• katy ✨@lemmy.blahaj.zone
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    5 months ago

    the fact that her husband will be 70 when her kid graduates high school (ironically the exact time when she started dating her husband who was 50) is gross

    • moving to lemme.zip. @lemm.ee
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      Don’t be like that. Hate her based on anything else but 2 consenting adults well past when their brains are fully formed being together is far from gross or unethical.

      If it was 18 and 38 then yea.

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          Old dads have a high probability of being best dads (assuming they aren’t shitty people independent of age). A fifty year old man is far more likely to have a stable career in cruise control (read chillin), had his fill of philandering, and is genuinely looking forward to being a father. I always think of Robie Uniacke, Rosamund Pike’s partner and father to her children. He was born in 1961 and the moment he found out he was having a kid with Rosamund, he decided to learn Mandarin and has opted to only speak to the children in Mandarin so that they could be multilingual. That’s the sort of zany shit an older man can get up to once they realize they have a chance to be an awesome dad.

          Or, you could be born to a Trump or Elon. No guarantees.

  • ElcaineVolta@kbin.melroy.org
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    if someone says they are christian, they are. I look at this person and see a perfect example of a religious person.

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      if someone says they are christian, they are.

      Then you can’t hold someone who says they are a Christian accountable for the actions of other people who say they are Christian. Nor does the descriptor “Christian” tell you anything about a person other than the fact that they say they are a Christian.

      Afterall, someone who believes there is no God, and that it’s fine to torture, rape, and kill anytime your feel like, is a Christian as long as they say they are.

    • Hasherm0n@lemmy.world
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      My Dad had a saying I always really liked.

      “You don’t have to be a Christian to be a good person and you don’t have to be a good person to call yourself a Christian.”

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          Stalin, Ghengis Khan, Pol Pot, etc. Shortcuts can lead to cliffs.
          I’m not suggesting that there aren’t some terrible, terrible Christians out there too.

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        I would say that before you can become a Christian you first have to realize that you aren’t a good person, but if you call yourself a Christian and say you are a good person, you are neither.

        “Here is a trustworthy saying that deserves full acceptance: Christ Jesus came into the world to save sinners—of whom I am the worst.” — 1 Timothy 1:15, NIV

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    My brain is just now upon seeing this post processing why right-wingers always accuse the left of virtue signaling; as always with conservatives, it’s projection. They virtue signal by wearing crosses while definitely not giving a hoot about the teachings of Jesus.

    They can’t imagine someone sincerely supporting a cause they care about and assume we all only do it for recognition among our peers, because that’s the way they use causes. To signal to the in-group that we are one of them.

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      This comment connects the dots so incredibly well compared with what I see from my angry conservative family.

      They can’t imagine someone sincerely supporting a cause they care about and assume we all only do it for recognition among our peers, because that’s the way they use causes. To signal to the in-group that we are one of them.

      Fuuuck, that is exactly the mindset I was raised to have, and which I very much had during my angry teenage years. Fortunately that was a long-ass time ago and in the decades since I’ve had everything from college to the internet to let me consider the thoughts and arguments of other less angry/hateful/bigoted/sociopathic people.

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        My parents are pretty hippy-dippy granola types who have regularly volunteered for our local Green Party, so I’m obviously coming at this from a different perspective than you. I like to think I’d have ended up at the same conclusions I have even if I grew up with super conservative parents, but I’d probably be pretty different.

        So props to you for doing the hard work of detaching yourself from those mindsets. Of course, we all absorb some bullshit through society at large (heck I even remember, when I was just a kid, my dad making occasional “jokes” about how Indigenous people here in Canada “were lazy and got everything for free”. And my dad is rather progressive for his peer group).

        But I can only imagine it must be so much harder to detach yourself from that if your family is completely immersed into the kind of rhetoric the right has been pushing for years now.

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        Virtue signaling, political correctness, woke, they’ve used a bunch of terms over the years and I don’t doubt they’ll eventually move on from woke to another term they use to mock anyone with empathy.

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          they still use woke, VS used by other than conservative most of the time. woke is primarily used by cons, and cons pretending to be on the other side.

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    I guess I’m kind of getting rude here, but why do all the women get evil looking and hardened once they work for the trump administration? It’s not age but like Cruella type stuff.

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    Religion is the true cancer of society. MAGA is the side effects of that cancer. Makes sense because most MAGA are highly religious.

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    Gang tattoos do. If you have a, say, MS13 tattoo and you’re not a member, and a member sees that. You’re not going to like it. It’s a membership card. But I agree with the rest. It takes more than a cross to be a Christian. Faith without works is dead.

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    Seriously I have come to find blonde women grossly unattractive and its because of Fox News and this motherfucker.

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      I found that one pissed off rant from a Young Turks journalist where’s she’s angrily saying “I DONT CARE WHAT THE BIBLE SAYS” to be very attractive. I literally know nothing else about her and she could be a horrible person, but that moment of righteous indignation really had an effect on me