Pretty much all religions provide a basis for a social belief system/set of principals and morals by which a society should be and behave. They often also provide the meaning to life. Organised religions, e.g. Christianity, then provide a regular means of contact to teach this, e.g. via church services, for people. Many people who need structure and security, or the answer to why they exist, seek this out. Others engage with it as a point of ego boosting (e.g. social figurehead within the religion) or power (leader) or money (albeit moreso historically). In summary it provides individuals with a major part of their life, livelihood and welbeing.

So, when these people learn of all the horrendous crap associated with THEIR religion, they either cannot, or refuse to, accept it as their religion teaches the perfect way to be and therefore cannot possibly be fallible. Or they’re culpable in the deceit, abuse and hypocrasy. Or they can’t face the idea of loosing their religion (and therefore life as they know it/want it) so choose to lie that everything is ok and good. Everyone who disagrees or opposes is a heathen and must be shut down or worse, killed.

To add, as they replied as I was typing; Infamousblt makes the good point that there are still good people within these societies, which is true of pretty much all societal groups; there are good and bad people in all of them.

So they’re recycling…good on them…but there I was thinking they may be creating some Apple-PC steam punk mutant for some specialist market…

They used Cat GPT? meow wonder its such a mess, searching out all that catnip and snoozing all day long is hard work!

I did chuckle inside when I read the post, so maybe.

Though I think he’s been laughing for some time now so he could be hysterical with how things have panned out.

Run for Something sounds good. We have a fairly healthy number of independent politicians in the UK I think but something like that can only help improve peoples involvement in local snd national government.

Assuming you’re from the US by sharing that, I hope you have more than luck to help over there!

Oh I’m well aware that the Con govmnt has been an appalling dismantling of our country, but Labour are so far appearing to largely be following suit. Remember the Tory repetition about the need for austerity? It just feels like a repeat of that, to put it very breifly. I know 14 years can’t be fixed overnight, but shitting on the poor and needy, who have been suffering the most already is just grotesque. There’s plenty of condemnation by journalists and MPs alike for this as well as some calls to tax the rich instead.

I’ve never voted for either so I’m looking at what they do through neutral(ish!) eyes and I don’t see politics so much an ever increasing pandering to the corporate economy (over decades).

I can’t say I’m too knowledgable about Aus politics, but got glimpses of how bad your last govmnt was through the Guardian. Hope you have a better time than us with a new set of faces!

Meanwhile, here in the Uk our government is making sure we won’t have enough money to buy more than two days of food at a time.

https://www.independent.co.uk/news/world/americas/us-politics/trump-panama-canal-military-us-troops-b2714558.html

Edit, beaten to it by someone more thorough!

I’m glad someone enjoyed it though I never thought it’d be compared to poetry haha! I did think it was a bit too flouncy and coherant for trump but it was fun to write!

But unfortunately abuse creates deep insecurity, which creates a drive for power (control), so I think the OP isn’t far off the mark. Benevolent ruling is largely history washing imo, even if some good acts were carried out. The winner writes the history after all.

But your point is broadly fair - in most cases there is great variety in life. The ruling class, however, consists of less than 0.0001% of the global population so lies outside or the majority (figure made up for illustrstive purposes!).

“Answer me robot, why’s it not answering?! Someone? …Silicone doesn’t exist you know, it’s fake news people, the internot’s a lie. Write me a letter…don’t you know about the paper factories, full of cat eating people, don’t write, don’t write, come up here and tell me, the sky doesn’t exist, it’s a woke agenda to stop you working, go to sleep at night, when it turns black, stars are a lie, buy a cyber truck, take them off the flag, it’s in the constitution, I’ll make america a crêpe again, pancakes and maple syrup, love it in the morning, on toast, Canada belongs to us, they’re our trees, give them back, give them back, give them back, give me back, give me, give me money…mom?”

Yup, same, I didn’t even look for hints, just tried those lyrics…and groaned! Just like loosing the game, once you’ve been sucked into the vortex you’ll never get out!

And yes, I just lost the game.

I cannot understate how insulted he’d be to hear that! Not least because he’s infinitely more intelligent than 2000 of those two!

My thought too, it’s the snear on the right that got me!

Pot kettle black. Also a monstrous gobshite. He was bad enough just as an annoying business owner, now we have to put up with so much more.

Welcome to politics, there’s all sorts going on that we know nothing about that will influence who says what about whom, when and why. Hypocrisy is irrelevant to these people. He’s just influencing.

Go faster stripes FTW!

Always need more adventure

Functional be you’d illiterate can surprised the be how.

You do realise that in Japan they don’t use Roman letters?! Sounds are one thing, a pictorial based writing system quite another! Just as in English, the same sounding word can mean several things, so the same spelt word can mean several things in Asian languages!