BREAKING: Trump's egregious violations of our Constitution and his ties to Epstein have finally captured the attention of America hahaha just kidding kitchen table issues stay winning
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BREAKING: Trump's egregious violations of our Constitution and his ties to Epstein have finally captured the attention of America hahaha just kidding kitchen table issues stay winning
I know, I know, but: The president of the US saying, literally, "we're going in" in reference to sending the military to an American city for no reason beyond terrorizing the local population should be the most immediately impeachable shit imaginable
That's just what big non-ivermectin wants you to think
Pritzker: "I refuse to pretend that any of this is normal ... I refuse to fall into the pundit trap that demands we sacrifice vital constitutional rights if it's being done in the fake guise of fighting crime."
Pritzker: "When did we become a country where it's ok for the US president to insist on national television that a state should call him to beg for anything? Especially something we don't want. Have we truly lost all sense of sanity in this nation that we treat this as normal?"
"47 of the wildest things on Amazon" and number 4 is a pad that lets you iron on top of your dryer.
Here he goes.
So if you teach your kids anatomically accurate terms and that human bodies are not embarrassing or shamefull, please know that at some point you may have teenage boys and be all TOO MUCH TOO MUCH
Remembering the time that I got my deaf kid a donut after a particularly tough audiology appointment and a teacher's aide telling him that I must not care very much about him if I packed him junk food. I am mad all over again and this was like 10 years ago.
RFK and the wacky zealots who surround him are endangering the nation’s health and future well being. MRNA vaccines are safe and effective - full stop. Kennedy must resign if the nation is to be safe.
I wouldn't say WASTED -- just think of the good that money did for all of DeSantis's friends who got the no-bid contracts.
I'm so excited that RFK can diagnose mitochondrial disease on sight. That is going to save so much time.
No vaccines this year on account of the worm-brained, bear roadkill guy thinks everyone's mitochondria are overburdened, sorry
Not calling out any specific governors or anything, but super rich Democrats getting into bed with tech billionaires are absolutely not to be trusted.
Like 80% of suffering in the world is due to some soulless rich dudes pulling a "let's you and him fight" scam on entire populations.
Hey guys, maybe this whole thing where the entire human population just lines up to fight for the interests of the nearest available psychopathic oligarch isn't working out so well. We've tried it for many millennia, so I think we've given it the old college try.
Thanks!
The COVID virus infects, kills, and disables as many people as possible in the shortest amount of time. Our country’s dystopian COVID crisis is a policy choice made by lawmakers who would rather cower to the economy than support basic airborne infection precautions that save lives. #COVID
Sen Patty Murray (D-WA): “If there are any adults left in the White House, it’s well past time they face reality… We cannot let RFK Jr. burn what’s left of the CDC and our other critical health agencies to the ground—he must be fired.”
What is happening right now with public health and vaccinations and everything related is so huge and overwhelming and painful and dangerous that my brain has translated this feeling into “looking at the sun”. That is what it feels like to me right now—what I imagine looking at the sun is like.
Solid point
A former CDC staffer adds: “This is the work of a death cult.”
This is absolute gibberish. This man is devastating the CDC as he tosses years of expertise and public health infrastructure out the window. I know how a competent leader of HHS is supposed to make informed decisions. Instead I see this incompetent dangerous buffoon… and he is threatening us all.
“My friend got hit in the back… my friend Victor saved me, he laid on top of me…” We are failing them.
remember folks, we cant have gun restrictions because if we do the federal government will occupy our streets, imprison people without due process, ship dissidents to foreign gulags and things of that nature
Isn't it crazy how multiple things can be bad and you don't always have to talk about them all at once?
I hate to go quite that far...there is a sizeable minority of evangelical churches who are deeply committed to social justice and are pretty horrified at the co-opting of the label. But as the popular term for this quasi-religious politcal movement...totally.
You are a gentleman and a scholar.
I just got Invisalign to correct a shift in my bite that has been bugging me, and I absolutely underestimated how much my general urge to fidget with everything would be very problematic here.
Sometimes you make a post and people absolutely crawl out of the woodwork to have an argument that they have absolutely been ITCHING to have, which may or may not have much to do with whatever you posted.
Gosh it's almost like I never made that argument.
I am so disturbed by this image of ICE agents at Stanford hospital. They do not belong here--actually, they don't belong anywhere.
It just gets dumber every fucking day.
This imagery is the kind of thing you see in video games to let you know you’re in a totalitarian city or country.
“… and while it has been a long road, the arc of the universe bends towards justice”
Breaking: According to Minneapolis police, two children — ages 8 and 10 — have been killed in the church shooting. 14 children and three adults injured. Minneapolis mayor Frey: "Don't just say this is about thoughts and prayers right now. These kids were literally praying."
children in minneapolis shot while praying, children in DC passing armed military when they take the metro to school, this country is so sick
Drowning is the leading cause of death in children between 1 and 4 years of age but apparently the CDC Drowning Prevention program is no longer needed. www.npr.org/sections/sho...
I'm really sorry that happened to you.
It's a big strain
This is like an entire Neil Gaiman book waiting to be written.
Calvin was already trying to smack that shit down in the 16th century, but we really took it and ran with it.
It was more a rare sighting of the other end of the crazy spectrum.
I mean, it has been a major driving force in human history for a couple of millennia. Understanding how it works is probably a good thing.
Please don't make me tap the sign again.
Yeah but we really did something special with it.
I firmly disagree... I don't know what the Greek is for "shitgibbon" but I feel certain that it's probably somewhere in Mark. If not at least somewhere in the epistles.
That's pretty much just a feature of all belief systems though. What's kinda new is the explicit rejection of the theology while keeping the name. It's like they accidentally solved the problem of hypocrisy by just getting rid of morality. Genius, really.
Could you not give spoilers on my book please
Ha I do love panic attacks
This is a total troll account -- he talks about how "Alex Jones was right." 🙄🙄
You seem to be under the impression that I am interested in having some kind of textual argument with you, which I am decidedly not.
No but will check it out!
In case you aren't familiar with James Dobson, all you really need to know is that he bragged about how he beat the shit out of a dachshund with a belt.
I was thinking poop but yours are better.
James Dobson? The man who beat the shit out of his dachshund? That Dobson?
Wow. Just wow. I'm so sorry.
Same, friend.
I don't disagree with you, but things get kinda dicey when it is such an overwhelming force in American churches. I do disagree that it originated online. This has been brewing since the 1980s at a very minimum.
Good news! We can all go on cruises again!
I just saw a profile that both called for the death of anyone who voted for Harris and also expressed confusion about why they got more online hate from the left than from the right.
Thank heavens this thread is not about how all other Christians have been awesome, or boy would my face have been red.
CDC is no longer surveilling outbreaks caused by campylobacter, cyclospora, listeria, shigella, vibrio and Yersinia. What could go wrong?
I mean, you couldn't have known that they would manage to stop shouting sermons long enough to build a culture that would eventually peak with the invention of cheese whiz while simultaneously refining and perfectlng the crazy.
My husband just had to hear my stream of consciousness on how the work of 16th century theologian John Calvin inexorably led to a kid named Big Balls having my social security number. I am a lot, is what I am saiying.
I would have totally agreed with this statement until recently, but now I would use way worse substances than cheez whiz.
Y'all, nothing in this statement implies that a) all other Christians throughout history have been righteous and well behaved; b) I give a shit whether you or Christian or not; or c) anything about any other religions.
I think there is a strong possibility that when you start with predestination comboed with capitalism, sooner or later you're going to decide that you may as well go all-in on the latter since you can't do much about the former.
I think you could argue that nearly all religions are inescapably hierarchical and thus very liable to be used to justify abusive hierarchical structures, up to and including slavery.
You realize that there is an entire academic (not religious) field that studies this? You're under no obligation to agree with the conclusions they reach, but "only superficial readings of small snippets of an imperfect translation are valid" is not an approach that will lead to much understanding.
Exactly.
"Fuck the red words." -This bullshit right here.
Not talking about behavior. Talking about the rapid explicit redefinition of religious tenets.
Historically, usually what you see is either a rejection of a religion or outward piety and virtue while doing evil shit. I'm not sure I can think of a lot of examples of actually explicitly and loudly saying that Christianity writ large is in opposition to the teachings of Jesus.
Disgree. And this isn't a defense of the history of Christian nations or any particular church. But the way they are using and rapidly rewriting the religion itself is, I think, somewhat distinct.
What's interesting here is that it ISN'T underneath. It's the rewriting of an entire religion not to cover up malfeasance, but to actually celebrate it.
Hypocricy and use of religion in general for power/money/oppression isn't new or all that interesting. The fairly recent explicit overt rejection of the basic core of Christianity under the banner of Christianity is new and weird.
E.g. that's not a great reading of Luke 14:16, partly because English doesn't really have an appropriate word, but also because contextually that's not raccurate. But a lot of other popular "explanations" are complete bullshit -- i.e. the ridiculous rewriting of the camel and eye of a needle thing.
That's amazing and I love it
You are absolutely entitled to your opinion, but critical reading of any text is a thing if you're interested in understanding it, and rejecting a superificial reading of a line isn't an "excuse." That said, I agree that most people are not familiar with the sharper edges of the biblical Jesus.
Not a red word Christian, got it.
I think you actually could do it. Obviously wouldn't be linear, but I think you could draw a pretty clear line from Puritanism and predestination through enlightenment thought alllllll the way through Counterculture Christianity and prosperity gospel to the virtually 100% political bizarreness now.
It would for sure be more fun than the current writing I am months behind on.
Yeah, I think you could probably make a reasonable argument that this is the inevitable fucked-up end point of relatively unchecked Calvinism if you smoosh Calvinism, buddy Jesus, capitalism, and a solid helping of racism.
Oh wait I forgot I had a mute option
Lol okay.
It's wild.
Generational characterizations are incredibly intellectually lazy, but that's more of a boomer stereotype than Gen X. Regardless, sorry you had a rough time growing up.
I'm not sure how old you think -I- am, but deciding this is a generational thing rather than a pretty specific socio-religious phenomenon is missing the point, I think.
That religious studies degree is about to pay off big time.
That is a very weird take, but okay.
Evangelicalism isn't totally synonymous with this strain, although this strain has definitely co-opted the name.
The roots are considerably before that -- it just turbo charged politically more recently.
A 1955 writer casually dropping a “Germans tended to go along with Nazis just like your all-American wife goes along with segregation” is both the answer and the question for “how we got here”
I don't disagree, but doesn't Dodd-Frank make it pretty much impossible for us plebs to move money out of the country?
I said this elsewhere but the way that the white male dominated field of economics is defending Lisa should tell you how serious this move is. Not that they wouldn’t — her work is stellar — but this isn’t a case like Harvard where colleagues are willing to risk losing a colleague.
Someday I am going to write a book about how America managed to create a strain of Christianity that is completely antithetical to, well, Christianity.