Your thought sounds kinda disorganized and you seem more aggressive than this topic merits. I’m not sure why, but I believe discussions should be about finding consensus and you don’t seem interested or capable of doing that.

A war implies some kind of parity. There is no parity. They’re dropping bombs on unarmed civilian populations. Vietnam was a war because the Vietcong had the ability to fight back. Hamas hasn’t been able to fight back in years.

Sounds like you’re not really open to hearing differing opinions.

Calling it a “war” is both sidesing it

That’s actually a great question. Here I was thinking I made a mistake not announcing myself as a brown man, but why do we assume all speakers are white unless otherwise specified?

People aren’t aware but authoritarianism started in the US in the post War era. When the CIA overthrew democratically elected governments in Guatemala and Iran. They’ve basically been refusing to compromise with communism or even any acknowledgement of workers rights since then.

Yeah but we need a critical mass of people for whom that is true. I don’t think we’re there yet.

Nah I mean think about how long Senators and Congress people have engaged in insider trading. At least 30-40 years maybe longer. Trump just doesn’t hide his criminal activity and he probably engages in it at a volume never seen before, but a lot of these actions basically amount to insider trading.

Also both parties don’t support universal healthcare, they both support Israel, they both don’t support workers unions, they both believe in bailing out big business, they both support immigration camps at the border.

Yeah one doesn’t support having the gestapo abducting and murdering people in broad daylight, but like is that the ONLY thing that needs to end to fix the country?

Trump is the most openly American president to ever live. The stuff he does in the open, were happening in secret for decades. The secret is out.

People will die. People have kids they need to raise. People have parents they need to take care of. If we burn the system down, all that is over. Your hopes of a good life in your lifetime end with revolution. You basically have to sacrifice an entire generation to burn this system down. Maybe we’ll get there soon, but people are still hoping to make it to the other side in one piece.

Thanks for sharing. I think it’s funny that anecdotes of my lived experience as a brown person gets downvotes, but you sharing an academic paper supporting my lived experience gets up votes.

Tbh pretty much all movies. There’s really nothing to be gained from feeding the hype train.

Idk it’s probably cultural. Most non white people in the US have very little experience with stuff like camping and bonfires(there will of course always be exceptions). So usually if you are at a fire and there’s a mixed race group hanging out, 90% of the time the guy fiddling with the fire will be white.

I’m 38. I was raised Muslim. I was a pretty good Muslim until about 18-19. I have had quite a journey with my feelings on religion.

When I was young, I hated all the rules and being told that I can’t drink or I can’t date. I eventually read “The God Delusion” by Richard Dawkins(ok yes I know, I was young and didn’t know better) which opened my eyes to the possibility that there are other ways of looking at the world. I think I completely abandoned my faith by the time I was 23. I spent most of my 20s pretty much ignoring religion.

I will say, the religious people I actually respect, the ones who really do live by the ideals of loving your fellow humans, forgiveness, being nonjudgmental, they never made me feel judged. They accepted me as I was and never made a big deal about it. It was mostly my parents generation who did judge. So I knew that religious people came in all shapes and sizes and I knew that not all of them were the rule enforcing crazies like my parents.

I never resented religious people. I resented my parents and the way they used religion to control me. As I grew up, I felt a lack of community. Capitalism does that to us. It alienates us from our friends and neighbors. It makes us feel alone. And when I got into my 30s, I understood the main reason many people want to belong to a religious group. It creates an actual third space. It creates a community space you can show up to for free and hang out with your friends and discuss whatever’s on your mind.

Growing up one of the things I remember my grandfather used to say about going to Jummah(that’s the Muslim version of going to church). He said that Jummah is for the community to get together. And I remember going to Jummah as a kid. My friends would go play basketball in the parking lot and the older people would drink tea and chat.

And as a man in his mid 30s, I realized that I suddenly felt alienated from the people I grew up with and from the community to which I actually do belong. Running away from the rules based control but I lost the one thing that mattered and will continue to matter in our increasingly alienated capitalist world; community.

I’m a doctor and the mosque I grew up in has a free clinic open to everyone (anyone of any faith can go). They provide free medications l, free pap smears, formula for new mothers, free doctors visits. And they invite anyone who needs help to come. I started volunteering at that clinic a few years ago. This is the religion I believe in. Bring everyone together. Take care of your community.

I don’t really care much for theology, I don’t care much for rules. I still drink and have premarital sex(tho not for much longer, I’m getting married next month). But my religion believes in taking care of the community. My religion gives you a space to hang out for free. My religion welcomes everyone.

Why is every MAGA person just a grifter who smells their own farts for fun?

I was 11 in 1999 so the only thing I remember about the Internet from that period was porn and my cousin playing Quake with his friends in Pakistan. I barely remember what life was like before Google.

Sounds like you probably need to do a better job curating your feed. I recently started using an RSS feed in order to get a non algorithmic feed of news from sources I consider acceptable.

It’s actually capitalism why we have fascism.

I always got my jobs by talking to someone in person.

Just remember this when he dies.