polysexualstick

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Favourite comfort food: Vegan Lasagna (German recipe, but Browser Translation should make it accessible)

Favourite food with few ingredients: Spaghetti all'assassina

Recipe I make the most often: Chickpea Curry

Recipe I make for the holidays: Lentil loaf (instead of meatloaf) and bread dumplings on vegetable gravy

Favourite way to prepare Tofu (just because many people don't know how to prepare it and are then confused why it tastes plain): General Tso's Tofu

Favourite dessert: Bread pudding with vanilla sauce

I haven't read much about the theological dimensions of the later stages of the Roman Empire. But I would contest the premise of the question. Instead I would argue that the Western Roman Empire more or less continued until the death of Theoderic the Great in 526. Yes, in name he wasn't Roman Emperor, but only because of the might of the Eastern Roman Empire, whose regents would have been irate if he called himself that. But he was considered to be a Roman Emperor by many Roman citizens of the time, not only largely accepting him, but in many cases even celebrating him for trying to restore old buildings, roads, institutions etc.

Hitler was pretty animal friendly and, for all we know, in a fairly loving relationship with Eva Braun. Pretty much no real person is evil to everyone, always and in any situation. That doesn't make Hitler any less of a bad person. I would even argue it makes him more evil: He knows how to treat living beings with respect, he just thinks a majority of humanity isn't worth his respect.

A former Olympian and World Champion and current TV expert lives in the area where I lived until I was in my 20s. I refereed his son a number of times in the sport this guy was world class in. But like his son was a child playing for fun. This man could not stop shouting at me from the stands and tried to argue with me every single time, one time physically blocking me from going to my changing room. It's still wild to me how this man, who has seen everything and both played and coached at the biggest stages the sport has to offer, acted like a random ref decision in a game between 9 year olds was going to change the fate of world.

(Also, he was very wrong most of the time. Turns out, professional athletes often do not have a clue about the rules of their sport)

I really don't like these jokes because I think they make light of how bad the Nazis were. Obviously fascism in the US is very very bad right now. But by 1939, antisemitic policies and action in Germany had become so bad that most Jews who were able to had already fled the country. The KZs for example already held around 60.000 people, and the Nazis murdered hundreds of Jews during the November pogroms of 1938.

I am fine with jokes linking the US right now to Germany in like 1935 or something.

I would argue that no, it is not morally wrong per se to be non-vegetarian. Meat consumption is not morally wrong in general, it is just morally wrong in our society. We kill way too many animals to be sustainable and every animal you eat contributes to that. We harm climate and ecosystems to sustain our meat consumption. We hold animals captive and make them hurt and suffer. In this society you can not eat meat in a morally okay way.