“I would rather be first in the puppy photoshoot than second in Rome”

• Caesar

In case of my previous cat, it was ALWAYS a trap (i still did it, some blood is a cheap price to pet a kitty’s belly), but my current cat loves belly rubs.

A feed of culture.

Reverse bread

First pic reminds me how when i had a dental surgery and my cat was very insistent with getting me a cat compress on my face.

Which serves as evidence against a religion, if their symbols and scriptures are not immune to the efforts of propagandists to change their meaning.

Christianity and buddhism even had huge conclaves where they were doing just that. As a bonus on one of them original Santa Claus allegedly smashed the face of heretic bishop Arius.

It was actually the other way, religion was the ideological superstructure for the first class societies and states forming. Originally, as observed in the ancient Egypt and Mesopotamia religion gain power as communities were formed around common labour and consumption. The first organised cults were the fertility and agriculture gods, first temples were granaries and the priestly class started as granary managers, and that position allowed them to gather and increase their power. Especially visible in case of Mesopotamia where those origins stayed visible way into the written history period.

That is, religion was justification for the strong to become stronger and rule over weaker, and a way for rich to trick poor into not killing them and not taking stuff that was stolen back. Note that even thousands years later even nominally secular state power still had supernatural justification, divine right, mandate of heavens and so on.

Nah i don’t give a shit about karma i’m just genuinly depressed people are this angry and petty. But then again it’s not really surprising since it’s mostly coming from the US bootlickers.

It also skews the point of downvotes even as disagree button.

Reddit made it so you can’t downvote from a profile page, it simply wouldn’t count.

I didn’t know that lol, support my theory of some places (.world for example) being really worse than reddit.

Yeah, but look how it started. You need to look at the WW1, when both USA and Japan were among the victors and had the same area in their expansion view. For example Lenin predicted in 1918 that the Pacific war will eventually happen, though it ultimately started later than he thought because invasion of China occupied Japan attention.

Interestingly enough for the same reason US-Japan war could be avoided for more time, but it’s actually the US who decided the time, note how they established the embargo on Japan in late june to 1st august 1941, in the exact moment when Japanese military was occupied, their nazi ally pour all effort into invading USSR and Japan even refused to join that war basically breaking that alliance. Said embargo was absolutely devastating for Japan, it would force them to grind their entire empire to sudden halt in half year, so they have a choice between collapse and war on USA. The only thing US was mistaken about was how competent the Japanese military actually was (not weird considering the racism in US) which led to their their initial string of victories in 1942.

So yeah, that was the one time US was on the correct side of history but the motivation was to gobble up the Pacific for their empire, and they pushed up pretty cold bloodedly for it.

Well, if you mention the incubators…

Finally a bigger ukulele

Wow, do so many people believe Lemmy user are that much different than Reddit user?

Some are, but some are even worse than reddit, for example the cursed reddit custom of profile downvote… actually never happened to me on reddit but here it’s constant.

It’s just capitalism working as intended.

It should open some eyes on who stands where but alas it isn’t.

Austrasia. As you can see, it’s not a thing anymore.

As a Pole i can relate being confused by sudden exposure to Czech language.

At least Austrasia isn’t a thing anymore.

If they don’t understand completely clear genocide happening they should maybe shut up rather than support the genocider in circular centrist way.

Ukrainian one was pretty bad (as in every postsocialist country after decades of defunding and partial privatizing) even before the war, but probably still much better than the one in USA for poor people.

Soon