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— Adam H. Johnson (@adamjohnsonNYC) 8. April 2018

In which Jim Wright comes to suspect that, under this administration, there is no plan....for anything. Ever.

Where's our "Thank you America?"

Or in other words: We blew up your country. We didn't have a plan for afterward, we just sort of thought democracy would kind of maybe sort of spring from the rubble or something something gazpacho. Predictably, what we got instead was a failed state, which led directly to a terrorist state, which led to blood and chaos and horror. So we blew that up too. It's nearly 20 years later, more than a million people are dead, the country we liberated is still in ruins, the violence has spread into the surrounding region, we still don't have a plan or a way out or any idea of what to do next -- except blow more shit up. Thank us, you ungrateful bastards. Thank us!

Where's our thank you?

Goddamn, this guy. ......

BUT....he's right on this one.
And Kermit agrees with me

keep to the Fen Causeway

what stage of capitalism is this pic.twitter.com/0RtStV78vm

— Paulie Doyle (@BigPaulieDoyle) 16. April 2018

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— heartbeeps (@hrtbps) 17. April 2018

An exchange model of religion implies that if a secular entity such as government provides what people need, they will be less likely to seek help from supernatural entities. Controlling for quality of life and income inequality (Gini), we found that better government services were related to lower religiosity among countries (Study 1) and states in the United States (Study 2). Study 2 also showed that during 2008-2013, better government services in a specific year predicted lower religiosity 1 to 2 years later. In both studies, a combination of better government services and quality of life was related to a particularly low level of religiosity. Among countries, government services moderated the relation between religiosity and two measures of well-being, such that religiosity was related to greater well-being only when government services were low.

But this is a comment from a thread a while back, worth reading in full

Balloon Juice - Frankensteinbeck - Open thread

To continue that, this is not an observation of evangelical politics. I have lived among these people most of my life. They don't know anything about their own religion. They know buzzwords and the attitudes they are told to believe, partly by their preacher, more by the bouncing around of their congregation's attitudes. They read the bible every day, and it's like that Far Side cartoon with what dogs her, `blah blah blah chosen of god blah blah blah men who lie with men should be stoned.' They are clannish to an extent it's difficult to imagine, often even rejecting other white evangelicals who don't go to the same church. Fear, hatred, and contempt for blacks is woven into the bedrock of their attitudes. Fear, hatred, and contempt for everyone who isn't exactly like them is waiting right on the surface.

Women and children are property, and the deeper you get the more literal that is. They believe that it is offensive and immoral in the extreme for anyone to tell them what they can't do with their wives and children. Since daughters are suitable only to be married, every attempt is made to keep them ignorant of sex (even its existence, although they usually know they'll fail), and you don't have to get very deep into the culture before they disapprove of educating girls and want them married as early as possible.

The moral mood of the religion centers around self-righteousness. Not doing the right thing, but them being right and everyone else being wrong. They don't give a damn about fetuses, but by yelling about abortion they can write off everyone who disagrees with them as baby killers, justify being sadistic shits to women in the process, and remind each other constantly what irresponsible rutting animals black women are. How much they mind a man committing adultery varies, but what is invariable is that they themselves have a free pass while it's proof positive of anyone they don't like's failure. The misogyny is thick, and the women are if anything more misogynistic than the men. Women both have no sexual agency, and are to blame for all sexual misconduct.

Their way of life is under attack, respected less every day and has been under siege since desegregation by a federal government that disapproves of the horrible abuse they feel it's their literally god-given right to inflict on anyone in their power. Already suspicious of science, this has driven them to a furious hatred of facts, of the whole idea that there is any kind of truth except what they want to believe. Living among them and not passing their incredibly superficial muster is Hell. I have been on both sides of it, as a white male who is naturally nonconformist. Trump doesn't say the word Jesus enough, but they will give him a pass forever because he shares their beliefs perfectly.

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— Yasha Levine (@yashalevine) 23. April 2018

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— Matthew Hackling (@mhackling) 21. April 2018

Dang, Satan is a cop. pic.twitter.com/bTa42O9C4E

— austin walker (@austin_walker) 22. April 2018

wiki

A figure known as "the satan" first appears in the Tanakh as a heavenly prosecutor, a member of the sons of God subordinate to Yahweh, who prosecutes the nation of Judah in the heavenly court and tests the loyalty of Yahweh's followers by forcing them to suffer.

The sergeant did not receive testicles from his donor to avoid the ethical issues that might ensue if he later had children, said Damon Cooney, another transplant team member. The testicles would have contained sperm from the recently deceased donor.

The donor was not identified, nor was his cause of death, but his family released a statement praising the sergeant's service to his country and noting the donor family includes a number of veterans.

I actually bet Trump and Macron get along great-- Trump is the exact type of vulgar, acquisitive simpleton that French people assume all Americans are, Macron is the exact type of preening, arrogant creep that Americans assume all French people are

— The Discourse Lover (@Trillburne) 24. April 2018