84 points

they’ll what now?

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It just doesn’t get much worse than this stance. The only way it gets worse is when they start saying they’re re-implementing indentured labour laws

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60 points

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9 points

I’m past it. My living philosophy now is nihilistic.

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42 points

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10 points

Every day we stray further from gods light

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You sure ‘bout that? I’m pretty sure he didn’t really bat an eye when slavery was in full swing, hell, if i remember right he actually endorsed it, as much as a fictional character can endorse anything.

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The Christian God is a slaver, not a liberator.

The LORD instructs the Israelites to enslave.

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57 points

Yeah, I gotta get the fuck out of here.

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23 points

It literally gets worse here every day.

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12 points

I have family in titusville and lets jst say the memes ring true, unhinged, completely detached from reality.

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You need to drive everyone else out. We shouldn’t give up on Florida.

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Your sentiment is good but misplaced. The ocean will already do that for us in our lifetime. With any hope, the crazies might go underwater with Florida, but it will most likely disperse them.

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I’m this case, dilution may actually be the solution to pollution…

Probably not, but maybe.

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3 points

You could come to Ohio, things happen here, I promise!

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I know you’re kidding, but I’m almost considering Ohio exactly because of all of the NOTHING* that happens.

*Except that one thing. But I’ll probably be living far away from that.

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3 points

Maybe try lower Illinois then. I can’t think of anything noteworthy that happens there. Lot of open space.

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46 points

Ahhh… The old “replace factual history with ‘belief-ism’” tactic. What’s the saying? “Those who don’t read history are doomed to repeat it”

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28 points

It feels like 1984, unironically.

“Who controls the past controls the future. Who controls the present controls the past.”

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8 points

History doesn’t repeat itself, but it does rhyme a lot.

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45 points

I can’t imagine living with as much insecurity as conservatives face every day

It has to be a nightmare. Maybe that’s why they so mad all the time at the sightest breeze of sanity

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When the only thing that keeps your marriage together is the church and the only thing that keeps you from liking the same sex is god, you keep on fighting.

Source: I know a few of these people…

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Even if you don’t fall into that category, one of the main gotchas of the church is to use one of your most basic biological programmings and tell you it’s a sin. The church teaches that even thinking lustfully about someone is a sin. They tell you that the urge to reproduce is sinful and only they have the cure.

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38 points

Ok, so I know “retarded” is an offensive and outdated term, but I propose we redefine it as “being ignorant, knowing that you are, and stubbornly refusing to make any attempt to fix it”.

Used in a sentence: Ron DeSantis is retarded.

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19 points

Actively working to retard the progress of humanity as a whole, so maybe…retarder?

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Oh that’s good. He’s like a wet blanket for the fire of progress. That’s also what I hear his wife says about him in bed. 🔥🔥

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3 points

I thought that was already defined as, “Republican”.

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Oh, that’s the R word I was thinking of. Duh. Silly me.

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Yes we can do it just like South Park did with the word fag.

People get mad but it’s true. When I get mad I do sometimes call a driver a fag, and the idea of a gay person is nowhere near my thoughts when calling the dumbass driver a fag.

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No, this is not cool. Louis C.K. and South Park were wrong, actually. There are a couple of things wrong with it.

If you’re yelling fag at a straight person, nobody thinks you’re yelling “Hey straight guy, you literally have sex with men!” because that wouldn’t make any sense. What you’re yelling is “You are something bad. You know, like gay people are bad.” That’s why you never hear anyone say, “Hey you cut me off, supermodel!” or “You spilled your drink on me, fireman!” because it’s not a random word after that comma, it’s an insult. So, yelling fag at people who aren’t (necessarily) gay is of course not being homophobic…to the straight person you’re yelling at. It’s being homophobic to the gay people who may or may not have heard it.

Second, the whole premise that you can use slurs and it is up to the target of the slur to figure out if you mean it in the hateful way or the “fun” way is dumb. That’s not how the world works. You can’t go up to a guy in a bar and say, “Your girlfriend is ugly and your mom’s a slut” and then get mad when they take it as an insult. It is not other people’s job to look into your soul and realize that when you’re saying something insulting that you don’t mean it that way. I’m sure you think “it’s just words”, but you probably don’t know what it’s like to be on a public bus and hear murmuring of “faggot” from the seat behind you. Maybe you’re a tough guy and wouldn’t have worried about it, but I had a long thought about what my plan would be if this guy attacked me for being gay. He didn’t, but that fear was still real.

If it makes you feel any better, this is not something that only straight people have to abide by. There’s a great Dead Milkmen song called “Instant Club Hit” that I love. It’s a funny song from the 80s that makes fun of goth culture, but there’s a part where it says “art fag” over and over again. Now I know those guys are cool. When I saw them live in Portland they asked people to donate to a group called Safe Pride PDX. One of the members is gay. Anyway, I scolded my husband once for putting that song on the jukebox at a bar. Not because I think the song is really homophobic, but because some gay guy who doesn’t know this band could be in the bar and all of sudden realize “Oh fuck, the song playing in this bar is saying fag over and over again!” and get nervous that they aren’t safe. So we don’t play that song on the jukebox anymore. And you can think of another thing to yell at people who cut you off in traffic.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hVGhHdRZJZc

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Yeah, I’m not really into that. I’m also not actually advocating for the use of that word. It was more just an elaborate set up for a joke to beat up on a truly vile person for being such unconscionable garbage, you know?

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