toastus

I don't have to proof something doesn't exist, someone that wants to be taken seriously has to proof why they would believe something does positively exist.

"what can be asserted without evidence can also be dismissed without evidence."

You are all over the place.

But I want to give you the benefit of the doubt and reply to your specific points.

Corporations have been stealing ever since the dawn of time, anyone working under a big company willingly is not the one to blame

That is a strawman argument.
In most societies people are more or less forced to work for some employer, so I think it is hard to blame a worker for the company he works for.
And additionally I think one can blame a worker if they choose to work for the ethically worst companies.

Is your only basis of hating 90% of the world’s population is that they believe in a god?

That is very insulting.
I don't hate religious people, my mother is deeply religious and I truly love her.
But she is misguided and gives time, effort, believe and most of all money to an organization that still to this day promotes homophobia, suppresses women and staunchly defends child rapists.

I don't like that and I won't stop criticizing it.

but everyone knows its a matter of choice and you can’t prove that god doesn’t exist

Off course it is your prerogative to believe in god.
I wouldn't ever want to ban you from believing in whatever you want.

But you shouldn't be surprised if people put you in the same category with people believing in a flat earth or something like that.

If you just choose to believe random stuff without evidence than it is only natural that your opinion is not taken seriously.

It is not like there are two equally valid theories about what to believe.
One group believes in things if there is proof and one group believes in things because some dude from the bronze ages wrote it down.

I am European and haven't been to the US in over 15 years and I still firmly hold the believe that religion is cancer and every religion is a cult, especially the christian organizations both big and small.

And don't tell me I don't know what I am talking about.
I was raised catholic and probably know my way around the bible better than most christians.

Now what?

We should be fighting religion.

You are so full of shit.
Nothing about Hitler (I assume you smugly meant him) was following Darwins teachings.

On the other hand he off course was a lifelong catholic...

Please enlighten me how I'm inherently ignorant

Despite millenia of disproven lies about a non existing almighty being, you still believe this being indeed does exist and indeed is almighty without ever having any measurable effect on the world whatsoever.

How is that not ignorant?

and taking your freedom.

I don't support the statement that you personally take away anyones freedom.
But organized churches have a long standing tradition of suppression and if you are part of one you support that at least indirectly.

I think you are wrong to a degree.

The problem is not that the left is an illusion and more that there just is no left wing party in the US.

Like you said there is a right wing party in line with most conservative parties in Europe and there is a protofascist party in line with Putin, American Oligarchy and religious extremism.

That doesn't mean that an actual leftist movement or party can't possibly exist or is a mere illusion.
The political system in the US is just purposefully designed not to allow a successful party on the left.

Elections are decided in big parts with money, which inherently favours those with money (and corporations are people in the US for some fucked up reason).
This is by design and not something that is natural or automatic.

I guess our positions are not that different, I just wanted to add some nuance.

You are right about most points, but the right is not and never was about freedom, but about cementing a hierarchical order in society.

It used used to be about Aristocrats in France.
Today it is about keeping the rich in power and by extension to rile poor people against even poorer people (often immigrants).

If you look at politics through that lense so many more things start to make sense.

Old money hates new money.
Right wing middle class people hate poor people.
Right wing poor people hate immigrants.
They want to look down on somebody.

Pretty sure that just released on Netflix.

Brenn!

That's such a stupid take, I am not even sure where to start responding.

Of the many, many, many things one might reply I will just pick the simple facts that a sugary drink alone doesn't kill anyone and cars have a real and tangible use to our society, while selling murder-tools at Walmart does not.

And btw I am very much in favor of measures to reduce the damages caused by the sugar industry and putting strict restrictions on dangerous traffic.

In short, while America needs to do SOMETHING the "Just ban guns" crowd are infuriating in their naivety.

As someone that is firmly against the free access to guns I cannot agree that it is naivety.

You guys got a serious problem with gun violence, your children are dying in, quite frankly, absurd numbers.
And you keep on letting it happen for decades now.

I am not someone that says just banning the ownership of guns outright from one second to another is the best solution there is. Off course it's not.

But dude, even that strawman solution that pretty much noone actually proposes would be better than your status quo.