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  • UnderpantsWeevil@lemmy.worldtoLemmy Shitpost@lemmy.worldBut bro please
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    15 hours ago

    I believe that I can go to the store and purchase a sense of security. Once I own a gun, I can indulge in revolutionary fantasies that aren’t complicated by material conditions.

    Safety is just another thing we’ve commoditized. No need to struggle against my own alienation or form coalition with my neighbors.



  • It’s religious mythology built atop historical cultural standards. Arguing over the age at which a literal angel impregnated a virgin is fucking absurd and has nothing to do with modern morals either inside or outside the religious traditions predicated on it.

    Two-thousand years later, members of this same Christian faith have overhauled both the cultural and legal standards for marriage around the globe. Meanwhile, outspoken atheists like Richard Dawkins and Lawrence Krauss ended up all over the Epstein Files, despite unburdening themselves of archaic religious dogma.


  • Mary was 13 when she gave birth to Jesus.

    There is absolutely no verifiable documentation of Jesus’s birth, much less Mary’s age at the time of pregnancy. Might as well complain about the ages of Alcmene or Deichtine.

    This kind of rhetoric is playing straight into the magical realism of the biblical literalists. Next, you’re going to start accusing Adam and Eve of incest.





  • UnderpantsWeevil@lemmy.worldtoComic Strips@lemmy.worldThe same rights
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    16 hours ago

    The Telegraph and LBC are both right-wing propaganda mills.

    Case in point:

    In 2022, Hilda Griffiths, 81, died after Brian Fitzgerald, a Credit Suisse director and member of the Muswell Hill Peloton cycling club, collided with her while riding with other members at about 29mph in the 20mph zone.

    Police could not prosecute Mr Fitzgerald because “there were no criminal Acts” which could be applied to cyclists who speed, the elderly lady’s inquest heard.

    That’s pure horseshit.