Greenleaf

The sort of thing he should be impeached for.

OK how about the official United Nations report? The one they spent months on and libs thought it was gonna blow the lid off the thing, and instead the UN (Michele Bachelet and her team, specifically) confirmed there isn’t a genocide and was only able to offer some mild criticism of China (which frankly, to me read like “well we can’t just not criticize them for anything, so here’s some ticky tack stuff”).

The idea is that her belief in the fake genocide isn’t sincere, but it’s more like a “test”, if you love me you will agree with whatever I say or believe. That’s emotional abuse.

If you’re gonna vote, vote PSL.

“The kind Vladimir Ilyich would have shot everyone here”

I know libs say “he’s a stupid person’s idea of what a smart person is”, but this is one instance of them being right. The only people I knew who had any respect for him pre-2015 were the types of people who think it’s business people who make the world go round, but have no idea what “business” actually involves. I watched some of The Apprentice, and it was painfully obvious Trump doesn’t have the slightest clue what he’s doing even back then.

He wasn’t really all that political up until a few years before he ran, but I remember even in like the mid 2000s Trump was an embodiment of everything I hated in the business world.

These dwell among the blackest souls, loaded down deep by sins of differing types. If you sink far enough, you will see them all.

I’m curious, does your friend think that anyone who does not accept Jesus as their savior will spend an eternity in a state of eternal torment? To me that’s kind of the dividing line between the true “fundamentalists” and everyone else.

Before I deconverted, I tried to embrace Karl Barth Thought since he was basically universalist without explicitly saying so, and I liked a lot of what he had to say. But that part I was too far gone.

(btw Barth is also cool because he incorporated dialectics into his theology!

Edit: a more religiously inclined Marxist should write a book titled “Between Two Karls” about an imaginary conversation between Marx and Barth.

He considers himself agnostic, IIRC. Definitely not a Christian, though.

My big problem with these post-apocalypse civil war scenarios is they still try and shoehorn in ideology when that’s likely to play very little part in that scenario especially. For example, these maps always split Utah and Nevada because “Mormons” and “Sin City”… but those two states are tied together in a lot of material ways (economy, interstate migration, etc) and would be much more likely to work together, since the Rockies really are almost like a small ocean.

So in theory, could CA and TX align? Yeah, maybe? But I don’t see any sort of material base for that assumption.

I’ve actually wondered if there is even one Evangelical Christian who is also a Marxist in the US. Those views are pretty incompatible but maybe there’s someone out there who’s trying to mash them both together like two dry play doh colors.

The anti-abortion crowd is massively overreaching with this IVF thing. I know two very conservative, anti-abortion couples who had IVF and don’t really see anything wrong with it. The pro-choice position is already so strong that I think if you put it to a vote by state, abortion would be legal in all 50 states.

But the turbo conservatives are so high on their own supply right now. There’s a growing movement among religious nuts to charge women who get abortions with murder. It’s insanely unpopular but they have enough power in the courts and state legislature in the south to be able to do things like this at least.

Abortion is the only hope the dems have of not getting trounced in 2024.

Trump is doing the smart thing here. It’s a pretty small minority of his supporters who want to ban IVF.