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[Quick Thoughts @lthlnkso]

1. This is "extreme poverty". $3 a day consumption PPP.

2. "Extreme poverty" is (and was) basically non-existent in the US, thus there was none to eliminate.

3. The World Bank poverty line for high middle income countries, like China, is $8.30 a day PPP. 15-21% of the Chinese population currently lives below this poverty line.

4. China also has more poverty and less PPP adjusted GDP per capita than nearby and less socialist / more capitalist countries like Malaysia, Singapore, South Korea, and Japan.

[Gandalv @Microinteracti1]

That’s what the world looks like when you’ve been marinating in Fox News for twenty years.

Europeans have more disposable income than most people on earth, better beer, better cities, and absolutely nothing to worry about from a broke American on the internet.

But yes. Please keep sending the tourists. They love it here. I’ve had a beer with many of them. Lovely people, genuinely curious, warm, and almost universally nothing like what they voted for back home.

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@Trevdog306 @krdonnelly Wish it was an F

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@darrelltalksfi @NipseyHoussle Invest in renting

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@pxnofficial11 Northern Portugal is white, the entirety of Spain is not white. You're retarded.

[Faithfulness Okom @AttorneyF_]

How a religion reasons is a huge theological confession in and of itself.

Christian reasoning from its foundations is meticulous, internally consistent, and built on shared text.

When the writer of Hebrews wants to argue for the divinity and priestly rank of Christ to wavering Jewish believers, he does not merely assert. He builds. He says: Remember Melchizedek? No genealogy, no traceable ancestry. Yet Abraham paid him tithes.

In Hebrew culture, the lesser pays the greater. You have already agreed, without knowing you agreed, that there was a figure who outranked your patriarch.

Then he drops Psalm 110: "The Lord has sworn... you are a priest forever in the order of Melchizedek." If Melchizedek is greater than Abraham, and the Messiah belongs to Melchizedek’s rank, the Messiah does not share a category with the prophets. He sits above the one your fathers bowed to. That is an argument with no exit. You have to dismantle the text or accept the conclusion.

Now contrast that with this example or series of examples you Muslims always point to. Anytime you want to justify bowing five times a day facing a specific geographic location, you drag in Biblical prophets completely at random.

You see Jesus, in a moment of agonizing trepidation in Matthew 26, fall on his face to pray, and you instantly leap to: “Therefore he prayed like a Muslim.”

Do you think through the logic of this? In 2 Samuel, King David "danced before the Lord with all his might." By your exact methodology, should we start a new religion centered around dancing hysterically before God?

God is a Father. Sometimes his children approach him with dancing; sometimes, scared and broken, we lie flat; sometimes we sit. There is no chain of textual consequence in your argument.

There is only a posture and a verdict. It looks like logic until you actually look inside it.

But since you opened the New Testament, for Jesus let us actually look at how Jesus handles prayer. He completely shifts the frame from the external to the internal. He tells his disciples: Go into your room, close the door, and pray to your Father who is unseen. He tells the Samaritan woman that a time is coming when worship will not be tied to a mountain or to Jerusalem, because “God is spirit, and his worshipers must worship in spirit and in truth.”

He does not mention any geographic requirement or rigid ritual performance. It is an intimate, genuine encounter with a personal God.

And if you want to use Jesus's prayers to define him, you cannot stop at the garden. Look at John 17:5. Jesus prays: "Father, glorify me in your presence with the glory I had with you before the world began."

Find me the prophet who prayed that.

Abraham never did. Moses never did. No mere prophet in history ever walked into prayer and claimed pre-creational, shared glory with the Almighty.

The posture of submission in Matthew 26 doesn't undermine Christian theology; it requires it. It proves the Incarnation, the eternal Son genuinely entering human dependence and feeling the weight of human fear. You stopped reading at the physical posture, missed the entire theological foundation, and as usual you think this is a good refutation.

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@JohnPetersonFW Wow I've never seen a hotel bar overcharge before. The city must suck.

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@11975MHz Redneck is not a term meaning white people get sunburned, there is a greater origin.

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@DissentFu So you've been a loser your entire life and now there is a trillionaire

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Shit I see when I take 25 Benadryls.

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@eurofounder About that many visit every month

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Dedicate it to black and queer voices

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@BrandonLBradfor Fed talk

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@narendramodi @IsraeliPM @netanyahu You've never met him bro

[bumbadum @bumbadum14]

Crazy how the 40 hour work week is now maligned as ultra capitalism when in reality Henry Ford, a known neo-Nazi, popularized the 40 hour work week so his employees could have extra time with their family.

He also raised their wages because he believed ever Ford man should own a Ford car.

He was later sued from carrying out these pro-worker measures by these guys for "breaking fiduciary duty to shareholders"

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@BoringBiz_ Good bait