…with little scrutiny of Saudis, says Amnesty

It’s crazy how once one authoritarian regime starts getting rowdy, a bunch of others start doing horrible things too.

It’s like they plan to act on their most evil plans in the chaos of everybody else popping off, so that the world’s eyes are left spinning on which atrocity needs to be focused on first, and their particular crimes against humanity get very little individual attention.

I like your example about foolish management, and you’re right in that’s what you’ll get when you “measure for holiness.” Hypocrites and holier-than-thous galore.

However, and I can only speak from a Christian experience, this is why “works based salvation” is not what is taught by Jesus Himself.

What you speak of with “How many of these laws did you follow enough to get a ticket to heaven?” is Hollywood theology at best, and not at all Biblical.

Numerous times He stresses doing good works in secret, and not to show off to others. (If you get attention for it, that’s your petty little reward, basically.)

A righteous life inspires good works naturally, and the Law makes sure we should never forget that none of us are perfect, therefore we are called to forgive others the way we’d wish to be forgiven.

We are not called to judge others. If you judge others, you’d best be ready to submit to being judged by the same metric. (And will likely be found wanting.)

I too, am I weary and sick of these religious cults, who want to wear the funniest big hats and stand on the highest podiums to look down their nose at all the lesser-thans. Surely, they’ve “already gotten their reward”, and those who use faith to mislead and abuse others do not know their God, and He will not remember them.

and saying that rich people don’t go to Heaven.

Indeed, this is the one the Americhristian cult of “supply-side Jesus” really doesn’t like. LOL

Obtaining significant wealth seems to generally coincide in prioritizing it, at the expense of the love for one’s Creator or fellow human being, and ultimately one’s own soul.

beating bankers and money-lenders,

In the interest of accuracy: He “drove out” bankers and money lenders selling sacrificial animals and such, who turned His Father’s house into a disgraceful shrine to money, but He’s not recorded directly inflicting violence upon them.

This is a crucially important detail given Christ’s Sermon on the Mount, among other examples, where He stresses forgiving one’s enemies:

I would hope, but on the whole you’d almost think they deliberately purged home computing from the mainstream consciousness, with how tragically ignorant the average person is about anything that isn’t a little poke-driven rectangle that screams at you all day.

anime without dimming

So that’s the secret! When I first noticed this happening I thought I was a little bit crazy lol.

A Jesus Christ complex would be refreshing. A leader who would deny earthly pleasures, command their followers to love thy neighbor, feed the hungry, uplift the sick and poor, give long sermons about mercy and forgiving your enemies, and would be seen personally breaking bread with the unhoused and lawyers alike?

That’d freak everybody out for sure.

Sorry, maybe I didn’t articulate that very well. Thanks for pointing that out. (Sites like this tend to favor short punchy responses lol)

I didn’t mean like “haha lol rofl lulz” funny, but I appreciated how succinctly they pointed out the logical ridiculousness, the sheer morbid absurdity, of such a forum existing in the first place, and asked the question: “Well if what they’re encouraging is so great, why haven’t they done it themselves?” Which, logically, would likely end the forum itself.

It’s like a self-defeating concept. It shouldn’t be able to exist by its own definition.

Laying that out got a guilty chuckle out of me because it’s such a bizarrely awful thing to exist and it was so simple a thought process to show how little sense it makes.

I only wish it was so obviously absurd to anybody who would dare to seek “community” there, but when people are beat down that much, it must be easy to miss the signs.

So absolutely, this is serious business and it really begs the question as to the motives of the people running it. Doubtful they’re benevolent in the slightest. “Three tiny serial killers in a trenchcoat” feels pretty likely.

It’s darkness through and through, and should be handled with utmost care and tact. I highly doubt anybody receives any actual “care” from this community, and would imagine its legacy is massive irreparable harm.

At worst, it’s crowdsourced murder via psychology without any accountability on behalf of the perpetrators, when the victims could have possibly been led to better lives with the right intervention.

That’s a terrifying thought.

But yeah, I didn’t mean to make light of anything. I only saw humor as a useful tool in cutting through the lies of the concept.

“I’d buy subscribe to THAT for a DOLLAR!”

This is the kind of darkly humorous deep-thought that keeps me coming back to the Internet.

EDIT: Sorry, no, I don’t find this funny in itself, I meant I found it “funny” how the commenter above so simply and concisely destroyed the concept of such an awful thing, by pointing out the sheer absurdity of its logical conclusion. Proving it shouldn’t exist by its own definition. Longer explanation below if it helps.

But in short, I hope nobody is visiting this “community”, when they could / should be receiving compassionate professional care and support in this world that’s already got enough darkness without them leaving it before their time. :(

That’s a pretty good point, and I agree. It was “This is a weird and sinister mystery!” and that’s pretty much it.

I hope it at least builds some attention momentum for others with maybe more assets or connections at their disposal to hone in on what’s really going on here and bring it to light.

This is good reporting. I’m glad there’s still people who will notice this bizarre kind of thing and start digging.

Something is truly mind-boggling here, like where he’s getting all this money from.

This is disgusting.

Irritatingly unlikely, sadly.

Both parties have spent considerable time batting around the 2nd Amendment as a toy in their game. A polarizing empty-promise point with emotional strings attached, so now all the blowhard bullies sexually fetishize weaponry, and many of the types who would disagree with authoritarians are paralyzingly afraid and ignorant of anything “military looking” that makes loud noises.

“Because only cops and troops should have guns!” said the enlightened neoliberals, as they gladly handed over their responsibilities of self-protection and firearms education to the might-makes-right crowd.

“Muh freedom! An’ 1776 or somethin’! An’ own the libs, don’t tread on me!” says the gun “collecting”, MAGA-hat wearing, massive-smoking-diesel-truck-in-the-suburbs driving, angry and scared working man, who carries a copy of the Declaration of Independence (he hasn’t actually read, or if so, cherry-picks the parts he likes) and is completely ignorant on the Bill of Rights, who loudly decries and slanders “The Government™” …but conveniently simps for his abusive bossman and “backs the blue” when they mercilessly beat a bunch of people waving signs and assault reporters. Who waves a Bible (also unread) around yet shows contempt and hatred for his neighbor. Who thinks a bunch of armed insurrectionists storming the Capital because they didn’t like poll results aren’t traitors.

Lol.

Lmao.

God help us.

Many of the people who are opposed to this clown show have been successfully declawed and defanged if their legal processes have fallen apart, which we’re watching happen in real time. They’re also scabs who just want their creature comforts and will keep their heads down hoping “somebody else will take care of it.”

you should be weary.

Oh don’t worry, we’re really freaking tired and weary of this nonsense.

But we should also be wary of how sneaky these bastards are.

As Caesar Donald the step to becoming the god emperor isn’t that big…

Kinda just hoping we can skip all that and go straight to the “Et tu, Bruté?” bit.

The worship of limitless work and the military, a toxic obsession with hyper-individualism and isolation, with a paper-thin facade of morals and self-proclaimation of greatness, while everyone is broke, without opportunities, hooked on drugs, and stuck with crumbling infrastructure in vast stretches of remote nothing-land, while getting used and abused by multinational corporations and barons?

Sounds like they’re just pushing the mentality of the southern states to a national level.

“This is an invasion that could have been an email!”

Oh trump’s definitely not the “daddy” in this relationship.

Hehe me sitting here with my 9800 GTX++ wondering what the heck to do with it. 😂

Kinda wanted to make a retro gaming machine but, sheesh I bet it’s such a power hog these days!

Stability aside, I loved ME’s personalization stuff, all the themes and sounds and icons and everything they included out of the box to encourage you to make it feel like “yours.”

I wish they had kept with that into later versions.

Thankfully KDE fills that void for me now. :D

Imperial power will co-opt, steal, bastardize, and butcher whatever peoples or messages it has to in order to justify its own legitimacy.