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The worst thing, for me, was the raping

We already fund the research of new drugs almost entirely through publicly funded projects which then HAND OVER the patent rights to whichever company has the most former board members in the executive branch at the time.

I watched it happen in real time during covid while working for the DPH. Those companies produce NOTHING. They are the literal obstacle to creating new medicines and making them widely available.

I'm against the context of the main post but putting on a cape for medical patents is wild. The entirety of healthcare in america is inexcusable. Let's stay focused on the AI tech oligarchs robbing us of our futures and attempting to frame it as a concern with intellectual property.

Another state dept director who will disappear into the ether to never be remembered or criminally tried

We can't possibly blame Republicans for ratfucking our country 50 years straight

Oh they interviewed rufo?? Wow

Unless a socialist is gonna magically show up on your ballot, yeah lmao

I appreciate the thoughtful response. My main takeaway, and what i wanted to make clear: the opinions your parents inbued to you were just that, opinions. You disagreed, you might not have liked your parents for any number of reasons. I certainly don't like my parents, they abandoned me at 18 and became trump supporters. What they didn't do is raise you with a belief in something for the purpose of controlling you from within and without. You are free to disagree with my opinions and observations, but this is something I can tell from the way you speak and your ability to characterize yourself and your experiences growing up. You were not raised to fear a god who demanded obedience. Your parents, while having been flawed as people, did not force their opinions on you without reason like theology would have to be. They might have lacked the capability to recognize the flaws in themselves but they did you a great service by allowing you the freedom to form your own opinions that disagreed with them. This simple fact is something that religious children of religious families struggle with their entire lives.

There are people 50 years old who hated their parents and rejected their opinions but still can't fix the psychological damage that a faith based upbringing inflicted on them. Like, legitimately, I think you are experiencing a life that is completely and radically more liberated than someone raised in a religious household even if the two of you were identical in every other way. It's not a bad thing. I'm happy for you, seriously. I'm just trying to make it clear how having a secular family gives you agency you can't even percieve. It's like privilege in that sense. To you, it is just being. It seems like the rational conclusion one would come to, but without understanding how religion shapes a young mind you can't appreciate just how much freedom you possess simply by having not been exposed to religious doctrine early and frequently enough for it to manipulate your critical thinking into your adult life. That's a privilege that most people don't have, and those who don't have to work tirelessly for years or even decades to overcome their learned biases to reach the same point you or I have been at or past for most of our lives.

I hope that clears up some of my first comment. My intent was not that I was trying to exalt your parents for being atheists, but to applaud the ability to allow you to see for yourself and come to your own conclusions. Conclusions which, seemingly, went against your parents beliefs. This is the thing I was praising. I wanted to point out how much of a benefit that is to you, even if it doesn't feel like it. I hope you're having a great weekend, and I'd be happy to chat in dms if you wanted to discuss more.

So just the speech then? Nothing else to arrest him for but his speech? Very cool.

The difference between raising a child explicitly by religious doctrine and explicitly by scientific understanding of the world is, in fact, a huge difference. Yes, religious parents forcing their kid to believe in divine transmutation of water into wine and bread into the body of christ is detrimental to that child regardless of their parents dedication to their beliefs. That child is being lied to. The line is drawn where a child is being guided by falsehoods instead of factual, evidence based reality. Outsourcing your children's supervision to a self imposed panopticon is child abuse.

Your parents did the opposite. Your parents not only raised you without imposing a religion on you but gave you access to religious schooling because of its benefits. Your parents not only recognized the benefits but were willing to risk the potential psychological harms that could come from subjecting you to a religious schools curriculum. That is something that you only get from thoughtful and capable parents, which Christians by and large tend not to be. I say this from experience with every single Christian family I've ever known.

You said you're 50 years old. Imagine being 50 years old having spent every day of your life believing that an unknown deity you can never see or hear is aware of your every action and every thought in your head and that, if a single one of your thoughts or actions displeased that diety, you were going to be forced into an eternity of unknowable torment and punishment for offending your god. That is the life that Christian parents impose on their children. Convincing them, from babies, that everything they do and think is heard and judged. Fundamentally, that is wrong. Raising children in that way is not just wrong but psychologically traumatic. Even for those who "choose" to leave their faith this anxiety around being watched and judged is a permanent impediment. That's wrong, and parents should not be allowed to impose that on a child simply because they were convinced of it in their childhood.

Your story unironically proves that atheist parents are far and away better parents than religious ones. Idk how you take that and say who's to say if one's better than the other. My parents were "religious" but didn't force me into any of it. I chose to go to church with neighbors and decided it was lame so my parents never brought it up. That's what good parents who are religious should be doing. Not teaching their children to do exactly as they do.

The folks who praised Hitler transforming Germany? Say it ain't so

Turns out using regular ass cameras for your "car vision" is actually really stupid and inefficient while also not doing the job in the first place

They had lidar IN CARS when Tesla started this. My grandma's Toyota can lane monitor and maintain cruise behind traffic, why can't a tech company do that 10 years later in a car that costs $30,000 more than a corolla? Because Tesla is run by liars and conmen.

Vote for Socialists you moron quit pretending democrats were ever going to do anything to protect Americans

Oh come onnnnn no way the president, Donald Trump, would inform the billionaire cabinet working for him that he was going to do this in order for them to front run his announcement

Be realistic!!

Yeah i was wondering why the fuck spy jumped $50 in 10 minutes, makes sense this coward once again reversed course

What do you do now? Advanced waiting? Get the fuck out lmao

Boss man costco is hiring at 20/hr minimum you need to strike

All these headlines make sure to mention how illegal it was and yet I'm never seeing anyone being arrested for breaking the law

Its super fucked because they're even using it as a way to point out the real world difference it makes by saying that the Biden admin at least had oversight and inspectors general to prosecute misconduct but OOPS now they're all fired and nobody is going to stop it. Now the surveillance state is completely unmoored.

How could this happen?? I thought this wasn't the character of American democracy? I thought people were good and honest and followed the rules, so this must just be a misunderstanding?? Surely theres no way an entire administration comprised exclusively of foreign agents and bad actors would be able to abuse those systems because there were never any real rules just a general respect for the country and it's people?? We wouldn't blindly rely on the good faith of our representatives to maintain our constitution almost exclusively, RIGHT??

Wow, this was the centerpiece of all my studies on the alt right over the last decade and I never even knew. Mother Jones; never change.

Wow I guess this means everyone in the chain of command who allowed this and took part in it should be arrested and put to trial, right? Like how you would to criminals who act "wholly unlawfully" right?