If someone claims something happened on the fediverse without providing a link, they're lying.
Evidence or GTFO.
Lol describing the presidency under Reagan as "a reminder of our common humanity" is 1000% praising and whitewashing Reagan, there is nothing "disingenuous" about it whatsoever.
The world does not revolve around genocide, good god, can we see the world at large beyond a single topic?
Sure, the Nazis did the Holocaust, so that's one point against, but their uniforms looked pretty sharp, so that's one point in favor. All in all, pretty much neutral. I don't see why people get so hung up on one single topic.
You're right. How could it be otherwise? Everyone loves America. A real leftist would watch a child talking about how they've come to fear sunny days because that's when the American drones fly, and would belt out, "I'M PROUD TO BE AN AMERICAN, WHERE AT LEAST I KNOW I'M FREE!" It's literally inconceivable that any actual American would look at all the needless deaths caused by everyone who's sat in that building since, well ever, and would experience anything but trauma at seeing part of it torn down.
It's genuinely sickening to me that any of you liberals, clapping like seals when bombs are dropped on innocents because the news says it's ok, thinking of yourselves as "true patriots," and shunning any and all alternate perspectives, abjectly refusing to read any sort of theory - that any of you actually think that you're some kind of "leftists."
My softness of heart is used to feel the pain of the many, many victims of the US government, and my openness of mind is used to understand their perspective. If you possessed either, you wouldn't mourn over a symbol of imperialism.
Because I don't clutch pearls over the destruction a piece of a building that was built by slaves and occupied by imperialists and pedophiles, that makes me a "pedophile enabler?"
In October, Donald Trump traumatized all true patriots by tearing down the East Wing of the White House.
I hope anyone who experienced this trauma can get the psychological help they clearly need.
Ok then, I want to reduce oppression through Marxism.
Agreed. Those damn Russians forced us to genocide the natives and do slavery too, and anyone who tries to deflect blame off of Russia and onto Americans is clearly trying to serve Russian interests, so their perspective can be dismissed without consideration.
Those fucking Russians crapped my pants, too.
The reality is that no political system will ever abolish oppression due to The Fall.
Then it is useless to try to ban abortion or wage holy war against Islam, and you are contradicting yourself.
"Politics replacing God" just means "people advocating for politics you personally disagree with."
Not once did I advocate against helping the poor?
You will never win. No matter the system you will be oppressed until the Kingdom of Heaven comes.
You are literally advocating against the poor right now. Any hope of actually helping the poor, advancing the people's condition through systemic change, is impossible and a foolish, immoral endeavor, according to you, we should all just suffer and accept whatever oppression and injustice is inflicted on us so that we can get pie in the sky when we die. It's literally exactly what you're saying.
Curiously, the crusades, which were also a political endeavor, do not fall under the same logic (nor does banning abortion, for that matter). Because it was a ruling class endeavor. The ruling class's boot is so far down your throat that you can't even speak coherently.
Eh, not really. The Bibe points to specific points in time, letters appear to be addressing actual people and sending greetings, etc. They also reference real people contemporary for it’s time. I haven’t found any other religious document that does this.
So if I send a letter to a real person claiming that I'm god, does that make my claim immediately legitimate, or do we have to wait?
That part wasn’t right, but I can see noble intentions behind the motivations.
Noble intentions my ass. They wanted to kill and loot and conquer, I see no real difference between the crusades and say, Genghis Khan. At least the Khan was honest.
Jesus criticised this exact attitude.
Maybe you should listen.
So you don’t submit to the authorities of the country you live in, then? What about your employer?
"Every proletarian has been through strikes and has experienced “compromises” with the hated oppressors and exploiters, when the workers have had to return to work either without having achieved anything or else agreeing to only a partial satisfaction of their demands. Every proletarian—as a result of the conditions of the mass struggle and the acute intensification of class antagonisms he lives among—sees the difference between a compromise enforced by objective conditions (such as lack of strike funds, no outside support, starvation and exhaustion)—a compromise which in no way minimises the revolutionary devotion and readiness to carry on the struggle on the part of the workers who have agreed to such a compromise—and, on the other hand, a compromise by traitors who try to ascribe to objective causes their self-interest (strike-breakers also enter into “compromises”!), their cowardice, desire to toady to the capitalists, and readiness to yield to intimidation, sometimes to persuasion, sometimes to sops, and sometimes to flattery from the capitalists." - Lenin, "No Compromises?"
Yes, I submit to my rulers, temporarily, insofar as I don't have the power to do anything else. This is fundamentally different from advocating for "submission to authority" as a general principle.
Yes, sometimes we have to endure defeat, indignities, and abuse, sometimes we must recognize a conflict as unwinnable in the current state of affairs, but that's just a matter of surviving until that state of affairs can be changed. This is a practical, strategic calculation about how to win, it is not the same on giving up all hope of winning, of denouncing winning as immoral, and extolling the "virtue" of submission to authority. Surely you must understand this.
I’m not saying you shouldn’t. I’m saying that politics shouldn’t be your god, which is a folly of most political systems
I'll never understand why Christians have this incessant need to assume everyone else has to have something that acts as a "god." It seems to be a total lack of imagination, an inability to understand anyone who thinks differently from them.
"Their own interests" whose interests, exactly? Who benefitted, and who paid the costs, for the wars in the Middle East? The only people who benefitted seem to be oil companies and war profiteers, while ordinary people (including my own family) paid for it in both money and blood.
The interests of your own country's bourgeoisie might align sometimes with those of the American bourgeoisie, but neither align with your people or the American people.
Very normal and reasonable.
The sky is blue.
You: Oh no, a .ml said it so I can't agree with it!
I frequently call out bullshit attempts to minimize literal genocide as being "just a single issue," so I'm not surprised it sounds similar to something I've said before.
It does, however, fit exactly with what you said.