boboblaw

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[–] [email protected] 7 points 2 years ago (1 children)

mystical nonsense influenced mainstream economic theory, swapping out “god” for “the market.”

Protestantism, and specifically Calvinism, were a mistake. cringe

[–] [email protected] 3 points 2 years ago

I don't think the situation described in the study counts. It's not really community support when it's coming from strangers. I'd assume the ideal would be friends, family, and members of your church praying for you.

Some randos I don't know saying they'll pray for me might just make me worry. What if they pray to the wrong god and just make it worst?

[–] [email protected] 9 points 2 years ago

Did you read the article?

Curtailing aid to Ukraine will only prolong the war, Mr Zelensky argues. And it would create risks for the West in its own backyard. There is no way of predicting how the millions of Ukrainian refugees in European countries would react to their country being abandoned. Ukrainians have generally “behaved well” and are “very grateful” to those who sheltered them. They will not forget that generosity. But it would not be a “good story” for Europe if it were to “drive these people into a corner”.

He's not saying "if we lose the war, there will be a refugee crisis". He's not talking about hypothetical future refugees.

He's saying that if the west stops supplying Ukraine, the millions of Ukrainians already in western countries will react badly.

And from there, it's not a leap to call it a threat.

[–] [email protected] 15 points 2 years ago (5 children)

Why not all of the above, and a dedicated idiot to boot?

[–] [email protected] 12 points 2 years ago (4 children)

Educate yourself or shut the fuck up. Otherwise, don't act surprised when you're ridiculed for constantly voicing worthless thoughts.

[–] [email protected] 8 points 2 years ago (1 children)

Lol there's way more of us than there are of you anti-reading shitheads. And of course when I see such aggressive anti-intellectual bullshit, I feel compelled to mock the moron who's lauding the virtues of being moronic.

[–] [email protected] 7 points 2 years ago* (last edited 2 years ago) (1 children)

Marketing lessons, lmao. You certainly have the intellectual depth of a puddle, my guy.

No one gives a shit about how much appeal our posting has for you. We're not trying to sell you anything. We're not even trying to cajole you into being a little less anti-intellectual and wilfully ignorant.

We'd rather just slap you down with a concise well cited historical source, just to make it abundantly clear to everyone else that you're an ignorant intellectually lazy non-entity who has no business getting involved. Stick to your monosyllabic social media communications, replying to the latest Facebook memes, and saying all the classic lines from Reddit.

We're not trying to get you to change, honestly I think you're much more entertaining this way. Only semi-literate and clearly too big for your boots. Please continue.

[–] [email protected] 9 points 2 years ago (1 children)

No you come to social media to jump into threads about complex topics like history, philosophy, and politics...and then engage only thru simple thought-terminating cliches.

When someone quotes a relevant passage from a history book, you arrogantly dismiss it for being completely inappropriate for a "social media" site. What is appropriate here, of course, is you weighing in on these complex topics with the correct form of communication -- an incoherent series of monosyllabic words strung together.

Now that is productive communication.

I wish you luck on your continuing mission to convince yourself that you're the articulate master of communication here, actually.

[–] [email protected] 14 points 2 years ago (1 children)

chapotraphouse

excuse me, this is fan site for the podcast Citations Needed, get your facts straight.

also lmao, when you end up calling anarchists leninists you are proving us right -- you do need to be educated about the definitions of basic terms.

[–] [email protected] 17 points 2 years ago (2 children)

this movement you have here

my dude, this is an internet forum. despite what some may think, this site is not in fact the front lines of the movement that will bring about communism.

so I don't think anyone gives two shits about convincing you of anything. best I can dream of is getting you to learn the definitions of words like "prole".

[–] [email protected] 24 points 2 years ago

Verbosity is the soul of wit.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 2 years ago

Is there another app you'd suggest instead? Signal seems to work well for OP's use case.

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