[-] Maturin@hexbear.net 2 points 51 minutes ago

To be fair, some of them do have a huge supply of lignite (/s except those who are already feverishly mining it)

[-] Maturin@hexbear.net 5 points 1 hour ago

...and those 2 or 3 years were 35 years ago

[-] Maturin@hexbear.net 5 points 3 days ago

Wait until you are in a place mentally where you are ready to handle new psychological trauma. That book is very depressing as is. It’s a crucial read but maybe put it off for now until you aren’t living it quite so vividly.

[-] Maturin@hexbear.net 7 points 5 days ago

As many states as there are people solution

[-] Maturin@hexbear.net 4 points 5 days ago

"Welcome to Panopticon. I love you."

[-] Maturin@hexbear.net 6 points 5 days ago

Moody's is Hamas

[-] Maturin@hexbear.net 4 points 5 days ago

"do you know that if everyone was Christian, there would be no more war?"

What a creepy fucking thing to say. Straight up blaming everyone else for the violence inflicted upon them by Christians.

[-] Maturin@hexbear.net 5 points 6 days ago

I think you are trying too hard to conflate the colonial/genocidal mindset with monotheism when the evidence doesn't really support it. Was Ancient Rome not colonial and genocidal? Greece? Egypt? They also had slaves. They conquered everyone they could. The exterminated whole swaths of peoples. They didn't need monotheism to do that. You could argue that the legacy of those polytheistic societies (specifically Egypt for the ancient Jews, Rome for Christians) laid the groundwork for the same genocidal/colonial mindset. But the main point is that the colonial and genocidal mindset is easier to understand from a class/material analysis than one tied to any specific theology. The monotheist theologies were used as a tool to organize and mobilize populations because that was the easiest tool to grab and it was couched in a language that the populations already spoke, but polytheists and other non-monotheists are just as capable of using their theological tools to do the same. For a more modern example, see for example the relationship between Hindu and Buddhist sides over Sri Lanka. Neither are abrahamic monotheisms, yet the colonial and genocidal tendency and forces are still at work.

[-] Maturin@hexbear.net 8 points 6 days ago

I think you need to be careful with throwing around "choseness" in this way because this is the exact perversion of the Jewish concept of choseness set forth in the Protocols of the Elders of Zion and Mein Kampf. I'm not trying to let Judaism off the hook for its genuine reactionary and regressive components (particularly with respect to women and non-normative sexuality), but it really muddies the waters when you overlay it with full-throated anti-Jewish projection onto Judaism.

[-] Maturin@hexbear.net 31 points 6 days ago

Are you saying that Judaism is an inherently genocidal religion/culture?

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