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  • Moore told NPR in an interview released Tuesday that multiple pastors had told him they would quote the Sermon on the Mount, specifically the part that says to “turn the other cheek,” when preaching. Someone would come up after the service and ask, “Where did you get those liberal talking points?”

    “What was alarming to me is that in most of these scenarios, when the pastor would say, ‘I’m literally quoting Jesus Christ,’ the response would not be, ‘I apologize.’ The response would be, ‘Yes, but that doesn’t work anymore. That’s weak,’” Moore said. “When we get to the point where the teachings of Jesus himself are seen as subversive to us, then we’re in a crisis.”

    If they think Christ is too weak and his words outdated, then maybe they should stop calling themselves Christians?





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    DD/MM/YYYY or YYYY-MM-DD are formatting conventions for expressing dates. The date itself is probably converted from some date object anyway, like the Unix Epoch, and can be expressed in any variety of formats.

    Wednesday, June 11, 2025 is a date. dddd, mmm dd, yyyy or %A, %B %d, %Y is a format.


  • Why wasn’t he arrested and charged for this before being sent to El Salvador? If he is this heinous of a criminal, why was he the alternate for the seat on the flight down to El Salvador?

    Let’s argue for argument’s sake that he is the kind of person the DOJ claims he is. Does this mean he is guilty before being given a chance to defend himself? Shouldn’t he be afforded an opportunity to hear the charges and offer a defense? Granted, immigrants without citizenship can be deported for any criminal activity, but this guy had a court order preventing that. So why couldn’t the DOJ arrest and charge him before sending him to a death prison? Wouldn’t it be in the interest of the nation to maybe find out more about his network before disappearing him, especially since they claim he smuggled thousands of people?

    This is some kafkaesque, fascist, dumbass bullshit.


  • Serial killers need patterns, process, and specific situations tailored to their individual neuroses. They are driven or compelled to kill to create or recreate certain events. That’s one thing that separates them from mass murdered or spree killers.

    This guy was just in it for money. Mass murderer, yes, but there have been mafia hitmen with more morals than this fuck.

    The scale of this, and the callousness of it, are far closer to Hitler and other genocidal maniacs because none of them wanted to get their hands dirty; they’d never kill anyone, personally. At least serial killers are into DIY and often are quite proud of their fucked up accomplishments.

    It really says something about this guy’s absolute depravity when a comparison to a serial killer makes someone say “you know, that’s offensive to serial killers.”

    I’m not disagreeing with what you said, I’m just frustrated because this guy was worse than serial killers and that is really something else.





  • I hate that you’re right. Normalization is the goal, but this is far from fucking normal. Even language like “51st state” betrays a wild ignorance of Canada and the U.S. procedures for admitting new states.

    As a US citizen, Canada should not become part of the US.

    It’s been 77 years since the US admitted a new state and almost 100 since we’ve raised the number of representatives. D.C. residents make up a large portion of the federal workforce and even they don’t have representation in Congress. Quite frankly, there’s no political entity in the US with experience bringing in a new state and all the logistics and legal work that it requires.

    There is no path for Canadian annexation where the Canadians will be treated fairly.


  • If Canada entered collectively as a single state (pure nonsense, but hear me out), they’d get two senators and 1 representative to the house. The apportionments for US representatives would need to be raised to account for 40 million new people, which my guess wouldn’t happen, so instead California and Canada (who have almost equal populations) would just trade off allocations of representatives alternating with New York and Texas. Canada would end up with a lot of representatives in the House this way but wouldn’t be nearly as powerful as adding 20 senators if the provinces entered as individual states.

    All said, not all of these seats would go democrat, but the GOP definitely wouldn’t be able to guarantee majorities or stalemates in both houses like they have been for the past 20-30 years. Even if the Trump admin pulled this con off and annexed Canada as a US territory, the GOP would just block entry as a state since I can’t imagine this Congress passing a joint resolution to allow it. Furthermore, Congress doesn’t even have to consider adding a new state even if the population of that territory keep petitioning for it (see ongoing D.C. and Puerto Rico statehood petitions).

    Shit would get really complicated when the US has to handle the dissolution of parliament, withdrawal from the Commonwealth, and Quebec.


  • DOGE was never officially created but the Trump administration instead repurposed the US Digital Service (partially renamed the US DOGE Service). USDS was in charge of digital infrastructure modernization and was originally supposed to be a neutral technology consulting agency across the government. That was their “in” to many other agencies.

    Musk was never appointed because he was “hired” as an executive consultant with a time-limited position instead (see how he is leaving/withdrawing right as that limit is reached).

    Since the USDS is an executive agency, it can be instructed to directly take orders from the president through its agency head and the chain of command. USDS has also primarily infected other executive agencies with executive authorization and the heads of those agencies allowing it to happen (or resigning).

    The majority of Federal agencies fall within control of the Executive Branch.

    Appropriate Constitutional power is moot when the other branches won’t check the Executive. Right now, DOGE is testing the boundaries of executive power at every corner of the government.




  • Amazing! Thanks for taking the time to share. I figured there was an aesthetic interest in addition to the morbid curiosity.

    I went through a phase where I wanted to build a library of weird, bizarre, cult, occult, and outlandish books (which I why I had a copy of Dianetics among other religious texts). I abandoned the idea mostly because I didn’t want to dedicate space to books that I never wanted to read or felt repulsed by reading.

    If you like kitschy and bizarre books, I recommend checking out the following (if you haven’t already encountered them before):

    • Telecult Power by R. Durbin
    • Apocalypse Culture by A. Parfrey

    Telecult Power makes me laugh since it’s a how-to for developing telepathy and telekinesis. Apocalypse Culture creeps me out and reading essays from that book is like dropping into a conversation midway while no one cares to explain what’s going on.


  • Bibleman and A History of Christian Hymnody are wildly different theological materials; what’s the criteria for your collection?

    Do you study religions or is the there something else, like an aesthetic thing, that drives your collection?

    Also, how much of this have you read and is there any of it that you believe?

    Sorry for the barrage of questions, but I find the notion of collecting cult and religious media to be fascinating, especially if it’s for reasons other than faith.


  • Wow, you might be serious.

    I used to keep tabs on the weird religious stuff for fun, but most of it turns my stomach these days to the point that I can’t even laugh at it.

    Definitely got super drunk and riffed on Kirk Cameron videos back when he had that Way of the Master series (e.g. the banana video).

    I used to have a copy of Dianetics that you would have thoroughly enjoyed.

    You should try to acquire a copy of a Mormon seminary textbooks. There should be a series of four of them: Old Testament, New Testament, Book of Mormon, and Doctrine and Covenants/Church History (this is one is a gold mine). The Mormons apparently make them available as PDFs for the current versions, but the older ones are sure to be better.

    I’ve got you tagged now as “collects weird religious stuff”. Congrats.