Bankrupted 3 casinos.
Three.
Casinos.
The deported child could literally do a better job by doing literally nothing.
sp3ctr4l
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It is an American thing that arose from, and persists because of how Americans 'do' Christianity.
As I said in another post, start with Max Weber, and then explore more of the history of how Christianity and Christian Denominations, cults, sects, revival movements, etc, have shaped the country as a whole, in ways that are distinct from how other kinds of Christianity have shaped other countries in the last 300 or so years.
Like... the whole reason we have the First Amendment, the freedom of religion part... was mainly to make it so that none of the varying Christian Denominations would be able to use the government to censor or outright oppress or murder each other.
Read the journals of the founding fathers, federalist papers, etc, if you doubt that. See how most of them were Deists, who... just believed in a big creator God, but basically no theology of any particular Christian branch... the neutral middle ground.
America was largely initially founded by populations of varying kinds of extreme Christian Sects fleeing persecution in Europe... and a lot of our early history is... those sects persecuting and mistreating, or at best, barely tolerating and competetively trying to proselytize, other sects that just over here now, on a different continent... as well as all the indigenous populations... and the imported slaves.
Glad you left your reddit trauma at the door to lemmy and certainly aren't making any personal judgements based entirely on vibes rofl.
I will never stop speaking out that this whole thing is a bullshit non issue.
Not obsessive in any way at all, nope, that's me apparently.
Hahahahaha
Discussing it isn't an obsession, an obsession would be making your whole personality about it, or basically having that be a primary hobby or something.
You are doing a less extreme version of the thing that politcal news pundits do against protests:
Protesting as a concept is fine, but it turns out any protest with views I disagree with? Well they're protesting wrong.
If you are reading this as an obsession, I dunno what to tell you, check my comment history and you'll see this is the first thread I've ever mentioned it in, and my older, nearly year old account? Don't think I ever mentioned it.
Finally: Yes, female genital mutilation is very often much, much worse, in that it usually entails total removal of the clitoris, which is... basically fundamental to the ability of a woman to experience pleasure and orgasm.
But that doesn't mean male genital mutilation is not also bad. The male hood also generally has a much higher concentration of nerve endings than... basically everywhere other than the head.
And both of these practices fundamentally remove bodily autonomy from a baby/child, and are culturally/religiously done for reasons that ultimately or directly arise from a very paternalistic and authoritarian approach to children as property of parents, and intending to diminish and control their sexual characteristics without consent.
... But if you don't wanna have this discussion, feel free to block me, or just... not discuss... this...?
... It is an unchallenged remnant of many things, a large chunk of those things having puritanical religious origins.
And almost all those religions happen to be Jesus-centric.
Kellogg was just a more recent large scale eh... reinforcment of the norm. He was inspired by his particular Christian views... 7th Day Adventist.
Like, yes, its not as direct as many modern preachers constantly doing sermons about the virtuosity of circumcision... but even still, I can easily say that the reason the practice is unchallenged is that American Protestant Christians of many, many different Denominations... well they strongly promote traditionalism for the sake of tradition, not questioning authority figures, actively rejecting modern science and medicine.
Like uh... Max Weber's christian protestant work ethic explanation of the peculiarities of American culture in regards to attitudes toward work and politics and many other cultural features... isn't 100% perfect... but it is a very good starting point to understand why American Protestantism is sociologically distinct to other societies.
If its any consolation, the last time I encountered a guy with a MAGA hat, the following happened:
MAGA bro decides to pick a fight with what I can only describe as the most Rasta man I've ever seen.
MAGA bro has 2 bros with him... the Rasta man has the entirety of the Capitol Hill District of Seattle.
This doesn't go well for MAGA bro, Rasta man ends up flipping his hat off into the middle of the street as basically 30 other people are ready to throw down with the MAGA bros, chasing them down the block.
Rasta man is furious, picks up the hat and walks across the street toward me, who happens to be smoking a cigarette, gets to me and a few others, 'Can you believe this shit? You saw all that yeah?'
... I have a zippo, and was outside of the smoke shop... to purchase lighter fluid.
I show the zippo and the fluid to the Rasta man, he smiles ear to ear, 'You know what to do!', throws down the hat, and I burn it to nothing inside of a plot of dirt that used to have a sidewalk tree.
... One of the couple of times in my life random people unironically called me (and Rasta man too of course) a hero.
... are you saying you don't want pics... =[
/s /s /s lol
I edited in a bit more info... yet another wonderful amazing lie I had to figure out entirely on my own that my fundie parents told me with utter confidence.
... Unless you're in Protestant dominated USAmerica, where male genital mutilation remains a widespread, common practice.
Roughly 80% of American boys/men are circumcized, almost all at birth.
I can provide either statistics or pics as proof, your choice.
EDIT: There's also a whole history of basically junk/fraudulent science in the US being used as a validation of this practice, much of which basically claims that having your whole hood intact makes you more vulnerable to skin infections and STDs.
This is false, but Americans are quite good at doing motivated reasoning and convincing themselves it is objective critical analysis.
Exactly what it looks like.
A violent, racist, fascist movement has risen to power and controls the world's largest economy and military and stockpile of nuclear weapons.
Our (Im fucking trapped here) government is actively threatening external invasions, actively enacting economic warfare against other nations, and actively repressing its own people.
4th Reich, with American characteristics.
... i am going to stick fork 1 in our friendship status, cuz its done.
Reinstate Eberhard and Tarpenning.
Mike Lindell has a lawyer?
That's the real news to me.
Anyway, I'm sure Mr. Lindell, noted cybersecurity expert and crack addict, will figure this out in due time.