Just black and white.

It’s the future we could have had; if line didn’t have to go up.

Not sure. Too early to tell. What I do know is that it’s a bit of a rallying cry right now for dems/progressives. Like Mamdani is. Ride the lightning, no matter the source at this point. We need to galvanize everyone against trump. It may take any form it wishes, and we need to get behind it if we want a shot at fixing this cesspit they’ve made.

TL;DR; He’s useful until he isn’t. Then we move on to the next thing. We need people aligned and fighting trump, whatever form that takes.

In this case, he’s an imperfect solution to the real problem, which is trump and his fascist cronies. Literally anyone who’s not down that road is better.

Is Gavin perfect? Fuck no. Not even a little.

But if it puts us in a better state than we are now, I’ll welcome it.

We need to get off this fucked up train the trump era nazis have sent us down before it gets even worse.

And it will.

Develop should be Chaotic Evil.

Ok, that’s a fair reason.

Still, fuck whoever censored it for you originally.

I’ll keep down voting these stupid fucking image censoring posts until something changes and people stop being fucking stupid. I’ll die on this hill.

Make a list. Start with a task you know you can knock out quickly. Add it to the top of the list. Knock out that task. Mark it completed. Use that inertia to do the next task. Stop when you feel better about things.

Not sure of an official difference, but my take is a grift is something that everyone’s kind of doing on the DL, but nobody is admitting that it’s a scam.

Think like a cult. Everyone’s a part of the cult, but nobody actually wants to believe they’re getting scammed or scamming others, so it’s more of a grift. People assume what they’re doing can’t last/sustain, but they do it anyway because the benefits are good.

A scam is straight up the party knowing it’s illegitimate and going out of their way to execute the scam so they can benefit at the expense of others.

Basically, I’ve always taken it as one is self aware (scam) and one is only self-aware at the top levels (grift).

But this is all just in my head.

I HEARD HE FUCKS COUCHES. CAN ANYONE CONFIRM?

I suspect they mean that their force fed diet that’s causing an excess of methane buildup on the regular is the issue, not so much the pressure valve release situation happening in this video.

He posted an update:

At this point, I’m half convinced he’s a masterful troll.

He’s from Norway, so being a troll feels on brand.

Man, I’m trying to help out here, but you’re making it difficult by conflating these things.

They are not the same. You seem to be on the same side as everyone else here in terms of disliking/hating organized religion. With you on that. I have a deep, deep, deep hatred and mistrust of that given my upbringing in the US.

However, it is not a fair comparison that the Vatican or the way religion in Western Europe is in any way similar to what’s going on in those evangelical revival tents/places.

I’ve been to and lived in/through both, and so have a lot of people replying to you. It seems like your first hand experience with religion in Western Europe is perhaps extremely limited and you’re looking at extremely superficial similarities (like the opulence of the Vatican or how it’s basically its own country, sort of thing).

It’s tradition. You’re looking at things from the times during the crusades, sort of thing. What’s left in Europe is mostly just traditional religion stuff, that’s more about ceremony and habit than any actual true fanatical belief in anything.

There are no preachers on street corners in Europe that I’ve ever seen or heard of. There’s no big tent revival things. There’s no people shoving their religion down your throat. There’s no crazy mega-church speaking in tongues shit.

That’s largely contained in the US. Whatever superficial similarities you’re seeing between the two regions is just that, superficial.

I encourage you to go over to Europe and visit these sights.

I’ve been to the Vatican. It’s basically just a bunch of money thrown at artists during the Renaissance period because the church had too damn much money. It’s an attraction. It’s a circus. A sideshow.

Even the devout Catholics over there keep it to themselves. They’re science focused (generally), and tend to not let it affect their social discourse too much. Nobody ever asks for your religion over there or assumes you’re a Christian.

Europe has an absolute shitton of non-believers, especially depending on the country we’re talking about (Norway/Finland/Iceland are some of the highest number of Agnostic/Atheists).

There’s not many other ways I can explain this right now other than you are wrong. It’s understandable why you think what you think, because on the surface you could make these connections, but I absolutely promise you, if you were to go and live in Western Europe for even a week or more; you’d learn quickly how little religion plays a part in anyone’s life over there.

What they have on the books and what they enforce/how people live, are two very different things.

I appreciate that link, it’s enlightening, I didn’t know some of those countries still had it on their books.

However, the actual people living in Europe (at least Western Europe) ignore pretty much all of that. Everyone blasphemies all the time, nobody cares.

If anyone’s religious, they generally keep it to themselves in the EU.

If they’re religious in the US, they talk about it as if everyone else is as well, and pray for you and will pray to God to heal you from whatever affliction you have.

You pretty much cant’ escape the religious fanaticism that exists in the US from the people. It’s got nothing to do with the laws on the books (yet, but give the Christo-fascists time…), and everything to do with the insanity that is being religious in the US and making it a part of every aspect of your life, and forcing everyone else around you to participate whether they want to or not.

I’ve spent a good bit of time in Europe, and never once, not even remotely, have I ever been asked anything religious or had anyone talk about God, or Jesus, or offer to pray for me, etc.

I met a Tattoo artist the other day that said he’d pray for me and that Jesus can “do all things through Christ” (which I guess is Jesus doing everything through himself?) completely unprompted and without displaying anything other than a plain black t-shirt.

This happens constantly. Everywhere in the US. And if you’re anywhere near a mega church, holy shit, those people are pure insanity. I’ve been to sermons where people are speaking in “tongues” and yelling jibberish, flopping about on the floor during a big tent-revival thing, hitting people to smack the “demons” out of them, screaming and rolling on the ground to escape demons (or praise God, it’s difficult to tell sometimes), etc.

Nothing like that exists in western Europe to my knowledge. Or if it does, nothing even close to the scale it’s displayed in the US exists.

As an American raised in a religious household who’s extremely familiar with European culture, people, and living; you are unfortunately wrong.

American Christianity is its own brand, and Europe has absolutely nothing like it. Nothing. Not at the scale of US religion absurdity.

THC butter exists, but you won’t escape the weed taste.

Chocolate and gelatin with a bunch of sugar is the only real way to cut that taste.

I see what you did there

For women who needed their hips sawed open during birth… Horrifying.