DigitalTraveler42

joined 1 year ago
[–] DigitalTraveler42@lemm.ee 21 points 1 year ago

These fuckers want their Gilead.

[–] DigitalTraveler42@lemm.ee 1 points 1 year ago

Caville as the Kurgen?

[–] DigitalTraveler42@lemm.ee 21 points 1 year ago

In the context of my post wouldn't that make her a bit ahead of her time, considering she was raised in a politically conservative Illinois family?

I mean by all means get triggered by Hillary Clinton because she lives rent free in your head but realistically Hillary had nothing to do with this post, and in this context being a "Goldwater girl" isn't a negative, especially when you remember that we're taking about the 60's here.

[–] DigitalTraveler42@lemm.ee 11 points 1 year ago

Lamest possible response, even if a joke.

[–] DigitalTraveler42@lemm.ee 54 points 1 year ago (8 children)

Homer looks more excited to be stoned

[–] DigitalTraveler42@lemm.ee 43 points 1 year ago (5 children)

Mark my word, if and when these preachers get control of the [Republican] party, and they're sure trying to do so, it's going to be a terrible damn problem. Frankly, these people frighten me. Politics and governing demand compromise. But these Christians believe they are acting in the name of God, so they can't and won't compromise. I know, I've tried to deal with them.

Barry Goldwater

Also relevant:

https://www.washingtonpost.com/archive/politics/1981/09/16/goldwater-lashes-religious-pressure/b1caa379-49fa-4e04-82de-dccda6f5e7f9/

[–] DigitalTraveler42@lemm.ee 3 points 1 year ago (9 children)

What a dickhead response, real humanitarian right there.

[–] DigitalTraveler42@lemm.ee 3 points 1 year ago

This topic specifically is how many of the well known gangs of Chicago and LA were formed, like the Crips originally being formed to eliminate gangs to become a neighborhood watch, or the Latin Kings forming to combat racist acts of violence and depredation, there are a lot of similar instances over the decades (maybe even centuries) but ultimately a legitimized citizens militia or neighborhood watch that can react to circumstances would probably be a good alternative, but we all know what happened when the Black Panthers tried to fill this niche.

[–] DigitalTraveler42@lemm.ee 10 points 1 year ago

I get the differences, but there are similarities, microfinance is just the banking world's version of the gig economy, still predatory in nature, still exploiting the poor under the guise of helping the poor.

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