FriendOfDeSoto

Yes, it's TACO Tuesday in Teheran.

It's a numbers game with tight margins. Both the Lutherans and the Catholics are bleeding members and have been for a while. The difference is roughly a couple of percent. People without any religious affiliation are almost half the population.

Because it's phrased the way the title is. Were it "Were most Nazis Catholic?" the fate would be different.

Stark and Wayne need to have the financial means to do their thing at that scale because they're not magic. A mid level manager of a domino's would be far less convincing in those roles. If you add magic to the mix, income becomes less relevant. The royal nepo god baby Thor could be dead poor as long as he had the hammer.

I'm not sure if the Equalizer franchise is based on a comic. That would be an argument for a more relatable living situation for a former super soldier who isn't magic. He just enjoys working at a Lowe's.

Read the forum rules.

And when you're done with that look for a better avenue to gain traction because my guess is the Venn diagram of lemmings reading this and people who care is the smallest of slivers.

If I had money to invest and I felt disillusioned by authoritarian regimes and religious fundamentalists, I'm not sure Turkey under Erdogan is where I would put my money.

The economy in war torn Europe was shit. Even before the war ended, people traded stuff rather than currency. Like instant noodles are the de facto currency in some prisons today, nylon stockings were as good as money back then. Same with cigarettes. So if they didn't need it to survive in the rubble, they could trade it for food with a well meaning local.

When you have some time for introspection, you'll find good characteristics and bad characteristics within you. That's normal. If you dig deep enough every saint can be an asshole sometimes and the person who just bombed to death 110 girls in a school can be a caring family man. We are complicated monkeys.

In a word: no. That's not how a representative democracy works.

Name a public service you cannot live without. I'm going to say the ambulance service. So when I crash my Ferrari into a concrete pillar, they take me to the hospital and I survive. It would be a shame if the service had been closed due to a lack of funding. All because a group of entitled, predominantly male libertarians had run a campaign to withhold tax money for this supposedly useless service based on the fact that they never needed an ambulance in their life.

Corrected, thank you.

The easy way would be to find your local, state, and federal politicians and post on whatever social media they're on. That's a couple of old school Google searches away.

Local governments has meetings, some of which will allow petitioning for action. I think the rules will differ there by region, as they do for state level, would be my guess. Maybe somebody else could point you at the right place. Your reps in DC tend to have phone lines to voice your opinion. All of them receive mail by USPS. Chuck all your f-bombs at me before you write them;) you want to sound reasonably frustrated to them.

I am going to go all ~~Goodwin~~ Godwin (edited) here: I just yesterday heard a snippet of a voice recording of Hitler discussing the Finnish winter war with their PM. The recording wasn't supposed to happen, somebody forgot to hit stop on the recorder and then stashed it away. The man sounded like just another guy at the bar.

To varying degrees this probably applies to all heads of state and government. If they don't derive any advantage from being the bully in the interaction and they're reasonably sure only trusted ears are listening they talk normally.

I remember Obama being caught on a hot mic at a summit talking with then Russian president at the grace of Putin, Medvedev, saying something like: "I have the midterms coming up. Tell Vladimir that after that I can cut him some more leeway." That's the kind of horse trading we're not hearing about normally. But it happens, and in normal language.

Dictators may have a much smaller circle of trusted ears. So Putin and Kim probably don't go full locker room: "So, Vlad, my homie, you're really running a fucking meat grinder in the donbass, aren't you!" - "Fuck you, your starving dwarf soldiers are also ending up in the sausage, motherfucker." And then they laugh and pat each other on the back and order shots. But I'm sure they make fun of the orange.

I think it's called "no strings attached."