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    03-26-2023, 08:48 PM
    TomF replied to a thread Waco rally in The Bilge
    https://twitter.com/joncoopertweets/status/1640167188035166210 Look at the clips from Israel. Hundreds of thousands of people in the streets...
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    03-26-2023, 08:13 PM
    TomF replied to a thread Religion's role in The Bilge
    https://twitter.com/johnpavlovitz/status/1640000667149295617?s=20
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    03-26-2023, 07:30 PM
    TomF replied to a thread I Drew An Art. It’s Not A Boat Art. in The Bilge
    You'd think that one of the sports organizations would develop some irony and have suspenders for their top fighter. But nope.
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    03-26-2023, 04:14 PM
    TomF replied to a thread I Drew An Art. It’s Not A Boat Art. in The Bilge
    very fun.
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    03-26-2023, 04:14 PM
    TomF replied to a thread I spent the morning in the ER in The Bilge
    every word of this. Pulling for you, John.
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    03-25-2023, 09:15 PM
    TomF replied to a thread Religion's role in The Bilge
    How would you feel about people picketing a neo-Nazi rally? It may or may not be a safe place to protest, but still. Presumably the protesters...
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    03-24-2023, 02:54 PM
    TomF replied to a thread Graham admonished by his colleagues in The Bilge
    It's a start. But "admonished"? Really? Not chided, reproved, scolded? Rebuked, or even berated? I'm sure the utterly shameless Graham,...
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    03-24-2023, 11:40 AM
    TomF replied to a thread Religion's role in The Bilge
    It's happened. My dad got regular poison pen letters , occasionally got this or that event picketed . .. by members of other churches who felt his...
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    03-24-2023, 10:30 AM
    TomF replied to a thread Michelangelo’s 16th century “David” sculpture “pornographic". in The Bilge
    It was indeed utterly repulsive in the ancient world when Christians adopted the sign of the cross. Exactly for the same reason that it would be...
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    03-24-2023, 09:43 AM
    TomF replied to a thread Religion's role in The Bilge
    You're not answering my question, John. My question is this: if the Post Office had hired this guy, and then after a bit of time in the job he...
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    03-24-2023, 09:32 AM
    TomF replied to a thread Religion's role in The Bilge
    Good, you found a way to accommodate. That's appropriate, or he shouldn't have been hired. There are some positions where that couldn't have been...
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    03-24-2023, 09:20 AM
    TomF replied to a thread Michelangelo’s 16th century “David” sculpture “pornographic". in The Bilge
    I think they're afraid that Michelangelo was a groomer. I mean, centuries later, and David's willy is still hard as rock. The DeSantis crowd...
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    03-24-2023, 09:13 AM
    TomF replied to a thread Religion's role in The Bilge
    I dunno, John, But probably there'd be a way to accommodate. I mean, what if you had an Olympic team member get hired in the same kind of...
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    03-24-2023, 08:29 AM
    TomF replied to a thread Happy Birthday to StevenBauer… in The Bilge
    Best wishes indeed, Steven. Hope it's a brilliant day, and year.
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    03-24-2023, 08:28 AM
    TomF replied to a thread Trump is Toast in The Bilge
    Sad thing is, what Trump and the Trumpists are doing is very normal in the decline of democracies into authoritarian rule. It's textbook, actually....
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    03-24-2023, 08:17 AM
    TomF replied to a thread Religion's role in The Bilge
    Progress in a discussion depends on finding enough mutual respect to listen to what the other person is saying, not merely to what you think they're...
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    03-23-2023, 03:12 PM
    TomF replied to a thread Religion's role in The Bilge
    What I'm arguing about the performative religiosity of Christo-Nationalist politicians ... is that it's performative, not genuine. I think the same...
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    03-23-2023, 02:31 PM
    TomF replied to a thread Religion's role in The Bilge
    Does anyone actually think that Trump's a "Christian," for instance? There are many "accidentally open microphone" episodes where before or after...
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    03-23-2023, 02:21 PM
    TomF replied to a thread Trump is Toast in The Bilge
    If it's marmalade, it seems like it's gone off.
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    03-23-2023, 02:05 PM
    TomF replied to a thread Trump is Toast in The Bilge
    the toast has orange mold on it. Better off with the hash browns.
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    03-23-2023, 02:00 PM
    TomF replied to a thread Religion's role in The Bilge
    How about if a coalition of religious and "Irrelevantist" people decide to implement anti-trans or anti-gay policies? Really. You actually...
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    03-23-2023, 01:39 PM
    TomF replied to a thread Religion's role in The Bilge
    As I said earlier, John, while I'm not about to claim that being "An Irrelevantist" is your religion ... it is absolutely your baseline premise about...
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    03-23-2023, 01:26 PM
    TomF replied to a thread Trump is Toast in The Bilge
    Trump seems to be intending to have a pre-trial gag order imposed on him by a judge, when indictments do ultimately come. Restricting internet...
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    03-23-2023, 09:52 AM
    TomF replied to a thread Religion's role in The Bilge
    Well said, CW.
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    03-23-2023, 08:28 AM
    TomF replied to a thread Religion's role in The Bilge
    I really waffle on that. It's certainly not any spirituality that I personally participate in. But if I truly, in my heart of hearts thought that...
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    03-22-2023, 09:59 PM
    TomF replied to a thread Religion's role in The Bilge
    Full disclosure: the abortion clinic in my little town, (now closed due to the switch for 80% of abortions in my province to pharmaceutical) was on...
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    03-22-2023, 09:54 PM
    TomF replied to a thread Religion's role in The Bilge
    100% that mutual respect means mutual. And that there are many, many examples of religious folks showing none. I've already said that in a...
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    03-22-2023, 08:09 PM
    TomF replied to a thread Religion's role in The Bilge
    John, what you're not getting is the key point of my post. Your "Irrelevantist" premise is core to how you experience the world, and to how you...
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    03-22-2023, 03:51 PM
    TomF replied to a thread Where is trump? in The Bilge
    He's apparently raised about $1.5M since "leaking" the expectation. And doubtless he'll be able to use the absence of the indictment as "proof" that...
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    03-22-2023, 02:32 PM
    TomF replied to a thread Where is trump? in The Bilge
    There are some reports that he's said he wants to be handcuffed, preferably hands behind his back, for the visual impact in his later fundraising.
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