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Thank you, but I meant North American conflicts specifically. I am not familiar with the interaction of Native tribes and Christianity beyond some Spanish missionaries in the southwest. Was it a religious war?

It does, but it was not the focus of my statement, which is why I brought up the Northern Crusades and admit many facets of it weren't just wrong, but unjustifiable. I don't get into consequences of religious persecution in the Americas beyond Spain's conquest of everything south of the equator...

I won't deny Christianity as a whole has done terrible things. Those wrongdoings should be acknowledged. However, I would like for people to hold it, and the Catholic church as an institution specifically, accountable for transgressions it actually committed. Pop-cult history like Christianity...

Bit of a blast from the past; I remember stumbling onto Lackadaisy back in highschool. Pilot works well enough. Voices are acceptable. Pretty good excuse to go read the comic, which has impressively extravagant art. Loved the research put into making the comic.

Impassioned exaggerations aside, I do agree; Christianity is incredibly defanged and impotent. A more concerted effort among communities spearheaded by the church to oppose progressive trends would do a great deal in stemming the rising tide, especially if practitioners genuinely adhere to their...

Most of them are armed by the Mexican military, with plenty of help from the American government.

I'll throw in my vote for Illusion too.

If the government didn't want me to believe in conspiracy theories then it wouldn't make them so easy to believe.

Cameron explicitly stated they removed footage of gunfire to avoid "fetishizing" firearms. Ten minutes worth, I think. Pretty hilarious given you can easily downplay a bullet wound in cinema (though by all rights people should be missing limbs considering the calibers in play), but there's no...

Why waste the money on mind uploading instead of just programming an a.i.?

That's a one-way street to wearing a blue fursuit for the rest of your life, and only that extra life because the planet is gatekeeping hard. All the recoms are hollow men; it's memory uploading, not mind uploading. So unless the super rich are fine with a furry running around living their new...

And I pray they never do.

The spiritual equivalent of "country going to shit? Just move to another". I could care less if priest is thrown out for overt political activism; it is a pathetically hollow gesture when multiple parishes are proudly flaunting their heresy, pedophiles are sheltered (can't just excise demonic...

Yeah, you're probably right.

It's amusing and infuriating to watch accounts claim Musk's recent wave of suspensions are only targeting those with left-wing affiliations; the intensity of projection is blinding. I already knew they had no shame, but as the world continues to teeter on its rails and they reject or ignore...

Pretty sure some people have claimed the Romans merely built the Temple of Jupiter atop a stone foundation laid by giants, or aliens, or what have you.

I don't think it matters what anyone wants; the system cannot sustain itself indefinitely under the best conditions. Something is going to give. We've already seen it propped up in the past (too big to fail), and the longer our global economy is kept on life support the harder it falls after...

Things are bad everywhere, we know this; let's not have a pissing match over who is closer to collapse.

I understand why they do given the rules which establish the system have explicit solutions, but I also agree that it is nigh impossible since those holding the book don't care about what is written. I question the potency of local action - though certainly not its virtues - because I believe...

So is this the reality then? Years of uncontrolled immigration across the world are irrevocable because the sheer number of illegal migrants would render relocation or removal unfeasible from an ethical and financial standpoint? By the time anything could or would be done their population will...