When Biya’s regime unleashed the military, peaceful protests gave way to an armed separatist insurgency. At least 6,000 people were killed in the subsequent violent confrontations, displacing over half a million, and leaving 1.3 million in need of aid.

Dismissing the reports as “phantasmagorical” and “a clumsy attempt at disinformation”, Tchiroma, as the government spokesperson, had accused human rights organizations documenting the atrocities of being in cahoots with the secessionists.

“I 100% agree that the military committed atrocities,” he said in his election campaign. “But as minister of communication, my duty was to defend our armed forces,” he reasoned. “Today, I speak as a free man.”

He has even offered to hold a referendum to return the country to federalism – a long-standing demand in the Anglophone region. “I say it clearly: centralization has failed,” he said. As the communications minister, however, Tchiroma had reportedly banned the national media from using the word.

They both seem pretty awful. Tchiroma has about faced in a matter of months and nobody seems to actually care about the western part of the country.

Yeah, I’m not sure what shows if your net score is negative, but you don’t see them tabulated standardly

Fuck those felons and diabetics who can’t wait hours without food, water, and a place to sit for a moment, amirite?

Nah, that’s why they have a nsfw account

Do assholes deserve to die to fascists?

Fourth reason: not enough helium

Because of the quote from the article I included wherein he talks about banning prayer in public places.

You can argue that your prayer mat is a yoga mat. I still don’t understand what your issue with my comment is.

That’s something you can argue in court, but it doesn’t stop you from the hassle and it doesn’t stop the chilling effect that a law like that could cause. I don’t know what you’re actually disagreeing with me about.

Why would I ignore that the only way I can see to implement a prayer ban seems discriminatory against Muslims? That’s my whole issue and the point of my comment: a ban on prayer seems like it might be a whitewashed attack on Muslims.

Yeah, that’s it. I’m worried that this is just thinly veiled Islamophobia, because praying can occur in someone’s head with no outward indication that a person’s praying, so you obviously can’t ban prayer itself. You can ban public displays of prayer like a prayer mat, which means that Muslims must be on private property where prayer is allowed (good luck screening for that in the job search) at five spaced out and preordained times a day. I hope there’s another way to interpret a ban on prayer.

As I said, I hope I am wrong about my interpretation. What’s eyebrow raising about prayer mats?

I was with them until this:

The government has already tabled legislation to extend the religious symbols ban to all public school staff, and Roberge has also promised to ban prayer in public places.

I hope I’m interpreting this too cynically, but that sounds like something that’s not really possible (nailing down what is and isn’t a prayer just for this comment is giving me a headache, like does “damn it!” count?). What they could do is ban the use of prayer mats, but that would only really hit one religion. Hopefully that’s neither their intent nor the course they’d take.

Did we not just recently see the benefits of a healthy population with access to healthcare worldwide?

Is Germany the crow and is Italy the wolf? The others are all fairly clear

He looks like he dislocates his jaw to swallow his prey whole

Yeah, no, I just made a bunch of assumptions and didn’t clarify them.

I was imagining OPs neighbors gave them a bunch of stuff as a housewarming/welcome to the neighborhood/we’ve got a bunch of cucumbers this year thing. Buying it from their farmstand is totally different and I could even imagine OP chatting to them about how to can pickles in a friendly way.

But if I’d given someone home canned pickles and they decided that paying for cucumbers and taking the time to can them was better than accepting mine for free, I would probably worry about how I’d fucked them up. Like, I would definitely not be mad (though I can see a personality type who would), I’d just feel rejected.

Of course, if they’re just super into canning, that’s one thing, but then I’d probably just invite them over to do it together.

I don’t know any Amish people, but holy shit would I assume that’s a grave insult if they ever found out. “Thanks for your free and neighborly homemade pickles, but I’m going to buy some and can them right tyvm”

To be clear, it’s a great idea to do, just don’t advertise it, lol.

Edit: they’re not a free gift, which also changes things in my mind

Ich bin halt auch von Natur aus ein Lauch, durch’s Kiffen dann halt noch mehr.

Irgendwie scheint es, als ob der Körperbau einfach extremer durch das Kiffen- man wird entweder sehr schlank oder nimmt viel zu

Depending on the community near you, Unitarian Universalists sometimes have basically that. I’ve been an atheist since I was four, but I have no problem with other people being religious and it was perfect for me. If you’re the type to be annoyed by people talking about the universe in a way that suggests the supernatural, you might not want to deal with even the UU’s very mild language. When I went as a kid, we learned about volcanoes in Sunday School, as a gauge for how religious they are.

Or if you want evil church without religion, can I interest you in crossfit?