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@HP_Libertarian @JonahHe29614304 The Emancipation Proclamation was a military measure, and could only be applied to parts of the country still in rebellion. Lincoln tried to get the border states to abolish slavery through compensated emancipation as early as November 1861. He also signed two Confiscation 1/4

@WreckersDatas @SoftwareEUG - Ancient Stoics talked about compassion and justice for all. - Buddhism emphasizes compassion and caring for the vulnerable. - Ancient Egypt's Book of the Dead has principles of justice and protecting the poor. - Many indigenous cultures had communal care systems. Try again.

@SoftwareEUG 1/ Depends. Protecting the weak, for example, wasn't "basic human decency" until Christianity came along and normalized it. Basically, Christianity shifted the values of before (strength/courage and temperance) to the values of now (justice, mostly).

Is what an illiterate would say. What you today call "basic human decency" was acquired because of Christianity

@WreckersDatas @SoftwareEUG "Protecing the weak." Does that include the Protestant Work Ethic which views poverty as the result of laziness? Social Darwinism is a direct desendant of that, BTW. Does that include saying mentally ill people were possessed or that addicts were sinners who lacked willpower?

Copying Pinochet, who closed sociology and other departments saying they were unserious and laboratories of Marxism.

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@ShitlibSupreme The TYT/Majority Report types will never see the irony of saying they are against genocide while simultaneously defending Hamas.

Unless the Democrat nominee openly supports Hamas they are pro genocide and you shouldn't vote for them!

@RichardBShort I wasn't referring to that stupid strawman. I was referring to the gaslighting and projection of you saying liberals are the violent ones in America.

@jessewrights87 Words are not violence. Violence is violence.

Intense pain and anguish shaped my politics. Thousands of lefties constantly wanting me dead, bombarding me with death threats, trying to destroy my life with doxxing, SWAT attempts, threats against my loved ones. Last month the communist influencer Bad Empanada posted both my phone number and family’s address online. I received more than 300 phone calls in one single day, dozens of death threats. When I was the personal victim of crime, I had to listen to leftists explain that the true victim of the situation was the criminal who broke into my car and stole my wallet. Some crackhead broke into my car and stole my wallet and dumped it in a bin somewhere after taking the cards to use at nearby bottle shops. I had precious mementos from a lost family member in my wallet and some crackhead didn’t care - he stole my cards and dumped it. I will never get those memories back. And yet leftists told me that the true victim was the criminal, and many even celebrated. Then I watched countless random classmates of mine from university and school - people I hadn’t talked to for a few years but still followed on Instagram - celebrate Charlie Kirk’s murder with shocking glee. A young conservative father shot in the neck in front of his own children. I used to just think of Charlie Kirk as a Boomer in the body of a young guy. I thought he was just a very milquetoast conservative. My Mum thought he was a nice young man. People used to meme him on Instagram like “Hey Liberals, why is my toilet clogged.” Then they shot this guy in the neck, executed him in cold blood in front of his children. And millions of people celebrated. I knew dozens of people in real life who celebrated, again - just these otherwise normie progressives who you went to class with years ago. I was a centrist influencer constantly bombarded with death threats. How would these people react if I were killed? I met up with a progressive classmate of mine from university, a guy I hadn’t seen in years. Very standard progressive, he likes Destiny and Pete Buttigieg. He told me that so many people from my university days now hated me with passion and gave him shit just for meeting with me. I asked him if these people would celebrate if I were killed like Kirk. I asked him to be intellectually honest and tell the truth. And he admitted it. He said yes, many would celebrate. In the same year I visited the frontline in Ukraine and saw the aftermath of Russian atrocities in the Donbas, visiting an apartment block right after they double tapped it with cluster munitions. Dozens of civilians killed. I went to Kherson and saw deserted street after deserted street due to the Russia “human safari” - hunting civilians with drones. I saw the consequences of a full breakdown in civilisation, I looked real evil in the face and decided evil exists in the world. Some people are just evil. I’m very sensitive soul, the pain made me shift towards seeing the world as a place of threat, I had to conserve and protect what I loved and cared about. Away from bombast of online swashbuckling, I am quiet man. My ideal of best day I could ever have is just sitting down with my little puppy and reading a book. To protect this softness deep in my heart I believe i had to pick very definite friend enemy distinction lines in the sand. I stopped seeing possibility of utopia. I stopped believing people are innately good. I started believing that a certain small percentage of all people are basically just evil and need to be controlled in order for society to function. This explains my shift to liking the firm hand of a leader like Lee Kuan Yew. This is sadly why I changed.

@RichardBShort @sofewcharacters @DrewPavlou Where do you get this number? Conservatives routinely freaked out and threatened "revolution" during Covid, even calling people wearing masks to be harassed in public. Try again.

@jessewrights87 @sofewcharacters @DrewPavlou You’ll find my timeline completely free of wanting the governor kidnapped, because I didn’t. You’ll find 99% of conservatives didn’t.

@RichardBShort You guys screamed hysterically about "cancel culture" whenever such a thing happened in the past, but if someone hurts YOUR feelings, you're perfectly fine with it.

You are goalpost shifting. And you’re setting up a fake premise. Because being fired from a job is not about if an employee’s words are violence, it’s about that employee’s lack of prudence. It would be the same as if a man was streaking across a football field and got fired the next day.

@RichardBShort I could deny liberals say words are violence, but you and your ilk don't live in reality. That's why you say liberals are the violent ones when right-wingers tried overturn the results of a Presidential election and support the President who pardoned the thugs who tied to do so.

@jessewrights87 And I will add you set up this goal, post shift and smokescreen fake premise all because you got your panties in a twist over something you have not denied.

@ethanmwolf Liberals are one the main enemies of communists and fascists.

Hasan Piker is every bit as morally repugnant as his right-wing alternative Nick Fuentes. They both hate everything that makes America and the western world great.

@darwintojesus Who says the God of the Bible is moral? Because he says so? There are also plenty of scientific studies on evolution and neuroscience which explain why humans think certain actions are immoral, but you would dismiss them.

Seems legit

@darwintojesus Christian morals are dictated by whatever is ordered by the divine Big Brother.

Just so everyone is clear, when atheists say this they really mean, “I can just pretend whatever I do is moral and call it morality.”

@darwintojesus Under your slave mentality, morality is whatever is ordered by the divine dictator. If he tells you to kill your own son, you must do so. Thankfully, human morality has evolved past your delusions.

This would* really upset atheists if they could understand it.

@cryptochamomile @holland_tom "...the thesis that Christianity basically invented 'goodness' as I understand it..." shows the silliness of the book. It's whitewashed nonsense that ignores inconvenient aspects of Christian history and lies about pre-Christian cultures. richardcarrier.info/archives/15259

@holland_tom Although I got it from reading a lot about Rome and not from your book, the thesis that Christianity basically invented “goodness” as I understand it (as in good/evil), was a major factor in altering my life trajectory

Startled (but kind of flattered) to learn that I have killed New Atheism

@ShitlibSupreme Voltaire was spot on when he said, "the perfect is the enemy of the good."

@thepaleovoice08 @goodlifenvibes @darwintojesus Was the Emancipation Proclamation issued in 1862, and did Lincoln's 1864 Presidential campaign call for a Constitutional amendment to outlaw slavery? Yes, so that quote contradicts everything about the recorded history.

@jessewrights87 @goodlifenvibes @darwintojesus I dare you to stop lying, for the quote actually is not fake. If you can't stand the truth please do not accuse me of lying.

Reminder: The Bible is the reason anyone thinks slavery is immoral. The entire world engaged this practice without a second thought. It was the Bible and Christians that made the world finally realize this practice was wrong. You're welcome.

@thepaleovoice08 @goodlifenvibes @darwintojesus Lincoln abandoned the idea of VOLUNTARY colonization in 1863. Your quote from 1864 is also fake, since the Emancipation Proclamation was issued in September 1862 and his 1864 Presidential campaign called for a Constitutional amendment to outlaw slavery. Another quote from Abe:

@goodlifenvibes @darwintojesus

@tarunthassa @goodlifenvibes @gerrewyn @darwintojesus Funny how British Christians had no issue Britain had no issue with their country being a leader in the Atlantic slave trade between 1640 and 1807. It's also funny that a freethinker Robert Wedderburn's The Horrors of Slavery pamphlet helped abolish slavery in the U.K.

@goodlifenvibes @gerrewyn @darwintojesus The World is not the USA. British Empire forced the end of the slave trades in the Atlantic with its Navy. And British people did it after a strong Christian revival.