It is a sect of Christianity, but a fair amount of protestants don’t like to acknowledge that. I grew up in a very Presbyterian family, and I straight up didn’t know that Catholics were Christians until I was an adult because I was always taught that they were sinners who were obsessed with meaningless rituals, who worshipped the virgin Mary and saints rather than god (i.e. “false idols”), etc.

I’m no longer religious, but my family still is and my mom - to this day - refuses to acknowledge the fact that Catholics are Christians.

My pup straight up skinned a squirrel a few weeks after we adopted her.

Hard disagree.

I get why people insist on comparing bad things to other things to gauge the level of bad - especially when we’re talking about America. I say this as an American who was also spoon-fed the bullshit that America is “the greatest country in the world”.

But I feel like the sentiment of “America is such a shitshow, we should focus on that and nothing else” is doing us all (regular people) a disservice, and creates something of a red herring.

Instead of having a single spotlight on America, maybe we should be looking at the shit state of an overwhelmingly majority of the world and ask ourselves why the fuck shit is as bad as it is.

How (and why???) does horrible/evil shit continuously prevail? Throughout all of human history, we as a species tend to get caught up in prejudice and useless (read: fucking stupid) hate.

At least to me, this feels like a pattern. Every generation of humans have a majority fall into the same dumbass bullshit (although the execution and severity of it varies).

Fuck America. From its shitty-ass origins all the way to its shitty-ass current state. But also fuck most other countries for a lit of the same shit.

There’s this saying that people that should be in power are typically the ones that really don’t want it, and therefore don’t pursue it and/or reject it. This is the root cause of the problem. The ones that want power badly enough to be in politics (or in some cases resort to violence to seize it) tend to be the worst kinds of people. And they are the ones running the world.

Idk if you’ve seen Euphoria, but that’s the show that really made me like her as an actress. Didn’t think much of her before.

I’m really struggling to imagine this.

I think it’s rather fitting Edit: not a frump fan, nor am I a Christian. Was being facetious.

Nah, the face plant years are where you just skip the hand and directly slam your face into the nearest surface because of the off-the-charts level of absurdity you’re hearing. More fitting for the current state of things.

I see what you’re getting at - if we’re gonna allow our citizens freedom of speech, this is part of what it looks like. For the record, these dumb ass takes on my LGBTQ+ peeps do NOT align with my own personal feelings. However, freedom of speech is objectively a good thing.

Problem is that entities like Meta and X are suppressing the voices of people that are making comments against the status quo and challenging the uber rich, and elevating the voices of the bigots.

All that to say I think that’s why people are downvoting you, but I agree with you.

It’s generally regarded as a shitty thing when someone has an affair with a married person. For said person to then go on and make a meme boasting about it is even more shitty.

Thumbnail looks like this Bruno Mars album cover

Why would there already be a fridge in the stationary and ink aisle?

Could you post a link? Can’t seem to find it.

I’m actually going to Guyana in January to see a couple of friends get married. Going to be there for a week. I’ve been there before - lovely, amazing people, but not a lot to do. I think I’m gonna check this out while I’m there.

Sorry, I misunderstood your previous comment. Thanks for the clarification. I agree that these charitable donations from billionaires are basically just positive PR stunts because there’s essentially no tangible cost to them.

Everyone hates billionaires for hoarding their money, but then it’s also a problem when they’re giving it away to charity.

Billionaires suck and shouldn’t exist, but they do. I know this is going to get downvoted to hell because it seems a majority of the users here can’t stand anything remotely positive being said about billionaires. But guys - it’s an isolated good thing when billionaires give away large sums of their money to charitable causes. Doesn’t mean that they shouldnt pay more in taxes, or that they’re wonderful people, or that they accumulated their wealth in moral ways. All of these things can be true at the same time.

You’re completely neglecting the fact that he still has Microsoft stock… plus, he’s certainly holding stock in other companies. It’s disingenuous to say that his increase in net worth between 2008 and 2024 is solely due to the money he’s donated.

For what it’s worth, I’m not pro Bill Gates or billionaires - I just feel like it’s important to speak factually when trying to address an issue.

I agree, but i can’t help but wonder if the internet changes this.

Yup. I live in the FSA (fucked states of america), am latina and I know a few of those fuckers. Beyond disappointing

I clicked the wrong comment section and thought you were replying to this post

Brooklyn woman sues Subway, claims Steak & Cheese sandwich in ad has ‘200% more meat’.

Your partner must not be very good at wrestling if you were browsing lemmy during a sesh.