I believe that I can go to the store and purchase a sense of security. Once I own a gun, I can indulge in revolutionary fantasies that aren’t complicated by material conditions.

Safety is just another thing we’ve commoditized. No need to struggle against my own alienation or form coalition with my neighbors.

It’s religious mythology built atop historical cultural standards. Arguing over the age at which a literal angel impregnated a virgin is fucking absurd and has nothing to do with modern morals either inside or outside the religious traditions predicated on it.

Two-thousand years later, members of this same Christian faith have overhauled both the cultural and legal standards for marriage around the globe. Meanwhile, outspoken atheists like Richard Dawkins and Lawrence Krauss ended up all over the Epstein Files, despite unburdening themselves of archaic religious dogma.

Mary was 13 when she gave birth to Jesus.

There is absolutely no verifiable documentation of Jesus’s birth, much less Mary’s age at the time of pregnancy. Might as well complain about the ages of Alcmene or Deichtine.

This kind of rhetoric is playing straight into the magical realism of the biblical literalists. Next, you’re going to start accusing Adam and Eve of incest.

Catholic here. Not as difficult as you might think.

The Telegraph and LBC are both right-wing propaganda mills.

Case in point:

In 2022, Hilda Griffiths, 81, died after Brian Fitzgerald, a Credit Suisse director and member of the Muswell Hill Peloton cycling club, collided with her while riding with other members at about 29mph in the 20mph zone.

Police could not prosecute Mr Fitzgerald because “there were no criminal Acts” which could be applied to cyclists who speed, the elderly lady’s inquest heard.

That’s pure horseshit.

Who can forget the time a cyclist ran a red light and killed sixteen people?

i used to use “i’m pagan”

Oh cool, I’m also a Catholic.

I mean, if the goat shepherds have some strong moral positions, I don’t see why they’d be disqualified. Ethics isn’t something we invented in the 21st century, ffs. Bronze Age humans had as much a claim to it as anyone. Just ask Socrates or Confucius or Nezahualcóyotl.

Given the current state of the 21st century political scene, I’m not bending over to give modern day philosophers extra credit. Say what you will about Thomas Aquinas, he doesn’t appear anywhere in the Epstein flight logs. That’s more than Noam Chomsky or Peter Mandelson can claim.

Joss Whedon

That one really hurt for me. He was the launch pad for so many great talents and iconic media. Total turd of a human being.

Oh man, this makes me think of Hulk Hogan. Talk about a guy who aged like milk.

Bill fucking Cosby. That guy was a generational idol.

Back in the '00s, he used to give speeches down at college campuses around the country that supposedly promoted ethics and social values for young men. The most famous of these, the Pound Cake Speech, was given out during the 50th anniversary of the Brown v. Board of Education Supreme Court decision at an NAACP Legal Defense dinner, ffs.

He was this pinnacle of Respectibility Politics. This Model Minority. The quintessential American father figure. An intellectual. A charismatic icon. A pillar of the community.

Oops. Fuck. Oh well…

people have to tell everyone that the are vegans

I never see these people IRL.

But they must be deeply traumatizing, because I see people who complain about them everywhere.

Ghee, specifically. Although there are plenty of vegan substitutes

It would have been too sexy

Pointing a gun

Tommy gun

I love that they had to wedge the last one in

Four in ten people in India follow either a vegetarian or a vegan diet, according to data by a Statista Consumer Insights survey. In all other countries polled, the figure is far lower, ranging between just five percent in Mexico and 11 percent in South Africa. In the United States, six percent of respondents said that they were vegetarian and four percent said that they were vegan.

to weak

A joke so cheap it can’t even afford the second ‘o’.

Yeah, that’s kinda buried in the lead.

“Hey, just FYI, all your paintballs have pork fat in them” would be a more startling revelation.

Half of India is vegan

It’s crazy how mad people get every time a Vegan exists