Dadd Volante

I don’t believe you based on your original response. I think you’re backpedaling.

Have a good one

Thanks for helping make this place worse

Not wasting any more time on this.

I can be upset at the Democrats AND people like you.

The Dems, Maga, third party voters and the people who stayed at home because they weren’t getting what they want, you’re literally all to blame.

Own it.

Kamala 100% addressed rising costs by saying we needed to outlaw price gouging on groceries. That Medicaid should cover in-home care. By giving tax credits for children. By giving tax credits for home ownership and starting a new business.

She addressed this a lot and had a lot of things she wanted to do to curb it. I’m tired of that talking point. Shows how little people paid attention.

Yeah, we didn’t get proper primaries. It sucks

I’m still blaming the people who stayed at home or voted third party just as much as I’m blaming maga.

Ignorant, self absorbed citizens who don’t care who gets hurt if they don’t get what they want.

Over it.

Yeah, I hate responses like this. You’re in the heart of the empire, you ain’t getting to choose between Clark Kent and Lex Luthor.

There was only two outcomes and it was our job to pick the less shitty outcome.

End of story.

Americans really are still pushing this hyper-exceptionalism narrative to try and blame the Dems

This was a group effort. The third party voters and the people who stayed at home have just as much blame for this crap.

They need to own their shit and realize that you don’t always get what you want, sometimes you have to do what you can with what you have.

Murica

I agree. His motivations were purely political in order to keep people in line when he realized this new movement wasn’t going away any time soon.

Which is why on one hand we have Jesus calling for freedom of oppression, while Paul was telling slaves to obey their masters, even the cruel ones

Religion has always been politically motivated to control people.

You’re not dumb as fuck.

It’s a common misconception. Wasn’t even really until around the time of Queen Isabella (Might have the wrong queen as it’s pretty late here) that fair skin was considered preferable and a sign of religious purity.

Humans are a weird species.

Like I said, more Olive toned. Sorry it offends you but ancient Europeans, especially people in the Italian peninsula and Greece didn’t exactly look like the Europeans of today, being as most of them came from a different part of the world

They weren’t white people who left the middle east, they were middle eastern people who eventually turned white due to the different climate conditions of the area.

Not dumb as fuck, nuanced. History is neat like that

He existed alright but we have zero idea if he claimed to be the son of God. That was added much later after his death.

Jesus could in fact be an algamation of various men at the time who led the religious/social movement that would eventually become Christianity, and not all early versions claimed him to be the son of God. Some even claimed him to be a new God here to rescue us from the original God who was harsh, vindictive and punishing. Lots of wild shit.

So even the “he said he was the son of God” is a myth and legend.

But there definitely was a dude who was alive back then who had a LOT of complaints concerning the church and the government.

Ancient Romans weren’t even really white. More olive toned.

There aren’t any white people in the Bible.

They were changed much, much longer than 200 years.

Hell, the book of Mark, the oldest version we have (that both Mathew and Luke are copied from) has a completey different ending and vibe than what he have now

A grumpy, almost cynical Jesus who gets annoyed pretty often that people don’t listen to him or his instructions. It’s hilarious.

There are about 30 gospels that didn’t make it into the final version of the Bible, some talk about a little about it.

Most were ordered destroyed and not rediscovered until pretty recently in Egypt.

I’m not a Christian, just someone with an interest in it. There’s pretty much no doubt Jesus was someone who actually was alive, but what we have concerning his “story” could possibly be an algamation of different people who led both a religious and social revolution at the time

One theory suggests that Jesus actually has a brother who looked strikingly similar (James) enough to actually pull off pretending to be him.

Which would explain after his death why people purported to have seen him. Possibly a tactic to keep the revolution alive

None of the Gospels were written by the apostles. They didn’t even have names until much, much later. I’m talking centuries.

Life expectancy was also much shorter

Mathew and Luke are both just re-writes of Mark. Mark is the oldest out of them all, and the oldest surviving versions we have are not designated a name.

It was a marketing ploy much later to give each gospel a name of one of his apostles to give them more credibility.

Some parts of Mathew and Luke are even word for word copies from Mark, which suggests that they are revisions from a different party who decided to edit in their own ideas.

Hell, the original version of Mark actually has a different ending than the one we got in the modern Bible.

John comes much, much later which is why it’s so different than the other three. It’s Spaceballs.

None of the Gospels were written by anyone who personally knew him.

Same. Does what I want.

Just add a non-steam game to your library. I do that with epic, gog, and even my emulated and modded games. All in one place with just a couple clicks

I don’t think many outside of here do.

Many people here stay in the place they were born. Even when they hate it. It’s hard moving and leaving everything behind. It’s tough moving to a new part of the country without any contacts.

I’ve relocated a few times, there’s always a culture shock. You’d think it would be pretty much the same everywhere due to our saturated commercial culture, but it really is different everywhere. Sometimes just a few hours of separation between places can be two completely different worlds

We’re a nation full of smaller countries, cultures and customs. It’s hard to see that on the outside looking in due to so many of us parroting things online, as well as the media that we distribute throughout the world (movies, tv, music ect)

But it’s a VAST nation of many different ways of life.

You told me “I’m simply making excuses”, when all I’m doing is trying to do is bring nuance to the conversation. Something people have a severe problem with. They’d rather win an argument than have an actual discussion.

There ARE protests happening all over this country. Get off your butt. I was in Louisville last Saturday at one. There’s also a KKK rally that’s we’re heading out to counter protest. You want the details I’ll be glad to share em

But you’ll have to find a way there. And you’ll have to have the day off. Depending on where you live you may need two or three since our country spans from one ocean to another.

There’s so many points people keep making without even taking into consideration the huge differences between the US and Germany.

Germany is small. Takes nothing to hop a train a wait a couple hours to protest. You think everyone there lives in town? Of course not. They’re using their much superior infrastructure and education to get there. Really easy to get a large mass of like minded people when you aren’t spread out across an entire continent.

You think being educated is unimportant? That not having public transportation or the ability to take more than one day off is unimportant? Bullshit. Absolute bullshit.

Yeah, we need to wake up a huge swath of the population. No one is arguing that. The entire point (that keeps getting missed) is that we, as a people, have a lot more obstacles to overcome in order to see the results we want.

But nooooooope. Y’all have decided easy answers to nuanced situations are definitely the way to go here.

This is day three of people trying to convince me of a black and white answer and I’m not wasting another second on this conversation.

If you want to join the Klan counter protest hit my dms.

I would implore y’all to practice what you preach instead of complaining that others need to do something. Be the change. Cause that’s the biggest problem we face right now, the idea that someone else is going to help us.

Have a good day.

Okay

You literally said points I made but I guess they’re better when you say them

I can’t give you one solid answer because it’s a situation that has nuance.

Not everyone owns a car. Not everyone is educated well enough. Many times people are exhausted by the time they have a day off.

I’m not letting my KIDS put themselves in danger. That’s insane.

But okay. This is a black and white issue with easy, simple answers. Like most issues are.

And the majority of us work weekends

There’s also public transport, healthcare, literally weeks of paid days off. They simply have better social resources than we do.