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SimonBolivar

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  1. 12 minutes ago, Mole said:

    It’s a good chance to remind them that family values and character in leadership used* to be core conservative values. This case lays bare the reality that conservatives have abandoned** their core values.

    *in some mythical past, perhaps

    **embraced, but we like to lie to ourselves 

    I grew up in the SBC and have a very typical family connection to the church (hell Ronnie Floyd married my parents when he was a young preacher) in that I am WASPy as hell and from a relatively monied family in a monied church. The values in our particular large church in the 90s/00s was absolutely about appearance and a large part of that appearance came from the political belief in American exceptionalism and white exceptionalism (not expressly of course). 

     

    The fall of the SBC is interesting as the evangelical right have coalesced around a non-denominational banner in recent decades, but with the SBC political culture still being in charge of the movement. I'd argue this allows for theological mushiness in building the political coalition of the religious right which seems to outweigh their theological beliefs in importance of their self-image. 

     

    Something for future historians to ponder for sure.

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  2. 10 minutes ago, Chewbacca said:
    18 minutes ago, SimonBolivar said:
    Baptist shit usually 

    Like what? Push on that shit. Trump is the most immoral man I've ever seen.

    Abortion, War on Christmas, anti LGBTQ, anti-woke all that fun jazz that is either policy or policy adjacent for the GOP. 

     

     

  3. 9 minutes ago, Chewbacca said:
    35 minutes ago, SimonBolivar said:
    My Trump friends/family have full shifted to "I vote for the policy not the man" position in public.

    I would ask them what the policies are. Republicans have no policy other than fascism and owning the libs.

    Baptist shit usually 

  4. I had a couple of miniature dachshunds that killed a chicken that jumped over our back fence when I was a kid. The neighbor behind us that had the chickens just laughed and told us that he was sorry about all of the feathers. I had no idea that my life was in danger everyday as a child with those killers around.

     

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  5. 10 minutes ago, BamaATL said:

     all of them have to know it's long odds.

    Yeah that's what they told John Tyler too (well not really, he was questioned pretty toughly by Dems because everyone knew ole Tippecanoe was old as shit)

  6. 3 minutes ago, rage-a-holic said:

    It's pretty hard to arrange to pick her up and go have sex if you can't get her on the phone.

    But maybe you weren't into that, no judgements here.

    Our HS made it easy with hour lunches and no restrictions on leaving campus. I lived .8 miles from school so it was like a dream my Junior and Senior year. 

     

    I remember one time my parents were off work (unbeknownst to me) and had left to get lunch of their own and came back right when we were in the middle. Luckily we had locked the garage door so it wasn't too traumatizing on them. Well 3 minutes later I open the door and they're hot wondering why the door was locked and why she was wearing one of my old shirts.  They told me I was grounded indefinitely, well two days later was Friday night and I asked them if I could go out with her and they just said, "have fun."

     

    I'm pretty sure they were just relieved that I had a gf at that point.

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  7. 23 minutes ago, rage-a-holic said:

    I absolutely will never miss trying to call a girl and not being able to get through because her dumbshit fugly band nerd stepsister is on the phone for 6 hours talking band nerd shit with her fugly band nerd buddies. Stepfather thought call waiting was a luxury they didn't need.

    Once we started dating, she told her mom that if her stepsister was gonna hog the phone all fucking day, she was just gonna spend all her free time with me.

    They somehow found the money for a 2nd phone line after we had been dating for a few months....in exchange for her spending as little time with me as possible.

    A girlfriend that you couldn't talk to on the phone because it was busy all the time? I would've loved that shit.

     

    "Oh sorry I tried calling but it was busy. Anyway, your place or mine on lunch break?"

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