"Plaque is a figment of the liberal media and the dental industry to scare you into buying useless appliances and pastes."

-MS

#quotes

So, I was just going through some old books, and look what I found as a bookmark: an Italian 10k #Lira note 😊

I try to always pick up & keep some currency whenever I go to a country; I think this one is from the 1980s or 1990s.

@PaganMother

Oh, and just to head off the "Oh, but they aren't *real* Christians" rhetoric...

#Logic
#LogicalFallacies

https://www.logicallyfallacious.com/logicalfallacies/No-True-Scotsman

@PaganMother

#HowEvangelic !

As expected, more & more of these loony insurgents will be doing stuff like this.

TBH, it's the "less loony" ones that are more frightening.

#Politics
#Conservatives

https://www.newsweek.com/armed-man-arrested-dairy-queen-wanted-restore-trump-king-1742638

@PaganMother

Did not take much

https://counter.social/@netspionage/108987960950348536

@singlemaltgirl @sw00p @PaganMother @ehurtley

Didn't really have to wait for the follower count to drop either: at least two people already blocked me entirely 🤣

If your faith is so weak it is threatened by a few questions, avoid Jesuits & Talmudists like the plague: just a word to the wise.

Feel free to pass along to anyone offended, as it is not meant out of hostility, but rather, for their own mental protection.

@PaganMother

*THANK* you.

And while I took courses in Logic both in Primary school as well as higher education, I wasn't going to resort to it; glad someone chimed in with the proper fallacy 👍

@singlemaltgirl

Right?!

@ehurtley

FTR, fairly positive a Doctorate in Divinity (aka Doctor Divinitatis) is strictly honorary in America, so those earned in at least a US seminary or anywhere in the Commonwealth gets a higher ranking.

I mean...any televangelist can mail away for one - and has - which means non-seminary-backed US ones are meaningless. Not trying to be a dick; just saying...

@ehurtley

OK, one vote for it being "Conservative". I accept your vote: no judgement here.

Anyone else with a D.D. willing to chime in? I'd even accept Episcopalian ones...

#Religion
#Christianity
#Bigotry
#Conservatives

 (e.g., https://www.episcopalchurch.org/who-we-are/episcopal-seminaries/)

*waits to watch follower count plummet*

Same with the KKK: while (allegedly) not *all* #Republicans are #WhiteSupremacists, but all white supremacists are Conservatives/Republicans, kinda seems like that's also an accurate autocorrect.

"Conservatives are not necessarily stupid, but most stupid people are conservatives." -John Stuart Mill

#Quotes
#Autocorrect
#TruthInWriting even if it pisses people off

So...on a Venn diagram note...

As not all #Christians & #Conservatives are #transphobes & #bigots, but virtually *ALL* transphobes & bigots are Christians and/or Conservatives, should I change my autocorrect to reflect that?

e.g., when I type in "transphobe", should it autocorrect it to "Christian" (or "Conservative")...?

Just striving for accuracy 😔

@Klaatu_Veratta_Nectarine @Render

Oof:

https://www.theguardian.com/world/2022/sep/11/mennonites-peru-deforestation-permits

I still need to update my autocorrect

@Klaatu_Veratta_Nectarine @Render

I don't get up to PA much these days, though I know a few Dutch Amish in this area (and while I think the recidivism rate for Rumsprigga is fairly high, there *are* those who do leave, and I used to know some of them as well).

That's horrible that they face any sort of harassment. While I don't necessarily agree with their beliefs, they're a rather pacific group, and don't deserve that.

@Klaatu_Veratta_Nectarine @Render

Also FTR, it wasn't just spray paint that was the worst of it.

I also recall it happening in...Maryland, IIRC, where some neonazi skinheads (they got caught later) broke in & vandalized the entire school. The incident I'm thinking of was in the 1980s/1990s, I think.

No idea how much it cost to fix, but was surely non-trivial.

@Klaatu_Veratta_Nectarine

OK, the article was pay walled, so didn't read it.

Having grown up in the midwest, I recall it being a near-monthly tradition for assholes to spray paint swastikas & slurs on Yeshiva schools & the JCC; that shit costs money to remove.

Do Amish & other schools endure the same perpetual harassment? Asking, as I honestly don't know.

And FTR, having no kids, I have no real skin in the game, so to speak. @Render might have more recent info on the topic.