.... or, we can just talk about ultranationalism & why america embodies it. actually honestly having a discussion, read a bit & think. instead of constantly chasing after the kid, barricading the doors instead. ultranationalism never leaves the american family.
Stuff like this is why I stand by my oldest take: Satire doesn't work. Its messages can only be understood by people who already have them and recognize them in the field. For everyone else it just reinforces what it seeks to criticize.
If it weren't for the fact that I'm an atheist, I'd say God's got a wicked sense of humor.
Explaining that the Iraq war being "for oil" didn't mean we were actually stealing oil because it wasn't even a good way to earn any money and it was actually about how oil is traded and in what currency, and then Trump just comes along and starts stealing oil lmao.
Losing money on stolen oil may be an even greater Trump accomplishment than losing money on casinos.
Age demographics show they won’t be having grandkids when they find out
Actually, it’s time to start sanctioning the US right now, all other countries that aren’t the US.
Big sanctions.
Now. Immediately.
Was it somehow suddenly not Ramadan when the Gulf states let the Americans and Israelis use their bases to launch a war of aggression on the brotherly people of Iran?
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any longer? i was raised by silent gen christians who basically described their great grandparents leaders as burning down printing presses. even during carlin he was silenced for the seven dirty words. www.biography.com/legal-figure...
that realm. ergo, you either say sprituality exists & thus the world doesn't actually operate conclusively with physics, or their is no way to derive god from physics.
nationalism is the gnostic position. either there is a spiritual world that we can't see thus can't trust base materialism, or we trust base materialism in saying we can't access the spiritual plane? & once you say that, it highlights the claims of prophets who claim special knowledge in accessing
nationalist, or be intellectually honest in saying theres no empirical way for us to observe what gods will is besides men that can't be trusted in the first place. either they are infallible enough to get it perfectly right, or fallible enough to damn you without your knoweldge. christian
well then, who watches the watchers? it starts to add distance to many of the notions that were given to us, that we can trust those without verifying these claims. which once you know the claims are unfalsifiable.... you either throw out the notion that empricism can be trusted & become a christian
both past & present, we can't really know what that divinity looks like, without trusting its claims. if we throw the claims into doubt... then we can throw the claimants into doubt. if we can do that, we can throw the structure of the church into doubt. if we know there is falsehood in there,
life ministering nbsed on this notion alone, that god will do these things.... to hear its a metaphor not only would shatter their faith, but their entire brain. like i said, you can't really talk about divine inspiration without pointing to what divinity actually is. & to a lot of christians
afterlife. i will give you this kingly position, but if you can't, i will marry off your daughters to the worst bastards i can." even in a sense that you don't believe in an afterlife, but a just god who will punish your enemies after you die, still high stakes enough. if someone spent all their
i guess i should say what i mean by "literal". i'm not using a fundie take there, but one that doesn't see these things as "myths" or "tales" or an explanation of the world. i'm talking straight up, high stakes " i have fifty billion dollars & will give it to you if you prove to me that there is an
they experience & react differently to their emotions, & have a different sort of moral code, even if thats just nihilism. they feel fear, but they experience it differently & react differently, according to the empirical literature. www.psychologytoday.com/us/blog/surv...
at least on some level, a level of doubt, even if you reject that doubt to finally say god exists, we are just not sure in what way or how he does what he does. which at least puts you at a kind of christian deism. if we allow a certain amount of empiricism in, the maximalist position can be taken.
sure, but argueably as someone who was once a fundie, a literalist view of the scriptures actually does lend more credence to the existence of a christian god, to the point if you say a lot of the bible is metaphor, a natural question is "is god a metaphor?" which at that point, you have to accept
The impulse is to say "well surely he can't get worse than this" — but obviously... Well, yeah.
more uneven.
i hate his double speak though, because they are actively trying to put gay people in camps, arguing for their existence as an example of "frightening" speech, meanwhile many lefties are just saying that maybe the jonah & the whale story isn't exactly factually correct. the stakes have never been
Carr has staffers telling him how the licensing process really works. He just spews that BS to please the big orange turd who appointed him.
They both know it will get repeated online a MILLION times and will be believed by a huge chunk of readers. Not the licensees, of course.
They know exactly.
I don’t think this shit will work but i never want to hear about free speech from any trumpers or anti anti trumpers ever again, fuck off forever bsky.app/profile/cram...
The reality is: If your country gets the courts to arrest and indict anti fascists before the courts work to arrest those building concentration camps and shooting citizens in the streets you are not in a democracy you’re in a fascist police state that is gearing up to kill you and your family.
religious fundie. you just can't have a good faith convo with these people, & to every step of the way they aren't stopped at, thats another person i care about in the ground. so i get why people do it, i just don't think its productive.
i kind of understand the instinct though, in that it morally matters to have fascists stop being fascists, & it feels safe & advantageous to try to tell people the facts & why their view of the world might be skewed. however, even as a religious fundie,it wasn't reason that got me to stop being a
