You dont even fucking know then.

The problems in america stem directly from corporate greed. We are a society not a factory. We need to use the factory to better society. Americans think they need to use society to better the factory. This inverted thinking is a disease.

He said smart, that discludes any conservatives.

Can we please not glorify the commercialization of america. Clowns selling calories to children has done nothing good for this country. I hope all commercialized businesses die in a greyed out abandoned lot.

Ill take it over this shit.

Authoritarians create crisis then claim power. It doesnt matter if everyone’s needs are being met. They will create chaos and then become the savior, being, “the only one who can fix it” ignoring the fact they created the problem in the first place.

Alright, thats true.

Conservatives are the most morally bankrupt of them all. Don’t let them trick you into believing they dont know civics. They know, and actively subvert it. At the end of the day regressives regress all the way down to authoritarians. Authoritarians derive morality from within themselves. So its basically Calvin ball but they want you to think its liberty.

Compromise is fine. Im talking about gridlock.

If you think they are equivalent, thats fine. I dont agree.

Im not looking for a fight, so no worries.

I feel like its really easy to poke holes in anarchy but maybe we should just try to be good people so that the state is rendered useless.

And who keeps the warlords at bay?

In that case, get back to work!

Ain’t no good help anywhere these days.

I firmly believe, for every politician, when they reach a certain level, there is a period of discovery. I’d bet money even the ones who join politics with good intentions get to a point in their political career where there are absolutely no good choices .

I know this because I live it in my own life. For the politician, though, they have to settle into it, reject it and defect, or gamble. A good politician, one people mostly admire, is probably just a gambler that won the jackpot. They were in the right place at the right time and pulled the right lever. A bad politician is someone we see as bad only because we see them constantly making safe bets. Like a drunk who spends all day at the horses they bet the 2:1s and try to beat the house.

Its crazy to me that logic, reason, and decency arent very good political tools. They cant sway the masses. They always need to be propped up by some underlying moral structure that no one ever agrees on.

Anyway…

Yay, I can be bullied by the local idiots instead of idiots abroad.

All im asking is for standards. Idiots is maybe too broad a term but Im wish casting not making policy.

They must all be named George cause they are absolutely gorg.

Leading up to the election all we were talking about is how trump got ahold of documents through court filings that would show exactly how the voting machines worked. Crazy how thst talking point just fell away.

At this point we know the who, the why, the what, and the how. We need to figure out the where and when.

Not really. Like the trinity is a core tenet of Christianity but no one really needs to know about that to understand Christianity.

The whole question is about societal implications of the religion. If we were all Muslim, no one would need to know anything.

I could change the title, do you think that would change anything?

Here I’ll do it.

Ill just have to think about it more because what you said is a completely different question.

I think people need to know stuff about religions. I think a lot of politics in america are tied to american christianity and you would go bonkers trying to figure some stuff out if you didnt have that lense to view things.

I looked online about Islam and I know a little bit but sometimes its nice if someone can help understand. Like there’s a lot of book reading you can do on christianity but if you wanted I could give an inside perspective on protestant sects in the south. I could also dialogue if you had any questions.

Well, im certainly not considering signing up for any religion in 2025 but what would you say are the major detractors?