Yeah plenty of acts of petty cruelty as well

Is champagne sparkling wine when you bring the bottle to California?

Oh thank fuck. Sorry Argentina, but we really must be rid of him

Nah she became the pope

That’s fair. Basically since the 80s America has had a counterculture of Christians explicitly rejecting the secularity of society and attempting to create an alternative media landscape that will both pull secular people into the extreme Christian movement using counterculture aesthetics and concepts (ok that actually began in the 70s when they were preaching to burnt out hippies, lots of cults began with that), as well as to prevent their young people from leaving for these things.

“You don’t need to go be a hippie, you can be a Jesus freak and talk about peace and love and hear how the hippie life of sex and drugs was bad.” And copy and paste for rock, metal, and whatever else. So long as there was something there beyond what they consider immoral they’ll do it, and it’s extended to stuff like just tv.

When I say smaller, I should clarify it was a small industrial city near Nagoya, it’s bigger than I thought, but it’s still somewhere few people outside japan would know about. I also got to see a slightly more urban area as well, but in both locations I was spending all day in a factory and crashing pretty hard from 12 hour jet lag at night lol.

It left me wanting to see and try more, including the touristy stuff, but especially the national parks. The beauty I saw on the shinkansen was amazing. But in general I just enjoy going new places, meeting new people, and seeing and experiencing different cultures. Seeing parts of Japan few people outside the country see was cool even if I wished I got to see some of the more classically impressive stuff too.

Are izakaya the bars with all the really good fried stuff and cheap beer? I was in Japan for business and we spent an evening at one such bar and it was an amazing experience.

And yeah I’ve never gotten to go for pleasure, but spending a week in a smaller part of the country really made me want to go back and get to see more of it.

FDR wasn’t a socialist, he was a man who understood that if he didn’t offer the people a better deal then they’d look to revolution to get it. It pissed off the rich and powerful, but ultimately he was doing what he believed necessary to preserve capitalism.

Boys deserve not to get raped, but so do girls. Everyone deserves to not get raped. And yeah some boys are still raping people of varied genders, as are some girls.

Wtf is wrong with this pastor‽

Oh that’s why they call him the father

Oh see they’ll agree and then say that’s why they have to force us back into “God’s plan”

All the lies, the damned lies, and for what?

Gravity was Newton’s creative whim, but Einstein looked at it and did a wild remix that more or less replaced it in the minds of scientists from then on

Meanwhile in history museums everyone regardless of age can join together in agreement that ancient Egypt was cool as fuck

Well congressman, are you waiting for us to do it?

It’s a thing a lot of narcissists are good at. I’m curious how the numbers break down with people’s resistance to his voice vs general narcissists. I generally assume my immunity comes from my having had a narcissistic father and having bad mental reactions whenever someone starts the narcissist charm. Others are just immune, and then there’s folks like you who feel it but can resist it.

And I should clarify it’s not magic or anything, the personality disorder just takes advantage of how our social brains are wired, it’s not even the only personality disorder to do that.

JSYK Muscular Christianity is a religious movement that attempted to tie Christianity to fitness, masculinity, and patriotism as well as the rejection of more traditional Christian values such as meekness and pacifism. It’s deeply tied to crises of masculinity.

Nope, Muscular Christianity is a religious movement that attempted to tie Christianity to fitness, masculinity, and patriotism as well as the rejection of more traditional Christian values such as meekness and pacifism. It’s deeply tied to crises of masculinity.

I can pray. He won’t like to whom or for what I pray, but sure, the gods could use another plea for his downfall.

Yeah it was never great, but sometimes great isn’t on the table. It was better than most countries were doing and it wasn’t crashing. In fact the biggest thing you can say about it is every year a crash was expected and avoided