Shame is good because shame is the least restrictive and least violent deterrent for anti-social behavior, and you aren't going to like what happens when shame goes away if you're already worried about getting shamed.

Interesting to see STL and CGY in the top 10...

When your system of belief starts with a rigid hierarchy is necessary for the universe to exist, of course you're going to discover hierarchies where none exist.

This is, and has always been, a class war. There’s a veneer over top of it that presents parties and leaders and media as faux representative, but when the rubber meets the road and capitalism requires fascism, they turn to capitulation and collaboration.

We don’t talk enough about how racists and authoritarians are the ones who actually genuinely hate this country.

One of the core differences between a serious ideology and a deeply unserious one is pretty much this dividing line - a serious ideology acknowledges problems and gaps in knowledge, an unserious ideology says it cannot fail, and if it does fail you either did it wrong or it was someone else's fault.

I’m angry and tired of this idea that just because someone puts on the decorations of a faith that they are taken as pious and devout representatives of that faith.

I think it’s insulting to believers who actually try and follow the precepts of generosity, kindness, meekness, and mercy laid out.