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Perfectly Harmless Effy

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she/her, nb Shameless woman* who can neither confirm nor deny reports of arousal from sitting in the cockpit of a mobile suit. *for tax purposes Beloved of @aiun.bsky.social

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Perfectly Harmless Effy @effinvicta.bsky.social · Feb 2

Stand with Canada, stand with Mexico. Three arrows against all tyrants.

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Perfectly Harmless Effy @effinvicta.bsky.social · 43m

I think they should simply mandate the Brezhnev option if you want to wear every ribbon, medal, and tab.

Perfectly Harmless Effy @effinvicta.bsky.social · 49m

...no comment.

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Perfectly Harmless Effy @effinvicta.bsky.social · 1h

"Mr. President, when do you plan to stop stealing candy from babies?"

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Perfectly Harmless Effy @effinvicta.bsky.social · 1h

I think you could do some stuff with it in a less controlled environment. Ask if he's ever fucked a watermelon.

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Perfectly Harmless Effy @effinvicta.bsky.social · 1h

oh my god he thinks it was effective

Perfectly Harmless Effy @effinvicta.bsky.social · 1h

our president's weekly physicals. they said nobody could do it, folks.

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Perfectly Harmless Effy @effinvicta.bsky.social · 1h

soon he'll be having them monthly.

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Perfectly Harmless Effy @effinvicta.bsky.social · 1h

They/theming after the MP drop... slick.

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Perfectly Harmless Effy @effinvicta.bsky.social · 1h

Man the line you can draw from this to attacking people for having bionic prosthetics is very very obvious. Jesus.

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Perfectly Harmless Effy @effinvicta.bsky.social · 1h

The movies for the kids.

Perfectly Harmless Effy @effinvicta.bsky.social · 1h

Well, you get more workers, who are worse, because they're not experienced, but you can afford to pay enough to brute-force your way through the harvest.

(In practice this may actually devastate H-2As too.)

Perfectly Harmless Effy @effinvicta.bsky.social · 1h

The idea is that they massively increase H-2A visas but make H-2A workers cheaper so that they can replace experienced farm workers, I think???

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Perfectly Harmless Effy @effinvicta.bsky.social · 2h

I see our large and overpressurized president, full of fluids as he may be, is still falling victim to the curse of the nap.

Perfectly Harmless Effy @effinvicta.bsky.social · 2h

"We took the freedom of speech away. The wind kills all your birds."

Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 4h

Trump: "We took the freedom of speech away because that's been through the courts and the courts said you have freedom of speech, but what has happened is when they burn a flag it agitates and irritates crowds."

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Perfectly Harmless Effy @effinvicta.bsky.social · 3h

Obviously not everyone is falling back on understanding Jesus's message as aimed squarely at the Jews of his day when writing sermons. But it's still a clear presence.

Perfectly Harmless Effy @effinvicta.bsky.social · 4h

Talking about Jesus's message in terms of Jupiter or Magna Mater is understandably rare these days.

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Perfectly Harmless Effy @effinvicta.bsky.social · 4h

Well... I think that the interpretative framework is a lot more widespread than direct antisemitism specifically.

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Perfectly Harmless Effy @effinvicta.bsky.social · 4h

The result is that later patristic writing, coming from people totally disconnected from Jewishness, interprets Christian writing as aiming all of its rhetorical attacks squarely at Jews. And then Christianity as a whole follows along in this general vein.

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Perfectly Harmless Effy @effinvicta.bsky.social · 4h

Yep!

Perfectly Harmless Effy @effinvicta.bsky.social · 4h

There is an argument to make that the Christian emphasis on mercy is a tactic deployed against traditional religion and its associated worldviews, especially when it comes to soteriology, but since that worldview was starting to die before Christianity was fully born, the meaning was lost quickly.

bonque, ben @kwstzhaderbonch.bsky.social · 4h

It is fascinating to me that Xtians think Jesus was this great advocate for mercy over Jewish legalism when A) Jewish legalism requires breaking a mitzvah if it saves a life and B) Xtians are so often unwilling to modify their rhetoric in the name of harm reduction. The NT doesn't even ask you...