markovs_gun

joined 1 week ago
[–] [email protected] 6 points 1 hour ago

The problem is that 35% of the country believes him and 15% aren't sure. You will never convince the 35%. They could be eating rat soup to survive and they'd still insist Trump is a great president who has done wonders for the economy because "the economy" is just an abstract, almost metaphysical concept to them like a ritual state and it is being purified of the evil spirits of "woke" and "dei" so it's in its proper order.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 hour ago

I've inhales acid fumes a couple times and every time it's a hard lesson to not do whatever I just did. Unfortunately it's a pretty common hazard in my line of work.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 hour ago

Lmao people who grew up super sheltered have such problems of imagination, especially when it comes to drugs. The fear is always stupid shit like "if you touch a dollar bill that had fentanyl come near it at one point you'll start convulsing on the floor and need 50 doses of Narcan to survive!' instead of the total collapse of society that happens in communities where drugs take root.

[–] [email protected] 7 points 2 hours ago* (last edited 2 hours ago)

Let's put it like this- Skyrim is as old now as Final Fantasy VII was when it came out. If you had asked me then if Final Fantasy VII was an old game when Skyrim came out, I'd have said yeah.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 17 hours ago

Nah most of them just don't give a shit or know what the hell is going on. As long as they have their Netflix and fast food slop they're good.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 18 hours ago

Number of deaths in the crusades- 1,000,000

Number of deaths in the colonization of the Americas- 59,000,000+

[–] [email protected] 7 points 20 hours ago (3 children)

Well for starts the crusades were about more than just religion, and it's pretty obvious that they weren't the end of Christian religious violence and that nobody "learned their lesson" from them.

[–] [email protected] 8 points 23 hours ago (5 children)

A lot of old stuff is super racist and well made. The Birth of A Nation was revolutionary in film and influenced many future movies despite literally being a movie about how awesome the KKK are. Lovecraft was famously racist as fuck and a lot of his "Eldritch horror" was sort of a metaphor for his fears of "primitive" religions and miscegenation. Even Lord of the Rings has racist elements - JRR Tolkein said in multiple occasions that he based the dwarves on Jews, which is pretty rough to modern readers given that the dwarves are more obsessed with gold and treasure than anything else.

[–] [email protected] 18 points 1 day ago (5 children)

This is a really poor understanding of the crusades as well as religious violence in general.

[–] [email protected] 30 points 1 day ago

I feel like using terms like "vaccine skeptic" for these morons is a major PR win for them. It makes it sound way more legitimate than it is. Fuck corporate media sanewashing everything going on politically right now.

[–] [email protected] 31 points 1 day ago (10 children)

Jews don't really hate anyone for not believing in their God. Unlike Christianity and Islam, Jews don't believe that everyone has to follow their religion. They don't really believe in Heaven and Hell, and they don't proselytize to people who aren't already Jews. Judaism is for the Jewish people and that's it.

[–] [email protected] 7 points 1 day ago

The historical Arians were a pretty diverse group, much like the early Christian church in general. Arius, the person whose teachings the Arians were named after, was North African, and there were Arians throughout North Africa, the Middle East, and Europe.

view more: next ›