South Africa, so well known for being racist against white South African emerald mine heirs.

This is the second time Donald Trump has been elected with full control of both the House and Senate. It is not surprising that an old man in the same scenario would behave the same.

We are 5 years to the day from the last pre-Covid event I went to, a baby shower. People from NYC were there too and I spent the next two weeks worried they somehow infected my clothes or something that was going to get me later because we had no idea how it spread.

He doesn’t call himself God until the gospel of John which was written later than the others. Pretty sure the historical Jesus wouldn’t be claiming to be God at all. That’s just something that happens with religions over time.

He would also be saying it in Aramaic as an illiterate builder (stone worker being more likely than carpenter but the Greek word translates generically).

And there were a lot of early groups (Marcion and all the groups we call Gnostic) who took Jesus’ teachings to mean God from the Old Testament was an evil demiurge God and Jesus’ teachings were to overcome the material world.

With how Christian teachings have coalesced into the Trinity etc it would be really interesting to hear what the historical man himself was actually saying.

This is actually (spoilers for terrible movie Scales: Mermaids Are Real) the climax of the movie Scales. Mermaids can control water and their blood heals people in that movie, so hunters are trying to get their blood and then one guy tries a last ditch bad guy move and the main character pulls all the water out of his body and he horrifically melts.

Kind of made me side with the hunters at that point it’s a horrifying power.

We don’t know.

The US came back from a US president hiring private goons to spy on his political opponents.

The US came back from a US president illegally selling weapons to Iran to fund right wing militias in South America.

The US came back from a US cabinet member taking literal bribes from oil companies to give them oil drilling rights on federal land.

The US came back from a US president illegally firing a cabinet member and installing his own lackey.

But it didn’t HAVE to.

I don’t think there’s really such a thing as a ‘point of no return’ for a Democracy. But it is possible to get to a point after which you don’t return.

Ramanujan Aiyangar, Srinivasa, 1887-1920: (1927). Collected papers of Srinivasa Ramanujan. Cambridge [Eng.] :The University Press.

But…what did it mean?

Ending grain requisitions and transitioning to prodnalog stimulates the economy thus Lenin is a right wing hack.

You just aren’t, but I don’t know where the “no U” is going to get us.

Seeking social justice through redistributive social and economic policies of government.

You have to realize that Republicans are not the party pushing for these things. What you are saying does not retort anything I said.

The metric you are using is not the metric the actual real world uses for center left. You are bringing your internet lefty definitions and declaring that I’m wrong to say only internet lefties would use them. Major parties in the middle of the political spectrum are not typically pushing for the overthrow of Capitalism.

Being left of center is not solely defined by being Marxist, and one country, even if it actually was Marxist and not 3 Capitalisms in a trenchcoat, would not define the standard of what constitutes “left” in the world.

I’m not saying Marxism isn’t Left. I’m saying it’s not literally the only thing that IS Left.

Ok I don’t expect you to see it but this is exactly why I said it’s a lie that online lefties tell themselves. Globally, in real life politics, yes you absolutely can be center-left without demanding the overthrow of Capitalism.

They want to use the power of government to reduce the harms of capitalism, via minimum wages, social safety nets, child tax credit, subsidizing more environmentally friendly energy production and electric cars.

No they are not as far left as you and the people you talk to online, I didn’t say that. You are allowed to want different policies. You’re just incorrect to call them right wing.

That Democrats would be considered right-of-center in other countries. They’re clearly a center-left party.

(This is a lie internet lefties tell each other)

My body can take the sugar from one energy drink a lot better than it can take 6 shots of espresso.