Staines [they/them]

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Cake day: July 29th, 2020

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  • I haven’t read your whole post, but you’re probably right. Please note though, that folk are emotional creatures rather than strictly logical. Some people have been hurt by Christianity and they’re going to be rightfully distrustful or outright hostile.

    But if we focus on what we have in common rather than our differences, we’re still comrades. People dunk on the new atheism movement as much as they do the Catholic church around here. We’re here for some same reason with different journeys and stories.

    Love thy fellow posters.



  • Once again, the traditional news media reporting I’ve been unintentionally exposed to on this strike mentioned nothing about the military personnel - but that level of propaganda is normal in the west. I’ve lost count of the number of times the BBC reports a strike on a hotel or a cafe only for their own videos to show injured military personnel and foreign mercenaries in the rubble.

    This strike however seems uncharacteristic in it’s callousness, and seems unusually mean spirited from the Russians. Civilian casualties from the strikes have been pretty minimal so far in the war, other than the occasional Ukrainian anti-aircraft missile intercepting the side of an apartment.

    Perhaps the terror drone raids the Ukrainians having been sending deep into Russia to target random civilian buildings have rekalibrated their tolerance for collateral.