NoneOfUrBusiness

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• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨[deleted]⁩ ⁨⁨5⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago⁩:

  That completely fails to take into account the split of votes among demographics. Black people for example are a famously blue demographic despite the majority of them living in red Southern states. Your "proof" proves nothing.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨[deleted]⁩ ⁨⁨5⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago⁩:

  you still vote for the same assholes that want you dead.

  Uh... Source? Muslims tend to vote blue by a pretty large margin AFAIK.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Britain Lost 14,000 Third Places. They Were Called Pubs. Is Your Local Next?⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago⁩:

  Clearly this is because of the Muslim invasion of the UK.

  Obvious /s.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Millions in Great Britain could face emergency power cuts at short notice⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago⁩:

  Okay guy from the third world here, is it just the rose-tinted glasses or is this emphatically not supposed to happen in developed countries?

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Millions in Great Britain could face emergency power cuts at short notice⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago⁩:

  What's the difference?

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Take-Two CEO Says We'll All Be Streaming Our Games In 3 Years⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago⁩:

  Not in America at least, which is a problem given that America is the single biggest market in the world.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Literally nobody⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago⁩:

  Even assuming that's true (which it's not; absolutely nothing about Wall Street is Christian), that's not what theocracy is. Again, theocracy is rule by religious authorities; even religiously motivated decisions in the US are ultimately made by lay people with little to no input from actual Christian clergy. Put another way, de facto theocracy would be a church or group of churches acting as kingmakers and consistently steering policy. That's not what's going on; Christianity in US governance, when it appears (outside of Utah where the Mormon Church does wield significant political power), is a solidly bottom-up phenomenon that doesn't go through or depend on particular religious leaders. Rule by and for Christians, assuming it's the case in the US—which again it's not; America is ruled by capital regardless of its religion—would be exactly what we'd expect since Christians make up a solid supermajority of the population of America. Calling America a theocracy would be like calling Singapore (or another competitive autocracy) a monarchy; it's wrong in both kind and degree.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Is there a reason why toilets are made out of one of the most resonating materials possible while also being made in a shape that makes a small fart sound like a damn trombone?⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago⁩:

  You've already gotten your answer, but also I mean at some point you gotta own your farts.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨When do we riot?⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  Well, when the working class is organized enough to do it, so organize.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Patients refusing to be treated by non-white staff as NHS reports shocking rise in racism⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  Actually it has been, hence "scientific" racism.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Patients refusing to be treated by non-white staff as NHS reports shocking rise in racism⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  Given how Germany treats its Syrians, I don't think so.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Anon accepts a prestigious job⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  So you mean we can train monkeys to work if they work from home?

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Anon accepts a prestigious job⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  I mean no, first they'd need to learn a century's worth of rocket science and centuries' worth of prerequisites.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Literally nobody⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  I mean first theocracy implies rule by the clergy, which isn't the case in America even de facto. The only theocracies in the world are Iran and the Vatican. That aside, 66% of EU citizens are Christian. The "our Christian way of life is under attack" rhetoric isn't in any way unique to America.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Literally nobody⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  Yeah it's not like the majority of people in the wealthiest and most powerful part of the world (and a plurality elsewhere) literally worship the guy.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨what in the⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  Nope, these are all popular rightwing/centrist (sorry for repeating myself) causes. The UK national flag is (British) nationalism, the Star of David is Zionism, the right likes pre-revolution Iran for being an anti-communist secular Western ally not tarnished by filthy Muslims and I have no clue what the flag on the right is.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Activists Who Spray-Painted Barclays Set to Be Sentenced As Terrorists⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  I'm a proud America hater, but this is more of a European tradition. Terrorism charges in America (all state-level or local; no federal terrorism charge exists) only exist as addons to other crimes, so this isn't something that could've happened there.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Why do some people identify with a political party even if many of their views don't align with that party's platform?⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  However, here's what confuses me: almost every single one of the anti-Trump members—outside of me and maybe two other people—was extremely homophobic and transphobic. They were also all strongly pro-life. They hated abortion and viewed it as "murder." One kid in the church literally said, "Gay people deserve to be hurt."

  I mean, for starters have you tried asking? As for my guess, probably because they have other political positions that push them towards democrats. Sticking to social issues, "fuck racism and the gays" is a coherent position one can take, and if they hate racism more than they hate people then they'll lean democrat. And then you have economic issues; supporting better social welfare, environmental regulation or public transport automatically will essentially lock them with the DNC. There are more variables affecting someone's political affiliation than how they feel about gay people.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨thoughts and prayers for science⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  Well that's a fundamental misunderstanding of science if I've ever seen one.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨How Come Latin Didn't Spread in the Middle East as Much as it did in Europe?⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  The Empire in the West basically shattered all Roman forms of social organization, turning everyone into Roman citizens/subjects. This didn't happen in the East, so they protected local language and culture from being subsumed by Greek (not Latin, as other comments have said). I'm only parroting this from when I asked the sam question so don't ask me why this happened.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨How Come Latin Didn't Spread in the Middle East as Much as it did in Europe?⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  *Most Egyptian elites? I'm not well-informed on this, but I find it hard to believe that your average Egyptian peasant could speak Greek.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨How Come Latin Didn't Spread in the Middle East as Much as it did in Europe?⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  or the conquerors weren't enough (or not brutal enough) to enforce the spread of their own language; e.g. the Franks conquered Vulgar Latin-speaking France, but they adopted the Latin-based language instead of making everyone else speak a Germanic language.

  You're forgetting an important aspect: It was cool to be Roman back then. The people who conquered the Western Empire were people who wanted to be part of Roman citizens but were refused by the xenophobia of the late Western Empire (not to mention the whole christianization thing), and would essentially larp as Roman for a bit, so it's not like they were in a rush to assert ethnic dominance. "Barbarian" peoples conquering centers of civilization and assimilating into them rather than vice versa is a pretty common thing in history, see: the Mongols. This as opposed to early Muslim Arabs, who rode their own religion and culture to regional dominance and would have them spread across their conquered territories instead.

  while the middle east was almost fully (muslimized? islamized? there's got to be a word for that).

  "Islamized" is the word.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨How Come Latin Didn't Spread in the Middle East as Much as it did in Europe?⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  There are other (minor) Romance languages, like Provencal, Catalan and then the various Italian languages like Venetian, but most speakers of these also speak one of the six big ones so the overall number shouldn't change much.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Centrist and Establishment Democrats when they see Zorhan and AOC coming up with profound and capacitating strategies on world issues:⁩ ⁨⁨4⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  Can we drop the childish nicknames for MAGA? If you want to mock them while you're at it MAGAts works perfectly fine while not sounding like something you'd see in a primary school fight.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨⁩ ⁨⁨4⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  I mean....

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨⁩ ⁨⁨4⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  I mean to be fair people having parasocial relationships with AI is absolutely a thing. The post could be lying, but it's well within the realm of reality.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨he did live in a pineapple…⁩ ⁨⁨4⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  Even "fair use" is on the borderline.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Spherical Bastard⁩ ⁨⁨4⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  I'd say it describes spherical bastards in the absence of an extrenal bastardness field.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨lust vs love⁩ ⁨⁨4⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  Bombing Yugoslavia was one of the small handful of good things NATO ever did, but the other person is talking about the civilian casualties here. One would presume the people involved in murder and rape don't count towards those number.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Feels like someone's podcasts are being heavily promoted⁩ ⁨⁨4⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  It's the (what you consider to be) "inane shit" part that's the problem here, not the medium. I personally enjoy history podcasts, but more generally there's no shortage of non-inane podcasts out there.