I meant to reply a lot sooner, I've just had a busy week and I didn't have a ton of time to give this a proper answer
I totally agree that there's nothing supernatural, that's kinda my whole point. I also totally agree that the power of religion is the same power any rhetoric or story or anything (I think that's what you're saying). I can understand metaphors, I just can't make myself believe those metaphors are literally real, and that's a core part of most religious and spiritual beliefs I've seen. Idk if I've ever met a religious person who didn't literally believe in at least some element of their faith. Most don't take it as 100% literally as evangelical christians, but most christians believe god is a literal guy who creates and/or guides everyone and everything.
Not all religions and beliefs are metaphorical, and not believing in those things had nothing to do with rejecting its metaphors. Again, you're making sweeping, wildly inaccurate judgements about atheists and why we are what we are. It has nothing to do with fearing functions or not getting metaphors. If you're saying every religion is "supposed" to be taken metaphorically and not literally, then 1. you're literally describing being a nonbeliever, and 2. it's just not true, there are a ton of religions you're expected to take literally
I don't care about repulsing any religions, I just don't believe in them. Atheism =/= antitheism. It's not reactionary not believing in a religion, it's just the default state of being. I've seen religions I could see myself being a part of just based on their philosophy, I just can't force myself to believe in the supernatural elements of it. There's nothing wrong with religion, I just can't truthfully call myself a believer in any that I've heard of.
I'll be up front and say I'm not reading a 10 paragraph essay on religion, so don't bother replying like that unless you don't care if I read it. Just please, don't be ignorant and assume everyone's (or even most people's) atheism is driven by hate or misunderstanding of religion. It's literally just not believing in in a religion, it's not any deeper than that for at least 99% of atheists. You should engage with atheists in good faith instead of making blanket statements about us, you've got weird assumptions about us that need challenging
Liberals have had over eight years to steady the ship, and they've spent that time alienating marginalized people and progressives and going farther and farther right with afaik no real resistance to trump. They've spent those eight years proving that we can't trust them at all to stop fascism or repair its damage. We should probably be pushing progressive democrats to start a new party with other more left people (though I'd fully expect republicans and the remaining democrats to team up and destroy their campaign so idk)
Nah :/ I'm getting better but I still struggle with not being aggressive like this.
edit there was a bunch more aggressive stuff I wrote here and on other comments, maybe I should leave them up idk. i just don't wanna gunk up the fediverse with rambling about a stupid grudge I have
"Palestinian protestors chose to discourage voters from voting for “genocide Joe”. " there were a bunch who didn't tho. Afaik most pro-palestine protestors voted for Kamala, including Palestinians. And again, even if they're a small group (I'm pretty sure they're the majority) why are you bringing it up in every discussion about Palestine? Do you think we were all vocally against Biden, or are you saying nobody should've protested the genocide in the first place, or shouldn't have blamed it on Biden?
You only give a shit insofar at you can use it as a bludgeon to beat every Palestinian over the head with. Unless there some other reason why you're so desperate to remind people "Palestinians deserve this for supporting Trump" multiple times on multiple posts?
It's not even that deep down anymore cx at this point dems are literally at/right of Reagan on a ton of issues, and certainly more supportive of Israel
So this is why liberals don't give a shit about this?
Damn y'all really are straight evil. "Some of these people didn't side with me politically, so fuck all of them" literally not even trying to beat the "left wing of fascism" allegations.
First they came for the Palestinians. I didn't speak out because some of them voted for Trump so fuck all of them. You know how the rest goes, and hopefully you're smart enough to know that that supporting or staying silent on this is horrible for everyone, even wh-te l-berals like you
"I AM ONLY POINTING OUT THE RIDICULOUSNESS OF GATEKEEPING APPS BASED ON THR ABILITY TO SEE PEOPLES NAMES. AND THAT THEIR COMENT HISTORY IS RIFE WITH REMOVALS AND BANS- INDICATING THEY ARE A TROLL." False. You and everyone else started on them before other apps were ever brought up, and I'll admit that was kinda silly for them to get upset about. But don't act like this is about that when it's very clearly not. And all you have to do to get comments removed or get banned is disagree with the mods of any major instance, like by saying trans people or Palestinians deserve rights on a .world comm or not liking fascism or the taliban on .ml. Doesn't mean shit about whether or not someone is a troll or a sock puppet, but go ahead and research it since they and I are living rent free in your head rn.
"NOTHING IN MY COMMENT HAS ANYTHING AT ALL TO DO WITH TRANSGENDERISM IN ANY CAPACITY." Then how come people being misgendered is just a difference in opinion to you? Why did you get so upset about them just correcting a case of misgendering? If you're cool with trans people, surely you're cool with pointing out when somebody gets misgendered and won't freak out if somebody does
"Who downvoted me? My words need to be respected" is a hell of a way to misconstrue somebody wondering why correcting a blatant case of misgendering got them shit tons of hate. Again, why the hate for that unless they're against respecting trans people? This isn't any more clever than when Nazis say "oh everyone is a Nazi to you" while flying a swastika. The fact that you think disrespect is the proper response to respecting trans people says a fucking lot about you and all the other cissies in these replies.
Are you done? Or have you not gotten tired of defending and downplaying transphobic bullshit on the Internet?
Nothing screams mature like one or two dozen comments dogpiling someone who corrected what looked like super blatant misgendering. Why is it so important to dogpile somebody who corrected misgendering? Why not just move on like a normal person and not act like downvoting someone for pointing out misgendering isn't weird?
In the off chance you're not arguing in bad faith here, seriously what's the point of this? Somebody corrected some misgendering that looked blatant and pointed, and didn't even have that strong a reaction to it, and you and like 20 others downvoted and dogpiled them for it. Why? And it started before lemmy apps were even brought up, so that's not it. If you or anyone else who downvoted think trans people deserve respect, why are you spending so much energy punishing someone for respecting a trans person's pronouns? Explain how downvoting someone into oblivion for correcting misgendering does anything good for trans rights
Hey look, a liberal that doesn't like queer people! Who could've guessed :D
Very convenient how you skirt around why people are actually downvoting the person saying you shouldn't misgender people. When the way people "see the world differently than you" is that they think trans people's identities don't deserve respect, they're not owed a respectful response
Imagine whining about this person being disrespectful when you're wasting this much time and energy excusing misgendering xD that person screwed up, you don't have to be a dick about it. They were blatantly, obviously misgendering. What are you trying to accomplish by defending that?
How do you see the world differently to them? Go ahead, say it
Trans rights, quit lying to defend the people who want to outlaw my existence
edit Ooh hey the comms you moderate explain a lot about you :D why are you such a blatantly lying, hateful asshole?
Donald Trump made a peculiar comment about Pennsylvania voting “computers” during an ode to Elon Musk at his pre-inauguration rally. During a loved-up nod to his “first buddy” before 20,000 fans at Sunday’s rally, Trump was taking swipes at Russia and China, and talking about the tech mogul getting ...
lemmy.woruled is trash
I forgot how openly transphobic this instance often is, why the fuck did the mods try to move here and why is it still here??
Why all the hate and downvotes for this community?
I just see a bunch of people who used to like the community now saying the mods are evil and power tripping and stuff. It's the an actual reason? Why do we hate the mods over one small decision? Is it not as small as I realize?
Idk it just feels really shitty seeing people in the new blahaj 196 brigade the new community the mods set up, do you really have to downvote everything here just bc you disagree with the mods? I don't think .world was the best choice, but Ada is real bad for power tripping and permabanning people for dissenting opinions sometimes, and I respect the decision to move. I'm not big on being banned bc I dared question whether or not trump (the guy who cheated last election) cheated, so the move is very much good news imo. What really is the issue here?
Claims in 'Duty to Warn' Letter to Harris Alleging Compromised Election Are Misleading, But Still Alarming
Its writer alleged, "In my view it is a near certainty the results have been changed at a scale which reversed the [2024] U.S. presidential election."
Here you go, a "real" source. He said there were more bullet ballots than there likely really are, but there's still a really suspiciously high number of them. How is this not at least worth investigating?
We will make it, don't hurt yourself, it's what the GOP wants
How do I stop getting mad about things that happened a long time ago?
I'm sorry if this is the wrong community for this, my problem is prob more from BPD or some other mental illness I have than directly autism, though depression and anxiety are common in autistic people. I posted in a BPD community but it's pretty dead, I hope this isn't too off topic for here, I just really need some advice on this and Idk who to ask besides my therapist.
My intrusive thoughts and mental state in general are a lot better now that I've had therapy and antidepressants for a few years, but one issue I still really struggle with is revisiting times when someone hurt me, intentionally or not, even if it's a resolved situation I'm not still mad about, and getting mad about it again.
Below are two examples, you don't need to read them but it might help explain my problem.
I did this a few months ago and drove away my fiance over a small mess she made in my place. She made it as a trauma response, we had a wonderful conversation about it after and I wasn't upset at her a
Vegans are worse people and more harmful than "carnists'
They don't give a fuck about minimizing suffering, they gladly eat food grown by slaves, or overconsume things some communities rely on, or replace things made of leather with things made of plastic that'll break down into microplastics. They force their shit into pets like cats who can't thrive on a vegan diet. And that's assuming they don't just call you a nazi for even having a pet, or steal your pet from you so they can kill it. And ofc they're just the most holier than thou pieces of shit anywhere, who think everyone who isn't vegan is literally as bad as a fascist.
Yall are weird. Really weird. And you don't have to be this harmful. Quit getting even more plastic shit, stop abusing pets, quit taking food from indigenous people who need it. You can minimize animal products without replacing them with even worse things, and failing to do so makes you just as much of an irredeemable fascist as the rest of us. Human suffering is not preferable to animal suffering. If you disagree,
Stonehenge monuments that have stood for thousands of years appear unscathed after climate protesters were arrested for spraying orange paint on them.
Is it just me or have half the images posted today not loaded at all?
No matter how long I wait they just don't load. Usually I can see all of them just fine, even if some take longer to load.
The better machine learning gets, the more people who think everyone else is an NPC are going to be correct (at least on the internet)
I'm sure we'll see more and more advanced bot accounts and customer service and the like (assuming it doesn't learn from other ML-made content until it becomes incomprehensible)