You’d murder somebody on a plane for being annoying with proselytizing?

You’re more dangerous than she is (and I agree with her being removed from the plane), seek help

You can’t win. There are too many shipping containers, boats, planes, automobiles, an endless stream of commerce with a thousand different points of opportunity.

Every “victory” is Pyrrhic, the tighter you grip the more it will slip out of your fingers. You’re trying to treat a “disease” by controlling only one symptom, not the cause itself.

If you “succeed” in one facet, another will become much worse. For example, the war against opiates is what created the Fentanyl market. Good job, idiots.

Just let it go. Sell it all over the counter and control the quality to reduce overdose. Addicts are better off without you throwing them in dungeons. Leave it alone.

Who’s in charge of what conservative is? Who’s the decider?

(the only right answer is Vermin Supreme)

He got showers? Lucky bastard

“how is this an argument for atheism?”

This is not an “argument for atheism” sub.

This is a support and conversation community for people who don’t believe in gods.

How did you think it was only for arguments for atheism? Kinda weird assumption. How did you reach that conclusion?

The Jews owned slaves back then; they weren’t morally superior to the Romans in any way.

Mark my words, the next one will be so much worse.

This is the result of years of virtually unlimited corporate money since 2010 (see Citizens United, Super PACs, etc.)

So, whomever wins will be the greediest of all of the candidates… and odds are good they will be much smarter than Trump.

Trump’s not the cause. He’s the result.

Tropes are tropes for a reason, they are a reflection; to change them you must change the source material first, and new tropes will follow.

But you see, that farmer receives grants from the State to make green beans, so it’s socialism.

Or something, I dunno

Check that guy’s hard drive.

I’m not positive, but I bet we paid for those 62 cases, so it’s no skin off of his ass.

If FOX or The Donald doesn’t tell them they’re despised, how would they ever know? They are not reading Jezebel.

Humanity is a red flag, left, right, middle; what community of size isn’t full of deceit and violation? Many people use organizations as tools to get what they want, regardless of what the cause is; religion, political, financial, it’s always a fight against corruption, lies, and incompetence that never ends.

Not one passes its own purity test.

You can buy a plane ticket just as easily as any American, why don’t you fly out to D.C. and show them how it’s done? Just hit them and get somewhere!

Don’t be shy!

Fascism is the inevitable result of all government. Government is an accumulation of power, and it continues to accumulate power throughout its existence. Over the generations, it acquires more and more power exponentially.

70% of Independents want universal health care, you don’t need to ask centrists, either.

90% of Ds want universal health care.

It’s not being stopped by 30% of the voters (Republicans… still, even 30% of them want universal healthcare).

The “pro-universal health care” side is fucking over their own constituents, as they are paid very well to do.

(reminder that independents are now 40% of the voters, Ds and Rs 30% each; these percentages are based on Pew but there are many polls pick your favorite)

Why does it matter if the responses are from patriotic citizens or not?

“Bad faith” is lunacy, who cares? Arguments matter all on their own, regardless of the motivation for making them.

Of course you “think” they are paid trolls or bots, we all see that constantly. My first post on Reddit years ago was followed immediately by charges of being a Russian spy. Maybe they were a Russian spy and I was diversion?

Anyway, troll, bot, human, paid or not, irrelevant. The discussion is seen by others and judged on the merit of the argument itself. Stop worrying about the source, as you can never know, so it doesn’t matter. It’s not as if you get better results by talking to an unpaid patriotic person. Same shit.

Propaganda problem? Not at all. Every form of social media is rife with propaganda, as is every paper, website, news channel, and so on. How could Lemmy be any different?

As a dog returneth to his vomit, so a fool returneth to his folly. ~Proverbs 26:11

This is all posturing, in my opinion.

bOtH pArTiEs finance Israel, we built that country for a reason and it’s doing exactly what it was created to do.

Churches aren’t as powerful as they once were, but they’re as rich as ever, and they also funnel billions more into Israel. It’s the nexus of Judaism, Christianity, and Islam, so… of course.

… and they don’t pay taxes for some reason, fancy that. So all Americans directly and indirectly support Israel financially at every level.

Democratic leadership knows this just as well as Republican, and it’s not as if you have an alternative. Every vote is pro-Israel, whether you like it or not. It’s a lot more pervasive than many realize.

I’m not advocating not voting, I still vote. But it’s all pro-Israel. Seventy years of this, it’s undeniable.

But all humans are destroying* the planet, whether Amazonians or Africans or billionaires.

Every one of those people require land for agriculture or hunting, all of them use natural resources and will until they are expended, all of them have children that exponentially increase the demand on everything we all need (or want).

Billionaires are much more harmful than many thousands and more, it is true… but examples are legion of regular old proles destroying the environment around them once their population reaches a certain level (this varies depending on the local environment).

The simpler/more primitive the society, the less stressors they put on the environment, but they remain stressors regardless.

*By destroy I mean to make it inhospitable for people as we know them, planet will be fine long after we are all gone.