What about Putin and Trump working together the rhetoric of nuclear deterrence?

IIRC, Russia+USA = 90% of all nuclear weapons in the world.

A big whammy hammer if they (hypothetically) fight together.

I AM GROOT!

WHAT DID YOU SAY???

LUIGIDATE MUSK??

Also, if one really have the need of passing paper on the butt, then do like this guy and have your own organic green self-grown toilet paper: https://www.robingreenfield.org/growyourowntoiletpaper/

Remember that writing is also for processing (emotionally) the shit that is going on.

I know it is your work and you do with it what you want.

Even then I want to suggest just to write your voice against what is happening today in whatever way you want.

It may be in the style you imagined or you may just shelve this particular style for a while.

But writers are always needed to shout the voice of those who “can’t do so by themselves”

This is the kind of “I want my worldview reassured so I will ignore the context” behaviour that I see a lot on the right. The more I am on Lemmy, the more I see this same aporach.

Warning for everyone else: This “both sides” thing is a typical tactic used by alt-right (and even fascists)to muddy the water, making us questioning if we should punch up or down.

Yes, there are some cases where “both sides” talk may make sense.

But what determines if it makes sense or not is the following question:

“Is the criticism against punching up or is it a criticism against punching down?”

“Punching up” means punching the privileged elites (example: talking bad of shareholders for making our lives worse)

Punching down is what this comment is doing, which is making excuses for harmful behavior against a minority (Remember that human’s right are a right for any and every person)

So, remember, just like with comedy, NEVER punch down (never make the oppressed lives worser)

Do Punch Up! (Make the oppressors lose their grip)

Toque de Merda in portuguese (Touch of Mierda)

I hope it isn’t like the similarly named subreddit where the moderator was against calling Elon’s salute for what it was.

I’ll be honest and a bit jaded, These “uplifting” comunities do feel a bit like the “this is fine” meme (https://knowyourmeme.com/memes/this-is-fine)

Not that I am against uplifting news. I’m just cautious because I’ve seen a fair share of nazi dogwhistle associated with this idea.

Be careful that anti-theism may e as harmful as any fundamentalist religion: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=u3D4tMVaO7k

What I think is not that we should “abolish” religion (granted that I know you did not propose that. I’m just extrapolating from “religion is a plague”)

I think we should move to exploring different religions without holding any of them as superior to the other, or at least not judging before reading a it more on your own accord and desire.

Someone pointed about issues on buddhism, which are true issues.

But eastern religions take from buddhism, taoism and confucionism religions and it is not uncommon to take a few different takes from each one of these as one goes in their own studies.

Same way, I think the rise of pagan religions would be useful to have the idea of being exposed to different concepts of religious ideas

Or similarly, different philosophical ideas, like reading from plato, but also from hume, but also from descartes, but also from…

As long as one doesn’t stay stagnant on the same philosophical pool, there is no harm browsing (with sufficient care) other ideas.