“They aren’t real Christians!” I say as they drag me into an internment camp
"the dismissal of authoritarian Christianity as ‘fake’ Christianity only serves to reinforce Christian hegemony by perpetuating the equation of ‘Christian’ with ‘good’ in the common imagination... " -chrissy stroop www.opendemocracy.net/en/5050/stop...
A year on from the Capitol Hill riots, US democracy is still under attack – and the media’s misunderstanding of religious values isn’t helping
I wonder if anyone at the State Department reads the New York Times
After a year of genocidal massacres and destruction on Gaza backed by the United States, Israel's dream of normalization with Saudi Arabia is further away than it has been in decades. Meanwhile, Saudi Arabia and the Gulf Arabs are now deepening ties with Iran and demanding Palestinian statehood.
Before Hamas’s Oct. 7 attacks, Saudi Arabia was open to forging stronger ties with the Israelis. Now, a year into the war in Gaza, it is warming up to its traditional enemy, Iran.
Is this my child? Is this her life? I cannot describe how painful it is as I see her in pain. What's new is that their father stole them from me because I cannot provide for their simplest needs now. Help me and my children to survive this famine. @divyampersaud.com@archaeologyfitz.bsky.social
The IDF spokesman announced the imminent attack of “economic” targets in Beirut. “Economic targets” is of course a euphemism for civilian targets.
I firmly believe we can culturally make it *incredibly fucking embarrassing* to admit you asked ChatGPT something because actually using your brain to find real information was just too hard
what does free speech mean to musk? it means the freedom to deceive voters, to undermine public space, to poison democracy. all his free speech talk is phony, as has been obvious for years now. musk is a cartoonish villain who, with trump, has got to lose.
So this is happening talkingpointsmemo.com/edblog/elon-...
There's deeply cynical and then there's things which might be illegal. In the first category we have an Elon Musk-funded PAC microtargeting Jewish and Arab communities with diametrically opposed ads…
I think this is a real thing but has less to do with anger or psychopathic thoughts and more to do with lower people's critical thinking skills and credulity by burdening them with the fairly significant cognitive load involved in driving.