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Re: Only in America

Post by L'Emmerdeur » Wed Mar 09, 2022 3:41 am

Svartalf wrote:
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Those three brave Republicans made a stand against virtue signalling. :lol:
Since Reagan, repubs have been making stands against virtue. period.
The Republican perception of what is virtuous is often significantly different from what you and I might recognise, I think.

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Re: Only in America

Post by Svartalf » Wed Mar 09, 2022 10:01 am

Of course, since they have turned from being good christians to the twin worship of Mammon and the Devil...
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Re: Only in America

Post by L'Emmerdeur » Sat Mar 12, 2022 5:59 am

Depends on the definition of 'good Christian.' Their god may be an utter arsehole but he is supposedly all-powerful, while his chthonic adversary has always played second fiddle. Only the usual small minority of deviant Christians actually worship the latter. As for holy greed, that has been a recurring theme in the history of Christianity. Accumulating vast wealth for the greater glory of their god! :yes: :lol:




This could go in the venerable 'Problematic stuff' thread butt I do believe it is uniquely American. The heritage of the Puritan mindset has been propagated down through the couple of hundred years of American history, and lives on. To my shame, I find this incident delectable. It's so good, I am mildly suspicious of its veracity. :smoke: From Salon--

'Assistant principal fired for reading students a children’s book called "I Need a New Butt!"'
he assistant principal of a school in Mississippi was fired for reading what administrators thought was an inappropriate book to second graders – a concerning development amid the Republican-backed effort to purge "objectionable" books from school shelves.

The events leading up to the incident reportedly began on March 2, when Toby Price, the assistant principal of the Gary Road Elementary School in the Hinds County School District, organized a Zoom event to have a special guest read a book to a group of second graders.

When that guest did not arrive, The Washington Post reported, Price was told he could read the students a book of his own choosing. He chose "I Need a New Butt!" written by Dawn McMillan and illustrated by Ross Kinnaird.

"It's a funny, silly book," Price, 46, told the Post. "I'm a firm believer that … if kids see that books can be funny and silly, they'll hang around long enough to see all the other cool things that books can be."

By Price's account, the students found the book "hilarious" – but the same could not be said for the school's administrative staff. Fifteen minutes after the reading, Price was reportedly called into the principal's office, where he was scolded by the principal for selecting McMillan's beloved book.

"They kind of just let me have it," Price told the Post. "She said, 'Is this the kind of thing you find funny and silly? Fart and butt and bulletproof butts?' And I said, 'Yeah, I did until I walked in.'"

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Re: Only in America

Post by Svartalf » Sat Mar 12, 2022 9:06 am

the god of the Book IS an utter arsehole, but the main drive of the gospels is that we don't have to be.
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Re: Only in America

Post by Sean Hayden » Sat Mar 12, 2022 3:26 pm

:lol: My girls loved that book!

Our schools are sooooo bad. :oops:
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Re: Only in America

Post by Tero » Tue Apr 05, 2022 2:43 am

Anti-abortion activists invade clinic and run off with...five fetuses?
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Re: Only in America

Post by Hermit » Tue Apr 05, 2022 3:47 am

Tero wrote:
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Anti-abortion activists invade clinic and run off with...five fetuses?
https://amp.cnn.com/cnn/2022/04/01/us/f ... index.html
What will they do next? Mouth to mouth resuscitation? Retrieve the souls and baptise them so they won't finish up in the place of unquenchable fire, burning sulphur, weeping and gnashing of teeth?
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Re: Only in America

Post by Sean Hayden » Mon May 16, 2022 1:01 am

It's unbearable. These backward criminals have doomed us.
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Re: Only in America

Post by Brian Peacock » Mon May 16, 2022 6:01 am

Two apparently racially motivated mass shootings this weekend. That's dark, America. Dark.
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Re: Only in America

Post by Hermit » Mon May 16, 2022 6:15 am

Brian Peacock wrote:
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Two apparently racially motivated mass shootings this weekend. That's dark, America. Dark.
Nothing to do with race, Brian Peacock. Information will come to hand soon, proving that the perpetrators were mentally unstable, and that's what motivated the shootings.
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Re: Only in America

Post by Brian Peacock » Mon May 16, 2022 6:32 am

Ah, of course. I forgot about that. Thoughts and prayers etc
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Re: Only in America

Post by Hermit » Mon May 16, 2022 6:43 am

It's either that or :|~ Antifa :|~ doing more of their false flag operations. Qanon will pass the requisite intelligence on to Dinesh D'Souza, who will make a hard hitting documentary of it. 2000 Assassinations.
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Re: Only in America

Post by Tero » Wed May 18, 2022 8:18 pm

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Re: Only in America

Post by Tero » Wed May 18, 2022 10:52 pm

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