I vote for snarky commentary on the dumbest social media posts by NYT editors. Will Staley's combo of confusion over "No Kings" with the neighbor commenting about menswear guy was gold.
I also wonder about the impact if people actually shamed others in their personal lives, i.e. conveying "being okay with racism and violence because your tax rate is 2% lower makes you a bad person I don't want to interact with." Some will lock in, but the ODD crew weren't gettable anyway.
Welcome to the SBC. Where men in positions of power can be forgiven for virtually anything with no consequences, but letting your kids learn that LGBT people exist damns them to hell.
Yep. JD Vance already went out of his way for the "normalize Indian hate" guy. I don't see why this will be any different. And the media will probably treat it as just edgy jokes right up until the bitter end.
Only point is to watch Justice Jackson intellectually lap the FedSoc affirmative action hires. But I think that sometimes, the contrast just makes it more infuriating.
ICE just blatantly violated the law and arrested sitting Chicago Alderperson Jessie Fuentes while seeking to illegally arrest a patient in a hospital. Fuck these fascists.
The distinction between Republicans and a death cult becomes increasingly nonexistent. They are all about necropolitics, actively choosing policies that will kill people, through denial of medical care, pollution, anti-vaccine nonsense. "Pro-life" has always been a con, but it's so blatant now.
And if you run over a kid driving negligently as a human, there's an excellent chance you'll be criminally charged. Doubt the C-suite people making the big decisions have that kind of incentive structure...
The book is a quick read by Mark A. Noll. The Civil War as a Theological Crisis (who wrote the scandal of the evangelical mind as well). Anyway, now you can call yourself an heir of the legacy of William Lloyd Garrison!
"By defining slaveholding as a basic evil, whatever the Bible might say about it, radical abolitionists frightened away from antislavery many moderates who had also grown troubled about America's system of chattel bondage, but who were not willing to give up loyalty to Scripture."
"Heightened abolitionist attacks on slavery, slaveholders, and slave society angered those who were under assault. Especially when such attacks were expressed with the antibiblical rhetoric that William Lloyd Garrison employed, they deeply troubled religious believers of almost all sorts."
This final sentence lol: "It will resonate with Americans who are already frightened by the Christian Right, while alienating many conservatives, or even moderates, who might have been open to concerns about theocracy." It immediately reminded me of a book about antebellum Christianity...
The way that Christian fundamentalism has infiltrated everything is truly mindboggling. Worrying about the antichrist was so fringe as a kid... And it's all such terrible theology and biblical interpretation, to add insult to injury.
