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  1. Wordle 1,463 4/6* 🟨⬜⬜⬜🟩 ⬜⬜🟩⬜🟩 ⬜⬜🟩⬜🟩 🟩🟩🟩🟩🟩 🙂 Daily Quordle 1244 7️⃣4️⃣ 5️⃣8️⃣ m-w.com/games/quordle/ ⬜⬜⬜⬜⬜ 🟨⬜⬜⬜⬜ 🟨⬜🟨⬜⬜ ⬜🟨🟨🟨⬜ ⬜⬜⬜🟨⬜ ⬜🟩🟩🟩🟩 ⬜⬜⬜🟨⬜ 🟩🟩🟩🟩🟩 🟩⬜⬜⬜⬜ ⬛⬛⬛⬛⬛ 🟩🟩⬜⬜🟩 ⬛⬛⬛⬛⬛ 🟩🟩🟩🟩🟩 ⬛⬛⬛⬛⬛ ⬜⬜🟨⬜🟨 ⬜🟩⬜⬜⬜ ⬜⬜⬜⬜⬜ ⬜⬜⬜⬜⬜ ⬜⬜⬜⬜⬜ ⬜⬜⬜⬜⬜ 🟨⬜⬜⬜⬜ ⬜⬜⬜⬜⬜ 🟩🟩🟩🟩🟩 ⬜⬜⬜⬜⬜ ⬛⬛⬛⬛⬛ ⬜⬜⬜⬜⬜ ⬛⬛⬛⬛⬛ ⬜⬜🟩⬜⬜ ⬛⬛⬛⬛⬛ 🟩🟩🟩🟩🟩
    10 points
  2. Wordle 1,463 4/6 🟨🟨⬛🟨⬛ ⬛🟨⬛🟨🟨 ⬛🟩🟩🟩🟩 🟩🟩🟩🟩🟩 🙂 Daily Quordle 1244 6️⃣4️⃣ 5️⃣7️⃣ m-w.com/games/quordle/ ⬜⬜⬜⬜⬜ ⬜⬜⬜⬜🟨 ⬜⬜🟨⬜⬜ ⬜🟨🟨⬜🟩 ⬜⬜⬜🟩⬜ ⬜⬜⬜⬜⬜ ⬜⬜⬜🟨⬜ 🟩🟩🟩🟩🟩 🟩⬜⬜⬜⬜ ⬛⬛⬛⬛⬛ 🟩🟩🟩🟩🟩 ⬛⬛⬛⬛⬛ ⬜⬜⬜🟨⬜ ⬜🟩⬜⬜⬜ ⬜⬜⬜🟨⬜ 🟩⬜⬜⬜⬜ ⬜⬜🟨⬜🟨 ⬜⬜⬜🟨⬜ 🟨⬜⬜⬜⬜ ⬜⬜⬜⬜⬜ 🟩🟩🟩🟩🟩 ⬜⬜⬜⬜⬜ ⬛⬛⬛⬛⬛ ⬜⬜🟩⬜⬜ ⬛⬛⬛⬛⬛ 🟩🟩🟩🟩🟩 #Worldle #1247 (21.06.2025) 4/6 (100%) 🔥 Current Streak: 2 days 🟩🟩🟩🟩🟨↙️ 🟩🟩🟩🟩🟨↙️ 🟩🟩🟩🟩🟨↗️ 🟩🟩🟩🟩🟩🎉 https://worldle.teuteuf.fr/share Connections Puzzle #741 🟦🟪🟨🟪 🟩🟪🟨🟨 🟨🟨🟨🟨 🟦🟦🟪🟩 🟪🟦🟪🟦
    9 points
  3. Wordle 1,463 3/6 ⬛🟩🟩⬛🟩 ⬛🟩🟩🟩🟩 🟩🟩🟩🟩🟩 Connections Puzzle #741 🟦🟦🟦🟦 🟩🟨🟨🟨 🟩🟩🟨🟨 🟨🟨🟨🟨 🟩🟩🟩🟩 🟪🟪🟪🟪 🙂 Daily Quordle 1244 6️⃣4️⃣ 7️⃣5️⃣ m-w.com/games/quordle/ ⬜⬜⬜⬜⬜ ⬜🟨⬜⬜🟨 ⬜⬜⬜⬜⬜ ⬜⬜🟩⬜⬜ 🟨🟩⬜⬜🟩 ⬜🟨⬜⬜⬜ ⬜⬜⬜🟨⬜ 🟩🟩🟩🟩🟩 ⬜⬜🟩⬜⬜ ⬛⬛⬛⬛⬛ 🟩🟩🟩🟩🟩 ⬛⬛⬛⬛⬛ ⬜⬜⬜🟩⬜ ⬜⬜🟨⬜⬜ ⬜⬜⬜🟨🟨 ⬜⬜⬜⬜⬜ ⬜⬜⬜⬜⬜ 🟨⬜🟨⬜⬜ 🟨⬜⬜⬜⬜ ⬜⬜⬜⬜⬜ ⬜⬜⬜⬜⬜ 🟩🟩🟩🟩🟩 🟩⬜⬜⬜⬜ ⬛⬛⬛⬛⬛ 🟩🟩🟩🟩🟩 ⬛⬛⬛⬛⬛
    8 points
  4. Wordle 1,463 5/6* ⬛⬛🟩⬛🟩 ⬛🟩🟩⬛🟩 ⬛🟩🟩⬛🟩 ⬛🟩🟩🟩🟩 🟩🟩🟩🟩🟩 Connections Puzzle #741 🟪🟪🟪🟪 🟩🟩🟩🟩 🟨🟨🟨🟨 🟦🟦🟦🟦
    8 points
  5. Wordle 1,463 5/6 🟨⬛⬛⬛🟩 ⬛🟩🟩⬛🟩 ⬛🟩🟩⬛🟩 ⬛🟩🟩🟩🟩 🟩🟩🟩🟩🟩
    8 points
  6. Wordle 1,463 4/6 ⬛🟨⬛🟨⬛ ⬛🟩🟨🟨⬛ ⬛🟩🟩🟩🟩 🟩🟩🟩🟩🟩 🙂 Daily Quordle 1244 5️⃣4️⃣ 8️⃣9️⃣ m-w.com/games/quordle/ ⬜⬜⬜⬜⬜ ⬜🟨⬜🟨⬜ ⬜⬜🟨⬜🟨 ⬜🟨🟨⬜⬜ ⬜⬜⬜⬜⬜ ⬜⬜⬜⬜🟨 ⬜⬜⬜🟨⬜ 🟩🟩🟩🟩🟩 🟩🟩🟩🟩🟩 ⬛⬛⬛⬛⬛ ⬜⬜⬜⬜🟨 ⬜⬜🟨⬜⬜ ⬜⬜⬜⬜⬜ 🟩⬜⬜⬜🟨 ⬜⬜🟨🟨🟨 ⬜⬜⬜⬜⬜ 🟨⬜⬜⬜⬜ ⬜⬜⬜⬜⬜ 🟩⬜⬜⬜⬜ ⬜⬜🟩⬜⬜ 🟩🟨🟨🟨🟨 ⬜⬜⬜⬜⬜ 🟩🟩🟨🟨🟨 ⬜⬜⬜⬜⬜ 🟩🟩🟩🟩🟩 ⬜⬜⬜⬜⬜ ⬛⬛⬛⬛⬛ 🟩🟩🟩🟩🟩
    7 points
  7. Connections Puzzle #741 🟦🟦🟦🟦 🟪🟪🟪🟪 🟩🟩🟩🟨 🟩🟩🟨🟩 🟩🟩🟩🟩 🟨🟨🟨🟨 Blue-Purple is bullshit. That blue fits their rules of what should be purple. Wordle 1,463 3/6 ⬛🟩🟩⬛🟩 ⬛🟩🟩🟩🟩 🟩🟩🟩🟩🟩 🙂 Daily Quordle 1244 7️⃣5️⃣ 6️⃣8️⃣ m-w.com/games/quordle/ ⬜⬜⬜⬜⬜ ⬜⬜⬜🟨⬜ ⬜⬜⬜⬜⬜ ⬜⬜🟩⬜🟨 ⬜🟩⬜⬜🟩 ⬜🟨⬜⬜⬜ ⬜⬜⬜🟨⬜ ⬜🟩🟩🟩🟩 ⬜⬜⬜🟨⬜ 🟩🟩🟩🟩🟩 🟩⬜⬜⬜⬜ ⬛⬛⬛⬛⬛ 🟩🟩🟩🟩🟩 ⬛⬛⬛⬛⬛ ⬜⬜⬜⬜🟨 ⬜⬜🟨⬜⬜ ⬜⬜⬜🟩⬜ ⬜⬜⬜⬜⬜ ⬜⬜🟨⬜⬜ ⬜⬜⬜⬜⬜ ⬜⬜⬜⬜⬜ ⬜⬜⬜⬜⬜ 🟨⬜⬜⬜⬜ ⬜⬜⬜⬜⬜ 🟩🟩🟩🟩🟩 ⬜⬜⬜⬜⬜ ⬛⬛⬛⬛⬛ ⬜⬜🟩⬜⬜ ⬛⬛⬛⬛⬛ 🟩🟩🟩🟩🟩 Thrice Game #723 → 11 points! 🎲: 3️⃣2️⃣3️⃣1️⃣2️⃣ https://thricegame.com
    7 points
  8. Wordle 1,463 3/6 🟨⬜⬜⬜🟩 ⬜🟩🟩⬜🟩 🟩🟩🟩🟩🟩 #Worldle #1247 (21.06.2025) 1/6 (100%) 🔥 Current Streak: 1 days 🟩🟩🟩🟩🟩🎉 🧭🚩📜🛡️🔤🗣️👫🪙 https://worldle.teuteuf.fr/share 🙂 Daily Quordle 1244 8️⃣3️⃣ 7️⃣9️⃣ m-w.com/games/quordle/ ⬜⬜⬜⬜⬜ ⬜🟩🟩⬜⬜ ⬜⬜⬜⬜🟩 ⬜⬜⬜🟨⬜ ⬜⬜⬜🟨⬜ 🟩🟩🟩🟩🟩 🟨🟩⬜⬜🟩 ⬛⬛⬛⬛⬛ ⬜🟩🟩🟩🟩 ⬛⬛⬛⬛⬛ 🟩⬜⬜⬜⬜ ⬛⬛⬛⬛⬛ 🟩⬜⬜⬜⬜ ⬛⬛⬛⬛⬛ 🟩🟩🟩🟩🟩 ⬛⬛⬛⬛⬛ ⬜⬜⬜⬜🟨 🟨⬜⬜⬜⬜ ⬜🟨🟨⬜⬜ ⬜⬜⬜⬜⬜ 🟨⬜⬜⬜⬜ ⬜⬜⬜⬜⬜ ⬜⬜⬜⬜⬜ 🟨⬜🟨🟨⬜ ⬜⬜⬜⬜⬜ ⬜⬜🟩⬜⬜ 🟩🟩🟨🟨🟨 ⬜⬜⬜⬜⬜ 🟩🟩🟩🟩🟩 ⬜⬜⬜⬜⬜ ⬛⬛⬛⬛⬛ ⬜⬜🟩⬜⬜ ⬛⬛⬛⬛⬛ 🟩🟩🟩🟩🟩 #travle #920 +1 ✅✅✅🟧✅✅ https://travle.earth Connections Puzzle #741 🟩🟨🟨🟨 🟩🟨🟨🟨 🟦🟪🟦🟪 🟩🟨🟨🟨
    7 points
  9. Connections Puzzle #740 🟦🟪🟪🟦 🟨🟨🟨🟨 🟩🟩🟩🟩 🟪🟪🟪🟪 🟦🟦🟦🟦 Wordle 1,462 4/6 ⬛⬛🟨🟨🟩 ⬛⬛⬛⬛⬛ ⬛🟨🟨⬛🟩 🟩🟩🟩🟩🟩 🙂 Daily Quordle 1243 5️⃣8️⃣ 4️⃣6️⃣ m-w.com/games/quordle/ ⬜⬜🟩⬜⬜ ⬜⬜⬜🟩⬜ ⬜⬜⬜🟩🟨 ⬜⬜⬜⬜⬜ ⬜⬜⬜⬜⬜ ⬜🟩⬜⬜🟩 ⬜🟨⬜⬜⬜ ⬜⬜⬜⬜⬜ 🟩🟩🟩🟩🟩 ⬜⬜⬜⬜🟨 ⬛⬛⬛⬛⬛ 🟨🟩⬜⬜🟨 ⬛⬛⬛⬛⬛ 🟩🟩⬜🟩🟩 ⬛⬛⬛⬛⬛ 🟩🟩🟩🟩🟩 🟨🟨🟨⬜🟩 ⬜⬜⬜🟨⬜ ⬜🟨⬜⬜⬜ ⬜⬜⬜🟩🟨 ⬜⬜⬜⬜⬜ ⬜🟩⬜⬜⬜ 🟩🟩🟩🟩🟩 ⬜⬜⬜⬜⬜ ⬛⬛⬛⬛⬛ ⬜🟨⬜🟩🟩 ⬛⬛⬛⬛⬛ 🟩🟩🟩🟩🟩 Thrice Game #722 → 11 points! 🎲: 3️⃣2️⃣1️⃣2️⃣3️⃣ https://thricegame.com
    7 points
  10. Wordle 1,463 5/6 ⬜⬜⬜🟨⬜ 🟨⬜⬜⬜🟩 ⬜⬜🟩⬜🟩 🟩⬜🟩⬜🟩 🟩🟩🟩🟩🟩
    6 points
  11. Wordle 1,463 4/6 ⬜⬜🟨🟨⬜ ⬜🟨⬜🟨🟨 ⬜🟩🟩🟩🟩 🟩🟩🟩🟩🟩
    6 points
  12. Can we just give him a jimbo style Nobel peace prize, 20__
    6 points
  13. Wordle 1,463 2/6 ⬜⬜🟩⬜🟩 🟩🟩🟩🟩🟩 🙂 Daily Quordle 1244 8️⃣5️⃣ 7️⃣9️⃣ m-w.com/games/quordle/ ⬜⬜🟨⬜🟨 ⬜🟨🟨⬜⬜ ⬜⬜⬜⬜⬜ ⬜⬜🟨⬜🟨 ⬜⬜⬜⬜🟩 ⬜⬜⬜⬜⬜ ⬜⬜⬜🟨⬜ ⬜🟩🟩🟩🟩 ⬜⬜⬜🟨⬜ 🟩🟩🟩🟩🟩 🟩⬜⬜⬜⬜ ⬛⬛⬛⬛⬛ 🟩⬜⬜⬜⬜ ⬛⬛⬛⬛⬛ 🟩🟩🟩🟩🟩 ⬛⬛⬛⬛⬛ ⬜⬜⬜🟨⬜ ⬜⬜⬜⬜🟨 ⬜⬜⬜🟨⬜ ⬜🟩⬜⬜⬜ ⬜🟨⬜⬜⬜ ⬜⬜⬜⬜⬜ ⬜⬜⬜⬜⬜ ⬜⬜⬜⬜⬜ 🟨⬜⬜⬜⬜ ⬜⬜⬜⬜⬜ 🟩🟩🟨🟨🟨 ⬜⬜⬜⬜⬜ 🟩🟩🟩🟩🟩 ⬜⬜⬜⬜⬜ ⬛⬛⬛⬛⬛ ⬜⬜🟩⬜⬜ ⬛⬛⬛⬛⬛ 🟩🟩🟩🟩🟩
    5 points
  14. Jesus Christ he’s like an old lady on Facebook
    5 points
  15. I'd say last year's bonfire of the DT board was a worse week. We can't really be stressed over RB and edge, and Bell winning the Elite 11 was a nice day.
    4 points
  16. Dodgers are finally reading the room. That check could use an extra zero, but I’m glad to hear there is more to come.
    4 points
  17. These pieces of shit really fucking up summer for the kids. We were gonna go to this also
    4 points
  18. Wordle 1,463 6/6* 🟨🟨🟩⬛⬛ ⬛⬛🟩🟨🟩 ⬛🟩🟩⬛🟩 ⬛🟩🟩⬛🟩 🟩🟩🟩⬛🟩 🟩🟩🟩🟩🟩 😬 Connections Puzzle #741 🟩🟨🟨🟨 🟪🟨🟦🟪 🟩🟩🟩🟩 🟨🟪🟨🟨 🟦🟦🟦🟦 🟪🟪🟪🟪 🟨🟨🟨🟨 SQUAT is bullshit. It is not an adjective in that tense. 🙂 Daily Quordle 1244 6️⃣3️⃣ 5️⃣7️⃣ m-w.com/games/quordle/ ⬜⬜⬜⬜⬜ ⬜⬜⬜🟨⬜ ⬜⬜🟨⬜⬜ 🟨🟨🟨⬜🟩 ⬜⬜⬜🟨⬜ 🟩🟩🟩🟩🟩 ⬜⬜⬜⬜⬜ ⬛⬛⬛⬛⬛ 🟩⬜⬜⬜⬜ ⬛⬛⬛⬛⬛ 🟩🟩🟩🟩🟩 ⬛⬛⬛⬛⬛ ⬜🟩⬜⬜🟩 ⬜⬜🟨⬜⬜ ⬜⬜⬜⬜⬜ ⬜⬜⬜⬜⬜ 🟨⬜⬜⬜⬜ ⬜⬜⬜⬜⬜ ⬜🟩🟨🟨🟩 ⬜⬜⬜⬜⬜ 🟩🟩🟩🟩🟩 ⬜⬜⬜⬜⬜ ⬛⬛⬛⬛⬛ ⬜⬜🟩⬜⬜ ⬛⬛⬛⬛⬛ 🟩🟩🟩🟩🟩
    3 points
  19. Wordle 1,463 5/6 ⬛⬛⬛🟨🟨 ⬛⬛🟩🟨🟩 ⬛🟩🟩⬛🟩 ⬛🟩🟩⬛🟩 🟩🟩🟩🟩🟩
    3 points
  20. No need tomake friends with the Ayatollah’s crowd, as they will eventually be killed off and overthrown. Make friends with the opposition who want freedom from their fanatical oppression.
    3 points
  21. the party of law and order.
    3 points
  22. Here is the acoustic, with the “birds in flight” pattern for the fret markers. Alex wanted his to look different. I only found out about this model after seeing a YouTube video of him and his wife visiting a guitar store in Tokyo and seeing one of his guitars in the Private Stock line, which were $15k then. Later I found they had made an SE line but it been out of production for several years. Reverb became a frequent visit and one came available in Florida for $800 or so, and I debated for a day or two and it sold. Another came up, listed from upstate New York. It was $725 and sold fast. Time passed and I saw this one while checking Reverb during lunch. It was at the Tone Shop in Addison. I called them, they said “we just listed it two hours ago! It’s very playable and sounds great!” They said if I bought it from them instead of from Reverb they would charge me no tax and ship it free and next-day. I did that and it was $520. Good deal! Reverb probably wouldn’t like this story.
    3 points
  23. I think they should probably ditch the term oligarch. That's a political pervert word. Fat rich fucks works better. Maybe just fat cats.
    3 points
  24. made the mistake of clicking on that top story. just tens, if not hundreds of thousands of right wing twitter users going insane about how tim walz needs to be locked up for murder. it hurts to know that these people are real.
    3 points
  25. Better yet can we buy him out for $77.5M? We can raise the money by collecting just $1 from every single person who voted for him
    3 points
  26. As I posted the other day, the impetus behind Trump's fascination with the Nobel Peace Prize:
    3 points
  27. All of their lore is based on self-agrandizing lies that do not hold up under the mildest of scrutiny. They generate random fictions over there on a daily basis. On idiot speculates and all the parrots repeat it and respond to it as though it is gospel. Just look at their phony fan letters.
    3 points
  28. Yeah, the insanely pro life guy and who was a member a radical evangelical church and who has a hit list of democrats, abortion providers, and abortion advocates was totally not motivated by any right politics. Nope, just random mental illness and nothing else to see.
    3 points
  29. Just a classic reminder of who we're dealing with.
    3 points
  30. 3 points
  31. Add another attempted murder to the long list of violent actions directly inspired by mainstream GOP talking points.
    3 points
  32. Long post alert and I am leaving out tons. I often try to avoid posting on this, but these posts get made all the time. For reasons I'd rather not expound on, I've known more Mormons than most of the rest of this board put together. Your impression is accurate about some, but there is a grotesque side that outsiders rarely see. Mormonism is a mix of good people, average people and predators that prey on them. There's a reason Utah has more multi-level marketing schemes and victims than any other state. First, the happy all the time is a manufactured image and beaten into you as a child, often literally. It's similar to other prosperity gospel groups. If you aren't happy, it's because you need to be more righteous and God will favor you and make you happy. People learn quickly not to show anything aside from a beaming smile. Especially to outsiders. That faux everyone is always happy bullshit is one of their biggest recruiting tools. The women and children are very frequently unhappy, but have learned to keep it to themselves. Utah's suicide rate is nearly double the national average. Suicide is the leading cause of death for ages 10-17. The suicide rate among kids has tripled in the last decade. It is especially high for LGBTQ+ kids. https://www.abc4.com/news/local-news/suicide-is-leading-cause-of-death-among-utahns-ages-10-17-research-shows/ Mormonism itself is also in major flux. They are facing an existential truth crisis thanks to the internet and even to South Park, though South Park barely scratched the surface. As a result, many of the actual salt of the earth people are leaving in droves. Wards are being closed down and consolidated across the country. Exmormon content is some of the highest traffic content on TikTok and reddit. Check out r/exmormon and r/mormon for examples. They realized they've been lied to and exploited their entire lives. Or, they've watched others exploited and can't stay silent, though speaking out often means they are completely cut off by their family, friends, jobs and housing. Some left because rape victims are shamed and blamed for not fighting back enough. That's only one example of many and it's gone on for decades, at a minimum. It's beyond cruel and makes the worst experience of their life even more traumatic. Real salt of the earth people don't blame rape victims and they leave cruel organizations where others do blame rape victims. Recently, a bunch left over how the Mormons treat LGBTQ+ members. You won't see it in public, but many Mormons are fucking monsters to any friends/relatives who come out as LGBTQ+, especially trans. I have a friend who is trans and I'd put the odds at 80/20 she kills her self at some point due to how other Mormons treat her. I'm probably underestimating, she's hardly talking to anyone, or returning texts anymore. I regularly have to ask her to text me an emoji response, so I know she's still alive. It makes me fucking livid that there is nothing I can do, because all the love I can give her is dwarfed by the hate she is surrounded by, including most all of her family and former close friends. Salt of the earth people wouldn't do that to her. The real salt of the earth people stand up for the vulnerable and are leaving. Also of note on this issue, you may remember the Mormon "church" spending enormous political capital and members enormous amounts of money to take away LGBTQ+ right to marriage in California. Prop 8 would not have passed without their bigotry. Real salt of the earth people allow others to live their lives as they see fit, rather than trying to take away their rights. Others have left recently when they found out the "church" created a bunch of shell companies to hide at least $32 billion dollars from the SEC. The highest levels of leadership were aware and condoned it for 22 years, until a whistleblower turned them in. For 22 years, everyone else, including 3 different President's and all of their first counselors, covered it up. That whistleblower is the only salt of the earth person in that whole bunch. https://www.bbc.com/news/business-64727764 Real salt of the earth people don't condone 22years of hiding billions from the SEC, they leave corrupt organizations like that. They report it to the SEC if they find out. Lots of the good people left when they found out about Joseph Smith's many concubines, including his 14 year old "wife" and how he coerced her by telling her that her families salvation depended on her giving herself to him. She lived to regret that decision and wrote about how she missed her lost childhood dearly. Many of those same Mormons you would call salt of the earth people bend over backwards to excuse this, "She was a few months shy of her 15th birthday". It's fucking gross. Actual salt of the earth people know that is deeply wrong and are leaving over it. Others left when they found out about the many "wives" Smith took that were already married, including sending men overseas on missions and "marrying" their wives. Or Brigham Young's 15 year old "wives", genocide and massacres of the Utah Native American tribes and that he owned slaves. Or that at least the first 4 Prophet, Seer and Revelators took child brides. Again, actual salt of the earth people cannot countenance these completely immoral and indefensible actions. Real salt of the earth people leave. Others left because there is a burgeoning awareness of how rampant domestic and sexual abuse of women and children are. Check out https://floodlit.org, a group who are cataloging all known sexual accusations and instances of direct coverup by leadership. They have a backlog of thousands of cases. The "church" has a special hot line for bishops and stake presidents to call that goes straight to their lawfirm, Kirton-McConkie, who "investigates" and covers up everything they can. The "church" actively lobbies to maintain clergy privilege and not have to disclose abuse to police if it's reported to leadership, despite the fact that the bishops/stake presidents have no formal training and are often just one of the richest, most connected members of the community. Right up the present day, Mormon leadership protects domestic abusers and sexual abusers if the family of the perpetrator is well connected. A friend of mine was married to a man who regularly beat the shit out of her, put out cigarettes on her, subjected her to regular and extremely violent rape. The abuser's family was powerful locally. His brother was a bishop in a nearby ward, his father was the stake president. Every time she reported it to her bishop, he heavily pressured her to not report it and to give the abuser another chance. God had brought them together, who was she to question his will? That's pretty close to verbatim what she was told over and over, to the point where she internalized it and began to see it as her fault. When she tried to complain to the stake president, it was the abuser's dad and he also tried to force her to accept the abuse. When she tried to escalate that, she was scolded for going over the stake president's head. She was frozen out completely and told to talk to the abuser's father about it. She was subjected to that for nearly two years until I found out some of the worst details she'd been telling the church leaders for years. I decided if his church wouldn't put the fear of God in him, I would. He hasn't come within 1000 feet of her since. They could have stopped it at any time, but chose not to. Her abuser, his brother and his father all remain members in good standing as of the last time I heard about them. Brother and father were still in high up leadership roles. You can check the subreddits to see that is far from an isolated case. The top post on the r/exmormon subreddit currently is about a man who raped his daughter for 14 years, went to prison for it, and has just been re-baptised and forgiven. His daughter's life is destroyed forever, but he's re-baptized, so that sin is washed away for him. Her mother chose him over her own daughter. Welcome back into the flock Elder Incest Child Rapist. How can any decent person stay in such a monstrous organization. Actual decent people leave. Kids do one on one "worthiness" interviews with the bishop where they are asked incredibly invasive questions. Many kids first learn about masturbation when the bishop asks them about it explicitly. It's fucked up. For members, including teenagers, that have engaged in extramarital sexual relations, bishops have total leeway in what to ask them. Virtually all of them will ask how many times, what you did, was there oral, hand, vaginal, anal. Some of them want to know exact positions, did you use a condom, did you cum, did you cum inside her, did she cum? Just one example. Bear in mind, the bishop has no formal training, he's usually just one of the richest members of the congregation. It's a religion literally founded on lies, grifting, predatory behavior and sexual abuse of women and children. It continues to be that today. So there are three types of mormons left. 1) The ones who are willfully ignorant, despite the internet being at their fingertips, or 2) are gullible enough to know it and try to make themselves okay with it, or 3) the ones who see it as a guidebook for how to prey on the rest of them. There are still some willfully ignorant good people there. I really do feel bad for them. They are so afraid to find out the truth, they wall themselves off from reality. They are told by their leadership to "Doubt Your Doubts". I understand it is incredibly difficult to walk away from indoctrination that constant and powerful, especially if you are born into it. They've never known any different. But unless they do stand up and leave, they cannot be real salt of the earth people. Not if they support all of the above, plus much, much more awful shit. Real salt of the earth people leave such a monstrous organization.
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  33. Hader is up to 5 wins already. Doug Jones has the franchise record for relief wins with 11 in '92. He was 11-8 with 36 saves and a 1.85 ERA. That's a ton of decisions out of the pen along with a lot of saves. 8 losses with a 1.85 ERA is impressive. Juan Agosto was 10-2 out of the pen in '88 and 9-8 in '90 on 82 appearances. That's also a shit ton of decisions and appearances.
    2 points
  34. Oh yeah, I know all about The Iconoclast. I've told this story before, but indulge me. The woman is my stepmom, great grandaughter of James Harris. The man on the right is the great grandson of Judge Gerald. He was in my 2nd wedding and is one of my closest friends. He and his wife, and my dad and stepmom traveled the world together, lifelong friends. One night while enjoying a fine Italian dinner I asked Gerald what he had been doing, and he replied “well, I was in Waco doing some research as my ancestor was in a gunfight with a newspaperman named Harris.” my stepmom paled and said “ wait, my ancestor was killed by a judge in Waco” I stood up and said “Yall need to hug this out right this minute” All because then president of Baylor, Rufus Burleson, took in an orphan who ended up pregnant. http://wacohistoryproject.org/Moments/geralds.html Tl;Dr if the Baptists aren't actively involved in a scandal, just wait a bit and it'll happen.
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  36. I’ve posted on here before that my wife is currently in a grad program that is a partnership between a French business school and Parsons School of Design in NY. She’s currently in France attending in-person classes and site visits. In her cohort, she is one of two Americans. They’re supposed to have a residency in NY at Parsons this fall, but too many people in her cohort are afraid to travel to the US right now so they’re moving it to Japan.
    2 points
  37. Just a couple dudes….. talkin about batin’
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