Skip Navigation

tomenzgg

@ tomenzgg @midwest.social

Posts
4
Comments
273
Joined
2 yr. ago

  • Vance Blasted as ‘Hindu-Phobic’ for Wanting Usha to Convert to Christianity

    Jump

  • One of the core tenets of Christianity is that the only path to salvation is through Christ. That means non Christians are going to hell.

    This isn't universally true (and is often a byproduct of most people thinking that the claims of Evangelicals are true; to be fair, it's in part because they're so loud and won't shut up).

    Catholicism believes it's very well possible for non-Christians to go to Heaven (JD Vance, I'm sure, doesn't but there's a reason he's had to've been corrected by the Vatican multiple times).

  • What's your pet name for your SO, and vice versa?

    Jump

  • I tend to call them "love" and "my heart" (or just "heart", for short), a lot; much closer to an actual pet name but I'll often refer to them as "dove", "baby pie", or "love muffin", as well.

  • Banana

    Jump

  • 😄

  • Banana

    Jump

  • You'd reminded me that I still wanted to try these, someday, and I went looking, again, for if there was an easier means (other than travelling to Hawaii); I found this place that delivers within the contiguous states: https://miamifruit.org/products/gros-michel-banana-box-order. If you had wanted to try one; more expensive, due to the fragility of the crop, but viable.

  • UFC Fighter Who Vowed To Take A Bullet For Trump Has Revelation

    Jump

  • I mean, I think it's complicated; there is something to be said about the intentional suppression of education that the right has studiously (ironically) worked on precisely because a less informed population is easier to manipulate, etc.

    I don't think it absolves them of fault (I insatiably read every Leopards Ate My Face story as much as the next person; no lie).

    I'd, also, contemplate that it's maybe not sufficiently explained by just lack of critical thinking if they're on their third round of voting for him.

    I just meant that – if your argument is that they weren't taught critical thinking – it, definitionally, can't be stupidity but ignorance because stupidity is when you knew full-well and better while ignorance is when you don't know something.

    (I also think there's an unintentional leaning, on Lemmy, towards a eugenics-sympathetic "well, these people are just constitutionally stupid and that's just the way they are" relatively often (though the current state of the world makes it a bit understandable). I'm not saying OP thinks that but I could see those who're sympathetic to that worldview easily working with the original statement, as worded; and I think we easily don't walk into those sort of pitfalls when we're particular and accurate about our words and definitions (hence, also, why I was pointing out that it can't be stupidity, definitionally))

  • I ditched Linux for Windows 11 for one week - and found 9 big problems

    Jump

  • To me, it felt like an obvious imitation of the myriad of articles that often have someone try Linux out, shortly, and then – often with obvious not understanding or just a surface level insight – proudly and definitively stating (or, at least, subtextually implying) that Linux was interesting but clearly not ready to be a Real™ operating system, etc.

    But it seems most didn't read it as that, either.

  • UFC Fighter Who Vowed To Take A Bullet For Trump Has Revelation

    Jump

  • I'd argue that's more ignorance, than stupidity; you can't help what you aren't aware of or weren't taught.

  • Trump defies ‘America First’ agenda with Argentina beef plan

    Jump

  • Many people are saying this.

  • Computer Science Courses that Don't Exist, But Should

    Jump

  • Heh, fair enough.

  • Computer Science Courses that Don't Exist, But Should

    Jump

  • What was the assignment?

  • Graham Platner’s claims that he didn’t know tattoo was Nazi-linked undercut by new evidence | CNN Politics

    Jump

  • No, no, no, but don't you see? We're the ones stopping labor progress by being concerned about what happens to our communities~ And, of course, communities of color have never been behind progresses of labor rights while focusing on issues of race (as if they don't often go hand-in-hand)~

  • MAGA site took money to unmask Charlie Kirk critics—then vanished

    Jump

  • Sorry; the sphincter, itself, must be gullible, to qualify. The rest of the body/person is irrelevant.

  • Not dishwasher safe

    Jump

  • It's, actually, likely coming from food-handling wrapping (like microwave popcorn or fast-food wrappers), depending on your eating habits.

    https://youtu.be/SC2eSujzrUY

  • Not dishwasher safe

    Jump

  • Nonsense. I've had to replace every suit jacket I've ever owned, so far, but I'll find one that makes the cut, eventually~

  • Banana

    Jump

  • You can order them from Hawaii (or maybe you have to physically be there).

    It's just no longer worth mass producing and shipping any more due to the potential to lose your entire crop.

  • Banana

    Jump

  • That last one is just something that could've realistically existed.

    …and would continue to exist, unaltered, well up until the 70s when, finally, it was modified due to growing public awareness; and only because of that.

  • North Carolina Republicans will redraw congressional maps to add seat for their party

    Jump

  • Most sentences are written with no comprehension of asides and I am perennially mad about it.

  • Probably accurate

    Jump

  • My boy likes to cry when he sees me, lead me towards the pantry (crying all the way), and then walk up to the bag where his food is and look back at me like he's helping me figure out how to feed him.

    (unless there's food already in his bowl, in which case he likes when I pet him while he's eating; he's a social eater)

  • Cuddly gerbils

    Jump

  • Pair-bonded? This is just what we in the field of Gender Studies call homosocial.

    /s

  • Joe Rogan on Trump's mass deportations: "I really thought they were just going to go after the criminals"

    Jump

  • Maybe part of it is that, as a Queer person, I've been keenly aware of the Heritage Foundation (and similar org.s like Focus on the Family) and following their moves since the 2000s.

    They've been angling for these types of societal changes for decades and, like those who were intent on overturning Roe and were willing to work for it for a near century – slowly peeling off wins until they got it –, I knew they knew this was their moment and they were going to go for all of it, whatever it took to do it.

    I thought we'd nearly buried them and all the homophobic attempts and moves I'd watched them make throughout the previous 2 decades with Obergefell v. Hodges (the Overton window had finally moved in a way that was downright surreal compared to the for-granted and implicit apathy (at best) and disdain of the 2000s and early 2010s) which made the 2024 election particularly existential.