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Ryan Abt (He/Him) @ryanabt.bsky.social · 2h

Do you make meaning of the world via this “non-belief”?

As in, do you interpret events, interactions, etc through the framework of this “non-belief?”

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Ryan Abt (He/Him) @ryanabt.bsky.social · 2h

I definitely get that. I remember, even coming to Twitter late, finding some communities that really helped me.

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Ryan Abt (He/Him) @ryanabt.bsky.social · 2h

I love logic via semantic manipulation!!!

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Ryan Abt (He/Him) @ryanabt.bsky.social · 3h

Clearly not.

I should 100% have to agree with you on your belief system about (the non-existence of) god that is correct but not a religion, ideology, or dogma.

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Ryan Abt (He/Him) @ryanabt.bsky.social · 3h

For example, a part of dogmatic atheism might be that it can’t function as an ideology even if evidence suggests it can and does.

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Ryan Abt (He/Him) @ryanabt.bsky.social · 3h

It not being an ideology doesn’t mean that people can’t embrace it as dogma.

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Ryan Abt (He/Him) @ryanabt.bsky.social · 5h

I’m former SBC. Think of it this way. You get rid of theism, but you keep the view that everyone has to believe what you do (like right now?) or the arrogant presumption of rightness.

See. This is the missional deism.

Further, it’s ignorant. Because religions are the same.

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Ryan Abt (He/Him) @ryanabt.bsky.social · 6h

This is ABSOLUTELY accurate. They are creating a system where proximity to Trump is the method for accomplishing anything.

Andrea Pitzer @andreapitzer.bsky.social · 11h

The autocrat's toadies destroy functioning governance and launch crisis after crisis in order to create a nation that runs on patronage in which he's the only one able to do anything for anyone.

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Ryan Abt (He/Him) @ryanabt.bsky.social · 7h

I haven’t. BUT that’s just because I’m a different person with different experiences. You feel what you feel and you rock.

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Ryan Abt (He/Him) @ryanabt.bsky.social · 7h

I firmly believe Jewish people will suffer the brunt of the accusations ala “Doctor’s Plot”.

Dr. Michael Phillips @drmphillipsut.bsky.social · 7h

At some point when he inevitably dies of a massive stroke or cardiac arrest, his cult will claim he was poisoned and point to this highly dubious claim as proof of a sinister conspiracy.

Reuters @reuters.com · 1d

Trump, 79, has "cardiac age" of 65-year-old, doctor says reut.rs/4mZNZbu

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Ryan Abt (He/Him) @ryanabt.bsky.social · 8h

turning a big dial taht says "Tarriffs" on it and constantly looking back at the economic experts for gasps of despair like a contestant on the price is right

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Ryan Abt (He/Him) @ryanabt.bsky.social · 8h

Never met a person who used “virtue signaling” who wasn’t just angry that people found their position or opinion on the topic immoral.

Ryan Abt (He/Him) @ryanabt.bsky.social · 10h

It’s a bummer as he is very good at messaging. Unfortunately I suspect he listens to the polling and moderate middle stuff too much. Which also suggests he doesn’t really hold to particular views except when expedient. Whether true or not that’s the feel it gives.

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Ryan Abt (He/Him) @ryanabt.bsky.social · 10h

Yes!

Zohran Kwame Mamdani @zohrankmamdani.bsky.social · 13h

UNTIL IT’S DONE, Ep. 4: Sylvia Rivera

In the 1970s, queer New Yorkers had been pushed to the margins of NYC. Our trans neighbors faced immense cruelty. But in Sylvia Rivera, they found a champion.

As we combat Trump’s politics of darkness, her legacy can light the path forward.

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Ryan Abt (He/Him) @ryanabt.bsky.social · 10h

I love this. And I also loved Mork and Mindy. Though F Troop & Get Smart was my jam.

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TheValuesVoter @thevaluesvoter.bsky.social · 11h

It's not that Republicans are incapable of planning. They're pretty good at it.

It's just that they WERE interested in planning Project 2025.

And they WEREN'T interested in planning to help tens of millions of Americans get health care coverage.

TheValuesVoter @thevaluesvoter.bsky.social · 11h

So when they say “Republicans are the Party of Health Care,” why is it that:

1) They both voted to end the very thing millions of Republican citizens have come to depend on - 8 years ago?

2) In the 8 years since, they haven’t come up with an alternative healthcare plan? They DID plan Project 2025!

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Ryan Abt (He/Him) @ryanabt.bsky.social · 21h

I trust my eyes and ears more than that medical report. That’s for sure.

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Ryan Abt (He/Him) @ryanabt.bsky.social · 21h

I just think we have no idea of his health either way. But if they are covering it 100% would be “Doctor’s Plot” time because they are always one moment away from “The Jews did it!”

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Ryan Abt (He/Him) @ryanabt.bsky.social · 22h

There is now an epistemology that raises don’t know shit people to shit knowers if they simply reject the shit knowingness of the original people who know shit.

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Ryan Abt (He/Him) @ryanabt.bsky.social · 23h

I’d go a step further but that it’s training evangelicals to see “sexual sin” as mistake that you just move on from. Which gets transferred to abuse and assault. It is treated the same way as “I looked at porn”.

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Nikkolas Smith @4nikkolas.bsky.social · 1d

after millions of views and shares of my Portland Frog art. (thank you all🙏🏾) I got requests to highlight priests, and chickens, and Chicagoans, and T-Rexes, and more… all of us who refuse to bend the knee. so this is for US.
𝚂𝚝𝚊𝚗𝚍 𝚃𝚊𝚕𝚕.
𝚆𝚎 𝚆𝚒𝚕𝚕 𝚆𝚒𝚗.

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Ryan Abt (He/Him) @ryanabt.bsky.social · 23h

This is beautiful

Nikkolas Smith @4nikkolas.bsky.social · 1d

after millions of views and shares of my Portland Frog art. (thank you all🙏🏾) I got requests to highlight priests, and chickens, and Chicagoans, and T-Rexes, and more… all of us who refuse to bend the knee. so this is for US.
𝚂𝚝𝚊𝚗𝚍 𝚃𝚊𝚕𝚕.
𝚆𝚎 𝚆𝚒𝚕𝚕 𝚆𝚒𝚗.

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Ryan Abt (He/Him) @ryanabt.bsky.social · 23h

Oh I feel this. I have such a chronic “there’s a book for that” problem.

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Nora Reed (they/them ze/hir) @nora.zone · 1d

cry havoc and let slip the frogs of war

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Ryan Abt (He/Him) @ryanabt.bsky.social · 1d

It’s just posturing and signaling said the the man with a straw cowboy hat, chains with a cross on them, massive red lenses goggles, a throwback Detroit Tigers jacket, and a mustache posing in front of a Bald Eagle flag.

Acyn @acyn.bsky.social · 1d

Kid Rock: Do you know what is stupid… these chicks running around on campuses with blue hair, five nose rings.

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