Mormon Atheist

Oh! Well then it's a good thing kids aren't autistic until middle school.

Gifted programs are a haven for the neurodivergent.
This is some real RFK Jr. shit.

Rand = faux libertarian.

And Nigel Farage's pom MAGA party is set to become the biggest in the country.
Now, I would gladly trade places with you. That said, it's pretty head-in-the-sand to brag about the UK having "stopped."

But before you throw your shoulder out patting yourself on the back, remember that it wasn't long ago that the UK left the EU because they thought there were too many brown people in their country.

Sure. There's no doubt that the US is in a worse place than the UK right now. I don't deny the fascist takeover of my country.

Ha.
You're right.
I was misled by the OP who preface the piece by commenting that Britts have a way with their mother tongue.
Guess some Yanks do, too.
Thanks for the correction.

Furthermore, you don't get to shame the USA for slavery when, while the Civil War was being waged to determine the fate of that evil practice, you supplied the confederacy with guns and ships.

And then they'll pat themselves on the back saying, "hey, at least we outlawed slavery in 1833!" Did you, though? I can think of some people in British South Africa who would disagree with that timeline.

Yeah. He's spot on about Trump.
But I have to chuckle when a Brit starts talking shit about "what America has always been." This? Coming from a citizen of the British Empire!? Which engineered genocides on each inhabited continent on the planet!?
Pot, kettle. Kettle, pot.

You should remember George Bush's HHS secretary, because Mike Leavitt was your governor when you lived in Utah.
You know. Back when Republicans were allowed to be somewhat competent and sane.

YouTube video by cryomancer199X He's Not My Companion + Defiance AWESOME Mormon Double Feature! VHS 1996 480p (reupload)

Just listened. Great ep.
Don't know if this is the place for recs, but you guys need, NEED! to do "Defiance."
A non-church sanctioned missionary movie that circulated Mormon circles via bootlegs in the 1990s.
It is...not good, but it's better than any official church film.
youtu.be/Qk--1tAYchw?...

Cats have no other gods before themselves.
So, no.
But at least all dogs go to heaven.

They have their own perverse incentives. They may know that fascism is bad for everyone, but they also know that: 1) fascism is worse, economically, for any company who opposes it than for those companies that acquiesce and 2) if fascism fails, most people will forgive them. I mean, look at VW.

Done. And my wife. And my children.
Flu, too.
And not so much as a sore arm one day later.
Glad I live in a state where the pharmacist asked only whether we felt we were at high risk and asked no follow-up questions after our answering affirmatively.

One thing that makes Colorado great is that when smart and empathetic Texans flee their evermore tyrannical government, they often come here. Welcome, Texas refugees, to a land free from Abbott, Paxton, and Patrick.

I know, right!

I have never agreed on all things with any politician; if the choice is between a policy that I don't really like that much and a racist and corrupt police state...well...easiest choice ever.

"Public housing to rent or private ownership should be the main options."
This is right. Financial and legal disincentives for making housing into investment properties should be more rigorous.
I don't, however, see rent controls as a fix even temporarily. I'd still happily vote for Mamdani.

Rent control is just dumb.
Martial law is dumb and dangerous.

I voted for George W Bush
I voted for John McCain
I voted for Mitt Romney
I voted for Gary Johnson
I voted for Joe Biden
I voted for Kamala Harris.

It's also okay to change and grow.

Their pizza is...okay.

Doctor Sleep.
Doc McStuffins.
Doctor Pimple popper

Such an unmanly font for the word "of."
How do they expect us to win wars with such fancy, frilly, feminine fonts?
Might as well call it the department of pansies.

a woman in a black suit is talking to a man in a room with headphones . ALT: a woman in a black suit is talking to a man in a room with headphones .

Are the "High Priests of Blueskyism" anything like the "Elders of the Internet"?

Republican demands those making $40K/year be held to higher moral standards than the president.
Whited sepulchers, all of them.

Why would JBP go to Domino's when he's got options all around him for deep dish and tavern style?

If there were any justice, they'd all wind up in CECOT in El Salvador.

I'm being pedantic, but hell is not really a long-held Jewish doctrine. Though a version did start to be incorporated around the time of the early Roman occupation, it's never been universal.
And the NT explicitly rejects circumcision as a Christian doctrine.
Most Muslims hold to both, however.