“An eye for an eye makes the whole world blind.” Feeling wronged doesn’t give you a free pass to distort reality or attack people dishonestly. You can criticize Republicans all you want - but do it with integrity. You’d rightly call them out for misrepresenting your views, so maybe hold yourself to that same standard.

And let’s not throw around accusations of “both sides” when your own response jumped straight to whataboutism. If you care about the truth, it should apply consistently.

you might as well join them.

I don’t see how that furthers your cause. Quite a few have already joined them, as you might’ve noticed - and this kind of rhetoric isn’t exactly helping with that.

True. I totally hate the idea of being a husband, a provider for the family, of the societal push to be successful and rich enough or else you won't be a good father and husband. I don't want to be fully responsible for any wife. All of this so I can nurture children so they work tirelessly. More flesh for the sweatshops and warehouses. Please give me a break.

He also believes that not a single Jewish person died during the twin tower attack....

I realise somewhat the irony

Do you actually realize the irony of your extremely racist tirade?

One likes bears, the other likes twinks, can you truly blame them? 😔

I can see why. I mean, I personally will fuck anything that is shaved. Man, woman, everything in between.

There was even a piece of timber that was giving me the come on, so I got my wood planer out and did the business.
It's not my fault, that oaky harlot was begging for it...and got what it deserved!!

Slightly different fairly tales.

It’s only responsible for war, hate, and bigotry.

I wish that were true, but Ayn Rand proved you can propagate all of these things as an Atheist.

I would say "Hold on..."

But the man is not beary enough.

Needs more fluff in that chest,

*looser

/s

I’m a woman who overheats really easily and I work at a bakery (my need for free good coffee overwhelmed my need for temperature stability when choosing a job), so I wear loose dark-colored linen shorts year round. They come to a couple of inches above my knees and I don’t think they could be considered sexy by anyone without a very specific fetish- I feel very much like a mailman wearing them (that’s intentional, I’m generally a pretty modest dresser).

One of our regular customers is an imam, and a lot of my coworkers are nominally Muslim, to the point that they feel weird/guilty when he comes in, but I was raised Catholic, so I don’t mind. He’s a good guy, and we chat sometimes, including about religious guidelines (I’m the kind of asshole who likes to have opinions about things in the Quran without being able to read Arabic, and he takes that about as well as a reform rabbi, plus I am delicate about how I phrase things).

Summer before last, I was in the middle of losing ten kilos because of the heat. I couldn’t keep meals down and basically only wanted to eat cucumbers and watermelon, but I still had to work. I asked him about what would happen to Muslims with my heat tolerance, and he laughed a little and said that it was like asking what happens to diabetics during Ramadan. Obviously there can be medical exceptions to all of the rules and anyone could see from several meters away that I was not handling the heat well.

I’ll grant you, this guy is a liberal imam living in Germany, but it is reasonable that a major world religion not adopt strict environmental regulations that endanger their believers.

I think... it took me a second... you're speaking as a religious scholar, not at all about how countries implement the rules, right? You're talking about your interpretation of the Quran, not what the Iranian government dictates, yeah?

As long as religion is not woman's choice, you can force whatever you want.

Those are images of Tuaregs, the nomadic people living in the Sahara. You see only few wearing white garnments. The majority wears shades of blue or even black. I trust the people who actually live in the desert to know about how to deal with the sun and heat:

That's actually been debunked. The difference between black and white clothing is so negligible it's entirely unnoticeable. The structure of the clothing is far more important.

Apparently black clothes, when worn loose with a big skirt like that, can create a chimney effect and increase airflow underneath

Yes, visible light.

White causes the non visible light to pass through, causing more heat underneath. Black absorbs the heat on the outside.

Ever wonder why motorcycle clothes are black too? That's why.

(I researched because I would've liked white clothes)

Yeah but sand is rough and coarse and it gets everywhere

Nonsense. The population of Dagobah is 100% Jedi, and its a swamp.

fReE PaLeNsTiNe! (Israel quakes)

Ask any religious person if their religion contributes to their quality of life. Gotcha

Oh, yeah. That’s works every time it’s ever happened. All the people responsible went down in history as amazing and the conflict ended and no one ever brought it up again.

Listen, maybe I think too highly of Lemmy, but you’re probably pretty smart if you’re here.

If we were to take all of the best people and drop them off on Mars tomorrow with all of the necessary equipment to survive and then cut off communication with the intention of going back in 200 years, we’d find a mess when we returned.

We’d find split factions, brand new religions, people fighting over what the folks who came before them did, and plenty more.

The solution is never to purge. That isn’t a permanent solution. It creates martyrs for the next generation. That’s all it does. It strengthens the resolve of the very thing you are fighting.

And then it just goes in a circle.

I’m not personally intelligent enough to begin to comprehend or provide the answers for our species, but I’m at least smart enough to look back at what hasn’t worked already and say, “Maybe let’s not do that again.”

All we’re doing with that kind of crap is kicking a nastier problem on down the road, and if the side you’re fighting wins, it will be your people’s turn to be purged.

England has been the financial capital of the world for the last century. Why aren't they winning? Why is the country's poverty level skyrocketing while a few aristocratic elites soak up all the wealth and privilege?

Is it because the country became too Muslim?

Then focus on the bad and let other people live their faith in peace

but I'm not religious. talk about prejudice

Get rid of that hate bro... there isn't any from me, don't become the problem

There's also no need to write like an edgy teenager for comedic effect... we can talk like the adults I suppose we both are

I would love for Americans to take even one tenth the hatred and derision they aim at Muslims and apply it to cops, a population with an astronomically higher rates of white people abuse.

Insulting the person you're talking to isn't very effective way to clear up that confusion. You have a nice day.

No no...his comment is impressively dense with eyebrow raisers, too.

I'm surprised a lack of visible cleavage wasn't mentioned.

Dude, you're on feddit.it. Take advantage of your public healthcare and hash it out with a professional therapist

My point has fallen on deaf ears apparently

irreligious women who subject themselves to being groped naked by the police.

'Nough said. I understand the kind of individual you are now.

There is no doctrine condemning you to punishment for not being naked.

It shouldn't be seen as bad, it's just we should toss the genders out of the generalized statements. How about a woman being protective of the men in her life? Sounds just as good to me.

Burqa bans come from separation of religion and state. This is Authoritarian vs Libertarian, not Left vs Right.

I'm still not sure what "this" is being banned.