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The Brain

Quote from: grumbler on October 14, 2021, 06:52:25 PM
Quote from: The Brain on October 14, 2021, 05:28:40 PM
Yeah, in the US every news outlet that supports democracy is by definition left-wing.

This is so unfortunately true.  :cry:

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.
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Syt

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Proud owner of 42 Zoupa Points.

Zanza

Quote from: Syt


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

Eddie Teach

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

Quote from: Barrister on October 14, 2021, 05:02:04 PM
Quote from: Jacob on October 14, 2021, 04:51:39 PM
Quote from: Barrister on October 14, 2021, 04:44:51 PM
... 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

I am, somehow, less interested in the weight and convolutions of Einstein's brain than in the near certainty that people of equal talent have lived and died in cotton fields and sweatshops.
—Stephen Jay Gould

Proud owner of 42 Zoupa Points.

garbon



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

Why is Jesus giving out candy to child laborers?

Disturbing theology.
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The Brain

Tbf though they have apparently lost Jesus.
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PDH

Quote from: garbon on October 18, 2021, 07:32:41 AM
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...
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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.
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Valmy

Quote from: Tyr on October 18, 2021, 09:39:01 AM
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?

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HVC

Quote from: PDH on October 18, 2021, 09:33:13 AM
Quote from: garbon on October 18, 2021, 07:32:41 AM
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!
Being lazy is bad; unless you still get what you want, then it's called "patience".
Hubris must be punished. Severely.

HVC

Quote from: Valmy on October 18, 2021, 09:48:25 AM
Quote from: Tyr on October 18, 2021, 09:39:01 AM
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.
Being lazy is bad; unless you still get what you want, then it's called "patience".
Hubris must be punished. Severely.

grumbler

Quote from: Valmy on October 18, 2021, 09:48:25 AM
Quote from: Tyr on October 18, 2021, 09:39:01 AM
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.
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