It would be made extremely confusing on purpose to exclude people

I am sure this is true but it reminded me about that Dem a few years back that said ranked choice voting was discriminatory because POC wouldn’t understand it

Well to be completely fair the political blowback could cost them the… hey, wait.

I had no idea that Melina was on the modding team. Kinda weird that someone problematic enough to need two dedicated containment channels would have an elevated voice in the larger community.

I guess I can’t say for sure, but I think if you had a list of examples it would have been fine. I’m not religious myself, if that’s your impression I just found the thread ironic giving the OP’s statement and the initial comment rush.

I think it’s fine to say Christianity is bad, I just think doing so in a fashion that is that dismissive in a thread about “weird christian sectarianism on the left” that talks about bad analysis is maybe not the place to do it if you aren’t going to give any reasoning. That said, I didn’t intentionally call you out and I apologize for that.

This was not great phrasing on my part. Arising partly a result of spending a fair bit of time with someone who used “asshole” to mean “person selected at random” but partly because I do think that coming in evidencing the behavior the post is about with a completely dismissive take with no reasoning given is rude. In essence OP is saying they think this behavior is problematic and it is being used as an invitation to display it.

…again?

I’m not going to start blaming it on the dogma of transubstantiation or whatever, because that would be bad analysis.

Amusing that you call this out (correctly, imo) and get rewarded with a thread full of assholes tripping over themselves to say “DAE Christianity/religion bad?!” instead of any meaningful thought regarding this

, it seems like people misidentify the middle class with the working class because they literally “work”.

As I understand it “working class” encompasses anyone whose income comes from working regardless of how well off they are, as distinct from people whose income comes from owning shit (stocks or other rent seeking). Am I off base here?

Yeah this was my take as well. I was never real close to this but as far as I followed someone decided to implement rule 8 (I guess without community discussion or support?), some portion of the community made a new comm to avoid the fun police so the mods turned around and nuked both comms. Hard to think of a more condescending path

thanks.

you don’t have to do any fraud. Tariffs don’t harm the exporter and if it is still cheaper to import with the tariff than to produce domestically the company can pass the full cost of the tariff on to the customer, or even additional to obscure the actual cost now that they have cover.

what does this mean?

It’s also unclear to me how this would reduce these elements unless you think those comms made people racist and misogynistic.

Otherwise they are just exposing this which seems useful for tending the garden so to speak while also allowing people to filter the comms out if desired

anarchists have a rich oral tradition that stretches back thousands of years

“GG bro”

“soon”

but when the world needed him most, he vanished

I thought the one thing Bernie’s crowds should have made pretty clear is that there is a large contingent of people who care what’s happening and want something enough to support it but this just got memory holed into “young people don’t vote” and “the left needs to vote for Dems”. Why would these people vote? Why wouldn’t you acknowledge that you could gain some portion of the ~1/3rd of people eligible to vote who don’t? Certainly seems more likely than flipping that portion of the opposing team.

And abortion wasn’t salient

Of course it wasn’t. The Democratic party has done precisely fuck all for the last two years on this. Anything positive that happened was the result of ballot initiatives but there was zero party led attempts to protect or reinstate abortion.