while the US let them down countless times.

ehhhh… I dunno man there was this whole indochina thing :|

I only encountered them once - in rural arizona (70s casa grande). Blew my young mind.

which, you’d think, hey France, we hate the french (which is hilarious considering the Statue of Liberty and La Fayette)… Mexicans beating the French should be easy to recall for us.

You should read about RealPage if you despise these jerks.

https://www.npr.org/transcripts/1197961038

A site that allows landlords to coordinate rent hikes. what could go wrong.

oh bye mark815

“It’s ok, you don’t have to worry, I’ve been saved, First Pentagram Church of Manson, HELTER SKELTER BE HIS NAME!”

“Hallelujah!”

their morality is hilarious - and that they view it as intrinsic to their religion and would go murderhappy without it’s constraints, or if the right imaginary friend told them to - illustrates my fear that out atheists in many places are at risk.

A few examples:

christian fascists insist we’ll have freedom of religion, but not freedom from religion. even though the supreme court has long held “no religion” is a religion.

In Islam, if you’re a jew or christian, you can pay a fee and practice your faith. Think they extend that to atheism?

Indonesia for example:

https://www.loc.gov/item/global-legal-monitor/2012-02-09/indonesia-atheist-to-be-charged-with-blasphemy/

https://www.atheismandthecity.com/2013/12/dont-cry-for-me-indonesia.html

But hardly limited there -

https://www.amnesty.org/en/latest/press-release/2019/11/saudi-arabia-categorizing-feminism-atheism-homosexuality-as-crimes-exposes-the-kingdoms-dangerous-intolerance/#:~:text=Atheism is illegal and is,from for it’s legal framework.

https://www.worldatlas.com/articles/countries-where-atheists-receive-death-penalty.html

I find it funny that a single story locked behind a paywall on springer is TEH EVIDENCE yet such a huge finding isn’t researched and documented elsewhere.

and again, the concept violates the laws of thermodynamics. it’s an energy economy. I can get as much protein and nutrients from veg for a fraction of the energy input compared to livestock.

thanks for the other tips.

Pesticides or GMO are going to be used for agriculture either way (vegan/non vegan diets). regardless, your assertion that vegan diet kills more is specious conceptually and ridiculous in premise - just growing a chicken requires more energy than growing grains, legumes or fungus. If you have evidence post it, otherwise lol nah man.

downvotes were probably for the poor way I made a joke. I don’t take it personally, admit it wasn’t great humor. But you’ll never get me to think Vegans are harming teh ec0sytM!!

All the vegans I know garden or farm themselves, and I get to ride on their experience with my own tomato, cucumber, peppers, and green beans, and I live in the city. We just planted our onion and zuchinni starters but I’ve never done these before so we’ll see. It’s amazing what you can produce in two raised beds.

it was a bad joke. not actual commentary. nevermind.

Of course they’re going to tell you that, duuuuh

Yup. Even ‘tolerant’ religions go batshit when they encounter unbelievers. It’s like you can root for any team, but if you decline the entire sportsball thing, YOU GOTTA FUCKIN DIE

Still to this day I’ll have to gently remind my family I’m atheist about twice a year,

yeah… I don’t think my distant relations forget, they simply hope I’ll stop fighting for my own agency and/or return to the church.

it’s sad.

edit: y’all mofos are inhaling tardygrades as I type this. there’s 40 million skin mites that live on your lower lip.

and you love the flavor. and if it wasn’t blindingly obvious I’m fucking with you but yeah mmmm I’m Vegan* (*cept for the mites and spiders) too

aw you don’t eat animals?

that’s a lie.

You consumed 3 spiders last week while sleeping. God knows how many gnats and other bugs.

Stop acting all superior, the only thing you’ve got going for you is the certainty that you’ve eliminated mammals from your diet and are subsisting on bugs.

I’m afraid, because I think we have let the idiots drive the bus off the cliff. People are starting to worry, some are jamming on the brakes, another group is still jamming on the gas and pulling the wheel to steer us right off the cliff, and we can’t know if we’ve already jumped the guard rail or if there’s still time.

Looking at AMOC, I’m beginning to think the guard rail went bye-bye around 2010-2015.

Yup, ‘moderator’ in the last few have been useless talking heads.

Yup. Look at the last debate between the two: Trump doesn’t debate, he interrupts, shouts over, and gish gallops. You can’t debate someone who has no intention of respecting the process.

Recently answered this in another thread: by debate Trump means he will childishly shout over anyone he’s on stage with constant bullshit and juvenile rhetoric - no thanks. having seen trump in debates I honestly question anyone silly enough to try, he’ll never ‘debate’, he just gish gallops bullshit until his minders come to change his diapers.

dude, right? we got lucky there; I was amazed to learn that he was a lifelong christian and preacher, and never let that cloud his message of kindness and humility he presented publicly. very christ-like, unlike so many christians.

yeah I hope we don’t fuck it so thoroughly that something else can’t evolve up. squid or octopus would be awesome.