Lots of religious people do not discern the difference between them practicing their faith freely themselves & them imposing their beliefs on others with threat, coercion, pressure & even violence
13.03.2025 06:34 β π 0 π 0 π¬ 0 π 0@ruthrey.bsky.social
Nourishing & protecting our relationships & what sustains us by naming what is real & working for equality, human rights, body, belief, relationship autonomy against the rising tide of fascism, Christian nationalism & religious extremism.
Lots of religious people do not discern the difference between them practicing their faith freely themselves & them imposing their beliefs on others with threat, coercion, pressure & even violence
13.03.2025 06:34 β π 0 π 0 π¬ 0 π 0Whatβs offensive is claiming religion gives you the right to impose on others based on your religious beliefs
13.03.2025 02:01 β π 0 π 0 π¬ 0 π 0Christianβs are disliked because they attempt to codify harm to & discrimination against others, removal of individual rights, hoarding resources & withholding services as acceptable based on their religion. Their dominionistic beliefs which claim they define reality are why they are distrusted
13.03.2025 02:01 β π 0 π 0 π¬ 0 π 0Christianβs are disliked because they attempt to codify harm to & discrimination against others, removal of individual rights, hoarding resources & withholding services as acceptable based on their religion. Their dominionistic beliefs which claim they define reality are why they are distrusted
13.03.2025 02:00 β π 0 π 0 π¬ 0 π 0βwe arenβt seen as the good guysβ has everything to do with their behaviors which cross consent, punish those who donβt follow their beliefs & their overt intent to form βChristianβ laws & governance are all why.
13.03.2025 01:58 β π 1 π 0 π¬ 0 π 0one thing i keep thinking about is how there is simply no way to design a constitutional system that can resist authoritarian incursion if participants in that system do not actually care that much
12.03.2025 14:50 β π 67760 π 9616 π¬ 1166 π 893When conservatives talk about absent fathers notice they donβt talk about men & their violence or reproductive responsibilities or relational failures - they blame women.
12.03.2025 18:14 β π 0 π 0 π¬ 0 π 0Lots of men see women as property domestic servants or sexual things
12.03.2025 18:09 β π 0 π 0 π¬ 0 π 0There are lots of men walking around constantly fantasizing about dominating, demeaning and owning women because of their porn addicted violence addled man child ways
12.03.2025 18:03 β π 0 π 0 π¬ 0 π 0There are lots of men walking around constantly fantasizing about dominating, demeaning and owning women because of their porn addicted violence addled man child ways
12.03.2025 17:56 β π 0 π 0 π¬ 0 π 0You see women as things for your sexual & domestic pleasure and comfort
That is evil
This is just the beginning, theyβll be going after all of us who donβt fit their perfect white, rich, straight, male, βchristianβ mold.
11.03.2025 16:28 β π 10 π 3 π¬ 1 π 0Zampolli founded ID Model Mgmt and ran in the same social circles as Epstein, even running a charity with Ghislaine Maxwell. He says he introduced Melania to Donald at the Kit Kat Club in NY. He facilitated her move to the U.S. from Slovenia after finding her during a scouting trip to Europe.
12.03.2025 00:55 β π 4248 π 1539 π¬ 403 π 126January: hm I should only travel to the US on Canadian airlines to minimize safety risks
March: hm yeah I should probably just not go to the US at all
one of the things i truly believe is that a significant portion of this country is in the grip of a death cult
11.03.2025 14:06 β π 43208 π 7713 π¬ 1517 π 675benion Grieving a wasted life At a point in life when there are far too many days behind than ahead, one tends to re-elected in contrast to standing up for the reflect on a life lived. In my lifetime decades greater good? were devoted to protecting America. Sacri A compromised Supreme Court recently fices were made both by myself and my fam- trotted out a shallow token standards of Ily in military service. The tip of the spear: conduct for themselves. Apparently it's Countless weeks over the years were spent not a bribe to accept favors after a deci-sion; only before. Corporations are people? living at the end of a runway on alert with an Really? Whatever happened to Superman's armed B-52 as generations of aviators have motto of "truth, justice, and the American done before and since. way?" The purpose: if required, be airborne Pay-to-play is the theme of the day. Un- in minutes on a one-way trip bringing a challenged and uncontested blatant conflicts nuclear Armageddon to an adversary. Fly: of interest abound. The rule of law is situ- ing the unfriendly skies over North Viet- ational if adhered to at all. America can no nam provided a brief interlude, but overall, longer be trusted. The unbridled pursuit of this long line of silent sentinels stood firm power and wealth driven by unquenchable to protect America by deterring external greed has left service above self and Con- threats to our freedoms and way of life stitutional norms in the dustbin of a quaint across the decades. I was privileged to serve past. with men and women of integrity imbued Recently the VA said exposure to Agent with a sense of service. Orange is the probable cause of the can- I'm truly grateful that the B-52s we flew, which were built tough, were engineered cers I live with. Actually I suspect it's more from yet unspecified sources, which cause on scientific principles and fabricated by experienced, skilled workers rather than military pilots to have significantly higher founded on mere beliβ¦
This letter appeared in the Bloomsburg PA Press Enterprise this morning. I am assured the writer is who he purports to be, an Air Force veteran.
11.03.2025 22:04 β π 26432 π 9661 π¬ 1075 π 1151Your selfish libertarian whining about social safety nets contributed to this & you supported Trump. You did this.
11.03.2025 17:39 β π 1 π 0 π¬ 0 π 0Bill you & yours supported Trump. Because ultimately you are selfish dicks who hate social safety nets for the poor & regulations & taxes on oligarchs & corporations. You contributed to this.
11.03.2025 17:38 β π 4 π 0 π¬ 0 π 0Summit County deputy who had sex with inmate wonβt be charged Report states deputy was also suspected of smuggling drugs into jail, report doesnβt say what happened with the drugs
Another cop commits rape and doesn't face consequences. Where's the national outrage?
11.03.2025 11:46 β π 1135 π 398 π¬ 64 π 28Picture of police guarding a Tesla dealership.
Too bad Uvalde Elementary didnβt sell Teslas.
11.03.2025 09:54 β π 65771 π 16177 π¬ 2751 π 1156One of my companies informed me they cancelled a $2m conference in Florida. Why ?
They didnβt feel they could pass on the incremental cost of tariffs. So they are cutting expenses.
Thatβs a city that lost a ton of tourism revenue.
The cost of tariffs isnβt just the cost of the tariff
Here is a revolutionary thought: You are responsible for your own body and beliefs to the ends of your fingertips. You have no right to impose your deeply held beliefs on anyone else and we draw boundary around you feeling entitled to do so because of your religion or culture.
11.03.2025 17:33 β π 0 π 0 π¬ 0 π 0Itβs not difficult to understand a world where men feel entitled to enter womenβs bathrooms to police gender or girls having to have their genitalia inspected to play sports isnβt a safer world than peaceful existence around trans people www.huffpost.com/entry/trans-...
11.03.2025 17:32 β π 0 π 0 π¬ 0 π 0Truth! I remember when women could finally get credit cards on their own in 1974 and when abortion was made legal. My marriage wasnβt legal until the long hard fight and SCOTUS decision in 2015.
10.03.2025 05:49 β π 15 π 4 π¬ 2 π 0re the previous repost: if they can disappear permanent residents they can disappear citizens
09.03.2025 22:25 β π 49017 π 10830 π¬ 445 π 480Loved up by my hometown of Santa Rosa & by chosen family. Heading to Melbourne for our Safe & Together conference
10.03.2025 01:00 β π 0 π 0 π¬ 0 π 0WARNING: GRAPHIC β οΈ A cop in Vermont who was charged with killing a pedestrian had a YouTube video playing on his cruiser's tablet at the time. Surveillance video shows Kyle Kapitanksi, 41, zooming down a road with no traffic and hitting an innocent man.
08.03.2025 23:24 β π 115 π 27 π¬ 7 π 2This thing about boys not being listened to, not being talked to; good grief. There are plenty of people talking to boys: a major problem is that huge media platforms and algorithms are force-feeding impressionable boys the promise of sexual dominance. Letβs at least acknowledge that, please.
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