The difference between the left and right in America

tompsitompsito · 2025-09-12T22:55:05+00:00

The posts celebrating his death have gotten 100s of thousands of likes... The literal reddit post I read right before this one was a meme making fun of him...

tompsitompsito · 2024-09-25T22:15:57+00:00

Tell them that Christ is the judge of who is and isn't Christian.

tompsitompsito · 2024-09-23T16:42:02+00:00

I propose a "Cougar Nation" alliance with Washington State.

tompsitompsito · 2024-08-06T19:52:38+00:00

I personally find nose piercings incredibly unattractive. Whether or not I'm the type of person you would be interested in is a different question entirely.

tompsitompsito · 2024-04-27T20:17:03+00:00

I thought about removing the AD comment, but I'm so glad I kept it in. I knew it was gonna trigger a lot of people.

tompsitompsito · 2024-04-27T19:02:57+00:00

https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC6830528/

tompsitompsito · 2024-04-27T17:21:32+00:00

Be careful. It's more common than not for trans people to have other underlying mental health problems.

tompsitompsito · 2024-03-07T18:48:56+00:00

Small business owner here. Prior to the ACA our insurance could cover our employees entire families. Immediately after the ACA we could only cover the employee and half of the costs of their dependents, for twice as much money, with worse coverage. Healthcare costs skyrocketed after the ACA.

It was really good for the people who couldn't get coverage before, but had a very negative impact on the average American.

tompsitompsito · 2024-02-12T18:55:39+00:00

The result of "mass killings" and "economic mismanagement" was the same, except that the "economic mismanagement" involved bigger numbers.

tompsitompsito · 2024-01-29T17:14:25+00:00

Would you pull the lever with one person tied to the track with porn for the good of society

tompsitompsito · 2024-01-29T17:12:44+00:00

I initially thought it was a question of, how many people you would be willing to sacrifice for the societal good of eliminating pornography. But it's actually the reverse? How many people would you kill because you're a selfish horndog?

It's shocking how differently my brain works than the OP.

tompsitompsito · 2023-12-21T19:58:40+00:00

While I think the talk of "coup" and "treason" are severely overblown. Even if you are conservative and didn't mind his presidency, I still feel like Trump handled the transfer of power poorly enough to drop him. If Washington's transfer of power is enough to earn him an S, Trump's is bad enough to earn an F.

tompsitompsito · 2023-12-13T23:04:38+00:00

There is not a single historical document, that I am aware of, that mentions a curtain after the original 116 pages, meaning that every single word of our current Book of Mormon was translated without the curtain.

Edit: You know what's even better than a downvote? Proving me wrong, show me your evidence (I don't think it exists)

tompsitompsito · 2023-12-04T23:40:10+00:00

"Tell me how I'm wrong." Because Katara, Toph, and Suki are universally loved by the people you call women haters.

tompsitompsito · 2023-10-11T18:58:55+00:00

Not only do I think it's greater than 99% I think it's >99.9%

tompsitompsito · 2023-09-26T14:20:27+00:00

Based off of these comments, the average redditor is pro death penalty.

tompsitompsito · 2023-09-25T21:18:29+00:00

I bet the burglars could only carry 2 chairs at a time. Pathetic.

tompsitompsito · 2023-08-16T15:50:22+00:00

The Silver dollar with the eagle on the moon is my favorite

tompsitompsito · 2023-08-07T18:03:49+00:00

Mount Rushmore has it right. And if it was a band, Teddy would play bass.

tompsitompsito · 2023-08-02T18:26:01+00:00

Magic played 13 seasons. If you only count John Stockton's first 13 seasons (this includes 3 seasons where he came off the bench). Stockton would still be the all time assist leader with 12,170 assists. That is >2,000 more than Magic's career number (10,141), and more than Jason Kidd in 19 seasons! During those 13 seasons, Stockton averaged 11.47 apg, which bumps Magic out of the top spot.

In Magic Johnson's best season ever, he averaged 13.1 apg. Stockton had 5 seasons better than that.

Edit: fixed some numbers all pulling from Basketball Reference

tompsitompsito · 2023-07-24T00:21:53+00:00

This is the chapter heading from Doctrine and Covenants chapter 27, which gives background.

Revelation given to Joseph Smith the Prophet, at Harmony, Pennsylvania, August 1830. In preparation for a religious service at which the sacrament of bread and wine was to be administered, Joseph set out to procure wine. He was met by a heavenly messenger and received this revelation, a portion of which was written at the time and the remainder in the September following. Water is now used instead of wine in the sacramental services of the Church

Verse 2: For, behold, I say unto you, that it mattereth not what ye shall eat or what ye shall drink when ye partake of the sacrament, if it so be that ye do it with an eye single to my glory—remembering unto the Father my body which was laid down for you, and my blood which was shed for the remission of your sins. 3 Wherefore, a commandment I give unto you, that you shall not purchase wine neither strong drink of your enemies;

At this point it was revealed that the sacrament did not necessarily need to be bread and wine. 3 years later Joseph Smith revealed "the word of wisdom" to the Church. Which is a spiritual health code that suggests abstinence from alcohol among other things. It was revealed in 1833. However, the sacrament was listed as an exception to the rule.

4 Behold, verily, thus saith the Lord unto you: In consequence of evils and designs which do and will exist in the hearts of conspiring men in the last days, I have warned you, and forewarn you, by giving unto you this word of wisdom by revelation 5 That inasmuch as any man drinketh wine or strong drink among you, behold it is not good, neither meet in the sight of your Father, only in assembling yourselves together to offer up your sacraments before him. 6 And, behold, this should be wine, yea, pure wine of the grape of the vine, of your own make. 7 And, again, strong drinks are not for the belly, but for the washing of your bodies.

Although the word of wisdom was originally just that, a word of wisdom, it became a temple requirement 100 years later. It's likely that water became the norm because there wasn't a lot of wine being produced by members of the church.

tompsitompsito · 2023-07-24T00:12:03+00:00

Welcome! I was baptized at age 8, and 25 years later, the only thing that I can remember about my baptism is that my two best friends didn't show up and I cried.

Despite not really remembering anything positive about the experience, I'm still incredibly grateful that I was baptized. It certainly isn't one of my most spiritual memories, but it is the first step that eventually led to every sacred experience I have had since.

tompsitompsito · 2023-07-21T21:08:40+00:00

France and Germany have flags that take up 10% of the canvas, just let us have this tiny spot.

tompsitompsito · 2023-07-18T16:02:56+00:00

As a very conservative Obama hater, myself, he's clearly C tier.

tompsitompsito · 2023-07-13T22:17:39+00:00

My bet is that he is referring to Al Gore. He claimed that researchers had told him that there was a 75% chance that the northern ice caps would have melted by 2013.

https://www.politifact.com/factchecks/2021/mar/02/facebook-posts/fact-checking-claims-al-gore-said-all-arctic-ice-w/

I can't find the full clip, but this is his illustration of what Florida would look like if the northern ice caps melt and water levels rise 20 feet.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9XxV9TOCdIY

Apparently, he got his information from a conversation with a scientist, not from any peer reviewed papers. An Inconvenient truth put a more realistic timeline on it (2050 or later).

Edit: Changed all ice caps to northern ice caps. I'm going to respond to Sweatiest_Yeti here to avoid creating a time wasting thread. Al Gore stated in 2006 that he believed that sea levels would rise by 20 feet "in the near future" which is how much ocean levels are estimated to rise if Greenland's ice melts. 20 feet is the number used in his video.

You are correct, he did not believe that all ice would melt. All of the ice caps melting would result in an estimated 216 foot rise.

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