Melllvar @ charonn0 @startrek.website

*Seer* of the tapes! *Knower* of the episodes!

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Now, there's one thing you might have noticed I don't complain about: politicians. Everybody complains about politicians. Everybody says they suck.

Well, where do people think these politicians come from? They don't fall out of the sky. They don't pass through a membrane from another reality. They come from American parents and American families, American homes, American schools, American churches, American businesses and American universities, and they are elected by American citizens.

This is the best we can do, folks. This is what we have to offer. It's what our system produces: Garbage in, garbage out. If you have selfish, ignorant citizens, you're going to get selfish, ignorant leaders.

Term limits ain't going to do any good; you're just going to end up with a brand new bunch of selfish, ignorant Americans. So, maybe, maybe, maybe... it's not the politicians who suck. Maybe something else sucks around here... like... the public. Yeah, the public sucks. There's a nice campaign slogan for somebody: 'The Public Sucks. Fuck Hope.'

-George Carlin

insecure, over-compensating, self-absorbed, obnoxious assholes.

Or so is claimed from the pulpits.

They could if they wanted to.

If they can accept "love the sinner, hate the sin", they can accept "respect the religious, hate the religion."

Each additional decade of age seems half as long as the previous one was.

0-10 took forever

10-20 took 20 years

20-30 took 10 years

30-40 took 5 years

I'm 40 and it feels like 50 is next year already.

It would be easier to list the religions that don't teach that disbelief is wrong. I can't think of any, though.

I don't understand how its not voluntary. Can you explain?

Don't most religions condemn atheism as inherently bad, stupid, dishonest, etc?

Thank you. I was about to tell the OP what they could go do with themselves.

Religious belief is a voluntary characteristic. Why should that not be considered when judging someone's character?

More amendments were ratified in the latter half of 20th century than the entire 19th (6 vs. 4).

Regardless of where you stand on the Israel/Hammas situation, the state shouldn't have this kind of power.

Respect is for people, not ideas or beliefs.

The enshittification of Windows continues apace.

Criticism of the US isn’t hatred either, it can come from a desire for improvement.

While that's true, it also not what is apparently going on here.

The actual defense being used in these cases is one of diminished mental capacity. Gay/trans panic is just a specific example of such a defense.

It's really remarkable the level of anti-USA hatred floating around the fediverse.