u/DragonSidedD

>Trump says that the UK is "very well protected".

You know why? Because I like them," Trump said, and Starmer laughed.

Ah.. the Whoever The King Likes doctrine of international relations

The murder-to-save-babies community is entirely faith-based

Despite having nuclear weapons and not being a party to the NPT, Israel has never threatened to use them.

Unlike Iran and most of its neighbors which threaten to destroy Israel every chance they get.

Illegal, maybe. Unjustified? Maybe the author is unaware of Isreal's recent divulgence of Iran's plan to sprint for a nuke while its militant religious zealots in Hamas and Hizbullah are hobbled? Or how openly the mullahs state that they will use it?

"Atheists" who make themselves, or the State, a swap-in replacement for God(s) are not much different from purely religious authorities who abuse their positions. It is apparently a common kind of power-seeking Dark Trait.

The Leviathan theory of the state -- the Motherland who is greater than us, who we would die for as cells die to preserve the body, and whose Exegeses come from the Great Leader/Supreme Council/President for Life.

It's exactly the same play on faith and credulity and servility that religions use.

Bingo.

I have way more respect for ravers at Burning Man who OD on Ecstasy while dancing naked and copulating for 14 hours straight.

At least they *enjoyed* their completely unproductive dalliance

Atheists don't need to disprove theists any more than they need to disprove Leprechauns. The burden of proof is on the one making the positive assertion.

Geez Donald wouldn't it be awesome to have kickass fighters like that on *our* side?!?

May I introduce your barbaric uncivilized ass to the ideas of "voting" and "education"

However it divides up, I want to be on the side that has scientists and vaccines

It plays to his anti-intellectual base: "See? We are finally pw0ning those effete libs and putting the money into the trades."

(You know you could put a lot of people through trade school for the cost of one big military parade, and not have to give up f'ing cancer research)

Depends on what kinds of new narratives and role models they find to latch on to.

They are currently in an information bubble created largely by Russia, China, and Iran.

I'd love to see a liberal democratic media machine to counter Putin's Agency

TBH if the economy crashes HARD for the next 3.5 years that may help wean some MAGA away from their FOX/OAN/RT propaganda bubble

You don't need to be in the USA to fight.

The fight was won by Russian troll farms operating in Iran.

https://www.nytimes.com/2015/06/07/magazine/the-agency.html

True. Still, not exactly something 3rd world countries (or many 2nd-world) can produce.

TBF, taking down an advanced USA fighter jet is a *tad* less impressive when they are apparently falling into the sea on a regular basis

Thank you Trump for making me actually read what the idiotic religious zealot mullahs have to say because next to you these clowns actually may have something insightful

That was *before* Trump's war

Wonder what the numbers will be next month

I SAID I WAS AN *AMERICAN*!

What makes you think I can spell foreign names?!?!

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