CileTheSane @ CileTheSane @lemmy.ca

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3 billion is nothing.

Cool, can I borrow $3 billion?

Trump put tariffs on uninhibited islands, which is literally $0 in trade.

You have to remember the people doing this are fucking idiots who have convinced themselves they're smarter than everyone else.

Every time I think they're hiring rock bottom they bring out stronger drills.

So 100% on brand for Trump and America in general

Okay, I have a business offer for you: you deliver me a package of cookies every day and I'll pay you $1 million at the end of the month. Great offer right?

"We don't need other countries!"

"Hey, you other countries can't do that, we need you!"

We never wanted to attack Christianity or masculinity

To those accustomed to privilege, equality feels like oppression.

And they might decide on a whim that the contract is no longer valid for reasons made up yesterday.

Doesn't matter how much money the contract promises you if you can't know if it's going to be honoured.

What are the odds Trump signs an executive order saying "Schimel won"?

People are telling you why Elon.

This is the top post on my feed from 'all'.

"Election is so rigged they managed to win dispite all the rigging we were doing!"

You presented the argument that "religion has to be anti-science". Finding a non-insignificant number of scientists that are religious disproves that. It does not matter where they came from, but here's another study that polls 8 different countries:

https://journals.sagepub.com/doi/full/10.1177/2378023116664353

The lowest % that identifies with some religious affiliation is France at 30%. That's significantly more than the 0% one would expect from your statement "Religion has to be anti-science" because if it was all religion that was anti-science you wouldn't find any overlap at all.

Edit: This is my fault. I'm trying to use studies and science to discredit someone's firmly held personal beliefs. Something I just said is a waste of time.

You can't put the Nazi back in the bottle.

He'll just create another company to purchase the failing company from himself, pocket the money he paid himself, and write it off on taxes.

This is all perfectly normal and signs of a functioning country.

A big portion of MAGA voters are saying "this isn't what I voted for". People need to not respond to that with "yes it is" and rejecting them.

"We agree this is wrong. Help us stop it."

You contradict yourself:

I cannot think of any examples of Science, or any scientist, trying to influence what religion teaches, or what the followers of that religion believe.

There will always be people using Science to denounce bad teachings from the church

The most charitable interpretation I can give you is that "scientists" aren't trying to use science to discredit the religion, "people" are.

So people who understand science aren't trying to use science to attack religion, people who don't understand science are, which was my original point. Just like it's people who don't understand science that try to use religion to attack it.

I didn't claim it doesn't happen from either science or religion. I claimed the people doing it don't understand and it's a pointless waste of time.

I recognize that you're discussing the current state of affairs on the current political and social landscape.

Yes. Historically speaking everything is terrible. There is a long history of Science doing terrible and unethical experiments. There is a long history of governments doing terrible things. There is a long history of immoral and cruel laws. The history of humanity is full of atrocities.
This does not mean Science, Politics, Law, and Humanity should be by default considered bad. People who used Religion to attack Science were dumb as fuck then and are dumb as fuck now.

Science is happy to let entire swaths of people deny what they say and believe whatever the hell they want. Science and scientists will proceed with the information they have; nobody cares what you think your sky daddy has to say about it.

So if science doesn't care (which I agree with by the way) then making memes that imply science cares is a waste of time. Not only that, by acting like science cares and has something to say about religion it implies that religion has something to say about science. Instead of treating them like they have nothing to do with each other, it invites more "Religion vs Science" BS.

What logical fallacy? The fact that the US is a very religious study doesn't change the fact that they have scientists that are religious. If religion was anti-science then you wouldn't have scientists that are religious, regardless of how religious the country is.

You're the one committing the fallacy. How religious the the country is has no barring on the argument presented.

Point me to any country on the map that's a theocracy and I'll show you how they brutalize their population.

FTFY. Don't tell me it's "some bad apples", clearly all government's are bad.

religion shouldn't be allowed to interfere in other people's lives, should not have any say in how a goverment runs and how laws get passed and should be forced to pay taxes like any other business

I agree 100%. I don't know what you think you're arguing against because I never said otherwise.

Jesus fucking christ, religion IS a group

The Taliban and Buddhists have very different beliefs. If you're trying to argue that they are part of the same "group" seeking political power and social control then you are either an idiot or completely disingenuous. I am not the one being dishonest here if you're saying they're the same group.