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  • Well put. Marshner is essentially a televangelist - by “preaching the gospel”, she secures her endowment of wealth and immunity from religious prosecution. This system typifies the Trump regime, expanded to other things that people prone to magical thinking worry about - conspiracy theories, vaccines, folk medicine, etc.

    It’s effective directly because it gives believers every chance to carry and spread a believable and reassuring lie, and to disregard or attack outsiders who try to inject rationality. Essentially, a cult.

  • The religious are obsessed with this because enforcement of “the nuclear family” offers them a wedge of control into the private lives of others. Marriage and children are under influenceable legislation by the state, which is why these people FREAK out when you mess with those legal institutions with things like marriage equality and abortion.

    The ones at the top need the power to stay relevant and wealthy, and the flock eats up the flowery nonsense language about “faith” and “God’s plan.”

  • Yea, we could like, have a system where everyone gets to cast a vote for who they want to lead them, and only the people with the most votes gets to make the decisions! Too bad our society is just run by whoever has the most money.

  • The MBAs have taken over the world and are enshitifying entire safety critical industries. They’ve been testing how high they can get the stock price/deaths ratio before someone makes them stop. This is why some industries just shouldn’t be driven by profit, and very near the top of that list is aviation safety.

    With the FAA overrun with industry goons and Trump appointees, and aircraft design flaws now acceptable as a cost of doing business, we can expect more regulatory cuts and bits of passenger strewn about the landscape.

  • Worse, religious fundamentalists.

  • With actual headlines like this, how is The Onion still in business?

  • As an Internet person with absolutely no knowledge or experience in finance, I can professionally guarantee you that Kanye West’s crypto coin “Yeezy Money” is not a good investment and you should not purchase it.

    I mean Jesus fucking Christ.

  • Let’s have a really long nasty drawn out internet argument over whether it’s fifteen or fifty.

  • They’ve got the laser drill, now they just need 15 billion more dollars for the Unobtanium!

  • “You want some of this?” Mr. Dousten yelled, according to the affidavit…

    …Mr. Dousten then fired a single shot that hit Ms. Hermosillo’s car, breaking the window of the front passenger seat where she was sitting, and striking her in the face, it said.

    He “fired a shot in a random direction,” the police said in an email obtained on Wednesday. “Tragically, that bullet struck a passenger in an uninvolved vehicle.”

    …Ms. Hermosillo’s partner drove her to the hospital, where she was pronounced dead, the police said.”

    This is unbelievably sad. Can you imagine what her partner must have gone through? They’ll be haunted by this for the rest of their life. Her family is crushed. She was 27.

    How is it that someone so out of control of their emotions that they carry a loaded gun and wave it carelessly during traffic confrontations is able to access firearms?

  • Let’s create a real hell, fund it, and send him there for the rest of his life.

  • This is so fucking bizarre.

  • Civil disobedience is a peaceful way to protest unfair laws when the regular methods of changing the law are too restricted or too slow to protect the civil rights of citizens. Civil disobedience in this case would be refusing to check out or read books that they find objectionable, if the government were to mandate that they be read.

    You could make the argument that government is mandating this content if public schools assign it to students, but there is no real punishment under the law for rejecting a school assignment. It’s that they don’t want YOU to have access to this information, which is the opposite of civil disobedience: oppression. If the government were to mandate the removal of this content, as these citizens would like, the act of disobedience would be to read the books.

    This is stealing from a public library.

  • Yea, that last time the US and Russia did this we had to ban nuclear weapons in space.

  • Low demand?? Birth control is in low demand??? I’m surprised that Costco doesn’t sell a smaller spoon to make this horseshit a little more palatable.

    Nothing sells capitalism as inherently fascist faster than every corporation racing to obey the regime in advance.

  • Whether it’s actually the concentrated evil turning them ugly, or the evil they do that makes the money they use to pay for the plastic surgery, does it matter?

    Spiritually, aren’t those the same thing anyways?

  • “The past is a puzzle, like a broken mirror. As you piece it together, you cut yourself, your image keeps shifting. And you change with it. It could destroy you, drive you mad. It could set you free.”

    Set us free, R*/Remedy

  • Oh good, while they’re there maybe they can help build housing or provide food for the homeless people Trump wants to get rid of.

    Can’t be homeless if you got a home!