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YappyMonotheist @ ArgumentativeMonotheist @lemmy.world
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Reddit bought giant ads in Paris, urging people to join

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  • There's big money behind it now, I guess. 🤷

    • France’s Macron calls for major hike in defence spending: ‘To be free, we must be feared’

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  • The Western European ethos stays strong!

    • Does anyone truly think times are better now than 30 years ago? (US)

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  • For the middle aged white American or...? Even then, the question seems to mean more as words than as an actual inquiry. It's just too big of a question for it to mean anything. 30 years ago different brown people were getting bombed, for instance!

    • Have you ever downvoted your own post or comment?

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  • Why would I? I'd rather just reply to that comment/edit it and say something like "my bad, I brainfarted and misunderstood everything!".

    • Keep your chin up

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    • There's a lot of freedom at first as a soldier to realize that you could put down so much evil in the world until you realize you might actually be putting evil into the world.

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  • If you're one of those brave dudes trying to hit aircraft with old rocket launchers while sprinting in your flipflops, you're almost certainly putting down evil, sure.

    • There's a lot of freedom at first as a soldier to realize that you could put down so much evil in the world until you realize you might actually be putting evil into the world.

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  • I mean, there are soldiers fighting for their countries' safety today! They're just not the ones thousands of kilometres away from home (they might be piloting drones on the other side of the world, I guess, lol), of course.

    • I'm curious.

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  • If you're in the middle of nowhere, with your small loving tribe, and don't know much about whatever ongoing genocide and needless destruction, or about capitalism and the depraved, Diddy-level hedonism, you might sleep better at night than those who do but also feel powerless to change it. What about having terminal cancer? Wouldn't it be better to just live your last days in happy ignorance? Information is a double-edged sword, basically, and when you know A, you hate A and you also 'know'/feel unable to change A, it's just poison.

    • In media, women seem to scream while men take to action

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  • There are situations in which this will happen, just like there are situations in which women will remain calm while a majority of men will lose their minds (I'm sure there are some male Vs female global statistics on physical violence that show it, lol). No-one is calm and reasonable all the time. 🤷

    • How do you effectively counter serious cognitive dissonance in loved ones?

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  • The best way, IME, is to know exactly in which ways these people are mistaken so you can ask the right questions until they're eventually left with untenable conclusions/information that doesn't fit reality. And it definitely helps if you state at all times that you're worried about the person, that you're not doing this because someone's paying you or for the fun of it but out of concern, that you could be chilling or doing anything else but you're here hoping you can get through to them, etc etc. But even then, at any moment they can just have a small 'frustration aneurysm' and leave the path of logic behind... In the end, we can't 'force' people to believe in what we believe in, regardless of how much sense it makes and/or how useful it would be for them; either we're open and clear minded enough to be reasonable or we're not. 🤷

    • Lemmy, what's the meaning, or point if you prefer, of life? I know 42, but I'm serious. Nothing lasts, everything is meaningless - are we just amusing ourselves until death?

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  • They've been asked since we started thinking BIGLY until today, so they don't seem that "irrelevant"... 😉

    • Lemmy, what's the meaning, or point if you prefer, of life? I know 42, but I'm serious. Nothing lasts, everything is meaningless - are we just amusing ourselves until death?

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  • "Why am I here" is the question that precedes "Why is ANYTHING here?!", and I think that to answer both (or even consider them as valid questions, as you pointed out!) with any degree of 'objectivity' (because if not you can always just go with "it's whatever you want the answer to be!") you're gonna need to go through that external uncreated intelligence...Y'all know where I'm going with this. 😅

    • Lemmy, what's the meaning, or point if you prefer, of life? I know 42, but I'm serious. Nothing lasts, everything is meaningless - are we just amusing ourselves until death?

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  • Congrats and thank you!

    • Lemmy, what's the meaning, or point if you prefer, of life? I know 42, but I'm serious. Nothing lasts, everything is meaningless - are we just amusing ourselves until death?

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  • Life is/can be very enjoyable, but hedonism in itself is vacuous and ultimately unfulfilling. Make sure your existence is a net positive for the world and at least you'll not only be glad you lived, you'll also be glad YOU lived. Mmmhh. I guess in the end I can't say anything more useful than the Solomonic principle: "fear God and keep His commandments, for this is the whole duty of man". 🤷

    • No, this is not the first time my account has not even lasted an hour and has already been deleted. Damn reddit

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  • It's also an American propaganda site and an echo chamber for "white"/Western European supremacists! And they also have lame in-jokes, lol. I remember when the worst part of Reddit was the last thing I mentioned... 🥲

    • People angry that Superman represents kindness are outright admitting that they don't want to be good people

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  • If only the circumstances that spawned them would change too...

    • People angry that Superman represents kindness are outright admitting that they don't want to be good people

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  • Being selfless, kind and peaceful even when powerful quite literally goes against the Western ethos and to deny it is to deny not only history but contemporary Western societies as well (from the neverending colonization of the world, native American genocide included, to the recent "empathy is a sin" take, lol).

    • Silence Before the Choice: Diplomacy or Point of No Return

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  • Read: America and most of the West, through Israel, will continue the colonization project of the Middle East that started about a century ago and, although it hasn't always been easy, they're as committed to the genocide, pillaging and displacement in the region as they were when the project started. Empires will empire, the rest is wind and sweet words for the ignorant masses.

    • Star Wars is an ode to the stupidest use of battle lasers

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  • The OG trilogy was an interesting-enough drama with a vibrant setting, made groundbreaking by their special effects. Everything else in the franchise was made to sell toys, with maybe one or two exceptions. It's not supposed to be taken seriously like that, I think...

    • short meme for today.

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  • Yeah but the shareholders made a buck!