Elliott

The American parties are fluid, we vote for unique candidates other countries vote for parties. Support a third party, it still moves the political needle, but you can build a third party here just no one does.

0 No, this is a budget fight: republicans want to cut healthcare, democrats aren't willing to negotiate it.

Most people aren't literally retarded, even kids. If your kid is considering heroin, your kid is not doing well. What kid in Portland sees the zombies everywhere and thinks "ahhhh yah!", It's the biggest equivalent to the anti-smoking campaign there is.

People have not gotten more mature for weed legalization, I'm not sure what you're referring to. Opium was legal and available until the 1900s, it became a larger problem when it was criminalized, same with marijuana. It's the 'nanny state' issue, not allowing people to think for themselves, you make people more Immature with 'nanny state' laws. War on drugs starts 1971, Drug abuse act creating stiffer sentences starts 1990, both followed by steep upticks in drug use. Carter 77-81 pushed back on war on drugs, a steep decline followed.

I don't see it. Trumps military use is to backup ICE, because immigration enforcement numbers are so low. His big thing first term was immigration "the wall", deportations are his attempt to accomplish something. Democrats are kicking ICEs ass on the street, the national guard is a last ditch effort against immigration.

I don't think you can make such sweeping conclusions off 4 years, of which drug overdoses declined in the last year. Everywhere saw drug use spike from covid as well. It was the worst timing for legalization. Not that I support legalizing heroin, I think other things need done first.

A week Ice, fbi, Military, and construction don't get paid during a shutdown muhahaha. Trump will cave, he's an idiot doing this.

The d.c. national guard deployment is to protect pedohpiles.....?

I kind of agree with you, historically it's true, but I think that's only because of timing: timing of mass migration coupled with western economic dominance. I think other cultures would be the same way if the shoe were on the other foot. @Thought Art look at how this guy views us, imagine if our culture never had Jesus' teachings.

pre-christian Roman religion "Actions that violated religious tradition or custom were seen as offenses against the gods, which could endanger the entire community. The focus was on maintaining social and cosmic order. Correction of wrongdoing Rather than repenting, a Roman would perform a specific ritual or sacrifice to propitiate or appease the gods. The purpose was to reestablish a proper balance and restore the correct relationship with the divine." "Specific Offenses Violating rituals and public order: Performing rituals improperly, such as using incorrect forms of sacrifice or purification, was an offense that disrupted the harmonious relationship between the gods and the state. Iconoclasm: The destruction or mutilation of divine images and idols was a significant religious and political act, seen as an attempt to neutralize the gods' power. Refusal to worship state gods: Not participating in the official cults and sacrifices that affirmed loyalty to Rome and its gods was a form of impiety, especially in the context of the imperial cult. Promoting "foreign" cults: Introducing and adhering to new or foreign cults, such as early Christianity, was considered superstitio (superstition) that could lead to rebellion, factionalism, and instability. Improper religious conduct: Actions such as attending to funeral rites and then approaching celestial gods without first cleansing oneself were considered sacrilege and could have legal consequences. " "Consequences Divine anger and misfortune: Offenses could invoke the ira deorum (anger of the gods), which was believed to bring harm to the state and its citizens. "

That's not what Jesus taught.

Confucianism: “Do not do to others what you do not want them to do to you” (Confucius, Analects 15.23 – 5th century BC). I'm not including structural religion with Jesus's teachings.

Have you read about Thanksgiving? China had teachers like Jesus. You just commented on brutality. Looking at the trajectory Rome was on, you don't think Jesus's teachings may have altered ways of thinking?

That's what American movies show it as anyway, I think you might have a false impression. Despite Jesus being co-opted for crusades, which were just a continuation of the Roman empires attempt to retake the eastern Roman Empire, the catholic church still taught Jesus's teachings, even though heavily molested. Imagine a modern Roman Empire with modern weapons, what if Europe was never Christian, regardless of how perverted a version. What other competing message of morality was there?

I don't understand what you're saying, if you want to zoom in on a technology or person, I welcome that. I think of the human experience, imagine living in ancient greece, ancient America, it's different, but has technology improved something. Is the American native experience living with nature and awe, worth giving up for more babies surviving? But something that seems empiraclly better to me, is what MLK did, Jesus, Lincoln,.....

Plato lived until 80. Usually those age statistics include babies dying at birth.

I mean look at the meaningful changes in history, looking at history completely.

And would 3rd world shitholes be shitholes were it not for the industrialized west? Was ancient greece a shithole?

I guess I would just put more emphasis on "look at the arc of history", what impact did the light bulb, printing press, telephone... actually make? That's what I was trying to show. I quoted you before your edits, I will read it again.

It's more like making raping boys illegal, if it was legal more priests would do it. "But some boys and priests love each other!"

Yes when you consider; poorer sleep, industrial pollution from the resultant more industry, and also the disparity and separation of people from the resulting industrial advancement: not in the west, but the west compared to poorer cultures. It has positives too, healthcare advancements, food,.... but it's net-zero, I'm not saying it's bad, just not objectively good either. Look at before the press: Socrates, Siddhartha Gautama, Jesus, Aurelius, Thomas Aquinas, Ancient Greece, ..... that's what people learned before the press, now they learn women's porn fiction. People have only so much 'bandwidth', it's flooded with garbage. Before, the only writings were significant. Again, there are also positives and it's not bad, it's net-zero, it's not objectively good. The bloodshed was already there, the bloodshed after Jesus was in his name but only because the Roman's used it to continue their bloodshed. Do you sincerely attribute bloodshed to Jesus? Look at the arc of history.

How do you define white supremacy, what makes it so that there is white supremacy?

The Ukrainians, Uhygurs, Kurd's, Georgians, Chechians, and Taiwanese would like a word.....