the CCP has reagan level approval ratings in china, and if you think the federal government isn't controlled by corporations... are you blind? citizens united? we literally have legalized bribery

who cares what the powers that be call themselves when the end result is the same: oppression. just the US is an outright corporatocracy doesn't make it any better

"the purpose of a system is what it does"

do u think the feds aren't watching bluesky

i think they're talking to chinese people, not the CCP

we are cooked

"we completely changed the quotes and they agreed! curious!"
i feel like these kind of people used to be better at capping for the empire. plummeting literacy rates are hitting them hard too </3

with respect, i think you are allowing religious trauma to color your perception. how else would u require it to be kept private without legislation? how would that even work?

the soviets tried legislating against religion, and it just resulted in persecution of minority populations. i think history shows the only way to combat faith-based belief systems is through improvements in a populations material conditions

idk why that lady came in hot, but Denzel most def does not keep his religion to himself, it's pretty obvious in his work. i don't think u can divorce religion from culture

if we removed religion from history do you think humans would have been hunky dory, or do u think they would have found another justification to opress one another?

without religion we wouldn't have MLK or malcom

this is why im no longer invited to my mom's bday dinners

ghandi was hindu and theresa was catholic?

i dated one of his descendants she was chill