I’m not commenting on people staying on topic, I’m saying the topic is always celebrities with you guys. No matter who started it.

And with your excellent ability to stay on this topic, the topic doesn’t change much.

I just called this reaction to the post that was already about influencers the Americanest thing I read, I did not mean any offense.

I don’t think it’s a stretch to comment on Americans always making things about celebrities and influencers, even if there is many facets to war.

This is the facet on the war, of which there are many, that the posts and the commenter highlight and I’m commenting on it because I find the talk of “bloodthirst” and “sad there’s innocent people killed, better take some of those influencers with them” appalling.

Yes you’re really turning into a caricature of the US

You hate influencers, but you guys still make this about the US and its influencers. “Sad there is a war, but please kill our influencers”.

That’s about the Americanest thing I ever read. Not everything is about you and your celebrities.

Agriculture.

We could have stayed in a world where we lived in harmony with nature instead of trying to control it.

What? This is getting confusing.

Yes probably all cultures had slaves or stole land at some point in time. (This is true, depending on whether you see cultures as fixed in time: are current day Egyptians of the same culture as ancient Egyptians? When does culture “restart”? Who decides this?)

Let me ask you: is there no difference between let’s say a Native American claiming his land was stolen (hundreds of years ago and his people massacred, and he’s now a second rank citizen on his own land), and for instance a white European claiming his land was stolen (by the Romans? During WW2? I would not know what he means honestly, especially because he is now part of a nation state, a first class citizen).

Yes all land was stolen. But this is not an absolute. You wouldn’t agree the Native American had his land quite a bit more relatively stolen?

My point is you can’t invalidate the claim of native peoples just by going “meh, so what? All land was technically stolen at some point”. Some people can make a more legitimate claim their land was stolen than others.

Can’t really rank it, it’s a subjective statement. My gut tells me there’s a difference between for instance a Native American stating his land is stolen and a, just an example, white European stating his land is stolen.

My gut thinks there IS a way to rank these statements, even though it’s technically true all land was stolen at some point and the whole nation state fairy tale is completely arbitrary.

That’s just my gut though, it doesn’t agree with genocide

True, but still some land is significantly more stolen than others.

Seriously though, the way everyone is now telling Trump what a great leader he is and praising his every action is very much like such a charicature of a leader of a totalitarian regime. The charicature we used to make fun of leaders like Kim.

It’s ominous to see this happen with “the leader of the free world”.

Ve are sinking hoe to safe ze sinking kats

What a ridiculous comparison. All people are petrol to you? To improve your comparison realistically: all people and therefore all bottles are different. Some may even hold water.

Your negative attitude is what’s throwing petrol on the fire. Hopelessness leads to inaction and that’s really not what we need right now. We have the duty to hope and build a next generation with the same hopes and dreams if we want any other future for mankind than the one you’re so afraid of.

You may ridicule this, but that’s for sure not going to change anything.

No chosen one, just one of many. That’s not a delusion

Your negative attitude certainly doesn’t help anything

I share your worries. But I don’t see how me or you personally not having kids is going to solve anything. We need a future generation to continue our fight against this.

While the right wingers and religious keep breeding like rabbits, I think our personal choice to not have children will just leave us childless and the world still fucked. Having children, at least there will be people in the future that share our hopes and dreams.

Don’t get me wrong. Opting for children is a personal choice with no good or bad answer. But it’s not so clear cut as you portray it, as I say there’s no right or wrong answer to the question.