🌞 Alexander Daychilde 🌞

So. Willfully ignorant it is.

If you’re ignorant, it’s trivial to research this issue. Google “pagan origins of easter” and find a source you like. There will be shit tons of options.

If you’re being willfully ignorant, you deserve nothing but ridicule.

I grew up a fundamentalist Southern Baptist. In my late teens I started to question. One of the things that helped me drop Christianity was the thought process trying to answer: Who was the first Jew who died and went to hell because they didn’t accept Jesus as their saviour?

Because biblically, the Jews were the Chosen People, right? So if you were Jewish, you went to heaven. But according to Christians, you have to accept Jesus now.

So when did that happen, exactly? When was it that the last Jew died and went to heaven, and the next Jew died and went to hell?

Right there with ya. Or at least 95%+ from the sound of it. When Trump is gone, the problems are not - fascists are still there. And then the people who “woke up” because of Trumpe will go back to sleep and fuck us over by no longer voting again.

I won’t celebrate. Not because I’m not pleased, but because the fight is not over, and unfortunately, many who “woke up” to fascism thanks to Trump will happily go right back to sleep and stop voting and stop caring, which helps the fascist Republicans continue to attack our democracy.

Trump is evil, but it’s not like he’s the only evil man in a sea of reason; Republicans are fascists and in many ways (i.e. sans dementia) as bad or worse.

Also, depending on how he dies, his cult will absolutely go bug-fucking bonkers, making him into a martyr, or maybe it’ll spark violence. It is unlikely to end well.

You might not be wrong, but you can still choose to be a prick about it, I guess.

Which I guess is good for me to see and remind myself that when I feel the same frustration with people for believing things I think are stupid to believe, raging at them doesn’t help much. Doesn’t relieve my anger and frustration, and certainly doesn’t change any minds.

It sucks, though, because it’s not fair to read all the things idiots write that are achingly stupid, and have to try to keep replies not making oneself look like an asshat. I constantly fail at that.

Supposedly from Russia or at least a USSR country. Makes sense.

I think we can officially borrow it now in the US…

Is that like ligma?

people tend to be remarkable cooperative when faced with an external existential threat.

Counterpoint in the US at least: Covid.

ooh, both good choices!

Also worth nothing that while consession prices seem insane and definitely are very high - stupidly high - on the other hand, most theatres are barely scraping by, so I view it as part of the ticket cost keeping them alive.

I also rarely see movies in theatres.

Saw Kiki’s Delivery Service a week or two ago - tix were around $20 each, and we spent $15 on a soda and popcorn to share. So instead of $40 on tickets, I think of it as $55 on tickets (wife and me), and that’s not something I can do often, but I don’t mind the extra money supporting the business. I know not everyone would agree.

As a wheelchair user, what a shitty theatre setup. The first few rows are always too close and you have to lean back to see the center of the screen. Although that is a small theatre, so… I’d say 4th row is probably good as a guess.

I’d never go all the way back to the wall in a larger theatre, but that one I might. And I highly prefer center.

You win for favorite joke of the day for me with this one. Nicely done.

Told my wife - I summarized the subject of the submission and the comments just to get to teling her this comment in context, and you have her approval, too. :)

Trump really going after them on Grindr I guess

Thank you for correcting me

Excuse me, sir, this is the internet. We don’t do that shit here. ;-)

why would any country want people who are inherently more prone to crime in the first place?

Have you not heard of people trying to escape war or death threats? Countries love to gain highly educated immigrants, but many countries also open their doors in cases of need. And more typically, those tend to be poorer folks. That said, at least for the US, undocumented immigrants tend to commit less crime, although poverty is also a big factor in predicting crime. But it’s complicated and rather more nuanced than simple little pat phrases.

Pixel 8a because I’m poor, but I do like the camera support.

I like FOSS (etc), but I’m not rabid about it.

Anne Frankly, you should have

Australian racism at its finest: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0YM9Ereg2Zo

That’s not the first nor even the second, but I think it’s the third reich thing they’ve done recently!

;-)