This place feels dead

Maybe from where you’re standing, but here on .ml, with one foot in the “Tankie Triad” and the other with a pretty broad view of the rest of the fediverse, it feels quite active.

Pickles are phallic, like girl dick, and also that Reddit meme from a few years ago about spiro making girls crave pickles.

Checkmate Atheists

Specifically he made a show for them, out of a closet, that got decently popular. So, they were going to give him a new show with a bigger budget, called something like Agitprop.

That show was cancelled before it really got off the ground, because Hasan made his “America Deserved 9/11” comment, and Cenk paraded out Hasan to explain himself in a bizarre attempt at what felt like a humiliation ritual.

So after that, Hasan bailed from TYT and started doing his own thing on Twitch. Now that he’s bigger than TYT ever was, Cenk seems incredibly jealous. And the "network, such as it exists, has been making these strange right wing pivots in order to try and garner a new audience, and its not working.

EVERYONE is getting one? Bruh, that is simply not the case, don’t make stuff up

Hyperbole is a rhetorical device

might be a bit Luddite in theme though

Hey, at least it would be a theme one would have to think about. Which is more I cam say for TLoK’s half baked, lib-brained, “themes”

he’s basically a Tsarist’s idea of a communist

I can’t believe Amon made everyone share one giant blanket 😔

What is it about making your most anti-authoritarian characters into cops? They did the same shit to DW when Arthur ended.

Justice for anarchist little girls everywhere 😔

Lmao dipshit, the definition you linked specifically says that “Sky Daddy” refers to the Christian God. When I gave theologies that very much weren’t Christian and asked if those were “Sky Daddy” theologies too, you said Yes.

So which is it?

Anything, I’m taking them for a ride. It’s been fun tbh. But I am admittedly bored, all I’ll probably leave it be for now lmao

Oooh, didn’t answer any of the questions I asked. That’s a big fat Zero on your exam!

If you’re so right, you’re still welcome to prove it to me. But I actually did look it up, and it seems like you’re wrong ¯\(ツ)/¯

I really hate people like you. Willfully ignorant dipshits who think they’re so smart. What? Just because they don’t believe in God? You have the intellectual depth of a puddle, and the curiosity of a dead rat.

These “New Atheist” types aren’t out here, because they actually care about not believing in God, they care about upholding western imperialism. Dipshits like you were sold the War on Terror with vague appeals to a liberal atheism that upholds so-called “western values”, and they all ate it up, hook line and sinker, until every New Atheist dipshit was standing side-by-side with evangelical freaks who believed that war in the Middle East would bring about the rapture.

Maybe you should take your own advice and “look it up”. Gain some curiosity about the world before you’re duped into the next imperial blood bath

You wanna elaborate on that, bucko?

You clearly aren’t a very curious person, but I am, and I’m having fun. All of those are “Sky Daddy” theologies? How so? Define “Sky Daddy” theology. What’s a possible argument one could make for these theological positions not being “Sky Daddy”?

Remember to answer every part of the essay question, or you won’t get full points!

So, when a Shinto practitioner worships the animist spirit which he believes resides within Mt. Fuji, so that the crops he’s growing at its base might yield a fruitful harvest, that’s the same thing as “Sky Daddy” theology?

When an adivasi Hindu gets small pox and she believes that the affliction is her communing with the goddess Sītala, is that the same thing as “Sky Daddy” theology?

When a Wiccan performs a ritual to the Horned God who is a god of hunting, the underworld, (and is himself a mediator between an unknowable supreme deity and the people) so they might have a successful fishing trip. Is that “Sky Daddy” theology?

When a Muslim theologian says that, “God is completely different from whatever comes to your mind concerning Him” and that the nature of God is incomprehensible to human minds. Is that “Sky Daddy” theology?

I looked it up like you told me to. And none of this sounds very “Sky Daddy” to me

Damn, that’s a real convincing argument you got there.

Any cursory understanding of world religions and theology will tell you that this “Sky Daddy” view of divinity is incredibly rare. Not only because not all religions are monotheistic, but even among monotheists, conceptions of God are incredibly varied and diverse.

I think what irks me about this kind of ‘New Atheism’ common in Western internet spaces (which frankly, I thought was a decade+ out of vogue by now) is that it isn’t simply a lack of God belief, but a specific disbelief in the God of American Evangelical Protestantism that somehow manages to retain so much of the philosophical underpinnings of the thing supposedly being rejected.

When Sam Harris famously said, “Islam is the motherload of bad ideas” he’s rooting that position in, not only War-on-terror Imperial chauvanism and racism, but also on the very Protestant idea that right beliefs are what bring about salvation.

Of course, the secular version of this idea eschews God. But it replaces faith with belief in so-called Western Values, and Salvation with ‘backward’ nations of the global south being enfolded into the sphere of western liberal hegemony.

Its not, but thanks for playing

It’s not at all difficult to explain

But if we acknowledge that, how is OP gonna get away with posting this 2009-ass r/atheism meme?

Jewish god is a monster…fortunately he does not exist. Believe what you want, but for me, this is proof that atheism is the correct choice…because this evil is committed in the name of the Jewish god…who is also the Christian and Muslim god

Ok, but before you get too high on that horse, it’s worth pointing out that plenty of the most violent Zionists have themselves been atheist, secular Jews.

Most of Zionism’s progenitors were basing their ideology around fascistic race science of the time. Not on any God-Belief. They believed that European Jews, by virtue of being a diaspora, were a degraded culture that could only be regenerated through colonizing a new homeland for themselves.

To this day, Israel treats non-European Jews incredibly poorly (still not as bad as Palestinians though), regardless of how culturally or religiously dedicated they are, because Zionism is an ideology of ethnic supremacy more than anything else.

The Ones Who Jump Off Omelas

Something I’ve always appreciated about the original Star Wars is just how close to McQuarie’s concept art the final character and set design ended up being. It’s such a triumph of practical effects, and it’s a shame that George Lucas decided to ruin it with subsequent releases

I have a copy of this little pamphlet called Fugitive Gardens, which is all about gardening in small spaces, such as a fire escape.

PS3 emulation is such a seamless experience. Even on my Batocera machine (which can be a tad clunky to set up backbend stuff at times), it runs like a dream