SecondJon @SecondJon@qoto.org

@johnclint I stopped on this post for a while, thinking... Most people will read this and be outraged if the arrow points one direction.... Or the other, depending on who the reader is.

@steele lol

@realcaseyrollins Pierre's lead tanked when Trump pushed the goofy 51st state talk. He doubled down on that today, election day.

Canadians are different than Americans in this way: a core part of Canadian identity is NOT being American. Canadians are always thinking of the US and are formed to be anti American in their core identity.

Americans have no concept of this. Americans don't even think about Canada.

So Trump stepped in it and cost the conservatives the election.

Or if you think Trump is always playing 4d chess, Trump tipped the scale on purpose to get an oppositional government that's more of the same he was always griping about with Trudeau.

@steele I was assured that no one was above the law.

https://newsie.social/@JaneinNJ/114381689006638416

#brave and #innovative is Larry David and the former newspaper The New York Times, to call Trump Hitler.

@steele Jesus' story of the pharisee and the tax collector praying at the temple, where the pharisee has open disregard for another also there to worship.

The lesson would be something like: You may have been taught you're better than others and that's wrong. Furthermore, I came here with this lesson because I believe I'm superior to you, I look down on you, I believe you need to be righteous like me. I pray to God (and to social media) thankful that I'm not like you. And I'm wrong in all of these things. We're all participating in this same sin, but me from a position of power. Now I will lead the way in repenting and we can together stop attacking the bride of Christ.

@Peaceandprosperity grade question!

when I was younger I had a children's Bible, a youth Bible, but the best for me was a Study Bible. It had some intos with background on each book, maps in the back, etc. It was with a translation that has since been updated in ways I don't align with given my background in Bible education, translation, and textual criticism.

Now I use a wide margin Bible when I can now the date as we lead our family, year after year, reading through the Bible out loud every year, and can jot down some notes. It's ESV, which is a good translation and what is read from at our church so it's easy to read together.

(I also use the Greek New Testament to cross reference and double check things, but that's probably not what you're needing right now 😉)

What translation does your kiddo read in the app? What do they use at church? Go with that translation.

(Don't do a paraphrase like The Message, getting that through an app if needed is enough.)

@steele found a source for context:

“We also have homegrown criminals that push people into subways that hit elderly ladies on the back of the head with a baseball bat when they’re not looking, that are absolute monsters,” Trump told reporters inside the Oval Office...

“I’d like to include them in the group of people to get them out of the country,” added Trump. The president emphasized that he would only do so by following the law, though he admitted, “I don’t know what the laws are.” Trump explained that Attorney General Pam Bondi is studying the law on the matter...

It follows similar statements from Trump’s White House Press Secretary Karoline Leavitt, who said last week that the president was looking into deporting “heinous, violent criminals” who are U.S. citizens to El Salvador, adding, “if there’s a legal pathway to do that.”

https://www.yahoo.com/news/homegrowns-next-trump-provokes-fears-182000185.html

https://mstdn.social/@carrieberry/114305364367737312

A perfect example of outsourcing all critical thinking to your news sources.

@steele yeah, I don't follow any of these guys specifically.

My take is that posts that could have been published as hit pieces from one political party's attack wing against their political opponents lack both honesty and creativity and don't invite others in to the conversation or encourage any semblance of critical thinking.

I do wonder what's the purpose of messages with that tone. Screaming into the sky? Self affirmation? Building an echo chamber?

It's no way to change what needs to be changed.

And... Yes, I see this as a problem no matter which side it's coming from.

Maybe that's not how the post was intended to read. That's how it hit me

https://mastodon.social/@randahl/114278493420601922

I get it now. Trump is bad because he's not raising tariffs enough, and tariffs punish other countries, not one's own.

@steele is the same true of anyone on the other side of the political spectrum?

I'm old enough to remember news networks declaring a constitutional crisis over the covfefe typo. Signalgate seems to be covfefe 2.0.