Politics as celebrity gossip, and I have to see it to stay informed about the kind of flame wars being stirred
Fucking exhausting trying to keep up with how opinions are being framed; so that I’m not caught off guard by the next “outrage” that can have a real effect on actual policy
JD Vance had Charlie Kirk killed to fuck his wife
Religion is the most destructive human invention.
You should be able to hold yourself to beliefs you openly choose to impose on yourself, and help others who choose similarly without external coercion, but the moment choice is absent or removed, its legitimacy evaporates.
It can be an effective for social cohesion in juvenile societies, but has a use-by date that rivals raw milk.
Religion was necessary to get us to this point, so I don’t know how you can call it a destructive invention unless you’re arguing that civilization was a mistake. Its use-by date was in the thousands of years, it was very useful as a technology to organize society for a very long time. It has lost its usefulness, and become backwards compared to newer technologies, but it was a great idea.
I think we got civilization despite religion. Religion has been fighting progress all along.
Religion was how we organized civilization beyond blood relations. Religious law was the first law.
You got a source for that claim? Also by your logic slavery or monarchy got us where we are; just because something has historical relevance doesn’t make it good or acceptable in present or future society.
Just because it was the first laws/human organization, doesn’t mean it has a place in today’s society.
I consider religion to be the most destructive human invention because most of the destructive actions performed by humans are inspired, influenced, or justified by it.
Destruction isn’t inherently a bad thing in moderation, but no one can legitimately claim religion has a track record of moderation.
I think fire has religion beat. People stopped burning witches, but they still burn people for entirely secular reasons.
Also, you know, forging blades, firing guns, running combustion engines, etc. Fire enabled war on a scale religion could never match, and as religion wanes fire remains supreme.
What a thoroughly fascinating non sequitur.
Fire was a discovery, not an invention.
The technology to create fire is absolutely an invention. Let me guess, you don’t think electricity, nuclear fission, or antibiotics are inventions either? They exist in nature, after all, so they’re merely discoveries. 🙄
So flint is an invention. Or rubbing sticks together.
Cultivation of fire and intentional use of fire are certainly technologies.
Usha knew she was a king a shitshow and is paying the iron price.
ew. I never force my religion on anyone
I’m not religious, even easier
cool.
I want HIM to convert to Christianity
Unhinged theory: he’s going to divorce and deport his “unamerican” wife and then marry Charlie Kirk’s widow for the PR on a 2028 presidential run.
That’s the most hinged JD Vance theory I’ve ever heard, only one problem: isn’t Vance ostensibly Catholic? Divorce is a problem, which is going to be more of a problem for her than for him
It’s not a divorce if one of the parties just dies
Exactly.
Conservatives don’t give a fuck about their supposed morals when it’s personally beneficial for them.
And the conservative base is gonna love it, too! Godly values and all that…
God loves divorce!
I wouldn’t be surprised in the slightest.
That’s about as unhinged as holding a door open for an elderly person.
Pro life tip: if it comes off its hinges, you’re probably holding the door open too enthusiastically.
100!
That is a very big number.
That whole speech was just weird. He starts out by saying that he’s always been somewhat “agnostic”, which is why he and his wife get along so well, because they can both just talk about this stuff, openly with each other.
And then he says, “That’s why we decided to raise our kids Christian”…and I was like, wut? Mutherfucker, that’s not what being “openly agnostic” implies, at all. That doesn’t even make logically consistent sense.
And then he concludes that he’s always hoped his wife would convert to Christianity too? JFC. Nothing he says is for real. Anyone listening to this asshole talk, and can find a way to nod along to it, is not actually listening to what he’s saying.
Anyone listening to this asshole talk, and can find a way to nod along to it, is not actually listening to what he’s saying.
56% of our population is at least partially illiterate; reading level 2 or below.
Is this just getting a pretext ready so that he can divorce her and hook up with Charlie Kirk’s widow and have it be considered moral in the eyes of MAGA?
Chances after he said it the first time: 95%
Chances after he said it again, in such close succession to the first time: ♾️
Erika Vance in 57 WEEKS 03 DAYS 07 HOURS 36 MINUTES
What if she starts praying to Jesus as an avatar of Vishnu? Would that meet the threshold?
Given how few “christens” are Christian, she only needs to state once that she is christian. She needs to make no actual changes, attend church, read the bible, nor pray. Heaven forbid she do something like feed the hungry, help the needy, or give her wealth to improve lives for her fellow humans.
