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Trump visits Mount Rushmore on 250th July 4th to declare communism a ‘mortal threat to American liberty’ | Fortune https://share.google/naNkuTpQySdNdVWXp
Well, yes. Communism (socialism) is a mortal threat to the capitalists’ liberty to exploit, kill, pollute and destroy. So he is right.
Letter sent to various academics.
EVIDENCE FOR AN HISTORICAL JESUS?
The two main non-Christian sources that Christians use to say Jesus existed are Josephus (proven to be an interpolation) and Tacitus (who is simply repeating what the Christians in Rome were shouting about, not confirming any fact in it). So those can both be dismissed.
Annoyingly, online and other sources continue to quote these two “testimonies” in proof of Jesus’ historical existence, even non-Christian and atheist academics. Why?
With Joshua being a popular name at the time (as now), and with innumerable rebels against the Jewish establishment tending over many decades to congregate, armed, at the Mount of Olives, it is highly likely that the figure of Jesus would be a composite, invented three decades after his supposed execution, of many such, violent and armed, persons, as Karl Kautsky explains. The peace-teaching Jesus, however, has left nothing, apart from Christians telling stories about such a person, after thirty years of total silence about any such man, and without a word either from any Roman or Jew.
So what is the evidence for Jesus?
Is animal torture something to minimise with jokes?
What has a dog attack got to do with it? It is totally irrelevant, unless you are saying that keeping dangerous dogs justifies animal torture.
It is the people who have dangerous dogs who brutalise them, use them for dog-fighting etc.How does this justify what this thread is about? Why joke about serving up dogs in restaurants? The dog meat business involves execrable torture, with clubs and blowtorches. Their bones are broken and their genitals torched whilst they are alive and hoisted.
Is this funny?How are people watching torture justified?
You use irrelevancies and jokes where things are not connected at all. What has the shooting of an attacking dog got to do with this thread. Because Ciutadin and I are appalled by torture and mass killing we are supposed to be in favour when humans suffer violence, are we?
So, humans and other species are a case of “us vs them”?
Your point is?
1. You dislike dogs.
2. Your quip about a restaurant is aimed at upsetting me?
3. Conclusion: It’s no concern to socialists what is done to other animals, only to humans?
I know this sort of “socialist” alright. One who mocks and diminishes another’s sensibilities, even a socialist’s, who is meant to be a comrade.
A book from a free book alcove was filled with sticky post-its from an angry reader. Each one had handwriting on it, mouthing off.
Now, as soon as someone these days tears into the Catholic Church (I mean explicitly the CATHOLIC Church) I know immediately that he or she is a conspiraloon, a creationist, fundamentalist evangelical, Freemason-hating, Protocols of Zion-crusading, fanatic. Sure enough, so this was too.The time for bashing the Catholic Church was when the rationalist Enlightenment philosophers were doing it. The only would-be bashers of Rome today are the 100% IRRATIONAL conspiraloons – who hate Voltaire too. (He was a Mason 😱, oooh!)
Which is why capitalism must be done away with. It is driving us to destruction. We cannot resolve things if we are unaware of how to do so.
Under capitalism the Earth is not humanity’s to save, but is the property of 1% only. Hence the resignation that is instilled: “The climate is spiralling and we must adjust.” “War is coming and we must prepare.” We are passive onlookers who can do nothing about these “inevitables.” Socialists say we can and we must. We must expropriate the capitalist class and so release humanity’s energies to solve things. But that can’t be done until humanity becomes humanity, instead of 1% parasites and 99% wage-slaves under their yoke of capital accumulation.Don’t forget the environmental holocaust and the increasing likelihood of an armageddon that will wipe out life on this planet, never mind you and your ten cars.
Nationalism is the vehicle used to divert the working class. In parts of the world where religions are still strong, nationalism wears religious garb; in secularist parts, like Europe, it appears as itself, or as “freedom” and “democracy.”
The more secularist regimes in the near East, Iraq and Syria, were obliterated by western secularist regimes supporting Islamist extremists who were also enemies of Iran.
