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Cake day: June 24th, 2023

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  • I think we definitely are in agreement here. My one quibble is I don’t know that religion is the antithesis of government so much as a more primitive form of government. The earliest religions were a form of law enforcement in world without police or judicial systems.

    If it’s just you and someone else alone in the wilderness, why shouldn’t you just kill them and take their stuff? There are no consequences. Religion adds the consequences. “God will punish you. You’ll burn in Hell/Hades/Tartarus.” Why shouldn’t I steal? “It’s a sin.” Why shouldn’t I sleep with my neighbors wife? “It’s bad karma.” It’s all just laws enforced by a mythological father figure instead of a real guy with a gun.








  • It’s true that there are still a lot of votes to be counted, but I am sceptical they a high enough portion will got to Harris to disprove my point.

    There are about 158 million people voting this election and 140 million or so ballots have been counted so far. If a full 60% of the remaining votes go to Harris, Trump’s vote total would still be less than Biden’s in 2020.




  • In 2020, Biden got 80 million votes and Trump got 74 million.

    In 2024, Harris got 68 million voted and Trump got 72 million.

    My take is basically 10+ million people who voted for Biden stayed home rather than vote for Harris. For some reason they couldn’t bring themselves to vote for either. There was no reason that they cared about where one was better than the other.