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French colonialism caused Haiti to be the birthplace of Vodou, because they Christianized Native Americans and Africans they had enslaved, and the blending of religions and magic ideas caused the belief system vodou to exist. The people practicing this system were brutalized by the french, having to pay them for theri revolution. And so, they would be likely to use the curses in their system against the French.

I don’t think it’s insane to say a people that engage in vodou and hate France would put those two things together.

vodou is inherently interwoven with Christianity, so this isn’t a contradiction at all. It’s a blending of Catholicism, West African religion and magic, and some Native American beliefs and practices.

so how is random redditors talking sports better than sports radio?

tha’ts what radio is for!

Based on the decay of other relatives, I think it’s an aimless anger at the world, and general boredom, that needs a focus, and this was a traditional hate that wouldn’t affect family members, more or less.

more racist. It’s possible he became more willing to say what he was always thinking, but he said things which he would not have tolerated us saying in the past.

my grandparents refused to get internet. Other members of my family bitch about it, but considering my grandpa’s become more racist with time I’m happy he’s not on any dogshit messaging groups.

No worries. Like I said, I should have gone with botulism or descriptivism, to make sure there was no misreading.

I do mean it positively, but I can understand why you would get a negative reading. I was trying to illustrate how reducing words to their components and dismissing them like that is such a stupid thought terminating cliche. Botulism, anarchism, autism, midwesternism, descriptivism are all words ending in -ism but really do not refer to similar or comparable things. The deeper idea that subscribing to or employing an ideology inherently leads to failure, which the original comment asserted, has already been torn to shreds by others, so I targeted the less important but more annoying failure of thought. I should have more carefully selected my words, sorry.

let’s do a little experiment kicks you in the groin

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That’s really dumb. the end result is literally identical, because money would have to be worth less afterwards for the math to work.

like that 4chan greentext about reading all the classics in the original language, whether or not he could read it.

It’s not like we’re even remotely subtle here about this fact, we literally glorify the revolutionaries daily, and constantly spit on the idea of electoralism

you severely misunderstand who we intend to shoot.

poli sci is literally nothing. I have a background in social and hard science, from either point of view it’s bullshit.

disability rights were fought for by disabled people, not fucking democrats. Gay people rioted to get their rights.

and do you actually think contraceptives are secured?

There is exactly one way to guarantee never having my vote, and it’s lying.

Do you…do you actually think we intend to vote communism in?

Like yeah it’s a bad thing to do, but I can see why someone might do it once to try and set their family up. Yes they should be stopped and punished, but should we personally hold them in contempt? There’s definitely better off people involved with it, fuck them, and fuck the shit heads who are making the market.