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It's THE sect of southern white American protestant Christianity - and currently it's the most powerful, influential, and politically effective sect in the country. Ain't nobody else controlling the levers of government like them.
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1 minute ago, Anastasis said:
Yeah, I understand the messaging on abstinence. I don't have a problem with parents who choose to take that route. Signing abstinence commitments seems, well, masturbatory. Celebrating such commitments in a gala format? Well I am not even sure how to describe that one.
I think it's more the southern impulse to put on a big ball to make a to-do about a thing they care about. Debutante balls are weird as fuck, but they're still going strong. Cross that culture of weird big gala events with being BIG MAD at the thought of their daughters being sexual, and bingo bango you've got purity balls.
You describe it as fucking insane, and as a predominant sect of christianity.
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9 hours ago, Anastasis said:
It’s something most Christians have never heard of before but is getting some play in the media because politics does politics and our media is garbage.
And we get a thread about it here cause Twitter. Hope that sums it up.
Lolwut my megachurch in San Antonio took people to purity events - they weren't balls, but they handed out promise rings and had everyone sign a thing saying they wouldn't have sex until married. It's absolutely part of the christian evangelical mainstream, despite your wishes that it weren't.
14 minutes ago, Brian Fantana said:It's getting play because it's the fucking speaker of the house lmao
I know not all Christians are like this, not even close, but it's so bizarre to me.
It's not a majority of christians, but it's a major plurality of them and theyve got the proverbial microphone
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5 minutes ago, Nice Guy Eddie said:
Yep, and half of the people are below average intelligence.
when voting for an incumbent many people ask the simple question: Am I better today than I was 4 years ago. And there’s a whole army of online sources telling you that you’re not. They will tell you that gas was $1.99 on Election Day in 2020. The world was at peace. American tax dollars was staying in America and not going to fight non-American wars.
And when TikTok feeds me these “facts”, I could take the time to validate them myself but there’s another video waiting for me to swipe. Not to mention that TikTok will soon feed me a similar video(es) that will cement those fake ideas in my head.
Ah the good ol firehose of falsehoods. Not only did republicans take russian money, they also took their propaganda techniques
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7 minutes ago, bernorange said:
Careful, you could upset folks on this board posting data like that
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Gotta say, bagofhammers complaining about brain rot is some pretty spicy irony
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11 minutes ago, InkaUtexas said:
And just curious, what regimes did we change in Central America in the 1970-s and 1980's that were in our favor? I would say maybe the election of Arena in 1988, El Salvador, who then went on to sign peace accords, AND lost the next election tot he FMLN.
https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/United_States_involvement_in_regime_change
Most of them weren't to our favor because of the aforementioned destabilization, and the soviet's were also playing regime change game too, but bruh. We did some damage, and own some of the mess.
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1 minute ago, InkaUtexas said:
There are plenty of non-republican groups in Central America saying it is. There are lots of uncles, aunts, sisters, brothers saying hey, this is how you do it. We will send you the cash. This is an economic issue in developing nations more than our border. And the numbers alone should tell you how bad it is.
We broke it back in the 70s and 80s with the CIAs zeal for regime change. Chickens are coming home to roost.
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There's also an interesting dynamic I've read where since the republicans are out there saying how it's an open border, it's encouraging more people to make the desperate journey. If the gop weren't broadcasting that 24/7 for more than a generation it would very likely reduce the sheer volume of people coming.
It's advertising so they can have a boogeyman they can hate
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NYT has some more reporting, here's a gift link I found to the article
Relevant and outrageous portion here:
After an officer handcuffs Mr. Pence, the bystander recording the interaction asks the officers what crime Mr. Pence is committing.
“He’s creating a disturbance, obviously,” the officer says.
The bystander then tells the officer not to get any closer. The officer replies, “How about you don’t tell me what to do,” and then calls the bystander a “clown.”
When Mr. Morris approaches the scene, he asks why his husband is in handcuffs, the video shows.
Mr. Morris eventually walks down an alleyway to cool off, his lawyer said, and several officers follow him.
The bystander’s video does not show what happened in the alleyway.
After several minutes, Mr. Pence is heard saying in the video that the officers are beating his husband in the alleyway.
The video then shows Mr. Morris emerge from the alleyway handcuffed, with his shirt tattered and with two officers behind him.
Mr. Morris says in the video that an officer punched the “left side of my eye.” A photo of him taken on Tuesday shows his left eye bruised and swollen
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6 minutes ago, bernorange said:
As I have mentioned/clarified, the issue is not regulation per se (unless said regulation is being used as a tool/weapon to stifle/foster novel/disruptive technologies).
Yeah unfortunately that's not where the dialogue is right now. Go talk to some of our business owners on the board - all of them frame regulation as ALWAYS stifling innovation and harming consumers.
7 minutes ago, bernorange said:I'm talking about the Eye of Sauron deciding who wins and who loses.
This is what any discussion of regulation turns into, because tHe MaRkEt WiLl PuNiSh BaD bUsInEsS and the government should stay out of it
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17 minutes ago, pacman said:
To be fair to Elon, every technology vendor I work with has the same empty incident chart.
Man you gotta get better SLA terms and monitoring to hold their feet to the fire
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3 minutes ago, Red Five said:
He didn't even call the VP, or the Sec of Defense, etc.
To the contrary, he was sending his supporters to GO HANG HIS FUCKING VP
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3 minutes ago, dcbc said:
I don't think anyone here is bending over backward to justify improper acts by the Supreme Court by discussing how things ought or might go. We may not like it, but we aren't going to go all insurrectionist on the high court either.
We should not be discussing it as a serious institution. Whatever it was before, it is now for the foreseeable future thanks to cramming it full of young fascists, a rubber stamp for the far right culture war machine.
That message needs to be repeated ad nauseum, because it's what's happening before our very eyes. It is no longer a serious institution. It's votes on the very fabric of the law of our nation are for sale to the highest bidder.
We must confront these facts. Otherwise we will be stuck here.
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48 minutes ago, TwiceHorn said:
It all comes back to that booger of a question that bedevils most of the policy choices confronting America (everywhere else too). What the hell do you do with the morons?
The lower half of the normal distribution of populations is not all morons, by any stretch. But they have shown a tendency to refuse to engage higher-order thinking when it is comfortable not to do so.
In my experience, most morons are actually smart people but they're too fucking lazy to turn on their brains or they were never taught critical thinking. It's a skill and a mental muscle to not be a moron, not a measure of intelligence
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It's amazing how far people will bend over backwards to justify and explain an overtly lawless act by our supreme court, if they were to rule that trump is exempt from the 14A. Stop talking about and conceptualizing the court as a legitimate body. It is an institution that has been packed with christofascists that demonstrably don't give a fuck about facts. They have been more than happy to make up whatever facts they need to get whatever ruling they need.
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Did Chrispy get laid off and learn about workers rights or something? Not that I'm complaining, but it's quite a surprising face turn
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2 hours ago, Neonmoon said:
Let me guess, libertarian?
1 hour ago, pantone159 said:No, moron.
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Just now, Neonmoon said:
Crypto/Bitcoin has zero purpose other than exchanging money for illegal good and services.
The government should not regulate it, it should be outlawed so stupid people don't lose all their money on digital beanie babies.
Conversely, the government should also not be directly subsidizing crypto.
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1 minute ago, Nice Guy Eddie said:
It can work in the opposite direction as well. Colorado may find out that a meaningless gesture gives Trump PA, GA and AZ, and the white house. but hey, Biden will take CO with 95% of the vote for a moral victory.
You're still glossing over the ultimate failure of allowing a man to run for president who has already attempted a coup once and has said out loud he plans to be a dictator.
It's a fucking failure and indictment of our justice system that he's still a free man facing zero meaningful consequences nearly three years after a nationally televised literal attack on our democratic process
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10 minutes ago, Nice Guy Eddie said:
Trump wasn't going to win CO in terms of the general so this does nothing to reduce his electoral votes. And it will just create more fuel to the fire that Trump is being unfairly persecuted.
In a literal sense, trump has been unfairly prosecuted - he has never once had to stand up to evidence of his malfeasance. The prosecution with respect to trump has ALWAYS had its hands tied behind it's back by the wise and mighty American political justice system.
We wouldn't be in this position of incredible norms breaking if the republicans had not obstructed justice for half a goddamn decade
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1 minute ago, NoName said:
ahh, yes. a sample size of 1 is absolutely reasonable.
Don't forget, anecdotes always trump large scale data (for some)
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Checking in to say that my steam deck has been one hell of a CRPG machine! I've played through all of BG3 and I'm now working through Rogue Trader, and it's an absolute delight! The latest firmware also gave a nice performance bump for using FSR to upscale games, I'm able to hit a ready 60fps in most games on medium to high settings
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1 hour ago, TwiceHorn said:
Also, worth noting that many of their recent controversial decisions (example the Clean Water Act, but cf. Dobbs) could be easily undone by a functional congress.
Mfw the flood of dark money that Roberts unleashed have made a functional Congress nearly impossible. He's very effectively kneecapped every mechanism citizens had to actually get the ear of their rep
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DACA, immigration reform whatever
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Unsurprising that fattyflatty loves great replacement theory once you dress it up a little