Well, the rest of the country wants him to shut up about it AND stop wasting time and money on it.

No, no, no…the Democrats must just unilaterally disarm, you see.

LOL, is he gonna try yelling about who has “cards” again?

Seems to me that dozey don is ruled by Netanyahu and Putin.

I like it when Pumpkinhead pretends it was all the idea of other people, no big deal, etc. People just love him so much, he doesn’t even get why they’d do it, yadda yadda.

Deep down, this asshole is trying to slap his name on stuff and build stuff associated with him because he fucking knows that no one is going to be building anything in his name after he’s out of there.

All the apparatchiks clap and bow and scrape because they want to make money or have power, etc. I’m sure most of them loathe him.

No one loves this asshole except for the dumbfucks buying his stupid gear, and those people have shit for brains and very few have any power or money…

That article didn’t seem to have video of the removal.

I mean, I always think the creationists, especially young earth, are exasperating. But at least with their beliefs, there is not a direct line to doing something that causes themselves and society harm.

With this, it’s a straight line.

Yes, it’s this exactly. Again, I’m not in the field, but I definitely have noticed it seems to be a real thing, both online and off.

Now, it could be that these people are getting told they also have narcissism, Machiavellianism, and/or psychopathy in addition to something else like autism. That’s if they get diagnosed by actual (ethical) professionals in the first place.

Because even with those traits, you are probably going to be savvy enough not to broadcast the dark triad, and with those traits, you are not likely to want to work on addressing them. You certainly are not going to pre-warn potential future victims.

The other thing I’ve tended to notice is that it seems lots of armchair diagnostics being made about almost any man who has almost any hobby that is not sportsball or hunting or fishing - “he’s probably on the spectrum”. I mean…wut.

And don’t get me started on the (mostly men it seems) that get accused of being an asshole, self-diagnosing and saying that they may have Asperger’s. Uh, no, the problem is most likely you have to work on your empathy.

All this armchair diagnosing is rather hilarious if it weren’t for all the harm it’s probably causing.

In my experience, nearly every xtian denomination thinks they are better than other sects. Otherwise, why would they choose that particular lifestyle brand?

Also: I remember my amusement when I first learned that LDS refer to outsiders, including non-Mormon xtians and Jews, as “gentiles”.

What part of atheism is dangerous? They just don’t believe in a god(s).

Also, what qualifies as “New Atheist” and why is it cringe? I’m not familiar with Terry Eagleton - is he part of the New Atheists or is he some critic of it?

This is the way. You’ll see some people get red-faced over the “Nicene creed” and so on.

Bringing up the Nicene creed is not really quite the flex that some xtians seemingly think that it is, though. If anything it only serves to highlight all the problems of trying to define something like “True Christianity”.

First of all, it’s clear the fractures were coming very early. Also, they apparently had to vote on what is alleged to be revealed holy scriptures, and what they mean.

This is all rather problematic. You’d think a divine creature(s) would be able to construct a way to know what is absolutely, without question and without debate, what is the real, unaltered true original texts (something like a digital signature for example) and how to interpret it.

We definitely do not have that. Instead we have endless centuries of scribblings from apologists, lots of violence and schisms and declarations of heresy and apostasy.

Unitarian Universalists

We are kind of interested in joining up as a family, and it’s more about the community than any kind of doctrine.

Personally, I’d probably join a pagan/OTO thing but that might not be the best model for the kids, LOL.

One of my favorite stories about the UU, though, was that someone said they learned how to read Tarot at one of the church events as a teenager - and later became a Wiccan or pagan, I forget which. I’m picturing some of the church ladies I know/have known and thinking how they’d react to the divination stuff. Never mind later becoming a literal pagan.

Right? I find it interesting how certain xtians are certain that other xtians are not “real” xtians. Most especially when the xtians that seem to be most certain that they are the real xtians seem more like Paulians when you look a lot closer at what they emphasize…and Paul never even met the character of Jesus from their text!

I personally find it all rather wild. BTW, I was raised as an xtian, at least nominally. Also, my parents and just about everyone I knew viewed LDS with very much side-eye.

The point is that virtually all of this stuff is made up. When people are like, bu-bu-but the Mormons say that Mormon men can have their very own planet where they are a god - I can only shrug. They worship the same guy, though, and you guys are all making unprovable claims, sooooo this sounds like a real playground “but MY dad can beat up YOUR dad!” kind of thing to those of us that reject it…

It’s gonna be so fun to have a so-called “government” increasingly getting into the business of the No True Scotsman, er Xtian, game…

Look, I’m not expert and have no training, but I’ve noticed that a rather large amount of people online - mostly women - seem to self-diagnose things that will give them what they think is victimhood, but don’t seem to diagnose with things viewed generally negatively:

Meaning, you don’t see people claiming (admitting) they are afflicted with dark triad traits, for instance. Very interesting…no, it’s the things that are currently considered more fashionable to have: anxiety, OCD, being on the spectrum, etc…

I’d say the people that most need to get therapy are not getting properly dealt with, based on many of my IRL interactions. Some of them are IN therapy or what have you, but it seems they are only there to have their dark triad traits ignored/validated and told they are “victims” of something else. This seems to be causing a wake of damage around them, by the way, because if anything they seem to becoming less well-adapted adults, and more like coddled children with a victim complex to boot.

I think the people with dark triad traits are just flying under the radar as far as having it managed. I bet most people around them if they are honest with themselves, fully realize the issue(s) though.

Sorry to hear that. Most of the people I know tend to know have shifted more toward reactionary centrist territory - if they admitted to voting for him at all.

The people that still support him? We don’t interact with them so very much any more. Not by accident.

Why do these assclowns always end up cherrypicking some vanishingly small set of studies? Does it ever occur to them why the overwhelming evidence goes the other way?

I wonder how many are just stubborn contrarians, always needing to swim upstream because they think it looks cool. I realize that people like Brainworm here also look to monetize it, too, so I don’t really think they actually believe it. Hard to say in his case.

Why do these assclowns always end up cherrypicking some vanishingly small set of studies? Does it ever occur to them why the overwhelming evidence goes the other way?

I wonder how many are just stubborn contrarians, always needing to swim upstream because they think it looks cool. I realize that people like Brainworm here also look to monetize it, too, so I don’t really think they actually believe it. Hard to say in his case.

They’ve always been so good at this.

Well, he’s also a big fan of walls, so it kinda tracks.

LOL, “trump class”

Is that something that is plated in fake gold and utterly tacky, gross, outdated and generally useless?