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Context for the title, in case you’re wondering: https://archive.is/UL7jK

130 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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42 points

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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6 points

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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2 points

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

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3 points

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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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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8 points

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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1 point

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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3 points

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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3 points

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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4 points

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

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40 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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20 points

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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5 points

Literally homeless crushing machine

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34 points

Kinda surprised Americans don’t worship Constantine.

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25 points

If they cared about history before 1776 they would.

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12 points

The world was created only about 3000 years ago. There was no world before AMERICA

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3 points

Isn’t that the name of the Keanu Reeves movie about the guy who killed himself and now he’s damned for all time and works for the Church, and the Archangel Gabriel was there, but he was played by a woman who kinda looks like the “perfect” chick from Fifth Element?

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Comparing Tilda Swinton to Mila Jovavich is an interesting choice.

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2 points

Blame the autistic facial blindness that I have

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3 points

“angels” are not male or female

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25 points

What would Jesus do

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22 points

Jesus turns water into wine. The human body is 70% water. Earth is like 60% water. Jesus was an alcoholic.

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17 points

TIL Jesus was probably 70% wine instead of 70% water

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7 points

…huh. Is that why he kept so well?

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3 points

I used to be the same but then I sobered up somewhat and now I’m only 10% wine. (depending on the day… usually 0%! Sometimes 90%…)

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6 points

Does that mean Jesus could cause people to become intoxicated? Assuming he can control how much of the water gets turned into wine so he doesn’t just immediately kill the person he could pull off some fun pranks.

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10 points

I mean…thats how I took it when I went to catholic school.

Also in catholic school, they never did answer the question of why we drank jesus’s blood, and ate his body. Why is that ok? And how did we STILL have so much left to go around so many centuries after his death?

These answers went unanswered to me in 2nd grade. I did get to hang out in the principals office though.

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I think it means he could cause you to dissolve into a puddle of booze.

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