It makes sense, IMO, that if we really focus on targeting Americans who donate to random Palestinian charities deemed to assist terrorism that we also make an effort to target Americans who support the illegal settlements that are part of project for the ethnic cleansing of the West Bank.

To be fair - this is entirely normal in cases where LEOs are targeted. I do not think the transgender element factored into it too much.

Just as a note for other people who were curious - Kaboom appears to have been banned from his home instance, and is not seemingly banned from our community on Hilarious Chaos.

We are dealing with the problem of occasionalism - that God is involved in everything. I accept that, of course.

“Every trial and temptation is permitted by God as a cure for some sick person’s soul. Indeed, such trials not only confer on us forgiveness of our past and present sins, but also act as a check on sins not yet committed.” (in the Philokalia)

Here is a decet write-up.

I first heard of Eugyppius when he was mostly just on Twitter doing a lot of great work talking about COVID-19 stuff. I’ve found his content to be excellent, and the guy strikes me as not a bigot who is particularly motivated by any angle on immigration, but a true free-spirited thinker.

The substack article is witty, and it also highlights something that is just really wrong about how it is being handled from the ground up:

Stories like this often come in groups, and what set off the present cascade was a particularly grim incident from 22 June in Gelnhausen (Hessen), in which a group of Syrian migrants aged 18 to 28 molested eight or nine underage girls at the local pool. When the girls first complained about what was happening, pool personnel sent them back into the water. After this incident became a nationwide story, the mayor of Gelnhausen, Christian Litzinger (CDU) gave an interview in which he appeared to ascribe the crime to “high temperatures,” which can cause “tempers to flare up.”

This stuff is just preposterous. Like blaming sexual assault on “I was drunk.” I am an alcoholic - I have been drunk thousands of times, and while I recollect making a pass at women at bars or in other circumstances, occasionally succeeding and occasionally (freuently?!) being shot down, I have never assaulted anyone (and am living SOBER now)…

The idea that now hot, overheated people will just go out and pull an SA because of the weather is even more absurd.

Hot temperatures have perhaps annoyed me to the point of losing my “cool” (pun intended) more than a couple times, but I’ve never felt that the heat & humidity has acted as an aphrodisiac. In fact, I distinctly recollect even being sexually unmotivated by heat before.

Hot temperatures is absolutely a demotivational.

What we are dealing with is a social catastrophe - girls are being molested, in groups, at swimming pools, and the actual staff is not taking responsiblity for fear of being called racist, and the local politicians are providing bogus excuses for the scum doing this.

Look, I reject the idea of painting all black/brown people as criminals, but you can never use the fear of fulfilling a stereotype as a reason to go to bat for people who SA kids… KIDS for crying out loud.

There is more than one way to be wrong, though.

Nanuephat Kittichaibawan, an assistant manager at Wonderland, said his shop used to serve 10 or more customers an hour most afternoons.

Now, even with an in-house doctor to write prescriptions on the spot, “it is just one or two”, he told Al Jazeera.

“It is more complicated than it used to be, and for some people it will be too much,” he added.

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“The policy must return to its original goal of controlling cannabis for medical use only,” government spokesman Jirayu Houngsub said.

Since a new administration took over in 2023, the government has blamed decriminalisation for a wave of problems, including a spike in overdoses among children and adolescents and increased smuggling to countries where cannabis is still illegal.

A survey by the government’s National Institute of Development Administration last year found that three in four Thais strongly or moderately agreed with putting cannabis back on the narcotics list.

Smith Srisont, president of Thailand’s Association of Forensic Physicians, has been urging the government to relist cannabis from the beginning, mostly because of the health risks.

Smith notes that more than one study has found a fivefold to sixfold spike in cannabis-related health problems among children and adolescents since legalisation.

I don’t understand this sentence.

I am just insisting that the authentic Christianity is the one of the teachings, not the one of the people who fail to live up to them.

(I would also contend it is probably not as bas as you are saying. We will get into that in a minute.)

Christianity has proven to be a pioneering and tolerant religion You’re the one who said there are followers of Christianity who are not acting in accord with the Christian virtue of humility.

I think it’s acutally the case that Christians tended to be very tolerant of divergent lifestyles in comparison to other religions that wielded political power, like Islam, or even what we see from political Judaism today in Gaza.

Christianity trended toward the secularizing the government, and it also traditionally tolerated all manner of sexual vice. 17th century England and France were pretty wild places, so was late Renaissance Italy, and this is quite different from the excesses of the Confucianists in the Song Dynasty or the Buddhits in the late Tang or late Tong Shilla dynasties in the sense that Buddhism was a very low intensity religion throughout the far East and Mahayana Buddhism tended towards endorsing transparently false and unbuddhist doctirnes when it comes to Buddhist soteriology (or should I say 'Nirvanology? lol)

So, you are saying because some people turn to Buddhism and other faiths instaed of Christianity, it is evidence against Christianity?

You are open, then, to the reverse as well, right…? It would also be evidence if people abandoned other religions for Christianity?

Damian Lillard ‘elated’ after Milwaukee Bucks waived him

Damian Lillard will miss almost all of next season after he suffered a torn Achilles during the 2025 NBA Playoffs. And while there were questions about how the Milwaukee Bucks would move forward considering this situation, the team did something unexpected.

The Bucks have stretched Damian Lillard’s $113 million contract over the next five seasons while waiving the former All-Star. The team did this to sign Myles Turner and possibly add another player to their roster as well.

Giannis Antetokounmpo reacted on Tuesday, and now there are reports about Lillard’s reaction too.

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This works out for Lillard as well, who’ll be getting paid over $110 million over the next few years while also having complete freedom over where he goes next. It’s not surprising that he’s happy.

MSN

… Or of the people,

This has become something of a tautology, though - you are equating Christianity with the behavior of its followers, and saying that the promotion of the actual text and classical understanding of Christianity is not the real one… And so “Christianity is not real Christianity because Christianity is only the Christianity filtered through imperfect people.”

But here is another argument for you:

Christianity has proven to be a pioneering and tolerant religion because it ultimately gave birth to the movements that enshrine the political rights of people that have lifestyles that run counter to its norms.

So, since you did some footwork, I felt even more inspired to verify…

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LOL yeah, the 2019 El Paso shooter right here

Know Your Meme is also covering this meme.

Oddly enough, his glowup photo is from 2023, and in his more recent photo he is less charismatic with a beard.

Crusius will seemingly be executed in Texas within the next decade.

Perhaps someone should inform him that he should shave before his last ride out of here.

Yet, Matthew 7:1 is judge not lest ye be judged.

It is hypocritical and goes against Christianity to do this.

[There is a famous story of a monk in Eastern orthodoxy… He was lazy, slovenly, slow to pray, even eating too much and complaining about conditions. He never advanced as a monk… Yet, when he was in the process of dying the angels gathered and one of the elders who was holy could see them coming to take him - they asked him, how is it so that angels would come directly here to bring you to heaven? He said,

“I am not sure, but I have worked very hard in my life to do one thing… To never judge anyone.”

There are other stories that reinforce the idea of non-judgment since it is at the core of Christian virtue of humility.

Obviously, some people are not doing this. I agree with you. We are bd at this. But I feel it is the case that doing this does absolutely go aginst Christian virtues.

I’d say a third of people never enter a place of being very reflective about what they are doing and what they have done. I think they are either dumb or calloused, and they do not want to be NOT calloused because their callouses hold together their fragile mental life.

Another third of people only enter this place of reflection until a significant amount of their youth is over, or even a signifcant amount of thier life is over.

The last third of people are naturally quite reflective, and they tend to try to avoid slighting others and are quite empathetic. However, they receive more pain from this - they feel a deep sense of injustice because they are surrounded by it, and they may become calloused and even dish out some hatred themselves, right…

So, I think this is more about the problem of people than a problem of a specific kind of people, whether they are Christian or not.

I do not doubt what you are saying - there are very bad Christians out there, this is real. But I would point out that many Buddhist countries are troubled by violence and the gross sexual exploitation of women, but this is not a reflection of Buddhism, either, but rather a reflection of how the teachings have failed to penetrate the hearts of people.

You have a right to be angry… to feel slighted… to feel mistreated… Because that happened. But I would say that true liberation comes from understanding that the people who did this are pathetic - if they did it because they WILLED you to suffer, they are pathetic because of how mentally unwell & spiritually insane they are, and if they did it out of ignorance, they are unskilled & cognitively… dumb.

Be true to your negative emotions, right, but then try to overcome that negativity so you don’t have to suffer the same losses over & over again, right.

I do not want to preach to anybody on this sort of thing - I am not some guru. I am just talking about some of my own pain - I come to grips with it actually through ordering my thoughts and trying to sincerely understand the root cause.

Exactly! We are failing to do so - collectively.

I would suggest that we need to refer to the Democrats as center left… Yes, of course, they are more fiscally conservative and hawkish than their European counterparts, but they are probably ahead of some of them even in terms of social policy when it comes to how left they are…

I know it’s frustrating for very far left people to think of themselves as outside of the mainstream, but once upon a time radicals wore that as a badge of honor…!

It’s pretty unconscionable.

My guess is that the information on this will not be clarified for a long time, until the main perpetrators are basically out of the picture.

I think they are only talking about it now because Pres. Biden is now… dying. I do not relish the fact that he is, as I do not want anyone to die really, though I am at peace with the fact that people do die… I just want to observe, though, that I feel the real tragedy was how bad his health was, and how he was not there, so he is more along for the ride than the director of any of this.

You are suggesting a conspiracy theory. I do not have a problem with that, that’s fine…

Tell me more, if you want.

I am not saying I will be persuaded to believe it, but I like conversations and I am here to keep the conversation on things going.