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  • Slavery: Not condoned, not condemned, just regulated. See here for details. But that's a fair argument to make.

    Incest: Only condoned in the early generations of humanity when it was necessary, directly condemned afterwards. I guess I can see how you'd be confused if you heard about it secondhand, but any familiarity with the cases in question ought to show this. Incest in and of itself (discounting other problems like rape and pedophilia it tends to coincide with) is a problem primarily because it leads to a higher incidence of genetic defects, and there were no genetic defects in the first batch of humans as God created them perfectly.

    Murder: Obviously against the ten commandments. I don't know what you're talking about. Is it the death penalty? Are you trying to gish gallop me? I don't mind answering your points, but I'd appreciate it if you be more specific so I don't have to guess what you're referring to in order to address it.

    Divine right: In the strictest sense, that God gives authorities their right to rule, sure, but they're not above accountability like divine right typically says. The Bible says to follow the laws of men only where they do not conflict with the laws of God.

    Genocide: That's a tricky one, where the Israelites were to wipe out the Canaanites. I don't have a good answer for it. What I do know is that God's judgment is righteous, and that this one case is not justification for genocides at human convenience (though non-Christians might interpret it that way, including but not limited to a certain state. I'm not defending them.)

    Also, just so we're clear, incest is gross, but it's not fascist.

  • The names and PFPs still give it away if you know about them.

  • Hehe, that's funny. So everyone thinks it's this profound thing, but he was actually just talking about the size of office paper?

  • They're not just "casually" stealing comments. They steal a random comment from the video, then have a bunch of other bots give it a bunch of thumbs up so that it appears towards the top and accumulates more upvotes than most human comments make. 95% of the time it seems, the real comment has one or two upvotes and is buried so far you have to scroll multiple pages to reach it.

  • Well, if you wanna call the religion evil, you do you I guess, but at least be accurate about it. The Bible doesn't condone fascism (in fact, much of the point of the New Testament is that laws are not the way to save people,) so using christofascist as a term to refer to Christianity in general is diluting the definition of fascism. If you wanna use that term to refer to the people who use Christian branding as an excuse to push fascist laws, that's fine, just don't throw the baby out with the bathwater.

  • Are we using christofascist as a way to call Christianity fascist now, or did I miss some fascist messaging in VeggieTales?

  • Ah, yeah, nah, this whole thing is a circle. But not a real circle, more like a freaky circle.

  • At least it doesn't look like it shrunk too.

  • Seems like crossposting is an effective way to seed a community, because the crosspost got about 120 upvotes, and the subscriber count is now up to 60.

  • That still only counts as one!

  • I have no problem with the acceptable ads system. ABP doesn't get any money from it, and the ads have to meet the criteria anyways, and it's easy to opt out. I guess it's a bit fishy that the list maintainers charge money to get ads reviewed, but the FAQ ThunderWhiskers posted says that smaller companies get it for free, and they only charge the bigger companies. I'm not gonna get up in arms over someone charging Disney money for a service they give the local deli for free.

    I also like the way it gives companies an incentive to produce less intrusive ads. With the system, unintrusive ads reach more people. Otherwise, it's all or nothing, which makes intrusive ads the best option from a greedy perspective; they're far more likely to be clicked, and the only cost is the risk of damaging the ad ecosystem as a whole (and you know how little corporations can care about damaging ecosystems.)

  • for the good

  • That's the neat part, I don't. If there's anything really important, it will leak into memes, or I'll hear it from family members, but I don't think I've ever heard a piece of news and thought "Oh, it's a good thing I know that now."

  • I can see where you're coming from. I already blocked the news because I come here for memes and don't like following the news anyways, but yeah, if you're looking for non-political news, I guess that can be rough.

  • Oh, you support a mainstream candidate, huh? What else, do you like eating babies? Why don't you just admit you're evil incarnate and vote for my favored candidate instead?

  • I haven't really noticed much, but that's because I've taken to blocking political communities once they start bothering me by putting too many article links in the front page or being generally rageful.

  • Probably that other comment (right above this one for me right now,) with this being meant as a reply.

  • I dunno, it kinda felt like she was playing along... within the constraints of still doing her job. Printing out a whole paper to say "No." when a sticky note would suffice, for example.

  • This post was written by a dog with a gun.

  • Disney says Piccolo agreed to similar language again when purchasing park tickets online in September 2023. Whether he actually read the fine print at any point, it adds, is “immaterial.”

    Whuh? Why didn't they make their case around that instead of Disney+?