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Often times if you try to call out Christians acting un-Christian they pull the ole "judge not lest ye be judged" crap but I like to remind them Matthew 7:15-20 15 “Beware of false prophets, who come to you in sheep’s clothing, but inwardly they are ravenous wolves. 16 You will know them by their fruits. Do men gather grapes from thornbushes or figs from thistles? 17 Even so, every good tree bears good fruit, but a bad tree bears bad fruit. 18 A good tree cannot bear bad fruit, nor can a bad tree bear good fruit. 19 Every tree that does not bear good fruit is cut down and thrown into the fire. 20 Therefore by their fruits you will know them. 21 “Not everyone who says to me, ‘Lord, Lord,’ will enter the kingdom of heaven, but only the one who does the will of my Father who is in heaven. 22 Many will say to me on that day, ‘Lord, Lord, did we not prophesy in your name and in your name drive out demons and in your name perform many miracles?’ 23 Then I will tell them plainly, ‘I never knew you. Away from me, you evildoers!’ (When they say, "Even the devil can quote scripture" remind them that's from Shakespeare not the Bible) It's interesting that so many of Jesus' sermons were specifically directed against the Pharisees, who are portrayed in the bible as performatively pious but wicked at heart and well *gestures at like 95% of evangelicals*
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Jun 20, 2018 16:01
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If there is a heaven and I do go there, I really hope there are bleachers next to the Pearly Gates so we can all watch and cheer as St. Peter backflip-suplexes evangelicals straight to hell.
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Jun 20, 2018 16:22
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I am a constituent in Ted Cruz's district in Austin. I am frequently invited by Facebook's UX to post on his page, and let him know what I think. So far, I think Ted Cruz is a coward for disallowing image posting on his page.    These are mine, but feel free to use or draw inspiration from them. I feel sincerely that we should #DeportTedCruz.
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Jun 20, 2018 23:31
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We're all in Ted Cruz district
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Jun 21, 2018 00:04
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zoux posted:We're all in Ted Cruz district Not in my heart.
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Jun 21, 2018 00:26
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Back from the Panhandle now but this is cut-off-the-nose to spite your face mentality. Amarillo would collapse if it weren't for all the interstate traffic and road trippers stopping there. And despite that billboard, the people there are very friendly, and my pet theory is that it's because it's a travel town -- they want your business.
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Jun 21, 2018 01:08
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Did you eat at the Big Texan
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Jun 21, 2018 01:17
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zoux posted:Did you eat at the Big Texan
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To try to tie this back into Texas politics somehow, the little I've read about Amarillo politics suggest it's run top-to-bottom by a good ol' boy network that is both highly corrupt and incompetent. So, like Texas. -- One more anecdote. Stopped at the Cadillac Ranch on the way out, which are those caddies implanted into the ground and where tourists stop to take pictures. There were two young Brazilian guys there, one sitting on a car and spraypainting a giant Brazilian flag on it (you can freely paint on them) while his friend crouched nearby trying to figure out how to get their quadcopter drone to fly in the windy weather. I thought it was a pretty funny image though because while he was expressing national pride it was by putting the symbol on a rusted-out old car that looks like it slammed face-first into the ground. -- One of the sponsors of Cadillac Ranch was Stanley Marsh, an Amarillo post-modern artist who also implanted mock road signs all over town that says things like "I WANT TO GET OUT" and "THEN AT LAST THE LADY BEGAN SCREAMING" and "I HAVE TRAVELED A GOOD DEAL IN AMARILLO." He died a few years ago, and in his later years, was revealed to prey on underage boys. The signs were cool though. FYI the post-modern painting Standard Station, Amarillo, Texas by Ed Ruscha is on display at the Fort Worth Museum of Modern Art and it's cool: 
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Jun 21, 2018 01:30
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Keeshhound posted:All anyone really needs to remember about Austin is that when the bombings started, the first couple victims were minority, and the police didn't bother investigating too hard because "you never know, they might have done it to themselves." And also that once his identity was found everyone tripped over their docks to say what a sweet quiet boy he was. It took GBS all of 3 seconds googling his name to find out the dude was a reactionary piece of poo poo. Also hello thread, 100 unread posts in a week 
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Jun 21, 2018 10:40
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BrutalistMcDonalds posted:Back from the Panhandle now but this is cut-off-the-nose to spite your face mentality. Amarillo would collapse if it weren't for all the interstate traffic and road trippers stopping there. You only need one overcompensating rear end in a top hat with a weird dick to buy a billboard.
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Jun 21, 2018 10:58
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https://twitter.com/SCOTUSblog/status/1009803045448900608 The Legislature took a look at this last session. Estimates are a quarter of a billion to a full billion in new revenue, so we could use it.
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Jun 21, 2018 15:30
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An overturned tanker this morning in Dallas shut down all lanes of both 635 and 75, in both directions. North Dallas traffic is a warzone right now
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Jun 21, 2018 16:02
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zoux posted:https://twitter.com/lmcgaughy/status/1007695609221013506 actually there is no mention of homosexuality in the source text. that's an anachronism. its not a word that was used in a bible until the 40s. the troublesome word in particular is arsenkoitai. the whole edifice of christianity's modern jihad on homosexuality rests on a dubious translation of a single word.
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Jun 21, 2018 16:40
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I mean, it's based on them being small minded reactionaries. If there was literally no mention of homosexuality in any modern translated version, they'd still hate it. They're always on about their god given right to own guns but I don't think that's in there anywhere.
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Jun 21, 2018 16:52
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zoux posted:(When they say, "Even the devil can quote scripture" remind them that's from Shakespeare not the Bible) Counter-point, the devil does quote scripture, specifically a few chapters before what you quoted when the devil temps Jesus to jump off the temple. Matthew 4:6,7 posted:“If you are the Son of God,” he said, “throw yourself down. For it is written:  aside, most of my wife's family is super Trumpy and sees Democrats and Christians as mutually exclusive and it drives me nuts. Literally walked out of church with them once after a sermon from our lefty pastor about why taking care of the environment was both good and biblical, and her dad made a comment basically saying the pastor made good points and Christians should take back the environmental issue since liberals have "hijacked it." First time I ever heard "molon labe" said out loud was when we visited their church and it was the theme of the sermon, which was essentially an NRA speech about that except replace "they're gonna take our guns" with "they're gonna take our Christian beliefs and values" from a pastor named Rusty. And no, this was not a backwoods thing, everyone in the congregation was the kind of white person that you know at least considered naming their child Kayyden. I should be clear that they are not hateful, bigoted, angry, uneducated, or any of the other things I usually assume about Trump supporters. Friendliest folks you could hope to know and I doubt they've ever made an enemy in their life. They're just absurdly loyal to their team and plug their ears to anything that disparages the GOP. Friend fucked around with this message at 17:40 on Jun 21, 2018 |
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Jun 21, 2018 17:36
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Being nice and/or friendly is not mutually ezclusive with being hateful and/or bigoted. The South will teach you that.
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Jun 21, 2018 17:52
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Quandary posted:An overturned tanker this morning in Dallas shut down all lanes of both 635 and 75, in both directions. North Dallas traffic is a warzone right now High five! The Tollway, Coit, Hillcrest, and Preston are probably anarchy right now.
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Jun 21, 2018 17:57
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Friend posted:Christians should take back the environmental issue since liberals have "hijacked it." ie conservative Christians purposely allied with polluters in exchange for political power to enforce their sexual morality on everyone.
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Jun 21, 2018 18:33
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Dameius posted:Being nice and/or friendly is not mutually ezclusive with being hateful and/or bigoted. The South will teach you that. Cannot stress this enough.
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Jun 21, 2018 18:39
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Dameius posted:Being nice and/or friendly is not mutually ezclusive with being hateful and/or bigoted. The South will teach you that. Oh yeah I know, and it's something that I think is missing from a lot of our modern reflections on the Civil Rights era. People see Byron De La Beckwith and think "man I can't believe people were like that, I could never be like that" but they miss the fact that many people weren't; they were very polite when they said "why won't the negros just sit on their side of the restaurant" and then they had children who grew up to say "oh that was terrible back then, but also why won't the gays just get civil unions instead of getting married." And then we end up with this poo poo: https://twitter.com/SpeakerRyan/status/952906199531388930
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Jun 21, 2018 19:40
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Even if they are not personally bigoted (this is rare though) , if they're a Republican, they support people at all levels of government who are, both in words and especially in actions. At best they're an accessory to racism, and they need to be held accountable to that just as much as the public bigots need to be.
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Jun 21, 2018 20:33
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https://twitter.com/nytimes/status/1009868589648809984
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Jun 21, 2018 21:14
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saintonan posted:Even if they are not personally bigoted (this is rare though) , if they're a Republican, they support people at all levels of government who are, both in words and especially in actions. At best they're an accessory to racism, and they need to be held accountable to that just as much as the public bigots need to be.
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Jun 22, 2018 00:14
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zoux posted:https://twitter.com/SCOTUSblog/status/1009803045448900608 This is great news but I'm very curious how the legislature will choose to implement it. Hopefully they can give remote sellers a break on the local tax reporting, that poo poo is complicated.
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Jun 22, 2018 00:23
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Super local stuff. I would not normally post Facebook comments from a random GOPer here but this person ran in a State House primary (and lost) so fair game. Reax to a liberal candidate's victory to the Denton City Council: That is some really passive-aggressive talk about a local GOP precinct chair who supported THE ENEMY. There was also a brief debate between the county Young Republicans leader and some of the old-timers, where the youngster wanted to forge GOTV unity with candidates who they can all agree with "80 percent" while the old-timers were going PURGE PURGE PURGE. Also some background: https://twitter.com/thedailybeast/status/946606788761346048 -- Second thing, a -- *gasp* -- liberal Californian won a city council seat in Allen: https://twitter.com/starlocalmedia/status/1009564185787805696 quote:From the beginning, Doherty has touted herself as someone who brings a different perspective to the table. She has promoted solar panels on street-facing homes, urged the city to make Allen a smart city in ways that include a plan to provide residents and visitors with free wifi and advocated for DART light rail and bus service in Allen. BrutalistMcDonalds fucked around with this message at 01:33 on Jun 22, 2018 |
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Jun 22, 2018 00:32
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highme posted:This is ad is good as poo poo Cross posting this from the Trump thread because holy poo poo
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Jun 22, 2018 00:38
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BrightWing posted:Cross posting this from the Trump thread because holy poo poo Yep! She's in my district. Established a solid platform even before this, and the ad might play well with the voters. The district's a weird one, includes part of Austin but also up towards Temple and Killeen (i.e. Fort Hood).
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Jun 22, 2018 00:52
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Mother wants to go see Beto in a Plano park on Sunday -- which means I am taking my mother to see Beto in a Plano park on Sunday. Trip report.
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Jun 22, 2018 01:47
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Veronica Birkenstock is a hell of a name, drat.
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Jun 22, 2018 02:34
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https://www.statesman.com/news/state--regional-govt--politics/texas-democrats-poised-back-legalization-marijuana/ZzUIhBEeHbZsZrh1AF3vRL/quote:The draft states that Texas Democrats “support Texas legislation to legalize possession and use of marijuana and to regulate its use, production and sale as is successfully done in Colorado and Washington and other states.”
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Jun 22, 2018 02:38
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https://twitter.com/PatrickSvitek/status/1010153299801231360 Hopefully they'll have to lower the vote threshold again this session  https://twitter.com/chucklindell/status/1010161280987037696 !!! zoux fucked around with this message at 15:07 on Jun 22, 2018 |
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Jun 22, 2018 14:38
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This is just the dumbest loving thing. It was really nice not seeing bags littered everywhere because they were given by default for every single little purchase at the gas station. Hopefully businesses will see a chance to save a few cents by not using bags unless asked to.
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Jun 22, 2018 18:22
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As I said in the Austin thread, I doubt we're gonna see a mass return to bags. But it does mean that future communities won't be able to pass bans.
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Jun 22, 2018 18:46
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Can they still tax plastic bags?
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Jun 22, 2018 19:24
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Numlock posted:While I only lived in Dallas a short while that was my impression as well. Super white and boring as hell. There are three things Houstonian care about, everything that isn't one of these things, we could care less. 1. Making a poo poo ton of money. 2. Restoring or tricking out cars. 3. Complaining about how stupid the Metro train is a billion dollar bus when it suppose to be an L train. Back Hack fucked around with this message at 21:31 on Jun 22, 2018 |
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Jun 22, 2018 19:41
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duz posted:Can they still tax plastic bags? When the bag manufacturers sued Dallas, they cited a state law that prohibited taxing containers, and Dallas rolled over and didn't bother to try to fight it. Does anywhere else still tax them? I remember it was a nightmare for the first couple of weeks they enacted the tax, but it ended up smoothing out and now I'm extra annoyed every time I see hundreds of bags lining the rivers in parks like moss.
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Jun 22, 2018 19:55
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Back Hack posted:There are three things Houstonian care about, everything that isn't one of these things, we could care less. This is a bad list.
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