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  • I’m not as critical of his term as president because I don’t think anyone really voted for him as president. He was the Trump blocker.

    I never expected him to be a competent or good president so I never put that expectation on him.

    His purpose was to be a transitionary president, keep Trump out of office for those 4 years while he spotlights and elevates the profile of exciting young democrats and guides the discussion towards hope and excitement in the upcoming primary, where a popular progressive candidate could spark a nationwide discussion and get everyone excited about the democrats for 8 more years.

    It seemed like everyone understood this when he was elected. I don’t know what happened. I don’t know if it was Biden’s ego, or if his handlers manipulated him to keep a job, but his decision to run again was the utmost betrayal of democracy, singlehandedly decimated any possible democratic victory, and destroyed any chance of a positive legacy.

    All he had to do was just go away and his legacy would have been secure.




  • if I were there would be proof that’s why your example is a false equivalence.

    Not necessarily. This is lemmy, you’re on a completely anonymous account. I wouldn’t expect to have any proof.

    Maybe you just didn’t get caught yet.

    If the Christian God exists, for example, there would be no way of knowing for certain

    I was willing to grant you the philosophical God argument, but if you want to evoke the Christian God you’re now making a whole bunch of positive claims.

    Why don’t we look at the evolutionary record and see whether all of humanity comes from Adam and Eve or if animals evolved from a common ancestor?

    We can look for evidence of a flood, or an exodus and see there is none.

    We can track the history of Yahweh, and how he was syncretized with El and Baal from Caananite faiths, and morphed over centuries from a local Storm/war God to the only God.

    The early Israelites engaged in polytheistic practices that were common across ancient Semitic religion, because the Israelite religion was a derivative of the Canaanite religion and included a variety of deities from it, including El, Asherah, and Baal. Initially a lesser deity among the Cannanite pantheon, Yahweh in later centuries became conflated with El; Yahweh took on El’s place as head of the pantheon of the Israelite religion, El’s consort Asherah, and El-linked epithets, such as ʾĒl Šadday (אֵל שַׁדַּי‎), came to be applied to Yahweh alone. Characteristics of other deities, such as Asherah and Baal, were also selectively absorbed in conceptions of Yahweh.

    https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Yahweh

    We can compare the contradictions between the behavior of the Old Testament God and Jesus to conclude like early Christians such as Marcion of Sinope Yahweh and Christianity are incompatible

    Study of the Hebrew Bible, along with received writings circulating in the nascent Church, led Marcion to conclude that many of the teachings of Jesus were incompatible with the actions of Yahweh, characterized as the belligerent god of the Hebrew Bible. Marcion responded by developing a ditheistic system of belief around the year 144.

    https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Marcion_of_Sinope

    We can compare the Gospels and see where they copied stories from the Iliad/Odyssey.

    Odyssey Location Mark Location

    Athena descends like a bird 1.319-324 Spirit descends like a dove 2:1-2 Sailors volunteer to follow Athena 2.383-413 Fishermen volunteer to follow Jesus 1:16-20 Nestor’s feast for 4500 men 3.1-68 Jesus’s feast for 5000 men 6:30-44 Menelaus’s wedding feast 4.1-67 Jesus’s feast for 4000 8:1-9 Odysseus enters city behind mules 6.252-261 Jesus enters city on an ass 11:1-11 Alcinous’s prolific figs trees 7.112-121 Jesus curses unprolific fig tree 11:12-14 Blind Demodocus among sailors 8.471-473 Blind man at “House-of-fisherman” 8:22-26 Lotus-eating, forgetful comrades 9.62-107 Forgetful disciples at sea 8:19-21 Polyphemus the cave-dweller 9.105-525 Dangerous demoniac from caves 5:1-20 Aeolus’s bag of winds and gale 10.1-55 Jesus calms winds and sea 4:35-41 Cannibals at the harbor 10.76-136 Hostile Pharisees at the harbor 8:10-13 Following a water carrier to dinner 10.100-116 Following a water carrier to dinner 14:12-16 Circe turns soldiers into swine 10.135-465 Jesus sends demons into swine 5:1-20 Odysseus’s last supper before Hades 10.546-561 Jesus’s last super and Gethsemane 14:32-42 Death of young Elpenor 10.546-560 Flight of naked young man 14:43-52 Blind seer Tiresias 11.90-94 Blind seer Bartimaeus 10:46-52 Death of Agamemnon at a feast 11.409-430 Death of the Baptist at a feast 6:14-29 Burial of Elpenor at dawn 12.1-5 Young man at tomb at dawn 16:1-4 Eurylochus’s vow 12.298-305 Peter’s vow 14:26-31 Eurylochus’s broken vow 12.367-396 Peter’s broken vow 14:66-72 Eumaeus’s Phoenician nurse 15.417-491 Syrophoenician woman 7:24-30 Odysseus’s transfiguration 16.172-301 Jesus’s transfiguration 9:2-13 Suitors plot to kill Telemachus 16.383-385 Vinedressers kill the beloved son 12:1-12 Conspiracy to kill Telemachus 17.182-213 Conspiracy to kill Jesus 14:10-11 Penelope’s hospitality 17.534-547 Generous widow at temple 12:41-42 Irus the beggar 18.1-94 Barabbas the brigand 15:6-15 Telemachus’s amazement at house 19.35-43 Disciples’ amazement at temple 13:1-2 Penelope’s request for a sign 19.102-271 Disciples’ request for a sign 13:3-8 Prophetic oak at Dodona 19.296-307 Prophetic fig tree 13:28-31 Eurycleia washes her master 19.370-575 Woman anoints Jesus 14:3-9 Eurycleia’s recognition of Odysseus 19.474-486 Peter’s recognition of the Messiah 8:27-30 Odysseus slays suitors in his house 22.17-86 Jesus expels merchants from temple 11:15-19 Contested authority over the house 22.221-233 Contested authority over the temple 11:27-33 Odysseus hacks to death evil slave 22.474-477 Bystander slices off a slave’s ear 14:43-5

    https://testimonia.pl/wp-content/uploads/2023/01/MacDonald.Mimesis.pdf

    Or also where they contradict each other

    If you spend enough time focusing on the truth of this you will eventually conclude you cannot prove your belief like they cannot prove theirs so neither side has anything demonstrable.

    I don’t think theist Christians would agree with that though. Quoting Tertullian:

    We do not worship your gods, because we know that there are no such beings. This, therefore, is what you should do: you should call on us to demonstrate their non-existence, and thereby prove that they have no claim to adoration; for only if your gods were truly so, would there be any obligation to render divine homage to them. And punishment even were due to Christians, if it were made plain that those to whom they refused all worship were indeed divine. But you say, They are gods. We protest and appeal from yourselves to your knowledge; let that judge us; let that condemn us, if it can deny that all these gods of yours were but men.

    https://www.newadvent.org/fathers/0301.htm

    When it comes to a philosophical creator god I agree with your statement, this view describes agnostic atheism.


  • The assertion that there is no God cannot be proven as you cannot prove a negative.

    Correct, no one argued that.

    There assertion that there is a divine entity cannot be logically demonstrated in any valid way logically speaking.

    Correct again.

    The validity of either claim cannot be tested and thus have the same overall value and it is a matter of which you choose to accept.

    Do you really mean that?

    If I were to accuse you of something terrible like being a child molester with absolutely zero evidence…

    That’s valid? You can deny it, but your denial is of equal value to my accusation right? So if everyone in this comment section chooses to believe you molester children from now on… do you have a problem with that?

    The reason I’m an atheist is the same reason I don’t believe you’re a child molester yet. I think there is a burden of proof of evidence that would need to be met before the accusation needs to be taken seriously.


  • What instruments do you play?

    Better approach is to calm yourself by sincerely accepting that you will miss one note and just follow through - mind blank.

    Many licks are built off scale structures. If your fingering is off for one note, then means every note in the scale might be one note off.

    if you do miss a note, it’s fine, you’ve already accepted it.

    It’s only fine when you’ve got your fingering back and you know where you are on your instrument again.

    On piano for example, its not only about the note but which finger lands on the note. Having your middle finger where you expect your index can mess you up even if you played all the right notes up until then.

    On guitar you need to know which fret you’re on.

    I have to agree with the other user practice is the way to go here. No amount of confidence can make up for the skill that comes with hard work.


  • You don’t seem to realize she is the victim of horrific hate campaigns, having her personal information including address and kids school doxxed, her account through which she makes her income hacked and deleted, she’s been stalked, threatened and harassed, etc.

    I’m over here trying to talk about internet security.

    If you’re just looking for reasons to dislike her then go circlejerk somewhere else


  • She doesn’t practice OPSEC because she has an OF that exists?

    If she didn’t want her nudes to be publicly accessibly, uploading them publicly on social media could be considered bad OPSEC.

    I must be really out of the loop. What is her business that results in her having _enemy intelligence?

    Oh, I guess you are, sorry. Like I was saying in my last comment, there’s a lot of “lore”.

    Her primary business is through her comics. She actually turned making a business into a comic itself.

    https://www.reddit.com/user/Pizzacakecomic/comments/1jaby6v/comment/mqri41h/?context=3

    I’ll quote the enemy intelligence part from an r/outoftheloop thread. You can read the whole thing if you’re interested about the events of her most recent hack/doxxing about a week ago.

    Her account got hacked by users from soyjack party, an imageboard like 4chan. She has said that the hackers deleted her account. They found her password and email and caused chaos, including leaking private reddit messages and are likely testing other accounts as well.

    I don’t know what this current flavor of doxxing is, because her name has been known for some time. However, In January her home address became semi-public information based on her “Pizzacake Comics Inc.” business licence in Canada. This was recently discovered, along with her current login details.

    https://www.reddit.com/r/OutOfTheLoop/comments/1kio389/whats_going_on_with_pizza_cake/

    From a recent comment, she has only now set up 2FA.

    yes I have 2 factor authentication and finger print id setup for stuff now with a whole new number!

    https://www.reddit.com/user/Pizzacakecomic/comments/1kipftd/comment/mrgpabo/

    I really hate how much talking about internet security comes across as victim blaming but not having 2FA set up as a public celebrity who is constantly being attacked is once again bad OPSEC.


  • What?

    A “paragon of virtue” is a person who is considered a perfect example of goodness and moral excellence. It implies they possess a high degree of admirable qualities like honesty, kindness, and justice, making them a role model of good character. The phrase is often used to describe someone who is perceived as flawless or exceptionally virtuous.

    I never used this term sorry, I’m not sure what you’re reading.

    She has children an online business so she has to be a paragon of virtue have basic OPSEC?

    Yes, everyone should practice OPSEC, but a public “celebrity” who’s sole business is online doubly so.

    Operations security (OPSEC) is a process that identifies critical information to determine whether friendly actions can be observed by enemy intelligence, determines if information obtained by adversaries could be interpreted to be useful to them, and then executes selected measures that eliminate or reduce adversary exploitation of friendly critical information.

    A parent should simply include their kids in the calculus.


  • I fail to understand why posting a pair of tits is such a controversial thing to do

    Pizzacake makes a lot of feminist leaning comics which heavily criticize the patriarchy, male objectification of women and “creepy” men who comment sexual things towards women.

    In light of that, a lot of people find it hypocritical that she’d sell pictures of herself online for dudes to jerk off to when that’s the exact opposite audience her comics tries to appeal to.

    When the leak first happened, she presented the narrative as though her consent was violated and she was being sexually harassed by having private nudes released. When people found out that she was selling the photos publicy for money, suddenly it became aparent we werent talking about sexual abuse we were talking about piracy. It got a lot of people irritated for having been mislead, and then they started asking why the photos were there in the first place.

    If she knows that she is the target of harassment campaigns, a lot of people are confused as to why she would post her nudes in a public space and not expect them to leak.

    Given the fact she is a public figure who regularly makes comics out of her children, regularly gets doxxed and is targetted by hate, you would expect her to be a bit smarter about what she puts online. She’s been online for years but seeks to lack basic understanding of cause and effect online (or else she understands it all too well and plays the victim perfectly to promote herself by baiting outrage incredibly effectively).

    The part of it that bothers me personally is that there are kids involved and there is a 100% chance that all the kids at her son’s school know and have looked up these nudes and her son probably gets bullied about it.