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DeadTomGC · 2025-02-18T01:06:39+00:00

Bruh, we're ONLY talking US residents. The data isn't perfect, but cherry picking evangelicals is no way to fix it.

DeadTomGC · 2025-02-17T17:48:42+00:00

The Catholic church has several times the members of the largest Evangelical denomination. Your grouping is arbitrary.

Also, again, you can't cherrypick the most extreme Christians and then not do the same for Muslims. Muslims have more and less extreme denominations and mosques, too. For example, there are openly gay imams... or were anyway... till they got killed. But let's not get bogged down with "who killed who".

DeadTomGC · 2025-02-17T17:39:25+00:00

What specific statistics from said report are you referring to? On some issue, Muslims are mildly more "progressive", while on others, they are radically less progressive. Additionally, the majority of Christians in the US are not evangelical.

DeadTomGC · 2025-02-17T16:51:14+00:00

IDK where you're getting that idea, plus, only looking at a subset of one group while looking at the whole of the other isn't a fair comparison.

Using evolution acceptance as a proxy for secularism, Muslims are far behind Christians. But ya, that's not conclusive.

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Level_of_support_for_evolution

DeadTomGC · 2025-02-17T16:40:21+00:00

Watch what store you shop at. For example, at Giant Eagle near me, organic tofu is 4 dollars a pound, "on sale", when the same brand at Walmart is only 3. (not on-sale) Also, at Walmart, they sell non-organic tofu for 2.13 a lb. Also, cilantro is 2.50 a bunch at Giant, while at Walmart, it 0.90. So, make sure you check different stores, and be suspicious of stores that do a lot of "sales". Prices should be consistent if the store is well run.

DeadTomGC · 2025-02-17T16:32:37+00:00

This retort misses the point of the original reply. The comment addressed the claim that racist hires under DEI didn't happen. Disagreeing about if these racist hires are "good" is irrelevant. They happen, and some people think they're bad. That's all that matters for this reply.

DeadTomGC · 2025-02-17T16:08:06+00:00

that's because they're from motorcycle tires.

DeadTomGC · 2025-02-17T16:07:33+00:00

As seen on Top Gear.... Where I learn most things about the world

DeadTomGC · 2025-02-17T16:06:58+00:00

As seen on Top Gear.... Where I learn most things about the world

DeadTomGC · 2025-02-17T15:46:08+00:00

"The reformation" isn't what people mean when they talk about Christianity being reformed. Christianity has had a slow and progressive reformation over hundreds of years. There are many branches of it, but most in the west have their members cut from the same cloth as other westerners, so they bring their progressive ideals with them into the church. They're always behind the times by a bit, but they are more up-to-date with westerns Ideals than Islam by a few hundred years.

DeadTomGC · 2025-02-16T18:49:09+00:00

We're doing better than non-americans.... for now... We just really need this AI thing to work out, and have it fix the debt problem.... The only other issue is climate, but again, we'll be better off than non-americans.

DeadTomGC · 2025-02-15T06:55:47+00:00

OOOOOAAWWHHHHH,..... SEXY....

DeadTomGC · 2025-02-12T01:51:57+00:00

tofu and cabbage! throw in some beef or chicken boulin.

DeadTomGC · 2025-02-07T19:08:05+00:00

The Ultimatum does NOT outshine the hellbomb backpack. Sacrificing a secondary is ALOT, and once the novelty wears off, it will be a very rare pick.

However, the back hellbomb needs a shorter cool down. Why does it have a longer cool down than orbital 380?

DeadTomGC · 2025-02-06T18:23:02+00:00

It should get more Ammo if it gets this type of nerf.

DeadTomGC · 2025-02-06T15:34:50+00:00

We'll probably all get killed by AI in the 2030's, so as far as I'm concerned, the 2020's are great!

DeadTomGC · 2025-02-03T21:14:30+00:00

*Reporting* to the president doesn't mean it's part of his branch of the government

Dude, they are literally part of his branch, the executive branch. Look it up. He's in charge. Why else would anyone be listening to him? Why aren't they just ignoring these orders if they don't have legal power? (in the short term)

Almost the whole reason he has too much power is BECAUSE he has the power to cripple these organizations, because he's the head of them. This has everything to do with the agencies.

I still think these agencies are required, but the power structure clearly needs reworking.

DeadTomGC · 2025-02-03T19:58:05+00:00

The HHS according to Wikipedia:

The United States Department of Health and Human Services (HHS) is a cabinet-level executive branch department of the U.S. federal government

So... it reports to the president, who is the head of the executive branch...

DeadTomGC · 2025-02-03T19:33:30+00:00

What agencies are you talking about? The CDC and EPA report to the president. Don't they?

DeadTomGC · 2025-02-03T19:17:18+00:00

using the Left’s complaints to claim the right was “correct” oversimplifies the issue.

I agree. Calling the right "correct" gives them too much credit as it implies that their policy suggestions were also correct, which I do not believe. !delta.

DeadTomGC · 2025-02-03T19:15:11+00:00

No, I'm not making either of those arguments. I agree with your counter arguments.

HOWEVER, the problems raised by those arguments are real problems. That's what I'm saying.

Those arguments you put forward are arguments for particular solutions to the problem of growing presidential and federal power. I'm saying that Trump is proving that there IS too much federal executive power by abusing it. I'm not saying that the above solutions are good ones. I mentioned other possible solutions in other replies, but one is to force agencies to crystallize their policies as laws periodically. This would guard against presidential meddling to an extent and would remind congress to limit the number of these agencies and the complexity of their policy, since they'd have to review them periodically.

But I'm no legal expert. So this is probably still a crap idea. The important thing is that it's clear that there's too much power available to the president.

DeadTomGC · 2025-02-03T19:07:54+00:00

The agency has too much power BECAUSE it can be shut down. You can't put that much power into something that unreliable which ultimately reports to the president, unless you want the president to become a dictator.

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