My headcanon is that only replicated things can be reabsorbed like that, bc otherwise you’re right and almost everything can be recycled. maybe it’s not efficient enough to do with random rocks, but if that’s the case then I don’t see how a stopwatch could be a meaningful amount of energy

I meant to reply a lot sooner, I’ve just had a busy week and I didn’t have a ton of time to give this a proper answer

I totally agree that there’s nothing supernatural, that’s kinda my whole point. I also totally agree that the power of religion is the same power any rhetoric or story or anything (I think that’s what you’re saying). I can understand metaphors, I just can’t make myself believe those metaphors are literally real, and that’s a core part of most religious and spiritual beliefs I’ve seen. Idk if I’ve ever met a religious person who didn’t literally believe in at least some element of their faith. Most don’t take it as 100% literally as evangelical christians, but most christians believe god is a literal guy who creates and/or guides everyone and everything.

Not all religions and beliefs are metaphorical, and not believing in those things had nothing to do with rejecting its metaphors. Again, you’re making sweeping, wildly inaccurate judgements about atheists and why we are what we are. It has nothing to do with fearing functions or not getting metaphors. If you’re saying every religion is “supposed” to be taken metaphorically and not literally, then 1. you’re literally describing being a nonbeliever, and 2. it’s just not true, there are a ton of religions you’re expected to take literally

I don’t care about repulsing any religions, I just don’t believe in them. Atheism =/= antitheism. It’s not reactionary not believing in a religion, it’s just the default state of being. I’ve seen religions I could see myself being a part of just based on their philosophy, I just can’t force myself to believe in the supernatural elements of it. There’s nothing wrong with religion, I just can’t truthfully call myself a believer in any that I’ve heard of.

I’ll be up front and say I’m not reading a 10 paragraph essay on religion, so don’t bother replying like that unless you don’t care if I read it. Just please, don’t be ignorant and assume everyone’s (or even most people’s) atheism is driven by hate or misunderstanding of religion. It’s literally just not believing in in a religion, it’s not any deeper than that for at least 99% of atheists. You should engage with atheists in good faith instead of making blanket statements about us, you’ve got weird assumptions about us that need challenging

Liberals have had over eight years to steady the ship, and they’ve spent that time alienating marginalized people and progressives and going farther and farther right with afaik no real resistance to trump. They’ve spent those eight years proving that we can’t trust them at all to stop fascism or repair its damage. We should probably be pushing progressive democrats to start a new party with other more left people (though I’d fully expect republicans and the remaining democrats to team up and destroy their campaign so idk)

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Nah :/ I’m getting better but I still struggle with not being aggressive like this.

edit there was a bunch more aggressive stuff I wrote here and on other comments, maybe I should leave them up idk. i just don’t wanna gunk up the fediverse with rambling about a stupid grudge I have

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"Palestinian protestors chose to discourage voters from voting for “genocide Joe”. " there were a bunch who didn’t tho. Afaik most pro-palestine protestors voted for Kamala, including Palestinians. And again, even if they’re a small group (I’m pretty sure they’re the majority) why are you bringing it up in every discussion about Palestine? Do you think we were all vocally against Biden, or are you saying nobody should’ve protested the genocide in the first place, or shouldn’t have blamed it on Biden?

You only give a shit insofar at you can use it as a bludgeon to beat every Palestinian over the head with. Unless there some other reason why you’re so desperate to remind people “Palestinians deserve this for supporting Trump” multiple times on multiple posts?

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It’s not even that deep down anymore cx at this point dems are literally at/right of Reagan on a ton of issues, and certainly more supportive of Israel

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So this is why liberals don’t give a shit about this?

Damn y’all really are straight evil. “Some of these people didn’t side with me politically, so fuck all of them” literally not even trying to beat the “left wing of fascism” allegations.

First they came for the Palestinians. I didn’t speak out because some of them voted for Trump so fuck all of them. You know how the rest goes, and hopefully you’re smart enough to know that that supporting or staying silent on this is horrible for everyone, even wh-te l-berals like you

I’ve never heard of one that peaches any “woke shit”, but maybe they did and there aren’t a lot of trump supporters there

How the heck does cutting DEI programs matter to a megachurch? That’s literally the opposite of turning their back to that community considering how they predominantly voted. Are they confused and think Target is still wOkE?

That’s a cool thing for the pastor to go out on before getting defrocked, like quitting a police job by joining BLM protests. Hopefully most churchgoers’ hateful reactions will motivate the others against trump

After finishing reading it it kinda seems like a “leopards ate my face” deal, and I guess I’ll take those lol

“I AM ONLY POINTING OUT THE RIDICULOUSNESS OF GATEKEEPING APPS BASED ON THR ABILITY TO SEE PEOPLES NAMES. AND THAT THEIR COMENT HISTORY IS RIFE WITH REMOVALS AND BANS- INDICATING THEY ARE A TROLL.” False. You and everyone else started on them before other apps were ever brought up, and I’ll admit that was kinda silly for them to get upset about. But don’t act like this is about that when it’s very clearly not. And all you have to do to get comments removed or get banned is disagree with the mods of any major instance, like by saying trans people or Palestinians deserve rights on a .world comm or not liking fascism or the taliban on .ml. Doesn’t mean shit about whether or not someone is a troll or a sock puppet, but go ahead and research it since they and I are living rent free in your head rn.

“NOTHING IN MY COMMENT HAS ANYTHING AT ALL TO DO WITH TRANSGENDERISM IN ANY CAPACITY.” Then how come people being misgendered is just a difference in opinion to you? Why did you get so upset about them just correcting a case of misgendering? If you’re cool with trans people, surely you’re cool with pointing out when somebody gets misgendered and won’t freak out if somebody does

“Who downvoted me? My words need to be respected” is a hell of a way to misconstrue somebody wondering why correcting a blatant case of misgendering got them shit tons of hate. Again, why the hate for that unless they’re against respecting trans people? This isn’t any more clever than when Nazis say “oh everyone is a Nazi to you” while flying a swastika. The fact that you think disrespect is the proper response to respecting trans people says a fucking lot about you and all the other cissies in these replies.

Are you done? Or have you not gotten tired of defending and downplaying transphobic bullshit on the Internet?

Nothing screams mature like one or two dozen comments dogpiling someone who corrected what looked like super blatant misgendering. Why is it so important to dogpile somebody who corrected misgendering? Why not just move on like a normal person and not act like downvoting someone for pointing out misgendering isn’t weird?

In the off chance you’re not arguing in bad faith here, seriously what’s the point of this? Somebody corrected some misgendering that looked blatant and pointed, and didn’t even have that strong a reaction to it, and you and like 20 others downvoted and dogpiled them for it. Why? And it started before lemmy apps were even brought up, so that’s not it. If you or anyone else who downvoted think trans people deserve respect, why are you spending so much energy punishing someone for respecting a trans person’s pronouns? Explain how downvoting someone into oblivion for correcting misgendering does anything good for trans rights

Hey look, a liberal that doesn’t like queer people! Who could’ve guessed :D

Very convenient how you skirt around why people are actually downvoting the person saying you shouldn’t misgender people. When the way people “see the world differently than you” is that they think trans people’s identities don’t deserve respect, they’re not owed a respectful response