Ogmios

You’re looking for a source for the answer to a question so idiotic that it has probably never been asked before in the history of man?

You can’t be a real person.

Talked to a mason once who informed me that one of the first rules they have is to never watch TV or listen to the radio.

Take that as you will.

Opponents of this are being accused of „western decadence“

Those damned hedonists indulging in the luxury of… checks notes… keeping their dicks out of kids.

So basically after the destabilization liberation of Iraq politics are dominated by the same people that run Iran.

I mean, they were destabilized liberated by the same people…

More or less disastrous than locking everyone in their homes for two years, stunting an entire generation’s early childhood development, and decimating the credibility of the medical industry. Which came, of course, after getting an entire other generation hooked on opioids.

Usually. But if the premise is particularly stupid I might choose to prompt the speaker to actually think about what they’ve said for a moment.

Or you could just read any of the numerous other comments here which offer other explanations.

Do you seriously need someone to explain to you why there are multiple words with similar meanings in the world?

It shouldn’t take a PhD to understand that openly hating a huge portion of the working class isn’t going to make you popular with them.

Hear me out:

Maybe everything isn’t some conspiracy to hate others.

Well they’re the only ones that matter, after all.

I’m talking about how the united states would gather AMERICAN CITIZENS who have comitted no crimes whatsoever, send them to camps, and have them mass killed

User name checks out.

Because society is so terrified of the technologies we have created that it has adopted the ideal that everything needs to be perfect right here and now, and so any deviation from acting out that Utopian fantasy is met harshly, even though it’s obviously not true to any rational person.

Saw a great idea recently:

Write down all your fears for what will happen over the next four years. Then, re-read your list every few months and check off everything which has actually happened.

Publish a movie full of young girls dancing provocatively in stripper attire: I sleep

Misuse of money: REAL SHIT!!!

We must all do our part to curb carbon emissions.

No not like that!

“Funny” has a much broader connotation than what you’re suggesting. In this case it’s funny because the truth doesn’t align with what is expressed by his critics.

We need a common foundation around which any coherent society can centre themselves. In order for that to propagate beyond a single generation, ideas must be passed down in some form for others later to still understand why things are as they are. We simply don’t have a perfect answer, and never will without knowing all of everything which ever has and ever will happen.

No matter how divinely inspired any text may be, it will ultimately suffer from the imperfections of the limited human ability to convey ideas amongst each other, and over thousands of years it becomes corrupt. This is obviously exacerbated by those who would deliberately seek to derive power from it, in ignorance of any truth which may have been professed at the origin.

Discussion is absolutely possible as to interpretations, specifically amongst those who actually hold the reigns of power.

How about committing genocide because genetic science proves that your race has superior genes? The problem is with people’s behaviours themselves, regardless of what excuses someone uses to justify them.

The problem is that it’s not just make believe bullshit, but over thousands of years, and being abused repeatedly by those seeking to derive power from it, the original message/intent gets lost entirely.