to dilute the heat.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨LYING TO CHILDREN⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  Next you’ll tell my coyotes can’t operate catapults or rocket shoes!

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Anon is feeling romantic⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  Yeah, I understand that gender goes beyond this pink and blue “men are like this, women are like this” bullshit.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Anon is feeling romantic⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  Sounds like a “no” to me.

  Stop trying to take credit for the accomplishments of other men and try making some art yourself. I promise you won’t regret it.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Anon is feeling romantic⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  Maybe women would rather be mauled by bears than talk to you for a reason.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨🌍😍🙌🙏⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  Misanthropy tbh

  Hate has a material basis, it’s not just something that emerges organically from human nature. The ruling class needs to maximize the reproduction of labor so it invented and promoted queer hate as a way to remove one of those obstacles. Its material basis is actually very similar to anti-abortion and anti-contraception and anti-feminist politics.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨🌍😍🙌🙏⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  I’m talking about contradictions that can arise between religion and politics.

  If their religion says to be charitable to the poor, but their politics say to starve the poor, they’ll starve the poor. If their religion says to love their neighbor, but their politics tells them to hate their neighbor, they’ll hate their neighbor. When there’s a contradiction between religion and politics, they’ll choose politics and then work backwards from their to justify it religiously.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨🌍😍🙌🙏⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  Abrahamic religion isn’t set in stone, it’s capable of reform and has even done so in other historical contexts. This doesn’t even require secularism, all it requires is that they read their books in a different way for different interpretations.

  But secularism isn’t impossible. As the colonizers become less secular and more religious, the historical currents begin to push against religion among the colonized. Less so among Muslims because they can deflect the contradictions onto sectarianism, but African Christians will have to reconcile the contradiction between their anti-colonialism and worshiping the god of religious colonizers.

  There are lots of ways this can play out.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨🌍😍🙌🙏⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  Doctrine and religion are always changing based on historical forces, so if the historical winds are blowing against “lgbt=colonialism” then this will have effects on religion and doctrine. The contradiction will need to be resolved somehow.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨🌍😍🙌🙏⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  I wonder if the West having this new wave of anti-queer reaction will short-circuit this cycle. Hard to claim we are agents of neocolonialism and imperialism when the US is attacking trans people and is on the cusp of rolling back gay marriage rights.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Stunning new data reveals 140% layoff spike in July, with almost half connected to AI and 'technological updates'⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  I suspect those are a smokescreen for maybe deeper problems.

  Chatbots don’t really reduce the need for staff, but it’s a great excuse.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨So glad I suck dick⁩ ⁨⁨4⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  But we don’t have to see it, and there’s value in that. Also, people don’t really use the word literally because it gets removed. Normal people get the idea that they aren’t supposed to say it, so they stop. It works.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨So glad I suck dick⁩ ⁨⁨4⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  It’s not about rudeness, it’s about women being a repressed minority and so by definition the words used to denigrate them are slurs.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨So glad I suck dick⁩ ⁨⁨4⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  A word used to insult a privileged group for being members of that privileged group (i.e. white people) is not a slur. 🙄

  Also acceptable: whitey or honkey

  And don’t pretend like this is about poverty to try and squeeze crackers into a minority group. Crackerdom is not limited by class.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨So glad I suck dick⁩ ⁨⁨4⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  Poor white people, they have it so hard 😔

  You can’t be racist against white people.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨So glad I suck dick⁩ ⁨⁨4⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  It’s good to be sensitive to the concerns of minority groups, and the women on .ml don’t want to see that word.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨So glad I suck dick⁩ ⁨⁨4⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  I’m pretty sure ml sensors all slurs

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨So glad I suck dick⁩ ⁨⁨4⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  No, and cracker isn’t a slur either.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨So glad I suck dick⁩ ⁨⁨4⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  It’s a slur.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Inflation Outpaces Wage Growth For Over 40% Of Americans⁩ ⁨⁨5⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  The ability to turn on the money hose isn’t the problem. If they used the money hose on us it’d be great! The problem is they use it to redistribute wealth to the rich and powerful, while the rest of us go thirsty.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨𝙄 𝙖𝙢 ... 𝙩𝙝𝙚 𝙡𝙖𝙬!⁩ ⁨⁨5⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  The fuck is your problem with Ho Chi Minh?

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Too bad we can't have good public transportation⁩ ⁨⁨5⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  China has an ambitious urbanization plan, so they’re building the cities before there are people actually living there to get ahead of demand. It’s not like China has a shortage of people to live in these cities and they have central planning, they can just move production into these developments and people will move there for work. In fact, it’s happening right now. They don’t just build empty cities that just sit empty forever.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨[deleted]⁩ ⁨⁨5⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  I’m pretty sure Hamas uses “settler” to refer to the Europeans and their descendents, because Israel is an active settler-colonial project.

  Not because they’re Jewish, but because they’re white.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨The next time you hear someone say they're just vibing in life without a job, just look at this image.⁩ ⁨⁨5⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  Lake Erie was dead from pollution. The Cuyahoga River in Ohio was so polluted it caught fire.

  I misunderstood the examples given, I figured they were filled with trash, looking it up I see trash was only part of the problem.

  But that doesn’t actually change my point! Cleaning up toxic waste at a single lake or river site isn’t the same as cleaning the atmosphere of the entire fucking planet. It’s absurd to put these on the same scale as climate change.

  We don’t even have the technology to clean the atmosphere on a human timescale, and it might not even be possible.

  I already mentioned CFC’s which required global cooperation on a scale never seen before.

  CFCs were only emitted from a few specific industries and could be eliminated easily with alternatives, and they weren’t the basis for the entire economy. CFCs are also not present in the atmosphere for very long and they decay very quickly, and were only present at a little over 1 part per billion. They’re already falling because eliminating them was easy.

  We’re at 415 parts per million in CO2 concentrations. That’s orders of magnitude in difference, and the carbon that is already present will take multiple human lifetimes to be removed via natural means.

  CFCs were baby shit compared to this crisis of civilization.

  Everything is bigger than anying human history because we have more people.

  That also means we have more enemies, and at the moment those enemies are controlling the US government.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨[deleted]⁩ ⁨⁨5⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  Okay, so we’ve gone from “80%” to “half.”

  Interesting.

  Now, consider the fact that they used “settler” and “IDF” separately. That tells me that they actually don’t believe every single Jew in Israel is a settler, and in fact they are referring specifically to the illegal settler movement that is actively and continually stealing more land as we speak.

  So. All members of the active and ongoing settler movement and IDF members. I don’t see how that’s unreasonable.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨[deleted]⁩ ⁨⁨5⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  Settlers and IDF members make up more than 80% of the world’s Jews?

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨The next time you hear someone say they're just vibing in life without a job, just look at this image.⁩ ⁨⁨5⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  Climate change isn’t the same as cleaning up litter? It’s on a global scale of gigatons of emissions, involving every industrialized nation all interacting together with the environment.

  This is bigger than anything in human history. Stop fucking comparing it to cleaning up some fucking tires in a river.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Humans for free market! Humans for free market!⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago⁩:

  A lot of those slugs own salt shakers, is the thing. Small business owners and landlorda and slugs with retirement investments are, themselves, salting other slugs. There’s also some slugs which have been promoted to salt shakers by their salty bosses, so even if they don’t own the salt shakers themselves they still get to use it and benefit from it.

  They’re fine getting a little salt as long as they can keep salting the people under them.