C. Everett Koop posted:

here this sports one should be easier to understand

https://twitter.com/Zigmanfreud/status/870696570357915650

Frijolero posted:

Gyra_Solune posted:

in fact, there were literally no changes to any part of how people commute by air after 9/11, and if anything we basically started letting pretty much anyone on an airplane

fool_of_sound posted:

In dunno man, the last 50 years of president shave been pretty dismal. Who’s gonna beat him out? Clinton or Carter? Carter I guess.

Pener Kropoopkin posted:

civil wars aren’t strictly fought with governments. you’re not thinking death squaderly enough.

Jose posted:

sunscreen being a hoax is a new one to me

DACK FAYDEN posted:

there is a grain of truth here in that a lot of people dislike Pelosi for no reason other than that she is establishment

fool_of_sound posted:

I wonder why the job of choice for useless rich crotchspawn switched from 'middle manager at Uncle Bill's company' to 'thinkpiece writer at Uncle Bill's magazine'

Badger of Basra posted:

https://twitter.com/politico/status/1036380791981395973?s=21

CharlestheHammer posted:

I mean he isn’t having sex with same sex he is having sex with trans girls.

unless I am mixing them up.

BENGHAZI 2 posted:

And he's still sleeping with women, are we really having this discussion in 2018

Serf posted:

holy transphobia batman

Pener Kropoopkin posted:

I thought they're called "hot takes" because it should make you hot with anger.

Jonathan Fisk posted:

like every other Netflix original aimed at teens, the acting and writing in Sabrina are laughably bad smh

get that OUT of my face posted:

she gets that adulation every single time, so why not keep doing it until they realize she's crying wolf, or in this case gay wizard

Jose posted:

Don't think dialysis or pacemakers count

Ramesh Ponnuru posted:

What Would Jesus Do? Pete Buttigieg Has No Idea
The Democratic candidate's heartfelt argument on faith is also partisan nonsense.

Pete Buttigieg, the mayor of South Bend, Indiana, is one of the many candidates for the Democratic presidential nomination. But that’s not his only long-shot bid. He also wants to claim Christianity for contemporary progressive politics.

“Christian faith is going to point you in a progressive direction,” he told USA Today.

Even in our largely secular press, the coverage of the Buttigieg campaign has been rapturous. A few conservatives have contested the mayor’s version of religious politics by denying that he is truly Christian, citing his support for same-sex marriage (he is in one) and legal third-trimester abortion. Some of those critics have gone so far as to dismiss the Episcopal church, of which the mayor is a member, as no longer Christian.

Buttigieg’s fans have, naturally, responded to that line of argument with outrage, having apparently missed that the mayor is fine with questioning other people’s faith. “It is hard to look at this president's actions and believe that they're the actions of somebody who believes in God,” he said in that USA Today interview.

Obviously people who describe themselves as “Christians” disagree with one another, generally sincerely, about what being a Christian entails. There are Protestants who don’t think that Catholics make the cut.

This type of disagreement is not distinctive to religion. The boundaries of such groupings as “conservatives” and “liberals” are also contested. The debates among Christians will probably be more fruitful if they proceed as inquiries into what followers of Jesus should do than as attempts at expulsion and counter-expulsion.

For Buttigieg, the basic mistake of conservative Christians is “saying so much about what Christ said so little about, and so little about what he said so much about.” His interviewer, journalist Kirsten Powers, calls it an “insightful formulation” and specifies that abortion is one of those topics Jesus ignored.

What He did talk about, Buttigieg says, includes “defending the poor, and the immigrant, and the stranger, and the prisoner, and the outcast, and those who are left behind by the way society works.” Hence his claim about how Christianity dovetails with progressivism.

It is a heartfelt argument. It is also partisan nonsense, a politicized distortion of both the Bible’s words and its silences.

To see what’s wrong with it, consider that the argument could just as easily be, and was, deployed against William Wilberforce and other Christian abolitionists. Notoriously, the Bible nowhere explicitly condemns slavery.

It does, however, teach that God has made human beings in His image. Christian thinkers, using the power of reason they believed God gave them, reflected on that teaching over the centuries and concluded that the Christian conscience could have no truck with the institution.

Liberal Christians must necessarily engage in similar thinking to believe that higher immigration levels or looser eligibility criteria for food stamps are godly causes: Jesus doesn’t say anything direct about the federal budget or naturalization policies either.

There is of course room for argument among people of good will, whether or not they are Christian, about the judgments that liberals have reached, as there is room for argument over conservative Christians’ beliefs about abortion. But the idea that unborn children deserve legal protection seems a better fit with the Christian emphasis on mercy than Buttigieg’s cavalier dismissal of it.

Christians should in general be wary of claims that the faith points in a progressive direction, or in the direction of conservatism, libertarianism or any other political philosophy or ideology. No political party has ever fully captured the implications of Christianity, and we are not promised that one ever will. As such no earthly political party or ideology should ever command a Christian’s ultimate allegiance.

But Christians are prone to forgetting this truth and reading their politics into the faith. Buttigieg, the millennial progressive, is a political opponent of Jerry Falwell Jr. Yet in this regard, the two are brothers.

christmas boots posted:

When I asked Benioff and Weiss if it was possible to infer any overall intentionality to the upcoming 10 episodes, they sneered. “Themes are for eighth-grade book reports,” Benioff told me.

get that OUT of my face posted:

meghan mccain is the closest thing to a JAP as one can be without actually being jewish

Zeroisanumber posted:

All dogs are good. The evil is what people do.

Humans don't deserve a friend as good and noble as the dog. No dog should ever be a cop.

Taintrunner posted:

hmm odd thing is nobody gets loving salaried jobs anymore

Platystemon posted:

This is the other side of the horseshoe from “cats are the purring Jew”.

christmas boots posted:

Slavery's weird angle to go with, but it's kind of weird that we took wolves and created an entire species with subservience to humanity built into its DNA.

Pretty hosed up what we did to the Bulldog too to be honest.

Shrecknet posted:

When will Econ 101 classes start explaining that the concepts being covered are the econ version of Physics 101 where every problem starts with "assume a frictionless sphere in a vacuum" and have no basis in reality?

Elman posted:

Oh that makes sense.

Grondoth posted:

I mean, maybe soon 32F will be as cold as it gets but... no? In the northeastern US, late(sometimes even middle) fall, winter, and early spring are full of temperatures way below the freezing point of water, to the point where in the winter 32 isn't even that cold out. 0C isn't all that cold and 100C is a natural atmospheric temperature outside of like... being close to lava.

ansel autisms posted:

hot dogs come cooked

get that OUT of my face posted:

i don't think you're gonna find anyone here who disagrees with that. also i'd put Black Panther in the latter category

CharlestheHammer posted:

nah Hydra is basically just Nazis without using the term Nazis.

probably like a leftover from the 70s

I think Nixon was one

SENTIENT HOUSEMEAT posted:

That civilization is supposed to be more than 20,000 years old or something and still never figures out how to solve the problem of 'sometimes there's slavery'.

Tulip posted:

20,000 years of incel Taliban that was totally stable until exactly one (1) of them hosed

Honestly the claim that the republic was mostly stable for 20,000 years is so preposterous given how inflexible and exploitable the levers of power are that the explanations are either "star wars is dumb as poo poo" or "the republic is totally fictionalizing its own history "

Dreddout posted:

Why do you think the mongols were called "the golden horde"?

Tunicate posted:

My colleges humanities departments have a rotating speaker series where every month a different professor gives a talk at a local bar on whatever they want, and everyone gets free food.

One of the professors gave his entire talk about how Starship Troopers obviously isn't satirical, because it doesn't wink at the camera, and that's what satire is.