That’s clearly the little-known second version of Matthew 25:
for I was […] sick and you visited Me, detained Me, removed My access to life-saving medicine, threw Me into a standing-room-only cell, and banished Me to another country where I had no friends to support Me.
Based on arguments I’ve had in the past, the argument tends to be something about “charity is an individual calling.”
That still doesn’t mean cruelty should be official policy…
Oh, I don’t disagree with you; I think that a nation which considers itself Christian should actually live up to the stuff in Matthew 25.
I’m just saying that’s the argument I’ve heard: that taxation is theft, that using “stolen” money to fund even laudable efforts strips it of any moral good that the deed would have, and that people should be free to choose to give to the charitable causes they like and withhold from the ones they don’t, which government-funded efforts don’t allow them to do.
It’s got a nice “FREEDOM” patina on it, but if you scratch even the tiniest bit below its shiny surface, it’s easy to see the bullshit underlying it (e.g. the “philanthropist” Koch having enough money in his estate to eliminate hunger).
But using stolen money to deport, imprison, kill, or otherwise hurt people, as part of a white-supremacist anti-immigrant campaign, is a-okay?
As I said, it’s a very thin patina over a large mound of bullshit.
But now video has surfaced of Ngo smiling and laughing with members of the far-right group Patriot Prayer shortly before they allegedly orchestrated an attack on a group of antifascists at a leftist bar in a separate incident in May. A female bar patron was knocked unconscious and said she suffered a fractured vertebrae.
Canadian incel and actual neo-nazi Jonah Bennett turns out to be working directly for Thiel, because fuck subtlety.
The ‘Reasonable’ Rebels
Conservatives say we’ve abandoned reason and civility. The Old South used the same language to defend slavery.
The most important thing to know about them, they held, was that they were not the oppressors. They were the oppressed. They were driven to feelings of isolation and shame purely on the basis of freely held ideas, the right of every thinking man. Rep. Alexander Sims (D-S.C.) claimed that America’s real problem was the way Southerners were made to suffer under “the sneers and fanatic ebullitions of ignorant and wicked pretenders to philanthropy.” Booth’s complaint, before he shot Lincoln, wasn’t that he could no longer practice slavery, something he’d never done anyway. Instead, he lamented that he no longer felt comfortable expressing “my thoughts or sentiments” on slavery freely in good company.
I wish the people writing the script for this timeline would decide whether it was a serious drama or a wacky political satire or just a horror show with vampires and shit
But that’d ruin the avant-garde Pythonesque absurdism!
Ahahaha, you actually thought YouTube would take steps against white supremacists?
YouTube is a hellsite because all techbros are amoral sociopaths and as should build a time machine to stop Page and Brin.
Esit: sellner is an actual nazi, Jardin
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And they used to give me grief over my last name before Trump.
(I’m not actually Muslim, but border guards sometimes mistake my last name for sounding Middle Eastern. Since 9/11 I’ve told a lot of American border guards I went to Catholic school.)
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Going full Mengele