Mark of the Beast if you want to go for a biblical angle

No doubt. Propaganda is just wild. Kindness and Unity are woke afterall.

Their crimes aren’t comparable, but the regimes’ actions are.

Nidal may not be being executed for blasphemy/speaking out, but people in the US are absolutely being targeted for their beliefs and political leanings (on top of the classic skin color based arrests). Some are jailed, some are charged and released but still have to deal with the process, illegal deportations, and others are just disappeared outright.

That part is hardly an exaggeration.

Fair enough. Point stands that people don’t understand these terms, have different understandings of them, and are therefore almost never on the same page.

Just like ‘liberal’ means very different things to different people. Conservatives say its like they’re far left revolutionaries. Actual Leftists view them as Conservative lite. And a lot of in-between.

I think there is a big discrepancy between what Captialism is defined as, what Capitalism actually is, and the ‘Spirit of Capitalism’ that a lot of folks buy into.

‘The Spirit’ is the idealistic bit. Competition breeding innovation. The better the service/product, the more successful you can be. Classic American Dream stuff.

In reality, its a race to the bottom where all principles and values are eschewed for profit.

Kinda like Communism where what it Should be or what it Could be are different than what we get in practice. And any given person is going to be thinking about it from a different lens, so you get delusional, idealistic, cynical, and occasionally reasonable takes all talking about the ‘same but entirely different’ thing.

Capitalism just had better PR.

Or maybe you got a local bar with decently priced food, generous drink pours, and regularly attended by friendly neighbors whom you don’t always have to chat up but are perfectly lovely when you do

Oh I know why it’s vague. I am pointing out that all these vague calls love telling other people to go do redacted shit.

If you’re so insistent on fireworks then light em yourself. Quit hoping to get ‘rid of a troublesome priest’ in a fucking forum.

Showing up and giving an opinion and then following up on that opinion when people respond to it.

Hence, ‘an opinion and a follow up’.

The biennial Migrant Caravan^TM will surely begin its arduous journey once again any day now

Classic vague posting calling others to violent action

And yet they worth an opinion and a follow up