going insane hearing talk about whether harris did enough to “earn” votes. no candidate has ever or can ever earn my vote because a vote is not a payment i send to a politician and it’s stupid to think about it like it is. exact same thinking error that leads to people talking about not voting like it’s a boycott. if anyone earned my vote it’s the people i tried to use that vote to protect
you never owed kamala harris anything. you owed it to your fellow citizens of the world to vote for harris.
kamala harris is not even close to being the person who would have benefited most from her winning the election, and she’s even farther from being the person who will be hurt the most by her loss, which makes thinking about it in terms of “but did she deserve my vote?” disastrously stupid. she simply is not the person whose deserving matters at all here
Since we’re getting into “did you know that Santa’s eight tiny reindeer are a reference to the eight legs of Odin’s steed?” season once again, remember: while there are some elements of Christmas (or Hallowe’en, or Easter, or…) observations that are probably pre-Christian in origin, before one believes any of that this-is-really-100%-just-a-Pagan-holiday-with-the-serial-numbers-filed-off stuff, one must consider all of the following possibilities:
Our earliest known records of the cited pre-Christian practices were written down by some random Christian monk centuries after the fact, and we genuinely have no idea how accurate this account is, to what extent the apparent similarities with Christian practice are due to the author deliberately or unwittingly putting a Christian spin on it, or indeed, whether they were just making shit up.
The similarities between the two sets of practices have been exaggerated or misrepresented by Christian writers who were bent for prefiguration theology (i.e., the idea that the Bible echoes backwards in time and pre-Christian religious practices were unwittingly imitating future Christian practices).
The similarities between the two sets of practices have been exaggerated or misrepresented by Protestant writers who believe that all Pagan deities are Satan in disguise, so they think that if they can prove that Catholic practices are secretly Pagan in origin, that proves that Catholics are secretly Satanists.
The similarities between the two sets of practices have been exaggerated or misrepresented by overzealous mythographers trying to prove that all mythology and religion throughout all of human history is secretly a single unified monomyth; if it’s pre-Victorian, expect shades of prefiguration theology, while if it’s post-Victorian, expect a lot of stuff about the Collective Unconscious.
A bunch of 19th Century proto-Fascists were trying to construct a pre-Jewish cultural identity (and considered Christianity to be tainted by association), but didn’t want to give up any of the fun rituals, so they made some shit up about how it was still okay to do Christmas because something something Odin, or whatever.
A bunch of early 20th Century Pagan reconstructionists filled in the gaps in their understanding of pre-Christian ritual with culturally Christian assumptions, then turned around and pointed at their own accidentally Christianised reconstructions as evidence that Christian practices are derived from them.
A bunch of late 20th Century self-help manual authors trying to break into the occult bookstore market by uncritically repeating any or all of the above.
a woman on the internet just said men are trash so i guess the only choice left for me is to become a neonazi. patriarchy hurts men too, but not as bad as the famously powerful and mainstream online leftist faction.
several women online said they are tired of living in a rape culture and they wish men would stop raping women. i’ve never raped anyone and i think rape is bad, but what’s worse is how i feel individually bullied by this claim. why would women do this to me? why can’t they be nicer? why can’t you smile, honey? don’t women realize if they keep talking about rape and rapists i might get sad and be forced vote against their civil rights? joe rogan would never hurt me like this.
amhrancas 