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[-] DougHolland@lemmy.ml 9 points 11 months ago

There are things going on that are less important than which monstrous Republican is Speaker of the House and which office Nancy Pelosi's desk is in, but Republicans are fucking the world over in many, many far more important ways.

[-] DougHolland@lemmy.ml 10 points 11 months ago

Jamie Dimon is a wealthy old fart who never worked a day in his plush lazy life. What he says interests me less than analyzing my neighbor's dog's poop as its eaten by bugs.

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cross-posted from: https://lemmy.world/post/5764032

For those unfamiliar, The Satanic Temple is an atheistic organization. Here are its tenets. I often ask people what they disagree with and get very little in the way of meaningful response.

THERE ARE SEVEN FUNDAMENTAL TENETS

I

One should strive to act with compassion and empathy toward all creatures in accordance with reason.

II

The struggle for justice is an ongoing and necessary pursuit that should prevail over laws and institutions.

III

One’s body is inviolable, subject to one’s own will alone.

IV

The freedoms of others should be respected, including the freedom to offend. To willfully and unjustly encroach upon the freedoms of another is to forgo one's own.

V

Beliefs should conform to one's best scientific understanding of the world. One should take care never to distort scientific facts to fit one's beliefs.

VI

People are fallible. If one makes a mistake, one should do one's best to rectify it and resolve any harm that might have been caused.

VII

Every tenet is a guiding principle designed to inspire nobility in action and thought. The spirit of compassion, wisdom, and justice should always prevail over the written or spoken word.

https://thesatanictemple.com/blogs/the-satanic-temple-tenets/there-are-seven-fundamental-tenets

DO YOU WORSHIP SATAN?

No, nor do we believe in the existence of Satan or the supernatural. The Satanic Temple believes that religion can, and should, be divorced from superstition. As such, we do not promote a belief in a personal Satan. To embrace the name Satan is to embrace rational inquiry removed from supernaturalism and archaic tradition-based superstitions. Satanists should actively work to hone critical thinking and exercise reasonable agnosticism in all things. Our beliefs must be malleable to the best current scientific understandings of the material world — never the reverse.

https://thesatanictemple.com/pages/faq

She's 13. Does anyone know if she's allowed to become a member? The website isn't clear on that.

[-] DougHolland@lemmy.ml 165 points 1 year ago

Everywhere I go I'm usually the oldest person in the room, and I've been hearing that line since long before I'd ever heard of Donald Trump.

Always, the left has to support whatever bland middle-of-the-road candidate the Democrats put forward, candidates who seem idea-free and utterly without passion, because the Republicans have a terrifying candidate. Gotta take boring over terrifying.

And Bernie's right. I ain't arguing.

Sure is a bucket of swill we're always forced to drink from, though.

[-] DougHolland@lemmy.ml 11 points 1 year ago

"You are viewing this from Firefox on Windows."

I should worry that this info is exposed?

[-] DougHolland@lemmy.ml 14 points 1 year ago

What utter bullshit. The Catholic Church is one of the richest entities on this planet, but we'll let them pretend their San Francisco branch is a separate entity, so the church can get away with centuries of kiddie-diddling and continue kiddie-diddling until the Rapture.

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[-] DougHolland@lemmy.ml 17 points 1 year ago

Wow, you are the correct person to be a moderater, and I hope your patience holds out. OP has provided an incomprehensible picture with a nonsensical headline, and your response is so very polite. Me, I'd just roll my eyes and scroll away.

I'm from Reddit, so I have to add: I'm serious, not joking.

[-] DougHolland@lemmy.ml 11 points 1 year ago

To improve your Lemmy home page, let's fight climate change and end corporations' ownership of Congress and America.

[-] DougHolland@lemmy.ml 8 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago)

Of course he will.

He's never made a mistake in his life, never broken a law, never lost money unless someone else was a crook, never been outsmarted because he's the smartest human ever, never touched a woman who didn't want his touch because he's the sexiest man alive, and never lost an election unless it was stolen from him.

How could he lose an election, when no-one anywhere would vote against him, because he's Donald Trump.

[-] DougHolland@lemmy.ml 9 points 1 year ago

Climate change is largely America's fault, so Kerry's statement seems asinine to me, and quickly erases the already low levels of respect I've had for him.

[-] DougHolland@lemmy.ml 48 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago)

It's kinda funny, and I laughed.

It's also shit journalism — the article doesn't say what McDonald's posted this sign or enacted this policy. Maybe some McDonald's did, but when there's no attempt at sniffing out a who - what - where - why - when, it's piffle.

Any schmoe anywhere could've made the sign using Microsoft Paint.

The article is a laugh, but it isn't news until someone says where it happened..

[-] DougHolland@lemmy.ml 12 points 1 year ago

Love the pep talk, and the sentiment behind it.

I loved Reddit, spent at least an hour a day there and often much more, but I'm loving the Lemmy too. In many ways it's better, and one of those ways is that it's so much smaller — a much higher ratio of thought vs tired memes and dumb jokes and slick burns.

[-] DougHolland@lemmy.ml 24 points 1 year ago

That's the punchline that makes me chuckle when I read how "little impact" the protests and migration have had.

Here's a little secret: Reddit mods can't know for sure which accounts are bots. They can suspect, but they're no easy, reliable proof. Reddit admins, though, know exactly which accounts are bots — they just prefer keeping that info to themselves.

For me, that triggers a great big "Hmmmm".

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