And that’s how the war ends.

You can have impact personally. That’s why many people hesitate to join a group and actually do something - they don’t understand only if they are personally active they can matter. Not doing anything because a person feels like activity is not realistic makes people resigned and idle.

Edit: I do understand your feeling of needing to have an impact. It’s important to understand what kind of activity is worth devoting ones self to. I personally feel motivated to be active when I watch superhero movies, so I guess it can have different effects on different people. As always, things are not black and white.

But even to take action in a group, you have to make the individual decision to join. You have to chose for yourself, which takes individual bravery, because even if you’re part of a group, the responsibility and potential repercussions will be yours to deal with. A group always consists of individual people. I read superhero stories as stories about finding the bravery in yourself (the superpower) to go and join the good cause despite the terrible danger.

I don’t agree with your view of superheros. I think they work as a metaphor of any person brave enough to stand up to evil. People never imagine they are the powerless population. The films focus on the heros and people personify with them - it’s inspirational. There has also been a big stress on heros needing to team up lately. The movies did nothing wrong. I agree with everything else though.

It’s not for people who were convicted. No due process allowed.

Oh, wow, that’s really not funny.

I’m a simple person. Let this sink in would be a good enough dad joke for me.

Exactly. People who want to believe certain things will find them in the Bible and will disregard the rest that’s also written there. Belief is, unfortunately, irrational.

Yes, but the pope is only the head of the Catholics. The other branches don’t care about him.

Christian is not the same as Catholic though. Catholics are a minority in the US.

The institutions are shaped by people too. Hear hear, there are nice people and scumbags.

It has limits though - people can believe whatever, but they still shouldn’t harm others.

Bible says everything if you look hard enough. There’s no point in argumenting this way.

An hour is great.

I don’t think it’s just about possessions for them, it’s about power, influence. If he get’s slightly poorer, he may no more be able to buy politicians and make them do what he wants.

In extreme times like these, bravery and suicidal go hand in hand. She wanted to make a point and she did, despite knowing what’s going to happen. She was not interested in saving her ass, even though she could do it - she chose not to and deserves respect. Some people feel it’s worth it to risk and perhaps even lose their lives for the chance the others will be better off for it. It’s a completely different level of bravery than most people are capable of. Sometimes others get offended by that, because they don’t understand it or feel like it sets a moral standard they cannot fulfill. The truth is, not everyone has to be this way. But let’s at least appreciate it.

This is bravery, not a career step. The part about surviving of what’s comming next is too scary. Trans people in jail are already being transported to prisons of their birth gender. She’s risking a lot.

What’s the point of fixing any monarchy?

Not sure what media you prefer, find a nice article here: https://www.ecosia.org/search?q=eu+targetting+red+states

Good news. Terrible emotional comment section.