Radical differences in appearance and beliefs can be incompatible. Islamist skepticism is not inherently unrighteous or unwarranted. Conflating the infinite value of every soul with every belief and appearance of every soul is fallacious. I appreciate your perspective and your desire to rein in extremism. My fear is the overt partnership of Islamism and socialism. Iran being the template. The islamists used the communists as pawns and then eliminated them leaving radicalized Islamist zealot's willing to do anything to stay in power and twelver movement.
I think everyone voting in the USA should show their face and their ID. That's not the radical argument.
I have strong feelings that they will never be as fresh and moist as during my childhood. It might be that they no longer have poisonous trans fats. It might be they are no longer made with love. It might be that I have discovered fresh artisanal donuts and pastries. One will never know.
@Manhattva@SandyofCthulhu I had all the levels of the original Wolfenstein 3d. My friend had a legitimate copy. It was a stack of 3.5 inch floppy disks about 10 inches high. I guess I pirated it, but I've never even felt guilty.
Unpopular opinion: Section 89 means exactly what it says it means and no revelation has made it a "commandment" that requires the blood of Jesus to atone for eating tiramisu.
Beware the tendency for generational righteousness creep. Where we elevate standards to show how much more "righteous" we are than the common rabble.
It's fine to have chocolate or Coke Zero.
You can have an opinion about other caffeinated beverages and I don't let my kids drink them. But tying anything more than what's contained in the revelation to the WoW is false righteousness creep.
As of today, @SenMcConnell has missed 48 roll call votes since June 11.
He hasn't been seen for over 53 days.
He hasn't been healthy enough to personally address his constituents, or the nation.
But, he is healthy enough to be signing legislation?
While recovering, McConnell has remotely put his name on the following legislative items:
* The Lindsey O. Graham Sanctioning Russia Act of 2026
* A Resolution Honoring Senator Lindsey Graham
* Burma Sanctions Amendment
* Ukraine Battlefield Lessons Amendment
* Open Technology Fund Amendment
How do we know McConnell is actually doing any of this and that it's not his staff making decisions for him?
His staff refuses to answer questions from constituents and press alike.
Is Terry Carmack, McConnell's Chief of Staff, making legislative decisions on behalf of McConnell?
Not a single Kentuckian voted for Carmack.
Or for @StephaniePenn, McConnell's Director of Communications, who refuses to communicate about McConnell's physcial and cognitive condition.
Dostoevsky accurately predicted Soviet totalitarianism in “Demons” (1872) by studying one revolutionary who strangled his own comrade and sank the body in a frozen pond.
In 1869, Sergei Nechaev’s “Catechism of a Revolutionary” declared that a true revolutionary has no personal interests, no morals, and no loyalty except to DESTRUCTION itself.
When his ally Ivan Ivanov started questioning his authority, Nechaev’s cell beat him, strangled him, shot him, and dumped him under the ice.
50 years before the Bolshevik Revolution, Dostoevsky warned that revolutionary idealism stripped of morality destroys people rather than liberate them.
Violence justified by ideology, individuals subordinated to the cause, morality discarded for the “greater good”, all became integral to every totalitarian movement that followed.
@Manhattva@MiddleearthMixr You rock. I hope you never have to take it into battle to annihilate the zombie demon scourge of our time, but I'm glad that we have it in zion should the need arise.
After their slave revolt, Haiti’s founder ordered the killing of all white people on the island. Soldiers went house to house killing thousands including women and children.
They took full control, purged the population they blamed, and turned the richest colony in the Caribbean into the poorest and most dysfunctional country in the Western Hemisphere.
Today, their descendants demand entry into the West they fought to escape, refuse to return to the mess they and their ancestors created, and are for some reason strongly convinced that borders are racist.
Dear John Thune,
You are responsible for putting a vote together to pass the Save America Act. Don’t pawn this off on democrats. Don’t make excuses.
Call a vote. You are Senate Majority Leader.
ACT LIKE IT.
Sincerely,
All Americans.
Did you know that John Thune, the LEADER of the Senate, has a wife AND a daughter who are Democrats?
The only reason he SAYS he's a republican is to get elected in South Dakota.
He's really a Democrat too.
The GOP needs to pull it's heads outta it's asses and REMOVE HIM.
@EricLDaugh F you Thune. We are mad as hell. We must fix voter fraud NOW! You are fomenting potential Civil War with your lies. What the hell are you so afraid of? Clearly your greatest fears are debate and secure elections.
On a beautiful Christmas Day in 1989, Romanians executed their communist dictator and his wife.
And in all fairness, Nicolae Ceaușescu had it coming.
>rationed the entire country to 3.25 kg of meat a month
>built a massive palace modeled after Pyongyang that is still the most expensive administrative building on Earth
>exported Romania’s food to pay off foreign debt
>left people standing in lines for scraps
>his Securitate ran on 11,000 agents and half a million informants surveilling 22 million people
>ordered the destruction of roughly half of Romania’s villages so he could force the peasants into standardized concrete blocks
Then the revolution came in December, they put him and Elena against the wall, and gave him what every commie dictator actually deserves.
*cheerful Christmas music plays*