What a lot of liberals don’t get about leftists criticizing the Democrats is that it isn’t “both sides are bad”. We criticize them because they’re lauded as saviors of the common people due to their occasional, surface level platitudes and vague gestures toward “progress”. Meanwhile, 20% of the Democrats in the house just fucking pimped us out to the surveillance state (for like the 500th time) and nobodys taking about it. The only thing you had to say about it was “well it wasnt ALL of them”

Y’all get defensive because deep down you know the Democrats are never going to save us or even stem the tide, but they’re the systems “solution” to the fascist problem so bygolly were just gonna keep “voting blue no matter who” until the country is “”““fixed””“” again. It’s a narrow, misinformed, and foolish perspective that deprioritizes everything but elections and tribalism.

I can’t speak for every leftist, but the ones I know and the spaces I run in outside of this godforsaken site don’t want to talk about the Democrats, they don’t want to talk electoral politics, they don’t want to both sides every little thing. But most liberals only seem to be capable of seeing politics through the party system, so we’re left having the conversation on your terms, which inevitably turns to criticism of the Democrats and y’all being a bunch of fucking crybullies about the slightest, most surface level critique of the party. Electoralism is a distraction, and we’re all falling for it.

I’m not saying don’t vote. I’m saying your mind is made up already, you know how you’re gonna vote, you know that your options are terrible, you know why you won’t be voting for the other side, you know what the fascists are up to. Why are we wasting so much energy chirping at each other when we could be active in the streets, supporting our communities, and building alternative systems that sidestep the two party system entirely? Why aren’t we talking about those things? Why aren’t we doing them? Plenty of people already are, we’re just waiting for pleading with the libs to get the fucking hint and actually do something for once

https://truthout.org/articles/42-house-democrats-join-gop-in-passing-warrantless-mass-surveillance-bill/

Mickey7s been at it for well over a year, I doubt the hornyposting is going anywhere lol

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It is, and yes it is lol

🤷 that’s a christian-to-christian thing to determine. I’d love for that to be the case, but seeing as most Christian organizations are perfectly fine with the status quo, I don’t see that changing any time soon. Also, Martin Luther was a trash bag for plenty of reasons, I don’t see any point in seeking to align oneself with a raging misogynist, antisemite, and author of “Against the Murderous, Theiving Hordes of Peasants”, which was written in response to the German peasants war. Valid criticisms or not, the dude sucked and bred a religious movement that was just as bigoted, bloodthirsty, and money hungry as the catholics he was protesting

You’re right, I was just using that to highlight the differences between American and European protestant churches. Most american churches have ~75 congregants and are fairly small operations run out of buildings that weren’t built with the intention to be a church. As such, they usually lack the aesthetics associated with churches.

And to be fair, I’ve never been to a European protestant (of any variety) church, there’s a cultural image in america of what the average European church looks like, and it’s usually an older brick/stone building with high ceilings and round/arched windows, built with the intention of being a church. Many suburban american churches (this is where the folding chair trope comes from) looks more like this:

And this is a really nice example too, I had trouble finding one that reflected the true reality of many of these smaller churches.

Despite being called “non-denominational”, non-denominational christians are a broad group of independent churches and spiritual movements that fall under the protestant tradition. They aren’t a part of larger, more organized subsect of protestant like the baptists or lutherans, but their non-denominational-ism refers to not being a part of/neatly defined by an organized denomination of protestantism. Non-denominational Christianity can even be a nucleation point for new denominations, like the burgeoning evangelical movement that’s become a driving force in the fall of the american empire

Plenty of protestant denominations have lost the plot on the whole “protesting” bit. Joel osteen and Kenneth Copeland’s churches are considered to be in the protestant vein of christianity and their whole thing is flaunting wealth and having big, expensive churches. Whether they should be considered protestant is for the various flavors of protestant to decide. As far as I’m aware, there’s no broad consensus that defines protestantism besides “likes martin luther”, and “hates catholics*”

The post is referring to american protestant denominations like baptists, evangelicals, presbyterian, etc. as opposed to capital P Protestant churches. They’re usually in smaller buildings that aren’t full-time churches/ the space is often used for non-sermon church functions. For example, my childhood southern Baptist church was based out of a community center room that held ~40 people and hadnt been updated since the 80s

Can confirm, two the Walmarts in my city sell shotguns and bolt action hunting rifles

Sussex pond pudding is alive and well in my cats food bowl

She anal on my ognow til I here

Cow bush

Country: no

Government (depending on your definition): probably

You can shake the baby a little, as a treat

If it exceeds a particular vapor pressure, the ethanol fumes become too rich to explode, just like any other explosive vapor. The high vapor pressures of a still wouldn’t lend themselves well to exploding. Fires, sure. But unless you’re distilling over an open flame and something horribly wrong happens with your still, it’s not very likely to burst into flames. Most small scale hobbyist stills are electric nowadays

Just hopping in to glaze Anker a little bit too. I’ve had their 6ft prime (had to look up the model, 240W charging, 480Mpbs data transfer) braided cable for over a year now. It lives knotted up in my work/school bag. I’m not easy on any of my stuff and it’s worked perfectly and looks as good as new.

When I’m at work the cable is sitting on the floorboard of an ambulance cooking to death because the transmission is directly under the cab and heats the floor up so much I use it to warm my lunch. It’s been ripped out of its spot, stepped on, caught and pulled on things and just generally beaten up and still works great

There’s also pleuritic chest pain, which cen resemble precordial catch but is more severe, can cause the pain to radiate to.your arm or jaw, and gets worse when you inhale. It can happen when you’ve got the flu or some other lung infection and feels an awful lot like a heart attack. In young/healthy people it may not be cause for concern, especially if it only happens once while you’re recovering. But it can also be a sign of severe pneumonia, pulmonary embolism, aortic dissection, lung cancer, and pericarditis. I meant for this to be a fun fact but now I’m realizing it’s more existential horror and health anxiety than educational. Get your chest pain checked out folks