CommunistCuddlefish [she/her]

Would you support him banning AmeriKKKan and Isn’treali developers too, given that their countries’ war crimes are far grander in scale, horror, and devastation than Russia’s?

US could just stop arming the genociders but then the genocide would stop, and US politicians can’t cum unless they’re looking at mangled corpses

Thing about material reality is that it always wins in the end. You can spin a narrative for a while, but sooner or later you have to reconcile it with what’s actually happening in the world.

Well said

So all the escalations and violence from NATO that preceded the official start of the war don’t count?

If you do a thing that you know is going to lead to war then you’re starting the war. And NATO knew its brinkmanship with Ukraine was very likely to force Russia’s hand – analysts across the political spectrum were screaming it for years trying to sound the alarm. The mistake they made was assuming NATO would care to avoid war.

NATO led Ukraine into war, has fed Ukrainians into the abattoir of Russian artillery, sabotaged peace talks, and just generally clearly gives 0 fucks about Ukrainian lives.

Before I go off on you, are you serious or are you doing a bit? I don’t want to friendly fire

Clearly not a bit. Go fuck yourself.

Incorrect. The correct answer is C, NATO expansionism, something you should know because a bunch of people have already explained it to you

Pop quiz time: Who started the war? Was it

A. Russia?

B. Ukraine?

C. NATO on behalf of the US Empire

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Go fuck yourself, plague rat

What did Audacity do?

Last I checked that was dangerpus for peoples kidneys right?

Lmao get out of here

I use cracked software and I am interested in using more, tbh. The only “suspicious sites” I visit are torrenting sites, with adblocking. I do keep manual backups of important files but I have never gotten malware to my knowledge.

I didn’t know about the link between alphabet agencies and US antivirus companies. I’ve been using Malwarebytes; do you thinkKaspersky would be better?

new atheists seem about as racists as any other random grouping of westerners

Maybe it’s just that discussing religion lets the racism show more clearly anytime Islam is brought up. Perhaps “founded on” wasn’t the right word, but the racism is inextricable from those spaces because they’re so white and refuse to be antiracist.

Now? Ok whatever, maybe it’s changed.

12 years ago when I was on there? The racism was recurrent. It wasn’t everywhere, but it was frequent enough and offputting enough to poison the space, and like I said, it’s not a surprise how many prominent New Atheists ended up being reactionary shits. Christopher Hitchens supported the destruction of Iraq, Sam Harris is vile, Richard Dawkins is an asshole, and the people who venerate them without acknowledging (or perhaps because of) their reactionary bents are sus as hell.

Or maybe you’re not as good at noticing it because you haven’t been forced to become hypervigilant about it. Are you Muslim or from a Muslim family?

What made me leave was a purely emotional shattering of my ability to have faith. It wasn’t intellectual. It was the agony of having my family broken by the white supremacist racism of AmeriKKKa post-9/11. I’m sure we’d have been hit hard living in my parents’ home country, but living instead in the imperial core was rough. I don’t want to go into details too much because it’s really upsetting, but my siblings’ lives are ruined, my parents’ lives are ruined, I got out but with major scars and PTSD. We keep living and suffering and I think we woupd be better off dead – better to have died on 9/12/2001 than to endure what came next, and then live with the permanent damage that came from it. And where was Allah for any of that? He didn’t protect us. We were just little kids being tortured by an evil, racist system, and he didn’t help us. I hoped for years that our lives would improve but they just got worse and worse, because trauma compounds and compounds. My ability to believe in a benevolent omnipotent god broke by seeing how he abandoned my family, then by noticing how much other and frankly far worse horrors were occurring globally. What my family went through is nothing compared to the torments that are visited upon the innocent people of Iraq and Palestine. And Allah did nothing to protect anyone. If I had the power of God I would fix things immediately, here on Earth in the present, defend the vulnerable and execute their oppressors. God does not do that. The promise of an accounting in the afterlife is empty – too little too late, we’ll be racked by PTSD which can make a Hell of any Heaven.

It’s the old Problem of Evil – cliche, but true. He cannot exist, belief in him is just cope.

I grew to hate him and turned to Satan, then realized the entire framework of Gods and Devils is just a fantasy to help people cope with how horrible the world is, and that is when I went hard into New Atheism before getting turned away by how racist it was too. Now I just don’t believe in any religion. I want to, but my capacity for faith has been brutally broken. I wish I could believe, because my faith brought me comfort and the hope that Allah would see fit to make things right kept me from killing myself. But it was all a lie and now I’m so allergic to false hope that I’m peobably overly pessimistic and apocalyptic. Both my parents and one of my siblings remained religious and their faith hasnt helped anything. So I see I was right.

I didn’t make my way back to the theological part of it, but as I’ve developed as a leftist I’ve noticed how much my old religion set me up to become a Communist. From Islam I learned to fight oppressors, to stay true to what is right no matter how outnumbered, to care for the vulnerable, to pursue liberation for everyone regardless of ethnic or religious affiliation, to never bow down to oppressors even under threat of death. Maybe I’m ethnically Muslim? A secular atheist Commhnist Muslim? I don’t know what label fits. I just call myself an atheist and a Communist. But I’ve used religious language to pull a Catholic friend further left

Reddit Atheism is built on Islamophobia and racism. I get having a fondness for it, I found /r/atheism helpful at first when I left Islam. But there was so much racism and support for imperialist wars of aggression in the middle east that I quickly got turned off that sub. It was toxic and the toxicity came from racist white people who couldn’t see how their racism was leaking through.

It’s disappointing that New Atheists end up swinging right now, but it isn’t that surprising having seen this.