Nobody Cares: PRS

[Innula Zenovka]

What Scott Adams' Deathbed Conversion Tells Us About Christianity

MAGA converts to MAGA

www.everythingishorrible.net

Putting on my serious and pedantic hat for a moment, I'm not sure I agree that anything any group of believers does can tell us anything about Christianity, Judaism, Islam, Hinduism or anything else, since I see generic terms like that as signifying something like "the whole set of beliefs and cultural practices of a body of people who say they're Christians" (or Jews or whatever), may of which are highly contentious within that body of people who so describe themselves.

Further than that I cannot go, since I can't comment on who is or who isn't a "real" Christian, and certainly not on who is or isn't a "real" Jew or a "real" follower of any other religion of which I have little knowledge or firsthand experience. Historical precedents for that kind of evaluation really aren't encouraging (wars of religion, the holy inquisition, etc).

So I don't like the headline, but I do agree with the general thrust of the article:

In public discourse, Christianity is mostly presented as a force for good which cannot fail, though it can sometimes be failed. Thus, critics of Adams’ late Christian turn generally rebuke him for not understanding the religion, or for a lack of sincerity, just as christofascists are accused of violating the tenets of love and charity on which Christianity is (supposedly) based.

But Christianity is a 2000 year tradition with billions and billions of adherents across history. It does not have some sort of transcendent core or truth; it is in the end simply what Christians do and what Christians make it. And one thing that Christians do and make it is christofascism—a movement that sees Christianity as a violent white nationalist project and which worships hate.

except that I'd rather he'd said "some Christians, " which to my mind would have been more accurate.

 

[Argent Stonecutter]

Not all sealions.

 

[Cindy Claveau]

James Rodden, an ICE lawyer in Dallas, was exposed for running a white-supremacist X account

James Rodden, an ICE lawyer in Dallas, was exposed for running a white-supremacist X account posting “America is a White nation," “Migrants’ are all criminals,”and praising Adolf Hitler.

After he was exposed, he was pulled from court schedules and Congress demanded an investigation. ICE promised a reivew within 120 days. It never happened.

Now Rodden is back, badge on, no explanation given. ICE refuses to comment. His account is still active, just locked.

Bottom line: a government lawyer who openly promotes racist ideology appears to be prosecuting immigrants again, with no transparency, no accountability, and no evidence that ICE ever did what it claimed it would do.
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[Cindy Claveau]

Dropkick Murphys’ New Anti-I.C.E. Song Includes the Lyrics “Too Scared to Join the Military, Too Dumb to Be a Cop”

 

[Innula Zenovka]

Not all sealions.

Puts on Derridean hat for a moment -- be afraid, be very afraid...

Systems define themselves by what they exclude, which means the excluded thing remains central to the system's self-definition. You can't have any true Scotsmen without there being things no true Scotsman would ever do.

In the same way, Christianity accepts the Hebrew Bible as authoritative -- the Old Testament prophets were divinely inspired -- but insists that Judaism misreads the prophets, failing to understand they were prophesying Christ. Christianity thus requires this Jewish misreading, in order to define itself by what it corrects or fulfills. But this means that Christians must constantly be on their guard against themselves misinterpreting scripture, which is why they ended up with the holy inquisition and hundreds of independent Baptist churches.

 

[Free]

Affordability is here! (So sayeth the Secretary of Agriculture...)

Aaron Rupar (@atrupar.com)

Brooke Rollins: "We've run over 1,000 simulations. It can cost around $3 a meal for a piece of chicken, a piece of broccoli, corn tortilla, and one other thing. So there is a way to do this that actually will save the average American consumer money."

bsky.app

Tortilla, broccoli, ‘a piece of chicken’: US agriculture secretary mocked for ‘money-saving’ meal

The US agriculture secretary, Brooke Rollins, is facing ridicule from congressional Democrats – among others – after claiming Americans can save money and have their meals align with new Department of Health and Human Services dietary guidelines by simply eating “a piece of chicken, a piece of broccoli”, “a corn tortilla” and “one other thing”.

What could that "one other thing" be? Perhaps another piece of broccoli?

(I love the choice of a corn tortilla. Can't even get a slice of good old American bread to fit her budget.)

 

[Dakota Tebaldi]

A stick of butter is higher (i.e., presumed to be "better" for your diet) on the new USDA food pyramid than a banana. That's really all I need to know.

I'm still waiting to see clinical justification for Kennedy's declaration that "the war on saturated fat" has been rightfully ended, honestly.

I'll be sticking with the old MyPlate guidelines. Literally nothing wrong with them. It's not perfect or complete information, but none of the few deficiencies of MyPlate are fixed by the new "pyramid" either.

Honestly, I think everyone should ask their PCP for a referral to a nutritionist/dietician at least once a decade or so. Your medical insurance will (should?) cover it. Don't think of it as like an "I need a diet" kind of thing (unless you do, lol), just think of it as an updated general food lesson, especially if the last time you had any nutrition lessons was in middle school. ^^ They'll give you some good ideas for stuff to try. I'd just recommend doing it now while they still have MyPlate materials to handout, before they're forced to start recommending butter-fried steak with corn-oil dressing as a condition of their federal grant money...

 

[Casey Pelous]

... Don't think of it as like an "I need a diet" kind of thing (unless you do, lol), ...

WHO ARE YOU CALLING A LARD ASS, BUSTER??????????

 

[Free]

Ha ha! (Directed only at Sinema.)

Lawsuit Accuses Former U.S. Senator of Stealing North Carolina Woman’s Husband

The complaint says the former Arizona lawmaker wooed a married member of her security detail with Taylor Swift and U2 tickets.

www.theassemblync.com

A new lawsuit filed in a federal court in North Carolina accuses Kyrsten Sinema, the former U.S. senator from Arizona, of pursuing a romantic relationship with a member of her security team, leading him to dissolve his marriage.

Among other things, the lawsuit claims Sinema wooed Moore County resident Matthew Ammel by purchasing him a Theragun personal massager, drinking Dom Perignon with him in Cindy McCain’s suite at a U2 concert, suggesting he score MDMA so she could “guide him through a psychedelic experience,” and taking him to a Taylor Swift concert.

The complaint was originally filed in Moore County Superior Court in September but went unreported until this week, when it was moved to the U.S. District Court for the Middle District of North Carolina because Sinema lives in Arizona.

“guide him through a psychedelic experience” - Kind of explains some things about her. She was likely high as a kite a lot of the time.

 

[Isabeau]

PM Carney’s speech in Davos. Don’t know which part to quote. It’s very good. Hope you read it.

Transcript here:

Read the full transcript of Carney’s speech to World Economic Forum - National | Globalnews.ca

Prime Minister Mark Carney gave a forceful speech in Davos, Switzerland, on the 'new world order' and how middle powers like Canada can benefit by working together.

globalnews.ca

Carney says Canada stands with Greenland, Denmark in speech on “new world order” | FULL

Prime Minister Mark Carney delivered a speech on what he calls the “new world order” and global unrest on Tuesday at the World Economic Forum in Davos, Switz...

www.youtube.com

 

[Dakota Tebaldi]

News is a few days old.

Hacker Dressed as the Pink Ranger Takes Down White Supremacist Websites Live Onstage

Now that's a performance that needs an encore.

gizmodo.com

She's made a video!

Describes how she got access, and a little more about this particular network and why she chose them:

 

[Noodles]

I had to add a headline word filter on my RSS reader for "Trump". I end up getting the same news dozens of other places anyway, I just got so tired of seeing his stupid name.

 

[Innula Zenovka]

Tucker Carlson’s Nationalist Crusade

The pundit’s contrarianism has swerved into openly racist and antisemitic tropes. What does his rise mean for the future of MAGA media?

www.newyorker.com

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[Cindy Claveau]

 

[Isabeau]

French authorities to ban Teams, Zoom, other video apps for gov't use

Officials want to replace the apps within government agencies with a proprietary tool to reduce dependence on non-European technology.

www.computerworld.com

 

[Dakota Tebaldi]

Star Trek Minus Context (@nocontexttrek@mastodon.social)

Attached: 1 image #StarTrek

mastodon.social

 

[Kamilah Hauptmann]

This dude's lucky security got to him before she did.

 

[Innula Zenovka]

I think this is free to view (most of her posts are). It's a very handy guide to verifying and fact-checking viral news, images and clips before sharing them -- more and more necessary, unfortunately.

Building Your Own Verification Toolkit

A guide to the tools and databases librarians use, plus a personal fact-checking workflow you can run in under 60 seconds.

cardcatalogforlife.substack.com

 

[Cindy Claveau]

I was unsure where to post about Melania's new film, then after 2.6 seconds of searching I remembered "Nobody Cares".

Now it's official - nobody cares about Melania.

 

[Cindy Claveau]