The only way Christianity makes any sense to me within the real world (aside from it being not real) is if Satan wrote the Bible pretending to be God, while denigrating the good guy as the rebellious angel Lucifer. If Satan had written the Bible instead of God, would you expect more genocide, slavery, torture, and rape, or less? So why is there any in the first place?

Look at 2000 years of Christian history. As soon as they could, they usurped political power in the most powerful nation in the area; Rome. Then began slaughtering and torturing anyone anywhere who thought different. They claimed divine rights and authority. They committed genocide in every single nation on the planet over nearly 2000 years. They perfected the dark arts of torture. They conquered earthly territory and plundered earthly wealth. They slaughtered so many that they built orphanages the world over where they could claim divine morality, but also rape children for centuries.

What did Lucifer do exactly? He told the first people that God was a lying dick and they should rebel against him, as he did.

Wouldn’t you?

The Culture is fantastic. Except the ugly parts.

Vance is VP because he is no threat whatsoever to Trump. He’s no threat because he has no ability, intelligence, or charisma, and he’s already bent the knee.

Not really. I have most of what I want and need. Now I just need to zero my debt, which ain’t gonna happen soon. So I don’t need new shit. I’m just hitting yard sales.

And none of that shit ever got me laid like they said it would.

I ain’t terrible to look at these days, but I was quite attractive in my youth. But I’ll tell you what, being raised by right wing religious nutjobs can fuck up even that advantage. I’m better now, but I used to be incel adjacent.

There was a bomb threat at a nearby Walmart that day.

Sounds like you raised a better man than yourself.

Entitled? Nah, you’re thinking of business majors.

There’s a maybe too large part of me that thinks violence may be necessary, but you know what?

I’m kind of a cranky, belligerent jerk sometimes, and I’ve been wrong about a lot of things. I could be wrong again. I hope so.

And the fact of the matter is that a lot of people who I respect and love disagree with me and demand peaceful protest and are trying much more clever ideas than I’ve come up with. Inflatable animal costumes? I never considered that one. And damn if it doesn’t ruin their photo ops. Bravo!

Good people are having a lot stolen from them. It would be shitty if anyone steals peaceful protest away from them too.

Sure, but a swollen finger is gonna feel it too. But apparently they’re designed to break safely now.

Nah, I’ve never bought pricey jewelry. Just a thing I have seen several times online. That’s how you know it’s true.

Anyway, if that’s the case, good to know, thanks.

If your finger swells up inside a tungsten ring, EMT’s cannot cut through it with their normal tools. They have to use a high speed grinding tool. You or your loved one will not enjoy this procedure.

Don’t get tungsten rings.

Probably 2 of the biggest reasons the Greeks failed to become a technological civilization are that their various feuding city-states never united in cooperation, but primarily that they were super into slavery for all their labor. They didn’t want to make slaves work less, then they would have time and energy to rebel and slaughter their masters. No, scientific advancement was simply for curiosity’s sake, not practical applications.

He doesn’t even know all the shiny shit he put up in the white house came from Home Depot and got spray painted.

Assuming humanity doesn’t get our shit together enough to explore and settle the galax-heeheehee. I’m sorry. I used to hope for that.

I doubt she’d bother showing up for it. It’s useless pageantry and she has work to do.

Easy, aim for the legs.

She doesn’t care about that.

Tougher than you’ll ever be.

Yeah, they did get higher lead exposure than later generations.