The hopium psychology behind the article: "see, some are leaving out of conscience! Even these sadistic brutes aren't on board to help conduct a holocaust on American soil!"
Reality: the most brutal and psychopathic brownshirts are self-selecting and they're actively pushing out anybody who would hamper their cruelty. They have the budget and the numbers to sustain much higher attrition levels
Can you imagine a religious organization that an atheist would find problem-free if only they had the right beliefs? Why or why not?
The dogmatism?
Since you're asking, I suppose you're positing that some forms of dogmatism are good? I would like to hear some of your thoughts on what good dogmatism looks like. Otherwise, why would you ask if dogmatism is a problem?
The epistemology?
Again, I'm confused by your question. Religions don't have a single unified epistemology. What are you asking and what do you posit or conjecture?
Yeah, I get it, but 100 turns out to be a really high number and as another commenter alluded to, it starts to get pretty damn gross with the incest and age shit. Too gross to continue, even as a joke. And it just keeps going and going and going.
To the best of my knowledge, demons do not possess people, and hypnosis can't make anyone do anything against their will.
That being said? Sometimes your instincts are right. If someone makes you feel uncomfortable for any reason you are under no obligation to accept food or drink from them. Sometimes people creep us out because they have genuinely bad intentions. Be safe.
I read the manga for a little while years ago and I know exactly which scene this is.
I know that the concept being stupid is, like, the point, but I still couldn't finish the manga. Some gross anime tropes that made it hard to stomach. And it's just... so dumb. So, so dumb.
As a straight man, every straight man I've ever been friends with has eventually simply made me so tired to be around them.
Like, times are hard. But then we just collectively... have unmet needs, and so many of us deal so badly with them. It just seems like straight men inevitably make it everyone else's problem.
I have heard the same old thing so many times-- to have a friend, be a friend. Reach out. Listen, be empathetic, blah blah blah. And I wind up hanging out with some douchebag thinking to myself why am I in the same room with this fucking guy. Before I know it he's drunk or desperate for a long, long hug from being so touch starved, or he lets his guard down and casually says some slur. I don't have the patience to be friends with straight men. I don't have the patience to start to try.
I would immediately post to as many Lemmy communities as possible asking what other people would do