I walk around 15000 (Rounding slightly down seems better than rounding a lot up) steps every day and live off porridge, how am I still fat. 😡

I bounced hard off battle tech when someone told me a significant part was the honorable military coming back to fix the universe, and then later I heard one of the big authors of the setting turned out to be a fascist.

Unsurprising really. They were always going to use whatever law enforcement arm they could to do fascism. The best we can ever hope for from cops is quitting

Here’s a thing I bet you didn’t know. Nokia has won 3 Emmies since 2016

I think you’ll find that original sin fits perfectly within a Christian framework

Jews brought Jesus to the Romans in the bible. Jewish religious authorities asked the Romans to judge and kill him. The idea is then that for this sin the Jews are forever guilty. Sort of like an extra ethnic original sin. Judas does get roped into some antisemitism stuff, but usually not the biblical stuff since all the disciples were Jews.

In the narrative we get jesus is accused by Jews (The pharisees) and brought to trial to be judged by Pontius Pilate who washes his hand of the affair leaving it to the Jews, they are then offered that either Jesus or someone else (I think Barnabas, but it’s been a while since I cared about biblical stuff) be spared and the Jews pick the other guy. The Romans are therefore seen as a tool by which the Jews kill Jesus by some, or at least partly guilty. I’m not advocating for this view, I’m explaining

Basically

see there you go. Remember we are dealing with a ruling class who think getting industrial goods in return for an IOU is a rip off on behalf of the IOU writer. There is a layer of obfuscation between the money and the American government and that is why they’re mad currently. I am saying it is odd that they have not discovered that they can just ask for money directly by means of threats.

Sure that’s already indirectly a thing

The point is not that the US isn’t extracting value from their client state, the point is that current US leadership is venal enough that they would desire a direct extraction of species.

I don’t know why they haven’t stumbled into the idea of tributary nations. Sure that’s already indirectly a thing. But you can’t tell me it doesn’t appeal to Trump to demand protection money directly.

Pope Calzonesquare

when we go high she farts low

in all possible situation involving me assume incompetence. Not just before malice, just assume incompetence

That’s not news, that’s olds

For some reason my brain read that last word as “Though” as if you were objecting. This is entirely my bad

In a post drag queen world you are telling me males can’t be divas i can’t read

That’s JD “Pope killer” Vance.

Did this deceased pope do the things I accuse him of, or did he not? Are the victims of systemic child abuse by the Catholic Church liars?
If you think the victims aren’t liars, then your objection here is irrelevant. Francis oversaw the systemic cover up of pedophilia, calling him a “pedopope” is just a statement of fact.
If you are calling the victims liars, then you can go fuck yourself.

It is valid to highlight the good done by Christians and the ways in which Christians can support and be a part of a socialist project, but I don’t think it’s necessary to pretend that the new testament is inherent socialist to do so.

It is not bigoted to call Francis out for his sanctioning of the pedophile cover ups, and his refusal to even allow the punishment of known child abusers (Nevermind punishing them himself, he sanctioned the intervention on their behalf to get them out of punishment). If a Christian is offended by someone pointing out that Francis didn’t do anything to end the church’s official doctrine of covering up sex crimes on behalf of its members, then quite frankly fuck that Christian, but fuck that Christian in particular. Most people, I suspect most catholics too, don’t think the pope should cover up pedophilia, and it is something over which the papacy and Francis himself has been criticised BY CATHOLICS, and pretending that isn’t the case is indicirectly accusing every Catholic of a crime of which they are not guilty.