XiaCobolt

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[–] [email protected] 8 points 1 day ago

These guys suck and are being hypocrites to save money.

Interestingly the catholic stance on abortion is relatively new from the 19th century. Prior to that abortion was considered the better alternative to infanticide.

[–] [email protected] 8 points 3 days ago

Baby Zombies will jump onto chickens and ride them, it's pretty rare.

[–] [email protected] 5 points 6 days ago

Even if true that's 0.000011% of their population.

[–] [email protected] 11 points 1 week ago

It's the explanation for the beach Spongebob visits too

[–] [email protected] 13 points 1 week ago* (last edited 1 week ago)

They're like small minority of Christian proto anarchists (no priests no churches, occaisonal communes/intentional communities) who are extreme pacifists, but understand how imperialism, social murder and slavery is violence, constantly acting against it by non violent but radical means.

A bunch fled the UK to the USA to avoid religious persecution and them immediately got started to get themselves lynched for helping slaves escape and working with first Nations people.

That said Richard Nixon's parents were Quakers and he was ostensibly one at some point, but he sort of drifted out of it in college before ever getting disowned (quaker excommunication). But he kept the ascetic aesthetic (Quakers don't drink or smoke, wear fancy clothes etc)

[–] [email protected] 12 points 1 week ago* (last edited 1 week ago) (2 children)

I get what you mean but Quakers have been persecuted for pretty much always being on right side of history their whole existence.

[–] [email protected] 0 points 1 week ago (1 children)

I think it's hard to predict as these all have effects on each other. Like the USA could have continued social democratic reforms to appease it's strong labor whole snatching up European colonies in Asia and South America to subsidize the core.

And an anglo alliance might consider Europe lost and pivot to cementing their grip in South Asia and Southern Africa etc

The weird outcome is I think Imperial Japan would probably have at a minium a non aggression pact with Europe and possibly an alliance. Which is an enormous contradiction of Idealogy versus realpolitik. Possibly leading to an Anglo or US aligned Nationalist China movement etc

[–] [email protected] 0 points 1 week ago* (last edited 1 week ago) (3 children)

I think there would have been a WW2 it just would have been communist continental Europe versus the UK/Commonwealth-USA alliance maybe with Imperial Japan as a wild card.

Still probably a better timeline but uncertain.

[–] [email protected] 6 points 1 week ago

punished-bernie What is to be done?

[–] [email protected] 7 points 2 weeks ago* (last edited 2 weeks ago) (1 children)

My 18th century ancestor having challenged someone to a duel at 25

*thinking about a second *