“Atheists” who make themselves, or the State, a swap-in replacement for God(s) are not much different from purely religious authorities who abuse their positions. It is apparently a common kind of power-seeking Dark Trait.

The Leviathan theory of the state – the Motherland who is greater than us, who we would die for as cells die to preserve the body, and whose Exegeses come from the Great Leader/Supreme Council/President for Life.

It’s exactly the same play on faith and credulity and servility that religions use.

Bingo.

I have way more respect for ravers at Burning Man who OD on Ecstasy while dancing naked and copulating for 14 hours straight.

At least they enjoyed their completely unproductive dalliance

Atheists don’t need to disprove theists any more than they need to disprove Leprechauns. The burden of proof is on the one making the positive assertion.

Geez Donald wouldn’t it be awesome to have kickass fighters like that on our side?!?

May I introduce your barbaric uncivilized ass to the ideas of “voting” and “education”

However it divides up, I want to be on the side that has scientists and vaccines

I’d echo this. Syncthing is widely used because it Just Works in so many weird situations. So if it is Not Working, swapping out Syncthing might actually make the problem harder to solve.

People who care about privacy use Monero specifically

It plays to his anti-intellectual base: “See? We are finally pw0ning those effete libs and putting the money into the trades.”

(You know you could put a lot of people through trade school for the cost of one big military parade, and not have to give up f’ing cancer research)

Depends on what kinds of new narratives and role models they find to latch on to. They are currently in an information bubble created largely by Russia, China, and Iran. I’d love to see a liberal democratic media machine to counter Putin’s Agency

This. It’s not so much your IP address that identifies you; it’s your browser fingerprint

https://coveryourtracks.eff.org/

TBH if the economy crashes HARD for the next 3.5 years that may help wean some MAGA away from their FOX/OAN/RT propaganda bubble

You don’t need to be in the USA to fight.

The fight was won by Russian troll farms operating in Iran. https://www.nytimes.com/2015/06/07/magazine/the-agency.html

Thank you Trump for making me actually read what the idiotic religious zealot mullahs have to say because next to you these clowns actually may have something insightful

“Overextended?”

Dude, Trump just sold hundreds of thousands of Nvidias to the Middle East with a wink and a nudge, everyone in my sphere knows those AI data centers will be renting time to CCCP controlled entities.

Source: I work at a company that helps build AI data centers

I SAID I WAS AN AMERICAN!

What makes you think I can spell foreign names?!?!

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American here doing some last minute pre-shortage shopping online.

Sweatpants… Hanes is USA, Gildan is Canadian. Got 3 Gildans.

Underarmor … ah this particular shirt is made in China, purchased 3.

… and so on

It is very important to get facts straight here. Misinformation/disinformation craft was perfected in modern form by Authoritarians states Russia, Iran, and China

https://www.nytimes.com/2015/06/07/magazine/the-agency.html?unlocked_article_code=1.G08.UIIg.WSPtsLXgW2BM