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Cake day: March 21st, 2025

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  • Let’s be clear: This type of person eats a very specific kind of potato salad that consists only of potatoes, mayo, and the tears of every customer service manager that dares cross her path.

    Potato salad is like chili and meatloaf. It’s not a recipe so much as it is a formula with many variables. You can make it boring and bland, or you can make it exciting and delicious. There are no rules except for what’s in the name.

    I love potato salad because I make it how I like it, which includes a lot of spices and vegetables and other stuff. I don’t think I’ve ever made it the same way twice.




  • I don’t doubt it. My comment was more aimed at the general idea that religious people shouldn’t be lumped together, more than at you specifically. Interestingly, as I scrolled past this post, I came upon this one. Here’s the linked article.

    ‘God has an order’: Head of Trump’s faith office says women must ‘submit’ to men

    Televangelist Paula White, leader of the White House Faith Office, argued that women must “submit” to men.
    During a Wednesday interview on Real America’s Voice, host Steve Gruber spoke to White about the state of faith in America during President Donald Trump’s second term in office.
    “God is moving mightily, and what’s so exciting to me?” White explained. “It’s especially among young people and men. Men are the fastest returning to church.”
    Gruber agreed that “real men” were needed to take leadership roles.
    “Absolutely,” White continued. “They are becoming the bedrock, which is how God designed… Because God has an order.”

    It’s really difficult not to lump all Christians together when someone like Paula White has so much influence on one of the most powerful governments on earth, and there is no push-back from the Christian community as a whole. She preaches blatant bigotry from the seat of government, and Christian leaders and congregations are silent. It’s hard to disentangle the good from the bad when everyone is quiet.

    Every movement against hate has relied upon allies. Women’s suffrage needed men, Civil Rights needed white folks, LGBTQ+ rights needs straight folks, and so on. We need Christians like yourself to be loud as fuck about this. I don’t want to lump you in with them. I want you to be the standard by which they are judged, not the other way around.



  • I wouldn’t lump all the people of a religion into the same boat if that religion didn’t have a death grip on the levers of power due to its congregants willingness to spill blood for those ends over the past two millennia.

    As an institution, Christianity has relied on the passive support as well as the active participation of the majority of its congregants to dominate Western civilization through violence. Their current position of power is built on countless mass graves, slavery, genocide, and every form of bigotry imaginable being upheld and promoted by its followers for centuries. It’s only in the last few decades that there has been any kind of push for change, and it’s been less than incremental. We can’t even elect a woman as president of the US, much less a queer person or even an open atheist. This is because the majority of religious people will not accept it.

    You may be a good person, but you are the anomaly in the grand scheme of your religion. You are the outlier. A violent biker gang doesn’t cease to be a violent biker gang just because a few of its members hand out stuffed animals to kids once a year. That’s called PR, and I’m not falling for it.

    Reform your institution top-down. Kick out the power hungry. Kick out the depraved leaders who fuck little kids and cover it up. Kick out the grotesquely wealthy who prey on the poor to buy a new jet. Make them the outliers. Until you do that, your association with them is a conscious choice, and a choice of conscience.







  • Doctor_Satan@lemm.eetoLemmy Shitpost@lemmy.worldThe pipeline
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    Nick Adams once said on Twitter that Alpha males never have to announce that they are Alpha males, with (Alpha male) right there in his name. For the longest time, I refused to believe he wasn’t a parody account. Then I looked into him, and the dude is 100% serious. Some people are just impossibly stupid.

    This is the tweet I was thinking of, but while looking for it, I was reminded that he mentions his Alpha status all the fucking time.


  • Good rule of thumb: Never ask someone out while you’re clocked in. Especially if your job involves holding a position of power over them, or being in charge of their safety. It gives the impression that if they say “no”, things could go bad for them. Things obviously won’t go bad for them, but they could, because of the implication.