OldWoodFrame

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[–] OldWoodFrame@lemm.ee 83 points 4 days ago (18 children)
  1. He didn't "handily win" he won by 1-2 points in the swing states.

  2. It tracks with an anti-incumbent sentiment, people are not happy with inflation so they voted against the incumbent, they're still not happy and still voting against the incumbent.

[–] OldWoodFrame@lemm.ee 21 points 5 days ago (2 children)

The reason sanctuary cities exist is because law enforcement in those cities needs community buy-in to help solve other more important crimes. A witness to a murder or a victim of domestic violence might not come forward if they are undocumented and might get deported for talking to the police.

No way to really track it because by definition they're going unreported but I can only imagine what kind of horror show is going unreported due to these raids.

[–] OldWoodFrame@lemm.ee 9 points 1 week ago

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.

[–] OldWoodFrame@lemm.ee 12 points 1 week ago (6 children)

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.

[–] OldWoodFrame@lemm.ee 9 points 1 week ago (8 children)

The Democrats in question would likely say they're upset progressives are getting mad at Democrats as if they have the power to pass bills or do much of anything. Yelling "do something" isn't helping when your party doesn't have any power.

Ironically the most power Democrats have is thanks to the filibuster, which Progressives campaigned against for years.

[–] OldWoodFrame@lemm.ee 2 points 1 week ago

Cooper DeJean was robbed.

[–] OldWoodFrame@lemm.ee 36 points 2 weeks ago (2 children)

Tariffs too. It's just a bit of "short term pain"...meaning, for about 4 years until someone comes in and reverses the horrible policies.

[–] OldWoodFrame@lemm.ee 0 points 2 weeks ago
[–] OldWoodFrame@lemm.ee 7 points 2 weeks ago

I spent his first 4 years hyper tuned in and stressing, and I called 0 Senators, wrote 0 letters, made 0 impact. THAT is the wrong call.

Either stop paying attention or take the time to actually contribute to the political process. Call your local political party and ask what you can do.

[–] OldWoodFrame@lemm.ee 36 points 2 weeks ago

Extremely true. We are "customer obsessed" which is why thousands of users having an annoying screen popping up confusing them is prioritized below one lady who knows the CEO being unable to do an incredibly niche thing that we never said you could do on our platform.

[–] OldWoodFrame@lemm.ee 11 points 2 weeks ago (7 children)

My understanding is that anal and oral are "wrong" in the same way masturbation is, it's spilling your seed outside of sex for procreation.

But like, clearly a tier better than premarital sex so...

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