You should always remember it regardless, and learn to recognize the signs decades before they bear fruit. This is the culmination of a long and multifaceted process. Reject nationalism, reject regulatory capture, reject media monopolization.

I live in one of his hated Liberal crime-ridden cesspits, Trump bombing his own country is an uncomfortable possibility.

Because some people use it as a thin veil over their actions doesn’t mean it’s the root cause

I firmly disagree with this premise, I think religion’s particular mix of social othering and righteous justification are the root of a great deal of evil in the world.

What a religion calls for is almost never what it enables.

how is the world a better place because the banned prayer rooms in universities?

I don’t think public funds should support any religion, and I don’t think universities should support unsubstantiated claims.

Antisemitism doesn’t happen without religion. Think about everything downstream of the Judaism/Christianity/Islam splits. Think about the impact of The Church being the de facto cultural force in Europe for a millennium. Think about how much harder it is to whip a population into supporting your expensive conquest without a Divine Right or Moral Imperative. Sikhism exists because of how shitty life was under Islam and Hinduism in the region, their current “mostly chill” status does not negate the past suffering.

And in a broader sense, consider how much fraud exists because people are willing to accept claims not backed by evidence. The normalization of magical thinking is probably as harmful as the actual power wielded by entities like the Catholic Church.

I don’t think the good comes anywhere close to balancing the evils justified by religion.

You think that guy is “dominating the industry”?

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John Kellogg salivating in his grave.

Every layer of the legal system is broken, and lots of people benefit from not fixing it.

Allowing religion to continue to fester is a mistake, people.

Developed very similarly? On what time scale? Inuit, Salish, Cherokee, Aztec, Inca, and Rapa Nui are all pretty distinct. Post-colonialism there’s lots of differences between French, English, Spanish, and Portugese influence. And topographically the North Andes are a pretty solid border (though in many ways it makes more sense to extend out to the coast).

Just stamp a line of €1 coins with the bird on them, every EU member gets their own coin.

Not relying on the US is only part of the solution, they have to stamp out their populist nationalism movements while they still can.

I’ll cut a tiny bit of slack to the 9/11 sign-ups, it was harder to fact-check the various lies coming from the feds.

Arunachal Pradesh is home to over a million people, which China claims and is slowly building into in much the same way Russia bled into Ukraine. (And it probably should be part of Tibet which should be it’s own nation, that China has been occupying it so long that its government-in-exile has little influence is a terrible defense)

The 9-dash line? Not to mention the border disputes with India.

Well then it’s a good thing China swooped in and saved them from savagery!

Nah. It’s fucked up when Western colonial expansion absorbs people against their will and it’s fucked up when China does it.

A single unified culture, the stated intent of this law, means erasing the minority cultures. It’s no secret that Beijing does not let Tibet do what Tibet wants, just ask the 14th Dalai Lama.

It’s non-violent cultural erasure, the more popular kind in the 21st century.