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Likes and follows ≠ endorsements; Be. Possume, ora pro nobis
As much as left of center Americans like to tout other countries as the goal there’s a shocking ignorance about how these countries *actually* work. Is there a single influential person in the US who touts European countries but wants a 20%+ federal sales tax?
See in a sense it’s abt sharing—the Eucharist
John Herreid@herreidjohn.bsky.social · 3d agoMe listening to the priest today saying that, to him, maybe the real miracle wasn’t some sort of multiplication of loaves and fishes but instead that maybe—and here he adds that this is a novel idea that he personally believes—that the people were inspired to share the food they had
MLB owners of losing teams getting ready to point to the Dodgers for why they need a salary cap
I still don’t know that I agree w this After all, Marxism-Leninism is also inherently an ideology opposed to our democracy If the incompatibility of an ideology w our values is sufficient reason to repress it, are we also reviving HUAC? Moreover, isn’t this the logic behind Turkey’s Ataturk laws?
[Christopher M. Federico]@chrispps.bsky.social · 4d agomore generally: any American seriously committed to democracy (apart from other ideological commitments) needs to grapple with the fact that racists and ethnonationalists are a permanent fifth column in US society and a chronic threat not just to social justice but to social order itself. (1/2)
I don’t understand the idea of prison abolition OK sure prisons are often abusive and function as mechanisms of repression Now what do you propose? will unlimited truth and reconciliation meetings work on everyone? I doubt it Then what? Ritual killings? Blood feuds?
The metaphor always sucked Mutants are like if walking nukes asked not to be monitored and then had the occasional tendency to vote en Masse for Mutant Death Star Hitler And then there’s the red-haired bird god (now and forever, literally this time) who eats stars
𝔻𝕒𝕟 🏈🍻💀@danmynrd.bsky.social · 5d agoThe Metaphor is strained to all hell at this point, but mutants are like if Being Gay was having the strength of 1000 men. Also an unknown percentage of those people work for Mutant Hitler
I swear to Christ you fucking geek. ITS CUZ HALF OF THE MUTANTS ARE LIKE TRYING TO KILL HUMANITY. The marvel general public are confused and scared!
𝔻𝕒𝕟 🏈🍻💀@danmynrd.bsky.social · 5d agoHow the 616 citizen, how ever fair weather, are consistent on this. If you got your powers in a public way or are clearly an alien/god, it's fine. We don't know how we got your powers? Fuck you you mutant piece of shit
I agree mostly Otoh feel like they would fear the aliens too It is odd that they don’t
𝔻𝕒𝕟 🏈🍻💀@danmynrd.bsky.social · 5d agoI swear to Christ you fucking geek. ITS CUZ HALF OF THE MUTANTS ARE LIKE TRYING TO KILL HUMANITY. The marvel general public are confused and scared!
here's an idea for making jean a character: she has actual regret over blowing up the afro blue people planet from the sun thing kind of like superman where the world is made of cardboard (esp now that we know she's always been a cosmic bird deity), but she's broken it before
dunno abt more blood or sex but honestly i'm down for food after all the suitors are always eating penelope out of house and home - you assume they're doing so partly for some pretty good vittles i want to see that sizzling goat haunch for which odysseus beats up iras food food food
prop@jailrespecter.bsky.social · 7d agoemily wilson has a pattern of unnecessary, mean, unnecessarily mean sniping it seems (again, i'm coming at this from the perspective of trying to understand the psychology behind "more blood more sex more food," not defending nolan across the board) archive.is/Vx9cj
sort of but I think it’s other factors too back in the day Reno was Vegas Huey Long once joked in his speeches abt letting rich ppl go off to Reno and stuff
Fr Chase 🦁🦁🦁🦁🦁🦁🦁🦁🦁🦁🦁🦁🦁🦁@kalanthropos.bsky.social · last wk.I think what it amounts to is lots of media representation.
def but i also suspect that, the odyssey prob being a literary version of very ancient oral tales, they were originally meant to be taken at face value
LBark@pontevedrian.bsky.social · 2w agoI think we're at meant to at least consider the possibility that the stories are embellished
they were always what they said they were which is a magazine for Never Trump conservatives as this goes to show
karl rove knausgård@uhactually.bsky.social · 2w agoWell, it was fun while it lasted but The Bulwark is evil again
my hot take is we need more verses of the anthem the first verse ends on an interrogative so if you only sing it you're left wondering if you're *confident* in the country's future maybe that's why Hendrix liked it if it were up to me we'd play 1, 2, 4, 5 (OW Holmes Sr)
when it comes to two states or one states I think either is bound to result in a lot of political violence this is prob not even like South Africa in that there exists that much room for reconciliation; umKhonto we Sizwe never got up to 10/7 and doubt any Pal force would be able to disarm Israelis
very beautiful triptych of St. Michael as a celestial leader of the Allied Forces against the Axis
eh I feel like there is def some place for authenticity as it were Journey to the West is a story w flying dragons, a simian super saiyan, and talking pigs (who also fly), doesn't mean it shouldn't be authentic to Chinese culture as it were there *can* be a place for cultural fidelity to Greek civ
C. Robert Cargill@crobertcargill.bsky.social · 3w agoI try to stay positive on main, but I don't know, man, asking for some level of "authenticity" in a depiction of a story with Cyclopes, a sorceress who transmutes sailors into pigs, singing sea witches, and gods turning a two week cruise into a 20 year voyage sounds absolutely dumb as fuck to me.
does anyone understand what the whole Hawaii spirit of aloha stuff is abt? it seems odd to invoke the spirit of aloha in a decision abt the US constitution - am i missing smth?
weirdly enough I think I'd have to say that I see it precisely as a historical reality, and not a timeless ideal, that I take the views that I do imo Ratzinger demonstrates the importance of the particular wrt the liturgical rite; that certain historical roads were taken, and others ignored, is a
Dr Mark | 北马克 |🍉🇦🇺🇲🇾🇹🇭@ajaanmark.bsky.social · 3w agoYes but you seem to have some idea that the rite is somehow a timeless platonic ideal. The essential elements of it aren't particular arrangements of prayers or scripture or whatever. These were what were considered desirable to be normative after Trent. A lot of other usages were suppressed at the
It's 1871 and you live in Volcano, West Virginia, a place that has had no active volcanism for hundreds of millions of years. A boy on the street is selling newspapers and hands you the local newspaper which is called the Volcano Lubricator. This is normal to you
what they don't realize is that we permit this sort of nonsense in order to better understand our subjects
Jared Pechaček@vandroidhelsing.bsky.social · 4w agoThe beatings will continue until reason and rationality prevail
