That AI isn’t going to let you get away with posting beach photos with (I’m guessing) mild nudity or skimpy clothes that are perfectly acceptable attire.

No sir, how dare you!

Is it though? Because evolution is only really concerned with a thing living long enough to reproduce. It’s not planned like eugenics would be.

That’s why there’s tons of examples of dumb as hell stuff in biology because as long as an organism is “good enough” to keep reproducing and spreading their genes that is fine and that species will continue to evolve.

Eugenics would be more like if evolution somehow could select only for specific traits and then made sure to only let things with those traits reproduce. Evolution is much messier than that.

Oh, well my bad, I didn’t realize mumbo jumbo God land gets a fucking wave off for protecting pedophiles because it’s been that way for a long time.

The state saying, “hey you can’t hide behind the veil of religion to protect the people doing horrible things to children,” is definitely something to argue in court regarding the first amendment.

I’d argue it’s not a restriction of the practice of religion to compell someone with knowledge of child abuse or similarly heinous crimes to share that with an authority (the state) that can take action to protect people.

Setting all that aside. How is it not just wrong on some fundamental level to have the power to halt but still let abuse and pedophilia occur? It just seems wrong.

Maybe that’s why religious participation has been declining. Because they’re busy telling you that it’s sacred to protect pedophiles.

Quick edit:

That’s dogma and the practice/form is in large part a matter of unchangeable doctrine

Emphasis mine. Ok so you’re saying that there is a possibility that dogma and the practice/form can change and has changed. So… Let’s do that.

Bro it’s breaking Catholic canon. They can change that shit that’s what the Pope is for.

Maybe God would be chill with revealing child abuse even if it comes from confession. Just carve a little exception out there. Crazy that the clergy would rather protect pedophiles than reinterpreting some doctrine.

Yeah I mean, it’s not like Catholicism is the only flavor of Christianity.

The whole reason the USA even exists today is because a bunch of shitty religious people got ousted from England.

I know a lot of people still view the Pope as the head of Christianity but there are many Christians who would not see it that way. Many who would dismiss the Pope with a wave of the hand and not a care in the world.

The evangelical right wing Christian movement in America certainly does not give a fuck about the Pope based on what I’ve seen.

Who the hell do you think these mythical Democrats should vote for? Some third party that won’t win and will have a spoiler effect? The GOP whose policies help create the problems you’ve described?

What Republican is running on popular leftist policies? That’s news to me.

You’re right we shouldn’t have to settle. Unfortunately we live in the real world where should doesn’t matter and actions dictate our reality. I’d much rather take a milquetoast centrist that wants to preserve our democracy and important institutions vs a right-wing radical that wants to burn it all down.

Why can’t Democrats do the same, but in the other direction?

They kind of are with AOC and Bernie Sanders on tour but it takes time. Not to mention, for better or worse, there are people trying to do the math of winning/losing voters and who is more or less likely to vote. For now, the DNC “professionals” are betting that they’d turn off more voters than they’d get if they ran further left candidates in more races.

I’m not sure I agree with them or the overall DNC strategy the past decade but the strategy and who they plan to back with money does seem to be moving further left so that’s good.

Oh yeah I won’t pretend he didn’t move crowds to coalesce around the Nazi philosophy, he was obviously popular enough to pack stadiums.

Hitler and Goebbels, hell the whole Nazi party, we’re really good at the propaganda game. I’d say they really were one of the early pioneers of the use of mass media to steer people into alternate reality. Much like how we see social media being taken advantage of today.

He wasn’t that eloquent honestly. Just … Boisterous, loud and probably about on par with Trump when it comes to just packing stadiums and getting people riled up over social problems. Problems that were complex but he had simple answers to.

I’m really tired of all this “Hitler was a genius” bullshit, not only did he make terrible military decisions but he ran a government that was in disarray all the time. Constant turmoil followed him and many changes in personnel in important offices oftentimes just seemingly at a whim.

Not saying you’re making that argument and honestly I get what you’re saying but my God I have met too many people IRL and online that would suck Hitler’s dick in an instant. You’re right though, this timeline is dumb as fuck.

I’m gonna at least blame the stupid fucks that voted for the orange fat man larping as an early days Mussolini.

It’s like the whole “is my blue the same as your blue” thing. Who knows what anyone else truly perceives since it’s filtered through their lens.

Same thing that’s been going on for millenia now. Humans being humans, look around the globe and through history. This is not new and we are not special.

Sucks though.

Damn, I know everyone else said it too but honestly wtf is this travesty you’ve written. It’s an affront to the comma and maybe to punctuation everywhere. Hell, your “correction” might be an ungodly abomination born of the netherworld sent to break our poor brains.

Dunno, they haven’t released the identity of the “victim” so we don’t know who the driver killed.

I’m not going to go so far as to condone this dad’s behavior, but I can definitely understand it. Police are never held accountable; what else is there to expect than the spread of vigilante violence if the law won’t give us justice?

Even if the deputy that was hit didn’t pull the trigger, they’re part of the institution that’s the problem. So the logic of the dad to target a deputy, even if they aren’t the one that shit his kid, makes sense in a way. I’m sure eventually we’ll know if this deputy was the one who killed the father’s 18 year old son.

And here we see a sighting of one nature’s truly disgusting creatures.

The internet troll.

Right enjoy the MAGA boot leather.

I know you won’t see eye to eye with me on this and you probably won’t admit to yourself that you’re helping MAGA but that is what you’re doing by not voting Dem.

You’re just looking for a reason to not vote or cast your vote into a lake of fire and feel good about it. Well you shouldn’t feel good about it.

If we had ranked choice voting or another kind of system then yeah by all means go for it. Sadly that’s not the reality you and I live in here and that means a vote for a third party just causes a spoiler effect for whichever of the two main party candidates are closer aligned politically to the third party.

I guess that’s better than not voting at all though.

Bro, I get it, but I’m a pragmatist more than an idealist. I hate our electoral system with a fiery passion too. I’m just operating in reality and trying to get the least bad outcome we can with what we have.

Yo if you want to support the GOP and the MAGA movement that is your right. Just saying I’d per prefer to have a Dem in office vs cutting my nose off to spite my face.

As long as you realize you’re actively helping MAGA then by all means you do you.

I mean it’s probably both but I would bet my life that Trump is actually a Russian agent. You don’t grab a whole pile of classified documents and bring them to your home in a location secured worse than the door to a bedroom and not proceed to give those away.

Now, direct involvement and level of control - idk but he must be “on their payroll” so to speak.

Who knows they’re a whole den of corruption, I wouldn’t be surprised to learn some of Trump’s staff are selling state secrets.

Hello foreign intelligence agencies, would you like an easy way to intercept and read classified communications? Maybe just buy it off Mossad? JFC what is this clown show. Why are our intelligence officials even using off the shelf, or even modified, software solutions for communications? Shouldn’t we have some secure messaging app and protocols developed here?

Am I missing something here or is it really this dumb?