VerdantSporeSeasoning @ VerdantSporeSeasoning @lemmy.ca

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I do enjoy verbing my nouns. I approve.

... Or Aramark

Shudders

I've been fascinated with how the religious right has stood behind someone so obviously out of line with their 'principles'. There actually have been people doing interesting work on that front, if you know who/where to look. I'd definitely recommend the book "Jesus and John Wayne" by Kristin Kobes du Mez, which chronicles the growing power of conservative Christianity in government starting back in the 40s through the election of Trump, and how electing Trump really was an expression of their values, not a departure from it. Podcasts like "Conspirituality" and "Straight White American Jesus" also try to take an honest look at the cultishness and where it's coming from. What's hard is that deradicalization is hard and often has to be done one person at a time. When we have one percent of the country needing to be deradicalized, maybe we can find people to go talk and make connections with each person. When it's 30% of the country, that's a much different proposition. Maybe society can figure out how to do that better--Conspirituality sometimes talks about how cults differ as leaderless, online only groups. Maybe social media can also reach people... But it won't if kids can't find information online that challenges the worldviews their parents want to program into them.

And recently, that Amazon Duggar documentary "Shiny Happy People" came out, and it's not a bad entry point to understand the issues I'm talking about either. I think it does a good job to show how these 'throwback' values play on nostalgia too act as an on ramp for people to raise their children in--children who are then encouraged to be literal warriors for Christ--or their GOP allies.

If a person killed 8 babies, by definition, they have killed 7, and thus fit the "worst" standard that OP specified.

Your comment led me towards an amusing thought: in the Harry Potter universe, goblins sell things to wizards for the duration of the wizard's life, but then they expect it to go back to the goblins because ownership works differently for them vs wizards. Wizards don't always/usually understand or respect that. So... If I ever was in the position to open a brothel, perhaps I'd name it "The Goblin's Den." I... Don't know what kind of clientele that would attract though.

For a while, mainstream/right wing news especially told voters that many people under the poverty line couldn't be that badly off since such and such a percent of them had basic conveniences in their living places, like fridges, dishwasher, etc. It was one of those 90s strategies to create resentment against public programs.

Ah yes, the world wide webiverse. The net. Dialed in. Where you've got mail!

I am worried that many people won't be found. The ocean was a refuge for many, but a dangerous one. So horrible.

Not a myth exactly. The good Samaritan is more about liability right? Well, some towns are designating only certain areas that people can give homeless food, in many senses punishing generosity to the poor.

... how did he think Florida's economy was stronger than that of Texas or California??

Haha, yeah, I don't agree, but I also really like Dave Rintoul as Darcy... From the old adaptation. So there's my unpopular opinion. Matthew McFayden will always primarily be the stressed son from "Death at a Funeral" for me.

Also, Michigan is blue now. Flint and Snyder's "emergency managers" really weren't that long ago.

I had a young woman, maybe 17 last semester, turn in a paper --it was a 12 page research/argumentative paper about why gender complementarianism (ie woman and men have different, distinct roles with men at the top). She's a good student, a good writer, but literally she's heard this set of morals from the pulpit her whole life... So like... Yeah. I read another young man's paper where his takeaway from 12 Years a Slave was "wow, not all slave owners were abusive monsters--some were pretty kind and treated their slaves like family." The kids are as alright as the rest of us are.

Yeah, Brits barely even noticed or cared about the results of the 2016 election.

Not DeSantis, but red states are really getting records for out of state care their people seek.

I know it's a whataboutism, but I really can't stand that we can't have something like a gun registry because "MuH gUnz!?!!" and the government might take them or whatever, but we can't buy or borrow books without government agencies being able to secretly procure that information. Now private medical records from the doctor's office, not just like a person googling around, are being hoovered up for overtly political reasons against vulnerable people. Why are guns so much more sacred than people being able to live?

Friend, the question proposed $500 Million to play with, not $500 thousand. You have a lot more budget to play with.

Skills requiring a lot of flexibility like ballet or gymnastics.

But see, if someone admits that their parents/grandparents/etc were flawed, then they might come to the realization that they need to examine the ideas they grew up with, maybe change some. Maybe they themselves have behaved problematicly based on things they were taught. And what if that person starts questioning their faith/faith community's behavior as part of this introspection? What if questioning makes a person feel as though they're not "honoring their father and their mother"?

I'm 100% for that introspection and personal honestly, but I can see where a lot of people will be too scared of the work. More will be more scared of the "evil" of critical thought and nuance.

Cork let go. Cork was... Free.

And then came an explosion of sound.