Musk fans don’t want humanity to advance. They hate technological progress.

Black Panther was seemingly made for the sake of being the MCU’s first black-lead movie. And it’s great. Drag can’t think of any other movies made for the sake of being woke, so we’ll just have to rely on this sample size of 1 which says woke movies are awesome.

No shields. They’ll attract Shai-Hulud.

Congratulations, you’ve solved racism

Actually, it’s an equation, an equivalence, or an equivocation.

To be fair many dogs and cats dress the same way.

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I don’t like them putting chemicals in the water that turn the fricking frogs trans

Weep, you girls. My penis has given you up. Now it penetrates men’s behinds. Goodbye, wondrous femininity!

Amplicatus, I know that Icarus is buggering you. Salvius wrote this.

Theophilus, don’t perform oral sex on girls against the city wall like a dog

I have buggered men

Secundus likes to screw boys.

If anyone sits here, let him read this first of all: if anyone wants a screw, he should look for Attice; she costs 4 sestertii.

The one who buggers a fire burns his penis

The problem is that modlogs form a permanent record on Lemmy. Drag didn’t encourage suicide. The c/trans people don’t believe drag encouraged suicide. That issue was cleared up. But there’s still a permanent note saying drag encouraged suicide. It’s a lie. They could take back the lie by unbanning drag, and they could even ban drag again with the true reason. But the true reason is a secret, so they’re choosing to keep lying. It’s messed up.

White girls shouldn’t have to compete against black girls for scholarships. It’s not fair. <- the same person, born 50 years earlier

When drag was growing up, all of the siblings had assigned controllers. Drag made sure of that. The little ones got to touch their own greasy filth, and drag’s was nice and clean. If drag had to touch a sibling’s controller, drag needed to wash drag’s claws or it wouldn’t feel right.

“Sonic Hedgehog killed my child” is a way better story than measles or leukemia. In terms of parents of dead children, those parents have it the best.

Because people like Catoblepas keep saying they’re good mods.

Drag has been diagnosed with disorders that are just named after some guy, and it was boring. The kids who get told they have Sonic Hedgehog mutation are lucky. If all of our disorders had fun names, then it wouldn’t be taboo.

Drag has had a negative experience with the moderation on that community.

So drag got banned due to a moderator misunderstanding a comment drag made on an entirely different community. Drag contacted the mods and cleared up the misunderstanding, and drag is no longer accused of encouraging suicide. However, there are now secret accusations against drag that the moderators won’t share and that aren’t in the modlog. Banning people for secret reasons and refusing to allow appeals is messed up.

we run into the issue of the world being sacrificed to intangible ideas, which is bad

Oh, you don’t need religion for that. Most of the world already worships The Economy and would rather destroy all life on earth than hurt The Economy.

This is certainly what I’m thinking of when someones wants me to accept even the existence of a god: that they defy the limits of the world and thus deserve attention

Why though? There are so many counterexamples to both of those. Most western religions don’t say that gods defy the limits of the world in any way. Thor doesn’t defy the limits of the world when he summons lightning with Mjolnir, for example. In fact, Thor has to wear special bracers that protect him from the hammer’s power. Prometheus still has to follow the commands of his king even though he’s a god, and when he doesn’t, he gets chained up and eaten by vultures. Even Jesus needs to sacrifice himself on the cross in order to satisfy the Old Laws and get everyone into heaven. None of these gods exist outside the world, they’re all bound to its rules. It’s just that when you have a magic hammer, the rules are a little more permissive. Just like the rules for humans have been more permissive ever since humans figured out antibiotics and aircraft. The gods, in nearly all religions, are just powerful people or creatures. And often they’re not even powerful. Shinto has 8 million Kami. And while Kami aren’t exactly what most people think of when they say “god”, we’re talking about divine beings in general, right? Some Kami are just… the spirit of this one river here. The worst thing they can possibly do to you is give you turbulence when you cross the river in your boat. Or maybe make too much silt deposit in the soil on the banks of the river and spoil the farmland over a few generations. If your family has been farming that riverbank for generations, you should definitely cultivate a good relationship with the river god. Otherwise, it doesn’t matter. That Kami has no more power than Village Idiot Tetsu who accidentally dropped a bag of salt on your land while he was taking a shortcut back from the market. You should also be polite to Tetsu, because he’s your neighbour and it’s the right thing to do. Tetsu is just a guy and the river kami is also just a guy, who happens to be nonhuman.

Drag forgot what drag’s point was.

It sounds like you’re not an antitheist. You’re just an antheist - someone who thinks divinity and worship relationships are not inherently self justifying, and must instead justify themselves through good work. An antitheist opposes gods for being gods and wants them all disbelieved in. An antheist is suspicious of gods, but can be convinced to accept them if they’re good people.

Drag recognises that the Patriarchy is a destructive and oppressive force built upon male supremacy, but drag doesn’t oppose the existence of men because of it. Drag has met plenty of good men. So drag takes the time to learn whether a man is sexist before judging him. Drag supports men who engage in healthy and positive masculinity. Drag supports good male role models like Bob Ross, Carl Sagan, and Tim Walz.

Supporting good examples is just as important as opposing bad examples. Because you can’t generally change whether someone is a man, or whether they’re religious. But you can change how they engage with masculinity or worship.

Drag has a theory about why antitheists attack all gods, despite not having any logical arguments against gods like yours. Drag thinks it’s because they’re Christians. Cultural Christians. No belief in Jesus, but they still celebrate Christmas and Easter and think abortion and divorce are wrong and all the other Christian beliefs. Christians don’t believe in any god but Deus, and white antitheists agree. They believe in Deus enough to make counterarguments, but they don’t even dignify your god with that much respect. They’re doing a Christianity.

Yeah, and there’s the Asgard, and Oma Desala. Stargate doesn’t unilaterally dismiss the concept of good gods at all. Teal’c might have some baggage about respecting any kind of god, but the rest of the team only cares about the “no masters” part.