I used to be strictly materialist and atheist. Now I’m pretty spiritual. Don’t necessarily follow a religion and don’t support bigotry but yeah, I’m fairly spiritual now. This is a recent development and I never thought I’d be here like 5 years ago.

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    Checks and balances in the US government would stop a president from doing anything truly egregious. Unfortunately that belief has been proven very very incorrect

    (There was always the regular corruption and killing that the US was doing, but that was the “regular” accepted type of horribleness built into our system. But i truly thought the checks and balances would prevent the occurrence of extremely out of the ordinary radically new nakedly illegal tyrant style horrors.)

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      Western politicians have become increasingly mask-off. I remember back in the early 00s, national politicians in my country stepped down because they used frequent flyer miles from flights for official purposes for private purposes. Nowadays, they get exposed for blatant corruption, power misuse and even serial rape and just carry on.