they’re right, jesus was a apocryphal story forced down everyone’s throat and your defense paints navalny as a self-important martyr figure and google paints him as a xenophobic homophobe w a martr complex; whatever chance you had to edify the uninformed was lost in this bizarre jesus-christo-stupidity thing you decided to wrap into navalny’s behavior.
Jesus was forced down everyone’s throat regardless of what you believe; so I fail to see the comparison.
There has to have been a better way; Russia is already too lousy w needless & pointless deaths.
But what did he do besides let himself be executed pointlessy?
i know i couldn’t do the same and i struggle to understand why it’s amazing or why he did it.
did this guy have sort of trump like distortion field that made him believe he was the chosen one or did he do something to earn his fame? what was he hoping to accomplish by going back? was he expecting to pull off a napoleon and that people would join his side on his return?
i don’t expect a constructive response from you based on your post history in this thread; but maybe someone else can edify me since google makes him look much worse than the american media.
i’m glad they updated this poor dog’s story in the movies; the thought of him abondoned outside the pizza place for 12 years is heartbreaking.
I hate to be pessimistic, but I don’t think any American politician would take on this topic.
it’s only pessimism if it’s not true and there are plenty of demonstrably true public examples to guarantee that this isn’t pessimism; it’s reality that sounds like pessimism.
i think the real indictment is how we treat people who refuse to participate and die for the profit of the already rich; the government treats them with imprisonment while the rest of us treat them like a coward for standing up for themselves in thoroughly fucked up system…
I always loved the end of Star Trek VI.
the last scene just as the view screen w sulu and the excelsior crew shut off and the camera switches the enterprise crew at their stations plus the empty station that sulu would have been in if he were still on the enterprise does it for me and when kirk orders “second star to the right and straight on 'till morning” gives me goosebumps every single time.
i wish i had advice to offer you, but i’m in a similar boat with my senior cat.
i was devastated when my senior dogs & cats passed away and i was able to weather it each time it happened thanks entirely to my other pets commiserating with me; my 16 year old cat is the last one left alive and he’s been by my side through all of those deaths.
the bar for approval to get another pet from the shelter is far too high; too long; and too invasive were i live for my attempts to be successful, so i’ve only adopted pets that i found on the streets and those that others wanted to surrender to the shelter.
i’m on the spectrum which makes human relationships very difficult to create and maintain, which means that my cat is my life.
i cannot express how much i dread the inevitable day that i have to see him suffering once he gets ill and i have to decide to it’s best to end his life.
i hope you’re better prepared than i am.
linux, vegans, leftists, etc.; doesn’t matter if they’re right, just fuck 'em. lol
you’re right; my diagnosis is recent and i haven spent enough time learning about it.
i’m too autistic to care about other people’s feelings when i share my political opinions and my post history is littered with it especially since my life has also been heavily impacted by clinton enacting don’t ask don’t tell; biden extolling executive order 10450; clinton, bush jr, obama, trump and biden’s immigration policies; the country’s student loan debt situation created by biden’s student loan act; biden using the inflation reduction action to block truly affordable EV’s; and biden banning tiktok.
i’ll save you the trouble of going through my post history and give you a tldr: both clintons & biden are shit stains in this country’s political history and have fucked me over much more than trump could ever fantasize about; even with project 2025. i also wish kamala was better so that i could vote for her, but she’s seems hellbent on make sure that i don’t; so i’m 99% sure i’ll end up voting for the green party again as i have done in the past 12 years, but this time around i’m deeply touched that nearly all of the people who know and care about me will be doing something similar thanks to my proselytizing.
a doma enabled deportation of my life partner 12 years ago.
it was a life altering event that turned me from a liberal into a leftist.
Men used to wear booty shorts and belly shirts like some women do today; if they bothered with a shirt at all publicly and it was all 100% A OKAY; abs/pecs or not
i was wondering what you said since i can only see that it was removed.
i’ve used milderer sarcasm than you have and my own comments have likewise been removed; i suspect that the fraught relationship that lemmy.world has with the rest of the lemmyverse is fueling overzealous moderation.
that and A People’s History of the United States informs most of what i know.
i also marvel from time to time at how the bullshit that i was taught when i was young can still completely overpower the things i learned in my young adulthood; and it somehow got worse once i reached middle age.
if we’re lucky, there’s be a paragraph about it between to the paragraph about the trail of tears and the other paragraph about martin luther king jr in american history books.
– and even then they mean places like montopolis; where phrases like “keep austin wierd” means something still; everywhere else is just a bedroom neighborhood.
with biden helping
that’s too simple of an explanation for me and life is usually not that simple. that’s why i engaged with the clearly outward supporter; but it turns out they can’t past jesus and have no more knowledge about the situation than i do.