It's so funny how people think "liberalism is when voting and democratic party" with no regard for content. I unironically think this explains so much about how leftists, especially MLs, think about revolutions.
knowing that, now if I use or see that verb in a fictional setting I also have to contend with my mind making sure I know that luigi galvani must have lived there at some point and made his contribution to science and language.
@thobbesian@JeremiahDJohns For another the claim that Jews had it good in Germany prior to the Nazis is only true when compared to other European countries like France or Russia. History is long and in 500 years could the US be running death camps? Sure. But in the long term anything is possible so what?
@thobbesian@JeremiahDJohns The “well Jews had it good until hitler” argument also isn’t convincing because for one it makes Jewish oppression unfalsifiable. Either Jews have it bad then are are oppressed, if they don’t well then oppression is just round the corner.
@Grabaka_Hitman I don’t get this rule. It seems hard to adjudicate (and is therefore ripe for corruption, and it’s not like fifa is some august institution) and it seems to essentially punish the team for being good. “Oh I was ahead of you? Well then maybe you should have be faster!”
@barbarismcrit Modern Paganism. Specifically modern. We don’t know a lot about actual pre-Christian Irish religion. Meaning that the people recreating it now are effectively creating something new. Very funny to think they they got it right. Yup it turns up that 13 eupean hippies got it right.
@gol_mia I haven’t really cared about my atheism since I was an edgy high schooler who spent to much time watching debate videos online. The recent bout of Muslim apologetics sends me back to remembering some of the dumber defenses of Christianity I saw.
I really have to say...I've seen bad defenses of religion, but the defenses mounted when Islam is criticized are truly the worst I've ever seen in terms of how thought-out they are. Just a bunch of whataboutism especially, if not quickly descending into reactionary venom.
@baatigirl@PTogekiss about whether or not this individual girl should be physically forced to shake his hand. Because that is an argument they can win but it isn’t actually the discussion being had.
@baatigirl@PTogekiss The argument is not about whether robocop should have been sent up there to force her to shake his hand. The actual argument is this: I think Islam has is patriarchal and broadly conservative vs no it isn’t. The no it isn’t side is trying to force the argument the argument to be-