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God cared for Adam until he cast him out of Eden. Adam and Eve were punished by god which is an abandonment of sorts. A turning away at the very least.
When the Shelleys (and others) were writing it was the time of the Enlightenment (and Revolution) and writers and political thinkers from across Europe and the US were using god and satan in a new way - less as supernatural beings of unlimited power and more as allegories - god was superstition/tradition/the ruling class and satan was science/progress/revolution. For anyone interested, the academic Peter Schock wrote about this in his Romantic Satanism book and Per Faxneld of Stockholm University wrote an excellent paper on Milton's Satan as a political rebel.
I think they're both pretty monstrous but in different ways. We can empathise with the plight of a creature that has no purpose other than to (essentially) satisfy the ego of its maker and still be appalled at its actions. Victor is monstrous in his inability to take responsibility and not consider what he's doing.
There's an argument that Mary Shelley was putting Frankenstein in the role of God and the monster as Adam as a commentary on religion. She, like her parents and her husband, was inspired by the Satan of Paradise Lost (the monsters reading primer!) in which Milton had his Satan question what right god had to 'rule' just because he'd created. And just like god did to another of his first creations, Lilith, Frankenstein cast away the 'bride' of 'Adam'.
It's a truly excellent read, however you look at it.
F-Droid support on a privacy aware service(s) like Piefed and Lemmy seems like a no brainer. It'd certainly encourage me to try it.
A lot of us are and have protested for years. The previous gvmt didn't care and the current one don't either because its not really about kids, its about control and surveillance. The ruling political class want to know what its citizens are up to and/or want us to know they can id us any time, especially those of us who are noisy about political issues.
Our right to protest is just about gone, including the right to wear masks. We are legally obliged to provide pins to our phones when detained and we can be arrested if a protest is deemed obstructive - which includes being too noisy. We can even be arrested just for discussing holding a protest of some kind.
At the same time, we are told that vocally supporting non-violent groups is now terrorism and can be punishable with prison time.
And the vast majority of the UK population sit on their collective arses moaning about immigrants and watching Love Island. They don't care - genuinely, they absolutely do not care their rights are disappearing one by one.
You might personally think defence trumps all other things - I don't. Its clearly not unimportant (and I never suggested it was) but defence is, we're told, something we use to protect our way of life and our way of life includes not being called a terrorist for doing something which very obviously is not an act of terrorism.
All forms of protest are under a sustained attack in the UK right now and this is just another extension of that. Sabotaging reality to exert control over a populace is obviously a very much worse thing.
My own take on it is that growth is not very important in terms of how a network develops. The only truly successful growth is that which happens completely organically. Worrying about why one service has 'stopped' growing is pointless. Those who are unhappy jump ship - those who remain are likely people who are never going to and/or bots or influencers who aren't interested in being part of a community just finding a way to exploit it.
I would propose so-called 'smaller' networks (such as the fediverse) concentrate on quality not quantity. That has the duel benefit of making the experience for current users even better and makes the network attractive to those who are outside looking in.
It is now - but yeah my heart bleeds for those poor RAF jets, they're definitely what's important here, not making the word 'terrorist' a meaningless empty word that can be used to justify anything at all.
They did wrong by breaking into an RAF base though
Hardly a terrorist action though is it? Breaking in to throw around some red paint.
I don't know that it is objectively the best - but its the best fit for me right now (LMDE).
Not to pour cold water onto any sort of activism but this has zero chance. We all know what the OSA is really for and the kids/terrorism thing is a front for spying on us but the gen population are totally bought into the kids/terrorism thing and there's not a single MP with any sort of political ambition who'll take the chance on looking like they hate kids and support terrorists.