maybe I am sympathetic to a fault, but it strikes me as like…kind of coldhearted to talk of discouraging someone’s suicide purely for the utility their continued existence serves to propaganda.

A part of me can understand (although I doubt ever fully) the hatred for this man who left devastation in his wake.
How many lives did he destroy and now he has the gall to feel guilty about it!?
When he can just walk away back to the US while those people were left to pick up what was left of their lives and country!

but at the same time when I just hear about this broken shell of a human being the only emotion I can really muster is a deep and utter sadness.

whats wrong with the lyrics?

they should take out their calipers just to double check.

It looks like that painting of Jesus that that woman ruined

Daddy House will fix everything, and if he doesn’t I still get to live the good life in the Lucky 38. :big-cool:

Pretty sure that’s a painting

If that’s what you think I am doing then you are just being purposefully obtuse

I’m not really looking to get into a debate about scripture and homosexuality, but even if we assume it is a sin, I don’t see how that negates what is said in 1 Timothy.
We are all sinners, but called upon to love each other, at the worst such an interpretation would warrant preaching for them to change their ways, not kick them out.

Okay?
But idk what you are suggesting?
That Christians not use scripture as guidance or self-reflection?
I agree with your point about using scripture as a crutch to push social or political positions and disagree when socialist seem to use scripture more to push for socialism than using socialism to establish economic relations more aligns with the kingdom of God.
But caring for your children and trans people and treating them with dignity isn’t a political act, in the same way.
Christ says we will know a good tree by it’s fruits and the fruits this use of scripture bears is love.

I have been mocked, belittled and disregarded as a crazy fucking loser (been NEETing for 3 years now, I haven’t been able to find a job with my college degree, and my mental illness makes it hard for me to persist/commit to anything) who is simply bitter and lazy, and is anyways just living off his parents, and is not to be taken seriously.

I relate.

I’m confused.
So it was a Golden Age, but Coruscant was barely together and they were still recovering from the wars with the sith?

which in essence implies that the Republic that stood for thousands of years was really only at the height of its fabled power for a fraction of that time, and a lot of the early time was spent scrabbling to put things together.

also not sure I comprehend what you are trying to say here.

Interesting.
Tbh my understanding/ interpretation of the time between the Ruusan reforms and TPM was that the rot was getting really bad.
Which was one of the reasons Palpatine could spark a separatist rebellion and the formation of an Empire.

But I guess the reforms and the defeat of the sith could of ushered in a Golden Age, that slowly eroded.
I’m open to it I guess, but I think a big part of the narrative leading up to the movies is the Republic and Jedi are deeply flawed, so something that overly valorizes them might be hit or miss.

I’ve heard of the High Republic, but idk what it is.
I haven’t looked into it, besides seeing a tweet of it’s announcement or something and it’s host (?) trying to be cancelled by racists.
What is it?

Could it be that society actively shaping videogames into a male hobby in the 80’s/90’s and transgirls being socialized as boys has lead to a disproportionate amount of female gamers who are trans than cis?
No, it must be biological essentialism, I am stupidpol, I am very materialist.

Yeah but are libs all booking brunch as like a symbolic thing now? I thought it was just a one-off thing some guy said that was indicative of a larger attitude and the left ran with it.

I thought the brunch thing was a leftist meme based on some lib’s tweet. Was it actually a big thing on donut twitter??

Agree with all of this but Trump is no way anti-imperialist, not even in rhetoric. You could say anti-intervention, maybe even just anti-invasion, but I don’t think we should equate these things to any form of anti-imperialism

Saying trans people should kill themselves is a hell of a take tbh

I honestly don’t understand racism. Like…even if we go with the faulty reasoning of what makes a people “civilized” like…how do mayos look at fucking China one of the oldest civilizations in the world with an accomplished history and are just like “yep savages”.

wot?