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@randahl "Whataboutism" is a bad name. In this context it means "changing the subject" or more colorfully "squirrel!"

When someone make a universal claim, and you point out a counterexample - the words "what about ..." are typically used. E.g.

Alice: All vans are white
Bob: What about that van over there? It looks blue to me.
Alice: I really hate whataboutery!

@Autumn That was a major piece of Rand Paul's platform as a candidate for President. He actually had withdrawal plan modeled after addiction recovery. He visited dependent nations, and they were all very receptive to recovery from addiction to American aid.

The Marshall Plan did not have unlimited aid over unlimited time. It was designed with the risk of addiction (for both dealer and customer) in mind.

@Nazareno Newsweek says that video is AI generated and not actually Biden. In a different, apparently authentic, video of Biden, he says "Don't!"

@freemo @mapto @avlcharlie "Lay not up for yourselves treasure on earth - where moth and rust doth corrupt, and thieves break through and steal, [and inflation doth devalue]."

Investing in people is also a thing:

For the sons of this age are more shrewd in dealing with their own kind than are the sons of light. I tell you, use worldly wealth to make friends for yourselves, so that when it is gone, they will welcome you into eternal dwellings. Whoever is faithful with very little will also be faithful with much, and whoever is dishonest with very little will also be dishonest with much.

@freemo The Christian claim is not that atheists in particular can't be moral, but that NO ONE is good.

"They have all gone astray. They have all together become corrupt. There is no one that does good. Not even one."

Religion just washes the outside. The result is what Jesus called "whitewashed sepulchers, full of dead men's bones".

@freemo I run my own email. What I mean is the spam coming from gmail.com domain is the worst. So I need to block them by default.

Or maybe that's what you meant.

@freemo It get a lot of fake invoices like that. Seriously considering making gmail.com whitelist only.

@freemo Disciples: "We have two swords." Jesus: "It is enough."

IMO, the point in this case (where Jesus was knowingly going as a lamb to the slaughter as a sacrifice for the whole world) was to make it clear that Jesus and his disciples were NOT SLAVES. Slaves were not allowed to carry a sword.

Trying to find how to follow an external AP account.

@novalug@fosstodon.org

Maybe mentioning it will create a link that will let me follow it.

Trying to find how to follow an external AP account.

@novalug@fosstodon.org

Maybe mentioning it will create a link that will let me follow it.