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Edited by Mrph1 on Nov 30th 2023 at 11:03:59 AM
A certain quantity of these kinds of events (killings of police and/or judicial personnel) is noise that happens regularly and should not be confused for a pattern of increasing retributive violence.
edited 11th Jul '16 2:17:57 PM by Fighteer
"It's Occam's Shuriken! If the answer is elusive, never rule out ninjas!"So the GOP platform has been partially drafted, and among the typical stuff (no gay marriage, more transgender bathroom bills, etc.) is one highlight - they want to teach the Bible as part of American History.
Shit, the only Christian denomination that has a 100% origin within the US is the Mormons, and we remember how various people in the GOP reacted to the prospect of Romney becoming President.
"Why would I inflict myself on somebody else?"Trevor Noah starts off by contrasting statements from Hillary back in March 2015 and statements from the FBI guy this July 5. She said one thing, cut to the guy saying a conclusion that proves Hil lied. Over and over again. Noah suggests that Trump had a great opportunity to capitalize on Hillary's mistakes. Instead, Trump praises Saddam for being a strongman. We are then treated to Trump praising other undemocratic pricks. Noah jokingly suggests we shouldn't have this election and just keep Obama by default
edited 11th Jul '16 4:45:22 PM by TheHandle
Darkness cannot drive out darkness; only light can do that. Hate cannot drive out hate; only love can do that.Here's the Rawstory version
- CNN reported on it as well, but not really trying to underscore the batshit-insane proposals.
I think its safe to say that the GOP has lost its right to be called right-wing, they are far-right to the core. They deserve the same contempt as their European counterparts (FN in France, BNP/UKIP in the UK, Af D in Germany, etc).
Politics is the skilled use of blunt objects.It's less than clear what is meant by "teaching the Bible in Amaerican history". There are legitimate reasons why the Bible is relevant to American history - many pivotal figures in American history were motivated by the Bible, Christianity, and there interpretation of it, and understanding the passages of the Bible and aspects of Christian belief that motivated them is fairly integral to understanding US history. You can't understand the Abolotionist movement, or Soujourner Truth, or the Second Great Awakening, or Dr. King, without some understanding of the Bible and Christianity, any more than you can properly understand the American Revolution and the Founding Fathers without some knowledge of Locke and Montesquieu.
Given the Reppublicans' track record and current behaviour, though, it's very understandable, and probably justified, for people to draw negative conclusions about what that piece of the party platform means.
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I'm confident that a large part of Obama's rising approval ratings come from people comparing him favourably with his prospective successors.
edited 11th Jul '16 5:42:07 PM by Galadriel
A DNC employee was shot dead in D.C. this weekend, no news on a perp or motive.
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The major problem legally is that it's a huge violation of the Establishment Clause to put it in public schooling unless they also teach the books of the other major world religions, like the Koran.
Though, if more people actually read the Bible they'd realize just how much sex, blood and gore were in it or that...sorry, I don't mean this as anti-Semetic, modern Judiasim is a separate matter ...the ancient Israelites could be as cruel, dictatorial and bloodthirsty as a number of their other ancient counterparts.
edited 11th Jul '16 6:20:11 PM by Elle
Yeah, teaching the Bible should not be in American history classes. You can say that "Insert random historical figure here" was motivated by this or that in the Bible, but the Bible as a whole is not actually part of American History. It's Middle Eastern history, if anything.
Teach Song of Solomon! That would get the Bible banned really fast.
I did realize something recently. There really is a group of white people in the US who have a history of being oppressed and driven out, multiple times. The Mormons. But, here's the thing, they don't constantly cry about persecution, and they're pretty much the only people on the right who are trying to address the root of things like poverty and homelessness in any major way.
They put much of the Religious Right to shame.
edited 11th Jul '16 6:31:58 PM by Zendervai
I can understand teaching about religion in history classes to an extent. One year my teacher had us do a project where we chose a religion, researched it, and then presented it. It was fun, and renewed my interest in religions from around the world.
But this isn't about teaching students about religions, it's about making every school into a christian shool.

Hawaii was a straight-up coup, wealthy white pineapple planters came in and then invited in the Marines to overthrow the last queen by force. Of all the states in the union, it probably has more of a claim to separatism than any other (since Texas voted itself in). Texas was the better case of sending in migrants who then agitated for independence and later let themselves join the country.
Crimea's a much more complicated case than that, like if we had Louisiana join with Texas before Texas seceded and then decided we wanted it back.