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In principle, no.

Doesn't get any less punk than this thing. nostr:note1f9gqugdxffepjz4kq059ws0npxr66h4wr2yjfl2zk6zn3wjhzfcsgu4ymg

It's been years, and I miss it. nostr:note1p40qnh6x0h66049ycq3u394d6fcg7d724lvdvxjpd4r64ndchdvsauqawe

If someone wants to make a living selling stuff to others, he'd better choose to sell something that he can truly own, i.e., have exclusive access to.

"Content" (information) by definition cannot be owned, only its physical support of content can be owned.

I absolutely respect and actually welcome spiders in my home, they're aesthetically pleasing and, most importantly, take care of malignant bugs like flies and mosquitoes -- just not the kind that can send me to the hospital.

Pretty sure that's the reason why Humanity received the gift of fire.

This seems to be a common terminological misunderstanding in the English-speaking world, currently. There is no such opposition as "socialist" vs "communist". Communists are socialists. Socialism is the broader term. nostr:note1alx9tumgs2y3fqau47623reypallcc4pskdppx7nydts0fzhtglq2frzrj

... which reside in and are functions of the brain. nostr:note1mmkk3hxwyqju52cveftfl39ehk0mm2xfsz2up774duvev38zwjeqfn9fta

Don't move the goalposts. The initial note is about the CIA conducting false flag acts of terror in Europe to blame communists.

At least one of the incidents listed not only doesn't fit that narrative, but completely undermines it.

If there is a case to be made that the US govt is engaged in false flag acts of terror, of which I have zero doubts, there is also one to demand that proof of it be rigorous and not some half-assed misinformed meme.

Dude, an ultragalactic megaempire, forever traumatized souls and TOM FUCKING CRUISE. How could it not?

I agree, but you see from your own statement that the problem is when they force them upon people. It happens with any type of idea, it's not a "religion" thing.

And by the way, were it not for the support he had from the US, Hitler's ally Franco wouldn't have lasted 40 years, and communism and socialism wouldn't have become so hegemonic among the Spanish people as a reaction against Franco and his ally the US. Facts are facts.

I agree, but I choose to equalize it with any other opinion, because that's what it is.

The problem is not the opinion itself, but the act of taking it it to the extreme of justifying acts of aggression like the ones you describe, which we have seen with all sorts of opinions, not just religious ones. People kill other people for supporting a different sports team - no need to even invoke what happens with other more "serious" political or social opinions.

Removing the "specialness" of religious opinion in social, legal and political matters is how we solve the problems you describe with religion.

There's absolutely nothing special about a religious opinion. Respect for religion must stop exactly at the same point I stops for any other opinion.

That's alright. I see religion as any other ideology or opinion. Some people are wrong and assholes about it, some are wrong and are OK humans who just let others be. And the same for those who are right.