See Bill Ackerman and Herbalife.

Federal regulators should have shut that shit down ages ago, but the grifter party loves MLMs (look at how the DeVos family made their money…)

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The video game “Hypnospace Outlaw” also captures a lot of this feeling - being in the late 90’s/early 2000’s stumbling through a series of web rings, find all sorts of hobby projects and obsessions.

Gopherspace also has a lot of this, although it’s text based.

There’s also the childish desire for an “I told you so” as they watch anyone they don’t like being sent to hell.

Nah, I think you just don’t want to acknowledge racism exists.

I see the same quote in other articles

Yeah, it makes absolutely no sense.

Doesn’t that show suggest a romantic relationship between the preteen Lydia and the adult(?) Beetlejuice?

Gay marriage is legal in every state since 2015. Supreme Court ordered it with Obergefell v Hodges

From Acrylic Painting for Dummies - Colette Pitcher

He runs a cult and fucks teenagers.

Matthew was written about 80 CE. Nero was emperor until 68. Nero rather famously took a eunuch as a “wife”, Sporus, which most in the Roman empire and likely the author of Matthew would have been aware of.

For there are eunuchs who were born that way, and there are eunuchs who have been made eunuchs by others—and there are those who choose to live like eunuchs for the sake of the kingdom of heaven. The one who can accept this should accept it.

Matthew 19:12

They changed their genre classification tags behind the scenes in 2023, around the time they fired the guy who ran “Every Noise at Once” and ruined almost all value the service had.

Fuck off you lazy troll.

“It should be public, it should be quick, it should be televised.”

“Just walking, Mr. Mead?”

“Yes.”

“But you haven’t explained for what purpose.”

“I explained; for air, and to see, and just to walk.”

“Have you done this often?”

“Every night for years.”

The police car sat in the center of the street with its radio throat faintly humming.

“Well, Mr. Mead,” it said.

“Is that all?” he asked politely.

“Yes,” said the voice. “Here.” There was a sigh, a pop. The back door of the police car sprang wide. "Get in.”

“Wait a minute, I haven’t done anything!”

“Get in.”

“The Pedestrian” - Ray Bradbury

Conservatives saw how successful the Disney boycott was, and want to have an equivalent threat.

Look up when Tacitus was writing his histories versus when they happened. Most ancient history is written years after the fact.

They also give us historical information about the time they were written, even if we can’t trust their accounts of the time they claim to describe.

Also, most books in the New Testament were written within a matter of decades.

Y’all really need to take some history classes. We don’t treat sources as if they are infallible depictions of events. We think about bias. We think about corroborating evidence. And if there are problems in a source, that doesn’t mean it has no value.

Yeah, how silly to critically analyze ancient historical/cultural texts to better understand history. Obvious the study of history is just about judging how stupid people in the past were compared to us modern day geniuses. That’s the real value of reading history - the schadenfreude of “lol those stupid ancient Greeks didn’t understand how thunder works. I’m so much smarter than they were.”

It’s not like there’s any value in trying to watch the evolution of a cultures belief over time, and try to see if you can better understand patterns and trends in human behavior. The Bible is poopoo for dumdums, and there’s no value in anything that isn’t STEM.

The scholar in the video literally includes an image of God with his penis from 800 BCE at the end of the video. Maybe actually watch the thing before you decide he’s making “circular arguments.”

So is him running for a third term, but his office is filled with “Trump 2028” hats.