CBS hasn’t completely lost its credibility on all issues yet, but it’s definitely lost a lot and is rapidly losing it. It was bought out by a right wing billionaire specifically to exert editorial control and the current head of their news was a right wing activist before this position
That said, I do believe their reporting on the violence against protesters in Iran. It’s wholly within the behavior we’ve seen escalating over the past decade
If they look to their polar neighbors they can find some. Alaskan natives still maintain a lot of traditional lands outside places white people want, I know some Yupik folks who grew up in their village. They also were brutally colonized, it was horrible and evil what we did to them, but they’re still here, and part of starting to do right by them is to acknowledge it.
There’s also the Navajo Nation and the Haudenosaunee Confederacy who maintain enough size that recognition of these nations is something people really ought to be considering. You’ve also got native folks in the pacific northwest and most states (36/50) still have at least one reservation.
I totally understand what you meant, but one of the forms of anti indigenous behavior is to pretend they aren’t still around, still oppressed, and still relevant. ICE has been attacking Native Americans in the past year.
It’s named after the country the modern nation of Colombia is named after
This is lemmy, everyone is always wrong
Absolutely. They’re also stoked by the behaviors of the Iranian government
We don’t even pretend we won in Vietnam.
I feel bad for non-nonce andrews about it, but fuck is it funny
I enjoy theology and discuss it somewhat regularly with my wife who also is an ex catholic non Christian that likes discussing catholic theology. To me it’s like philosophy but more aspirational, distant, and constrained. It also provides a framework to process religious trauma, express frustration with bad Christians, and to process our feelings as people oppressed by Christiandom.
I say this to provide context, so that when I say I can’t fucking stand those people it’s not that I’m not comfortable hearing about religion or that I just hate it. I actually quite love it, and part of me is sad that who I am and my religion (paganism) block me from having more access to it. But Christians who are like that are rarely tolerant of things like religious differences (I sometimes got called a devil worshipper by protestants for being catholic growing up), lifestyle differences, and people who aren’t like that.
I also find that they are often religiously incurious. They find the solution that works for them, and stick with it, which I can’t judge, but when they study it they don’t ask about why other Christians think differently, they don’t apply the rigor that Jews and Catholics cherish, and they rarely bother learning about other religions either.
But then we get to the primary issue I have, I’m not Christian, and Christianity is regularly used as a tool to oppress me. I’m not interested in returning to it, and I’m frustrated at how much cultural and political power it has in my society.
Well yeah he fucks children and was famously anti black since the 80s, he’s also a massive misogynist.
Yeah I hope they get a strong and independent free and secular republic out of this.
I hate the idea that you shouldn’t freely provide joy to those around you for the sheer satisfaction of making it. The mammonite brain rot runs deep in a lot of people unfortunately
I want to work a reasonable amount, and have enough time and money to create for my own pleasure if I so choose. I don’t even mind content creation in theory, I see it no different from writing or doing art. It’s the constant pursuit of more, more, more, both status and money, that gets to me. I want freedom, security, and comfort.
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I see where they’re coming from. It’s a common demand straight men make of women while our culture sees body hair as very masculine rather than the biological element where testosterone is one if several reasons a person may have very thick body hair. And there’s a hypervigilance at times when it comes to cis partners of trans people because enough members of our community have been burned, especially those who date chasers.
That said, having known my fair share of gay men, yeah I wouldn’t jump to transphobia. Especially if you’re kinda twinky.
May they win their freedom
It’s also important to note that each of the Apostles literally did it. They abandoned their property and families (some were married with children) and they followed him. The command to sell everything, give the money to the poor, and follow him is something this man could see was possible because 12 people there had done it.
If anything I’d say your example is less that religion is inherently a tool of the state, but more that if you gain enough influence without destroying it the state you oppose will teach your corpse to dance.
Yeah I’ve met some priests, monks and nuns, some had even taken a vow of poverty. Non-ordained Christians? Of course not, who has?
That quote at the end sounds about right from what I’ve heard. Iran was a liberal and free nation in living memory. The morality police and theocratic rules are not thought highly of.