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torgeaux posted:I feel so much dumber now. I mean it's Ross Douthat... What did you expect.
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https://twitter.com/DanLamothe/status/778585123830763520 I like how the military splits pretty evenly between "guy whose entire platform is to not get us killed" and "guy who will let us mow down as many browns as we want"
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WampaLord posted:Jesus loving Christ, who are these 15% of people still making up their mind? It's people that have already made up their mind but are embarrassed by it (irrespective of who they're actually voting for).
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WeAreTheRomans posted:More than half of surveyed voters are open to chemtrails, telekinesis, and Roswell aliens. I was optimistically reading that as "I don't give a poo poo about this and haven't formed an opinion on it."
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vyelkin posted:Don't forget Actually, this country would be a lot better off if conservatives actually followed the teachings of the bible
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Goatman Sacks posted:https://twitter.com/DanLamothe/status/778585123830763520 I would trust nothing the Military Times says or does. It's a shitrag.
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vyelkin posted:Don't forget To be fair a lot of the people responding on biblical literalism were probably just remembering that it has some real history stuff in it, and don't actually think the whole thing is literally true.
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blue squares posted:Actually, this country would be a lot better off if conservatives actually followed the teachings of the bible Including the parts about stoning people to death and the restrictions on menstruating women? You think the country would be improved by that?
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Goatman Sacks posted:https://twitter.com/DanLamothe/status/778585123830763520 Remember this next time you're at some sporting event featuring a gross display of militarism.
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fishmech posted:To be fair a lot of the people responding on biblical literalism were probably just remembering that it has some real history stuff in it, and don't actually think the whole thing is literally true. The question was not "Some things in the Bible are literally true", the question was "The Bible is the literal word of God and without error" which is pretty transparent.
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mcmagic posted:Remember this next time you're at some sporting event featuring a gross display of militarism. 
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vyelkin posted:The question was not "Some things in the Bible are literally true", the question was "The Bible is the literal word of God and without error" which is pretty transparent. I like that these people have no concept of the Great Redactor or that the Bible was solely controlled by the ruling class of the Church for ~1500 years. Oh, and the fact that early Greek versions of the Bible tend to say completely different things and have completely different meanings. But no, the word of God is unsullied by the craven hands of men.
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Cthulhumatic posted:I like that these people have no concept of the Great Redactor or that the Bible was solely controlled by the ruling class of the Church for ~1500 years. Oh, and the fact that early Greek versions of the Bible tend to say completely different things and have completely different meanings. Isn't the entire idea of the Bible that it ISN'T the direct word of God, but rather the interpretation by the various disciples? The book isn't Jesus Christ's live blog. 
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silvergoose posted:There's a read-along thread and yes, you stopped at the right time. You really did. I made it up to... There was a book that climaxed around the protagonist making a statue so inspiring it caused a revolution. In between which was yet more the sadist beating stuff which he was "too pure" to be broken by. Really just an awful awful series.
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CascadeBeta posted:Isn't the entire idea of the Bible that it ISN'T the direct word of God, but rather the interpretation by the various disciples? The book isn't Jesus Christ's live blog. I DUB THEE HERETIC
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Guy Goodbody posted:Including the parts about stoning people to death and the restrictions on menstruating women? You think the country would be improved by that? new testament brah
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Goatman Sacks posted:https://twitter.com/DanLamothe/status/778585123830763520 On the upside, in any normal election the level of support for the Republican candidate among this group would be 45% or more.
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CascadeBeta posted:Isn't the entire idea of the Bible that it ISN'T the direct word of God, but rather the interpretation by the various disciples? The book isn't Jesus Christ's live blog. Tell that to evangelicals.
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CascadeBeta posted:Isn't the entire idea of the Bible that it ISN'T the direct word of God, but rather the interpretation by the various disciples? The book isn't Jesus Christ's live blog. Yeah, there's parts where the disciples disagree and so forth. We have weird ideas about religion rooted in our attempts to govern colonized people according to a concrete "tradition," leading to things like not noticing that the entire Bhagavad Gita is a two sided argument in a genre of philosophy which presents multiple schools of thought as dialouges.
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CascadeBeta posted:Isn't the entire idea of the Bible that it ISN'T the direct word of God, but rather the interpretation by the various disciples? The book isn't Jesus Christ's live blog. Sometimes I think these guys would be happier with Islam, where the whole holy book is supposedly directly dictated by God, no pussying around with "John says this but Luke says that."
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He's still at it. I'm sure you'll nail him someday, Joe! quote:Maricopa County Sheriff Joe Arpaio on Tuesday vowed to the Surprise Tea Party Patriots, the group that five years ago petitioned him to investigate President Barack Obama’s birth certificate, that he was continuing the inquiry.
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mcmagic posted:Remember this next time you're at some sporting event featuring a gross display of militarism. Mowing down the Browns is pretty common in the NFL too, so that partnership makes sense.
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CascadeBeta posted:Isn't the entire idea of the Bible that it ISN'T the direct word of God, but rather the interpretation by the various disciples? The book isn't Jesus Christ's live blog. Very few people actually read enough of the Bible where they get this is true. You also see this with Islam, for example: BarbarianElephant posted:Sometimes I think these guys would be happier with Islam, where the whole holy book is supposedly directly dictated by God, no pussying around with "John says this but Luke says that." There is a section of the Quran which is literally "God gave me this and it's the inerrant word" but there's a very significant section that's just "early scholars try to interpret said inerrant word to apply to society".
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blackmongoose posted:Mowing down the Browns is pretty common in the NFL too, so that partnership makes sense. nice
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Mel Mudkiper posted:nice I love D&D and TFF crossover posts.
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blackmongoose posted:Mowing down the Browns is pretty common in the NFL too, so that partnership makes sense. 
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WampaLord posted:Jesus loving Christ, who are these 15% of people still making up their mind? Undecided Voter Pretty Sure He’s Some Kind Of Idiot quote:“Before now, I felt I was just being thoughtful, carefully weighing each candidate’s statements and making sure I was informed on the important issues, but that couldn’t be further from the truth,” said Mueller, adding that he once even thought that being undecided lent him a sort of mystique, a notion he now considers “almost as loving dumb as I am.” “In reality, I’m actually just a spectacular dolt who doesn’t have the remotest understanding of how this country’s political system works, or really what the hell I’m doing in general.”
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BI NOW GAY LATER posted:meanwhile: Can't wait to vote against this moron. William F Cuxley said he's what happens when you crossbreed a rat and a $20 bill.
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Finagle posted:You really did. I made it up to... There was a book that climaxed around the protagonist making a statue so inspiring it caused a revolution. In between which was yet more the sadist beating stuff which he was "too pure" to be broken by. There's a book in the series that doesn't even have the main character in it for most of it. Instead if focuses around some stupid city and some government worker who finds out his wife is cheating on him so he ends up cheating on her or something like that. Except they both have Super Fantasy AIDS or something and eventually the entire town gets infected and dies and then it cuts to the series' main character and he's like "welp, that serves those filthy sexhavers right" or something. It's really really loving awful and I wish I hadn't been such a voracious fantasy reader that I got a good 4-5 books into the series before I couldn't take it anymore. It did, however, make a kinda fun TV show (in the same sense that Hercules: The Legendary Journeys was a fun show) that starred the Gyro Captain from Mad Max as the wizard.
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vyelkin posted:Economist/YouGov from Sep. 18-19:4. Hahaha... 
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Trump getting blasted by a reporter on NPR for bullshit donations and self dealing. I think WaPo reporter? Very detailed. David Farenthold(sp)? Not aggressive enough for most of us but good listen since I haven't read the recent articles about the same topic.
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Rincewinds posted:Hahaha... I don't see the issue since most of that Stein & Johnson support is going out the window. I legitimately think that by 2020 we'll be all but official in opening back up to Cuba. It's an issue that gives Hispanic Cred™ to the GOP without really affecting anything in the US and the historically most vocal opposition are so old that they just want to see Havana one last time before they die.
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skylined! posted:Trump getting blasted by a reporter on NPR for bullshit donations and self dealing. I think WaPo reporter? Very detailed. Yeah, Farenthold has been all over it for weeks now. Dude has been relentless.
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Geostomp posted:I always wondered just what it is that these people think will instantly give poor or minorities success if they just stop helping them entirely? Do they just not comprehend that the rules are different for non-white/rich people or do they really think that high paying opportunities will magically spring from the ether if we were just not so lazy? They think that anyone can have at least as much success and opportunity as they've had, which they believe has been entirely due to their skills and hard work, and thus there's no excuse for anyone to be poorer than them. That goes from the rich ones at the top all the way down to the poorest whites. They think the rules are stacked against white people, and that minorities are given advantages that ought to allow them to vastly outearn and outperform similarly motivated whites. Remember, white people now think that racism against whites is more prevalent in this country than racism against blacks. BI NOW GAY LATER posted:I mean -- think the larger problem is the culture of policing (see my post earlier from Nolan) and that Police Unions become a reinforcer of those cultural attitudes. I am loathe to ever say that any labor group's union is inherently a bad thing or that we shouldn't allow people engaged in a considerably difficult job to collectively bargain for their rights. It's a) the culture of policing and b) the training and oversight. Police departments are way more to blame than police unions. For example, that cop who was recently fired for violating policy by talking down an armed person who was clearly trying to commit suicide by cop, rather than just unloading a clip into him. Night10194 posted:I wonder what's got Priebus starting to hammer the 'Honor your loyalty pledges!!' drum again? If they break the loyalty pledge once and get away with it, they've set a precedent that allows any Republican to break the loyalty pledge any time they want, and then the divide between the moderates and the fringe becomes an all-consuming maw that tears the entire party to shreds. He's worried that the GOP will go full-on circular firing squad when Trump loses and takes a bunch of Congressmen with him. WampaLord posted:Jesus loving Christ, who are these 15% of people still making up their mind? Some people just don't follow politics or even read the news at all. And there's a decent chunk this year who still aren't sure whether to vote third-party.
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