I obviously can’t say with any degree of certainty, but I wonder if where you’re at, it’s more common to hold personal faith without necessarily belonging to an organization.

As a Christian Anarchist in the USA, this is where I’m at. I struggle to find a church that is just about Jesus, community, study, and worship, without the “evangelical” right-wing sociopolitical under/overtones the US has been infected with. (Or more rarely the opposite reaction: A hyper-left political organization that happens to be church flavored.)

But my faith is still very important to me.

That’s AWESOME. I hope Nextcloud gets better at this soon. So far I’ve been needing to spend some time renaming the files from 64 character CDN hash names to tags like

"Monkey,gibbon,spin,woop,reaction.gif"

It’s worked somewhat well so far if I try to keep it as simple and obvious as possible.

“Yes they’re definitely The Beast” (proceeds to speedrun lots of anti-Christ activities)

Every accusation from these types really is a confession, isn’t it? Lol

That was happening for a bit early this year, then, I shit you not, they committed resources and personnel to a “Tesla Task Force.” to protect their best boy’s little stonks.

The sad thing is, a majority of victims of this property damage would probably be too smoothbrained to understand why their choice of wagon is controversial.

I remember people on Nextdoor (LOL I know) being like “Why’s this happening people are so mean and hateful :(”

I showed them the famous musk heil photo to explain the phenomenon, and the copium and whattaboutism denial response was insane. “hE’s NoT a NaZi JuSt BcUz U dOnT LiKe HiM nUh-Uh”

(One legit tried the “throwing out his heart” defense LOL)

I was pretty calm and respectful in explaining the situation but the comment got moderated, meanwhile these braindead suburbanites were engaged in a feverish goon session about how people who keyed their cars should literally be killed in response. No intervention whatsoever.

It’s amazing how the bad guys are propped up by untold multitudes of morons who have literally no idea what’s going on about anything. Their sole identity is the things they own, and they’d gladly report their neighbors to ICE for a head pat.

But they would legit be confused as to why they draw ire or retribution with their choices because they “Don’t get involved with politics.”

You’re kinda lucky. I see them everywhere with their goofy vanity plates, and way too many swastitruks with crazy wraps.

I don’t think they’re all muahaha nazis, but they do have an air of aimless consumer zombies who ignorantly bought something ridiculous to show everybody how cool they are. (Kinda like musk himself.)

And they sure do drive like their “autopilot” could do a better job. Geeze.

As far as most dangerous, aggressive, petty idiots on the road go, my low expectations are tied between “tesla products” and “white pickup trucks with obnoxious stickers and a toolbox.” Followed very closely by “My brand new enormous Mercedes SUV says I can do whatever I want.”

Yeah we gotta remember this is a guy who paid someone to play Diablo for him in an attempt to look cool.

I feel the exact same way about Thiel and “Things Named After Lord of the Rings.”

It’s so endlessly infuriating watching billionaires actively turn things we care about against us.

I also say half jokingly: You know, it’s said the Anti-Christ was supposed to survive a wound to the head. Does a scary little booboo on the ear count? Lol

J/k, if the end-times-prophecy theory on Revelation is correct, the Anti-Christ would be scary because he’s competent. That rules out this guy immediately.

The mind blowing thing is that if, in any other job in America, a majority of things out of someone’s mouth were all about their plans to do highly illegal things that would hurt people, they’d have been hauled off long ago and “It was just a joke, bro!” wouldn’t be a valid defense.

This clown from hell jokes about harming and killing people every day, and follows through with it.

He jokes about breaking fundamental laws every day, and follows through with it.

It’s such a major flaw in our system that there’s seemingly no way to haul him away for repeated failures and egregious criminal harms to the entire country.

Oh that’s neat. I remember someone just saying “Cut out 3 yellow triangles, tape them to the TV, and have Link jump and get them.” Lol!

That’s something I’ve noticed too. There’s not really any information about what parts of something to avoid or what the risk is or how you’d come into contact with it, but I remember seeing it everywhere when I lived there too, and I was like

“Everything in California including California is known to the state of California to cause cancer and reproductive harm.”

I’m not saying it shouldn’t be there at all, but at least wish it was a bit more like Material Safety Data Sheets that gives a bit more understanding to what you’re getting into by interacting with various things.

They often try to position themselves in places of influence and trust.

I imagine faith leader in a smaller community is a role that usually does carry a lot of trust, but might have lower barriers to entry and less scrutiny than say, schoolteachers or other perceived “trustworthy” roles in society.

Roles that parents say kids should respect and listen to, that sorta thing.

Hey, I’m sorry it took me a while to get to this, but I really appreciate the comment! And no, I don’t think you were implying anything, I was just trying to contribute something helpful. :)

Your sincerity and compassion is a light in these dark days, and reading your words from across the world really lifted my spirits.

I’m not currently in a state that’s being invaded or occupied right now, but it’s still scary, and we’re constantly bracing for the next insane, stupid thing that’s going to happen next. It does hurt when it seems like others across the world (with their own petty wannabe-autocrats) are jeering for everything to collapse here, without thinking of all the people here they’d gladly share a beer with.

Like they’ve just written us off, even when millions are protesting and helping immigrants and even just struggling to get by as everything gets shittier.

Thank you for the really kind words and sincerity. I hope wherever you are, you and yours are safe and happy and healthy.

Absolutely bonkers, given a commandment against idolatry and Jesus’ own words that oaths are foolish and come from a bad place.

Like, imagine reading the source material.

Ah I see what you’re saying.

Thanks for taking the time for the clarification! I’m sure this would clear it up for some other folks as well.

I also know they’re a fraction of the size of those giants who can probably field staff specifically for FOSS contribution, but that’s still a bit disheartening. I hope things improve.

Every time they’ve seemed like a good option I find myself balking at the price though lol.

“Hahaha yeah your state SUCKS, man!”

–Billy JimBob from like, Ohio, probably :p

With any luck of history rhyming, the Allies should have the bunker surrounded before he gets the chance.

in group text chats

Or multiplayer lobbies. :(

more occurrences than all the other countries on the respective lists combined. WTF?

Just in the interest of clarity, depending on the data and how the studies are done etc…

The U.S tends to have more occurrences of almost everything compared to a lot of European neighbors because it’s so HUGE both in population and sheer landmass.

Even adjusted, some of our stats are still alarmingly high, but I wanted to make sure this aspect was considered.

Yeah, there’s billions, maybe trillions or beyond, of dollars’ worth of investment put into making sure everyone "Really needs this job." which can be ripped away from them in an instant, so they won’t be inclined to risk any “insubordination.”