Going to be non-pc on with the term but surprise, surprise-- religion evolved on Chinese whispers. The words and texts are mistranslated from one language to another over generations, which is not different to many internet translators being wrong when you re-translate some words and sentences over and over from one language to another, and then another.

Kudos to the ancient Israelites calling out pederasty. A Jewish-Roman historian by the name of Josephus noted that children clearly did not like the custom (although how newly born male children are circumcised by rabbis is not good either). Even to this day, go to the poorest parts of South East Asia, where children are being trafficked and pimped, with many hebo- and pedophiles proudly walking with their chest high since they have the power over children, while these children are visibily distraught. I can’t imagine the trauma that they have.

Exactly. In my opinion there is no social justice without economic justice. The two come together.

I’ve also seen a decent share of deaf food delivery people for the same reason.

That is news to me. It is actually sounds equitable to me to give deaf people such jobs. It reminds me of when the South Korean Supreme Court ruled in favour of only allowing blind folks to become massage therapists in S.Korea, because it is only one of the few jobs that blind people could do without being hindered by disability and have a means for living. And it doesn’t make the client feel uncomfortable if the massage therapist can’t see well so it’s a win-win for everyone. The policy is actually a legacy of Japanese colonialism, which is only one of a handful of colonial policies that proved to be a net positive for Korea.

I could say the same to you. It’s a broader trend that migrants from global south do plenty of delivery jobs. I’m not trying to discount your experience, but there are exceptions and outliers when it comes to statistics. Since you mentioned you are from PNW, just look across the border to Canada, and an often complain by racists is Indians working in convenience stores or delivery. And I’m like “what are you complaining? Who’s going to do delivery for you or serve you in shops?” Same thing here in Europe, Indians working in convenience stores and South Americans delivering. The racists complain of poc migrants doing low skill job and not integrating, and yet can’t live without ordering migrants to deliver food for them or working in shops. Britain has had issue of shortage of truck drivers after Brexit, especially during the pandemic. You’d think the white Britons who voted to leave the EU would learn their lesson, and yet they are close to electing a far right, anti-immigrant party that cosies up to Russia into power.

Not sure where you’re from, but it is becoming increasingly common in the West that non-white immigrants from the global south tend to do delivery jobs. It’s not necessarily that it’s racist, it’s just that locals don’t want to do these jobs and immigrants do them instead.

A lot of countries are increasingly overreaching with privacy. There is global-wide coordination going on that we haven’t seen since the leftist international during Cold War, but this time it’s coming from the right.

Even if it’s a choice, why do some people think it’s selfish not to have kids? Is it from religious reasons?

Before the war, ordinary Russians were slowly getting fed up with Putin. As per the dictator’s playbook, Putin is stoking the base tribalism of the citizens to distract them from his government’s own corruption. The world respects Russia, it’s only that the world doesn’t respect him.

I told you I will switch to Graphene OS, you don’t have to sell it to me.

Just like Saudi Arabia hosting COP-21.

The word robot literally came from Czech word “robota” meaning slave.

There are bidets and Japanese automated bidet toilets available to be installed. But as South Park noted, many parts of the world still use toilet paper because of propaganda from big toilet paper!

As a South East Asian, we clean our ass with water and soap. The first time I pooped outside of home was when I was a toddler during school. The restroom next to my classroom had a tap water and a bucket with “dipper” (according to translation, that’s what it’s called). We would wash our nethers by scooping the water with “dipper” from the bucket and then clean our hole with soap. It was awkward doing it outside of home, and I have mentally trained my mind to avoid pooping outside of home. Weirdly enough, it worked because I only feel that “terrible need” when at home. A dad’s friend also has the same mindset as me. While driving us home, my friend told his dad there are public toilets he could use if he really needs it badly. The dad said he doesn’t want to poop outside the house.

The second and last time I pooped outside of home was years ago as an adult at work. Emigrating to Europe, I had to use toilet tissue, but I felt dirty not cleaning my asshole with water and soap. Good thing it was near the end of my shift at that time and went home shortly.

no idea how he got picked to host a TV show.

The American media intentionally give airtime to dumb individuals.

Piracy saves money

Precisely. I don’t see torrenting wrong if you really can’t afford digital streaming or games. Netflix has made piracy less popular when it first came out, but with the proliferation of copy cat rival services, piracy became vogue again.

I prefer not to torrent games unless the game is owned by huge asshole companies like EA or Ubisoft. These big companies could absorb financial losses from torrenting because there are always idiots who will pay for their bog standard games. Small devs should be supported instead (also, small time filmmakers should be supported by paying to see their movies as well).

My friends think I am rich despite circumstances. But no, I just save money by torrenting. I use the money that I don’t buy essentials with, on learning new skills, socialising and developing hobbies. My rule of not buying new games until I clear a portion of my backlog is working on not going on impulse buying that my friends tend to do. A couple of my friends are pretty frivolous and complain when they don’t have savings. A lot of younger folks still think that the environment that allowed boomers to spend money and enjoy their youths, buy a house, get married and then raise a family with couple of kids still applies. Now, we have to sacrifice one over the other and this is what I have been telling people in my generation.

They are very good at breaking things, but they don’t know how to create anything of value.

Typical fascists. It’s all grandiose and talk. If one reads the history of Nazi and fascist policies, they tend to wing it. Fascism is a reaction and antithesis to rationalism. In that sense, why would they have a plan at all? Okay, maybe with Heritage Foundation, they have a plan, but overall it is about regression which ultimately doesn’t make sense apart from being an emotional reaction to caring about lgbt, migrants and social welfare.

Not really. It’s more about what options are there. Of course, the left argue whether through peaceful or a violent revolution. Personally, I see violence only as the last resort. But even so, we argue what the catalyst should be for an open revolution. While Trump’s ICE kidnappings and brazen violation of constitution could clearly warrant a revolution, it is clear he is provoking people to give him legal grounds to incite the insurrection act, and consolidate his power.

Misogyny is still alive and well in spite of the times.

Blame capitalism as much as we want, but in this case it isn’t some nebulous boogeyman. Who are the people supporting capitalism? Who are the people selling meat to the meat industry? The same people who I am talking about. There is naïveté that farmers don’t have a hand in exacerbating climate change. Holistically, we are all to blame.

Wow, 72.6% is a landslide!