That looks more like Jeff Coltin’s contribution to what Mandani said. Mamdani did the very politician thing and said ‘there are many ways’. Jeff is adding in the discouragement and the ‘but’ to Mamdani’s quote.
That might have something to do with it.
I was always more of a Masturbating Bear enjoyer.
It’s not a change of heart on white christian nationalist policymaking, so her rhetoric means fuck all.
the question of why?
It protects their investments for them and their families. Political tidal shifts on corporate ownership of critical infrastructure like housing is unacceptable for their economy. And their electability?
they’re all people who have announced that they will retire after this term.
They are expressly the ones that can afford this action: explicitly burning goodwill to secure wealth. They’re spending currency that has no value to them.
It doesn’t even have to be backdoor dealings. It is all very front door.
I am willing to bet this was on some level retaliatory for Mamdani’s election. All these senators represent a faction that’s currently sundowning. For them, this kind of action is a message.
Schumer has zero control over his party when even the party whip pledges to defect. But he apparently refused to vote for the Democratic candidate for NYC mayor, so this is entirely expected and precedented.
She is just running circles around media establishments. Speaker Greene is going to be wild. Or at least that’s what she’s after. Every House GOPer is going to need a pivot and she will be that for them.
I get it. I had meant ‘modern’ more than anything and ‘english’ was the convenient assumption.
I was trying note along the idea of how we only know Spartan history from Athenian accounts of Sparta, not Spartans. If all we had was specifically a christian interpretation of the texts then yeah, conclusions can be as varied as the reader. If we interpret the bible through contemporary historical observations the importance of the lessons and stories of the bible are provided context.
The christian traditions around the bible and the historical context through which the bible was written and interpreted are very different.
But that isn’t to undermine or remove the fact that there is a long tradition of interpreting these passages as to include masturbation. (If not the concept of sodomy at large.) But to me that’s likewise as understandably contexualized.
Because a straight reading of the part imo does make it about wasting seed insted of procreating and the interpretations I can find go with that interpretation.
History? Mesopotamian history? It wouldn’t be an individual’s personal reaction to one of the english translations of the text.
There’s a great deal of information, especially from greek and persian sources that describe the rules and laws of the region during biblical times. Like the septanguit was a major greek translation that entered judean laws and customs to greek analysis.
And then we have early roman history that conquered the region and documented the rules of local religions/cults.
Again, it isn’t derived from a vibe check of plain text like when SCOTUS overturns human rights.
You’d be looking at some early 20th century interpretations of leftism though, which is an important nuance. Lenin was a member of the Russian Social Democrats, but most people probably wouldn’t attribute his legacy to Social Democracy.
No disagreement here. I’ll take the .jpeg pixellation over AI filters anyday.
There was probably an AI filter with the compression that makes this very real photo from a decade ago look like AI slop.
A reddit thread 9 years ago: https://www.reddit.com/r/EnoughTrumpSpam/comments/5mac9k/this_pic_of_paul_ryan_laughing_with_congressional/
Got muh bag-o-rats and muh Great Cleave, time to start whirlin’…
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You spend eighty years rehabilitating nazis to fight socialism, you get nazis and no socialism.
The man understood what language and names are used for, to say the least.
Before reading the article: “They’re just going to start directly donating to the Heritage Foundation, aren’t they?”
After reading the article: “They’re juet going to help their local church which will then directly support the Heritage Foundation, aren’t they…”
I am guessing Monday will have more dedicated articles coming out from larger orgs. It is usually the way of these weekend events.
I’d say Pepe is now more internet and gaming at large. Which… can be a bit adjacent, but I say is firmly stepped out.
The nice thing is there are starting to be better comedians on the set.