Cranakis @ Cranakis @lemmy.one

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We just flipped a city council seat where I live. Feels good 🤗

Those 2 successful ones were also other people's ideas.

This piece of shit still has power, calling shots in Washington from the shadows like some self appointed king maker. Fucking over McCarthy was his plan and Gaetz his willing servant. Sauce

Bannon wasn't elected. He doesn't get any privilege. He should be in prison.

I'm sure we're all just eating to much avocado toast and eating out too often.

To you and @xenoclast@lemmy.world (and everyone else); What do we do about it? How can I fight back?

Yep. Who is still using FB? Not me.

I've never felt more sure about the Christian god being bullshit than now. Why would a loving god even give birth to someone just to have them live their life in a prison, hungry their whole lives? Christianity says the Palestinians are all going to hell, those of age, because they didn't convert to Christianity. Fucking ridiculous. Where the fuck is god? Why does anyone still believe in this nonsense?

Islam gets no pass. I understand Islam less than Christianity but it is objectively false and awful also, based on what I do understand, which is plenty. They subjugate and marginalize women, scorn and hate gays beyond what Christian's do. Islam stabs cartoonists (multiple times) for their "dangerous" drawings, wtf? They fly planes into buildings full of parents. They shoot up music venues (Paris). They murder (mostly liberal, pro Palestinian) Jews in their homes, feeling righteous as they slaughter. Islam is garbage. These religions are all fucking garbage. Why can't we abandon them?

My personal opinion, watching the carnage in Israel and Gaza, and as an American who lived through and past 9/11; Reacting with anger and fear causes terrible decisions that seem better in the moment than they are. There is too much collateral damage. It isn't ok to kill innocents. Blowing up children with bombs isn't any different than killing them any other terrible way. This is not the path to victory in the long term. How can these survivors not loathe Israel forever? What is the end game? Israel has all the power. I hope they ask themselves what they want the future to look like soon because they appear to be insuring a nightmare for some generations currently.

No. I do not. I think finding a new country to call home is then appropriate.

If he legitimately wins, the country is not worth saving, in my leftist opinion. I hope my beloved country isn't lost enough to let that happen. I'm going to focus on making sure he loses. Then we'll just have to deal with his next coup attempt.

What? The party that constantly cheats at elections is cheating elections?

There's nothing odd about asking for a source. Wtf are you on about?

.... Also because he's a traitor and a draft dodger with no respect for duty.

I read this as 4 world crises, not 4 personal crisis for OP. i.e. Drinking in bed because the world is on fire. But sure, yay, smartphones.

People have it worse than they should all over the world. That kinda seems like the point of the post to me. Should op have posted a meme saying "fuck the whole world because I don't have it as bad?"

I said to my oldest child just today "There is a commandment that says you can't say "goddamnit", or "Jesus Christ!" but nothing, nothing about slavery. I'll double back and mention war also tomorrow. So much suffering would have been prevented by an actual god if he'd been less narcissistic back on Mount Sinai. Seems to have wasted several on making sure his ass was the only one kissed and missed a bunch of other important stuff.

And just for fun, the Harper Collins Study Bible footnotes on the flood story, since the article quotes it:

The flood story is an amalgam of two texts, the J version and the P version, along with some editorial passages that harmonize the two texts..

The Biblical flood stories are related to the older Mesopotamian flood tradition (in Atrahasis and Gilgamesh tablet 11), in which the destroyer god (Enlil) and the savior god (Enki) are two different gods in conflict. In biblical monotheism, one God combines these two impulses, and the moral conflict is transposed from the divine realm to the relationship between God and humans and the problem of human immorality.

Thanks for the alt link. I should done that when the sign was still up.

Sorry, without the video, I thought some Christian was trying to put the screws to me.

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For Jesus to come back? Fucking right. Muther fucker has some explaining to do.

There is, of course, no reason to think he is coming back. I am not afraid of 2000 year old Mediterranean mythology, nor should anyone be. Even if I was so deluded, the mythology clearly says he'll brb within that generation and that generation died thousands of years ago.

I've really been in a tail spin over it. It is fucking bad.

They believe they need to "save" the rest of us from ourselves. Their (his) world view (2 people from the presidency) is pure hubris. Johnson thinks he knows better than everyone else. He's "ordained by god." Its revolting.

“The Bible is very clear that God is the one that raises up those in authority,” he said. “He raised up each of you, all of us. And I believe that God has ordained and allowed each one of us to be brought here for this specific moment.” -Johnson when he accepted the Speakership.