Republicans in Texas focus their voter suppression efforts on Houston since it is the biggest Democratic voting population in the State.
Proud anti-fascist & bird-person
Republicans in Texas focus their voter suppression efforts on Houston since it is the biggest Democratic voting population in the State.
That time they banned the word “fascist” was the closest to self-awarenes they get.
The Feast of the Gods- Giovanni Bellini & Titian, oil on canvas (1514)
There is no inherent meaning; everyone must find their own.
For me, it’s to try and leave my little patch of the world better than I found it.
“Calling me a liar is a violation of my free speech! You can’t say that!”
And to get, apparently.
Do you really think subjugation of women improves these people?
There are plenty of Christians who don’t do that; I have no problem with humanist Christians.
I have a huge problem with reactionaries who use their religion to oppress others. You should learn the difference.
That is a great point about pseudopaul. I had forgotten that this letter’s authenticity was questionable.
However there are practically no evangelical groups who would agree with modern scholarship on the subject, so my larger point holds: they believe that Paul instructed women to be subservient and silent.
Also, as far as I can tell, Paul was one of the ones who shifted Jesus’ prophecy about his coming kingdom from that of an imminent apocalypse to a prediction about the rise of the Christian church. While he did believe that the end of the world was near, so do a huge swath of Christians today.
Thanks for the correction, it is appreciated.
But I suffer not a woman to teach, nor to usurp authority over the man, but to be in silence.
-1 Timothy 2:12
This is why I hate the “these aren’t real Christians” no-true-Scotsman dismissals.
The Bible is a toxic book full of misogyny and racism. Sure it has some good stuff in there, but when the founder of Christianity* is so clear about his thoughts on the subjugation of women then these are Christians following the teachings of their religion.
Christianity is only compatible with the modern world when it is so diluted by humanism that it would be unrecognizable by its founder; that’s why reactionaries are working to change the world instead of updating their morality. They want power over people, and enforcing their backwards ideology is their path forward.
* And Paul was the founder of the religion; Jesus didn’t expect the world to last longer than the lives of his disciples
It also requires those applying for liquor licenses to have a “reputable” character and be expected to operate the business in a “reputable manner.”
Then how did he get one in the first place?
Commodore 64 here, too.
First Linux distro was Ubuntu.
From The Reaction Mind- Conservatism from Edmund Burke to Donald Trump by Corey Robin:
Republicans have learned to disguise their intentions so well, in other words, that the disguise has seeped into and transformed the intention.
Even without directly engaging the progressive argument, conservatives may absorb, by some elusive osmnosis, the deeper categories and idioms of the left, even when those idioms run directly counter to their official stance. After years of opposing the women’s movement, for example, Phyllis Schlafly seemed genuinely incapable of conjuring the prefeminist view of women as deferential wives and mothers. Instead, she celebrated the activist “power of the positive woman.” And then, as if borrowing a page from The Feminine Mystique, she railed against the meaninglessness and lack of fulfillment among American women; the difference was that she blamed these ills on feminism rather than on sexism. When she spoke out against the Equal Rights Amendment (ERA), she didn’t claim that it introduceda radical new language of rights. Her argument was the opposite. The ERA, she told the Washington Star, “is a takeaway of women’s rights.” It will “take away the right of the wife in an ongoing marriage, the wife in the home.” Schlafly was obviously using the language of rights in a way that was opposed to the aims of the feminist movement; she was using rights talk to put women back into the home, to keep them as wives and mothers. But that is the point: conservatism adapts and adopts, often unconsciously, the language of democratic reform to the cause of hierarchy.
This is the best book I’ve read for understanding conservatism.
The most important part about learning a musical instrument is consistent practice.
1 hour twice per week is not as good as 20 minutes every single day. And you do have to play every day if you want to improve. Work on one thing at a time and most importantly: use a metronome.
Guitar is a meditation exercise: you have to learn to love the process. If you aren’t having fun, maybe it just isn’t for you.
Your Beeness
The woman, referred to as “Witness 1” in an FBI affidavit, previously recalled how a bit of “comically minimal ego-stroking” on her part led to Taake and other Jan. 6 participants giving up information about their activities during that attack.
“I felt a bit of ‘civic duty,’ I guess, but truthfully, I was mostly just mad and thinking, ‘F— these guys,’” the woman, who spoke anonymously for fear of online reprisal, said. The men wanted to “regurgitate” the lies they heard from prominent Republicans about the 2020 presidential election, she said.
That woman is an American hero.
Good to know it wasn’t “economic anxiety” that lead those fascists to try and overturn a legitimate election.
Just old fashioned, homegrown, corn-fed American racism.
He’s bonafide!
Yes! That was the best Wing Commander game.
I never found them as comfortable as a pair of good sandals like Birkenstocks or some sneakers.
They make a decent camp shoe though, since they’re extremely light and waterproof; I’ll clip them to my backpack so they don’t take up room inside.