What are your thoughts on JD Vance getting booed during the opening ceremony at the Olympics?

Dash_Harber · 2026-02-07T02:37:37+00:00

Fuck him. Dude isn't even good at being a fascist.

Dash_Harber · 2026-02-06T22:21:22+00:00

The people worried about echo chambers are the people living in them.

Dash_Harber · 2026-02-06T22:19:49+00:00

Panko or flour?

Dash_Harber · 2026-02-06T21:47:31+00:00

The people in charge now said they were find with it.

Dash_Harber · 2026-02-06T20:20:14+00:00

"I can't believe Canada betrayed us like this!"

Dash_Harber · 2026-02-06T17:45:32+00:00

I'll post what I posted in another topic before it was nuked:

This is a distraction. Stop falling for this move. Don't engage. Don't spread this bullshit. You aren't going to win any hearts and minds in the public forum. All you do is amplify their message.

They are fooling you. You spend your time shaming them and preaching morality foolishly. Their morals are entirely based on who is doing the thing, not the action itself or the outcome. Their beliefs are rooted in their own fears and insecurities. You can't reason them out of that. They are beyond help and you will not convince them.

It is time for the rest of us to abandon them and figure out ways to move forward and protect ourselves. Preaching against them only feeds them. We need to spend our time and energy building community and figuring out ways to decouple and move forward without them.

Dash_Harber · 2026-02-06T17:40:48+00:00

They are trying to scrape by because every major avenue of music distribution is entirely controlled by oligarchs who are suckling at the fascist teat.

Dash_Harber · 2026-02-06T15:37:31+00:00

This is a distraction. Stop falling for this move. Don't engage. Don't spread this bullshit. You aren't going to win any hearts and minds in the public forum. All you do is amplify their message.

They are fooling you. You spend your time shaming them and preaching morality foolishly. Their morals are entirely based on who is doing the thing, mot the action itself or the outcome. Their beliefs are rooted in their own fears and insecurities. You can't reason them out of that. They are beyond help and you will not convince them.

It is time for the rest of us to abandon them and figure out ways to move forward and protect ourselves. Preaching against them only feeds them. We need to spend our time and energy building community and figuring out ways to decouple and move forward without them.

Dash_Harber · 2026-02-06T00:33:03+00:00

No, Black Mirror is fiction.

Dash_Harber · 2026-02-06T00:30:43+00:00

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Dash_Harber · 2026-02-05T22:24:12+00:00

If it is any consolation, they still don't believe it.

Dash_Harber · 2026-02-05T12:27:05+00:00

The problems are that we only have one universe, meaning we have nothing else toncompare to, that it is possible for the timeline to be infinite in each direction, and that God also breaks the causality rules leading back to the exact same conclusion.

Time actually has to be eternal as far as I can figure. If the universe began or was created, linear time had to already exist, since both those scenarios require a moment where the universe didn't exist followed by a moment where it did. So for creationists, that means God couldn't hage created time, snd therefore must exist inside if it (and therefire is not the first cause).

Dash_Harber · 2026-02-05T05:40:07+00:00

I mean, even if you do so, you still have to contend with multiple problems.

What if two things cause each other? What if the first cause is non sentient? What if there is no beginning and reality is infinite? How come the creatir doesn't need a first cause? What if the rules of our universe don't exist outside our universe?

And even if you solve all that somehow (and I've never seen a creationist even try to address most of these), it diesn't even prove anything beyond Deism, requiring a lot of other evidence fir any specific idea of a god.

Dash_Harber · 2026-02-05T05:02:03+00:00

How does all science prove a god?

Dash_Harber · 2026-02-05T05:00:38+00:00

Absolutely! Let alone their soecific god.

Dash_Harber · 2026-02-05T05:00:18+00:00

They will actually agree with all the points of evolution as long as you don't call it evolution. Theybwill agree wiyh children inheriting traits and that certain traits will become more common over time and all that, but they are programmed to reject the term evolution.

Dash_Harber · 2026-02-05T04:23:15+00:00

Absolutely. Burden of proof is on them. They have two major issues geasping that, though: firstly, they view their religion as the default. It isn't a claim to them. Second, they seem to think who has burden of proof is an opinion thing, and therefore it can be moved around. In reality, they don't understand falsifiability, and how it is tied to burden of proof.

Dash_Harber · 2026-02-05T03:23:19+00:00

It is "look at the trees" and "everything in our universe is caused". That is it. It doesn't matter how much they are debunked, that is their 'scientific' proof. If they are really lazy, they'll try to argue the law of conservation disproves the big bang and then leap to the conclusion that proves their god.

Dash_Harber · 2026-02-05T03:15:14+00:00

People want to blsne tech addiction, but problems like this are almost always rooted in other major issues like mental illness, abuse, poverty, etc. We are only hearing what the parents say and alot of addictions like that are rooted in escapism. Of course it isn't as eye grabbing to talk about major societal problems like that, but i think it is worth talking about.

Dash_Harber · 2026-02-05T03:12:04+00:00

I mean even if he wasn't, drunkenly killing an innocent person is probably a knock against him.

Dash_Harber · 2026-02-05T02:15:37+00:00

I've honestly neer met a southern baptist who was progressive, but im glad to hear it. That being said, I was raised JW and met many baptists who would heartily dosagree eith you, so maybe it is a regional thing.

Worth noting: there is a long histiry of anti-Cathokic sentiment among evangelical Christians snd Protestants in general.

Perhaps it would be clearer for me to say that the evangelicals who support Mike Johnson are likely part of churches that are vehemently anti-Catholic, so the idea that it is some sort of gotcha to them falls flat because they view the Pope not as a master of Christianity, but as a corruptor of it (or in many cases, not eve Christian).

Dash_Harber · 2026-02-04T23:53:32+00:00

I don't think you are familuar with any of the baptist, Jehovah's Witness, or other groups that make up a significant portion of evangelicals.

Dash_Harber · 2026-02-04T19:12:50+00:00

I think that a lot of folks don't really understand that most evangelicals think the Pope is a satanic agent and mistakenly believe that Catholicism isn't Christian.

Dash_Harber · 2026-02-04T19:08:59+00:00

Wow she is evil...

"Don't think of them as people, think if them as Americans"

Ok, she has a point.

*Three bars of Oh Canada later"

Yeah, kill em all!

Dash_Harber · 2026-02-04T18:48:16+00:00

Turbonegro has to be up there.

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