I had understood it to mean, like, making an oath (“I swear to God…” or the whole hand-on-a-Bible swearing) and not following through, or making it lightly.
Jesus had a whole thing about it, saying that not only should you not make an oath in God’s name lightly, but that you shouldn’t at all (implying it shouldn’t be necessary, if you’re already an honest person). “Let your yes be yes, and your no be no.”
Which, honestly, makes way more sense than some nonsense about not saying their names.
Yeah, they could have at least had a picture of Vegeta.
American Civil Liberties Union, and I’m not sure what they’re on about.
For me, i tell them “why” isn’t a complete question. If you can’t make a full question like “why does we need food?” then they don’t deserve an answer because they’re just trying to be annoying.
Or, for short, “why what?”
I appreciate the write-up, thank you! I feel like a lot of this is semantic differences. I’ve always thought of socialism as any public funds used specifically to help citizens (e.g. social security, medicare, unemployment, UBI, etc) and Communism to be the public owning and running the means of production, and distributing goods thereof, and the stateless, classless, moneyless society to be the ideal utopia it aspired to (similar to Star Trek). From your comment, I see that what I call Communism, you call Socialism (which explains a lot of confusion from discussions in the past with self-described Communists I’ve known), and the nameless Star Trek post-scarcity system you would call Communism.
Do you think it is possible to slow-roll the transition peacefully, though? If, for example, instead of the government bailing out industries, they bought out industries on the cheap, slowly growing and monopolizing like Google or Amazon have? Or do you think the rich would simply block that from happening?
So I will admit that I am ignorant of a method of attaining Communism that isn’t at the end of a rifle, and thus authoritarian by nature (and fully accept that, to a degree, Capitalism is also at the end of a gun, but typically less overt, or often directed without instead of within). The only nations I’ve seen flying the red flag have appeared highly authoritarian (and I’m not going to get drawn into a “USSR and PRC aren’t/weren’t authoritarian, and DPRK is actually a utopia!” discussion, so if that’s the direction this is going, let me know and I’ll politely see my way out).
I’ve seen in the lower comments that Socialism would be used as a gateway to Communism, but I am unclear about the transition from “everybody’s basic needs are met via taxation and distribution” to “personal property is abolished” (as I understand Communism to mean, please correct me if I’m wrong). Plenty of European countries have had (for the west), strong seemingly socialist systems, but they don’t seem to be deliberately angling toward Communism, for example.
So I’m curious what this peaceful Capitalist to Communist timeline would look like.
Much better way to organize. It’s how a lot of my files start:
YYYYMMDD-Name-Document-signed
So much easier to keep track.
the man who has openly declared since the 2000s that democracy is a mistake and that he wants to destroy the United States and European countries to establish city-states, each governed by a different corporation (fiefdoms), on our ruins
Wait. Did dude read Snowcrash and think “yeah, that future, that’s my utopia!”?
I’ve heard about deaf people learning with horror that farts make sound.
An old buddy of mine commented once on the amount if minor havoc you could wreak with a handful of chain bike locks. Cheap, wrap around some door handles and lock, walk away. Yeah, somebody can bust out a bolt cutter, but for the amount of challenge to remove it, the low cost per use, and the speed of application, it’s pretty impressive for minor mischief.
Relatively harmless, too, as long as you aren’t doing any additional nefarious shit. Might work for some gated community gates.
Oh, man, kind and fast. Hands down. Every time.
I don’t? I don’t think?
I’m honestly pretty light on any emotion except anger. But I don’t care enough to be anxious, and I’m pretty confident I’m not depressed. I’m reasonably unhappy about the state of the world (and my country), but I wouldn’t equate that to depression.
So ultimately, the punishment for not believing is being destroyed? Like, oblivion?
Shit, this sounds like a win. I have no interest in eternal existence, even supposedly “blissful” existence. I feel like anyone who thinks of eternity on more than a surface level would feel nothing but existential dread.
I thought they accidentally got rid of Black Friday with their anti-DEI measures?
- Don’t carry credit card debt. Save money if you can. Get a handle on basic finances
Credit cards are this weird thing. If you need them, you shouldn’t use them (if you can help it). If you make plenty of money and don’t need them, they are a very useful financial tool. I have paid interest on one of my credit cards once in the past 3 years, and it was only to have extra available funds for buying a house. But I have accrued well over 100k airline miles and several hundred (far more than the interest I paid) in cash back. I use credit cards exclusively for everything but my mortgage, and have them set to automatically pay the statement balance prior to the due date. If you aren’t extremely confident you can do that, you should avoid credit cards.
I definitely ran afoul of credit cards in my youth, so the banks have gotten their pound of flesh from me.
Also middle schoolers are awful. My wife and I kept telling my daughter through Elementary that Middle School age kids are the worst, because they have gotten smart enough to really hurt you (emotionally and physically), but haven’t developed the restraint or understanding consequences yet.
She just got into 6th grade and came home crying from some fucked up shit some kids were spreading about her, and she was just baffled by it. We were like “yeah, see, this is what we were talking about. It will get better. Let’s have ice cream.”
That fuckin moose, man. I’m a dad, and that shit killed me.
The male initiates being eaten?
So… they’re vore fetishists?
I thought she played Bella perfectly:
A blank canvas. Nothing wrong with portraying the character accurately. I mean, I’m not sure all the mouth-breathing was necessary. Literally the only thing I remember about her, character-wise.