NostraDavid

Make it three downvotes, because this thread is about least logical fears.

Mad cow disease is also caused by prions, which is why the cow’s body gets destroyed, not just buried.

Swimming pool drains.

Not irrational; I’ve seen a crab get sucked through a tiny slit into an underwater pipe, shell and all. There’s YT footage I won’t post to save your sanity.

Delta P (difference is pressure) can be absolutely terrifying.

mælkebøtte

In Dutch it’s “Paardenbloem” (horses’ flower).

Oh no, equality! How horrific!

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ew, neoliberals

It depends on the lens you’re using to look at the situation:

Would you argue that the Dems are not Progressive Liberals?

They are leftist depending on the definition. Classic left-wing was simply anti-monarch, pro-republic. In that regard the Dems are left wing. Are they Communists/Socialist though? lmao, absolutely not. They are WAY too focussed on social issues, in general.

I used to believe in a woman’s right to choose.

So eh, what did that entail? You have the right to choose, therefore you must choose?

I have the right to vote, while still having the option to not vote at all, if I so want. Forcing people to vote would just be tyranny.

the Nazis were explicitly Christian.

Eh, publicly Christian 100%, but there were plenty of anti-Christian views from Goebbels, and then there’s the Occultism in Nazism as well.

That being said, Positive Christianity was 100% a tool to manipulate the people into doing the State’s will, trying to eject Catholicism from Germany.

so I pivoted into druidism

I think we need a secular form of spirituality (be it heathenism, druidism, paganism, etc), so people can still be spiritually fulfilled, while not following some large-ass church that gets corrupted over time, every damn time.

It helps that most people in “the west” are becoming more and more secular (as far as I can tell).

I quit smoking because I actually want to live beyond 55 - I still remember my neighbour-woman smoking a ciggy, while standing outside with her chemo-drip… Absolutely haunting.

I’m not eating the bugs.

Oh, also, the left-right-wing binary (or even spectrum) is poisoning the well. Everyone in the UK is right-wing because they have a literal king. Everyone in the USA is left-wing because they don’t have a king. Simple as is.

Now, lets talk about how authoritarian a party is, how good they are at improving society’s health, etc. Calling a party left or right-wing MEANS ABSOLUTELY NOTHING.

I think the 2-party system is worse than Capitalism, but by now your Capitalism supports the 2-party system.

You just listed several things related to Authoritarianism, and called them communist

Spoiler: they are the same thing. OK, fine. Not everything Authoritarian is Communist, but everything Communist will end up Authoritarian. Ask East-Europe.

Not everything Social is bad, mind you, but holy shit can it go sideways.

Not all Republicans are bad.

Was Mitt Romney not the brainchild behind the ACA/Obamacare?

why do we classify our natural world with them?

Because USA politics have been broken since day 1, and having 2 parties is the end-game.

In the meantime I am stuck with the other extreme: 16-18 different parties, and I don’t feel represented by any of them! :D

We also have access to the entire world, while the people in those villages only have access to that one village. We simply live in a different scale than them. Not superior - just different… Potentially we have it worse, in certain cases.

they just happen to be vegan

Yeah, that’s not butter and cheese what you’re eating… No need to lie to us.

That shit never tastes like the actual product. And it’s completely fine if you don’t want to eat it for whatever reason, but don’t lie.