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The point is the slowly-increasing mass of voters being payed out more than they're taxed, thus they're being given goods payed for by taking money from people richer than them.

Ignoring the instrumental nature of Catholicism's failures stemming from how it implemented the wider concepts of Christianity to the development of the "atheism" you malign and its popularity among disillusioned masses just makes you a fool. There being forms of Christianity that don't fail so...

Again with your conclusion assuming your premise is correct. No, Catholicism is not a superior moral system with regard to ideological conflict, because the obsessive logical formulations to connect absolutely everything in the scripture together into as cohesive a worldview as possible creates...

And yet mysteriously you didn't get this kind of catastrophic failure when Christians threw out the metaphysical foundations of incredibly large numbers of preceding customs, to say nothing of the more distant conversions where multiple fundamental lifestyle changes had to occur to even start...

No, this is where uprooting ethics leads. Your Magic Sky Daddy is not that special of one, most of the "stridently atheist nations" are clearly horrible distention of subsets of Christian ethics with the checks lost to obsessions. Which only happened because the Catholic Church insisted on tying...

I find myself curious where things would go if the suits pushing this started to be assaulted by hijacked vehicles. Not merely "egg on their face as people make a joke of it", but "people actively trying to kill them with their own bullshit".

Meanwhile, George fucking Soros came from a family who'd been living off a single general store and moved into magazines. Elon Musk dropped out of Stanford to place his bets in the dotcom bubble with his own brother and made out like a bandit. Mark Zuckerberg's parents were a psychiatrist and a...

Actually most of the US's current crop of billionaires are self-made, due to the "rags to riches to rags in three generations" wonk and the tech sector being ridiculously fertile ground. Few from millionaire households. The thing is that the Silicon Valley generally lot have very little skill in...

Hence him being the example? Polite society at the time found incestuous adultery not sufficiently infringing on a marriage to be grounds for divorce, meaning he needed to show a separate scripturally-backed reason for annulment of the marriage he had already passed a death sentence on the other...

Realize the strictness was at the point where physical injuries from intensity of intercourse were not grounds to divorce. Hence the shenanigans of Henry the Eighth, who caused a schism for the sole purpose of being able to annul his first marriage over not getting a male heir. It was easier to...

The problem is that it made what incredibly few divorces were allowed through most of the presence of such vastly messier than they had any reason to be. If the woman (more typically her parents) messed up, recourse was nowhere to be found. Take a look at Antebellum Slavery rhetoric. It does...

The gilded cage treatment is still oppression, if primarily "the bigotry of low expectations". Just because you have a load of gibs doesn't entail that you are free (just look at a surprisingly large chunk of Southern lower-class whites during Antebellum slavery), and historically there has been...

But from well under ground in what is overwhelmingly very solid stone, where water leeching through is utterly negligible. As opposed to "this three-mile stretch of ground will not grow plants for centuries" like the runoff of the mines these metals come from, which is a pretty clear giveaway of...

On my part, many functionally impossible to recycle with current technology components that demanded a very long series of very long distance trade to create in the first place being reduced to waste. Frequently, E-waste gets chucked at African shitholes with zero environmental regulations to be...

Personally, I'd be tempted to ban hormone-based contraceptives while having open season on pre-nerve abortions, then the checklist of extenuating circumstances. Because those contraceptives actually fuck with bodily functions and taint the water supply in addition to being far more proximate to...

A general means nothing without privates to hold corners, and if you look at the numbers on that it's the sort most likely to object to being the gun-toters for the Wokists in event of civil war who stick around to fill the NCO positions calling the moment-to-moment shots in the field. To get...

It looks like that because adherents make up the near-totality of human resources, public relations, journalism, and social media, but it is comprehensively laughable that it survives any test of hard power with how literally every military practicality is against them.

It's foundational for the "planning horizon" of pretty much every state around today with a culture that's mostly nuclear families. IIRC, it was an awkward side-effect of the Catholic Church taking measures to break up truly independent clan structures. Especially as it pertains to the US's...

Rather, the first to enter office openly pro-LGBT

At least machine you were playing on had to be younger than you, as the system launched when you were... six or seven? I am fairly certain that specific N64 was manufactured before my date of birth.