And the lesson the rank-and-file never seem to learn is once the other is eliminated, the fascists always turn inward, and begin eliminating each other. Unfortunately, their death toll is always quite high once they implode – sometimes in the millions.

It’s a death cult, though, and no matter how white or pious or privileged you think you are, they will come for you once they run out of ‘proper’ enemies, because without an enemy, fascism is nothing.

It’s not like it takes a very high IQ to have seen this coming for months years.

Years. This has been infuriating, being called hyperbolic when it’s been like watching a train wreck coming in extreme slow motion, with everyone constantly saying it’s not happening.

Holocaust survivors put out an open letter back in 2016 (I can’t find it now because it’s been drowned out by many more open letters since Gaza exploded) in which they warned what they were seeing with trump’s rise was exactly what they saw with Hitler, and people called that hyperbolic. That was 10 years ago.

We’ve had a decade at least to stop this and did nothing.

He was raised by parents who made their money on slave labour in an apartheid state, sooooo…

Again, do you believe in leprechauns? How certain are you that mermaids don’t exist?

How dogmatic are you in your lack of a belief in mermaids? Or fairies? How much are you bending to the will of anti-Tinkerbell propaganda?

Do you hear how insane that sounds?

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Also the organization, dogma, and a sense of hierarchy in regards to authorities on atheism.

What authorities on atheism? What dogma? What organisation? Do you mean the clubs such as this comment section? There’s no central group or organisation. Atheism is the opposite of that. Your answer makes me think you don’t understand atheism at all.

If that’s the case, please ask me anything. I love answering questions. :)

You also said:

the amount of atheists who subscribe to the religion.

I’m not going into the rest of what was obviously wrong in the bits I cut off, but I’ll just stop you right there, lol.

I am a dumbass.

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Sorry, not following you, I couldn’t actually care less what Richard fucking Dawkins thinks tbh.

How is it any different than claiming with near certainty that leprechauns aren’t real?

I’m nearly 100% certain leprechauns aren’t real. Is my disbelief in leprechauns a religious belief? I similarly don’t believe in the Greek or Roman or Egyptian gods. Is that a religious belief, too?

The Christian god is a positive claim, and my near 100% certainty it’s not real is not a ‘belief’ unless you’re operating from a baseline that assumes it’s true, which is not how anything works. Strong atheism is a strong unwillingness to believe anything for which there isn’t evidence. That’s the opposite of faith – faith being the belief in things without evidence.

Something about doors and arses.

He lost all credibility and relevance when he piled into the bigotry clown car. Atheism doesn’t have saints.

Dysautonomia causing SVT and sinus arrest. I have a loop monitor now and am on heart meds.

e: they wanted to send me home with ‘anxiety’.

got them to resume treatment after they dicked around for a month and he refused to leave because he was going to die if he left.

I had to play this card once, too. I was in the cardiac unit for 28 days, and they were going to send me home because they couldn’t figure out what was wrong, and the insurance decided I wasn’t worth the expense anymore.

I refused to leave until they gave me a diagnosis, because i would have just died otherwise.

Pretty sure the healthcare system still wants that.

Yep, saw that. I retracted my links. I am not afraid to say I’m wrong online. Thanks for the correction.

All social* systems are susceptible to bigotry, and fascistic capitalism most of all.

Labour isn’t perfect by any stretch, but pretending both sides have been equally to blame is just as unfortunate in the UK as it is in the US, Germany, Australia, and Canada. One side may be slow to put your needs to the fore, but make no mistake, the other wants you dead.

The reasons for that, though, are largely because the NHS has been under attack by the right wing for more than a decade. It was a huge inflection point for Brexit, and there’s been a major effort to break it so they can point at how broken it is.

Don’t use the NHS issues to judge how such a system would or should work for trans care. It’s been actively sabotaged.

What? And give up all that power? What reason would he have to go on living if not to inflict misery on everyone else day after day?

There’s probably a paragraph in his will insisting his corpse is propped up on the senate floor until it liquifies, just to increase everyone’s suffering.

Ya don’t say.

You’re assuming trump intends to keep the USPS. He wants to destroy/privatise it. He said so all the way back in 2021, but at the time, didn’t have a mandate to actually accomplish it.

His cronies stand to make billions if the USPS is dismantled and all mail and shipping can go through their companies instead.

Here on Lemmy, and I’ve seen it posted elsewhere (BlueSky and in an article linked on Twitter).

I’ve deleted it since the source is too iffy.

That’s why I said ‘claimed to be’ and ‘not verified’.

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