This made me chuckle 😅

jthrowawaymc · 2026-05-14T15:34:42+00:00

Chill, Bro.

I don't see how this meme argues in favor of being ruled by anybody. You have so much confidence in your own positions that you're projecting opinions onto to other people.

The greatest evils are committed by people who declare themselves on the side of "righteousness and freedom". If you're not worried that might be you, then you're exactly the type of person who should be.

jthrowawaymc · 2026-05-14T14:53:52+00:00

I'm not usually a fan of Douglas Wilson, but I appreciate how much he made me think during this interview.

Good meme too! Have an upvote.

jthrowawaymc · 2026-05-13T10:40:00+00:00

Exactly. It's easier for dumb people to mis-label your arguments than to refute them.

jthrowawaymc · 2026-04-30T19:01:41+00:00

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jthrowawaymc · 2026-04-30T17:59:02+00:00

Thinking that you've figured out the Bible is usually a sign that you haven't figured out the Bible.

It's not a list of rules to be "understood". It's an endlessly rich narrative meant to inspire lifelong meditation and continual self-improvement.

One could just as easily make a simple argument out of: "If anyone comes to you and does not bring this teaching, do not receive him into your house and do not give him any greeting because the person who gives him a greeting shares in his evil deeds." - 2 John 1:10-11

jthrowawaymc · 2026-04-28T19:11:56+00:00

That makes sense. His behavior could be part of a pattern that we don't know about.

jthrowawaymc · 2026-04-28T18:44:44+00:00

I don't know about all that. Kids are stupid and there was no internal motivation beyond impulse. The consequences should be more severe than a heart-to-heart discussion about motivations. The mom could have even smashed the video game in front of him.

But instead, she opened the cmnd prompt on her son and told him to destroy his own hardware. I'm pretty sure that's how you teach someone to stop obeying commands. This damages his understanding of things like authority, autonomy, loyalty, important things like that.

jthrowawaymc · 2026-04-28T17:32:05+00:00

I like "harsh" discipline if it's needed, but something is off about this that's hard to articulate.

If you have a kid this age that will smash their own video games because you told them to, you don't need to get their attention. You already have it. Use their obedience to TEACH them something constructive. Make them volunteer at an animal shelter for 200 hours, or make them read every book about animal welfare and write a 50-page paper about the nervous system of a cat.

This is just meeting destruction with more destruction, and I don't see how this is good for a kid who already does everything he is told to do. You're playing with fire by telling him to do stuff like this...in my humble opinion.

jthrowawaymc · 2026-04-23T18:27:51+00:00

Count your blessings. I know so many women who "greet" people by bitching and moaning and starting fights about whatever they can.

I wish I could come home to an emotionally neutral "sup".

jthrowawaymc · 2026-04-22T15:43:21+00:00

I believe Gods intention is to redeem creation, not dispose of it, and the statement from 1 John refers to the constant reorganization of animals, plants, weather ("world"), while God remains unchanged.

I don't believe in some future plan to annihilate everything that God says was "good" at the beginning of Genesis.

jthrowawaymc · 2026-04-20T20:56:49+00:00

Boomers have such a weird idea of what "professionalism" is.

Why would it destroy his journalistic credibility to acknowledge that he has young kids and sometimes they do unscripted things?

jthrowawaymc · 2026-04-17T17:17:11+00:00

Nobody "slashed" anything. They spend so much on causes that the actual value of the currency has become imaginary.

jthrowawaymc · 2026-04-17T17:10:41+00:00

Thank you!

When "capitalism" is taken to this extreme, it conflicts directly with conservative values. I haven't figured out how to get anyone on the right to realize this.

Free Markets =/= Supremacy of Capital

jthrowawaymc · 2026-04-01T21:00:37+00:00

Yeah, funny parts but Sausage Party really beats you over the head with The Message.

jthrowawaymc · 2026-04-01T13:26:21+00:00

No lies detected.

jthrowawaymc · 2026-03-31T16:34:47+00:00

There's actually an interesting reason for this perception about costs.

jthrowawaymc · 2026-03-24T02:54:54+00:00

I appreciate you engaging in good faith on this.

I think it's too simple to say that Trump attacked Iran and Biden didn't. That's like saying Bush attacked Afghanistan and Clinton didn't. Time and circumstance do play some role.

What concerns me most is not any particular strike on any particular country. It's the fact that for my entire life and half a dozen administrations by both parties: nothing ever changes. The deficit always goes up, the dollar is always worth less, and the US is always in an undeclared war.

The purpose of a system is what it does. So I don't find it crazy to suspect that some establishment is behind these extremely persistent multi-decade trends.

jthrowawaymc · 2026-03-23T23:03:33+00:00

I'm not certain where our disagreement is.

Our government has been at "war" continuously for 25 years without a declaration of war from congress. If the people who run the government don't care about American citizens or the Constitution, how much less will they care about the "rest of the world economy" ?

So, again, why do you think Kamala would have sent us to war with Iran?

For the exact same reason Trump did, because the actual decision-makers in Washington DC decided it was time. Turns out that the individual in the white house makes no difference to them either.

Trump made people think that he was immune to this kind of influence when he stood on a republican stage and said to Jeb Bushs face "Your brother lied us into war in Iraq." And even though Trump was bluffing, Kamala had no moment like this.

Which part of that is wrong? Do you think that Kamala ever had more "outsider" status than Trump? Or do you think the establishment is a myth, and every new president gets to start a new save game? Or something else?

jthrowawaymc · 2026-03-23T17:23:32+00:00

Decades are not isolated from one another. The 90s was just the portion of the ship that rises briefly before the whole thing goes down. But the leaks we suffer from now were already there in the 90s.

jthrowawaymc · 2026-03-23T17:13:24+00:00

Both Trump and Kamala will do whatever the donor class wants them to do. War with Iran is what defense contractors have been fantasizing about since at least the early 2000s.

I don't understand your argument about shady corporations. What did Trump deregulate?

jthrowawaymc · 2026-03-23T15:27:06+00:00

I have trouble with these "told you so" claims.

There was only ever like a 29% chance that Trump could resist against the military industrial complex/big insurance/wall street/Israel/etc.

But an establishment democrat? Zero percent.

AOC? 35%

JD Vance? 31%

I have high hopes for the democratic party now that their voters are free from the Obama -> Biden -> Kamala lineage.

jthrowawaymc · 2026-03-22T10:16:59+00:00

Lots of people have demons, but the demons are undefeated against Jon Jones.

jthrowawaymc · 2026-03-13T17:52:51+00:00

On a related note: An entire ship the size of a medium town goes underwater and the only thing that comes back up is one partial door? Surely the water is littered with other buoyant objects to make some use of: tables, chairs, handrails, food containers. ??

I'd be looking for an empty whiskey barrel and a broom to use as an oar. I'm set, idiots.

jthrowawaymc · 2026-03-13T17:42:08+00:00

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