Red Scare is the most successful Propaganda to ever happen

[w1ckedsticky1983]

@Luana.vasper woaw i actually positively impacted someone shits n giggles aside, you're actually not that far off from the rightwing and religious crap. Okay, just wanna preface this first:

everyone is entitled to their own system of set beliefs, but it matters on you and those beliefs influence in the real world. It isn't necessarily about the intention, but on the effects brought on afterwards.

I'll keep this short and simple, but religion as a whole has been used throughout history to persuade the public; causing both fear mongering and reinforcing fascist ideology to the public by acting as a moral code that allows the public to follow a set of ideals pushed or even created by the individuals in power. Whether it's the dictation of female autonomy and their bodies, to your sexual or gender identity, the social perception of all these traits are affected due to religion. Look at what's going on in Afghanistan, women are treated and seen as having less worth than an object. You aren't particularly wrong for thinking these systems are against you, because i guarantee at one point in time, they definitely were.

However, the government used these tactics in the past, during the times of the red scare, reinforcing capitalistic ideology. Nowadays, religious beliefs don't dictate the public as much as before; they generally have less weight today in the regard of coaxing or impact because eventually, people have given up and have lost hope. And I don't blame them. Religion is also still modernly used as a coping mechanism during times of grief, such as the Great Depression (which we're arguable experiencing another one today, but I digress) and WWII struggles. It's a free source of hope and a sense of meaning during times of hardship. Although, I definitely won't deny that these times lead people to secularism because said hardships also caused despair.

Me personally, I'm against religion as a whole, it has zero backing behind any of it, yet, that doesn't mean that I'm going to yell at everyone who says Jesus is their lord and savior or anyone's way of life if it isn't harming anyone, and like i said previously, it's a way to cope for some people and who the hell am i to judge. Sorry for taking long to respond as well, i got distracted midtype . I apologize for the emphasis on religion in this post, i just have nowhere else to express these opinions without making them into a different topic

[w1ckedsticky1983]

everthing in the world rn is js so eeeuhhhefhfefiuuughhhghghguuughghhfeaae

[Luana.vasper]

@w1ckedsticky1983 I completely agree. I'm sick of negative christianity. I literally have legit trauma from it. Also, it's totally fine. I appreciate your input. Thank you for your time. I believe you're a good person

[w1ckedsticky1983]

@Luana.vasper tanks brah ppreciate it. I think i'm also inclined to feel indifferent towards religion myself since I have my own trauma caused by it. It's just ignorant to me that some people ignore the harm it has done. No matter how perfect and holy someone believes their god is, there is someone who's life has been taken because of it in the name of said god or because of it (specifically talking abt Christianity rn, but it can generally be applied anywhere).

[Yanderemenhera]

@brirightback a therapist I know makes 170 to 200$ per 30-60 minute session, the argument that her work is hard is kinda downplayed by the fact that if she's ever uncomfotable even a bit she'll put you in crisis (you stay in the bulding and promise you're not a danger to yourself or anyone else and are given a crisis packet which is just numbers to call, most people just lie at that point about how they feel)

I have ZERO respect for the idea that she deserves to make 200$ an hour sitting on her αss ruining kid's lives and funnuling everything they say back to the parents on the idea that it's for safety reasons when it's something like telling a kid's parents they are gay (the parent's are homophobic and that info being shared with parents harms the kid) and then not seeing them whenever something serious comes up and just puts kid's in crisis or sends them to psych hospitals.

(in my region psych hospitals are nothing more than small rooms with next to nothing in them where the most horrific abuses of children you can imagine transpire.)

where as, a nurse making next to nothing being more of a therapist to people than the actual therapist's and doing some of the grossest things ever working 12+ hour shifts is making hardly anything and can barely pay rent.
i've spent time in a ICU, those nurses are working so hard and doing more than actual therapists do and them getting payed so little pisses me tf off. the nurses deserve that money, not the shrinks.

one thing I hate about capitalisum is that prices and pay for work is made-up bullshit and doesn't ever reflect the person's job, it seems like the people doing the least end up being payed the most.

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