According to an r/modcoord post this subreddit was another one where the admins wholesale removed the current mod team and now they are looking for replacements.
The question as posed paints with very broad strokes. I’m guessing by “religious people” you’re probably thinking of American christians of the larger denominations.
Why do you think that religiosity is necessary to oppose queer people? In my experience, opposition to the queer community and expressions of queerness is tied to views on gender and conservative/regressive views overall. While there is certainly overlap between orthodox/regressive religiosity and said roles, you can still see a lot of bigotry from people who don’t care about what any god says, they just think “that limp-wristed fairy isn’t a REAL man”.
As with anything outside the mainstream, the experience of being an atheist (and being “out” as an atheist) can lead people to question more things that are considered normal and empathize with others, but it isn’t a given.
Sometimes deviance enforces a sense of humble and earnest examination of common truths and connection with others and their own struggles, and sometimes it enforces the view that this person knows better than the crowd so no need to really question what is definitely their own views.
“I’m trying, but no one wants my spells badly enough to offer me their firstborn.”
“They won’t let me back into the orphanage after the last…incident.”
“I’m looking into this new thing called ‘advanced surrogacy’ where they conceive, gestate, AND care for the baby for you! It’s great, my siblings are already doing it.”
“You remember the root canal I had? Turns out they pulled the wrong thing out. Crazy, right?”
“If you want grandkids so bad why don’t you have them?”
When another trustee asked Dungan if she personally objected to an illustration of cross-racial friendship, she demurred, simply declaring that she was just trying to avoid “situations like that.” Situations like what, exactly? She didn’t say. Dungan’s behavior is a perfect illustration of the “anti-woke” tap dance. The person alleging nefarious wokeness never admits to their own bigotry, instead pretending that they’re reacting to “woke” people who are “pushing” an agenda, in this case through innocuous poster art. Of course, the entire premise of the argument is rooted in bigotry, as this example shows. It presumes that the feelings of real or imagined bigots who might take umbrage at such an image are of paramount importance, and that everyone else’s freedoms must be curtailed to appease them.
Fucking thank you, Amanda Marcotte. Nail on the head.
And thank you for using the word “innocuous” because my god it’s a picture of people holding hands in a school. It probably had something like “teamwork makes the dream work” on it because holy fuck these people probably boil their eyeballs in piss before they stick them in their sockets.
Vote them out. Call them out on every platform available, don’t take their bullshit excuses for reasons; dig deeper. Identify the groups they call home and write exposes. Rub their noses in the issues they’re afraid to own: show the world what and who they are. If their ugliness and connections are on display they lose the chance to rope in the unknowing because now everyone knows.
“We can’t do anything” is the siren call of the couchsitter who finds that a more comfortable place than the fence.
While TikTok has removed multiple videos depicting James narrating his abduction and death in Kirkby, England, many remain available to view on YouTube.
This is fucking ghoulish.
Does this constitute psychological torture? I’m serious. This is so much eviler than what Westboro does.
“If we suddenly kicked out all of the people here, the undocumented, our dairy farms would collapse,” one lawmaker said. “We have to come up with a solution.”
They’re not rich ghosts who can shrug off the loss of a vehicle and disappear. Most are, in fact, tethered to a small area BECAUSE they’re undocumented, and as such can’t rent or buy housing or cars anywhere, and the vast majority are in jobs that are, at best, scratching the floor of the middle class.
This argument makes it even more appealing to get them licenses and therefore insurance by tying the car involved to a name.
I think if the house was first then that’d be sad, yes. But if someone bought the lot and managed to get a house in there legally (or just got away with it) then that’s pretty rad. Like a brilliantly yellow dandelion forcing itself through a crack in an otherwise seamless, lifeless and bland sidewalk.
Seems to my ignorant eyes that we could always somehow split the power received into more manageable units, even if it has to be splitted a million times, 🤷♂️.
When adapting the 2019 LGBTQ romantic novel Red, White & Royal Blue for the screen, Matthew Lopez was careful to circumvent an R-rating. The film has a handful of sex scenes that stop short of full-frontal nudity — there’s some bare butts and, naturally, shirtless men....
Does it feel like these “game changing” techs have lives that are accelerating? Like there’s the dot com bubble of a decade or so, the NFT craze that lasted a few years, and now AI that’s not been a year.
The Internet is concentrating and getting worse because of it, inundated with ads and bots and bots who make ads and ads for bots, and being existentially threatened by Google’s DRM scheme. NFTs have become a joke, and the vast majority of crypto is not far behind. How long can we play with this new toy? Its lead paint is already peeling.
Atlanta-area prosecutors investigating efforts to overturn the 2020 election results in Georgia are in possession of text messages and emails directly connecting members of Donald Trump’s legal team to the early January 2021 voting system breach in Coffee County, sources tell CNN.
”Rudy Giuliani had nothing to do with this,” said Robert Costello, Giuliani’s attorney. “You can’t attach Rudy Giuliani to Sidney Powell’s crackpot idea.”
“Just landed back in DC with the Mayor huge things starting to come together!” an employee from the firm Sullivan Strickler, which was hired by Sidney Powell to examine voting systems in Coffee County, wrote in a group chat with other colleagues on January 1.
Former New York Mayor Giuliani was consistently referred to as “the Mayor,” in other texts sent by the same individual and others at the time.
“Most immediately, we were just granted access – by written invitation! – to Coffee County’s systems. Yay!” the text reads.
Props to the authors of the article, Zachary Cohen and Sara Murray, for the excellent comedic structuring.
This statement is trying to go for neutrality in the same way that asking a woman clutching a black eye “What did you say to him?” is just gathering information.
That is: it’s not, we see through it, and we’re tired of it.
What is the best community where people just want to see the world burn and collapse? For people who don’t believe in “progress” and “good” and “evil”?
This whole room is just bizarre. The (desk? Vanity? Sink?) right next to the tub with barely room to pull the chair out that will get wet if you exit the wrong direction, a mirror at a height to show you lips and up, oddly sharp looking tub edges, what looks like a cross between an old timey phone and a spigot with too many pipes, a staged bath with only one visible rug, and it’s probably just me but man do I hate frosted glass as privacy for bathrooms.
Higgins also pushed back on the notion that Democrats and the liberal left engage in their own echo chambers.
“Critics would say that the liberal echo chamber is CNN, MSNBC and mainstream media,” he said. "I would say in response to that, that quite frankly it’s b*******. “At the RNC all we had to do was repeat talking points and it would go on Fox News as is. Democrats don’t do that, the DNC [Democratic National Committee] doesn’t do it.”
He added: “Also, I think an important thing about what differentiates the left and right and the media—the left has no similar echo chamber as evidenced by the lack of a left-wing freedom caucus.”
Even the ex-Republican staffer doesn’t pull a “both sides” because he knows firsthand that it’s not true.
Look at you, man. You’re shaking from whataboutism withdrawal. I thought we talked about this, you were going to start honestly engaging with people and putting your team aside; what happened?
Personally I use those to test for the presence of mold. Great success so far!
But yeah, I get what you mean. I’ve had to be the Bad Guy who throws out the 14,000+ cups of tartar sauce and soy sauce that take up as much space as the rest of the takeout that has long since been eaten.
the replacement mod search for r/thingsforants is going great! (lemmy.world)
According to an r/modcoord post this subreddit was another one where the admins wholesale removed the current mod team and now they are looking for replacements.
How common is it for atheists to be against homosexuality/abortion?
I posted this question on Reddit a while ago and it was an interesting discussion so I wanted to hear what Lemmings think....
Breakfasts from around the world! (lemmy.ml)
Staying with the bath-in-the-kitchen theme. (feddit.uk)
Increasing the frequency of asking does not raise the likelihood of it happening
Breakfast bath, anyone? (feddit.uk)
Georgia court posts then removes document detailing charges against Trump (www.politico.com)
The Fulton County document listed 12 felony counts and one serious felony count for violating Georgia’s RICO Act.
That's an odd choice of light fixture to attach to a ceiling fan (lemm.ee)
Burn baby burn. (lemmy.world)
Ron DeSantis Proposes Unprovoked War on Mexico (prospect.org)
Ohio? rule (lemm.ee)
Newest "anti-woke" tantrum: Right-wingers don't think kids of different races can be friends (www.salon.com)
A bizarre racist outburst at a Texas school board isn’t an isolated event — it’s part of a national pattern
Anon is horny (lemmy.lemist.de)
I have been sent back, until my task is done!
AI is being used to give dead, missing kids a voice they didn’t ask for (www.washingtonpost.com)
Why Some Wisconsin Lawmakers and Local Officials Have Changed Their Minds About Letting Undocumented Immigrants Drive (www.propublica.org)
“If we suddenly kicked out all of the people here, the undocumented, our dairy farms would collapse,” one lawmaker said. “We have to come up with a solution.”
This makes me a bit sad. (lemmy.world)
What rule was created because of you or someone you know?
Isn't it weird that we'll never (ever?) talk about lightnings as a potential renewable energy source ?
Seems to my ignorant eyes that we could always somehow split the power received into more manageable units, even if it has to be splitted a million times, 🤷♂️.
If you could travel to any fictional world, which one would you pick and what would you do there?
Two LGBTQ films were slapped with R and NC-17 ratings. Critics say queer sex scenes are treated differently (www.cbc.ca)
When adapting the 2019 LGBTQ romantic novel Red, White & Royal Blue for the screen, Matthew Lopez was careful to circumvent an R-rating. The film has a handful of sex scenes that stop short of full-frontal nudity — there’s some bare butts and, naturally, shirtless men....
It's international left handed day! (imgflip.com)
ChatGPT In Trouble: OpenAI may go bankrupt by 2024, AI bot costs company $700,000 every day (www.firstpost.com)
Repost from HN: news.ycombinator.com/item?id=37109394
Georgia prosecutors have messages showing Trump's team is behind voting system breach (www.cnn.com)
Atlanta-area prosecutors investigating efforts to overturn the 2020 election results in Georgia are in possession of text messages and emails directly connecting members of Donald Trump’s legal team to the early January 2021 voting system breach in Coffee County, sources tell CNN.
What is the best community for immoralists/nihilists/accelerationists etc.
What is the best community where people just want to see the world burn and collapse? For people who don’t believe in “progress” and “good” and “evil”?
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People are having sex in self-driving cars, apparently (mashable.com)
Whenever my kitten tries to rub my hand with the side of his mouth, he instead digs his snout into my hand.
Is this normal kitten behavior? He hasn’t quite grasped the concept of scenting yet.
Taking staging way too far… (feddit.uk)
How did anyone think this was a good idea?! Are the bubbles made of cotton wool? At least they gave the mannequin a glass of wine I guess.
Hamlet says meow (i.imgur.com)
Former Republican staffer admits GOP would intentionally spread lies (www.newsweek.com)
"I think what we are seeing [now] is an extension of the Tea Party movement," the former staffer told Newsweek.
Not everything needs an app
I have an app for programming my chicken coop. My 401k company just created an app for onboarding new participants....
How much does your fridge smell? What are the biggest factors?
Wondering whether people keep a lot of smelly, unwrapped stuff in there, cleaning schedules, etc.