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[RRSP @karkha]

@Sierra_rak Blah, blah, blah. You're completely clueless as to what drives the "Tax the rich" crowd.

[igipigy @igipigy1]

@SaddamTransfem these two guys simply do not exist lmao

[TheWhiteRayHolt @MelbinHotel]

@SaddamTransfem "landlords are willing to lower the rent"

and other insane quotes from tree dwelling primates that are fed hallucinogens every day

[Jared Ryan Sears @JaredRyanSears]

What America calls radical is considered mainstream in other capitalist democracies.

Ensuring every resident has healthcare and doesn't experience financial hardship when receiving care? Normal.

Treating access to quality food and freedom from hunger as a human right? Normal and even international law.

Living wages that support a decent standard of living? Normal.

National paid paternity leave, paid sick days, and paid vacation laws? All normal.

Early childhood education and affordable childcare? Normal.

But in America, those get labeled as Socialist, Marxist, or even Communist policies by the greedy and the power hungry, who know the public is easily scared by such terms.

You won't hear them discuss how to solve our nation's problems, only fearmonger with name-calling.

Stop letting them divide us. Stop letting them spread hate. And instead, support your fellow Americans in taking back the government from the corporations and billionaires who want to see you permanently dependent on them so that they can have power over you.

[RRSP @karkha]

@Informalib I doubt you've fully contemplated the utter moral decay Objectivism actually leads to and is leading to at this very moment.

[RRSP @karkha]

@Informalib @VegasKJ Do.

[RRSP @karkha]

@Informalib @VegasKJ If you can't see that Atlas Shrugged is an immense joke of a book then I don't know what we can fo for you.

[Atheist Girl @iamAtheistGirl]

christian love ❤️

[Zach W. Lambert @ZachWLambert]

If you’re a Christian genuinely wondering why it’s bad for the state of Texas to require Bible study in public schools, imagine how you’d feel if your family lived in New York City and Mamdani required Quran study in public schools.

[Michael Shermer @michaelshermer]

The Morality of the Bible
(From The Moral Arc)

The Bible is one of the most immoral works in all literature. Woven throughout begats and chronicles, laws and customs, is a narrative of accounts written by, and about, a bunch of Middle Eastern tribal warlords who constantly fight over land and women, with the victors taking dominion over both.

It features a jealous and vengeful God named Yahweh who decides to punish women for all eternity with the often intolerable pain of childbirth, and further condemns them to be little more than beasts of burden and sex slaves for the victorious warlords.

Why were women to be chastened this way? Why did they deserve an eternity of misery and submission? It was all for that one terrible sin, the first crime ever recorded in the history of humanity—a thought crime no less—when that audacious autodidact Eve dared to educate herself by partaking of the fruit of the tree of the knowledge of good and evil. Worse she inveigled the first man—the unsuspecting Adam—to join her in choosing knowledge over ignorance. For the appalling crime of hearkening unto the voice of his wife, Yahweh condemned Adam to toil in thorn and thistle-infested fields, and further condemned him to death, to return to the dust from whence he came.

Yahweh then cast his first two delinquent children out of paradise, setting a Cherubim and a flaming sword at the entrance to be certain that they could never return. Then, in one of the many foul moods he was wont to fall into, Yahweh committed an epic hemoclysm of genocidal proportions by killing every sentient being on Earth—including unsuspecting adults, innocent children, and all the land animals—in a massive flood.

In order to repopulate the planet after he decimated it of all life save those spared in the ark, Yahweh commanded the survivors—numerous times—to “be fruitful and multiply,” and rewarded his favorite warlords with as many wives as they desired. Thus was born the practice of polygamy and the keeping of harems, fully embraced and endorsed—along with slavery—in the so-called “good book.”

As an exercise in moral casuistry, this perspective-taking question comes to mind: did anyone ask the women how they felt about this arrangement? What about the millions of people living in other parts of the world who had never heard of Yahweh? What about the animals and the innocent children who drowned in the flood? What did they do to deserve such a final solution to Yahweh’s anger problem?

[RRSP @karkha]

@Bubblebathgirl @MarkRuffalo Provide.

[RRSP @karkha]

@Bubblebathgirl @MarkRuffalo I keep seeing conservatives talking about how these policies have failed in the past with no reference. Please privide one.

[sean @_sn_n]

the average red state is closer to Sharia Law than Zohran’s NYC

[FFRF @FFRF]

The so-called “Religious Liberty Commission” report isn’t about protecting religious freedom.

It’s a blueprint for privileging religion, dismantling church-state separation, and using government power to advance Christian nationalism.

Real religious liberty protects everyone.

[FFRF @FFRF]

Apparently, under Christian nationalism, discrimination isn't a violation. It's a payday.

[Dan McClellan @maklelan]

The conventional wisdom of the time was morality was most likely within religious societies. Our nation soon grew out of that misapprehension, but John Adams also signed the Treaty of Tripoli, which explicitly denies America is "in any sense founded on the Christian religion."

[Ed Krassenstein @EdKrassen]

WWII Veteran and Purple Heart recipient Robert Hilliard:

"Next week I'll be 101 years old. In February 1944 when I was 18 years old I was inducted into the army and what they taught me to do there was to kill people who set up detention camps. Can you imagine how I felt earlier this year when they announced that one of the future detention camps would be at that same camp landing in Florida? We have a fascist, a fascist government, that allows innocent people to be put in detention camps and incarcerated."

Source: @tomaskenn

[Atheist Girl @iamAtheistGirl]

i can’t wait till the kids in texas read the bible and their parents have to explain why little girls are fucking their dad

i hope it’s super uncomfortable for you ❤️

[Ryan Satin @ryansatin]

The same people who cried wolf saying Mamdani would institute Sharia Law in NYC think this is great.

[FFRF @FFRF]

Public schools aren't Sunday schools.

Requiring students of every faith and none to study biblical stories as privileged reading isn't religious freedom. It's government promoting one religion over everyone else, and that's bad for both the Constitution and religion.