@Kaegler

a man with a face painted like a skeleton giving the middle finger ALT: a man with a face painted like a skeleton giving the middle finger

I don’t watch wrestling anymore. But I really do want Danhausen to do well in that company with more than one w.

Eisenhower

I guess I just feel pretty strongly that the lives of people who live in other countries are also very important

That sound you hear is irony dying.

There is definitely something wrong spiritually with a nation who has people whos first thought after seeing 100+ girls get murdered by American/Israeli psychos is all the new porn content they'll get

New Philosophy Tube just dropped on Nebula ⭐️

A complete history of conversion therapy from 1849-now, including an exposè of groups trying to keep it legal in Britain and enforce it on the NHS with the apparent blessing of Health Secretary Wes Streeting

nebula.tv/videos/philo...

Again, cannot look normal enough to get over the line.

Their policy head describes himself as "JD Vance's sherpa" and is a Christian nationalist.

Their by-election candidate won't shut up about how to make women have kids.

Their campaign manager was filmed saying he wouldn't touch Jewish women.

America's Richest People Are Not its Most Generous

Fascinating chart with one outlier: Warren Buffett.

At the low end, giving 0.06% of one's wealth is equivalent to:

Net worth -> Lifetime Giving
50K->$30
100K->$60
500K->$300
$1M->$600

Most folks give far more by % in a *single year*.

www.forbes.com/sites/forbes...

Used to be that robber barons would give away vast sums of wealth to charitable causes to launder their reputations. Now the billionaires just try to control the narrative by buying up the media companies

IF YOU'RE UNEMPLOYED IT'S NOT BECAUSE THERE ISNT ANY WORK JUST LOOK AROUND: A HOUSING SHORTAGE, CRIME, POLLUTION; WE NEED BETTER SCHOOLS AND PARKS. WHATEVER OUR NEEDS, THEY ALL REQUIRE WORK. AND AS LONG AS WE HAVE UNSATISFIED NEEDS, THERE'S WORK TO BE DONE. SO ASK YOURSELE, WHAT KIND OF WORLD HAS WORK BUT NO JOBS. IT'S A WORLD WHERE WORK IS NOT RELATED TO SATISFYING OUR NEEDS, WORLD WHERE WORK IS ONLY RELATED TO SATISFYING THE PROFIT NEEDS OF BUSINESS. THIS COUNTRY WAS NOT BUILT BY THE HUGE CORPORATIONS OR GOVERNMENT BUREAUCRACIES. IT WAS BUILT BY PEOPLE WHO WORK. AND, IT IS WORKING PEOPLE WHO SHOULD CONTROL THE WORK TO BE DONE. YET, AS LONG AS EMPLOYMENT IS TIED TO SOMEBODY ELSE'S PROFITS, THE WORK WONT GET DONE.

the Black Panthers were right

Yet one more reason to reject Eric Metaxas’s trash bio of Bonhoeffer.

I asked @barackobama.bsky.social if aliens are real.

Absolutely insane that our elites are not screaming about this. We have a generation of leaders who have completely failed to internalize the values of democracy. People of no conviction whatsoever. Truly the iron cage.

Insider baseball - but my favorite thing on Lutheran reddit is watching ELCA Lutherans who read the Lutheran Confessions scorching overconfident LCMS Lutherans who don’t.

How you can tell that Evangelical Epsteins like Katy Faust, Meg Basham, and Allie Stuckey, et al really don't care about children ... and only use them as political/grifting props?

It's been 24 hours since Bondi said the stock market was more important than children and they've been totally silent.

You know I used to think the Norwegian Royal Family was the exception to the rule that monarchies must all be abolished.

Then I found out the Crown Princess is in the Epstein files.

That feeling when you, a terrorism and extremism scholar, see documentary evidence that shows moot met with Jeffery Epstein on the same day /pol was launched:

love to let my friend, the most famous pedophile in the world, know i think he is being poorly treated by the press

xbox live took stronger action against jeffrey epstein than the entire us government

For what it's worth, Chris Hedges is turning 70 this year.

"But Adams warned us about the blindness caused by intellectual snobbery. The Nazis, he said, were not going to return with swastikas and brown shirts. Their ideological inheritors in America had found a mask for fascism in patriotism and the pages of the Bible."

"Its stated goal was to use the United States to create a global Christian empire. It was hard, at the time, to take such fantastic rhetoric seriously, especially given the buffoonish quality of leaders in the Christian Right who expounded it."

"The warning, given to me nearly 25 years ago, came at the moment Pat Robertson and other radio and televangelists began speaking about a new political religion that would direct its efforts at taking control of all institutions, including mainstream denominations and the government."

"Dr. James Luther Adams, my ethics professor at Harvard Divinity School, told us that when we were his age - he was then close to 80 - we would all be fighting the 'Christian Fascists.'

One of them was American Fascists: The Christian Right and the War on America, from 2006. This was one of the first books I read when I was discerning a call to seminary, and it was written by a PC(USA) pastor named Chris Hedges. Here is an excerpt from the back cover:

My office has been getting a pretty substantial glow-up over these past few weeks. Part of it has been going through my bookshelf and reorganizing it, which is a very enjoyable process if for no other reason than that I get to put my hands on old books I haven't actually looked at in ages.

OMG - Sepp Blatter is now occupying the moral high ground.

Which says everything you need to know about how far the rest of the ground has fallen.

The age old term is “race traitor”

Walz: What side do you want to be on? The side of an all powerful federal government that can kill, injure, menace and kidnap its citizens off the streets or on the side of a nurse at the V.A. who died bearing witness to such government