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@SergeInCT @major_crawley @jordan72869640 @MattisRedacted So you're a communist that believes all non-communists should just be killed. You can be a communist in a capitalist country. You cant be a capitalist in a communists one, they'll just kill you for being too successful.

@major_crawley @jordan72869640 @MattisRedacted China succeeded in eliminating the landlords. Their prosperity today is because of those efforts during The periods you cite. The great purges in the USSR were justified. And they were not enough. Hence, why their intelligence services sold the country out.

Marxists are an odd bunch. The empirical evidence shows that Marxism, at scale, in 100% of cases, either collapses in on itself or verges into quasi-fascism. In other words, it has literally never worked. Despite this, they repeatedly insist that Marxism is a good ideology; when in reality a good ideology would not consistently, universally fail.

@reyes_01010 @TheLaurenChen Jesus didn't call upon governments to take tax money from the people and redistribute it in the form of welfare. He called upon us as individuals to do what we can to help those around us.

@TheLaurenChen do you think Jesus agrees with your position?

Poor people can eat whatever they want, I just don't want to pay for it Hope that helps

Hindu Americans must all respond to Trump's "hell hole" comment by boycotting America and moving back to Amritkaal in Viksit Bharat. I beseech all of you to cancel your US citizenships, green cards and green card/citizenship applications and H1B visas and move back. This boycott will cripple the US and bring Trump to its knees.

@AndrewPerpetua @KamperFella If you mean an armored tracked vehicle with a cannon, thats just an unmanned tank.

@KamperFella I think it close to a 100% chance that all tanks in the future will be drones.

Drones are closer to replacing tanks than tanks are to replacing drones.

@quincylsb @BootyPootiePoo @trad_west_ @reddit_lies You act as if this was something unique to Catholics. Virtually every religious group throughout history has protected its texts against Heresy and changes.

@BootyPootiePoo @trad_west_ @reddit_lies Yes, they preserved knowledge, but at the same time they also persecuted and suppressed certain types of knowledge as well.

Atheism still hasn't recovered from this btw

@MeHelloHello @quincylsb @trad_west_ @reddit_lies The Muslim world was a trade based empire. Literacy was a more important as an economic factor in the Muslim world than it was in Europe. That accounts for the differences in literacy rates. Not some Catholic conspiracy to keep people stupid.

@3limbjim @quincylsb @trad_west_ @reddit_lies The Muslim world had much higher literacy rates and merchants and other contemporaries had higher literacy rates than medieval Europe, yes, Christianity throughout its entire history until the industrial empire made it harder to access literacy

@eyweimi @quincylsb @trad_west_ @reddit_lies What is this even supposed to mean?

@3limbjim @quincylsb @trad_west_ @reddit_lies I'm not even going to engage with this one. You should find a better circle of peers or start taking better care of yourself if you're being honest.

@eyweimi @quincylsb @trad_west_ @reddit_lies No. Books were incredibly expensive to make, most provencial churches literally only had a single Bible. Mass literacy isn't a benefit in that society for the effort put in and labor lost as a result.

@3limbjim @quincylsb @trad_west_ @reddit_lies If there is a will, there is a way. The church didn't have the will because they didn't want laypeople to read the Bible themselves since the church was the sole authority on scripture. All you have to do is look at the story of William Tyndale to know this is true.

@eyweimi @quincylsb @trad_west_ @reddit_lies No seriously, most people dont do that now. So why would they have then? You only needed a handful of literate people to actually keep a business or market running. General literacy isnt a benefit in a world where the written word was so scarce.

@3limbjim @quincylsb @trad_west_ @reddit_lies Come on now. 🤣

@eyweimi @quincylsb @trad_west_ @reddit_lies Do you think the clergy just had leisure time in between services? They had their own chores and responsibilities outside of ministering. Book copying, brewing, farming, tending to animals. Priests did all these things and more.

@3limbjim @quincylsb @trad_west_ @reddit_lies By spending two hours after church service learning how to read.

@eyweimi @quincylsb @trad_west_ @reddit_lies People don't even do that now.

@3limbjim @quincylsb @trad_west_ @reddit_lies They could read their own apprenticeships or land deeds rather than relying on the honesty of a local official and ledger entries, tax assessments, and market records to ensure they weren't being cheated during trade.

@eyweimi @quincylsb @trad_west_ @reddit_lies My point, is that with all of our modern advantages and resource, WE can't educate everyone effectively. How was the medieval church supposed to?

@3limbjim @quincylsb @trad_west_ @reddit_lies Again, it it has absolutely nothing to do with the church dedicating 2 hours after service to reading in the Middle Ages.

@eyweimi @quincylsb @trad_west_ @reddit_lies What good would it have done a child who was going to spend his entire life working in a field or in a trade to learn how to read? General literacy wouldn't have been some great benefit to most people, books were incredibly expensive and laborious to make.

@3limbjim @quincylsb @trad_west_ @reddit_lies What does this have to do with children learning to read in the middle ages?

@eyweimi @quincylsb @trad_west_ @reddit_lies In Baltimore City for example, one school was found that 77% of the kids could only read at an elementary level.

@eyweimi @quincylsb @trad_west_ @reddit_lies I'm talking about being able to read at 4th grade level. Several cities in the US do not have a kid who can. I'm not talking computer science.

@eyweimi @quincylsb @trad_west_ @reddit_lies Again, you are underestimating how labor intensive the pre-industrial world was. Not to mention the education the church would have provided would have been a theological one, which wouldn't have helped most people actually survive day to day.

@3limbjim @quincylsb @trad_west_ @reddit_lies You can learn to read by spending a couple hours a week on it; don't be ridiculous — especially children since they learn faster than adults.

@PartialProbosc @eyweimi @quincylsb @trad_west_ @reddit_lies Thank you. I didn't catch the goal post shift.

@eyweimi @3limbjim @quincylsb @trad_west_ @reddit_lies So we've gone from the Church actively suppressed literacy and knowledge to it didn't actively spread literacy and knowledge.

@eyweimi @quincylsb @trad_west_ @reddit_lies Look at the modern world, even with all our great tech and all the money we spend, we still can't educated everyone today. There are cities in the US where every few students perform on grade level. If the US struggles to educate everyone today, how was the church supposed to?

@3limbjim @quincylsb @trad_west_ @reddit_lies A couple hours on the weekend reading isn't going to result in people's crops dying. 🤦🏻‍♂️

@eyweimi @quincylsb @trad_west_ @reddit_lies No they couldn't have. If they took the time to educate everyone, they would have died because there wouldn't have been enough labor to bring in the harvest before winter wiped everyone out. In a perfect world, sure they could have, but the world isnt perfect.

@3limbjim @quincylsb @trad_west_ @reddit_lies There was a church on every corner; they could have taught the children to read, but they didn't think people should be allowed to read and to know that all you have to do is look at the reformation lead-up and how many died for it.