they’re right, jesus was a apocryphal story forced down everyone’s throat and your defense paints navalny as a self-important martyr figure and google paints him as a xenophobic homophobe w a martr complex; whatever chance you had to edify the uninformed was lost in this bizarre jesus-christo-stupidity thing you decided to wrap into navalny’s behavior.

they’re a majority; just go to any city in a red or purple state.

i used to feel like that until i discovered the chub and bear crowds.

now i show off my hairy moobs; my low hanging belly; and my back boobs every chance i get when the sun is out.

i like these threads; it shows how disconnected from reality some of us are.

but her grave is still hidden from the public to prevent people from defiling it; so this is neutral at best. lol

We had social media for a few decades now and I think I should be clear that people don’t read especially normies like .worlders

Something lost on blue maga from the article:

But tell a lie incessantly enough, and you start to believe it. And you can’t help but feel that Democrats really do believe that they ran a great campaign that would and should have won, if only it hadn’t been for the dastardly villains who pulled the rug out. This year, they seem determined to prove that thesis.

And here’s why trump has a real chance at winning from the article

So much for that. For weeks now, it’s been clear the Harris campaign has decided that it’s going to rerun the Clinton 2016 strategy on the off chance that that year really was a fluke, and that Trump really is so hated that Americans will have no choice but to vote for his opponent. It didn’t work in 2016, but this time . . What does that look like in practice? It looks like dropping the “negative” label of weird and performing civil disagreement instead. It looks like giving up on exciting the party’s progressive flank — actively thumbing your nose at them, in fact — and explicitly pivoting to trying to win over Republicans instead. It looks like rolling out white papers and policy positions that few will read, while rarely talking publicly about what you would actually do when given the chance at a public forum.

Jesus was forced down everyone’s throat regardless of what you believe; so I fail to see the comparison.

There has to have been a better way; Russia is already too lousy w needless & pointless deaths.

The crusades targeted all religions that weren’t nicene christian and they were especially cruel if you were christian but not nicene.

Lookup the history behind the Dominican order if you want more gory details

The collapse of Western society is being witnessed by hearing anecdotes on forums until you’re the one in the anecdote.

The icing on this shit cake is that people will refuse to believe that anecdotes are true and even the most progressive people will make jokes about it publicly as evidenced by .worlders

I don’t know about the UK; but over here it’s MUCH easier to get a car loan than a mortgage or rental lease

I’ve been trying that for almost 30 years now and it’s clear that shoulder shaking doesn’t work well and I wish I knew what did

But what did he do besides let himself be executed pointlessy?

i know i couldn’t do the same and i struggle to understand why it’s amazing or why he did it.

did this guy have sort of trump like distortion field that made him believe he was the chosen one or did he do something to earn his fame? what was he hoping to accomplish by going back? was he expecting to pull off a napoleon and that people would join his side on his return?

i don’t expect a constructive response from you based on your post history in this thread; but maybe someone else can edify me since google makes him look much worse than the american media.

i’m glad they updated this poor dog’s story in the movies; the thought of him abondoned outside the pizza place for 12 years is heartbreaking.

this is not surprising, but still disappointing somehow; i had hoped my future career as a ride-share-driver-&-gig-delivery-driver would be somehow improved by ultra affordable EV’s with lots of features to help sooth my soul crushed by my millennial career aspirations.

instead i’ll be forced into life altering debt on american EV’s with 75% of the capabilities that matter to me and at 2.5 times the cost just for the privilege of being a gig worker until the day i die because “china bad.”

the worst part of it all is knowing this situation is perpetuated by this 1984-esque levels of nationally shared groupthink that ensures that life improving leftists changes; like truly affordable & practical EV’s; will not happen for generations at the soonest as evidenced by leftist places like the lemmyverse being overrun by well-meaning-but-clueless majorities like .world who unwittingly and/or willfully perpetuate that groupthink that created a need for a leftist place to begin with.

it sounds like i was in your position almost 2 years before covid hit and i think that mattered because i cluelessly decided to pursue software development and i was told by a few hiring managers in interviews that they were scraping the bottom of the barrel in hiring software developers during covid. in my ignorance i didn’t realize how difficult it is to get a software developer position and i think covid is the only thing that ended my 2 year long job search; given the lack of responses in my applications over the last year.

ever since then, i’ve learned that it’s more unstable career field if you don’t have faang or ivy league or really good connections on your resume. if i had the ability: i would engage in much more networking.

i had to move away from silicon valley to a place where the bar was low enough to let me get a software developer position and also where corporations were being enticed by low taxes rates that created an artificially bigger need for software developers: austin, texas. the bar was low during covid and the bar is still lower compared to silicon valley, but getting narrower seemingly.

i’m also finding out that the almost 20 year old work history in my resume in IT & Software Development is atleast getting some people’s attention when I apply now a days to IT jobs; but not in the tech hubs of this country and most of their pay rates haven’t been updated since 2008.

silicon valley work tenures tend to run so much shorter than the rest of the country’s that it becomes a problem for employers far away from silicon valley if you list your work history past 5 years.

the beach. chicago set it aside for public use instead of reserving it only for the rich and now the lake front is several giant parks with at least one beach on each one and lots of other stuff to do.

i prefer the beaches w/o children (eg hollywood) where you can spend all day & night having a good time until the police make everyone leave and they have a restaurant & bar on the beaches that’s really convenient and with a beach friendly dress code on the adult beaches.

very few people want to hurt others themselves; instead they turn their backs and let someone/something else do it and enable the system that lets them behave like this; like ongoing the palestinian genocide.

to be clear: they are voilence-thirsty war mongers; but labeling them as so removes them from the realm of “normal people” and into a realm where they’re not help accountable because they don’t LOOK like the depictions violence-thirsty war mongers that they’ve experienced.

i agree with you; however thinking of your adversaries as simplistic evil masks any intelligence there might be in their actions. i think it’s better to believe that they think they’re doing the right things; simply misinformed by either the people who are supposed to educate them or through willful ignorance. that way, you can better understand their human driven actions and why they took the action they made.