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Pentagon Influencer Called Liberal Women 'Pestilence' Who Will End Civilization

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This seems fairly on-brand with the Paul brothers, testosterone check, bomb-Iran-and-then-effect-regime-change-with-vibes Department of War.

It is what Rogan listeners voted for, putting the Chad back in Americhad.

Dehumanizing part of the population is historically the first step to atrocities.

Women have been dehumanized for millennia, though.

This kind of misogyny would have been used as a joke in All in the Family 50 years ago, and the premise that "liberal women" were a threat to society is as old as feminism, if not as old as civilization itself. You could probably find some variant of "women these days" carved in cuneiform onto a clay tablet.

That's sad but true. However, it's been a few administrations (too few) since we had people willing to actually commit atrocities within domestic borders. It's arguably been even fewer administrations since the US was committing atrocities overseas.

As an atheist I have literally never discovered a religion that respects women, individuality or liberty.

Its always about following rules- which conveniently were made up by other people centuries in the past. People with penises.

The Quakers are pretty chill.

Besides Quakerism as the other poster mentions, Bahai'ism in the West seems mostly driven by women and over the twentieth century and beyond has intersected with a number of quirky alternative subcultures.

Maybe there are reasons why religions that did that died out..

Indeed they were conquered and eliminated by other, lesser religions who chose to engage in war, even though that goes against their religious beliefs.

It's almost like religion is just a tool for the power hungry to abuse the rest of us. Being an actual believer? C'mon man, that isn't for Us, the prospective potential rulers of the world. Thats for them, the poors, the dumb.

/s when and where you need it.

> Maybe there are reasons

Maybe not.

You’ll have to ask yourself why the only institutions that last for centuries or even millennia are the ones that eschew liberalism.

From what I've read, Sikhism is pretty egalitarian with respect to sex.[1]

1. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sikhism#Justice_and_equality

Religion is just training wheels for spiritually. You're supposed to take them off eventually.

That's a valid point of view, but also very postmodern and ahistorical. It doesn't represent how religions were actually intended to be viewed or practiced.

Please keep religious flamewar off HN. The indignation/information ratio is far too high.

https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html

Americans are never allowed to pull the exceptionalism card ever again after this administration is kicked to the kerb.

Growing up in this landmass was incredibly and painfully confusing. I was surrounded by people that told me my life was "better than everyone else", and if I ever dared to ask about what "over there" was like, I was mocked, ridiculed, isolated away in everywhere but small circles of post-teenage educated people.

I've only managed to fly outside these states once in my life, and I want to do it again and for the rest of it. The culture I was born into was and is rotting from a group of humans that are too internally frightened and humiliated by their lack of knowledge and feeling like they are owed things. I don't want to live here, and I have been trying to find a place that would accept my mentality as a citizen of a small blue planet even though I come from here... but I always worry I am guilty by association :(

The culture you were born into may very well be rotten, but don’t make the mistake of thinking that it’s the culture of “this landmass”. The USA is enormous, and contains a huge number of cultures and subcultures. I grew up here, too, and experienced nothing like what you describe.

Live the rest of your life abroad if you’d like, but don’t do so believing that everyone in the USA is from the same culture.

I remember being explicitly taught in grade school that only other countries have propaganda.

Joe Biden. Kamala Harris. What's your point?

Exceptionalism is always just about if you can pull it off.

why is this on hn?

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