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Liberals when their reps don't do anything: You need to do more! Stop sitting around! Liberals when their reps do something: You didn't do the right thing! Do this instead! There's another issue you should put all your focus into solving! It's got to get tiring to complain all the time, right?

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Looks good to me, but I can’t scroll down in the alt text? Using safari on iOS, and it’s definitely a bsky issue, not yours.

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It’s not ego, it’s faith and logic. We exist, therefore we came from somewhere. If there is a God, the Christian one is the most consistent with creation. Other Gods are modeled after humans, and we have to work to be with them. Jesus is the only one who offers eternal life to all.

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May the Lord lead you to truth.

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I'm just hoping that she got paid well into 5 figures for this.

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I guarantee you that you can walk into a church and not suffer any bad outcomes. Unless you're going in and looking for a fight, 99% of churches will be glad to have you, or at worst be apathetic to your presence.

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I don't think you can do the literary equivalent of mumbling to yourself and then claim I am the uneducated one. I mean, I suppose you CAN, it just doesn't mean much. Have a great day!

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You don't understand how the average voter engages in politics.

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You are filled with hate, for those you deem hateful. You judge others for not thinking the same way as you. Are you sure you aren't one of those right wingers you despise?

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Hmm yes, that is a very scary straw-man you're thinking of.

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That's a pretty open and shut case if you acknowledge any of the historical accuracy of the new testament...

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Deuteronomy 4:39 1 Kings 8:60 Isaiah 44:8 Isaiah 45:5 Isaiah 45:18 Isaiah 46:9 Joel 2:27

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Who sacrificed who to get what? Who wanted what? Who greenlit hurting who for what that didn’t happen? Who are the wrong people? I know the meme is that the left is the party of pronouns, but you’ve got to be slightly more specific than he, they, and them. I legitimately cannot tell what you said.

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Facism is easiest when everyone does what is easy. Divide and conquer works on a societal level. The more people interact and understand differences, the more cohesive and less hateful society will be.

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What are you talking about? You're speaking in vauge nonspecific terms.

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Because I suggested talking to people? You might want to go outside and touch grass.

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I am responsible for my actions. I take responsibility for my actions. People who professed my faith thousands of years ago killing people who professed your faith thousands of years ago doesn't really matter to me. It was the Jewish leaders who got Christ crucified, but I don't blame you for that.

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That's still helping. Even interacting with people you disagree with helps to humanize and sympathize yourself to them, and it means if they hear "these people are horrible, and need to die" on the news one day, they might think "well, I don't know about that, Sienna seemed like a fine person."

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Those who don't know history are doomed to repeat it. Those who do, are doomed to watch.

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There is orders of magnitude between being killed for something and not being able to practice it openly. By branding intolerance as murder, you only push the intolerant towards murder.

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I agree. The problem is that if you write off anyone who votes for trump as an irredeemably terrible person, then you force them further into trump's agenda. trump deceived people, and condemning them for that is actively pushing them towards extremism.

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I'm sorry, but nowhere in the right's "idealogical praxis" is murdering people they don't like. That's just fear mongering and division. Just because Luigi Mangione murdered a CEO doesn't mean every liberal strives to assassinate capitalists. Do a few? Yeah, but the majority want them to change.

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Nowhere on the republican platform, or even project 2025, is killing or even harming LGBT people. Repealing rights, sure, but not physical harm. The VAST majority of trump voters voted for lower egg prices, gas prices, and taxes. They were tricked into thinking that's what trump wanted too.

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YOU replied to MY comment. My comment was about abstraction leading to hate leading to extremism. My point is that if you accuse every trump voter of every action taken by the administration, that causes social isolation and gives them no space to change their mind or reflect.

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The first steps towards genocide are extremism. A refusal to converse with those you disagree with leads to extremism on a societal level. That's exactly my point.

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RFK Jr. is an idiot. But the fact is that the majority of people in group one either don’t understand the implications of a database, or they think it might be beneficial. Telling those people they are ableist bigots is useless. Talking with them about why it’s concerning is useful.

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Are there murderers and extremists that have killed LGBT people? Yes. Do those represent a proper sample of Group 1? No.

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If more than enough of them wanted to, practically it would have already happened, no?

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being something they are not, then they end up becoming what they were hated for in the first place. “Why should I care about LGBT people? They all hate me!” Is derived from a similar thought process as “Why should I care if republicans are suffering? They voted for this guy!”(3/3)

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You can disagree with them, and oppose their opinions. The problem is, if you group everyone who disagrees with you into “people who hate me and want me to die” then treat them that way, your standard for hate is lowered, and that hate will end up being reciprocated. If people are despised for (2/3)

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This isn’t both sides, this is historical precedent. The vast majority of trump voters don’t want to hurt LGBTQ people. They might disagree with them, or not like their behavior, but VERY few of them would resort to violence. They have been deceived into thinking republican=Christian. (1/3)

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showing a desire to resist authority, control, or convention. In this case the child is resisting the authority and control of its parent(s). The appropriate response is correction and/or discipline, depending on the incident.

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Sure, but that doesn’t make them much easier to understand or derive meaning from. There are many things about the languages that have likely been lost forever.

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No. I don’t understand what relevance it has to this discussion so I asked for clarification.

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Buddy you said two different dead ancient languages were “hardly obscure.”

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Talk to people in real life. It’s harder to hate when people realize they are talking to people.

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Deuteronomy 4:39 1 Kings 8:60 Isaiah 44:8 Isaiah 45:5 Isaiah 45:18 Isaiah 46:9 Joel 2:27 Are there other G-ds than the Jewish G-d?

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Look at the last sentence of my first reply. I grouped it with the crusades in condemnation. The hate of Jews comes from sin nature, the same as all other evil. Point to a single verse in the New Testament where it says to kill Jews.

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Group 2 is assuming everyone in Group 1 wants to kill them. That is patiently not true. However historically, groups that are told they have a more extremist position then they do don’t change their mind, they entrench and end up becoming extreme.

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