shawn1122
@shawn1122@sh.itjust.works
- Comment on Zero surprise 19 hours ago:
Everything we do marches us forward on the path to extinction due to climate change. If that isn’t a conflicting goal I don’t know what is.
Rebuilding community is the first step. Capitalism is on its usual decay path to fascism, an ideology based on us fearing each other more than the state. Challenging that notion is the first step to getting heads to roll.
- Comment on TRUMP 1 day ago:
As a PoC we kinda just go with the flow. Got a few scattered family members that support him for his regressive values but its very fee and far between. For white people j can only imagine, entire families must have had a schism put through them.
- Comment on wish 1 day ago:
Spain and then America both exploited the Philippines for centuries. Spain made indentured servants of the local population and turned their economy into a cash crop resource extraction machine for Spanish wealth.
America took over around 1900 and continued that legacy, extracting sugar, coconut and hemp while stalling land reform laws for locals.
It makes sense to move to the nation where the fruits of your and your ancestors labor has been stolen to.
- Comment on wish 1 day ago:
This sounds like a consequence of coming from money. Some rich parents are slave drivers and others are just happy producing trust fund babies. Wealth makes being a good parent more challenging.
That being said, most kids want to vet away from their parents and establish themselves at that age.
- Comment on [deleted] 1 day ago:
Before 1950: Colonizer. Cool, badass, likely about to commit crimes against humanity.
After 1950: Expat.
People like this never see themselves as immigrants. They believe immigrants extract value while they bring value to anywhere they may grace with their presence.
- Comment on Wear your seatbelt 3 days ago:
Which planet is this on? I’m not familiar with any “civilized” countries on this one.
- Comment on Cause and Effect 1 week ago:
Science is powerful but, as you’ve stated, balance is most critical. It was one of the most impactful biologists of the modern era that wrote “the civilised races of man will almost certainly exterminate and replace throughout the world the savage races” based on his theory of natural selection.
- Comment on Cause and Effect 1 week ago:
Absolutely agree. The “internet” was not a harmful worldview reinforcing machine back when we were told not to cite GeoCities in our book reports.
Asking people to betray their dopamine is a monumental task. It’s like any other addiction.
- Comment on Cause and Effect 1 week ago:
I know quite a few MAGA doctors so I can assure you that a medical degree is not protective.
- Comment on Cause and Effect 1 week ago:
To your point, I’ve met quite a few STEM educated people who fall for this type of information due to lack of historical and political literacy.
- Comment on Cause and Effect 1 week ago:
I’ve seen a lot of the counter balance to this which is STEM folk not having respect for the humanities, rendering them empathetically underdeveloped.
- Comment on Not to get all religiony but why in the old testament God was all fire and brimstone and fatal consequences? But the new testament God is all about forgiveness and such?? 1 week ago:
The old testament is essentially Judaism which is an ethnic religion. There is no marketing needed because it is a religion for a specific group of people from a theoretical single lineage. There is no need for God to be accepting or patient since the goal appears to be unify and keep people under control during times of great strife.
Christianity is a universal religion ie. it tries to create new followers. If you’re a religion that is trying to spread grow your following, you need to have a message of openness and acceptance.
- Comment on Charlie Kirk in his own words. 2 weeks ago:
Francis’ words are a departure from traditional Christian dogma which is that those who know of Christ and do not become Christian are choosing not to believe in him and are destined for damnation. Its why the church takes spreading the word so seriously, to the point of seeming aggressive at times, because those that are sharing the message feel that they are quite literally saving you.
There’s a reason a spokesperson immediately intervened with
- Comment on So she's saying that she's a sexual bull? 2 weeks ago:
I was a boy when I first read this. Now I’m a man. Amazing how time flies.
- Comment on Charlie Kirk in his own words. 2 weeks ago:
As someone who was raised Christian and considers myself one, I think Christianity has a few fundamental philosophical flaws (every religion does).
The major issue is hinging everything on an abstract ideal of faith. Under Christian doctrine one can only get into heaven by believing in Jesus. He is the only path to salvation.
This creates a mkral quandry. Could the worst person in the world beleive that Jesus is their Lord and Saviour and get into heaven? Perhaps not, they must also aspire to live a Christ-like life.
Let’s instead imagine the most Christ-like and righteous person in the world. If they do not believe in Jesus, they will burn on hell for eternity according to Christian doctrine.
What you end up with is a religion where it starts to feel like only one thing matters - do you believe in Jesus? It doesn’t take long moral principles are thrown out the window and people to start judging others less so by their thoughts, words and deeds but instead on just how much they beleive in Jesus.
Other religions have their flaws but particularly Eastern religious philosophy at least tries to tackle how do you live a good life a little more head on.
The deeper you go into the Christianity, the more obsessive it becomes about faith and the less concerned it is with how to live a good life.
Which is pretty warped if you think about it - shouldn’t the whole point of religion be to learn how to live well?
- Comment on Lies, all lies 2 weeks ago:
I opened this expecting some straight nonsense but this has a 1000x more soul and spirit than arguably the most popular pop singer in the Anglosphere (Taylor Swift).
- Comment on International travel 3 weeks ago:
Sounds like an expectation of special treatment that many Americans don’t even afford people from other countries lol.
- Comment on How did easy access to Porn while growing up impacted Gen-Z ? 3 weeks ago:
We really need to distinguish between porn that displays harmful attitudes towards women and everything else. There are libraries of porn available on nline that display harmful attitudes towards women either through coercive acts or people in positions of power taking advantage of others. Not ALL porn is like that but the question is what are adolescents watching and how would we expect that to impact their perception of a healthy sexual relationship?
- Comment on Oh Jesus he is cooked 3 weeks ago:
Most Christians believe they live under the New Covenant and not Old Testament law.
You are right that it is widelt accepted as the word of God though.
- Comment on Oh Jesus he is cooked 3 weeks ago:
If only. In the year 2025, it apparently captures hearts and minds. I know because Boomers send this heavily edited shit constantly.
- Comment on Anon asks out a friend 3 weeks ago:
I agree they both seem like very superficial people, especially with his body count comment. Its unfortunately common when we’re young, hopefully they can learn to see deeper as they get wiser with time.
- Comment on [deleted] 3 weeks ago:
≥ Sounds like you believe you can take whatever you want based on your race
This was a widely held view through most of American history see: Manifest Destiny.
- Comment on Anon asks out a friend 3 weeks ago:
Can’t say that sex and love ie romantic love must go together but I’m a dude and I personally don’t enjoy the idea of commodified, quantity over quality sex that’s often peddled by American/Western culture.
To me (and to each their own) sex is pointless without a deeper connection.
Many women go from unable to climax during sex to easily doing so when a deeper connection and understanding is sought by their partner.
That isn’t to say that “meaningless” sex is bad. If both parties are down for it by all means have fun.
But I feel that sex is meant to be a spiritual experience. If I desire someone and they also yearn to share a deeper physical connection with me, they should feel my desire within their very essence of self, through my words and my eyes, before we even touch. Even when we do touch, intercourse would have to wait patiently in favor of foreplay so that my desire, my meaning, could first be communicated with my mind, body and everything else.
I was raised in a Western Christian nation where I felt two dichotomous attitudes towards sex. One was religious shame and guilt towards any type of sexual pleasure. The other was sexual liberation, which was an improvement, but it commodifies sex and treats it as if its purpose can only be seen through a lens of hedonism.
Ultimately it took reading on Indigineous thought on spirituality and intimacy, writings by Sufi poet Rumi on love and ancient Dharmic (South Asian) thoughts on physical intimacy (which centers heterosexual sex on women’s pleasure, autonomy, and rights in sexual relationships) for me to understand what sex was for me.
- Comment on Anon asks out a friend 3 weeks ago:
He brings up number of sexual partners but I’m not sure that’s the real issue here.
The bigger issue is that he’s made to feel like the last or backup choice.
She should have realized how that would come across and its completely reasonable for him to say no based on vibes here.
We are only getting one side of the story though.
- Comment on Posting for the "Now guys he was MURDERED! Don't celebrate!" Crowd 4 weeks ago:
I beleive all life is sacred and there is always opportunity for reform.
But at the end of the day we are all just meatbags with ideas and actions that back them.
If our ideas and actions undermine the greater good then its hard to argue that much is lost when the person that brings their ideology to life is themselves lost.
- Comment on [deleted] 5 weeks ago:
Yeah wtf don’t send us this guy.
- Comment on Anon is a fact checker 1 month ago:
Sure but I’d argue if both parties are going in openly with that intention that is a type of connection on its own.
- Comment on Anon is a fact checker 1 month ago:
Strongly disagree. I’ve met far too many young men that see sex as a means to an often self serving end. Sex is a means of expressing love towards another person, it’s not meant for self gratification. Seeing it that way is a recipe to have a lot of meaningless sex only to be left wondering why you feel so empty.
Theres a reason women generally don’t climax from being jackhammered or even from clitoral stimualtion if they’re in any way uncomfortable. They’re coded for that emotional connection as a prerequisite for good sex. We are coded that way too but modern culture has painted that type of vulnerability as “unmanly”.
In my view, a good emotional connection creates the necessary conditions for good sex. But you don’t need good sex to have a strong emotional connection.
- Comment on Anon is a fact checker 1 month ago:
With modern contraceptive technology we can have sex thats completely meaningless, where both parties are trying to achieve a deeper connection (to something, not even necessarily to each other) and misguidedly hope it can be achieved through a simple release.
- Comment on Anon is a fact checker 1 month ago:
Exactly what I interpreted from this too. Posting a bunch of stats on sex and marriage as if they’re a remedy for loneliness ignores the fact that people absolutely can feel lonely while having both.
Men do absolutely need to be better with each other but women do perpetuate this also.
The modern concept of masculinity is completely broken. Long ago it used to be about being a protector, now it’s about anger, dominance, power, emotional dysregulation, resource hoarding (most of which provide little benefit to society at large).