In case anyone is not sure, this behavior is completely normal in the Christian circles. The number of times I heard people, preachers, or whoever blame the victim for causing the man of god to stumble is far more than you would want to know, and was every time.

One thing to understand about many Christian groups is that they elevate their preachers to a very high standing and believe that they are “so close to the Lord” that they just don’t do bad things. So, in order to preserve this cognitive dissonance, it’s the child that tempted them to sin.

are the books fucking or are they about fucking? are pictures included?

And THAT’S how we change it from the inside!

That show ripped a hole in my chest

Well, I just got blocked for replying all to an email with two recipients and now I can’t access my email, calendar, passwords, or VPN, so that’s great.

How’s it going there capitalism?

It’s mostly node modules

Now this is a way back machine for me

I’ve used Wise before and it’s worked well. There is a fee though, so I’m not sure if it’s better than PayPal. Good luck there.

Well, ok then haha. You’ve convinced me.

Dami Lee, an architecture youtuber, did a video on Kowloon and mentioned this manga: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WLn_QTFVZgE&pp=ygUQZGFuaSBsZWUga293bG9vbg%3D%3D

I was just reminded of a Christian movie, might have been Megiddo flame or something, or left behind? Where the evil villains of the show, the anti-christ, were very ominously talking of their plans to…end world hunger and bring world peace like MWAH AHAHAHA!

That’s the sort of people christians call bad guys. And it wasn’t just in movies, I heard stuff like that all the time in church.

How would you plan to change society? That sounds like a big ask of someone.

I totally say someone should leave if they want, I’m currently leaving the US and traveling and am looking for a place to settle that isn’t America.

But remember something: America is funding Israel and helping with Gaza, so I don’t know about choosing America to get away from that. It is a step removed at least?

It’s not cowardly to leave. Also, you can always change your mind or move on if that choice doesn’t work out. I’d leave. But I’m already doing that.

The term for it is the ratchet effect. There’s a ton of videos on it, but here’s the one by second thought that I learned the phrase from: https://youtu.be/6LPuKVG1teQ?si=4hiE7jdj5MLrTTVh

Thanks for that input! I got the impression her stuff leans more to the heavy side. I’ve got a nice queue to go through now! 😁

measure once, cut 15 times

There’s a really good podcast season (2) from Blowback on the history of Cuba and why things are the way they are today. But essentially, it’s what another user posted below. It’s that communism existing is a threat to capitalist rule.

Here’s a link to the first episode: https://open.spotify.com/episode/3QhgtGyW7ws173eENjddNT?si=FAeQSjG4QgyDOfS3TOOtUA

This article got me thinking, but I wonder how things would go with a random democracy. Every cycle, you pick 100 or 200 people at random and they are the congress. Add in field experts, not lobbyists, to provide expertise on topics.

Of course, nations would never do this because the ruling class would now have 1% representation.

Ranked choice voting usually still results in two major parties. Approval voting, where you check off everyone you approve of and see who has the most, may be a fairer system.

Here’s an explanation of different systems I saw a while back https://youtu.be/yhO6jfHPFQU?si=x7aHPIT1KL7n_JPg

I just tried it and got the same response exactly