Republican Speaker of the House Mike Johnson, in his first remarks after being elected Wednesday afternoon, told Members of Congress that “Scripture” and “the Bible” are clear that they have been “ordained” by God.
God bless America, and no place else
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You know, 80 years ago, we used to kill Nazis. Well, until we let the smart ones who built rockets and bombs come live here.
I feel like even the smart ones who built rockets and bombs saw us killing nazis and were like “yeah that’s probably for the best”
They were inspired by our fascists. Bringing them here change things so little that even the number of fascists overall in the United States and barely had a bump in their growth.
Sadly, true.
A lot of Nazis, the high ranking ones, fucked off to Venezuela and other places when they saw the end in sight and knew their necks were on the line (literally in some cases) if caught. I can imagine some used their stolen wealth to continue that brand of hate for the last 80+ years. “The smart ones” were intentionally sabotaging the Nazi war effort and defecting to the Allies with information on the Nazis’ attempts at nuclear weapons. A lot of those scientists were never allowed to leave or live past the end of the war in Nazi Germany.
It’s a multinational crime syndicate masquerading as a political party.
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Ok that gave me a chuckle, nicely written
Well, at least we’re not killing it in the womb—the only unacceptable place to kill things. Let’s just deprive it of education and healthcare.
Let’s just deprive it of education
Already done.
I read that in John Stewart’s voice.
He did it. He said the magic words that turn on a neverending money tap from “christian” conservatives who aren’t smart enough to tell when they’re getting grifted.
Well, that’s because they’ve been indoctrinated since birth into a cult that exists to gift people.
Again, what is the difference between this and Taliban?
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Yeah? He sure took his sweet fucking time as well, didn’t he? Oh, right. “Mysterious ways.”
Nutjob.
“I believe that Scripture, the Bible is very clear that God is the one that raises up those in authority.”
Oh, so since God raised Biden to Authority that means you’re going to respect God’s plan right?
Lol… Yeah… You’ll all continue to pay lip service to the Bible as long as it serves your purpose.
What do you expect when your government is comprised of a bunch of greedy scummy lawyers.
They will say literally anything to get power. Speech is rhetoric and they care nothing about reality.
Yeah. This sort of talk in a lot of organized religion is a well-established cue to the listener that they can shut off their critical thinking. The intended audience is accustomed to hearing it and welcomes it, because they have the same goal as the one who says it: to have the thing they want be right.
So their minds don’t start extrapolating to see if the words hold up to scrutiny. That’s the last thing they’d want to do.
I move to change
pay lip service to to manipulate and contort
Especially considering religious leaders are taking Jesus OUT if their sermons because he is too liberal for them.
If you take Jesus out aren’t you just back to Judaism?
I read this as a Judas joke which I loved, hopefully I wasn’t correct or my comment is dumb for pointing out the obvious. Lol
You still have Paul?
Gods I hate that guy. Why so many people don’t question why they should listen uncritically to the guy who hit his head on a rock and hallucinated Jesus and used the whole thing as a thinly veiled reason to tell people how to behave is just…
I am sorry but I think you are a woman and I don’t permit you to preach or led me. Go ask your husband at home to explain it to you.
Now if you ask me I have a convoluted manifesto to write about the humanity of Jesus that proves that I can eat bacon. Let me send you 90 letters on the topic.
Ah well, half right. I definitely have a husband but am also not a woman so I think I am probably disqualified from discourse on other stupid rules that Paul completely made up.
You got any extra bacon to share though?
Ah well, half right. I definitely have a husband but am also not a woman
Bad news about that. He singled out the LGBT freaken twice for hell fire. Lived in a world where slaves could be executed on a whim and this is the group he decided to go after.
You got any extra bacon to share though?
I would but Paul told me I would die if I didn’t give him all my bacon.
I think they are aiming to be left with capitalism.
yeah? and so he’s a republican. what else ya got, none of this is surprising, and after the last 7 years, in any way any more frightening than it’s been to this point. we vote democrat, and we tell our friends and family to vote democrat, and we hope we can hold the line, and push it back a bit. i mean, we lost roe. what american women are doing going to work, raising families, going home to prepare meals, and just you know going on with their lives when the fundamental right to ownership over their own reproductive systems was legislated away, is beyond beyond understanding.
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RBG’s legacy.
There was it was in 2016 when people thought Hillary was crooked.
He did a fair amount of shady shit in the shadows and let other people be the face of it
I wonder how he’s going to deal with actually being in the spotlight (other than drying his tears with money)
They feel Romans 13:1 applies when these assholes get power; doesn’t apply when they lose power
You think he’ll be singing the same tune when his speakership inevitably crashes and burns?
Do not underestimate them. They have gained more and more power while everyone said they were dying and collapsing.
Somebody get me outta this backwards country 🥺
We’re either almost on the other side of the critical failure of trumpism, or we’re about to fulfill our destiny to actualize idiocracy.
I give it 50/50 odds either way…
Christ on bike how bad is it that idocracy is better outcome
Feels more like the prequel to A Handmaid’s Tale, tbh.
You can do it - I did.
- Find a skill in need in Europe (preferably richer Northern) or rich places like Singapore where the QoL is worth moving
- Sell everything or save the equiv of 2-3 months of salary for settling-in expenses
- Write to headhunters, businesses…anyone posting a job in your field; see if they can assist you with an apartment so you can land with a place to live (note: nothing comes furnished - no carpet paint, appliances…my apartment even needed wall switches)
- Move there with everything you now own in 2-3 bags
- Rebuild your life slowly: learn the language, learn to love Ikea - you’ll be there a lot, learn that you can’t get what you used to love to eat so you’ll have to learn to cook to make it, learn to live as an immigrant, with everyone wanting to know why you’re there, without full rights, and with constant intrusion of the immigration services.
Yeah - sounds like a pain. 25+ years later, it’s been worth it to get the hell out of New Jersey.
Find a skill in need in Europe (preferably richer Northern) or rich places like Singapore where the QoL is worth moving
Oh is that all? So easy. Just find a skill. They grown on trees.
Oh is that all? So easy. Just find a skill. They grown on trees.
Well, if you’re looking on trees, that explains a bit.
But seriously - I hated my job in ‘94, picked up a book in HTML, and within 6 months was able to get a job at a web startup. By ‘98 I was able find a job in The Netherlands and move here literally a month later.
I know of financial analysts, accountants, designers, plumbers, builders, nurses - all from outside the EU, moving here. About 80% have gone back, but that 3-5 year window gave them plenty of experience and an external view of what they REALLY wanted for their future.
You can do it, but you have to know what you want, where you want to go and especially, what the market needs.
No. You can do it. And you know other people who have done it because they live there too. Not because they were able to change skillsets and find one Europeans want.
This is the same mentality as “if you don’t like your job, just start up a small business.”
This is not achievable by anyone.
Exactly. So don’t even try. More places for the rest of us.
Heh. I was trying to be encouraging but clearly you’re not here for information. Not sure why you decided to stick your nose in and tell the world why you’re so fatalistic, but from the number of immigrants who go to Europe or North America or Asia yearly, and become successful in their moves, it can be done.
Let’s face it. You just don’t want to bother.
Edit: moved from NJ to Colorado to here, after nearly a decade, finally invested in an apartment and will sell it at 2.25x what I paid for it, and will in retire soon to Bali.
But you just keep telling yourself that this can’t be done… 👍
Dude gave up before they even started. Definitely can’t do it with that mentality.
Well, you know me better than I do.
To be fair, in your other comment you stated that you got in on Web Development before the first dot com bubble burst. With the years listed you could also have easily made bank with Y2K consultancy work around that time as well, as many in the tech sphere in that time did.
Defeatism and people who give up before they’ve started is bullshit, but you should also take some time to reflect on the factors external to your own efforts that had considerable impact on your own success.
The first step is trying, but at least half of the impact of anyone’s effort is dependent on situations outside of their own control. The key is to not stop trying, and to do all you can to pivot into situations beneficial to you and away from those that aren’t. Much easier said than done.
Fair enough - there have been a couple of times I probably could have “made bank”, but I’m not a visionary that way, and I’ve done well enough to be happy.
I lost the want to be rich. I’m well off enough and secure enough to not pine over missed opportunities. I’ve also learned to look for less in life, because it became readily apparent that, for me, More was not Better.
I think the thing to also consider is that when you enter a new country, you really start all over. When I left the US, I had maybe $10K to my name and I had to rebuild my credit rating, get work papers so I could (after 6 years) leave the job I was let into the country for and go to another one without being tossed out of the country in the process. Getting out from under whatever oppression I felt living in the US was the most massive success I’ve had.
Here, I wasn’t bound by conventions, and when people said “we don’t do that”, I still had the freedom of mind to try anyway. There’s a great benefit to reinventing yourself occasionally, and forgetting your own (or imposed) limitations. Once I learned I could navigate my new country, I explored Europe, then Asia and generally on my own - and I felt more confident than I ever previously had.
As well, there’s affordable care, a social support system where you can be on unemployment for nearly a year without losing your home or going hungry, and a work ethic that says “work well, not hard - and take time for yourself”. It was an eye opener.
You’re right - the first step is trying, but keep stepping after that. Learning to keep adapting and that it will never end - it’s a superpower if you use to better yourself and your goals.
TL;DR: I seriously hit the RESET making my move, but the growth experience ended up being far more worthwhile than cashing out. I still work, but I’m more relaxed, have formidable savings and health care and will retire well off enough to never want.
Not only before the.com bubble burst. But even having a PC at a time when most people didn’t have a PC. Let alone access to the internet and even the awareness that learning HTML would be a good idea. Guy has so much privilege that he’s just ignoring. It’s pretty insulting.
Plenty of people would never have had that opportunity regardless of how hard they worked. And every one of us that moves away only makes it harder for those that stay. I’ll congratulate the people that do it on the situation that they managed to work out for themselves. But they should rightfully expect ire form others. Flaunting privilege like that.
Prove it. Say something Dutch! I dare you!
Gotver!
That probably checks out!
Depending on how much family/real estate you have, moving out of the US isn’t as difficult as you might intuitively think it’d be. At least not to other english-speaking countries like Canada, the UK or Ireland. Though do keep in mind that with the UK you’re hardly making your situation any better, yes on paper you get public health care and it’s still worlds better than the US, but it’s in such shambles you don’t want to rely on it. Tories! 🥳 🤢
But even outside of that, moving to some other countries such as France or Germany depending on your language skills isn’t as problematic as it was even 10 years ago any more, either. While these are still largely language dependent, a lot has internationalized in larger cities and having to rely on some english is no longer a big deal.
Canada’s not doing much better mate but we’re hanging in there. Til our next election I guess.
Yeah I know, Germany is swinging far stupid-right, too. It’s shit everywhere, but it’s still better than in the US.
The world follows the US’s lead. When the US took a hard right turn after 9/11, europe slowly started following. I can’t believe it has taken the US this long to rebound, (granted gerrymandering for the last 13 years has drastically slowed it). As the US rebounds, europe will too, slowly.
Are we rebounding? It feels like the downwards slide is continuing.
Sitting at the bottom I hope, waiting for shift to happen.
What the fuck is this dipshit on about?
LoL! My sentiment exactly.
Also, “I’m in danger.”
I aint ordained shit.
Quetiapine 50mg, twice per day. Increase dosage if voices persist
That’s way to low of a dose for hallucinations.
Start with 300mg XR and up the dose of necessary
Jesus Fuck! I was put on 10mg for a month and it turned me into a fucking mindless zombie. 300mg would comatose me.
Probably the point?
I think you’re misremembering. 25mg is the lowest dose for quetiapine
Yes it did have that effect too! My memory of the month is fuzzy at-best. So it would have been 25mg. It was the lowest dose. I remember halving it after the first day it was so strong. :/
