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That doesn't address anything that I said, and you've just added even more of the same utterly false religious talking points into the mix that I was objecting to in the original post. The point I initially objected to was OP's absurd claim that there was a time when law and order didn't exist, but religion made people better.

To address what you said; early religion was not morality. Morality and religion are two entirely different things, despite religious peoples' insistence that they are the same. Religion is and always has been just another form of authority. It has its own rules and laws, just like political authority does. None of it has anything to do with morality. Morality is intrinsic to the human species, and where morality and religion intersect, it is because religion has co-opted morality and then claimed credit for and authority over it.

A knockoff, or maybe even a present.

It's posts like that one that reek of ulterior motives and unrecognized privilege.

You've heard of terms like mayor, sheriff, reeve, bailiff, baron, count, duke, right? The whole reason feudalism was invented was to solve the issue of governing large territories. Government from the local level all the way up to the level of monarch absolutely did exist in the middle ages.

Don't spread false "facts" that support religious talking points. Religion has enough support on its own without needing to rely on atheists promoting its lies.

That wasn't me.

But fine, let's compare Biden and Trump.

Both have won presidential elections.
Only one has lost a presidential election.
Trump has not beaten Biden before.
Biden has beaten Trump before.

You're right that there aren't all that many conclusions we can draw. Hillary was a great candidate, and she failed while Biden won. So clearly picking the right candidate is not easy. Ultimately, only hindsight will tell if Biden was the right choice. But as far as predictions go, we've got some solid data and a proven track record that shows he can do it.

I suspect Biden is focusing on things he knows he can get done, rather than wasting time on things he knows will never get done. He's a very smart politician.

Codifying Roe is super important, but it will never happen under the current House & Senate. Focusing on that might excite lot of people, but it won't do any good right now. When election time rolls around, then you start pointing out what could happen if enough people vote for Democratic candidates.

I wasn't comparing Biden and Trump, I was comparing Biden and any other potential Democratic candidate. The incumbent is almost always the safer bet than fielding someone new because they've been tried and tested.

As for Trump, all bets are off. He lost once against Biden and they're going to put him up against Biden again. Conventional wisdom would suggest that is just about the stupidest tactic you could do. But it's clear that all wisdom left the Republican party long ago.

That point is that 100% of past presidents won their elections.

Thus, picking a candidate with a successful track record is usually the safer bet than picking someone who has not won an election. That is why incumbents are usually chosen by default.

This statement makes no sense at all. Name a time and place in history in which law and order did not exist but religion did and explain how religion made people behave "better," and how you know the religion did a better job of it than if the religion had not been present.

MVP post right here. What big brained genius thought to not post the image in an article about an image?

"Too many people in government are involved in the conspiracy of actually running the country."

"I didn't leave the party, the party left me."

I mean, I get that... but also, if the party left you but you still vote for the party, then they didn't actually leave you. You tagged along.

People like him need to drop the label "Republican" and stop voting Republican if they really think the party left them. Otherwise they're full of shit.

The difference between Japanese streamers and foreign streamers in Japan is like night and day. When I watch local streamers, they almost always take the time to blur out faces and anything that might even present anything identifiable. It seems almost excessive at times, but there's a very real sense of societal awareness and social obligation not to be a dick. Even the evening news over here blurs out the faces of random passersby when they film on location. Then when I watch foreigners who stream over here, it's rude, in-your-face, talking about you right in front of you (with no regards as to whether or not they speak English). I expect the Japanese people who you see on these shitbag streamers' channels assume that they'll be treated with the same respect and decency that local streamers would use, rather than be immortalized on Youtube without their permission. It really sucks.

It's not about the permission or apologies. It's about being a decent human being. These asshats who spend the time adding text and graphics to their videos could also blur faces and hide identities, but they don't. Fuck them.