Dᴏ ɴᴏᴛ ʟᴇᴛ ᴛʜᴇ Rᴇᴘᴜʙʟɪᴄᴀɴs ʜᴇᴀʀ ʏᴏᴜ sᴀʏ ᴛʜᴀᴛ.
They’ll start claiming the bible forbids workers unions or something.
You know, there is a reason why leftism is associated with atheism.
Ephesians 6:5-9
“Nothing is easier than to give Christian asceticism a Socialist tinge. Has not Christianity declaimed against private property, against marriage, against the State? Has it not preached in place of these, charity and poverty, celibacy and mortification of the flesh, monastic life and Mother Church? Christian Socialism is but the holy water with which the priest consecrates the heart-burnings of the aristocrat.”
- The Communist Manifesto
Nixon’s Southern Strategy and it’s fallout made a lot of things weird.
The US has always walked a somewhat different path. In Europe, the left/right dichotomy was associated with monarchism for way over a century. In countries like the UK, it still is.
The soviet union considered the early christian communes to be examples of proto-communism. I don’t really know much about that school of thought.
The Stalin constitution of the soviet union even quoted the bible. Stalin did study to become a priest before converting to Marxism-Leninism.
He who does not work, neither shall he eat 2 Thessalonians 3:10
That quote featured big in early soviet propaganda, during the time of the Holodomor.
Whatever else he may have said, Marx’s version was much better. “From each according to his ability, to each according to his need” is a much better way to run society as a whole.
He who does not work, neither shall he eat
Passive income is un-Christian! Unfortunately, so are most Christians.
Yeah, from saints like Francis of Assisi and Dorothy Day to the fact that the early church was basically voluntary communes Christianity could’ve just embraced communism and socialism. Hell there’s liberation theology as well!
Go back 100 years, and a big chunk of American church leaders either outright identified as socialist or were sympathetic. The early push for the prosperity gospel was laughed off because it was transparently a cop to the rich. Took decades to make it stick.
I really am only concerned with keeping up my streak. Was at the top of the league rankings for a bit but, like… It doesn’t matter? I just wanna learn to understand Japanese enough that I don’t have to read when I watch anime that isn’t dubbed in English, and at this point I just want the app to start giving me more words to increase my vocabulary. I can literally read stuff in hiragana or katakana (not kanji yet), but only know like 150 words. It’s such a weird point being able to “read” the letters, but still have no idea what the words themself mean lol
Just cancelled my 385 day Russian streak.
look into comprehensible input
It might be time to start doing vocab exercises then, if you have word structure and syntax down.
Instead of reflecting on themselves, they blamed the beasts.
“Have your heard about our nor God nor Saviors, Anarcho-unionism” ?
You mean anarcho-syndicalism? It’s like one of the most iconic left wing movements
Anyone else delete Duolingo yesterday when the owl suddenly looked sick and haggard with snot coming out of his nose? It was odd the first time when they just made him haggard, this was gross and annoying. I need a new language app.
I deleted it a long time ago because it just wasn’t a good way to learn a language for me and progressively got worse at that with each update. It always felt less about learning and more about keeping you in the app as often as possible for as long as possible.
Anki is the gold standard but I never got around to making a deck
Clozemaster was cool when I kept up with it. Nice little exposure challenge and takes advantage of spaced repetition. So far my favorite despite it being so simple.
I also liked lingo
quest(edit: it’s called lingo legend) for a short whileStill looking for something comprehensive, not enough attention is paid to actually teaching sentence structure, which is essential for languages like german, which is what I’m learning. I think lingodeer (?) tried to do this and it was good but the app wasn’t as polished as I would have liked it.
Currently not practicing, need to get back into it. Might just read a textbook, I picked up Hammer’s German Grammar and Usage a while back. I believe less and less in learning by app. Just take a class. All of my real progress has been through in-person classes, the apps are just maintenance.
