C0unterfactual @ C0unterfactual @sh.itjust.works

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I am a Gen-Xer who was raised Catholic in America. The old-school church values of my childhood in the 1970s were mostly liberal democratic, promoting humility, circumspection, and Golden Rule, love-thy-neighbor attitudes. (Setting aside the entire organization's liability for the systematic raping of children, that is, which is a lot to ask.)

But with the more extreme politics of groups like Opus Dei, the modern Catholic Church in America, by contrast, has become a right-wing propaganda machine. It promotes a noxious brand of pseudo-religious pomposity and holier-than-thou windbaggery, practiced by preening, empty-headed bigots and jackasses who couldn't find real spirituality if it bit them in the ass.*

*Just my opinion, but I'm fucking right.

Okay, but do you acknowledge that Hamas has a great deal of responsibility for the lack of infrastructure for civilians in the Gaza Strip, of which they are the government? That Hamas spends literally billions of aid money toward building a vast system of tunnels from which they fire rockets at Israel, attempting to kill jews, because it's in their mission statement?

Can you see that it's a little more nuanced of than simply "Hamas good, Israel bad"?

To your response, "no they are not lol":

[Jews, Like Palestinians, Are 'Indigenous' to the Middle East

](https://reason.com/2023/10/18/jews-like-palestinians-are-indigenous-to-the-middle-east/)

I don't agree with IDF's plan. But nobody's acknowledging that Israeli jews are a constant target.

I suggest you learn more

Referring to the murders by Hamas and other Palestinians on October 7. That has everything to do with the current conflict, right?

Jews in the Middle East are indigenous people, too. So you're saying it's okay to massacre them?

...after jihadists go on killing spree and cut the heads off innocent civilians, throw grenades at children, dismember people while forcing their families to watch. All in the name of their supposed god,

Aiming guns at soft targets and slaughtering them makes them, by definition, terrorists.

Brilliant game

Jesus, what an absurd, chickenshit take.

What Is This Thing

I hate to rain on this parade, but there's no guarantee Biden will pull it off in a rematch with Trump. It was way too damn close in 2020, and the MAGA base is as fired up as ever these days. The "sane middle," if it still exists, needs to turn out hard, because if Trump wins this thing, I for one our democracy is freakin' toast.