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- Comment on Praise Be 1 week ago:
Section 132 was recorded in 1843 and they were married in 1827. This is not a matter of interpretation. You’re just flat wrong.
By your logic, all sex in Christian marriages is rape. After all, they’re all taught the threats God made against fornicators, thus they’ve been groomed under duress into marriage.
You can go with that logic, and it’s not necessarily wrong. It just muddies what rape is into something meaningless.
- Comment on Praise Be 1 week ago:
I believe they were already married for many years before that. The threat of destruction was if she didn’t stay loyal to him in their marriage. She’s specially mentioned because she was consistently against polygamy, so this is more accurately described as intimidation to stay married. It’s a stretch to say it supports rape, no more than marriage itself is a social/legal pressure for those married to have sex with each other.
- Comment on Praise Be 1 week ago:
It’s very unlikely Joseph was in his 70s. Neither of their ages are mentioned. Common estimates for Mary are 13-14, and Joseph being in late teens or early 20s.
- Comment on Praise Be 1 week ago:
Instead of taking his virgin daughters, the mob wanted the men (angels). Pretty demoralizing for his daughters. Lot’s daughter may be the first recorded femcels, which would explain their desperate attempt at getting pregnant by their father.
- Comment on Praise Be 1 week ago:
She was pubescent, and thus irrelevant to pedophilia.
- Comment on Praise Be 1 week ago:
How do they support rape? Or do you consider it rape of I tell I woman she’ll go to hell if she doesn’t consent?
- Comment on Praise Be 1 week ago:
I don’t think the Bible talks about child brides. Without that, none of those are related to pedophilia…
- Comment on Self-hosting in 2025 isn't about privacy anymore - it's about building resistance infrastructure 1 month ago:
US police forces kill far more people than the overall homicide rate in Europe
How are you calculating this? Doesn’t seem right.
2024 was the worst year with 1,365 police killings in the US. That’s around 4 people for every million. Per capita this is a rate 8x that of France which I believe has the most police killings in Europe.
General European homicide rates vary on countries from 5 (Swiss) to 42 (Latvian) per million. It’s higher than the rate of police killings in the US.
However, the general homicide rate in the US is like 6x the European rate.
I only briefly checked the numbers, I hope I didn’t get anything wrong.
- Comment on Bluesky suspending antifascist researchers for sharing publicly available information about literal nazis. 1 month ago:
I strongly doubt they were banned for posting a police report.
- Comment on After Today's meeting where Trump fell in love with Mamdani, this is MAGA tomorrow morning. 2 months ago:
Trump meets with Putin and is nice to him: “Trump is Putin’s bitch, look at him!”
Mamdani meets with Trump and stands at his desk like an obedient puppy: “Wow, our hero really charmed him with his immense rizz! Trump’s a coward!”
Politics is so braindead. 😩
- Comment on After Today's meeting where Trump fell in love with Mamdani, this is MAGA tomorrow morning. 2 months ago:
I don’t know if this is some sort of joke, but that’s not an agreement. That’s Trump not wanting a convoluted political beating around the bush, which is what Mamdani was about to do. Such a response would feed the media, but just saying yes and Trump shrugging it off sabotages the media’s obvious attempt of pitting them against each other.
- Comment on Had to look this up 2 months ago:
There’s no way you people would think she’s racist if she wasn’t transphobic.
She was very accepting of Hermione being cast as a black girl. Seaman was just used as comedic relief in the movies, much moreso than in the books, with his magical mistakes causing explosions being primarily when he was a kid. He was loyal and high achieving character.
Meanwhile, the blonde character who uses the offense slur “mudblood” is the childhood villain for most the books. Yet she is racist for this somehow too, I imagine.
- Comment on Elon Musk says Optimus will 'eliminate poverty' in speech after his $1 trillion pay package was approved 3 months ago:
Are you joking? Not even close.
- Comment on Hrmmmmm 3 months ago:
With a centrally controlled food supply, a misstep can lead to there literally not being enough food. You know this is different and this post is disingenuous.
More people die from obesity than starvation. There are tons of options for free food. Nobody is going to starve to death.
- Comment on PC Master Race 3 months ago:
When 1.6 came out I was stubborn and refused to install Steam which was needed for it. But I eventually did and it eventually grew on me even though recoil and everything is a bit different. Still using my 22 year old steam account.
- Comment on After police used Flock cameras to accuse a Denver woman of theft, she had to prove her own innocence 3 months ago:
Sometimes lawyers do preliminary motions like to suppress unconstitutional search warrants or change of venue and stuff. If it’s complex, it can take a while, and defense cannot request speedy trial if they’re filing things, but you also don’t necessarily want to forgo filing useful things.
Also, if they violate the constitutional right to a speedy trial, you can file a habeas corpus or something and, even if you win, there’s still no consequence except them shrugging and saying oops.
- Comment on After police used Flock cameras to accuse a Denver woman of theft, she had to prove her own innocence 3 months ago:
Yeah, been like this for quite a while. They can drag you for a while, lose their case, shrug it off, and continue as normal.
Meanwhile, you lost your job after your arrest, maybe even were denied bail and had to stay ~2 years in jail waiting for trial, and spent $100k on legal expenses. Winning at trial gives you no restitution for those massive losses. You’re expected to also shrug it off and continue life.
- Comment on After police used Flock cameras to accuse a Denver woman of theft, she had to prove her own innocence 3 months ago:
Important for those who don’t know: police can legally lie to you. Happens all the time when they’re trying to get a confession. In a discussion, they’ll be like “we have your fingerprints matched and we have video of you, so it’s better if you’re just honest with us.” But they often don’t have anything which is why they’re desperate for a confession.
Weird to me that people are taking issue with the cameras more than the police work.
The problem here is charges being made with weak evidence and officers legally allowed to lie. I had a similar experience, but she was smarter than me. I was 22 and naive, thinking I didn’t need to prove my innocence because they have to prove my guilt in court. The presumption of innocence is a lie. I had to learn the hard way, losing many years of my life.
- Comment on U.S. hits $38 trillion in debt, after the fastest accumulation of $1 trillion outside of the pandemic 3 months ago:
To be fair, nobody here would care about this if a Democratic was responsible.
- Comment on U.S. hits $38 trillion in debt, after the fastest accumulation of $1 trillion outside of the pandemic 3 months ago:
Lol, DOGE was the quickest abandoned federal organization ever. Trump used it to get votes of real conservatives and some libertarian types.
- Comment on U.S. hits $38 trillion in debt, after the fastest accumulation of $1 trillion outside of the pandemic 3 months ago:
You must be almost 40 years old at this point.
- Comment on U.S. hits $38 trillion in debt, after the fastest accumulation of $1 trillion outside of the pandemic 3 months ago:
Did you just imply that Trump is a fiscal conservative? Since 2015 he made it clear he wanted to spend a lot of money. For a little while he pretended to side with Musk who was attempting to NOT spend so much money, but he eventually ditched DOGE and kept spending.
- Comment on DEI, more like DIED 5 months ago:
Using what definition of irony?
A situation is ironic if it defies expectation. Like how Steve Irwin, the Crocodile Hunter, was killed by a stingray.
Kirk being killed by a leftist extremist, who thought he was a fascist, using a gun, is pretty much in line with how you’d expect him to die.
- Comment on DEI, more like DIED 5 months ago:
True. Most were against the violence, but many supported it.
Also, the country was founded using political violence.
- Comment on DEI, more like DIED 5 months ago:
He was reckless, no doubt. Being around a dangerous mob always is.
- Comment on DEI, more like DIED 5 months ago:
Maybe rift on him crossing state lines.
Very true.
Rittenhouse traveled all the way to some far off city he had no interest in. Sure, his father, grandmother, aunt, uncle, and cousin live there. Sure, he stayed with his friend who lived there. But otherwise, he only went there because he’s racist. That’s why he shot a couple white people.
- Comment on DEI, more like DIED 5 months ago:
My personal feelings do not inform this argument. What I say is wrong or it isn’t, regardless of my feelings about people or topics. I routinely argue against pro-choice arguments, for example, not because I’m pro-life, but because so many pro-choice arguments are bad. I actually support unfettered abortion and even limited legalized infanticide similar to Peter Singer, but that’s quite irrelevant to arguments I make about abortion.
- Comment on DEI, more like DIED 5 months ago:
I guess people in the military aren’t willing to die for anything either. After all, they wear body armor and use weapons against their enemies.
You can’t be so stupid as to think a willingness to die is the same as trying to die.
- Comment on DEI, more like DIED 5 months ago:
Me liking women and non-white people isn’t even relevant. If you don’t want to discuss the issues, then don’t.
- Comment on DEI, more like DIED 5 months ago:
Nothing I’ve seen would suggest that he was not willing to die for gun rights. Seems more like you cannot even comprehend someone being principled and politically consistent. Seems like projection to me.
