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What did she do besides going on Breakfast Club? She said it was them that wanted her on there as she has been trying to go on there for years.
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What did she do besides going on Breakfast Club? She said it was them that wanted her on there as she has been trying to go on there for years.
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If by elites you mean tech billionaires, they think about the future all the time.
It's just a future in which they won't have to share with the inferior masses.
The super-rich ‘preppers’ planning to save themselves from the apocalypse
Tech billionaires are buying up luxurious bunkers to survive a societal collapse they helped create, but like everything they do, it has unintended consequences
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Elon's gonna hate being cooped up in a bunker without his legion of dorks cheering on his every act of foolishness.
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If you feel like you need a bunker if society collapses you gotta be scum. 
Society could collapse and the last thing on my mind is I gotta hide because people will want ME dead.
Society could collapse and the last thing on my mind is I gotta hide because people will want ME dead.
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I feel bad for the normal people negatively impacted by those bible thumpers in states like OK. .
I do find some comfort being in this bubble in MA and others in the northeast and west coast should too.
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Red states/cities really think they got it made. I've heard and read multiple stories of midwest couples when traveling asking new yorkers and chicagoans do they leave their apratments due to crime?
The ignorance is crazy. They really think major blue cities are dystopian
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I only know about that interview and the circumstances.. but she did actually try to engage in the premise of being black and being a part of black culture within the convo.. didn’t go well, but at least she attempted
And then turned around and went right back to her safe space
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I’m in that bubble down here in Philly suburbs kind of, but damn it’s a small bubble. Would feel much better if it were statewide like New England states
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100% correct.
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I think I've only ever set foot in a church maybe 2 or 3 times at most. I went to a catholic elementary school but they offered a non-catholic class alternative so I demanded to not partake in any biblethumping. My parents weren't religious so they didn't have an issue with it.
I do have one good experience in a (white) catholic church that I can recall, which was my dad's 2017 funeral ironically. I wanted to just cremate him without a church ceremony but my aunt insisted that locals wanted a church funeral so I eventually complied.
I'm not sure how a church funeral normally goes but judging by the reactions from the elderly around me, the pastor was not exactly following proper protocol.
At some point the pastor asked for the goblet of wine to be brought to him and drank it. I'm guessing that's normally where that process ends.
This pastor not only drank the whole goblet in one go, he filled it up TWICE after that and chugged the whole thing every time. Not a word was said inbetween.
Took some effort to not smile when the elderly around me started going 'what is he doing...' etc
What made it even more ironic was that my dad drank himself to death, so the pastor downing a bottle of wine in the middle of a funeral was the icing on the cake.
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This could be a good thing. I have a feeling they will start butting heads soon
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Elon Musk has literally everything he could possibly want, yet he's nearing Trump levels of insecurity.
Unlike Trump he actually has a functioning brain so it's almost more pathetic that he spends his days desperately seeking validation on Twitter.
That's bound to cause some conflict sooner or later.
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I think I've only ever set foot in a church maybe 2 or 3 times at most. I went to a catholic elementary school but they offered a non-catholic class alternative so I demanded to not partake in any biblethumping. My parents weren't religious so they didn't have an issue with it.
I do have one good experience in a (white) catholic church that I can recall, which was my dad's 2017 funeral ironically. I wanted to just cremate him without a church ceremony but my aunt insisted that locals wanted a church funeral so I eventually complied.
I'm not sure how a church funeral normally goes but judging by the reactions from the elderly around me, the pastor was not exactly following proper protocol.
At some point the pastor asked for the goblet of wine to be brought to him and drank it. I'm guessing that's normally where that process ends.
This pastor not only drank the whole goblet in one go, he filled it up TWICE after that and chugged the whole thing every time. Not a word was said inbetween.
Took some effort to not smile when the elderly around me started going 'what is he doing...' etc
What made it even more ironic was that my dad drank himself to death, so the pastor downing a bottle of wine in the middle of a funeral was the icing on the cake.
Yea not normal. It’s supposed to be a drop of wine in there too. I have some funny stories of when I was an alter server as a kid. The priests were usually hungover as **** and would drink whole bottles before mass to push back the hangovers.
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Given that this dude had the nerve to chug down what had to be roughly a bottle of wine during a funeral sermon, I'm pretty sure that's my local priest's morning ritual too
Really young for a pastor too, he was in his 30s.
I've literally never met a single person within 20 years of my age bracket that isn't either atheist or muslim, much less anyone who under the age of 60 who actually attends church.
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Elon Musk's AI turns on him, labels him 'one of the most significant spreaders of misinformation on X'
His posts, it added, “can have real-world consequences."
Even a broken Grok is right twice a day.
The morning after the election, I wrote:
“There’s going to be a lot of finger pointing over the coming days and months, and people will invariably seize the opportunity to claim that if only everyone had done exactly what they wanted, and centered their desires, we wouldn’t be in this mess. Some will unfairly scapegoat those on the margins, with relatively little individual or collective power, rather than issuing proportionate culpability to the majority of Trump supporters and enablers.”
That has certainly been on full display this week.
The Democratic Party has spent decades developing a brand as spineless, ineffectual, unprincipled and insincere. Ask a low information voter about Democrats, and they’ll describe a party that’s been captured by corporate interests, is fundamentally the same as their opponents, inevitably capitulates when push comes to shove, and only pays lip service to the issues that matter when it’s time to pander for votes. This is why so many people have found demands for “tangibles” appealing. They want instant gratification in exchange for their votes, not empty rhetoric and vague promises.
Trump did not run on unification or moderation. He ran on division, resentment, and retribution. The Trump “policy platform” is essentially the Joe Rogan diet: nothing but red meat and ketamine. He catered almost exclusively to his base. There was no post-convention shift to center. He closed with watermelon “jokes.”
Republicans can run on selfishness. They can run on tradition, not change. They naturalize inequality and hierarchy. They run on distrust in the very concept of collective governance and the public good. They cater to the most privileged and powerful. These are, sadly, structural advantages.
At a time when the Democratic coalition is fraying, when voters have grown impatient with being asked to wait years for investment in public works and green energy products to pay dividends or stave off future disaster, when they question the extent to which the party is actually committed to them beyond vote pandering and empty symbolism, when they’re fed up with their votes being taken for granted as soon as the primary season ends and Brat Summer turns into Triangulation Autumn, I cannot overstate how little interest I have in the tantrums of moderates who insist that they weren’t sufficiently centered.
Let them tell it, and liberals are snowflakes who need to stop policing others’ speech and attitudes. But also, we need to police their speech and attitudes in the hopes that we can properly pander to the least informed, least motivated, least reliable portion of the electorate.
What better way to win back faith in the concepts of equality and diversity than to demand the party throw its most vulnerable constituencies to the wolves?
If you’re driven to domestic terrorism by the “threat” of lady Ghostbusters and Black mermaids, the last thing you can credibly claim is that “people are making too big a deal about diversity.” Clearly, representation matters if the Marvel Cinematic Universe plunging from 80% White to 78% White is perceived as an existential crisis.
Likewise, I will not take seriously the demands of centrists to monopolize for themselves a party that relies on a diverse coalition to wrest control from an entrenched but dwindling supremacist plurality.
I think we can stop dignifying the fiction that trans panic really stems some deep concern for the integrity of historically underfunded women’s sports competitions.For all the talk of the dangers to sports and athletes, no mentions of:
2025 Recruits Are Being Hit Hard By New NCAA Swimming Roster Limits
One SEC program reportedly pulled offers from 5 female swimmers two weeks before signing day - and they weren't the only ones.swimswam.com
On top of sports programs getting cut all the time
At heart, high school sports are an after school club activity. The overwhelming majority of participants do not go on to become professional athletes, or even scholarship athletes. They learn teamwork and leadership skills. They develop self-confidence and resilience. They improve their physical fitness and learn productive training habits.
If you say that trans kids shouldn’t be allowed to participate, even if you think you aren’t doing so as part of a broader push to exile them from public life, you are demonstrably more concerned with the traditions of amateur competition than in the wellbeing of these students.
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Yeah Ive been to the Philly burbs (Phoenixville and King of Prussia area) quite a bit and it gets very bible beltish the further west you go. Almost creepy.
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Elon can't run for president, so this is the closest he can be to that position. He wants the one thing he can't have, and that Trump does have. He's basically a jealous high school girl.
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Given that this dude had the nerve to chug down what had to be roughly a bottle of wine during a funeral sermon, I'm pretty sure that's my local priest's morning ritual too
Really young for a pastor too, he was in his 30s.
I've literally never met a single person within 20 years of my age bracket that isn't either atheist or muslim, much less anyone who under the age of 60 who actually attends church.
I would say the Polish community is mixed. The older population does still attend blindly. The generation in their 50s still does but doesn’t follow the religion much. They just like to appear religious. My generation 20-30% are agnostic/atheist like me, 30% don’t attend at all but consider themselves Catholic, the rest pretty much attend weekly but just to show up. They are usually the biggest hypocrites. But the agnostic/atheist piece is growing higher and higher every year as people hate how the Polish Catholic Church is trying to dig their paws deeper and deeper into the government there.
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Red states/cities really think they got it made. I've heard and read multiple stories of midwest couples when traveling asking new yorkers and chicagoans do they leave their apratments due to crime?
The ignorance is crazy. They really think major blue cities are dystopian
I live in Florida but have am originally from Minneapolis. I regularly get asked how my family in Minneapolis is doing after the “the city was destroyed. “ It even comes from well meaning liberals sometime too. It is insane what suburban people will believe about cities.
I’m sorry you had such a negative experience at such an important time and that the leaders of that church dropped the ball for you and your family. Using this as an example to show that Christianity is bad comes across fairly ignorantly. I wish the Catholic Church would get it together so people would stop judging Christianity based on it. Evangelicals are Protestants, not Catholics. Typically when people talk about “bible thumpers” they are talking about evangelicals. The catholic church could certainly stand to do some bible thumping. It would prevent many negative experiences like this.
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dacomeup
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You think the Catholic Church is what people judge Christianity on?
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Sometimes it is. In this instance, a priest (not a pastor) is being used to paint a negative image of Christianity as a whole, and has appeared to shape one individual’s view of Christianity pretty strongly.
I’m not going to get sucked into a strawman argument on this. Lots of things shape people’s views of Christianity but a lot of these similar stories revolve around experiences in the Catholic church.
