What are the four boxes? Soap box, ballot box, bullet box, jury box?

Seems we’re running out of options.

I agree that was the like the moment the coup succeeded but they’d been planning it since FDR.

They hated the New Deal and everything it represented, they want a return to the gilded age when they were the aristocracy and everyone else was a lesser.

It’s a long listen but worth checking out How Conservatism Won by Robert Evans. He lays out in a clear concise way “how a consortium of rich failsons got together to fund a network of right wing think tanks and shift American culture in a fun new direction. (note: it was not actually fun at all)”

They’ve been very successful and those think tanks are now pipelines used to funnel ideological purists into powerful positions like our current Supreme Court.

I tell people as often as I can, especially my trans and bipoc friends; now is the time. Get a couple guns (a long one and a short one) and learn how to use them. Learn some basic first aid, you really just need to know how to stabilize someone. Start networking with like-minded people in your communities. The police will not protect us, they’ve proven they’ll happily club senior citizens to the ground and shoot any protesters in the face with rubber bullets while escorting a rightwing murderer to safety.

Iran was a secular, liberal state until almost 1980 when they (mostly legitimately) elected an Islamist theocracy; it could happen here.

Not to be confused with the other mega block buster hit movie about an asteroid hitting earth released one month earlier in 1998, Deep Impact.

Why does god even care if we worship it?

Or people who thought the same way until they met someone.

It’s probably just nostalgia but the 90s were formative. It was pretty much peak network TV. Peak music label music, the internet was a thing everyone had heard about but only schools and nerdy parents had. It really does feel like a different era.

Never saw the cinematic masterpiece that was Harry and the Hendersons?

Just secede if you feel that way

The land doesn’t even belong to them. Between the Bureau of Land Management, National Forests, Parks, National Monuments, National Recreation and Wilderness Areas the federal government owns over 70% of Utah.

Well slap my fanny and tickle my ass.

Your question was already answered in the other thread. I recommend you read it and maybe Google a few things.

Yes, it’s called JAQ’ing off or Sealioning and is how people try to push an idea while still being able to say “oh no not me I’m just curious.”

If you were actually curious you’d google it, or been aware of his descent over the last 5 years.

You’re free to live your life the way you like but mistaking everyone with a spiritual belief as religious is incorrect. Have a nice day.

There you go you finally got it! I absolutely think you used ChatGPT, if you didn’t maybe consider that your comment reads like a robot wrote it. It’s like reddit springing right up with bots and the same no-life “Power Users.”

You really can’t figure out a very plainly stated criticism? Ask ChatGPT, maybe it’ll summarize it.

I currently see a therapist and have made serious changes in my life in the last year. Gratitude and things like that are things you can develop and practice. Yes depression and mental illness is real but it’s incredible the amount of change you can experience by consciously trying, if that includes therapists and medication then so be it.

Just people like you telling me it isn’t true.

Can you point out where I did that?

Yawn, you rattled all that off in four minutes lol. I swear people are just posting ChatGPT responses now, lemmy was nice for a minute.

Those who forget the past are doomed to repeat it. I hope he’s remembered, just poorly.

I’m sorry you feel that way.

A better inner-life (a more spiritual outlook) is actually key part of recovery from drugs and mental illness and can ignore god completely. Drugs can help experience it but aren’t necessary, my mushroom comment was a bit tongue-in-cheek but they have been used for millenia as a shortcut or aid to shamans and medicine men. To write off multiple cultures experiences as “just drug use” is incredibly dismissive and arrogant.

Nah, they’re different, religion is a cancer, spirituality can give people a sense of belonging or being part of something bigger than themselves. Eat some mushrooms and tell me they’re the same thing lol.