YappyMonotheist

Every step counts on the road to Heaven. 🫶

“They’re from Russia so they’re bad and now we can easily kill them.” That’s the whole gist. Same playbook with Africans, Arabs, Latin Americans, etc etc.

I wonder if the same group of people downvoting every one of your posts are paid for it or just weird, sick folk? 🥲

When I talk about faith and righteousness in the West, this is more or less what I picture. RIP, king. 🙏

With all the arguments and data, calmly and thoroughly too. It’s kinda spooky. 😅

I guessed “like a manchild with no responsibilities nor cares beyond the self” but that’s a good one too.

Angry Western noises

I guess we have different definitions of “cramming down someone’s throat”.

I really don’t feel like I’m cramming anything down anyone’s throat.

I appreciate your honest curiosity/inquiry. The world is more complex than what it seems (and certainly more complex than “Russia bad, NATO good”), and I doubt anyone can competently hold all this info in their head, so stay safe out there and remain curious.

Okay, so, are you gonna block me now or do you just want to continue getting whatever anger you have out of your system, safely against someone that’s not part of the in-group? 🤔

The people I “judge” (and I’m actually critical of ideas and values, and those can change and I’m all for that) don’t even care about morality or being a “good person” in general, as evidenced by my many convos here with some particular specimens, lol. Come on, man, if the glove doesn’t fit no one’s forcing you to wear it so what’s going on?

I know how the short-sighted, amoral, hedonistic and overall godless Westerners feel, I speak here because of it more than in spite of it. If I was here for the upvotes or to fit in I’d just post Roman empire and only “Trump bad” memes (he is, ofc, but that’s where I’d limit my expression of dissatisfaction with American politics and society as a whole if I wanted the e-praise), or antinatalist takes, or horny ones. But if they cannot handle even some mention of the Creator here and there, the block option is always available. For the rest, who tolerate it because maybe they find something worthwhile there despite feeling annoyed, I’m more than willing to engage.

You’re triggered by something that’s as common as saying “hello” in my circles. I would recommend you block me so you don’t have to suffer more.

You’ve spent more words than me talking about it here… And monotheism is the framework through which I understand existence, it’s at the core of my moral beliefs and otherwise and not just decoration, so it makes sense it would come up a lot.

I mean, I am a person and it happens to me. But regardless, all I said was “I’m too monotheistic and… for .ml”, which is true, and it was a single phrase in a long-ass post so I don’t think I was being too whiney or idk.

I know they have their reasons, especially if they’re American because most big Trinitarian denominations would give Jesus an aneurysm, but that’s not me nor most people in the world who claim to be religious. And it is necessary, because Trinitarians think Jesus, a man, is also the Creator, and there’s also the Holy Spirit somewhere and that makes up their pantheon. And I just mentioned it because it’s true, because just by saying things like “oh thank God” people start getting uppity at times, nvm pointing things out while quoting the Qur’an or the Bible. It’s like you’ve forgotten where we are. You can tell me “just take the negativity and unnecessary hostility or leave, it is what it is, this is a Western space” and that’s inhumane but fair, but you can’t tell me it isn’t a thing.

Yeah, because Lemmy in general and .ml like/have a good opinion of religious folk…

Okay, fair and good definition but I really don’t think whatever .ml-vibed post or narrative that gains any traction, to the point of it being an integral part of the community’s ideology, upholds those tankie values. And, therefore, the reputation is unearned. And they may exist but I don’t interact much with those people because I’m a lil banned so I guess I don’t see all of their content, idk.

And, circling back to OP’s case, I think the downvotes are a reaction to the narrative that “.ml is tankie” when they’re just anti-Western (like most of the world but that’s a different convo, they’re just anti-Western in Western online spaces), discarding the whole comment instead of “taking a side” because that would just give more weight to the narrative.

I have one already but it’s not a person, ofc. And I don’t know who they is/are, but what I do know is that the claim that people who are anti-Western imperialism and reject Western narratives are just misguided/the enemy is the same as before and whatever name they give it, the narrative dynamics stay the same. It’s a ghost they fight, I haven’t seen anyone post positively or allude to supporting oppressive, imperialist, “commie/socialist” policies. Basically, I haven’t seen actual tankies, if the term means anything.