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ustadh 🔒 @dragoman.bsky.social · 1h

Alas the former

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ustadh 🔒 @dragoman.bsky.social · 1h

Dog pfp moment

jeanjeanie.bsky.social @jeanjeanie.bsky.social · 2h

Oh gosh. A woman running for office getting targeted for being mean! That never happens!

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gzt aka zoidberg @giziti.bsky.social · 5h

They are obviously processes for presenting us with logismoi, "series (chains) of thought", and we need to ensure our irrational faculties of epithumia and thumos don't engage them.

Marble Liberal @marbleliberal.bsky.social · 5h

Are ais logismoi or are they processes that can contain logismoi @giziti.bsky.social

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ustadh 🔒 @dragoman.bsky.social · 2h

a man in a white shirt is standing in front of a red car that says a&mc on the side

ALT: a man in a white shirt is standing in front of a red car that says a&mc on the side

media.tenor.com

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ustadh 🔒 @dragoman.bsky.social · 2h

we're lucky an influx of redditors hasn't ruined posting on here with "/s" ending every obvious joke

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Jose @jum.bsky.social · 8h

Saints are clapping angels laughing Marco burns in Hell

BeijingPalmer @beijingpalmer.bsky.social · 10h

Marco Rubio is going to hell.

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Irenic Bro @irenicbro.bsky.social · 3h

does anybody have a good essay or survey of the reception of specifically greek patristics in the second reformation period in England

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ustadh 🔒 @dragoman.bsky.social · 3h

No but this sounds cool as hell

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onion person @junlper.beer · 5h

it always blows my mind when these people act like “the left just calls everyone nazis” these days and it’s like no. we’re calling nazis nazis! there just happens to be a lot of them in and around the government these days!

Eli Valley @elivalley.bsky.social · 5h

More history from this Nazi adulated by the Trump team. These are explicit, proud Nazis who scream and cry and call every referee they can find when you quote their Nazism back to them.

Multiple tweets from Nazi Jack Posobiec in 2016 making "jokes" involving the Nazi code "1488."

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ustadh 🔒 @dragoman.bsky.social · Nov 26

Bro did you seriously just forget me like the tunnel under ocean boulevard

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Irenic Bro @irenicbro.bsky.social · 9h

Some will also become orthodox but the trend will be toward less practically demanding and more ideologically aligned religious expression that only incidentally resembles Christianity

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Irenic Bro @irenicbro.bsky.social · 9h

Again there will not be a "schism". A bunch of Catholics will do what they've been dying to do anyway and just become evangelicals.

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Tim Onion @bencollins.bsky.social · 10h

The No. 1 rule of the right since Trumpism is the "official narrative" of anything cannot possibly be true. Nothing can ever be enough. When they cuffed Epstein, for example, which proved a global cabal of elite pedophiles, they were upset because they weren't eating babies.

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ustadh 🔒 @dragoman.bsky.social · 11h

Today in "free speech means you have to listen to us say what we want and you don't get to complain"

Ars Technica @arstechnica.com · 1d

Cruz apparently took particular issue with Wikipedia's reliable sources/perennial sources list, which lists Fox News as a "generally unreliable" source for politics and science.

Ted Cruz picks a fight with Wikipedia, accusing platform of left-wing bias

Cruz sends letter demanding answers from Wikimedia Foundation.

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Jon Danziger @danziger.bsky.social · 11h

Who is crucifying dogs?

Also, what a fucked up verbal tic to pick up from your father. They’ll describe anything that way.

“It was so hot that I drank the Gatorade in one gulp, like a dog.”

“That looks great on you, like a dog.”

“My father didn’t give me enough love and attention, like a dog.”

Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 12h

Eric Trump: "You saw what Jake Tapper did to Lara Trump. She said what everybody knew and everybody was saying and he came out and crucified her like a dog. They have tried to kill us at every road."

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ustadh 🔒 @dragoman.bsky.social · 11h

They missed the episode where Squidward moves to the Squidward ethnostate and is miserable

Marcus Bösch @boesch.bsky.social · 19h

Memes serve as a tool of dark participation and are used purposefully “to disrupt, undermine, attack, resist or reappropriate discursive positions pertaining to public affairs narratives in the news” (Peters & Allan, 2021, pp. 2–3)

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Ahhhhh @nerdjpg.com · 13h

Welcome to the capitalist innovation museum we got

- scam machine
- psychosis inducing machine
- weapons of mass destruction
- button you push that makes the planet hotter
- markets that intentionally starve people
- clothes that fall apart after washing them 1 time
- medicine you can’t afford

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I'm Uni :3 @unicouniuni3.bsky.social · 13h

Who could say no to this face when he wants treats?

A black and white cat sits on the floor, staring up with big round eyes as if begging for treats.

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Phil Dorroll @phildorroll.bsky.social · 14h

I was just thinking yesterday about how anxiety re: assimilation is weirdly modern; in most large cities (and often in the countryside) for century after century it was considered completely unremarkable to interact with people who would never be expected to know your language or share your religion

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ustadh 🔒 @dragoman.bsky.social · 1d

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ustadh 🔒 @dragoman.bsky.social · 1d

Since we know these guys imagine themselves to be the Real Christians, let's cut to the chase: either Christ is a mascot for the sacralization of violence, or Christ is the Father's total repudiation of our violence

Jack Jenkins @jackjenkins.me · 1d

Gonna be thinking about this lede for a minute.

(RNS) — Last month, the Rev. David Black stood in front of a Chicago-area U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement facility and spread his arms wide. Adorned in all black and wearing a clerical collar, the pastor looked up at a group of masked, heavily armed ICE agents on the roof and began to pray.

“I invited them to repentance,” Black, a minister in the Presbyterian Church (USA), said in an interview. “I basically offered an altar call. I invited them to come and receive that salvation, and be part of the kingdom that is coming.”

But when Black began to lower his arms a few seconds later, the agents responded to his spiritual plea by firing pepper balls, or chemical agents that cause eye irritation and respiratory distress, video footage shows. One struck Black in the head, exploding into a puff of white pepper smoke and forcing him to his knees. Fellow demonstrators rushed to his aid, and as the pastor rubbed his face in pain, the agents continued to fire.

“We could hear them laughing,” Black said.

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ustadh 🔒 @dragoman.bsky.social · 1d

I've always said New York City is the Tirana of America

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ustadh 🔒 @dragoman.bsky.social · 1d

My latest at The Atlantic

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ustadh 🔒 @dragoman.bsky.social · 1d

That's what I was thinking yeah + contemporary figures we should be paying attention to

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