The problem with neoliberalism is that eventually, you run out of other people’s things to sell.

I wonder if the existence of the American empire bothers Americans or if they’re all still in denial.

As a British person, I know gunboat diplomacy when I see it.

Yup, regarding flat earth, people saw the mast coming over the horizon before the ship. They could also see the very globe-like moon in the sky.

Only idiots thought the world was flat.

No one would call that donkeys anus in a temu bratwurst a banger.

Who knows, maybe someone will come up with herioin chique one day.

Tbf, that (dress dark and be boring) was probably due to all the opium/morphine they were on.

The throttling of housebuilding across the western world sure has made a lot of very rich people even more rich.

I’m sure that sounded clever in your head but it didn’t make sense to any one but you.

The problem is capitalism

Yup, that’s why tate sold the worst dating advice in the world while being a sex trafficker, ensuring repeat business.

Oh the grand old Duke of York

He had 10,000 men

He also had much younger girls but he can’t remember them.

And when they were young they were young

So they gave out quid after quid

They paid 12 mil to a girl for a thing they say he never did.

There’s a fantastic book called “Dominion: the creation of the western mind” that takes an academic, secular and factual approach to the early Church, as you might imagine, specifically in relation to our worldview here.

According to them, it took so long because of just how genuinely anti-wealth the bible is. It literally took centuries of work to push it round to the “gospel according business owners” we have today.

Ironically, a fair few of the reformations throughout the centuries were due to the wealth accumulated by the church and the outrage that could be drummed up by wild holy men, who would appear infinitely more saintly than a gold-clad bishop, all the way up to large parts of early protestant outrage.

The public can be wrong about facts which is what the article is talking about.

It’s all part of the American gun myth where they tell each other they could overthrow their government with their hunting rifles and the military won’t just mortar their dreams away before they even saw it coming because they feel like the military will refuse to, for reasons they can’t explain.

That way, they can justify their crazy lack of gun control and all the school children who get murdered due to it.

IMO, It’s all interlinked.

This is almost exactly what brought me out of christianity. I was institutionalised into it from birth. So, I always just glossed over the most obvious problems that people would bring up. If anything, it entrenched me further.

However, I started realising that I had more love and compassion for people than, not just christians, god claims to have, by their own admission.

How can I love a stranger than an all loving God?

It was all downhill from there.

Lol no, it’s nihilism. There’s literally “nihil” to talk about.

I only meant it in the same way that if someone spoke about an author who’s famous for writing about how to deal with depression and I replied “i hope that author helped you with your depression.”

I’m simply wishing you the best of health.

However it’s pronounced, I hope he helped cure you of your nihilism.

I’ve been there and that sucks. Still am sometimes tbh.

I’ve been trying to practice turning my over analysis on my over analysis. It isn’t easy and it isn’t a cure or anything but I’ve found that the part of me doesn’t hold up to the same level of scrutiny as it expects from the rest of me. Trying that helped me a bit. I hope it might help you a bit too.

I think the point is more along the line of “if we accept small actions could make a big difference to the future in the past, we also have to accept they could make a big difference to what it would have been if you hadn’t.”

I’m not saying I think you’re wrong in any of your reasoning for why those things would happen, just to be clear, and I think you’re right. To me, theyre not talking about acting “much differently.”