I’ll believe it when I stop getting only rejection letters for entry level jobs.
2 Kings 2:23-24: A story about what happens when you make fun of bald dudes
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I’ll believe it when I stop getting only rejection letters for entry level jobs.
When people of good conscience are forced to support a literal genocide because of how broken our system is…
When people are incapable of understanding nuance…
I pity the rest of you who would choose complacency and the path of least resistance over doing what’s right.
This is some extremist cool-aid stuff right here. I hope you find the care you need.
Associating Joe Biden so closely with genocide demonstrates a lack of capacity for understanding nuance. Supporting Israel doesn’t automatically equate to supporting Netanyahu’s genocide in Gaza, but it does indicate support for the Israeli (and by extension, Jewish) right to exist. One can simultaneously protest the genocide in Gaza and support a friendly, cooperative Israel.
Sounds like you got your daily dopamine hit. You should probably take a break from social media until you’ve calmed down.
Let me rewrite this headline:
“Democrats would rather elect a literal Nazi than Joe Biden”
Which is bull, but essentially what the article is saying.
If you won’t vote for Biden because of Gaza, you are an ignorant, narrow-minded idiot and you are handing Trump the presidency.
This kind of “checking that I’m still orthodox” post makes my skin crawl. Who is “we”?
While you’re at it, write an executive order dissolving Congress and establishing the President as a dictator. It’s an “official act” so it should be fine, right?
I like the ten hour shifts. More money for me.
I love my 4-day workweek. My company still gets 40 hours of work out of me each week (minus mandatory breaks) and I get a bit of overtime on some of those hours. Better still, two people can cover an entire day, whereas three were needed back when we worked 8 hour shifts.
Have you ever asked a former member why they left? What did they say?
I helped a person rejoin the Church when I was a missionary. It was obviously not a representative experience, but he had left at a time in his life when he was angry at members of his ward for not supporting him the way he felt he should have been supported. At the time it seemed he had felt a bit more entitled to special attention than was reasonable (keeping in mind the Church has a lay ministry and we’re all just regular people with regular lives outside of church), and he had also tried to have an affair with someone’s wife, IIRC. He had requested his records to be withdrawn because he wanted members to stop contacting him. He was a lot different when I met him than when he left the Church, and had a lot of rough life experiences that emphasized the value it brought to his life.
I have not had any close friends or family leave the Church, so I haven’t had any opportunities to actually have a discussion about it with anyone else other than online. Those online interactions have been mostly hate-filled and vitriolic by the former members.
Like most members of the Church, where I live I am a religious minority. It’s far more common for people to ask me questions about my faith than for me to interact with former members.
Latter-day Saints have absolutely no prohibition against interacting with former members of the Church. Unfortunately, many former members leave under difficult circumstances and distance themselves from their friends who remain in the Church. We would love nothing more than to stay in contact with them and still be friends.
I have never supported Trump. I was serving my mission in 2016 when he was elected and I couldn’t find a polling place to vote, and I sort of had a favorable impression of him at first just because my family are big Trump supporters. However, many of his policies and his hateful rhetoric are impossible to square with my religious beliefs, which I consider to be mostly centrist. I think most Latter-day Saints are in a similar boat. We are serious about our religion and aren’t going to support a political leader who goes against many of our most deeply-held moral doctrines.
The most important thing we believe are the commandments given by Jesus Christ in Matthew 22:36-40. These are summarized as “love God with all your being” and “love everyone around you as well as you love yourself”. I can’t see how it could be possible to support Trump and sincerely believe in those commandments at the same time.
For me, however, the final straw was when Trump started speculating on live television about injecting light into people to fight the Covid virus. It was utter loony talk and I was completely disgusted. January 6th didn’t surprise me at all (Trump was laying the groundwork for it a year in advance) and at that point I almost registered as a Democrat. Now that Trump has taken control of the Republican party I’m definitely registering as a Democrat before November.
Trumpism took mormons by storm, they are some of the most dedicated adherents to it.
Plenty of us despise him, though, and one of the highest leaders of the Church has donated to the Democratic party in the past.
Caltrops are better because they require less precision to deploy effectively.
Oh, that’s fair. You came off kinda militant in your first comment. Cheers.
The list of things I heard less democratic than the idea of holding people to account for who they vote for is pretty short.
I would. Some things are really enjoyable to do, and can earn you money. Whether or not the things you enjoy doing pay enough to cover rent is another problem entirely.
They’re cliches that only apply to affluent boomers.
Which is ironic because one of the Fed’s chartered purposes is to maximize employment. I guess maximizing profits is more important, even though it’s not on the list.
The prevailing attitude on Lemmy seems to be that Israel should be wiped from the face of the earth. Comments that don’t support the protesters are quite rare.