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This is just the no true scotsman fallacy. Evangelicals are one of the largest sects of Christianity. You can disown them if you like, but outsiders to the Christian faith aren't going to care who is the real Christian when all sects claim to be so to the exclusion of all others.

Another strange aspect of the whole thing is that all the pictures of "Nicole" look like creepshots that someone took from her webcam without her knowledge. You can also see the top of a bong in the most common image (the same one that's in this meme).

I don't think people are downplaying them, what you're replying to is good healthy advice. Also Lemmy skews left and modern leftists tend to take a harm reduction stance on drugs and speak very openly and non-judgementally about them.

How "healthy" it is to attend holiday gatherings with your family depends entirely on your family's chud ratio.

If being a realist means compromising your values before negotiations even begin and calling that strategy then yes that is going to be very poorly received.

Are you doing it for sport or are you doing it to meet nutritional needs in lieu of factory farming / expensive and mass-produced plant proteins? This might be a controversial take but IMO hunting wild game can be morally superior to going vegan using supermarket products because of the ecologically destructive nature of modern industrial agriculture. Hunting can be done responsibly in a way that does not harm or even benefits the ecosystem, but it's very difficult to exercise moral discretion in all of your grocery purchases due to a lack of transparency in supply chains.

We didn't finish the job and that's why we're in this mess. We left all the petty tyrants that rule over our workplaces alone and they put democracy on a leash.

Not where I grew up it wasn't.

The corporate media would obfuscate the socialist character of the revolution and call it an anti-communist revolution.

I went normie > libertarian > liberal > socialist > anarchist. I've been on a journey. In a sense my viewpoint now is a synthesis of my initial instincts and what I learned since. Thesis: libertarian, antithesis: socialist, synthesis: anarchist.

Because the basement dwelling Nazi is trying to imply that Russia should be an ally because they're fascist.

Man I just love living nearby to a uranium enrichment facility. It's nice to know I'll be killed in the first nuclear exchange instead of having to suffer the aftermath.