Not really. They were certainly white supremacists and hated Jews, but Christianity didn’t really play a big role in their ideology. They spent a lot more time supressing local churches than going on about how christian they are, and many of them were very interested in pagan religions.

recent conviction of initiating physical violence

Which is pretty easy to get if you attend protests and the government intents to effectively ban leftist activists from having legal access to guns. Wrongfully charging protesters with resisting arrest is already commonplace in many EU countries, and “the protesters started it” is standard fare when people ask why the police attacked a peaceful protest. If activists started arming themselves, they would definitely use these, especially if they took them to protests (though that would be illegal anyway in my country).

So what you’re saying is, we basically can’t have strong gun laws until our political systems are deeply changed in one way or another?

15 year old cars. I don’t believe in throwaway culture. Plus I hate new cars so there’s that.

When you put it like that, I can actually get behind that. New cars are absurd with all their electronics and non-fixability.

But you can’t start your scenario from after there’s already a fully placed authoritarian government in place. If you’re starting from there then there’s no actual law about anything at all anyway, guns or otherwise.

Fair enough. I guess it depends on how authoritarian and anti-progressive you think most western governments were before they started to tune into the Trump bs; it’s a completely different conversation if you think that we need a revolution before enacting strong gun control laws.

And secondly, you’re arguing as if strong gun control laws means a gun ban, which aren’t at all the same thing.

It’s really easy to declare someone who belongs to a political movement or politicized minority as ‘not fit for gun ownership’, the further away from the current political center the easier.

The issue with strong gun control laws is that they would definitely be leveraged by authoritarian governments against the interests of the common people. I’m not really a fan of complete gun ownership freedom, but even in the not-quite-as-overtly-fascist past of US politics, it’s been conspicuous how often state gun laws were tightened when minorities started arming themselves, while the ‘white men shooting up schools’-issue is pretty much being ignored.

Damn, a lot of people wouldn’t have learned a reasonable lesson from that interaction …

I think all the inter-instance drama on Lemmy shows pretty well that people don’t need money to enter filter bubbles. I don’t think you can even see this comment lol

Western politicians have become increasingly mask-off. I remember back in the early 00s, national politicians in my country stepped down because they used frequent flyer miles from flights for official purposes for private purposes. Nowadays, they get exposed for blatant corruption, power misuse and even serial rape and just carry on.

… why do you have 3 of them?

If we’re free to redefine “religion” as we see fit, I declare breathing a religion.

I want to note that none of this was valid science, the results were worthless because they prioritized torture and didn’t document their “experiments” and their results properly. Same for medical Nazi “research”.

Though it’s true that you don’t need religion to do evil acts.

Idk why we’ve reached the point where anyone saying they’re anything but an atheist has to specify that they aren’t a bigot

Most “spiritual” people adhere to one of the big organized religions, and those kinda suck in general and are rarely content to leave nonbelievers in peace.

Arsestralia lol

Kinda depends on the specific reasons.

Who does that “for personal or political reasons”? I know that it’s sometimes done because there are a lot of hacking attempts but few to none genuine users from certain countries.

“old” also means less healthy. No one wants to have backpain and the like, though the particular issue here is probably just the vanity of not wanting to look old (e.g. aged skin, thinning hair, those “I have pain in my back/legs/etc.”-postures, or even just having an outdated sense of style).

This stereotype isn’t China-specific, though. For Japan, the cutoff point would be WW2, which is the same as for most of Europe.

Interesting, seems like a very gendered issue.

Don’t east asian countries put tons of value on seniority? Is this changing, is china just not like that, or is there something else that I’m misunderstanding?

I feel like that depends on the specific issue and social dynamic between the individuals. e.g. two people can talk each other into getting really fucking drunk or do a stupid dare. People might pretend to know more than they do, refuse to back down on a point because of pride, reach a compromise that’s worse than what either of the two think/do would do on their own.

If they can mostly avoid these, they can absolutely become smarter than either of them alone by combining their knowledge, thinking things through that they otherwise wouldn’t etc.

Personally, when it comes to artistic endeavors, I work way more efficiently when I’m working with others instead of alone. Similar dynamic can emerge when you’re discussing some kind of issue.