SpinozasHeresy @SpinozasHeresy@qoto.org

@gwynnion

As a real American, quite frankly, fuck the Bible. If you’re an elected official in our secular democracy in need of a position on an issue, read the constitution. Our country is based on laws, not beliefs. 

When I hear the term “Jewish state” I cringe. Like it or not, the term feels like the white supremacist notion of an ethnostate and is counter to anything resembling the idea of a democracy. Using the term “Jewish state” sets up a semantic muddle that makes it difficult for non-Jews to be clear about the country’s intentions. Are they interested in democracy? Or are they interested in an exclusionary state based on religious belief? My cultural experience with the 1st amendment gives me pause.

@sfdb

This wouldn’t have happened if there was a good guy with a gun around. 

@trashrobot@kolektiva.social @therockyfiles @theintercept

Not sure, I understand. Science is the study of natural phenomena, no? Isn’t an economy a natural phenomena worthy of study? economies are most certainly emergent properties of human culture, but that does not make them unreal and New Age bullshit.  money might be a magical construct, but I’ll bet you used it to eat today. 

@micahflee

Who says consent is manufactured? It seems to perpetuate itself. 

@georgetakei

Ghouls. Happy Halloween I guess.

When someone uses the Bible to prove a point...they don’t.

@realTuckFrumper

So glad we have Bill Maher to let us know about the politics of GenZ. He’s so in touch with the youth of America isn’t he? I guess it’s because he’s in his 60s, has no children, and barely sets foot on a college campus unless they’re paying him to speak. This uniquely qualifies him to know what’s going on with campus politics. 

@Adam_Cadmon1

manufactured consent is magical, isn’t it.?

@dangillmor

Pitchbot strikes again!

@gwynnion

I don’t think Biden is “happy” about his role in the situation nor do I think he’s “a total fucking sleaze”. Put aside Biden the person for a second, and recognize he is --the American president--. His actions as the American president are consistent with his predecessors.  The “sleaze” you’re looking for lies in American culture and its view of itself in the world, not in the individual that happens to be president.

@Helderweb @GottaLaff

Is this the latest centerfold for “Evangelical Beefcake”?

@davidtoddmccarty

I’m gonna go out on a limb here. I suspect the Democrats will continue to manufacture consent.

Someday I will live in a religion blind society. A place where I will be assessed by the content of my character, not by the beliefs that may or may not be foundational to my character.

@Adam_Cadmon1 @SpinozasHeresy

Good point.

@Adam_Cadmon1

Given that they need the little people to clean up after them, not likely.

Sometimes, when I’ve had my glaucoma medication, I consider the weirdness of a thousand humans sitting in proper rows and efficient waiting lines cradled and crammed by the relative security of science.

@sethcotlar

Everyone knows “context” is for sissies.