I am also a not American

Yeah, I know there's impractical brutalist buildings, but those are the big expensive projects, right? The cheap ones are practical as far as I knew

Yeah nah I don't get it. Homeless is homeless, housed is housed. I'm currently homeless and I'd take apartment #5722 in a heartbeat, long as it was near public transport and had good insulation. Guess there's some people who'd rather rough it than stay in a boring apartment, but I think maybe we should house all the people who are willing to stay in boring apartments before we worry about catering to picky people. If they're comfortable enough on the street that a boring apartment is worse than the street, maybe they can stay on the street a little longer than the rest of us and be relatively okay. I definitely believe in helping them, but I think we should be trying to help the most people the soonest with the limited budget available.

Praying helps. Praying is a mediaeval, prescientific form of therapy. Talking out your day, and your feelings, to someone who will listen. That works just as well with a family member, a supposed god, or my imaginary friend Bill.

And given that therapy costs money and many people are poor, prayer is an appropriate self-medication option for many people who need to talk to someone about their feelings. It's even an appropriate option for people who see a therapist but not as often as they'd like.

Now this is all beside the benefits prayer has if you're trying to create or empower an egregore, of course.

Americans think 13 hours in the same state is big? Cute!

Oh okay. So what does racists complaining that the government freed slaves have to do with soulism?

WTF does the sheep's colour have to go with liberty? Do black sheep taste better? I thought their colour only mattered to humans because humans like to dye their woolen garments. A wolf doesn't need to dye clothes.

The reason why cult beliefs are considered mental illness is that most people don't understand psychiatric guidelines. Psychiatrists are not supposed to discriminate against patients for their cultural beliefs, and if they do, you can sue them for malpractice. Unfortunately, average joes aren't held to any psychiatric standard and can do whatever they want, and what some of them want is to discriminate against people different than themselves. If we want to change that, we need to take action to change that by telling cult haters to fuck off.

Your comment would have hit much harder as a rejection of cruelty and advocacy for kindness if you haven't thrown sociopaths under the bus. Most sociopaths are poor people, and they're all disabled.

The wild and capitalism both suck. Let's have communism instead.

You're infantilising disabled people.

You should. We're not cave people, it's the 21st century. We can provide for everyone easily.