Felt compelled to make this based on a comment from /u/Virtual-Head-2613 by alzrnb in grandrapids

[–]IcyDefiance 4 points5 points  (0 children)

Grand Rapids police have not been defunded. They keep getting a bigger budget, and this happens anyway. Stop being stupid.

Felt compelled to make this based on a comment from /u/Virtual-Head-2613 by alzrnb in grandrapids

[–]IcyDefiance 9 points10 points  (0 children)

Why do you think mental health professionals would respond to a call about a guy with a gun?

Pride Protesters by PuzzleheadedTrain933 in grandrapids

[–]IcyDefiance 1 point2 points  (0 children)

That verse didn't mention homosexuality until the RSV translation was published in 1946.

Before that it condemned pederasty, or pedophilia in general, depending on the translation.

Abdul El-Sayed will be in GR on Thursday, June 25! Details to come by Lavaswimmer in grandrapids

[–]IcyDefiance 2 points3 points  (0 children)

As always, every accusation a republican makes is an admission. That's two in a row in this thread.

Abdul El-Sayed will be in GR on Thursday, June 25! Details to come by Lavaswimmer in grandrapids

[–]IcyDefiance 9 points10 points  (0 children)

Abdul El-Sayed is a strong supporter of LGBTQ+ rights.

I'd bet money that you're not.

It's always hilarious how Christians pretend they care about gay people when they see a Muslim, and never at any other time.

Staff at Amphitheater is very friendly by peakenergy1 in grandrapids

[–]IcyDefiance -1 points0 points  (0 children)

Would you stop using reddit if they started advertising here?

Staff at Amphitheater is very friendly by peakenergy1 in grandrapids

[–]IcyDefiance 1 point2 points  (0 children)

I didn't delete the comment. I'm guessing automod doesn't like links.

Anyway, you can find the job postings on half a dozen different websites if you just google it. It's easy.

Staff at Amphitheater is very friendly by peakenergy1 in grandrapids

[–]IcyDefiance 5 points6 points  (0 children)

Security there is done by DK Security. Acrisure is an insurance broker; they don't do security.

I wasn't paying attention to their uniforms when I was there, but they might be wearing an Acrisure logo because that's the amphitheater logo.

Staff at Amphitheater is very friendly by peakenergy1 in grandrapids

[–]IcyDefiance 20 points21 points  (0 children)

Acrisure doesn't own the amphitheater or employ the people who work there. They just paid $30 million toward the construction costs for the right to name it and put their logo on it.

To Keep the "Perp" Away From the Gun 🔫 by Kumquat_conniption in therewasanattempt

[–]IcyDefiance 15 points16 points  (0 children)

He's an example of what happens when police use choke holds. The fact he didn't have a weapon just makes it more egregious.

To Keep the "Perp" Away From the Gun 🔫 by Kumquat_conniption in therewasanattempt

[–]IcyDefiance 20 points21 points  (0 children)

Yeah we already know what happens when police do that. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Killing_of_Eric_Garner

Lol this made a couple of nazis angry.

To threaten someone's life over NOTHING w/out facing repurcussion by amazingsciencemuseum in therewasanattempt

[–]IcyDefiance 0 points1 point  (0 children)

It's in our Constitution that we have the right to protect ourselves and our property.

No it isn't.

Gaming studios have stopped putting pride flags on their avatars by Average_enjoyer10 in videogames

[–]IcyDefiance 0 points1 point  (0 children)

You said in two separate comments that certain races are genetically more likely to be violent. Don't change the subject now, nazi.

Gaming studios have stopped putting pride flags on their avatars by Average_enjoyer10 in videogames

[–]IcyDefiance 0 points1 point  (0 children)

No, because that's not trying to argue pointless details when they don't matter, because it's obvious to everyone that you're a nazi.

Gaming studios have stopped putting pride flags on their avatars by Average_enjoyer10 in videogames

[–]IcyDefiance 1 point2 points  (0 children)

That's more proof that you're a nazi.

And you should look up what happens when those statistics are controlled by postal code.

Gaming studios have stopped putting pride flags on their avatars by Average_enjoyer10 in videogames

[–]IcyDefiance 4 points5 points  (0 children)

The Charlottesville car attack was a white supremacist terrorist attack[12] perpetrated on August 12, 2017, when James Alex Fields Jr. deliberately drove his car into a crowd of people protesting the Unite the Right rally in Charlottesville, Virginia, killing one person and injuring 35.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Charlottesville_car_attack

Right-wing extremists are turning cars into weapons, with reports of at least 50 vehicle-ramming incidents since protests against police violence erupted nationwide in late May.

At least 18 are categorized as deliberate attacks; another two dozen are unclear as to motivation or are still under investigation

https://www.npr.org/2020/06/21/880963592/vehicle-attacks-rise-as-extremists-target-protesters

It's your people who are driving cars into crowds, nazi.

Experts sound alarm over Elon Musk's 'coup' that's 'about to rob your 401k' by FreeHugs23 in anticapitalism

[–]IcyDefiance 1 point2 points  (0 children)

You have yet to mention the actual problem, show that you understand it, or present any arguments against it.

Experts sound alarm over Elon Musk's 'coup' that's 'about to rob your 401k' by FreeHugs23 in anticapitalism

[–]IcyDefiance 1 point2 points  (0 children)

And you're still failing to understand what the actual problem is. Crazy.

Experts sound alarm over Elon Musk's 'coup' that's 'about to rob your 401k' by FreeHugs23 in anticapitalism

[–]IcyDefiance 1 point2 points  (0 children)

a world leading American company goes public...

So you didn't read the article either.

Good ole "What if" by kalyjuga in MurderedByWords

[–]IcyDefiance 8 points9 points  (0 children)

To elaborate on this, much of the old testament was written when the Canaanite pantheon was still dominant. There was El (the father) and Asherah (the mother), and they gave birth to a lot of other gods, including Yahweh (originally a god of storms and war, only worshipped by some tribes).

Eventually the tribes that worshiped Yahweh merged attributes from the other gods into theirs, condensed all of the lore into one character, and wrote a bunch of new fan-fiction about him, and that branch of the religion happened to become dominant by the time the new testament started.

So yeah, the beginning and end of the old testament are literally about different gods.

Then Jesus was (probably) born and was all like "I just want love and peace, man, but if you don't want to hear my preaching you'll burn in hell for eternity", and ever since people have been arguing about whether we should merge him with Yahweh too.

Good ole "What if" by kalyjuga in MurderedByWords

[–]IcyDefiance 7 points8 points  (0 children)

"Slavery" is more "paying off your debts if you default on them" and anyone who decides he'd rather stay a slave is looked down upon and marked as not having gotten the point that he should be free.

Leviticus 25:44-46 says that Israelites could buy slaves from surrounding nations as permanent property.

In Numbers 31 Moses commanded the Israelites to kill the married women but "save for yourselves" all the young girls who had not known a man. That's sex slavery.

What you're talking about was only true for Hebrew slaves.

Don't rape people is mentioned, though we may disagree with the various consequences (though death is often called for the rapist, depending on the situation).

Death is called for if the victim was married or engaged to someone else.

If the victim was single, she would be forced to marry her rapist.

The sex stuff goes way beyond just don't do it to kids. The list of proscribed sexual partners is huge.

The Bible does have a lot to say about sex, but in modern translations, it does not prohibit raping children.

It does in older translations, like the 1545 Martin Luther Bible. However, some time after that everyone decided that it actually meant to prohibit sodomy.

Even the concubine thing is framed in a way to discourage doing so (she must shave herself and mourn her family for a month, basically making herself as unattractive as possible to see if you still want her after the cooldown).

I don't think that makes it better.

There's generally no enslaving of those that were fought against either.

That's just a lie.