Surprised that only one of them has been rooted out so far. The whole movement is projection and deflection. There's a serious problem of child abuse in right wing culture that they're not willing to taking about.
Because historically, spiritualism was vitally important to their communities, and they weren't allowed to practice the beliefs of their ancestors. It filled a void where nothing else was available.
Read the article. Not every casual tweet has to have monumental importance.
He wasn't talking about Jewish people at all. His only fault here is failing to see how easily his poor choice of words would be misinterpreted by the internet outrage machine.
He clarified it meant "fake friends" which in the context of the Jesus story makes perfect sense. The moral here is maybe don't post every random thought that pops into your head.
Yeah, except for that damned pus-filled boil that is the Osu logo. It's a pox that never goes away. I despise every person involved with putting it there.
I'm hoping this thread can provide some good alternatives for keeping a running "want to read" and "have read" list, because that's all I use GR for, and I do like that it syncs with my kindle and updates that automatically when I finish a book. The reviews are typical social media junk, not very useful for finding books to read.
However, I do enjoy how they do the occasional giveaway. I got a free copy of Octavia Butler's Parable of the Sower that way.
I just recently learned that OpenLibrary.org has a similar "want to read"/"currently reading"/"already read" feature, so I may migrate my lists over there when I have time.
Learning about his actual history is honestly one of the things that bounced me out of that series.
I just couldn't keep rooting for a character who was essentially a genocidal monster, when the narrative clearly wanted me to be sympathetic toward him and believe he had reformed. I didn't feel like he had anywhere near the level of remorse or even justification for his atrocities that he should have, and it was even worse that nobody around him seemed to care much about them either.
Once the magic of the worldbuilding wore off, the series started to feel like a clockwork mechanism that I was merely watching unspool after winding up its intricate gears for two thousand pages.
In theory I agree with the sentiment, but then I imagine the same people who're supposed to be keeping oil pipelines from rupturing put in charge of nuclear materials.
It seems plausible that the vapor trail of changing air pressure behind a bullet could create a momentary channel of increased conductivity and/or particle density as air rushes back into the void created by the passing projectile. I wonder if the effect is persistent enough to enable a static discharge all along the path though.
Sure, but yelling isn't going to have any risk of accidental collateral damage. Encouraging a bunch of fucking idiots to shoot wildly at clouds seems asking for tragedy.
Surprised that only one of them has been rooted out so far. The whole movement is projection and deflection. There's a serious problem of child abuse in right wing culture that they're not willing to taking about.