I’m thinking of updating this and adding an “irreligion” category which would also include all the ex- communities.

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That society was completely built around men’s prerogatives and therefore anything bad about society should be blamed on men.

/c/newusers would be glad to partner up

Woohoo! This community has been pretty inactive.

On the browser you can look at the sidebar. Right under the community name (!yourcommunity) there are two icons. The one that looks like a pencil and piece of paper opens the community settings.

It happened sometimes, but it was easier to filter those people out. Now those people have become the norm. Tinder absolutely is to blame for this.

Tinder ruined dating. It’s made interactions very transactional.

Several (attempted) murderers have owned copies of The Catcher in the Rye.

Ragebait like noahgettheboat, idiotsincars, publicfreakout. It’s the Jerry Springer of the 2020’s.

OOTL, I don’t know anything about Instagram. What is this?

AMPutator, RSS bot, timezone bot, a bot to provide a Reddit archive URL when someone posts a Reddit URL so we don’t have to send them traffic.

In a similar vein, a bot that links to a timezone converter.

A lot of places in the US have (had?) small, weekly, free newspapers that are actually pretty good. They get by by being full of ads, often the kinds of ads more family-friendly outlets wouldn’t publish.

It makes me feel old that this is a c/history question.

I think the situations in both of the invader countries is comparable. A small minority of us actively stood up against the obvious propaganda used to justify the Iraq War. We faced some repression from the state, particularly given all of the power-grabbing under the Patriot Act and similar legislation and Bush’s executive orders. But the US still has notional free speech, balance of powers, and rule of law, so most US protesters didn’t face nearly the level of repression as Russian dissidents do.

The responses abroad I think were pretty different. This can largely be chalked up to the US being the sole superpower after 89-91. There were huge protests around the world to the Iraq War. I remember the one in Berlin was particularly large. But despite the massive unpopularity in Western Europe, those governments still joined the “coalition of the willing”. Sanctioning the US would have been unthinkable given its economic status. Russia is far less essential to the world economy. The main thing they have going for them is natural gas exports.

Western views of Iraq and Ukraine were also quite different. Nobody really liked the Saddam Hussein regime (though the US was willing to work with him in the 80’s!). But that didn’t make regime change a good idea. Ukraine has been viewed more favorably as a fledgling liberal democracy. No one would deny it hasn’t had its problems, but it’s preposterous to claim Ukraine is beholden to Neo-Nazis when they have a Jewish president.

The responses of the global left have also been markedly different. In 2003 we were all united in opposing what was clearly an unjustified war of aggression. These days a lot of the Anglophone left has been captured by Russian soft power/ psy ops, despite Russia not even pretending to be communist at this stage. I’ve had to call out a lot of people for repeating Russian talking points that were used to justify the war. The German Linke (Left) party is currently split over their positions on the war. Even weirder is that the far right in the US and Europe are also claiming the title of “anti-war” by tacitly or openly supporting Russia’s actions.

Point taken, but moat of those are at least a year or two old, so the posters might not even be active on Reddit anymore.

I’m going through all time top subreddit posts to seed content here. I’m mostly grabbing links to other websites. Unfortunately there are a lot of subreddits that strategy doesn’t work for, though, if the top are all self or image posts.

I haven’t checked it out yet, but you might be interested in Tody Hemenway’s “Permaculture City” https://tobyhemenway.com/book/the-permaculture-city/

Thanks for starting this community. r/AcademicBiblical is one of my favorite subreddits.

All posts must be a request for advice.

Hope this rule gets applied to posts that pretend to be looking for advice but are really just seeking validation. People complain about the advice always being to break up, but IMO this is the bigger issue which keeps me away from all of the advice subreddits.