stephen

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[–] stephen@lazysoci.al 2 points 1 week ago

Fair point! I’d’ve liked something about the whole “market place of ideas” illusion that the ruling class says exists, but I guess your perspective gets right to the quick of things.

[–] stephen@lazysoci.al 46 points 1 week ago (8 children)

More of the same.

[–] stephen@lazysoci.al 82 points 1 week ago (16 children)

because it presents a slippery slope that could end with conservatives facing government censorship down the road

Silencing speech in “the Land of the Free” isn’t really the problem to him. The problem is that the sword swings both ways.

Turd continues to be turd.

[–] stephen@lazysoci.al 5 points 1 month ago (1 children)

No. Your argument is for fools. The argument that a country with a population of 345 million produces less carbon dioxide to pollute the planet’s atmosphere with than a country of 1.42 billion people is nonsense and contributes nothing to any conversation at all. The per capita comparison is what matters, but it’s not used by the people that just really want us to believe “China == bad”. Seems like they’re successful at it based on this interaction, sadly.

[–] stephen@lazysoci.al 9 points 1 month ago (3 children)

Correct and correct.

[–] stephen@lazysoci.al 6 points 1 month ago (7 children)

As always - well under what USA is putting into the atmosphere. https://ourworldindata.org/grapher/co-emissions-per-capita

[–] stephen@lazysoci.al 0 points 2 months ago

I hope the predictions of this piece is accurate. But I doubt it.

A quick way to restart the exodus from the pews is to make the church even more overtly partisan, rather than spiritual.

When was an evangelical in the 90’s and the 00’s the churches my family attended were frequently GOP rallies with a veneer of Jesus over top. This change in IRS policy that seems to have never ever been enforced to start with will make no difference. The gloom and doom of this piece that suggests that political entities will start dumping money into churches to stump for their candidates - I don’t think that’s going to happen, since the churches that would be game - are already doing it.