Damn, sometimes (because I’m a miscreant) I like to jump into convos or make a comment on them if someone is being really loud about it especially if they’re on the phone with another person.

I mean, I rarely do it because people are crazy but sometimes I can’t stop myself.

There’s a reason it ends with a ? And not a .

Dude definitely has some type of Alzheimer’s or Dementia going on. That’s on top of how much of an idiot he already was and is.

So that tracks.

That AI isn’t going to let you get away with posting beach photos with (I’m guessing) mild nudity or skimpy clothes that are perfectly acceptable attire.

No sir, how dare you!

Oh, well my bad, I didn’t realize mumbo jumbo God land gets a fucking wave off for protecting pedophiles because it’s been that way for a long time.

The state saying, “hey you can’t hide behind the veil of religion to protect the people doing horrible things to children,” is definitely something to argue in court regarding the first amendment.

I’d argue it’s not a restriction of the practice of religion to compell someone with knowledge of child abuse or similarly heinous crimes to share that with an authority (the state) that can take action to protect people.

Setting all that aside. How is it not just wrong on some fundamental level to have the power to halt but still let abuse and pedophilia occur? It just seems wrong.

Maybe that’s why religious participation has been declining. Because they’re busy telling you that it’s sacred to protect pedophiles.

Quick edit:

That’s dogma and the practice/form is in large part a matter of unchangeable doctrine

Emphasis mine. Ok so you’re saying that there is a possibility that dogma and the practice/form can change and has changed. So… Let’s do that.

Bro it’s breaking Catholic canon. They can change that shit that’s what the Pope is for.

Maybe God would be chill with revealing child abuse even if it comes from confession. Just carve a little exception out there. Crazy that the clergy would rather protect pedophiles than reinterpreting some doctrine.

Oh boy, an ad hominem fallacy in the wild, it’s been a whole 5 seconds since I saw one!

Who the hell do you think these mythical Democrats should vote for? Some third party that won’t win and will have a spoiler effect? The GOP whose policies help create the problems you’ve described?

What Republican is running on popular leftist policies? That’s news to me.

You’re right we shouldn’t have to settle. Unfortunately we live in the real world where should doesn’t matter and actions dictate our reality. I’d much rather take a milquetoast centrist that wants to preserve our democracy and important institutions vs a right-wing radical that wants to burn it all down.

Why can’t Democrats do the same, but in the other direction?

They kind of are with AOC and Bernie Sanders on tour but it takes time. Not to mention, for better or worse, there are people trying to do the math of winning/losing voters and who is more or less likely to vote. For now, the DNC “professionals” are betting that they’d turn off more voters than they’d get if they ran further left candidates in more races.

I’m not sure I agree with them or the overall DNC strategy the past decade but the strategy and who they plan to back with money does seem to be moving further left so that’s good.

I’m gonna at least blame the stupid fucks that voted for the orange fat man larping as an early days Mussolini.

Damn, I know everyone else said it too but honestly wtf is this travesty you’ve written. It’s an affront to the comma and maybe to punctuation everywhere. Hell, your “correction” might be an ungodly abomination born of the netherworld sent to break our poor brains.

Dunno, they haven’t released the identity of the “victim” so we don’t know who the driver killed.

I’m not going to go so far as to condone this dad’s behavior, but I can definitely understand it. Police are never held accountable; what else is there to expect than the spread of vigilante violence if the law won’t give us justice?

Even if the deputy that was hit didn’t pull the trigger, they’re part of the institution that’s the problem. So the logic of the dad to target a deputy, even if they aren’t the one that shit his kid, makes sense in a way. I’m sure eventually we’ll know if this deputy was the one who killed the father’s 18 year old son.

Yeah except I would disagree with your interpretation of that text in the modern day context. I don’t believe it supports that.

Are you fucking dumb?

You have to be dumb to vote Trump and think he’d do anything but condone and aid the ongoing genocide in Gaza.

Goddamnit, I know you’re probably a troll or maybe just some misaligned and ignorant fool who doesn’t deserve me shitting on them but like … Come the fuck on.

Can’t decide if you’re a troll or just ate the poison propaganda and took the bait to not vote Kamala and aid even more in the destruction of Gaza by voting Trump. Like voting him in over Harris is just voting for a worse outcome for the citizens of Palestine. Period.

I mean it’s probably both but I would bet my life that Trump is actually a Russian agent. You don’t grab a whole pile of classified documents and bring them to your home in a location secured worse than the door to a bedroom and not proceed to give those away.

Now, direct involvement and level of control - idk but he must be “on their payroll” so to speak.

Who knows they’re a whole den of corruption, I wouldn’t be surprised to learn some of Trump’s staff are selling state secrets.

Hello foreign intelligence agencies, would you like an easy way to intercept and read classified communications? Maybe just buy it off Mossad? JFC what is this clown show. Why are our intelligence officials even using off the shelf, or even modified, software solutions for communications? Shouldn’t we have some secure messaging app and protocols developed here?

Am I missing something here or is it really this dumb?

I did say fuck Nestle, didn’t I? I’m not really trying to advocate for them just from reading that excerpt I would be interested to know how much the company and its reps really knew about the drinking water situation.

Like, I’m very certain they didn’t do anything to help or to combat the problem, just curious if it was something they knew about and how it was handled. I can say for sure they’re evil and should have helped. It’s just I am thinking about who knew what and how much.

I guess it’s more of a thought and less of a defending them because I am not a big nestle fan. Although I do love their chocolate milk mix, reminds me of my childhood so I occasionally buy it because I’m a bad guy.

To play (actual) devil’s advocate … Is it Nestle’s fault the drinking water was unclean that was mixed with the formula?

That’s where I would say the whole, who’s responsible part of the equation gets fucky. To be clear, nestle should have done more to combat this and not have pushed formula feeding where they knew the water could be bad.

I’m not a fan of them by any means and would definitely need to read more and definitely know they’re evil (fuck I mean I’m pretty sure every large enough corp is evil, hell most of the small ones too) but it still gives me pause when it’s presented.

Just so I’m unequivocal here - nestle is bad and fuck them.

Eh, I wouldn’t say Americans reached the level of industrialized genocide Nazi Germany achieved but we definitely had and still have plenty of blood on our hands.

Hey! You skipped the civil war concentration camps on both sides, how dare you.