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8 points

If Jesus showed up he would be considered a radical woke liberal.

“Love your neighbor” somehow became report your neighbor to ICE

To be fair to Trump, ideology is always co-opted and interpreted however convenient. The Nazis were “socialist” after all. NK is a people’s republic. etc

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129 points

Country that has never once given a shit about fire codes suddenly discovers an excuse to arbitrarily emiserate dozens of people.

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This is a lot like how our government is all concerned about National Security™ when it comes to pretty much anything else, but a bipartisan bill, supported by both of the last 2 presidents, and upheld unanimously by our current dysfunctional Supreme Court, with National Security™ as the excuse, and we still have Tiktok.

Laws are only there so the ruling class can keep us in line and them in power, and they will never be enforced homogenously.

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People will say “I don’t need God in my life to be a good person” out one side of their mouth, while out the other say, “People need laws and the state to be a good person.” I’m an atheist just like them, I just go one god further.

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Exactly what do you thinks fines do! If you’re rich, fines don’t matter… if you’re poor, go to jail for not being able to pay a fine.

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We only ever got rid of debtor’s prison in name.

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Amazing how hard Dems worked to turn TikTok into another far right media platform.

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3 points

You seem easily distracted

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7 points

I’d love to talk shit about the current administration too, but I’ve been in buildings where fire inspectors would cut off the power cords of any space heaters they found because they violated code.

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The people who hire the fire inspectors don’t actually care, but the fire inspectors do. Probably because they’ve smelled far more charred human flesh than anyone should.

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I’ve never seen a fire inspector in any building I’ve worked in. Twenty five years on the job and it’s never happened.

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7 points

I believe you, but your anecdote isn’t really evidence of anything.

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And I’ve personally witnessed the fire marshal annually inspect my last 3 jobs. I may not have been present for the inspections at other jobs.

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I’ve been working about ~15 years and every job I’ve ever had I’ve seen a fire inspector about 6 times

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4 points

Probably should give a shit about fire codes everywhere else too tbqh

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38 points

Reminds me of that story a couple of days ago about the homeless guy that got ran over by a bulldozer when they cleared out his tent to tidy up the city for MLK day. Nothing says you admire MLK like killing some poors, right?

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And it happened in Atlanta, near Ebenezer Church of all places

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Par for the course for Atlanta though, isn’t it? The only thing worse than driving through that city is living there.

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7 points

Imagine having to be a Falcons fan dear god

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4 points

Literally homeless crushing machine

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And then they discovered the true meaning of Christianity, not a story about the son of the Creator preaching and living faith, charity and humility, but a scheme to blame the murder of that prophet which was committed by the Romans who founded the church, on the ethnic group the prophet came from, the Jewish group which was historically enslaved and persecuted by the Romans.

The biggest myth in the bible isn’t whether Jesus existed, or Adam and Eve ate of the fruit, tricked by the serpent (although establishing the reason for humanity’s inherent evil, the whole justification for religious belief itself, according to some, is a big one). The biggest myth is the one that makes you the main perpetrator of your own suffering, while the victimizers live in palaces and mansions where most suffering can never touch them.

We should have listened when Nietzsche said “God is dead, and we have killed him.” If we had listened maybe we would have asked what had replaced him. And if someone says “nothing” then they still believe the biggest myths of the bible.

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