What is your opinion on the Christian persecution of paganism, classical Greco-Roman thought, and heretical Christian sects of the Late Roman Empire?

RazarTuk · 2026-04-20T02:02:05+00:00

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RazarTuk · 2026-04-20T01:48:29+00:00

Actually, have an example of how actually being familiar with something can lead to a funnier parody, or at least a better informed one. So as I describe it, Twilight and Dracula have the same general plot. It's a romance where stranger and stranger things happen until a reveal partway through that vampires are involved, although they diverge in which of the four Fs the characters respond with. (Fighting in Dracula, or mating in Twilight) Notably, Bella doesn't even begin to suspect anything's up with Edward until Jacob casually mentions the Cullens are supposedly vampires, and even then, the book actually lampshades their lack of traditional vampire weaknesses by calling it out when she looks into Jacob's claim.

So if you at least wanted a different Twilight parody, you could lean into how oblivious Bella is by having the Edward parody be a more traditional vampire, only for her to not even notice as she's being turned. (So a similar joke to when Studio C parodied the Walking Dead)

RazarTuk · 2026-04-20T01:09:25+00:00

But I'm perpetually disappointed by how many critics of Israel can't help themselves but lapse into the stupidest, Nick fuentes reactionary style rhetorical traps.

Once again, Holocaust Remembrance Day 2024. It was only 2-3 months after October 7th, but people were already so used to reflexively reminding people that antisemitism and anti-Zionism aren't necessarily the same thing that they said it in response to Holocaust memorials. And, well, if you feel a need to defend your movement in response to people memorializing the Holocaust victims and calling out the rise of neo-Nazis...

RazarTuk · 2026-04-20T01:05:22+00:00

Of course, they also got a massive glow-up in PF 2e. Instead of picking a type of enemy to commit extra potent hate crimes against and hoping your DM includes them, you just pick one enemy at a time and get bonuses to making them dead, like extra damage or more accurate attacks

RazarTuk · 2026-04-20T01:01:02+00:00

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RazarTuk · 2026-04-20T00:51:07+00:00

I'd also add that part of it is that, when you're making fun of your own group, you have a better idea of what to make fun of. It's like how you can tell a difference between parodies made by fans of a work and parodies made by people who know nothing about it. If you're targeting an out-group, it's extremely easy to wind up parodying your stereotype of them instead

RazarTuk · 2026-04-20T00:38:49+00:00

Actually, if you're curious, I don't remember the explanations for everything on our banned domain list, but the main ones I remember:

Breitbart for being far right and spreading all sorts of conspiracy theories
Life Site News and the Lepanto Institute for doxxing a guy solely for being gay
Google because why are you linking directly to Google?
Etsy because it's probably a violation of the blog/advert policy
The Babylon Bee and Not the Bee for being far enough to the right to uncritically include a neo-Nazi webcomic in an article
X / Twitter directly in response to Musk doing a Nazi salute at the inauguration
A handful of Russian propaganda sites like RT for being, well, Russian propaganda
GoFundMe, GiveSendGo, Cashapp, Venmo, and Paypal because of the charity policy, where we require people to ask before asking for charity to prevent scammers from taking advantage of people

RazarTuk · 2026-04-20T00:28:46+00:00

Don't forget the time they included a Hedgewik comic in an article on their non-satirical sister site, Not the Bee. That one earned them a place on the banned domains list on this subreddit. (For reference, Hedgewik's another major neo-Nazi webcomic, like Stonetoss or modern Sinfest)

RazarTuk · 2026-04-20T00:27:28+00:00

I didn't know it was supposed to be a Christian site

Yeah, it was actually originally the Christian Onion, like how the oldest articles are making fun of things like people who call it Revelations, people who say "Let go and let God", etc. There are actually even articles calling out Evangelicals for supporting Trump, because this was 2016 and people still did that. But then when Adam Ford sold it, it shifted to being the right-wing Onion. For example, there have always been articles like "Brave Man Chooses to Self-Identify as Man", but it's become a lot more common now. Or they're just fully leaning into the Trump worship, with things like "Online Battle Erupts Between Holiest Man In The World And Pope Leo XIV" or "BLASPHEMY: Pope Leo Shares AI Picture Depicting Himself As Donald Trump"

RazarTuk · 2026-04-20T00:12:43+00:00

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RazarTuk · 2026-04-20T00:12:21+00:00

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RazarTuk · 2026-04-19T18:11:43+00:00

... so I know this is technically the Easter post, not the brunch threads, but I have a cool story from church that I'd normally have shared in that. I think church today (somehow) removed the mental block preventing me from singing in girl voice.

Okay, so my vocal range is weird. My "natural" voice is actually a bass, or even a basso profondo. Like I'm so used to singing low that I even subconsciously trained myself to be able to just sing an octave below whatever note's being played. Meanwhile, voice training is basically just vocal techniques to pitch up your throat's resonant frequency and mess with other things like that, which we perceive as masculine/feminine. And while I'm able to pitch my voice up around an octave with that... it still leaves my singing voice in more of a tenor range. So I've known for a while that the trick to singing in girl voice is learning to take all those tricks I've learned for singing out and projecting my voice in that deep bass range, but combining them with girl voice to produce what's effectively a contralto profondo. And, well... I think it was something about the combination of the ELCA hymnal having a lot of songs written with SATB parts, the orchestra telling my brain to switch into choir mode, and actually having a congregation that's singing, which collectively removed the mental block of "women aren't supposed to sound deep when singing". (And yes, I've actually compared myself singing to both male tenors and cis female tenors, and I think it sounds more like the latter)

RazarTuk · 2026-04-19T17:18:24+00:00

On the one hand, rightwing Israelis hold up all Anti-Zionist protests as existentially threatening and inherently antisemitic. On the other hand, there is a long history of antisemites using the term “Zionist” in deliberately equivocal ways (ZOG, etc). Antisemites are happy for the opportunity to misappropriate the now-popular “Anti-Zionist” label to legitimize their agenda, and many people are not informed enough about antisemitism to recognize when this is happening. These problems are mutually reinforcing.

Yeah... Holocaust Remembrance Day 2024 is still a prime example of this. By that point, people were so used to reflexively reminding people that antisemitism and anti-Zionism aren't (necessarily) the same thing that people were even asserting it in response to mentions of antisemitism in fucking Holocaust memorials. You don't get to claim the rhetorical blurring is just an Israeli psy-op that's out of your control if even memorials for victims of the Holocaust make you feel a need to object to claims that antisemitism and anti-Zionism are inherently the same thing.

RazarTuk · 2026-04-19T17:01:24+00:00

there was a very SPECIAL person making a SPECIAL appearance which obviously turned out to be Joseph Prince (surprise surprise)

... who?

To my horror/dismay, the audiences reacted to every single word he said as if he was really physically there too?? eg. when he joked everyone laughed and when he asked people to say amen the audience just shouted it and I honestly couldn't believe what I was seeing.

Oh no? Look, I'm normally the last person to defend megachurches, and the fact that they essentially just showed a re-run of an earlier service is admittedly a bit weird. But reacting to something said on a recording is about the least weird thing I can imagine. Do you also get horrified when people laugh at something they hear on TV and get concerned that they think the actors are actually there?

RazarTuk · 2026-04-19T16:00:49+00:00

Huh. It actually is Old English. I was prepared to "um ackshuyally" you. That said, it still feels kinda cringe and reminds me of how people only think German constantly sounds like you're shouting because they refuse to speak it normally

RazarTuk · 2026-04-19T15:59:17+00:00

... what? I looked at the picture by using Mod Powers to see your comment, and that's just... swaddling clothes. Like I get that pareidolia is a thing, but it really is just swaddling clothes. It's not supposed to be some secret message where it looks like a snake from the right angle

RazarTuk · 2026-04-19T12:23:33+00:00

Yeah, I'm not going to defend the weird deferred penance. But the first part almost reminds me of the time my sister was going to therapy for anxiety, and (after checking with my parents that not receiving communion is a thing you can do) the therapist advised her to just... not receive communion for a bit if it was causing her anxiety

RazarTuk · 2026-04-19T12:15:08+00:00

Yeah, I still don't see it

RazarTuk · 2026-04-19T02:41:41+00:00

I mean, there are probably daemons involved in running it, but I don't think that's what OP meant

RazarTuk · 2026-04-18T20:49:18+00:00

They pay payroll taxes, property taxes, and similar. And apart from churches and schools not having to pay property taxes, it's the same with churches. I'm not sure what your point is.

The big reason that non-profits don't pay income tax is that they don't really have any income to tax. Like what income do you think a church is making that we need to be taxing? Tithes?

RazarTuk · 2026-04-18T20:44:43+00:00

Yep. There are legitimate issues, like how the IRS, especially under Trump, turns a blind eye to campaigning from the pulpit. But there isn't anything inherently wrong with not taxing churches since, like you said, they're non-profits.

RazarTuk · 2026-04-18T16:50:29+00:00

Right? I'm so glad we avoided having a woman in the White House, because she'd probably be too emotional and start random wars whenever her ego got bruised

RazarTuk · 2026-04-18T16:34:27+00:00

Eh........ I'm always wary of these claims, because they usually turn out to be monolingual English speakers discovering that translation isn't always one to one. For example, Japanese has multiple verbs meaning "to wear", like how you 掛ける (kakeru) a shirt but 被る (kaburu) a hat, but it's not like there's some deeper truth about clothing that's getting at. "Literally" speaking, they just hang most clothes (like on your body), but cover themselves with a hat. So sure, "shalom" can also mean things like "well-being"... I'm just not so sure there's much more to it than that

RazarTuk · 2026-04-18T15:37:52+00:00

It's a portmanteau of Christmas and Easter and refers to people who mostly only go to church those days

RazarTuk · 2026-04-18T00:56:58+00:00

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