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We're pretty pissed off at ourselves right now too. I'm sorry things got this far and wish I could offer more than fear and frustration...

I'm disappointed in the Passover story for omitting God's 11th plague: bombing the shit out of the Egyptians. I'm even more upset about them taking this quote out of context:

You shall not oppress a stranger, since you yourselves know the feelings of a stranger, for you also were strangers in the land of Egypt.

It should actually end with "Unless you have lots of explosives and military equipment being supplied to you. In that case, you should probably terrorize a vibrant and colorful population into becoming radicalized by your abuses and then genocide those people because loony politicians believe that they can personally kick-start the rapture."

Thanks for pointing that out! Yeah, I totally mistook "they" to mean the board, not the suspended members. To the suspended members, I say "finally. Thank fuck." The best time to stop a genocide is before it starts, but the second best time is right fucking now.

Here, in case your downvoting finger is getting a little itchy, you can tell me to fuck right off on this comment

after publicly criticising Israel’s military assault on Gaza, an act they described as incompatible with Jewish values and morally indefensible

Fuck off, don't tell me what my values are. This is the kind of shit that made me question and then abandon my religion. It's obviously impossible to abandon being ethnically Jewish, but this bullshit has been so goddamn atrocious that it makes me question my people's history.

Jewish values my ass. Israel is run by terrorists and the Zionists in my family welcome it with open arms. Fuck all these monsters.

Edit: ohhhhhhh... Apparently "they" are the heroes of this story who got suspended. I thought that "they" were the board that suspended those folks. Well, fuck me for losing the subject-pronoun-antecedent game. The sentiment remains, but directed towards the fucking bastards who suspended the originators of the quote that I misattributed.

"Stop it Ron, stop"

Yee-haw!

You hear that? Netanyahu is woke. We gotta drop this DEI regime!

Alternative take: Netanyahu has the balls and courtesy to flatten entire families instead of just the men. How chivalrous.

Why not? Genuinely asking. I thought I remembered wake turbulence being able to cause engine stall or complete shutoff, but I only see that anecdotally, not on the FAA’s website.

I also thought I'd remembered it being able to cause stalls, but I'm mostly only reading about it causing planes to roll on the FAA's website.

Wake turbulence?

high pH oceans

Spend your summers playing at the bleach

It's scary now that doing a racism is considered a little more uncouth

The guy who carried a casket through the streets and lead chants that his predecessor was going to be killed just before his predecessor was killed by an emboldened religious radical? How dare you sully his good name!!!

because of the fact that Nicusor Dan came out as president

That's one hell of a transition! Guys, I'm coming out as a hunky billionaire!

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Shit. I guess it only works for people who are sincere about their identity and want others to treat them in the way that feels respectful to them.

This is definitely still about presidents /s

*So don’t delay, fuck now, supplies are fucking out

Fuck now, if you’re still alive, six to eight fucks to arrive

And if you fuck more, there may be a tomorrow

But if the offer’s fucked

You might as well be fuckin’ on the sun*

Not really that big of a deal *(/s)*, it's far from the first time that they've demolished swaths of homes to ensure the Palestinians have nowhere to live once they won an appeal to regain their land.

I done seen them doing it with my own eyeballs.

It's atrocious, for sure, but it's far from unexpected. I'm glad lights are still being shone on this fuckery.

I think my comment must be confusing that people think that I'm saying that Hitler faced hyperinflation as part of his reign vs that Hitler ascended to power by being attributed as the only one who could successfully face hyperinflation.

Kinda like people were saying, "these are crazy times, we need a crazy leader."

Yes, that's the clown car part I was describing. That this administration is so obsessed yet unable to discern causality, that they're like "hyperinflation gave Hitler power! Ergo, if I want Hitler's power, there must be hyperinflation!"

I keep having this one dumb thought, but the longer all this idiocy goes on, the more I feel like I might be right:

Trump's obsessed with Hitler, right? A big part of Hitler's ultimate rise to ultimate power was the German people facing hyperinflation. What if Trump and his clown car are looking at that like less of a challenge Hitler faced and more of a checkbox or a milestone. Like, "Gotta have hyperinflation if I wanna be a real Hitler!"

I always wonder: Why is it tied so closely to American evangelical Christianity?

The answer to this, from what I understand, is SUPER fascinating and a rather straight line with only a single detour. **In one word: *racism***.

Prior to the civil rights movement, you'll see a higher rate of people who consider themselves religious or of faith, but fewer fundamentalists. When schools started integrating and leading up to Brown v Board of Education, a lot of racist assholes were upset that their child might go to school with someone ~~colored~~ *of color (holy shit, what's wrong with me today??)*.

Since public schools were becoming a cesspool of *inclusivity (THE HORROR!)*, private schools realized they could become a safe-haven for segregationists and make bank off of an easily-exploitable, single-issue population. A trusted source of private schooling were churches and they were more than happy to do a racism if it meant easy money.

The religious schools were mutually beneficial for the parents, too. Their kid didn't go to private school because the parents were racist and wanted their children away from the *"colored folk"*, they sent their kid to private school because God was super-important and needed to be in the kids' schooling. Why? Cuz we're super-religious now!

That's the ticket! We're not *racist*, we're **religious**!!! To keep up appearances, the parents would drag their family to church to prove how godly and un-racist they were.

In summary: why are the bigots often intertwined with evangelicals? Cuz you can use God to justify how much you truly suck.