nickiwest

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Because in order for their belief system to be passed down though generations, they had to make suicide a sin. Otherwise they would actually kill themselves to get to Heaven more quickly.

I have known Evangelicals who refused medical treatment because they were "ready to be with Jesus."

A lot of the rural Trump voters I know had made being uneducated a key pillar of their personal identity even before 2015. Those are the people who think he's a charismatic speaker.

The urban and suburban ones held their noses and voted for him because "at least he's not a Godless Democrat." They don't listen to what he says, but they vote for him anyway.

on infinite money glitch · c/memes · 1 pts · 5d

I know a lot of people who voted for Trump the first time because "he says what everyone is thinking," but when pressed, they would only reluctantly admit that they liked what he said about foreigners and minorities. But, of course, they're "not racist or anything."

I always felt so bad for my husband at my family events. My family is very traditional and conservative, so every event is de facto segregated by gender. The women are all in the kitchen, and the men are all in the living room or on the front porch (depending on the weather).

Acceptable topics of conversation among the men: livestock, farm equipment, and neighbors whose land is adjacent to my grandfather's farm. My husband is a suburban guy who had been on a horse before he met me.

We were both glad when my cousins' kids got old enough that he could play games with them. (And video games when they hit their teens.) He got bonus points with my mom and aunts for "taking care of the kids" even though he was just trying to escape the boredom of talking to the adults.

It's interesting to see the lengths that established media are going to in order to "both sides" this political opinion that is obviously not a 50/50 split.

The headline is, "Mayor Mamdani finds favor in New York City, but struggles with state."

Has any other New York mayor ever had this kind of approval rating? Maybe Giuliano immediately after 9/11 ...

I sincerely doubt that most NYC residents give a rat's ass about what other residents of their state think about the city's mayor.

They should ask Matt Bevin how things went when he tried to mess with the Kentucky teachers' unions.

Spoiler: We got Andy Beshear as governor.

(Yes, it's more nuanced than that. He was screwing with more public servants than just the teachers. But the teachers' not-legally-a-strike was highly effective, and I personally knew Republican teachers who actively campaigned against Bevin.)

on OSAMA · c/microblogmemes · 3 pts · 9d

Champion of the dumb (aah-aah-aah)

He's a master of surveillance and AI for everyone.