It’s actually exactly this quote that they claim supports the argument that the coming of Jesus overrides the old laws. Not that they are eliminated, but that they are “fulfilled” by/through him. This is often interpreted to mean that where he specifies, they are changed or replaced through him. Such as declaring all foods clean, change from the vengeful “eye for an eye” to the pacifist “turn the other cheek”, expanded adultery to include lustful thoughts, etc.

I’m not arguing in favor of this interpretation because it’s all fiction anyway. But that is the common Canon.

Or the severely physically and mentally impaired, people caring for spouses, parents, siblings and children with disabilities, people who work full time hourly jobs and still depend medicaid, etc… maybe think before opening your fucking mouth Kellyanne.

The love one another stuff is specifically and basically exclusively a feature of the New Testament, as are all of the passages listed here. Old Testament God was much more pro religion-based genocide and enslavement. But most Christians will tell you that the New Testament/Jesus revised the old biblical laws and messages. So any “good” Christian should be leaning on it for moral guidance, instead of the books that promote vengeance, slavery, incest, rape, murder, maiming/mutilation, etc.

The problem comes when the benevolent dictator dies peacefully in their sleep.

The problems arise well before that. There’s no such thing as a benevolent dictator because it’s an oxymoron. Anyone who would seek to control everyone is not benevolent. And even if we agreed that unilaterally controlling everyone could still be benevolent, there is no means to gaining such control that is not inherently not benevolent short of nearly every one of your constituents collectively appointing you to that position.

When I started dating my now wife, my now Father In Law got into a massive argument with my wife’s uncle because the uncle’s a pretty unhinged version of a leftist and was arguing that his ideal form of goverment was that of a benevolent dictatorship. My FIL was flabbergasted that anyone would think that that was a good idea, not just because he’s politically opposed to my wife’s Uncle’s idea of what constitutes benevolence, but that he would think that a strong autocratic leader would fix anything, regardless of their politics.

8 years later, here we are with my Father In Law being so loudly and unrelentingly pro-Trump it has nearly caused permanent rifts in the family, including with my wife, and nearly destroyed his marriage too. He has zero problem with Trump taking as much power as needed to push his policies through. The fucking irony of it, supporting the most blatant autocratic shift in American political history after being furious at the idea from my wife’s Uncle, and it’s entirely lost on him.

Brits: I like my food like I like my trousers. Beige and tasting of cotton.

The approximate location where we should drop all the billionaires without floaties.

"White House press secretary Karoline Leavitt said Thursday that the president wears bandages on the back of his hand because he’s “literally constantly shaking hands.”

As if that were even a slightly reasonable explanation.

No shit. He’s a fucking Nazi in everything except maybe in name, though I wouldn’t be shocked to learn he identifies as one in private. And no, it doesn’t matter that he’s Jewish.

Mines nothing amazing, really, but i find it handy.

I 🏴‍☠️ movies. The downloads often come with excess files, images, text, sample videos, etc. The only files I want beside the movie file are subtitle files if they came with the download. And the video files often have obnoxiously long file names with coding info in it, the uploader’s name, etc. And sometimes they get nested weirdly.

Most of the time, the file name and nesting is not really a big deal since I use plex and does good at ignoring nesting and it typically matches the title to imdb entries even if the file name is full of garbage. But sometimes it doesn’t match correctly and has to be manually fixed. And I just want my files to be clean, readable, and get rid of the bloat.

So I made a script that walks through my movie libraries, deletes all unneeded files, generates a directory structure dependent on whether or not there are subtitles, and renames the files (and directories) by removing all of the junk words and coding and leaving only the title and release year. Like I said, it’s nothing amazing, but it’s the only utility I ever wrote in it’s entirety for myself that I actually use on the regular.

Frankly, things on the internet can’t really be regulated on a nation by nation basis

Just straight up a violation of the 4th Amendment, and if there are any legal repercussions for the content of your accounts, depending on the nature content and the consequences of it, could be violations of the 1st and 5th amendments. These constitutional rights cover every single man woman and child on US soil, even visitors. There is no way any of this is legal.

I’m not in a position to reply in full to your comment. But I did want to point out that I’m pretty sure that price gouging laws only restrict predatory price increases on essential goods during officially declared states of emergency. Otherwise there’s no restriction at all

There can be good reason to offer different prices to different people. New customer discounts, student/senior discounts, etc. The problems arise when the nature of the reason they got a discount, or even the very fact that they did get a discount are hidden. Because then there’s nothing stopping them from more predatory pricing just because they think they can get you to pay more, or whatever other reason they have. It’s not illegal, but it’s incredibly unethical and really should be illegal.

It’s not that I think there’s no time between 10am and 2pm. It’s that if I start something, I either might lose all track of time doing it and be late, or be in the middle of doing something at 2pm, acknowledge that I need to go, and literally can’t stand leaving it half done… or both. So better not to risk it and just zone out on my phone instead, lose track of time and be unable to put it down at 2pm.

20 unless I am too exhausted to shower before bed, then it’s 3.

As a midwesterner, it is unethically misleading to suggest this level of efficiency to an outsider. While, yes, the welp-knee-slap is a polite and unmistakable sign that the life of this social interaction is coming to an end, that does not mean that interaction is over. The journey from “welp” to guests pulling out of your driveway can be anywhere from a 5 to 45 minute trek of baby-stepping toward the door, off the porch, down the footpath, to the car, all while tying up loose ends in conversations, corraling children (and toys, diaper bags, electronics, etc.), planning follow up meetings, last minute inquiries into various family members’ health, work and relationship status, discussions over the weather and road conditions, misremembered jokes someone heard from a guy at work, repeated offers of food or drink for the road, and assurances that either they’re not too tipsy to drive or that they “actually drive better with a buzz” while turning down offers to sleep it off… their kids may very well sit belted in the car longer while waiting for the adults to stop talking at the car door than they will for the entire drive home. The Midwestern goodbye may be one of the least efficient goodbyes every devised by man.

Actually, all she did initially was raise money through Cameo for starving children in general with the money going to the charity Save The Children. Specifically their Emergency Fund, which became “controversial” because they were helping children in Gaza among other war struck locations like Sudan, Ukraine, etc. That’s what started all this.

Trolls claimed she’d “turned political”, was raising money to go directly to Hamas, that she was antisemitic, etc. She defended herself by saying that she cared about all children everywhere, in every country, without exclusion. After that didn’t stop the trolls, she’s made it a priority to not back down from her original mission of helping children regardless of their nationality and has pushed back against this hatred towards Gazans and their children that are suffering.

Just to be clear, she’s being demonized for criticizing Isreal, so… who is it that can’t be criticized then?

Why? Because sometimes the majority chooses fascists? So, of course that is always a risk, though it is a risk without the NPVIC too, clearly, and I think makes it more likely as well. But you also have to remember that the majority of voting eligible people do not vote regularly. There’s any number of reasons for that, but a major reason for it is winner-take-all states make states hard red or hard blue states. People who dont align with their states’ hard political lean justifiably feel like voting is pointless as their vote ultimately wont count towards the final decision. But if the NPVIC were in place, more people would have a good reason to turn out as their vote will actually count. And people who dont live in swing states will have to be given more concern from campaigns too.

But ultimately, it is only a bandaid for a broken system. The electoral college is bullshit and so is Plurality voting. And frankly, voting should be compulsory and accommodated at every level. Make it compulsory, implement the Approval voting system for every election (eliminating the dominance of the two party system in the process), and the competition of ideas will make one party control of each branch, and thus run-away fascism, significantly harder to achieve. But then we seem to be already well too late for that.