“I don’t want the maybe-nazi, so let’s capitulate to the definitely-nazis.”

If one believes in the supernatural (which I don’t) Karma and Samsara don’t stricly need agency. They could be emergent properties of underlying supernatural laws/processes.

They absolutely are incompatible with a rejection of the supernatural, but not with the simple rejection of the existence of a god (as in: a supernatural force with agency)

Dude. No. My atheism is a rejection of a proposition that god exists. Nothing more and nothing less.

My strong/gnostic atheism is a rejection of the concept that gods could exist, based on my rejection of the concept of the supernatural based on my conviction of the intellectual importance of methodological materialism and scepticism in everyday epistemology.

But atheism does not have to include ANY of the second paragraph, it is NOT identical with scepticism, nor with the rejection of everything supernatural, even if those often coincide.

And you are muddying and diminishing atheism by "no true scotsman"ing it here.

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Sooooooo viele amerikanische Katholiken haben den neuen, aber vor allem den vorhergehenden Papst kritisiert weil die sich für Immigranten einsetzten und dabei Jesus Hilfe für die Schwächsten zitierten.

Wenn gleich zwei Päpste nicht “konservativ” genug sind… vielleicht ist man dann ja gar nicht mehr christlich konservativ… sondern was Schlimmeres.

Ich kann diesen Kommentar im Original-Ton in meinem Kopf hören.

I don’t doubt for a moment that humanity can be extremely wasteful in any economic system. But capitalism sure embraces and enhances our worst tendencies.

“Wir haben 10 Jahre lang die Aussagen der AfD aufgegriffen, wiederholt und verbreitet. Das hat nicht dafür gesorgt dass sie schwächer geworden ist, deshalb wollen wir jetzt mit der AfD zusammen abstimmen, das wird sie bestimmt besiegen.”

The problem with the 40k universe is that “not surviving” doesn’t necessarily mean an end to suffering.

My lesbian friend giggled uncontrollably at this.

Minor contra point. Many police in the UK do not carry guns on their person. They have access to guns and the state monopoly on violence is very one-sided in favour of the state, but community-policing and disarmament of the first-contact-point is absolutely something that can and (sometimes) does happen when the societal level of gun violence is low enough.

When Trump says he’s a friend to miners, he’s just keeping them quiet while selling them out to the big mining corps and damaging renewables for the big oil companies.

When he says he’s a friend to farmers, he’s just keeping them quiet while selling them out to argentinian fascists, republican land grabbers and the big agro-corps.

When you are working class, Trump was never your friend, the republicans aren’t your friends and the industry is not providing jobs for but exploiting you.

And the Trump regime has a vested interrest in propping up other fascist to “prove” that their economic model (robbing the populace) can work (at least until they are done with their raid)

Kurze Erinnerung daran dass Merz voll und ganz ein Parteipflänzchen ist. Als Kind reicher Eltern mit dem Silberlöffel im Mund geboren. Das Studium von der Konrad-Adenauer-Stiftung bezahlt und abgesehen von seinen 3 Jahren als Syndikus kamen alle seine “Jobs” in der Industrie erst nachdem er in der Politik weit genug oben angekommen war um als Lobbyist Einfluss nehmen zu können.

Thanks for educating me.

But was it soviet territory before the Nazis took it, or only after the soviets drove the nazi-menace back? Because Poland and most other later soviet countries were independent before, so all the jews killed in Poland, Czechia, Hungary, etc. were NOT soviet citizens.

My street is finally getting fiberoptic internet! That means I’m going from around 4MiB/s to at least 400 more likely 600 MiB/s… with around 3/4 of that in upload speed. I have already canceled all my streaming services and external servers, the parts for my homeserver are on their way.

No more Google Drive, hello Nextcloud, no more Spotify, hello Finamp, no more Netflix and Crunchyroll, hello Jellyfin, no more Bitwarden, hello Vaultwarden.

I’ll finally be able to self-host all my Docker containers fir my website-, email- and game-server, I can have a homeserver for my media-streaming even when I’m not at home. I might even create my own Immich and Lemmy Instances. Just need to read up on NixOS and get a good, reliable system running.

Fuck big Tech, I’ll host my own shit and offer it to all my friends.

The US put the EU at war in Ukraine?

I’d say the war in Ukraine is the direct result of the illegal Russian invasions in 2014 and 2022 and the ongoing war of aggression, but go off buddy.

Apart from that, yes, the EU is inconvenient for every other bigger power, this includes the single remaining mayor power, the american empire.