Facebook Follies of Friends and Families

[The Brain]

Yeah, in the US every news outlet that supports democracy is by definition left-wing.

This is so unfortunately true. 

Pretty much every dystopian nightmare issue that I claimed two years ago could not happen has happened.

You kind of feel like you're in a Twilight Zone episode. Sans cool shit.

[Syt]

[Zanza]

Narrator: "History quickly forgot this unremarkable weekend..."

[Eddie Teach]

Hey, Taylor Swift should rank a lot higher than 2932.

[Zoupa]

... I do regularly check a few obvious right-wing AND left-wing sites just so I get a sense of what different sides are talking about.

Anything you can recommend (right and left)?

There's a real lack of decent Canadian right or left sites - if you have any please suggest.

Uh totally agree. I read La Press in french, but they rarely have any national stories. For US stuff I mainly check The Hill. It's a barebones kind of reporting, which I like: "This is what happened", no fluff.

France stuff I go to France24, mainly because the rest of sites have paywalls up now.

Anyway, the lack of in-depth, rigorous journalism outlets in Canada is annoying (to me).

[Syt]

[garbon]

Though as from twitter don't know if real or a parody.

[The Minsky Moment]

Why is Jesus giving out candy to child laborers?

Disturbing theology.

[The Brain]

Tbf though they have apparently lost Jesus.

[PDH]

Though as from twitter don't know if real or a parody.

I lived in a place once where my neighbors a few doors down had signs like this - they also screamed at the kids trick or treating in other parts of the neighborhood.  Every year the cops had to come and tell them that the kids could indeed use the sidewalk to get from house to house...

[Josquius]

Negative points for randomly throwing the word socialist into something irrelevant.
Bonus points for at least being consistent with their theology. If you're a by the book fire and brimstone Christian then you totally shouldn't be getting involved with haloween or modern christmas or any of that sort of thing.

[Valmy]

Negative points for randomly throwing the word socialist into something irrelevant.
Bonus points for at least being consistent with their theology. If you're a by the book fire and brimstone Christian then you totally shouldn't be getting involved with haloween or modern christmas or any of that sort of thing.

What a bunch of bullshit. Why shouldn't you? Are you some kind of fringe cult apologist? Any scriptures that say you can't celebrate Christmas or Halloween you want to present to me?

[HVC]

Though as from twitter don't know if real or a parody.

I lived in a place once where my neighbors a few doors down had signs like this - they also screamed at the kids trick or treating in other parts of the neighborhood.  Every year the cops had to come and tell them that the kids could indeed use the sidewalk to get from house to house...

But their taxes pay for those sidewalks. that should give them the right to dictate who uses them!

[HVC]

Negative points for randomly throwing the word socialist into something irrelevant.
Bonus points for at least being consistent with their theology. If you're a by the book fire and brimstone Christian then you totally shouldn't be getting involved with haloween or modern christmas or any of that sort of thing.

What a bunch of bullshit. Why shouldn't you? Are you some kind of fringe cult apologist? Any scriptures that say you can't celebrate Christmas or Halloween you want to present to me?

does dressing up as fictional character count as idol worship? serious question.

[grumbler]

Negative points for randomly throwing the word socialist into something irrelevant.
Bonus points for at least being consistent with their theology. If you're a by the book fire and brimstone Christian then you totally shouldn't be getting involved with haloween or modern christmas or any of that sort of thing.

What a bunch of bullshit. Why shouldn't you? Are you some kind of fringe cult apologist? Any scriptures that say you can't celebrate Christmas or Halloween you want to present to me?

Fire and brimstone Christians do not believe that anything not banned by Scripture is permitted, so your argument about " [a]ny scriptures that say you can't celebrate Christmas or Halloween?" is irrelevant.

A number of fundamentalist religions recognize that Christmas and Easter are dressed-up pagan holidays and don't celebrate them (religiously, at any rate).  Halloween isn't even a dressed-up pagan ritual.