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Remember calming cat? Remember when tumblr was this color? If you don’t that’s fine. I just feel old and alone.

God be my witness this blog was made before February 2022

Quora Atheists TM will insist that the New Atheist movement is just atheists “finally standing up for themselves” but every time they hear someone mention anything to do with religion they’re all “SPOOPERSTITION! MAKE-BELIEBE! HAHAHAHA YOU ARE DUMB FOR EVEN MENTIONING RELIGION! UNGA BUNGA CAVEMAN! I AM VERY INTELLIGENT!”

I wish I was making it up, but I genuinely see that kind of response over and over whenever there’s a question on Quora that even mentions religion, and I am barely exaggerating

There’s a question about w*ndigoag and 90% of the answers call the belief “another laughable superstition” and go out of their way to mock the idea that saying the name might be a bad thing

Any time someone asks about the Torah or the Old Testament, it’s basically guaranteed that the answers will be full of people talking about “bronze age superstitions”

I once answered a question about religion, making it clear that I’m an atheist while trying my best to answer the question respectfully, and I literally got a comment in all caps, talking about how religion is fake and was invented by cavemen, and featuring the phrase “unga bunga”

You’re not “standing up for yourself” you’re going out of your way to be a dick

This is just my conjecture but regarding the Red Crescent isn’t it possible that RC staff just… aren’t able to resist Hamas forcing them to smuggle weapons even if they said no? Considering that I’d imagine RC workers don’t have any combat skills or weapons and Hamas personel are… well yknow., it wouldn’t be surprising if they’re just scared into / forced into doing it

Not saying it’s great but I’m just saying I kinda don’t blame them if they’re forced or pressured, when the people forcing you have insane hyper-extreme beliefs i wouldn’t blame them

so a thing i think people don't always get:

spammers lie.

if you get spam, they are lying. yes, really.

if you get spam from someone claiming they were vetted, the conclusion you should reach is not "ahh, this one is legitimate", it is "oh, the entity vetting them is part of the grift".

i know it sounds horrifying to imagine someone so unthinkably depraved that they would say a false thing on the internet, but i have to say, it's... actually pretty normal.

always remember that fake proof is a central component of scamming people who are careful enough to check, but not careful enough to think about whether the way they're checking is actually meaningful.

Never forget that during the 2020 US presidential election season, while one of the largest popular uprisings in human history was occurring, mutual aid networks were seeing an unprecedented surge in response to the pandemic, and fascist violence and rhetoric was ramping up rapidly, liberals were still pissing their pants and hollering "well what ELSE do you EXPECT us to DO!!!!" whenever the thought of taking some kind of action other than just voting was brought up

That was when I realized that reaching out to "blue no matter who" libs is just as hopeless as reaching out to conservatives. We'll be here when you decide to pull your heads out of the sand - until then, I'm not wasting my time

This is in response to something I saw a transphobe say (and this is paraphrased) about the protests in Melbourne:

"Do people really think those nazi males actually support radical feminism and women's right to speak? They weren't there to support the radfems. Have some critical thinking skills"

This person was trying to get radfems off the hook for the presence of the nazis. But the nazis were absolutely there to support the radfems, because nazis and radfems have a shared enemy: trans people.

Nazis are antifeminist, yes. But fascism will always ally itself with whoever it can to in order to promote its cause. So right now it's convenient to ally with radfems, because nazis are anti-trans, and radfems are anti-trans.

It's a "the enemy of my enemy is my friend" sort of situation.

This should be a wake-up call to radfems that maybe, being anti-trans... is fascist. If nazis agree with something you're saying, the thing you're saying might be fascist.

Why are you garbage for blocking people without giving them a chance? Was it something political or down right stupid?

South Korea’s National Assembly has passed a resolution to lift the martial law (190-0).

Parliament votes against martial law decree. All 190 members who were able to enter the main hall voted in favor of the bill. None voted against.

Lawmakers are clapping after the vote. You can hear them saying, “Good job.”

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