It is a sect of Christianity, but a fair amount of protestants don’t like to acknowledge that. I grew up in a very Presbyterian family, and I straight up didn’t know that Catholics were Christians until I was an adult because I was always taught that they were sinners who were obsessed with meaningless rituals, who worshipped the virgin Mary and saints rather than god (i.e. “false idols”), etc.

I’m no longer religious, but my family still is and my mom - to this day - refuses to acknowledge the fact that Catholics are Christians.

My pup straight up skinned a squirrel a few weeks after we adopted her.

…sooo I’m a decently attractive (child-free) lady that’s historically been this way with my partners (granted, not every day. Basically all of my relationships have been long-term, so y’know, sometimes the mood just isn’t there).

This is the first time I’ve heard of the mom fetish, and it also made me feel weird lol. But also made me reflect on why I’ve always kinda been that way, and wonder if this is maybe subconsciously the reason?

Turns out, the answer is a solid “no” lol.

I definitely had an upbringing that conditioned me to be the type of person that serves others. And so as I grew up, I guess that turned into a way that I show interest/love.

So maybe it was a similar thing for your girl? Ooooor maybe she was REALLY into feeling like a mom lol. The world may never know.

Hard disagree.

I get why people insist on comparing bad things to other things to gauge the level of bad - especially when we’re talking about America. I say this as an American who was also spoon-fed the bullshit that America is “the greatest country in the world”.

But I feel like the sentiment of “America is such a shitshow, we should focus on that and nothing else” is doing us all (regular people) a disservice, and creates something of a red herring.

Instead of having a single spotlight on America, maybe we should be looking at the shit state of an overwhelmingly majority of the world and ask ourselves why the fuck shit is as bad as it is.

How (and why???) does horrible/evil shit continuously prevail? Throughout all of human history, we as a species tend to get caught up in prejudice and useless (read: fucking stupid) hate.

At least to me, this feels like a pattern. Every generation of humans have a majority fall into the same dumbass bullshit (although the execution and severity of it varies).

Fuck America. From its shitty-ass origins all the way to its shitty-ass current state. But also fuck most other countries for a lit of the same shit.

There’s this saying that people that should be in power are typically the ones that really don’t want it, and therefore don’t pursue it and/or reject it. This is the root cause of the problem. The ones that want power badly enough to be in politics (or in some cases resort to violence to seize it) tend to be the worst kinds of people. And they are the ones running the world.

I lost my dad (whom I was very close with) at 15, and my mom made my life extremely hard and confusing after that… I think I’d be mostly happy at how seemingly well-adjusted i am.

I’m objectively well-off, but turns out i care far more about non-financial things.