"Isn't capitalism so awful please buy my full priced bugged out game so you can be lectured about the evils of capitalism and be sure to visit our merch store to support smashing capitalism"

The fucking state of the industry right now

I know some dickheads have now decided that Judaism is the "bad, violent, terrorist religion" and Islam is the "good, peaceful" one, which is only to be expected of white people, but how much of an issue is it currently? Like I've seen some USAmericans sharing how the Islamic faith shapes Gazans values and perseverance (good) except with that distinct white hippie "I'm about to imprint on this like the world's most racist duck" vibe (bad), but I didn't think they're already turning on Judaism in numbers.

Do they realize that Christianity is also the same kind of comfort to Christian minorities in Asia and Africa? That it was Buddhists that genocided the Rohingyas in Myanmar and Tamils in Sri Lanka? That Hindu fundamentalists are even now trying to ethnically cleanse Muslims in India? How Hindus and Christians are terrorized and persecuted in Pakistan? That Muslims have a history of persecuting and ethnically cleansing Jews too?

Really tired of asking y'all to be normal about people's religions man. There's no religion that's inherently violent or exceptionally peaceful. It's just like any other ideology that becomes a weapon in the hands of ethnic power. Interrogate power, not religion, and respect people's belief systems insofar as they aren't in your business.

Edit: I've amended the "long history" of Muslim persecution of Jews because it might be misleading in the current political climate. Zionism and antisemitic Arab nationalism are twin births resulting directly from Christian colonization, and Islamic empires tended to actually be more tolerant of other religions compared to Christianity, especially Judaism, which was considered a sibling religion. Antisemitism wasn't ideologically entrenched in Islamic tradition. It's simply that ethno-religious power will lead to ethno religious domination and intermittent cleansing of minorities, and Islam is no exception. Humans be humaning always.

All of these will have to live on earth after you win btw.

There's this thing that happens, let's say at school where a bunch of guys are in the bathroom, at the urinal, laughing about some dork that made an anus of himself in gym. You're all basically nice guys, right? You know right from wrong, and would not in a million years be brutal to the poor guy's face. And then it happens: the dork was in the shitter. He comes out of the stall with this look. He heard everything. And you realize you're not really that nice of a guy. This is what I would say if I could, to all smart people of the world with their dumb hillbilly jokes: We are right here in the stall. We can actually hear you. - Barbara Kingsolver, Demon Copperhead

All religions have some truth because we’re all humans dealing with the same problems that come with existence and that pushes people to create similar framework for coping with their reality. BUT that is not proof that a religion is actually true because having a lot of believers or sharing similarities across cultures/countries doesn’t mean your /religion/ is true. It means that humans are all very similar and respond to things like pain, loss, change, morality, exploitation and oppression in similar ways. The solution is ALWAYS other people. Anything that encourages you to ‘other’ another human being is bad. It’s harmful, it’s wrong, and it will not provide you with the peace you seek.

People need a framework to cope with reality and people across the world invent religion to cope. Religion is NOT where you find the truth. People are where you find the truth.

Alberta is being horrible and I needed to make myself laugh

Emmanuel Macron giving a speech to honor Missak Manouchian, a communist resistant who fought the nazi occupation and collaborationist regime. An Armenian immigrant. Praising his view of France as a country all about fighting for its freedom, a man who saw life as a constant fight for human rights and liberty. All of that while he refuses to call a genocide a genocide and leaves children be massacred and left to starve just like Missak and Meline's families were.

He has no shame.

the white people of France are something else man..............

not to be giving in to group panic but if you don't know guys rn in the polish youtube sphere there are insane amount of evils coming out about some of the most prominent youtubers and such and it's not just some random guys but it's people that were considered "the good/safe ones" the ones that were soooo woke and normal especially about women, for huge amount of people they were the pinnacles of Don't be Evil and the shit that's coming out is genuelly so so so fucking horrendous like genuelly devil behavior. like I don't think these r even fucking people it's so hard to stomach and like. it is making me scared. I never idolized these people I don't CARE that "wah wah my fav youtuber is cancelled" but the fact it's THESE people is so terryfying like you genuelly can't fucking trust anyone

if i see one more ad about crime i will fucking lose my mind. it is so sickening to see people leverage the murders of their loved ones to advocate for candidates that do not give a fuck about the people most vulnerable to crime and offer nothing that would actually address crime. all they’re doing is the same tired tough on crime pro cop bullshit they always do. and it’s obviously republicans who are the worst with this but as i said democrats are capitulating like they always do with their own bullshit

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There's a fallen angel in one of your college classes she's extremely obvious about it even though she claims to be a human. You can tell from the way she's always trying to hide the scars where her wings used to be, the slender yet muscular body type she has tears clearly angelic, and the fact that her body is entirely sexless despite her desire to he seen as female, the slightly sad image of a dress wrapped around her flat chest being the first thing people see of her.

Most people are afraid of her. They've heard of the horrors that fallen angels who've gone to the underworld have committed, the things that they've turned into. They assume the worst, treat her like a dog off it's leash. Nobody actually says anything, but they avoid her, get afraid if she seems to angry, or even just too excited. The professors are strict with her, and the students stay away from her. You hear people saying they're worried she's going to hurt or seduce them when she seems to just be doing normal, if a bit awkward things, like they assume she's the demon they fear she is. Even the undead, the werewolves and the wizards who go to your school are a bit afraid of her.

Eventually she asks you for help with homework. She's so afraid when she asks, she says you seem like the nicest person in the class. But still she's afraid you'll hurt her, or mabye she's afraid she'll hurt you. You have to reassure her a bit, but you help her, step by step. She's so afraid whenever she fails something that she's as worthless as she was told the fallen were, or that someone's going to punish her the same way the other angels would have for a mistake. But she's smart, even if she hasn't had the background to know a lot of things her human classmates know.

You decide to bring her when you hang out with some other freinds. You're just walking through the city streets that are near your campus, it's not that big a deal for most of you, but it is to her. She's never really explored a human city before, and getting to do normal things like this is kind of new to her. Everyone knows what she is, but after a few minutes of just existing with her it stops being the focus. And she seems to happy to just be treated as a normal girl.

There's so much she hasn't experienced before. When you walk by a toystore she's weirdly interested in it, and ends up buying a plush there while almost everyone but you and her and too embarrassed to go inside. She was never a child, so it seems like it's comforting to her to get to enjoy something like this when she didn't get a chance to normally.

But mostly she just seems to enjoy being talked to and looked at like a normal person, without being the focus. Her face lights up when someone compliments her hair, angels are called beautiful a lot but they're never called pretty, they're never someone someone wants to be like. She's so excited to swipe her card just to take the subway with you, and she seems so comforted when being hugged goodbye by you, you think this might be the first time she's been hugged in the thousands of years she's existed.

When you're texting with her later you end up venting about your landlord, he really suck, not allowing overnight guests or pets and the like, and having raised your rent by a lot this year. She becomes really upset learning landlords exist at all, and asks you for his name before saying goodbye.

When you next hear from your landlord he's afraid of something, and agrees to remove all the rules your complained to your fallen angel freind about, and lower your rent. You have a feeling your freind did something.

When you talk to your fallen angel freind to compliment her she seems upset with herself. She was always told she'd hurt a mortal and now she has. You explain to her that that's not always a bad thing, that she saved you, as much as she would have saved you if she caught you falling off a building. You explain to her that just because she's powerful, and nobody controls her, doesn't mean that that power is evil. Even when she makes people afraid, she's still a being of good, it's why she fell in the first place.

I don’t think we talk enough abt how bad taste the BANANA skit was bc holy shit. Rewatching it was hard.

I’ll admit I’m not fully familiar with VANILLA as a company but if the parodic joke abt them is “preys on young women who are need of money in order to coerce them into AV work” and they choose to resolve that with “the materialistic sign-ees get rich like they dreamed” then that’s pretty tone deaf. It sucks because the parody song rocks hard.

HUH wdym char is straight. you haven't converted her yet? haven't fixed her? cmon now /j

guys im getting rsd on her behalfPleade be kind do char shes trying her best