YappyMonotheist

Yeah, Russia, the country that invaded, couped and otherwise subjugated the majority of the world, the country with almost countless military bases around the world, the country of Native genocide, chattle slavery, gunboat diplomacy, three letter agency destabilisation, etc etc. You’re dipped head to toe in propaganda, my friend, you just don’t know it but today you can begin to learn. So no, there’s no comparison, the closest American historical peers are the British and French empires, and then Rome, I guess.

Not really, they just mentioned not having a “gender” assigned at birth, allowing you to remain legally sexually indeterminate until you pick a side, regardless of your bits and bobs. Or at least that’s how I read it.

GETTING STRONG NOW!

WON’T BE LONG NOW!

Nothing lasts forever. Sure, you could see this as a continuation of Western imperialism (it is), which could be seen as a continuation of Roman imperialism (more debatable), but the Mongols were at it at some point too, and the Egyptians and the Akkadians (and those more knowledgeable than me can surely provide more examples) so idk, at least the villains and the geographical regions affected change over time, lol. Will we reach some “end of history” moment, where we’re all sufficiently moral and humane not to engage in forced labour, murder and pillage for the sake of comfort and profits? Maybe, maybe we’ll destroy ourselves, directly or indirectly (is our planet okay or at least okay-ish?!), before that happens. 🤷

I’m sorry, I meant to be more positive with my reply but this is what came out. 🥲

Just tell them Jesus wants them to kill brown people (who are closer to him in ethnicity and, much more importantly, belief than the average American Trinitarian, lol) and they won’t question shit. Real men kill random people on the other side of the world!

It’s that silly all-or-nothing thinking. Just because America, Israel and Western vassals are objectively THE main world villains of the past few decades (and Western Europe before that, but that’s a different convo) doesn’t mean that everyone they attacked were saints, lol.

When it comes to being a more prosocial, peaceful, emotionally stable person, I’ve made much progress (thank God!). I just don’t like feeling like a villain, knowing (because, for better or for worse, I see these things somewhat clearly) I was the cunt in the situation and that I could and should have “taken the higher road”. I was talking about it with my wife earlier today and I think it’s partly a function of my pride: being an overall negative influence in the world is simply for lesser men, and I am not/won’t let myself be one of those.

For everything else, I’m a complete mess. Yeah, I have worked well and steadily, never been fired or even reprimanded, and have gotten decent results in academia despite the fact I worked full time whilst studying… but besides that idk, I don’t keep much track of things I could improve (but I should). Thankfully, I’m married, so I’m constantly lovingly coerced into betterment, lol.

“Cry more 🤣🤣🤣”.

My man, you might have just hurt my feelings for no good reason, why are you so happy about it?! I’ve only seen it in YT comments, TBF, so they might all just be bots. Hopefully.

I’m a Muslim man and I can tell you nobody cares, really. My MIL complains about the drug and booze culture, which are actual problems since you can’t go outside without seeing loud, sometimes aggressive groups of drunk/coked out white boys, or nonsense pushed by Western media. Non-Muslims eating pork is not even a topic I’ve ever talked about with any Muslim person.

But yes, Western leaders (not just them, ofc, but they’re the most relevant and identifiable group that does this, even between themselves [“freedom fries” and the concept of “whiteness” come to mind]) will find and push any reason/narrative to make their already brain-dead, heavily propagandised, truth-agnostic people hate others, simply because they can then manipulate this sentiment, maybe pushing it far enough to make the average man cheer for death and destruction, and profit from it.

That makes sense.

Hey, hey, propagandists are very important for the regime!

You don’t believe in free will, OP? Just curious.

“The Thick Of It”, if you wanna cackle. It’s three seasons (under 10 episodes each) and a TV movie. I recommend watching it with subtitles, especially if you’re not a native English speaker/not accustomed to the many accents of the British Isles. If you’ve watched Veep, it’s quite similar except much better in all aspects, lol.

If you don’t mind animays (and, for whatever reason, you haven’t watched this masterpiece… the shame!) and are competently literate, I also enthusiastically recommend “Legend of the Galactic Heroes”. It explores the “honourable philosopher king” autocracy v. “decaying, corrupt, aimless democracy” issue, and the character arcs and very realistic reactions and interactions are just chef’s kiss. 👍

Without the plan of staying with that person in a committed long-term relationship, knowing that the other person very much wants that? Certainly.

Really? Trinitarians are really out there believing priests have God’s authority and speak for Him? That’s wild.

Knowledge is important, but values and character are more so, IMO. Many complex ideas are founded on the belief of/are distilled from basic humanity.

I haven’t been in one yet but I’d love to, I was a trip… friend on the chans over a decade ago so it would be the same experience, basically (ideally, with less racism, lol).

Women are the biggest pervs, lol, have you seen what they read? 😅 Men are usually more simple in their desires, but they’re just always running in the background, pushing us to seek variety.

Germany is the Western scapegoat, and Hitler is their Satan, but the reality of things is that a shit-ton of Western leaders have been worse to humanity than Mr. Funny Mustache (just not to other Europeans, of course, hence the difference in reaction) and Germany barely struck/invaded folks around the world. Considering Germany and Hitler, and not France or the UK (I’m French and I live comfortably in the UK, lol, but facts are facts) and their leaders, who murdered and pillaged to their hearts’ content and colonized entire continents, as the Western big baddies is a ridiculous take, one with at least tinges of white supremacy.

First of all, eww, don’t speak so casually about death. And no, lol, the only ones saying that are expats living in the West, of course. 😅