Russia is influencing all democracies

Also taxation means representation. It’s not that churches should be taxed, they should be stripped of their status for political activity. I do not want any church having the right to representation in my secular government

Did it happen this year?

Yeah he went to church with Mary and the kids, believed in a higher power and talked about it often in his speeches he just disliked organized religion

There should be no prayer in a secular institution

It’s a place for running a government not magical thinking

A secular nation shouldn’t be having in house prayers from any denomination.

There’s more ICE agents on the street than protesters

You can get a nice little tool that will do the job as well, it’s good to have one in your car incase you ever need to break a wi how to get out asap, they’re dirt cheap and they will shatter the window from inside as well as out

The article says they want enough to shelter a million people, “everyone” isn’t the goal

Considering how unprecedented things have been I’m not sure pointing to the past as what to expect in the future makes much sense anymore

I’ve been a Bernie supporter for well over a decade but based on his age I would no longer vote for him to be president but I still support him as a political figure

Meditation is how you learn to break this cycle

If the reason EE is shutting down due to lack of staff why would anyone go to a smaller one/one run by a single person? This is incredibly likely to happen there too. I didn’t actually realize this was a thing that could even happen, I just picked an instance at random, but picking the biggest and most robust instance seems like the best way to stave this off for as long as possible.

Decentralization is a double edged sword, you just have to accept you give up some things to get other things.

With all the communists you think it wouldn’t be an issue if all you have to do is put in more work at your own expense

And how? I came here due to full reddit ban not cause I knew anything about the platform and wanted in, it I do like the platform and I’m glad I was “forced” to try it. Except I didn’t, and don’t, know what instances are, why they matter beyond “decentralization” and I just picked one at random because I didn’t realize your “instance” could just be removed… if an instance can be removed/shut down it doesn’t seem like any instance is actually a safe place to go since it’s not depended on me but whoever is running it? You can lose your account no matter what. Idk if this means I should try to figure this out, which is just make a new account I think? Or if this is a sign for me to give up my last social media outlet and just be done with reddit/reddit clones in general

“Ukrainians didn’t directly endanger themselves and their long term military plans to inform unrelated enemy nation”

This first time I saw this headline I was like “YEAH, why would they???”

No US weaponry was used in this righteous attack either, literally no reason to put the US in the loop

She’s absolutely high as a kite