In his gospel, Luke lists all the political & religious leaders in power & then notes how the word of God bypassed them and came to John in the wilderness.
The locus of God’s presence & activity is not found in the corridors of great power.
@bensmithlive But why do Americans live so much longer now than 100 years ago? Why do so many more children live past 5-years old than they used to? Are you saying these other countries don’t take pharmaceutical drugs? This is a shockingly shallow critique
@WhozMEECH Even die-hard Kobe fans were admitting LeBron got the best of Kobe in their matchups ‘07-‘10. Their only argument was that Bron didn’t have a chip, and they never faced each other in the postseason. Almost no one at the time was claiming Kobe outplayed LeBron in their matchups.
my feed is half women screaming that no one is going to lose any rights and half men celebrating that women get to be put in their place now and making horrendous threats that i won't repeat.
Everyone who has told you the NBA product is bad is not watching tonight. So far the games have been great. It isn't perfect and there are nights when we don't get the best games but tonight is another night of really good hoops and we still got some more to come.
I’m seeing people talk about the worldwide trend of countries moving right, and I think that has to be largely understood as the failure of neoliberalism. As liberal parties move right they stop delivering for people and find themselves in political no mans land.
My broken record take is that discussions of “the economy” would be better served bifurcating shorter term changes (many of which improved under Biden) w/ steady state problems (inequality, obscene healthcare/childcare/edu costs) that dems refuse to provide existential answers to
I will say this until I’m blue in the face; the NFL’s product has widely considered to have fallen off in recent years, with quarterback play in particular being pretty rough, and it just doesn’t matter because their marketing, branding, and media coverage are so dominant.
Hot take: it’s okay and even good for politicians to be boring, uncharismatic, even bureaucratic legislators, who simply move the country along with better laws and are able to step up in a crisis. We don’t need saviours and messiahs. We need temporary stewards.
@abditrm Bro, ageless king, equestrian jester, this is better than anything I’ve ever seen a sports writer come up with. Why is professional sports media so stale and this is so majestic?