There is no inherent meaning; everyone must find their own.

For me, it’s to try and leave my little patch of the world better than I found it.

If only public opinion mattered more than billionaire lobbying.

Cruz said, "there are many, many wonderful, wonderful working men and women in the state of New York, but everyone understands that the values in New York City are socially liberal or pro-abortion or pro- gay-marriage, [and] focus around money and the media.”

Said the podcast host who is begging billionaires for money. Fuck this waste of skin.

Here is an article with some good examples of the racist shit PragerU slops around like an incontinent hippo.

“Calling me a liar is a violation of my free speech! You can’t say that!”

And to get, apparently.

Do you really think subjugation of women improves these people?

There are plenty of Christians who don’t do that; I have no problem with humanist Christians.

I have a huge problem with reactionaries who use their religion to oppress others. You should learn the difference.

That is a great point about pseudopaul. I had forgotten that this letter’s authenticity was questionable.

However there are practically no evangelical groups who would agree with modern scholarship on the subject, so my larger point holds: they believe that Paul instructed women to be subservient and silent.

Also, as far as I can tell, Paul was one of the ones who shifted Jesus’ prophecy about his coming kingdom from that of an imminent apocalypse to a prediction about the rise of the Christian church. While he did believe that the end of the world was near, so do a huge swath of Christians today.

Thanks for the correction, it is appreciated.

But I suffer not a woman to teach, nor to usurp authority over the man, but to be in silence.

-1 Timothy 2:12

This is why I hate the “these aren’t real Christians” no-true-Scotsman dismissals.

The Bible is a toxic book full of misogyny and racism. Sure it has some good stuff in there, but when the founder of Christianity* is so clear about his thoughts on the subjugation of women then these are Christians following the teachings of their religion.

Christianity is only compatible with the modern world when it is so diluted by humanism that it would be unrecognizable by its founder; that’s why reactionaries are working to change the world instead of updating their morality. They want power over people, and enforcing their backwards ideology is their path forward.

* And Paul was the founder of the religion; Jesus didn’t expect the world to last longer than the lives of his disciples

It also requires those applying for liquor licenses to have a “reputable” character and be expected to operate the business in a “reputable manner.”

Then how did he get one in the first place?

Commodore 64 here, too.

First Linux distro was Ubuntu.

I like people who weren’t captured.

McCain wasn’t the only one he was denigrating there.

I’ll make it easy for you: if he was insulting Obama and said “I like people who aren’t black,” then would be specifically insulting the former president, but also black people in general.

Can you follow now? Or does your intentional obtuseness preclude that?

So… Then what is your point?

Sure bud. Remember the time when he shit on POWs?

It’s so fuckin’ funny how his apologists will ignore a mile-high stack of his personal deficits to point to a solitary instance of someone in his administration making a humane decision and attributing that to the most selfish prick who has ever ascended to the presidency.

Just ROFL.

The move was part of a nationwide campaign by MAGA activists to block those donations, which they call “Zuckerbucks,” based on the prominent role of Facebook founder Mark Zuckerberg in funding nonpartisan election-support charities. “I consider Facebook to be an enemy of the people” for Zuckerberg’s role in funding election-administration charities, Trump told CNBC in March.

Of all the shitty things Facebook gets away with, this is what makes them “enemies of the people?”

Republicans just REALLY hate democracy.

From The Reaction Mind- Conservatism from Edmund Burke to Donald Trump by Corey Robin:

Republicans have learned to disguise their intentions so well, in other words, that the disguise has seeped into and transformed the intention.

Even without directly engaging the progressive argument, conservatives may absorb, by some elusive osmnosis, the deeper categories and idioms of the left, even when those idioms run directly counter to their official stance. After years of opposing the women’s movement, for example, Phyllis Schlafly seemed genuinely incapable of conjuring the prefeminist view of women as deferential wives and mothers. Instead, she celebrated the activist “power of the positive woman.” And then, as if borrowing a page from The Feminine Mystique, she railed against the meaninglessness and lack of fulfillment among American women; the difference was that she blamed these ills on feminism rather than on sexism. When she spoke out against the Equal Rights Amendment (ERA), she didn’t claim that it introduceda radical new language of rights. Her argument was the opposite. The ERA, she told the Washington Star, “is a takeaway of women’s rights.” It will “take away the right of the wife in an ongoing marriage, the wife in the home.” Schlafly was obviously using the language of rights in a way that was opposed to the aims of the feminist movement; she was using rights talk to put women back into the home, to keep them as wives and mothers. But that is the point: conservatism adapts and adopts, often unconsciously, the language of democratic reform to the cause of hierarchy.

This is the best book I’ve read for understanding conservatism.

The most important part about learning a musical instrument is consistent practice.

1 hour twice per week is not as good as 20 minutes every single day. And you do have to play every day if you want to improve. Work on one thing at a time and most importantly: use a metronome.

Guitar is a meditation exercise: you have to learn to love the process. If you aren’t having fun, maybe it just isn’t for you.

Then what the fuck is he doing in Ukraine, PotatoTown?

I’m rated at a +7, so it depends on my roll.

You’re hilarious. Keep it up.