I mean, could the devil have actually won and handed him the fiddle as a gift, to confuse him into thinking he wouldn't burn in hell when he died? That way it comes as a fun surprise
The thing that's done the most to restore some kind of faith in me, is the fact that stories of the antichrist include people who pretend they are good Christians following him. The closest I can come to Christ is if I call most "Christians" I hear "antichrist-ians".
Absolutely. In 2020 I asked the biggest trump supporter I know if he was better off then or four years ago. It's not the fairest question, but I knew that then. There's a lot of circumstances that effect it.
In 2020 he had no job (for years), was living with his mother, and swore he was keeping track of his "debt" with her that totalled in the tens of thousands. In 2016 he had a job, and had his own apartment. He said he was doing better in 2020.
In 2024 he had a higher paying job than he ever had before, and had bought a house. I didn't ask him the question though. I was pretty sure I knew what he would say. He did say he was glad RFK would make us label our food ... As he was drinking a soda that had the ingredients labeled, like most of our food.(Oh or is it the "natural and artificial ingredient" secret recipe crap that's killing us that you still can see on the label and avoid, and not the high fructose corn syrup with 120 percent your daily allotment?)
I'd say that's detaching from reality when politics get concerned.
If they are going to punish a news organization for a perceived slight, then every other organization would be scared to report, make the press in fact not free
The term incel came from a bisexual woman around 20 years ago. I think she started a support group online for it. The problem was that most of the people who wanted help, got it and left. This left... the people who would not be helped and that's what it is. Still the original incel I believe ended up with a woman, it just so happened that she was one.
Kind of like what happened after the initial violence in the fall of the roman republic. It started with sword point power grabs, but as time went on, they stopped ever trying to get any power back into the senate, and eventually bled out so much power that we don't even know when the last meeting was. They just became so irrelevant.
I completely agree with what you said about Hitler. In fact, even worse. His stealing of the word socialism for his own purposes did major damage to the concept people had of socialism. Calling a system that exploits workers and laborers socialism, when the whole idea was to put the workers in charge, damages the idea in people's minds.
I mean the target of one's fascism is not the same fascism. It's one that is arbitrarily less "correct". For example the Slovenian fascists turned on the Germans, and the Germans turned on Vichy as soon as it suited them. My point was being "antagonistic" to fascist groups doesn't mean you "cannot" be one. It is correct they did turn on their leftmost group after they'd served there purpose. They still (wrongly) called themselves socialist afterwards though. I wonder if anyone else could have done that.
People lie about it in my experience. I work in government and in education. I've received our "DEI" training. I'm in the very heart of it, and all I've seen is that it's the exact thing that the people who complain about it say (sometimes) that they want instead. They (probably say but don't necessarily mean) that we should hire based on merit and not race. Well guess what? My dei training is watching a video where: some boss says "I don't want to hire Ahmed ", his subordinate says "but he's the best candidate" and his boss says "yeah but he's Indian" freeze frame, question on what you should do, play video saying to hire him if he's the most qualified guy.
Maybe your experience is different, but I'm in an organization that is what gets pointed to the hardest as "the problem" by these people, and I have seen what they describe. Maybe it's different for HR, but are you in our HR department, or have you just "heard about it"
I mean, could the devil have actually won and handed him the fiddle as a gift, to confuse him into thinking he wouldn't burn in hell when he died? That way it comes as a fun surprise