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dr_rat
Jun 4, 2001

Xand_Man posted:

Pornos used to be sold at 7-11s?!
Aud
It's all they sold! The founder had a fabulous vision of having a local pornitorium on every street corner open 24hrs a day seven days a week, then some no gooder villains made them switch to selling candy and lotto tickets instead.

Dark times.

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The Islamic Shock
Apr 8, 2021

Crunch Buttsteak posted:

ugh whatever grandpa it's all about discord kittens pulled through f-list now, get with the times
I got to see actual hardcore porn magazines on exactly one occasion when I was 20 or so (I still don't know why the dude had them because the Internet was the better option even then) and fisting was like their version of the bleeding edge of extreme

Xand_Man
Mar 2, 2004

If what you say is true
Wutang might be dangerous


I think I had spaced Playboy's existence because by today's standards that's barely porn

SpeakSlow
May 17, 2004

by Fluffdaddy
You're doing it wrong if there's bleeding.

Rev. Bleech_
Oct 19, 2004

~OKAY, WE'LL DRINK TO OUR LEGS!~

Barrel Cactaur posted:

Spamming pharmacies to every street corner

BiggerBoat
Sep 26, 2007

Don't you tell me my business again.

Crunch Buttsteak posted:

ugh whatever grandpa it's all about discord kittens pulled through f-list now, get with the times

Oh I am. Believe me, I've caught up. Just had to get off through tacit, analogue methods back when I started out and well before I could order my personal preferences of an a la carte menu.

Panfilo
Aug 27, 2011

EXISTENCE IS PAIN😬
Every drat time
https://twitter.com/ChudsOfTikTok/status/1740528005678588027?t=3NmceJS4eAg1M8PR9THVwg&s=19

quote:

Former Rep Lt Governor candidate, anti-woke “parental rights” crusader, & conservative school district activist, Clarice Schillinger, has been charged after throwing a 17th birthday party for her daughter during which she punched a teen in the face 3 times, served the group of 20 teens liquor, pressured them to take shots with her, & played beer pong with them. Her boyfriend at the time also assaulted 2 teens, aged 15 & 16, during the party.

A teen's parent called police early the morning of Sept. 30 to report the assaults & the underage drinking at Schillinger’s home, & police have said they've received videos of some of the alleged events.

DarklyDreaming
Apr 4, 2009

Fun scary

"Received videos of some of the alleged events"

She uploaded "Happy birthday to my favorite daughter and drinking buddy" to more than one social media page didn't she?

Queering Wheel
Jun 18, 2011



God why do they all look the same

DarklyDreaming
Apr 4, 2009

Fun scary

Queering Wheel posted:

God why do they all look the same

If they could take fashion advice from people who value individuality and self-expression they wouldn't be chuds

Bizarro Kanyon
Jan 3, 2007

Something Awful, so easy even a spaceman can do it!


Talking about the AFA and I have to give shoutout to the book I am currently going through. Really good (Christian faith based) look at how the right wing power quest through conservative Christianity is completely destroying the faith.

https://www.amazon.com/Kingdom-Powe...4b93b410334b2fb

Kavros
May 18, 2011

sleep sleep sleep
fly fly post post
sleep sleep sleep

Panfilo posted:

Every drat time

A parent's right TO WHAT?

I AM GRANDO
Aug 20, 2006


I love how this crop of trump-coattails reactionaries are all total sex freak perverts and completely out in the open about it. gently caress your daughter’s teen friends? Let’s get them drunk and see what happens!

FMguru
Sep 10, 2003

peed on;
sexually

Bizarro Kanyon posted:

Talking about the AFA and I have to give shoutout to the book I am currently going through. Really good (Christian faith based) look at how the right wing power quest through conservative Christianity is completely destroying the faith.

https://www.amazon.com/Kingdom-Powe...4b93b410334b2fb
American Christianity being identified with particularly retrograde conservative evangelicalism is doing wonders for the overall standing of Christianity in the US:



In the last thirty years, Americans have gone from 90% identifying as Christian to 63%. It's astonishing - and it appears to be acceleratinng. And it's age-related - people under 50 are less Christian than that, and people under 25 are even less Christian, so it's going to keep going (as old religious people die of old age and are replaced in the population by young non-believers).

Hard to understand why young people aren't finding "Your gay friends are going to hell, climate change is a lie, and Jesus wants you to support tax breaks for the rich" to be a compelling moral framework to build their spiritual lives around. :shrug:

FMguru fucked around with this message at 07:54 on Dec 29, 2023

nine-gear crow
Aug 10, 2013


Notable pedophile Matt Walsh has apparently graduated from not understanding what a woman is to not understanding what a Disney movie is.

Kavros
May 18, 2011

sleep sleep sleep
fly fly post post
sleep sleep sleep
issuing absolutely NO correction on previous youtube video of mine, regarding jafar, several wicked witches, scar, evil himbo, and the crazy lady who wanted to kill over 90 dalmation puppies for a slightly more spinstery coat. i will, under any circumstances, "hand it to them"

mllaneza
Apr 28, 2007

Veteran, Bermuda Triangle Expeditionary Force, 1993-1952




Kavros posted:

A parent's right TO WHAT?

Paaaaaaarty !!!

stringless
Dec 28, 2005

keyboard ⌨️​ :clint: cowboy

FMguru posted:

In the last thirty years, Americans have gone from 90% identifying as Christian to 63%. It's astonishing - and it appears to be acceleratinng. And it's age-related - people under 50 are less Christian than that, and people under 25 are even less Christian, so it's going to keep going (as old religious people die of old age and are replaced in the population by young non-believers).

Hard to understand why young people aren't finding "Your gay friends are going to hell, climate change is a lie, and Jesus wants you to support tax breaks for the rich" to be a compelling moral framework to build their spiritual lives around. :shrug:
That said, there's also a reactionary element. The other night I met a dude in his 30s that talked about how he'd been an atheist until he had what I"d call an Alex Jones Chicken Fried Steak moment, and is currently converting to Catholicism for his future Mexican Catholic wife. I didn't pry further on that because a friend was signalling "please don't make this worse", but the implication was emphatically not that he had already met said future Mexican Catholic wife.

happyhippy
Feb 21, 2005

Playing games, watching movies, owning goons. 'sup
Pillbug

FMguru posted:

American Christianity being identified with particularly retrograde conservative evangelicalism is doing wonders for the overall standing of Christianity in the US:



In the last thirty years, Americans have gone from 90% identifying as Christian to 63%. It's astonishing - and it appears to be acceleratinng. And it's age-related - people under 50 are less Christian than that, and people under 25 are even less Christian, so it's going to keep going (as old religious people die of old age and are replaced in the population by young non-believers).

Hard to understand why young people aren't finding "Your gay friends are going to hell, climate change is a lie, and Jesus wants you to support tax breaks for the rich" to be a compelling moral framework to build their spiritual lives around. :shrug:

There's also the fact that more and more are seeing through the mega churches, 10% tithing, and 'supply side Jesus' evangelists to be the scamming bastards.
Them openly begging to have a new Lear Jet that will end up using to go shopping in the Bahamas.
Locking the doors and going silent when floods or disasters occur.
Seeing your grandma get cancer and give it all away to someone who said the power of Christ will cure it and guaranteed because she and the evangelist both did a little dance on stage. Then she still died of said cancer.
Watching an Elder get a new house or pool extension from the tithing from the community while you can't make rent.
And of course the ever present, Diddling kids is bad! Oops guess who diddled kids!

happyhippy fucked around with this message at 11:29 on Dec 29, 2023

Shooting Blanks
Jun 6, 2007

Real bullets mess up how cool this thing looks.

-Blade



happyhippy posted:

There's also the fact that more and more are seeing through the mega churches, 10% tithing, and 'supply side Jesus' evangelists to be the scamming bastards.
Them openly begging to have a new Lear Jet that will end up using to go shopping in the Bahamas.
Locking the doors and going silent when floods or disasters occur.
Seeing your grandma get cancer and give it all away to someone who said the power of Christ will cure it and guaranteed because she and the evangelist both did a little dance on stage. Then she still died of said cancer.
Watching an Elder get a new house or pool extension from the tithing from the community while you can't make rent.
And of course the ever present, Diddling kids is bad! Oops guess who diddled kids!

This was a fairly significant moment in Houston, when Joel Osteen/Lakewood Church didn't open their doors during Harvey in 2017. It's one of the richest churches in the US, and the building itself is raised well above any potential flooding from even a major storm event. The amount of negative press they collected from that when drat near everyone else helped out if they had any opportunity to do so. It's also worth noting that Harvey was a turning point for the Red Cross, they absolutely poo poo the bed with that storm.

The Islamic Shock
Apr 8, 2021

Shooting Blanks posted:

This was a fairly significant moment in Houston, when Joel Osteen/Lakewood Church didn't open their doors during Harvey in 2017. It's one of the richest churches in the US, and the building itself is raised well above any potential flooding from even a major storm event. The amount of negative press they collected from that when drat near everyone else helped out if they had any opportunity to do so. It's also worth noting that Harvey was a turning point for the Red Cross, they absolutely poo poo the bed with that storm.
Considering how unambiguously correct it is to open church doors for disaster relief within a religion's own rules, regardless of what religion you're representing, that should be a legal requirement to stay tax-exempt

BiggerBoat
Sep 26, 2007

Don't you tell me my business again.

FMguru posted:

American Christianity being identified with particularly retrograde conservative evangelicalism is doing wonders for the overall standing of Christianity in the US:

In the last thirty years, Americans have gone from 90% identifying as Christian to 63%. It's astonishing - and it appears to be acceleratinng. And it's age-related - people under 50 are less Christian than that, and people under 25 are even less Christian, so it's going to keep going (as old religious people die of old age and are replaced in the population by young non-believers).

Hard to understand why young people aren't finding "Your gay friends are going to hell, climate change is a lie, and Jesus wants you to support tax breaks for the rich" to be a compelling moral framework to build their spiritual lives around. :shrug:

Still too high IMO but I'll take it.

This might be a contributing factor to all the "we're losing AMERICA!" talk because people who like to say that emphatically think the US is a Christian nation.

Edgar Allen Ho
Apr 3, 2017

by sebmojo
The constitution clearly states you can be any flavour of Protestant you want.

Jesus III
May 23, 2007

Bizarro Kanyon posted:

Talking about the AFA and I have to give shoutout to the book I am currently going through. Really good (Christian faith based) look at how the right wing power quest through conservative Christianity is completely destroying the faith.

https://www.amazon.com/Kingdom-Powe...4b93b410334b2fb

If you like that book, he's the religion writer at the Atlantic.

The Islamic Shock
Apr 8, 2021

Edgar Allen Ho posted:

The constitution clearly states you can be any flavour of Protestant you want.
Nondenominational here because I can't accept the idea of being horny being immoral considering how involuntary it can be

My local options are Baptist and Methodist and to be fair the guy that baptized me actually knows a thing or two about the original tongues (and openly calls for tolerance of atheists, an unpopular opinion here) so at least he's educational

The Islamic Shock fucked around with this message at 15:28 on Dec 29, 2023

Crunch Buttsteak
Feb 26, 2007

You think reality is a circle of salt around my brain keeping witches out?

BiggerBoat posted:

This might be a contributing factor to all the "we're losing AMERICA!" talk because people who like to say that emphatically think the US is a Christian nation.

Throughout conservative Evangelicalism, they readily acknowledge these numbers. Like, they're aware what's going on. They just refuse to engage with any of the actual reasoning behind it, so they double down on blaming the Homosexual Agenda or the fact that they can't lead the local public school into a Christian prayer.

There are a few pastors correctly reading the room and saying "woah, hey, maybe decades of equating our religion with a political party was a bad idea", but they're typically drowned out by the ones who have replaced any sort of Biblical worldview with the Culture War. Rather than acknowledge any PR issue, they think the easiest way to fix things is just to take over the country and enforce their obvious cultural superiority through the law.

The Islamic Shock posted:

Nondenominational here because I can't accept the idea of being horny being immoral considering how involuntary it can be

Being raised ELCA Lutheran, I was taught the whole "if you feel lust for a woman, you have committed adultery in your heart" line in the Bible is an illustration of how easy it is to sin. Like, you don't even consciously do it. Because what straight man hasn't noticed a lady's boobs and been like "wow, nice" at some point in their life? It's not an admonishment that you should feel guilt and shame over every boner you get, it's more an illustration on how mankind is inherently sinful, and it's not about your actual deeds as much as it is your natural state.

Then, post-confirmation, I learned that that's a very unorthodox reading of those verses, and most Christians seem to view it as an admonishment to feel guilt and shame over every boner they get (that isn't for their wife).

Crunch Buttsteak fucked around with this message at 15:58 on Dec 29, 2023

SpeakSlow
May 17, 2004

by Fluffdaddy
NAB-raised pastor's kid. Dad taught kindness and love, so of course he was drummed-out by the 90s. Really crazy to grow-up with a beatific version of Jesus and not the American Jesus everyone else was screeching for. Certainly made me understand atheists better, that's for sure.

Panfilo
Aug 27, 2011

EXISTENCE IS PAIN😬
Tweet of the year right here
https://twitter.com/dkeensf/status/1740564213469266159?t=GjlkaV-RAvSpl8XJwRC15g&s=19

nine-gear crow
Aug 10, 2013


Two failed screenwriters compare their Deep Thoughts on why Hollywood stinks for rejecting them, wait did we say that last part out loud?

FilthyImp
Sep 30, 2002

Anime Deviant
Bennie Shaps looking like he cried his eyes out the night before here.

nine-gear crow
Aug 10, 2013

FilthyImp posted:

Bennie Shaps looking like he cried his eyes out the night before here.

Well, at least something got wet in Ben's house that night :v:

Nenonen
Oct 22, 2009

Mulla on aina kolkyt donaa taskussa
Me and my pal found a genuine stash of forest porn in a nearby forest when we were, dunno... around 13. We had suspicion of who's magazines they were, a weirdo bachelor who lived with his parents nearby... he had built a lean-to from a tarp and that's where we found the porn. We stole it and hid it in my friend's room.

Sorry if it was your porn collection that we took.

Mercury_Storm
Jun 12, 2003

*chomp chomp chomp*

Bizarro Kanyon posted:

Talking about the AFA and I have to give shoutout to the book I am currently going through. Really good (Christian faith based) look at how the right wing power quest through conservative Christianity is completely destroying the faith.

https://www.amazon.com/Kingdom-Powe...4b93b410334b2fb

Lotta good quotes in this book, but this one:



daaaaaamn :drat:

...!
Oct 5, 2003

I SHOULD KEEP MY DUMB MOUTH SHUT INSTEAD OF SPEWING HORSESHIT ABOUT THE ORBITAL MECHANICS OF THE JAMES WEBB SPACE TELESCOPE.

CAN SOMEONE PLEASE TELL ME WHAT A LAGRANGE POINT IS?

Crunch Buttsteak posted:

Then, post-confirmation, I learned that that's a very unorthodox reading of those verses, and most Christians seem to view it as an admonishment to feel guilt and shame over every boner they get (that isn't for their wife).

No, you're supposed to feel ashamed for this too. Sex is only for procreation. Lusting for your (heterosexual ONLY) spouse is not only a sign of a sinful heart but, even worse, might tempt you into having sex recreationally.

happyhippy
Feb 21, 2005

Playing games, watching movies, owning goons. 'sup
Pillbug
Notice how smol Ben PSed himself to be slightly taller than the other guy.

nine-gear crow
Aug 10, 2013

happyhippy posted:

Notice how smol Ben PSed himself to be slightly taller than the other guy.

It's like he's sitting in a high chair :allears:

Edgar Allen Ho
Apr 3, 2017

by sebmojo
I’m picturing comically big platform shoes

Panfilo
Aug 27, 2011

EXISTENCE IS PAIN😬
Speaking of Ben...
https://twitter.com/unhealthytruth/status/1741002527741788315?t=qja9g05q8sPBww5smRvIqw&s=19

Space Fish
Oct 14, 2008

The original Big Tuna.


"Children! MY children and NOT anyone else's, as children are property so I only care about MINE!! Also, DEI is dumb."

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BigglesSWE
Dec 2, 2014

How 'bout them hawks news huh!
Ah, seeing Ben Shapiro getting in a flame war against Tucker Carlson (who has been reduced to tucking it up with Alex Jones on Twitter) is a great end to a turbulent year :allears:

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