A pundit on Russian TV just said that returning Ukrainian lands would not be shameful.

Oh my, what happened

@ayankdownunder I thought Down Under referred only to Australia, seeing as how NZ people rarely display walking on their heads as opposed to certain aussies I'm familiar with 😈

@ayankdownunder I once heard the expression NZ is like Down Under minus the venomous snakes and spiders lol

@TiarePalau @TubunMuzuru @awnaves @AlphaCentauri

Once the existence of a "god" becomes scientific fact it will lose it's mystic appeal and become just another boring concept.
That's why churches insist on the mysticism -- it's the only way to scare masses into faiths (to get them to donate tax-free sums the clergy lives off).

@ayankdownunder I love the look of your beaches, but the thought of sharks gives me pause

@TiarePalau @TubunMuzuru @awnaves @AlphaCentauri

I don't think there is one.
It's just inconsistent with anything we have learned about the world and the universe surrounding us in such fields as biology, chemistry, physics and astronomy.
Every time you try and insert a sentient omnipotent "god" into anything, it becomes a tangle of contradictions. Simply isn't a feasible hypothesis upon a closer look, that's all.

@TiarePalau @TubunMuzuru @awnaves @AlphaCentauri

Well, you see it falls apart as soon as you ask the question "which god", and if yours doesn't match theirs you're promised eternal torture in hell which brings us all the way around back into complete and endless anguish, pain, suffering and complete oppression which are in essence quint-essential totalitarianism lol

I've always felt somewhat dissatisfied with existing indices of fascism, so here's my list:

@TiarePalau @TubunMuzuru @awnaves @AlphaCentauri I don't know about the exact opposite of totalitarianism though...
Take no thought for tomorrow. Leave your father and mother and follow me, no questions asked. Obey the lord above. Do as you're told. Don't inquire for He has mysterious ways. Deny yourself all life's pleasures and hope for a better future AFTER YOU'RE DEAD...

These all sound mighty sus to me. Almost like a concerted effort to suppress people into, you know, total control.

@TiarePalau @TubunMuzuru @awnaves @AlphaCentauri It took decades for larger numbers of people to realize what Christopher Hitchens has been saying for years: religion is a form of totalitarianism of which fascism is also an example.

@BlueStateBabe I'd say this looks wrong but I can't find the spelling mistake

7 persons detained in Dnipro, Ukraine.
They corrected artillery and missile fire by Russia, updated maps of infrastructure objects in the city of Dnipro, visited strike sites and updated info for future attacks.
Investigators say these persons are likely responsible for the missile strike on the residential building on Jan 14 which took tens of lives of civilians.

They are facing life in prison.

#RussiaIsAFascistState

Your shadow exists because light that travelled unobstructed for 93 million miles was deprived of reaching the ground by a few feet thanks to you

My silly ass thought I’d just read the entire To Kill A Mockingbird novel in two and a half hours when I belatedly realised that I’d mistakenly downloaded a sample which only contains part 1

Why are men getting so slutty? Seen two men wearing shorts and not covering their arms. Don’t you have any respect for your bodies? Imagine how your dad feels knowing his little boy walks around having his exposed body looked at by strange women. Save your body for your wife or girlfriend! A man is like a pearl, he is precious and needs a box around him to protect from being scratched. Women will respect you more if you hide your knees. Don’t act like man-whores, be gentlemen.
(Madeleine Hanson)