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Cake day: December 31st, 2023

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  • Corn syrup is better than our other main use for it: Ethanol

    Problem is that we have such extreme subsidies that vast swaths of farmers are now entirely reliant on corn subsidies. We make far more corn than we have any use for because of it

    No politician wants to be the one to take away the insane corn subsidies because a whole lot of farmers will be upset, and the American public is generally unaware of how wasteful the subsidies are









  • And the Christian god sent a bear to brutally murder 42 children after they made fun of a bald man. Is everyone who supports Christianity supporting child murder?

    Ancient religions tend to have some abhorrent things in their beliefs. You’d be hard-pressed to find any religion that doesn’t have some absolutely fucked up things in their history

    If the argument is that everyone supporting these religions is messed up, I could get behind that. As it stands, most arguments like yours boil down to hate. Hating an out group because it’s easy, because they’re different, because they make easy, vulnerable targets

    If Jeffry Epstein had a religion where he explicitly endorsed fucking 6year olds and marrying 9 year olds would you tolerate anyone who followed that religion?

    Epstein basically did that, and it’s a good example to show which groups get targeted for hate, and why

    We have people like Donald Trump that actively participated in child sexual abuse, yet far more people will revile Muslims because of the things a central figure in their holy book did more than a thousand years ago

    The only difference is Muslims are a weak and vulnerable target. You want a group to hate that can’t fight back


    And don’t get me wrong, I hate organized religion. I think many atrocities across the world, and across history can be attributed to organized religion. I just recognize they all commit similar atrocities, and the reasons only one group is singled out


  • A handful of crazy people don’t represent an entire religion

    It’s like saying everyone should hate Christianity because of Anders Breivik, or asking why anyone is against antisemitism after Israel bombs children

    A few people committing atrocities in the name of a religion does not represent the religion as a whole