@BWConnector@based_rowing my hypothesis is that a good deal of the outrage toward pride is generated from half-truths, strawmans, and emphasizing relatively small or niche issues.
i recall my grandparents believing that there was a move by the lgbtq community to accept pedophiles (there wasn't)
@TheLeftIsNutz@HotFudgePandae@SensibleSimio@sleepy_devo I call false claims of millions of illegals voting and false claims about Haitians eating pets to be fear mongering, and I see those benefitting from those claims to be a greater, immediate, and more insidious threat than disorganized migrants who are more likely than not/1
@TheLeftIsNutz@HotFudgePandae@SensibleSimio@sleepy_devo Whatever you need to tell yourself, man. I've seen enough horseshit having grown up in a Conservative environment and having been an anti-SJW teen to understand that there's an incredible amount of fearmongering and misrepresentation going on in Con media and social media.
@TheLeftIsNutz@HotFudgePandae@SensibleSimio@sleepy_devo They pursue degrees for jobs involving/including: registered nursing, pharmaceutical industries, occupational therapy, marketing, administration, management, finance, consulting, clinical psychology, social work, education, and more.
@inDJTwetrust1@balubrigadaa@RpsAgainstTrump You don't need writing to build a culture. They had rich oral tradition. However, there has been some sparse evidence of pre-columbian writing.
@inDJTwetrust1@balubrigadaa@RpsAgainstTrump Ironically, indigenous language revival efforts do rely partially on the scripts written by monks who intended to convert the population and help subvert their culture.
@inDJTwetrust1@balubrigadaa@RpsAgainstTrump The Treaty of Tripoli was signed by John Adams after conflict with the Barbary Pirates, which explicitly states that "As the government of the United States of America is not, in any sense, founded on the Christian religion;..."
@inDJTwetrust1@balubrigadaa@RpsAgainstTrump Again, why are any of these a necessity when you had found a way to survive without them? And there is evidence of arches, they just weren't utilized as heavily as in European archtecture.
@inDJTwetrust1@balubrigadaa@RpsAgainstTrump And yet Tenochtitlan could support hundreds of thousands of people? I'm sure savages with no idea what they were doing could build complex architecture that impressed the Spanish (including aqueducts for santitation).