JD Vance: "Gas prices are too high ... they skyrocket every time some tinpot dictator decides to throw a tantrum."
Sir, show some respect. That dictator is your boss.
@EstherMcVey1 FUN FACT: McVey was Housing Minister in '19/20. Rough sleeping in England rose 164% between '10 & '24 under Conservative-led governments.
@ABridgen Bridgen scaremongers about EU free movement while some MPs sought Irish passports to keep those benefits for themselves. Then he conflates EU citizenship w/ illegal migration. A residence permit isn't a passport & neither guarantees UK settlement or benefits. Facts over fear.
@AiG The Epic of Gilgamesh predates the biblical flood narrative. The further back you trace a story, the closer you get to its origins. History works like that.
@oliverburdick The Church spent centuries debating, editing, censoring & deciding which interpretations you were allowed to call heresy. Funny how the defence of open debate comes with 2,000 years of institutional gatekeeping.
@GodlyAction Your religious freedom protects your right to believe; it doesn't make your threats of divine punishment any less sanctimonious or hypocritical.
@ThoughtfulCafe@darwintojesus Insulting critics’ intelligence instead of addressing their arguments is a poor substitute for evidence & hardly a christian response. Archaeology can verify places & rulers, not prove divine claims. You’re confusing historical evidence w/ theological belief.
Norway is one of the most democratic and prosperous countries on Earth.
Free health care
Free college
Strong democracy
Free press
Trump says “Norway sucks” and is a “shithouse country” because it won’t give him the Nobel Prize.
Insane. We have a mentally unbalanced president.
@patrickbetdavid 'Stay alert, America!' A foreign political commentator portrays Brazil's institutions as enemies of democracy bc they oppose his preferred side. That's how you normalise interference in another country's politics while pretending it's a warning. Stay alert, people!
@AiG If your conclusion is fixed before you examine the evidence, you're not testing your beliefs; you're protecting them. Treating the Bible as the final authority over contradictory evidence is circular reasoning, not independent historical verification.
@zachmcd24 If you advocate criminalising abortion & imprisoning men who fail to provide, how would you reconcile those policies w/ constitutional principles, individual liberty & equal treatment under the law? It's more complicated than you suggest, isn’t it?
@Sonderisfon The question is loaded. It assumes the atheist is offended simply bc the Christian prays. Most atheists don't care. Pray if you wish; just don’t assume disbelief means intolerance.
@mattwridley Nobody disputes that the Holocaust was genocide. But a demographic graph doesn't establish genocide in one case & disprove it in another. Genocide is about prohibited acts & intent to destroy a group; not a competition over death tolls.
Also “shithouse” Norway:
🇳🇴 Press freedom: 1st v. 🇺🇸 64th
🇳🇴 Happiness: 6th v. 🇺🇸 23rd
🇳🇴 Life expectancy: 83 v. 🇺🇸 78
🇳🇴 Wealth fund: $350k each v. 🇺🇸 debt $115k each
🇳🇴 Health cover: everyone v. 🇺🇸 27 million uninsured
🇳🇴 Uni fees: free v. 🇺🇸 $1.87 trillion in student loans