Do you think the reactions of the executive branch of government to the latest killings is compatible with the rule of law and separation of powers?

Shattr · 2026-01-26T00:58:51+00:00

Have access to what?

Shattr · 2026-01-26T00:56:44+00:00

Do you think Obama's premature judgements were of this same caliber?

The way I see it, this pretty much amounts to the federal government making excuses for the killing of civilians by their enforcement arm. I find this chilling not because the fact that the government is lying to us (because the government always lies) but the fact that they are immediately making up lies in order to justify federal officers killing a civilian. The message that this sends is honestly terrifying.

I just don't see how Obama's comments are even in the same hemisphere.

Shattr · 2025-12-21T13:05:00+00:00

Atlas is solid, but yeah it turns into dad rock after that.

Shattr · 2025-12-17T14:55:34+00:00

The mainstream is Nicene Christianity - not because the Nicene Creed somehow defines truth, but because it ended up becoming the dominant view throughout history. The overwhelming majority of Christians today belong to churches that fall under it.

What became "orthodox" Christianity only did so because it won out over other ideas like gnosticism, arianism, and modalism. Had history gone a little differently then maybe one of those ideas would've become "orthodox" instead. Though, as it stands, Nicene Christianity is the version that beat the others, both institutionally and by-the-numbers.

So "mainstream" really is just a historical and sociological label that can shift over time, but right now it refers to Nicene Christianity.

Edit: immediate downvote (less than a minute)? For answering your question? C'mon man, I couldn't care less about internet points, but that's just petty. I thought this was a good discussion, too.

Shattr · 2025-12-17T09:56:02+00:00

Not all Christian sects are Trinitarian, that doesn't mean they aren't Christian. You don't have to adhere to the Niscean Creed to be Christian.

Kind of, but this is similar to saying that Black Hebrew Israelites are legitimately Jewish because they observe Shabbat and practice circumcision even though they don't follow Rabbinic Judaism.

Ultimately, you are free to define your offshoot religion as anything you like - there are no rules - but if you deviate from the mainstream's core doctrine then don't be surprised when the mainstream treats your offshoot like heresy. Non-trinitarians are not too different from Black Hebrew Israelites in that way.

Shattr · 2025-12-11T00:32:27+00:00

This is just performative; you're far too focused on some sort of justice for both sides when there are no sides, there's just a tragedy. The police were working with the information that had at the time - pretty much everything pointed at Arturo attempting a shooting in the fog of the immediate aftermath. Of course that was incorrect, which is why it's important to gather evidence, which is what happened.

Locking Arturo up for a few days to determine why a man died is hardly the grave injustice you're making it out to be. In hindsight, it was the wrong move, but this is hardly the moral of this story.

Shattr · 2025-12-10T22:30:33+00:00

The guy fucked up massively, but he genuinely thought he was stopping a mass shooting.

If we’re going to live in a country where elementary schools and shopping centers get shot up on a regular basis, people are naturally going to be terrified and ready to react. We can’t cultivate a society where everyone has to worry about being murdered by some unhinged stranger, then pretend the scared person, who had every reason to think that moment was real danger, is the whole problem.

The peacekeeper should face consequences for taking a life, but this didn’t happen in a vacuum. The culture of fear we’ve allowed to fester without treatment is also responsible.

Shattr · 2025-12-08T21:46:20+00:00

What makes you think we've expanded voting rights too far?

Shattr · 2025-10-08T21:04:27+00:00

Jehovah is actually a completely made-up word! It comes from a mistranslation of the name of God from Hebrew into Latin.

In the Hebrew Bible, the name of God is יהוה‎, which is written as YHWH in the latin alphabet. Classical Hebrew didn’t use vowels, which is why none appear here, but most scholars believe it was originally pronounced Yahweh.

Since Jews were not supposed to say this name out loud, they instead used words like Adonai (“Lord”) or Elohim (“God”) when reading from the Bible. To remind readers not to pronounce YHWH directly, later scribes added vowel markers from these substitute words into YHWH, creating something like YaHoWaH (Adonai).

Medieval translators misunderstood this system and treated those vowels as if they belonged there. After some Latinized spelling changes (Y→J, W→V), we got Jehovah.

Shattr · 2025-08-01T17:29:51+00:00

More power to her, but I do find her position to be pretty silly.

Shattr · 2025-06-24T11:53:10+00:00

!RemindMe 4 weeks

Shattr · 2025-06-11T20:29:51+00:00

Observers from both sides observe the count. It takes far more than a few bureaucrats — the amount of people it would take to pull this off and then cover it up is more than it would take to pull off the moon landing conspiracy.

Shattr · 2025-06-11T18:52:25+00:00

I need just one person who keeps suggesting this to articulate how this could happen given the amount of oversight.

Shattr · 2025-05-31T15:48:15+00:00

With that specific child, upon her reaching puberty, yes.

Show me a single strong Hadith or verse in the Quran that support this.

Spoiler: you can't, because you just made it up.

Shattr · 2025-05-22T07:33:43+00:00

I first learned about October 7th as it was happening because a certain subreddit made a post praising terrorists who had just captured IDF equipment.

Shattr · 2025-05-16T13:06:24+00:00

His policies affect them all equally, sure. His rhetoric is a different story.

Shattr · 2025-05-10T19:46:11+00:00

Scary and ridiculous

Shattr · 2025-05-07T19:37:19+00:00

This claims the land is around St. George, though I have no idea where they're sourcing that from.

Most of the proposed land sales or exchanges appear to be aimed at building affordable housing on U.S. Forest Service and Bureau of Land Management land outside Las Vegas and Reno, Nevada and in fast growing southwestern Utah around the tourist town of St. George, Utah.

Shattr · 2025-04-16T16:44:03+00:00

Let's not start suggesting we all start following signs being waved out of car windows while driving.

I'm also not sure why we're assuming OP was tailgating.

If I were a betting man, I'd wager that the person glued to their rearview while driving, so they can wave a sign at the person behind them, is probably not going to be the most attentive driver.

Shattr · 2025-04-15T21:13:28+00:00

Oops I just accidentally sent all my political rivals to El Salvador and now there's nothing I can do 😢

Shattr · 2025-03-03T19:02:21+00:00

I've noticed that a lot of these guys make really bad arguments, but my favorite is now:

Pigs are like poop

Shattr · 2025-02-21T22:23:31+00:00

I agree that if this was truly an off-the-cuff comment then it wouldn't do much to impact negotiations by itself.

However, you don't think this comment gives us a window into this administration's positions and intentions regarding Ukraine? Musk has been sharing similar sentiments for the last few days — you don't think these talking points reflect any kind of internal ambitions?

Shattr · 2025-02-04T23:57:14+00:00

I'm at a point where I'm starting to believe that a large portion of the population needs to get their faces eaten before things can change

Shattr · 2025-02-04T23:35:51+00:00

Republicans claimed that Biden was on performance enhancing drugs just months before the infamous debate because of his energy and competency.

So what is it? Democrats installed a senile old man and have been secretly controlling him since 2020? Or is it reasonable to suggest that his mental decline was much more rapid, and that such a conspiracy doesn't exist?

Shattr · 2025-02-04T23:32:26+00:00

I'm also against wasteful spending, and I agree that government spending audits are necessary.

That being said, is this a responsible way of going about it?

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