If you’re going to speak the name of Christ only as a weapon of hate or a shield against fear and never as a reason to sacrifice your comfort in the name of compassion, you should keep it out of your mouth entirely.
Why is it the name of Christ only ever seems to touch your lips when you’re afraid? 4 hours ago, you celebrated that millions of Americans would go hungry because our elected officials refuse to cooperate with each other. You said “this is exactly what I voted for!”
A government that behaves like spoiled toddlers and bases their policies on spite and self interest? How would he feel about Christians who say “me and my family deserve support and compassion, and everyone else can suffer and die for my benefit?”
@thinktankfranks White shirt’s hat tip and ear touch are recognizable baseball hand signals. In that context, black shirt’s gesture is likely the same. His security detail was probably aware something was up, just not in time to stop it, which is common. Guns are fast, organized response is slow
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@Robfrfr I’m tired, I’m hungry, I’ve got $20 in my bank account. Maybe I could minmax my groceries and technically spend less, OR I could get $20 worth of little ceasers and have a hot meal tonight and cold pizza for breakfast and energy for other shit I need to do. Vimes Boots and all.
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@sburbanon Doom is that protag’s spouse who can see exactly how badly this is going to end, but any action they take to stop this downfall will inevitably be what brings that fate down on them.
@sburbanon Especially in Shakespearean tragedies, tragic characters are often fully aware of the horrible destiny they are moving towards, and helpless to change it. If Light is a lovecraft protag obsessed with uncovering the truth to the point of self destruction—
@sburbanon Gargamel from the Smurfs is very much a male witch for example. But sburb loves wordplay and subjective interpretation. If your character associates being a witch with a particular type of role, it’ll lean towards that and fill in the gaps with archetype, ie Jade + wizard of oz.
@sburbanon A wizard is not a male witch, they’re two completely different jobs. A male witch is just a witch.
People get hung up on the gender thing when it’s really about your role in the story— what does the archetypal witch do? The classic witch is usually female but it’s not required.
It doesn’t matter how thoroughly debunked it is, because it’s rooted in conspiracist thought that prefers a constructed narrative to reality, and internal anxiety to consensus fact.
But the argument isn’t made in good faith to start with so the facts don’t matter. The “great replacement” and “white genocide” conspiracies have been a scam to manipulate racists into acting against their own best interests since the 1800’s.