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  1. So let’s just start with “others hostility or contempt and derision.” That’s just a persecution complex that wanna-believers are well known to create. Person A says “I don’t believe there is a God” Person B says “person A is persecuting me and my faith!” So it’s not so much that it affects your “faith walk,” it’s that your “faith walk” affects your judgment. You see persecution where there is none and persecutors where there are none. For what? That they don’t believe what you believe? Again spare us the “hostility and derision” schtick because that’s all an act. It’s pure make believe. That’s just you projecting. You’ve been told repeatedly where they (we) stand on all this: You want to believe in all that stuff? That’s one thing. You want to force the state to teach my child that it’s all literally true? That’s a whole other ballgame. And yeah, we don’t play that ballgame nicely, and we’re right not to. The one thing religious adherents won’t say about that out loud in public is that “you have an obligation to just lay down and passively allow us to indoctrinate your kids,” but that’s what they want to do. That’s why this state, for example, is trying to ram the Bible down children’s throats. You will never see a secular humanist/atheist equivalent of that, at least not if you’re honest. What you will see, to repeat, is the common refrain “separation of church and state,” and sans a handful of extremist barking lunatics, that’s as far as it goes. It’s pure theatrics to assert otherwise. There are some religious adherents that are at least honest when they both acknowledge the existence of a separation of church and state and admit to being offended by it. But here is my response to it: thank you for your refreshing honesty; I’m offended that you’re offended.
  2. It’s really not even that. It really isn’t. It’s that these wanna-believers are so damn fragile and insecure in their beliefs in superstitious and ridiculous nonsense that, to them, it can only be validated if enough of their peers believe like they do. I saw up the thread the old “atheist atrocities” trope, but one in particular does bear mentioning: Pol Pot. Pol Pot didn’t murder people in the name of atheism. Pol Pot murdered people because he was a rocket surgeon that acted purely out of fear. One of his fears, for example, was that people who wore eyeglasses were smarter than him. He probably was right in that they probably were. The wanna-believers are of the same general inferiority complex. Just substitute “wore eyeglasses” with “do not believe in a deity” and see how well that fits on them.
  3. Wait, you guys are still reading his bed-wetting effluvia?
  4. Oh you had to know that was coming
  5. His presence on the court in general has been absolutely disgusting.
  6. Yes, the land that accounts for less than half the acreage of the King Ranch.
  7. Oh it certainly won’t. If the D’s are smart (ha!) they’ll accept invites to come on their network and they’ll constantly remind them that Biden won the election, Trump lost, and Trump lied about it. Just keep poking at that bear until it bites back. But of course we know the D’s love to miss opportunities, so they probably won’t do that.
  8. I know. I was agreeing that what little they were saying about it was muddled at best. EDIT: and you can bet that the terms of the settlement most definitely do not include a forced admission by FNC. At best what it contains is a provision that orders them to shitcan any further attempts to advance said lies.
  9. Website as well https://www.foxnews.com/media/fox-news-media-dominion-voting-systems-reach-agreement-over-defamation-lawsuit
  10. This. Yeah we all wanted to see the spectacle but that was never happening. They were as guilty as shit and didn’t have a snowball’s chance in hell surviving that case were it to have gone to the jury, and they knew that. The best they could have hoped for was to settle with terms that allow them to be as swagger-ish as possible about it. That last line in the tweet was a good move, though. Fox loses either way with it.
  11. I was at the game. They were volleyball setting during warmups and just generally screwing around. I get that it’s the last game of the year, fan appreciation day, etc, but the Spurs were in a worse position and they were trying to play the game from the opening whistle while those jackoffs just jacked off.
  12. Their booking has been shit since Russo was involved in it and Dana White isn’t going to be in creative in any way.
  13. Execute him… and I say that as a staunch opponent of capital punishment.
  14. ^ Well wouldn’t you know who won the pony?
  15. The Oilers had to be the only team in the NFL with two offensive skill position players that had fans misspelling their names, both first and last, as often as they were: Haywood Jeffires (a lot of people spelled it Heywood Jeffries) and Ernest Givins (Earnest Givens). Drove me crazy with that shit sometimes.
  16. Yeah Florida wasn’t exactly the intellectual capital of the country before little Ronnie came along.
  17. There's that too. It's their best theatrical work that they do alongside "pro life" and "freedom of speech."
  18. Well they do, but it's always within the framework of "thoughts and prayers are enough" and "mental illness."
  19. You could go for a hambur-gwessa and papitas with a diet coke-oh.
  20. The preferred nomenclature is “social media personality.”
  21. That and the arguments they actually do come into contact with are not the ghastly straw men at which their favorite characters on radio or TV taught them to hack. It’s a pretty big shock…kinda like if you study for years to take an algebra test only to discover minutes before it begins that it’s actually a geography test.
  22. Just a small point of order that’s actually important: FOX and AM radio are not “sources of information.” They’re social media platforms for the exact kind of invective you described. But to even call them “sources of information” for current affairs is as accurate as saying you can learn everything you need to learn about the Civil War just by reading the plaques on all the confederate statues (something a lot of southern right wingers do believe but will never allow themselves to get caught saying it out loud). If FNC/AM radio is all one consumes, one does not know nearly enough. To me, this is the most embarrassing thing: that people honestly believe that they themselves benefit from all this Trumpist falderal. They can be talked into anything, up to and including outright fascism. They can also be talked out of anything like alleviating their own plight. But once again, this is what happens when people can’t help themselves but to feed their tribalist instincts (which are about as useful as an asshole on an elbow), and convince themselves that politics is a we/they team sport where the most important decision is choosing a red or blue hat. You’ll hear a lot of them say “I don’t view politics as a team sport.” Yeah, that’s about as honest as when Ray Comfort claimed he detested religion. It’s the exact same lie, and I wouldn’t trust anyone who said that shit even if their tongue was notarized.
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