zifnab25
joined 5 years ago
I've wanted to paint my nails and think that kilts should make a comeback
This is what They took from us.
Reject Modernity. Return to Goth Tradition
I am the most cis het middle aged white man you will ever meet.
Still have nothing but love and respect for my Trans Comrades.
Broke: Software
Woke: Software as a Service
Bespoke: Software as a Telemarketing Service
That's news to me.
They might be playing both ends.
And then we demolished the MB in Egypt, because it had the temerity to be slightly more left-leaning than the last military dictatorship. And now we're mopping up what's left of them in Gaza.
Tomahawks tend to fly a bit faster and have a more focused payload.
Doing a Flying Timothy McVeigh certainly creates a large explosion. I have to question whether this strike had a meaningful impact on drone production, any more than McVeigh's strike had a meaningful impact on the FBI's ability to operate in the US Southwest. A ballistic missile would have had the same penetration and done far more damage.
Or don't. Cessnas are reasonably easy to target and shoot down, from a missile defense perspective. If this is all the Ukrainians have left, just buy some Iron Dome tech from Israel and maybe take a unilateral step towards ending this nightmare.
This feels like reading about a boxing match, in which every hit by Thomas Hearns is covered breathlessly, while a blizzard of blows by Sugar Ray Leonard go utterly unremarked upon.
Jewish People Deserve Their Own State!
begins arbitrarily tearing up the citizenship papers of Jewish people
The nature of the Electoral College by way of the US Senate. This is quite literally as intended. America is a coalition of states that only really started functioning as a cohesive single unit in the wake of the Great Depression.
The fact that a handful of rural fiefdoms still command as much power as they do in the national congress is a large part of what keeps the country gelled together. If Floridians and Idahoians weren't hooked up to the Federal Cash Transfer pipeline, I suspect we'd see a lot more open reactionary insurrections as Californication of the national legislature moved the country's social policy away from its reactionary roots.
2000 years of Christianity
It should be noted that even the most orthodox Christians weren't this hung up on gender until relatively recently. Some of the earliest Christian movements were regarded by their pagan peers as horny af sex cults and you hardly have to get to The Family International or Ted Haggard/The Falwells to find instances in which Christians have made a (virtual or literal) sacrament out of sex at every point on the sexual spectrum and morality compass.
If you wanted to be particularly glib, the root idea of the modern Catholic Priesthood - one in which you take a vow of chastity and pledge yourself in a sacramental marriage to God and the Church - becomes its own sanctioned gender of sorts. You (ostensibly) separate yourself from both men and women as a kind of asexual spiritual paragon, through a ritualized transition from man to priest.
For all the perverts and freaks in the Catholic Church, I think you'd be surprised to find how many men-of-the-cloth have used it as a refuge to disguise their distinct lack of sexual appetite or gender affiliation. And it can't be ignored how these religious garments have strayed from modern gender norms, either.
To say the modern Christian faith is plagued by contradictions would be an understatement.