justawoman
I’m Bernie Sanders’ personal gimp
Once upon a time I was a Republican and then I went to college and turned into the leftist liberal progressive Democrat that hides under your bed and no I am not a man and yes I’m addicted to downvotes, every time I get one it’s like a bump of that sweet smoking gun. Also I do 99% of this on mobile in my bathtub, so if I don’t respond to you it’s because my screen was too tiny to read everything before I got out of the bath.
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justawoman
I’m Bernie Sanders’ personal gimp
11d ago
Well, I dunno what to tell you other than that’s not my experience. Progressives I’ve known have demonstrated those things; conservatives I’ve known are so entrenched in their mommy and daddy issues the concepts are hard to reach. Tranquility? More like constantly stressed. Forgiveness? More like gossiping for lack of conversation topics. Humbleness? More like cowardice. And charity? More like “I got mine”.
justawoman
I’m Bernie Sanders’ personal gimp
11d ago
The tenets of Christianity include the Ten Commandments and the principles of tranquility, forgiveness, humbleness and charity.
The minimum definition of Christianity, as stated by Christ when asked, is “You shall love the Lord your God with all your heart and with all your soul and with all your mind.” and ‘You shall love your neighbor as yourself.’
justawoman
I’m Bernie Sanders’ personal gimp
11d ago
Progressives are anti-Christian? Every progressive I have met in my life has espoused the tenets of Christianity more than the sum total of Christians I have known in my life.
If anything from my experience, Christians hate Christianity. I can think in my 20+ years of living two Christians that met the minimum definition of a Christian, while I can think of plenty of atheist progressives who have gone beyond the minimum.
justawoman
I’m Bernie Sanders’ personal gimp
17d ago
Uh, I can give a confident “no” to that question.
justawoman
I’m Bernie Sanders’ personal gimp
17d ago
Thank you. As an aside, I can't help but think that Henry VIII initiating the English Reformation that separated the Church of England from papal authority and appointing himself Supreme Head of the Church of England to dissolve convents and monasteries for which he was excommunicated by the pope so that he could divorce his first wife Catherine to sexually pursue his wife's lady-in-waiting's sister was quite a revolution in the sexual world of England in 1509, and yet society was not ruined enough to not produce the grassroots social conservative activism in the 1960s. I struggle to see how the legal changes brought on by legalizing no-fault divorce and the sale of condoms and allowing women to own property and open bank accounts is more ruinous to a society than a society's government changing the fundamental religion of the country so that he could cheat.
justawoman
I’m Bernie Sanders’ personal gimp
17d ago
Fair, I questioned it wrong; which successful modern civilizations that also police their population's sexual activity exist today?
justawoman
I’m Bernie Sanders’ personal gimp
17d ago
Huh?
justawoman
I’m Bernie Sanders’ personal gimp
17d ago
I won't agree that the Sexual Revolution has only been around for a few generations; I posit the people of medieval times certainly were not the paragon of sexual un-promiscuous behavior.
justawoman
I’m Bernie Sanders’ personal gimp
17d ago
Which modern civilizations that exist today that also police their population's sexual activity exists today, according to you?
justawoman
I’m Bernie Sanders’ personal gimp
17d ago
If those civilizations were successful, don't you think they'd still be around?
justawoman
I’m Bernie Sanders’ personal gimp
18d ago
For the last two months I've driven down to the coffee shop every day and write for an hour and a half on loose leaf paper with a variety of pens to finish the my personal fictional multi-chapter story. I'm so far at the ninth chapter with close to two hundred pages. I've already written a complete story outline. Currently, I'm working on the draft, which I do on paper so that I don't have to worry about battery time limits. After the draft, I intend to go back with a highlighter and red pen to make edits, then translate the whole thing into the second draft on Google Docs. Then I will be done and will post it on the nonprofit open source repository I like to frequent.
The only drawback so far is that I keep getting excited about ideas in-between the story beats on the outline, which extends the story, and that's added like a lot of extra pages, so it's just taking a lot longer than expected. Also, the coffee shop I go to doesn't let you use the study room in the back unless you buy something and they have a $5 minimum on cards. I'm thinking of changing my location from the coffee shop to a secluded parking spot and using the backseat of my car and some pillows to write with my legs as support, although I worry it'll affect my speed. Hopefully whatever I do will result in getting closer to the climax of the story. I refuse to get excited about the project until I've got the draft done.
justawoman
I’m Bernie Sanders’ personal gimp
18d ago
I don’t understand what you mean by “consensus on these points”.
I don’t think TitaniumButterfly is lying; I think they do believe they’re not outraged. But I believe a dive into the logic behind why they believe so will reveal they, in fact, are.
justawoman
I’m Bernie Sanders’ personal gimp
18d ago
I genuinely don’t understand what you’re trying to say because I don’t know what “liberals as in freedom” or “standard free speech issues”. Can you repeat yourself with different vocabulary?
justawoman
I’m Bernie Sanders’ personal gimp
18d ago
That is one answer. I think another answer can be that people think they aren't infuriated by those things but, in fact, are.
justawoman
I’m Bernie Sanders’ personal gimp
18d ago
I wholeheartedly don't support every single bullet point I have here, and so do a whole lot of other people in the US, too. I suppose we cancel eachother out.
justawoman
I’m Bernie Sanders’ personal gimp
18d ago
Well, I agree it's all down to subjective opinion, so I just wanted to know what yours are.
justawoman
I’m Bernie Sanders’ personal gimp
18d ago
Where I live, everyone uses the laundry mat, and since everyone includes everyone and it's connected to an interstate highway, there is a broad range of personalities coming in and out 24/7. Being helpful and cordial unfortunately runs a risk of the interaction being extremely awkward; it's best to keep very mindful on one's business and stay extremely neutrally polite. I've never subscribed to the notion that most dudes are creepy; I think people just can be creepy and there's a lot of people going in and out of that mat.
justawoman
I’m Bernie Sanders’ personal gimp
18d ago
What are "right-wing values"?
justawoman
I’m Bernie Sanders’ personal gimp
18d ago
Opposing electricity is encouraged in communities that encourage being personally prepared, from my anecdotal experience. The common conception is that in an apocalypse/national emergency/act of war, electricity will be unreliable and so electric cars won't drive.
justawoman
I’m Bernie Sanders’ personal gimp
18d ago
So, can you elaborate what "want it rubbed in people's faces" means? Because that's probably where you're going to find the answer to your question, since "not rubbing it in people's faces" includes
- making it illegal for individuals to "promote homosexuality"
- making same-sex couples and households headed by same-sex couples ineligible for the legal protections available to opposite-sex couples
- not allowing transgender adults to change their legal gender and
- banning all gender-affirming care
- making it illegal for people suffering from gender dysphoria to adopt children
- changing the status of marriages by a trans individual with a person who shares the same birth sex as them to nullified
- defining violent criminal acts carried out against LGBT people as criminal offences under Russian law such that fact that crimes which are motivated by the sexual orientation or gender identity of the victim is not considered an aggravating factor when the court determines the sentence
- providing no anti-discrimination protections for LGBTQ people and having no designation for hate crimes based on sexual orientation and gender identity
- deeming the distribution of "materials promoting LGBTQ relationships" to minors, which was then updated in 2022 to extend to apply to anyone regardless of age, thus making any expression deemed a promotion of non-traditional sexual relationships illegal
- ruling the international LGBTQ movement to be "extremist", outlawing it in the country, the the proceeding day sending security forces to raid bars, male saunas and nightclubs across Moscow
- ruling homosexual acts between consenting males were against the law until 1993
- never approving a request to hold a gay pride rally
Hopefully you can see why that would infuriate anyone, much less liberals, and how it appears a little more than "simply don't celebrate it".
justawoman
I’m Bernie Sanders’ personal gimp
18d ago
What exactly about the civil services offered by the government are "left leaning"? And more importantly, what actions are "right leaning"?
justawoman
I’m Bernie Sanders’ personal gimp
19d ago
I'm fairly certain the answer is quite boring; he's got daddy issues. His biography literally starts with recounting how he used to get the shit beaten out of him in school back in South Africa, it was a socially-approved thing and his dad was supportive of the beatings. It was never resolved; his dad never apologized, and Elon never accepted the emotional damage.
justawoman
I’m Bernie Sanders’ personal gimp
19d ago
I'm sympathetic to weird moments at the laundromat. I've developed a strategy of maintaining a resting bitch face at all times while keeping a super straight posture, refusing to make eye contact with anyone and keeping my eyes glued to my writing projects. Otherwise, I risk catching the attention of creeps.
After 3-4 days of the same clothes it must have been a special type of smell haha.
justawoman
I’m Bernie Sanders’ personal gimp
20d ago
Switching from folding my laundry at home to folding my laundry at the laundromat has so far been a 10/10 experience for me in terms of getting the laundry fully done. Also, I really enjoy the aesthetic of nicely folded laundry in the basket when I pack it all up instead of the usual pile. The only drawback is all of the TVs are set to sports and I don’t know any of the rules of the common ones.
Additionally, I have now handwritten written up to 9 chapters of my personal story on regular looseleaf line paper going at a total of eyeballing 150+ pages. Unfortunately the story got longer, so I’m still on the rising action. I’m at a bit of a drag in the story so I’ve gotten into the hobby of testing out the hundred or so pens in my boyfriend’s pencil case every two pages. My findings so far are;
Sharpie S.Gel: 3/10 my boyfriend says at a glance it makes the most legible and aesthetic writing, but it’s a drag in terms of speed so I rank it the lowest tbh.
Pentel Wow! BK440: 3/10 it wrote pretty fast but the ink is faded and it’s pretty shitty in terms of comfort so it’s #2.
Uniball Signon207: 2/10 it has nicer ink than the BK440 the but writes almost as slow as the S. Gel which is a pain and is pretty thin in terms of linework.
Uniball Vision Elite: 4/10 it’s slow but can pick up speed if you find the right rhythm but super heavy on the ink so it’s satisfying.
Pentel EnergGel 0.7mm metal tip: 5/10 my current speedster and to-go, it has the dark ink of the Uniball and the fastest speed with a rubber grip that’s on another level. It takes me places.
Pilot Dr. Grip Gel: 5.5/10: love her. The gel grip is the best out of all of them, which is why it’s above the Pentel, but it’s just a little slower it. It makes up for in a nice dark thinnish line. I’m waiting to find something with comfort of the Dr. Grip and the speed of the Pentel.
Bic Round Stic M: 3/10 it’s fast but it sucks to hold it bites into my finger especially when the speed picks up.
Bic Soft Feel Med: 2/10 they added a grip to it and somehow made it worse and slower.
Progressives loving the Lord their God with all their heart and with all their soul and with all their mind means exactly that. Loving God is not following Christian doctrine; notice how when asked what the minimum was Jesus did not say "believe in Jesus", otherwise all of the indigenous people of Mesoamerica were doomed because they missed the Jesus boat. Loving God is loving God; and what is God? Love. And what is love, according to the Bible? "Love is patient, love is kind. It does not envy, it does not boast, it is not proud. It does not dishonor others, it is not self-seeking, it is not easily angered, it keeps no record of wrongs. Love does not delight in evil but rejoices with the truth. It always protects, always trusts, always hopes, always perseveres." Therefore, to love God is to love those things; kindness, patience, humbleness, honor, tranquility, etc. When love manifests, God manifests, and when that love is loved in return, God is loved as well. Progressives loving their neighbors as yourself is also...just that.
I do believe my experiences generalize. My anecdotal evidence is just that; anecdotal. On its own it's not good evidence, which is why that isn't my only evidence. Observing Christians and progressives in society in general, it is obvious to me that progressivism is more aligned with the principles I described above; Christians, in general society, promote social conservatism, and God - who is love - is not compatible with social conservatism. I would agree that there are identifiable, individual cases of Christians interacting with Progressives where the Christians do in fact seem more Christian than the Progressives, but seeing as how Christians are famously homophobic and transphobic and progressives are not, I imagine those cases are rare.
Obviously Scardina; unless Phillips also refused to bake a cake for alcoholics, murderers, adulators, liars, thieves, and all of the other sins, which are seen as equally bad as homosexuality, then he is judging and condemning based on his own preferences and not because of his religion, which is un-Christian. Scardina called on Phillips to be truthful when he said he would serve LGBT customers, and Phillip was caught in his lie, which is also un-Christian.
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