Coalitions are literally the primary way the rest of the world avoids devolving into the US’s corrupt two-party system. It’s proven quite effective.
If that could be combined with RCV in more countries (or US states), then it could far more strongly prevent the consolidation of political parties and return more power to the people themselves.
I had to read that a couple of times before I understood what you are trying to say. At first glance, it seemed like you were calling democracy itself bourgeois, but I think you meant it as a specific thing that isn’t actual democracy… e.g. it’s an illusion of democracy because capitalism gives the wealthy the ability to steer the whole ship, as it were. Please correct me if my understanding is wrong.
Other than Jefferson Davis, who was let off scott-free.
And that’s before we get into Johnson’s “I’m the new Confederate President” behavior immediately after the assassination.
A vote for Biden is a vote for Harris… so…
The “good” news is that Piranha Bytes isn’t involved in that one.
I feel like there should be more of a penalty than “we take it away if you get caught”.
They’ve been like this for decades.
Alright! Now if France and Britain’s new left-of-center leadership can just… PLEASE not fuck it up… there may actually hope for the rest of the planet.
How is that related to OpenAI’s app? It’s not an Apple product.
I haven’t encountered an English translation that didn’t have significant issues. Even well-meaning editions lose a lot in translation. There has long been a stigmatic fear of “changing the meaning” of scripture, which results in a dogmatic use of formal equivalence. The problem with that approach is that language doesn’t work like that, so a translation that is annotatively correct will always be deeply connotatively incorrect.
WEB is one of the better ones - like a Young’s Literal but more readable - but even it falls victim to its own formal equivalence. I strongly recommend taking some courses on Koine and reading the original texts. If you want to read Hebrew texts (such as the Dead Sea scrolls), you can see if your local Jewish temple or community offers Hebrew classes (usually very inexpensive). There are lots of handy interactive interlinear tools available as well.
The quiet part once again being said out loud.
You asked where my plain recitation of scripture comes from, and I answered you. If you don’t like that scripture doesn’t support your wickedness, that’s between you and God, not me. That you can only attack me rather than the scripture itself is telling. 😞
That Apple has any say whatsoever over competing App Stores means they are shirking both the letter and intent of EU law.
Well, if you have one you should read it some time. But since most english versions are awful at best, and deliberately deceptive at worst, I recommend the one I linked.
Sure thing. It’s called “The Bible”.
If you don’t read Koine or Hebrew, this is a good place to start: https://www.amazon.com/Interlinear-Bible-Hebrew-Greek-English-English-Hebrew/dp/1565639774
Most decent password managers (e.g. 1Password, Proton Pass) have MFA built-in. Use those.
Where is this in scripture?
If you don’t know who the scribes and Pharisees are, or who their analogues are today… well, like I said before, that explains everything… including your twisted, hateful, anti-Christ beliefs. There’s nothing left to be said here. The scripture is as it has always been… written black-and-white in Koine and Hebrew and Aramaic. It’s still there, unchanged. Ready to be read, as it always has and always will be. Jesus left behind the teaching… not a political institution that can just add whatever it wants whenever it wants to suit it’s purposes.
It’s well accepted that Jesus was a historical person. Now how much you believe the miracles/etc attributed to him is a different matter entirely. Either way, the teaching and philosophy attributed to him are extremely powerful, and just as relevant today as they were in 27~30 AD.
When you say “what Church are you a member of” - you are looking for labels. You talk about the age of your cult as if that gives it authority. You are looking for a way to disengage from the topic of scripture so that you can compare institutional history. This is bad faith.
Jesus was a Jewish Rabbi who taught and practiced Judaism. I follow those teachings and the scripture upon which they are based. I do not follow Roman cults or the unscriptural Hellenist paganism they have added. That is the “tradition” you mention.
What Jesus taught is painfully simple: the way you treat others, God takes that personally. Love (respect/honor/obey/take joy in) God and love (respect/honor/obey/take joy in) others as you would God. These are the commandments upon which all other Law is based.
Whatever else you believe is inconsequential, unless it runs afoul of those. I warn you, that twisting scriptures explicitly concerning abuse of others into something else entirely - and the biases and treatment of others that result from such twisted reinterpretations - that is a danger to both you and others.
Woe to you, conservative politicians and religious leaders; you hypocrites! You close off the Kingdom of Heaven to others. It is not enough that that you do not enter, but you block the entrance for others trying to go in!
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Woe to you, conservative politicians and religious leaders. Hypocrites! You travel far and wide (over land and sea) to win one convert, and when you are done with them, they are twice the force of evil that you are.
Be warned. Jesus himself has warned you.
Awesome. Now it just needs to be more affordable while tasting just as good. Right now, the stuff that actually tastes like meat is priced like a bougie, elitist luxury good.