I didn’t say hate didn’t exist outside religion. That would be your cognitive leap. I said religion is used to attempt to legitimize hate as belief so it can be protected from scrutiny on some levels.

I don’t trust a private company to do that screening. They will skimp on checks to save money the moment they have a bad quarter unless there are specific rules forced on them by TSA.

Or if a post hurts his feelings, its gone. He takes stuff down based on his whims, he could give a fuck about “free speech.”

Religion is just a way to try to legitimize hate these days. When you have an indefensible opinion you don’t want to change, say it’s your religion and find an obscure passage to support it. It’s the refuge of the deplorable more than its proclaimed peace and love.

Rather they waste money there than on campaigning. Sadly the GOP has nearly unlimited billionaire foundation money after citizens united gutted campaign finance law.

They just raise rates or pull out, they don’t care. Same thing with health insurance and fraud. They almost never report fraud to the government for prosecution because it costs to investigate. They just raise rates to account for it. Medicare and medicaid prosecute fraud at drastically higher rates. Plus, they won’t sue oil companies, most of them have the same major share holders or are owned by the same conglomerates.

Looking at much of human history, it’s a common mantra. The children are our future. The future is their problem.

The US supports many regimes that don’t have free elections. I think it has more to do with their nationalization of resources so the rich can’t get richer off that oil like the middle east.

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Yeah, a lot the good articles I found were pay walled and I don’t like responding to people with info they may not be able to access.

Forbes. I didn’t link the article because it’s paywalled (I get it with my Apple News) and I thought this answered the question. I didn’t bookmark the article to post again.

I’m not deifying them by mentioning something they got right. I’m tired of people’s all or nothing lack of nuance. Humanity would be nowhere without the advancements of flawed people from the past. We can’t use our measuring stick on their lives without a huge degree of hypocrisy considering how much society has changed even in the last half century. For all their short comings, the founding fathers did create the frame work that most modern democracies are built on and ushered humanity away from monarchy.

You should read “Dark Money” by Jane Mayer. Goes into it and a lot of other very eye opening stuff about how the billionaire foundations changed this country.

https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/27833494-dark-money

Yet when Biden tried to pass a new border bill that gave Republicans much of what they wanted - who lobbied against it? Oh yes, Trump. Why? It would help Biden in the election since it’s Trump and the Republican’s biggest pain point they are hammering.

https://thehill.com/homenews/campaign/4433785-trump-says-blame-it-on-me-border-bill-fails/

You think that’s a bad decision, you should learn what the USA did in South America for power and greed. Read this book if you want a detailed and verified account. Most have it has been declassified by the CIA to confirm.

https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/26593431-the-new-confessions-of-an-economic-hit-man

Every central bank system is a perpetual debt machine. It’s why the founding fathers specifically fought against them being established here. If you print the money then loan it to a government, how does the government pay that interest? Central bank loans the government $100 at 1% interest, even if they spend none of it, how do they pay the 1% when the issuer of the currency is also the loaner? Governments have to continue to accumulate debt in this system. They have always been a perpetual and compounding debt system.

The media is mostly owned by 6 conglomerates that are ran by billionaires who fund the right. It’s predictable because it’s by design. We are basically back in the gilded age.

The reason it’s overwhelmingly called “climate change” instead of global warming now is because of language change pushed by billionaire foundations. The Koch network specifically focus grouped and created the term change. Whether we want it considered left wing or not, the billionaire backed right has made such statements left wing.

I’ve had the same theory for a while. They saw the Arab Spring and other populist movements. With their vast oil wealth, tanking Twitter was a small price to pay to re-fracture descent and silence the left. The concentration of wealth has given insane power to wealthy who skew overwhelmingly on the side of themselves. The rise of the right is a direct result of billionaires funding across numerous avenues. The right aligns best with their self interest. They played the long game because they only have to pay people and let them do it for them. Regular folks have to stay engaged in the battle after working to support themselves. Billionaires are the matastasized cancer of capitalism.