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2024 Presidential Election Thread - Let's keep the party going.
Mole replied to bolverk's topic in Cloak Room
To be honest, the only way I’d watch a debate is if Trump doesn’t show. I don’t want to expose my family to the filth that comes out of that degenerate’s mouth. -
2024 Presidential Election Thread - Let's keep the party going.
Mole replied to bolverk's topic in Cloak Room
So EBITDA isn’t a fermented Argentinian tea that has caught on with Austin hipsters? -
He’s not wrong, but I don’t think this is compelling for those susceptible to falling into Christian nationalism. There are large groups in theologically conservative evangelical churches that can be moved away from this garbage — they were manipulated into it to begin with — but I think the case needs to be a spiritual/biblical one, not a-good-for-society one. This movement is damaging churches too and is contrary to anything but the most tortured reading of the Bible. The remaining religious leaders whom haven’t fallen into this need to be hammering on this point. Their message should be saving the church. Arguing against the idea of “America as a Christian nation” accepts it on the the nationalists’ terms. Sure, it’s good to provide a counter-narrative, but it’s too easy to muddy the waters and lead too many to believe that America was actually founded as a Christian nation. It starts to feel like a game picking and choosing gotcha quotes that leave too many to revert to whatever feels comfortable. For the rank and file evangelical, they need to be reminded that the thing they profess to most value — the propagation of the Gospel — is being destroyed by the Christian nationalist movement. Lust for power and hurting any and everyone is clearly evil in itself, but it’s very practically also damaging the relevance of the need for Jesus. The cynical religious leaders probably can’t be reached. They are seeking their reward on earth and appear to not believe in the hell that they are preaching, but there are lots of regular folks who could probably be saved.
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2024 Presidential Election Thread - Let's keep the party going.
Mole replied to bolverk's topic in Cloak Room
The stupidity of the culture war is that it begs and pleads for us to get angry about moronic conversations that no one — not even the culture warriors themselves — are remotely interested in having. But we all must have and share our suddenly strongly felt, moronic opinions. The more unrelated to the topic at hand, the better; semper nonsequitur, semper stultus. -
2024 Presidential Election Thread - Let's keep the party going.
Mole replied to bolverk's topic in Cloak Room
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[Special Moderation] Why I'm excited to vote Democratic this cycle
Mole replied to immamac's topic in Cloak Room
1. It’s almost impossible to discuss this without implicitly breaking rule 3; character in leadership, moral clarity, and thoughtfulness about the issues are far more important than specific positions on issues. If a national crisis strikes over the next four years, we don’t always have the foresight to come up with policy ahead of time, but we can look at the character, moral clarity, and thoughtfulness of our leaders to see if they are prepared. We didn’t vote on COVID policies in 2016, but we could have easily seen how a crisis would be handled. 2. Sane, boring government is good government. 3. Her parents — particularly her mom — were extremely impressive people. It’s a small thing, but apples and trees and all. I like a good immigrant story. 4. Faith and government has come up several times already in this thread, but I look at it from the other direction. My faith is very important to me and I think a healthy church is good for communities. The past decade has been really bad for the health of the church and caused incredible damage to any sense of its moral standing. It’s hard to preach the Gospel when “Christian” rightly becomes synonymous with wickedness. Church involvement in government corrupts both. Voting for people who value separation makes for a better, more effective church and also keeps the government from descending into whatever is happening these days. 5. Family values, the economy, sane foreign policy. It’s nice to be able to let my son hear the president speak without worrying about answering lots of grown up questions about disgusting, degenerate things (with no disrespect to present company).- 55 replies
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To be fair, a nation giving in to their worst desires (doing what’s right in their own eyes in terms of hatred, cruelty towards foreigners, etc.), demanding a plainly wicked leader so as to embrace their degeneracy, and then having a series of catastrophes destroy the nation is the plot of large portions of the Old Testament.
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Sorry about your hearing problem.
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Bob Evans noodle soup goes hard.
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If I’m being perfectly honest, I’m not very found of OU.
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Clearly you never met my old commanding officer.
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Everything is Shit: Tracking the Great Enshittening
Mole replied to 956 Worldwide's topic in Daily Texan
I get that it’s a handy way to encapsulate a lot of loosely related activities and people, but the rise of the term “content creator” speaks to the commodification of everything that drives this problem — art, music, film, written word, and criticism has become merely a product to be consumed. At least when it comes to music, the application of IP law is insane and comes from a place of total musical ignorance that is only possible once it’s been relegated to just a commercial venture and the creation of some product rather than an act of community that we engage in together. I’m looking at you, Marvin Gaye’s estate. -
I don’t see how they are necessarily related or in opposition. It’s a question of why that’s being missed here. Missing the why leads to connecting dots that simply don’t connect. Support for Israel is more based in a general support of “God’s chosen people,” which has little to do with end times stuff. There’s a reasonable biblical case to support this view of Israel, assuming you accept the connection between modern Israel and biblical Israel. The view is that you support Israel because God will bless those who support Israel and curse those who don’t — or something along these lines. The support for Israel isn’t specifically connected to the belief concerning the believed imminent return of Jesus anymore than any other view or belief. This is the case even for the view that somehow the creation of modern Israel checks some end times box in the sky. The idea that support for Israel is due to some Kirk Cameron-fed desire to bring about the end of the world (let’s help check those boxes) is decidedly not mainstream. I’m come from many years in evangelical environments and have never heard a preacher or believer express dominionist-like views in person. From my experience this is a minor (and certainly problematic) view that is amplified on the internet. It doesn’t reflect mainstream evangelical views, even relatively conservative ones. Most end times talk centers around the perceived decay of society (I’d say the perception of decay is accurate, but often too outward looking as to why the decay is happening) and of course the general scariness of our modern world — wars and rumors of wars in end times parlance. Christians have believed in the imminent return of Jesus long before the creation of modern Israel.
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The mainstream evangelical support of Israel is theological, but not because of end times stuff. That article is making huge leaps in order to connect the dots to paint a dishonest picture. The theological reason for evangelical support of Israel mostly has to do with supporting “God’s chosen people” and seeking God’s blessing. The suggestion that it has to do with speeding up end-of-the-world beliefs is mostly nonsense that people on the internet say to feel superior. There are surely those who believe that way, but they are far outside the mainstream, even in conservative evangelical circles. Any suggestions otherwise are simply not truthful. If the issue is specific to the Christian or white nationalist position, I can’t speak to that since I avoid those types of environments. Belief that we’re in the end times has probably been the mainstream position (or among the mainstream positions) since the death of Jesus.
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A band nerd dirty joke: A girl went out on a date with a trumpet player, and when she came back her roommate asked, "Well, how was it? Did his embouchure make him a great kisser?" "Nah," the first girl replied. "That dry, tight, tiny little pucker; it was no fun at all." The next night she went out with a tuba player, and when she came back her roommate asked, "Well, how was his kissing?" "Ugh!" the first girl exclaimed. "Those huge, rubbery, blubbery, slobbering slabs of meat; oh, it was just gross!" The next night she went out with a French horn player, and when she came back her roommate asked, "Well, how was his kissing?" "Well," the first girl replied, "his kissing was just so-so; but I loved the way he held me!"
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Sister Cindy is one the great performance artists of our time: Whom
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Too much news and it’s too exciting. Most news should be pretty boring. If it’s constantly making you angry, you’re consuming propaganda, not news. Certainly some news should make you angry, but the constant stream of rage isn’t healthy and doesn’t give you an honest view of the world. The nearly live clips (with no context) are exciting. They make you feel something. They show a very narrow, less-than-honest view of what’s happening but make you feel like you know what’s going on, all while feeding your need for anger and rage. It isn’t news; it’s propaganda.
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In terms of luck, let’s not forget being a big toe away from nocking off Milwaukee in their championship run. What an amazing clutch shot that came less than an inch from being so much bigger.
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I did not know that... trivial stuff you just learned
Mole replied to locodos's topic in Daily Texan
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NPR suffers from the affliction known as bâton dans le derriére. This infects everything they do, particularly their news/political coverage. I used to enjoy their lighter Saturday broadcasts, but those have become more political and less funny in our present era. I just want to hear clever puns with underlying snobbery, not tired jokes dunking on terrible people. It’s nice to be able to hear classical music on the radio even if they’re apparently contractually obligated to play Beethoven or Brahms every 3rd piece. I haven’t listened much in recent years to see if I can still hear Alec Baldwin’s gravelly voice introduce yet another performance of Beethoven 7. Bruce Adolphe’s piano puzzlers on performance today are fun though. Diane Rehm’s fart sniffing was worth it to hear Claude Bolling’s Toot Suite as the theme song. Their local/state news coverage is quite good, complete with that awkward local NPR feel.
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