• madcaesar@lemmy.world
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    I feel bad for the children in this picture. Personally I think this is child abuse. Forcing politics / religion on children should be fucking illegal.

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      I feel bad for the children in this picture.

      Absolutely. Me too.

      Personally I think this is child abuse. Forcing politics / religion on children should be fucking illegal.

      That’s hard though. The kids obviously have fun, it’s a game for them.

      So what’s the abuse? Them giving the finger? Come on… Them unknowingly giving a (wrong?) political message? Yeah, we all know where that would lead to.

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        The abuse is filling impressionable minds with lies and hate, when they are the most vulnerable. That shit will scar you for life.

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        Look, if you want to have ostentatious heteronormative sexuality in your own home, that’s fine, just keep it away from my kids.

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      If they made indoctrination illegal religion would disappear in two generations. So I support it.

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        From my experience growing up going to a Baptist church this is a Christians wet dream. You would think indoctrination or religion is illegal based on some sermons I’ve had to sit through.

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    Oh! Look how happy those little girls are! Probably because they just learned that Stay-At-Home-Mom isn’t the only acceptable career for a woman.

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        For a moment I wasn’t sure if you were talking about the people in the picture or some of the users here.

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    Why are most of their palms facing outward?

    I’ve never seen it done that way. It seems really uncomfortable and a bad way to to transition into a fistfight if shit’s about to go down.

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        If that was the intentent, I get it. But if you’re going to flip the bird you should at least send it INTO the camera to enforce the message. This just feels stupid.

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      I guess they are flipping themselves off for being so dumb?

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      It transitions more easily into the ol’ seig heil which they’re all just waiting until it’s more acceptable to do in public.

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    Sorry, what’s this have to do with Christian values? I don’t see the connection.

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      Assuming you are asking in good faith. The Christian/Evangelicals are the prominent group of people screaming about values and banning drag and other things they hate (LGBTQ, healthcare/abortion, immigration, voting, etc), while simultaneously being seemingly ok with stuff like this. It is quite blatantly hypocritical. It’s all projection and hypocrisy and bigotry.

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        It’s not the evangelicals alone, the party itself is using the argument “for the children” as a cudgel to beat the opposition with. They want to say they simply find trans people and anyone who does drag disgusting, but they have to use the children as an example of innocence being ruined by their opposition.

        It’s just a political weapon, and as usual for Republicans it’s “rules for thee and none for me.”

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          Exactly! And if you go look up the statistics, even accounting for populations and all that you will find that it is RELIGIOUS LEADERS and FAMILY (uncles and cousins or parents I think) that commit most of the CSA. Not drag queens or trans people.

          If they ACTUALLY cared about protecting kids they would be going after every church with full investigations and lawsuits galore. Instead they cover them up and brush them off with drivel like “Oh well he wasn’t a Christian then” despite the fact they probably were a pastor or youth leader and did it in the church building itself many times.

          Wild.

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        Most christians would not be a fan of this. Trump is not a christian and neither are a large portion of his supports.

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          Minor corrections to what you said:

          Most Christians would say they are not a fan of this, but behind closed doors would absolutely be a fan of it based on their actions such as their voting and the thinly veiled hate and bigotry.

          Trump is not a Christian by any stretch, however the vast majority of his supporters sure are and they are very loudly proclaiming him as their savior and some gift from their god.

          For some unfathomable reason most Christians seem to believe Trump is the only option to vote for or it’s a sin or something. They will say wild stuff like “Oh yeah he’s a bit rough around the edges or crass, but he is doin gods work” while completely ignoring all the crimes, sins and horrible atrocities he does. My own family has said “yeah he may have a foul mouth, but he is pro-life!” As of that somehow makes it all ok. Let alone the fact that he isn’t pro-life, he’s pro-forced-birth and pro-controlling-women and doesn’t give a second thought to anyone’s life but his own.

          So… I very much beg to differ on your comment.

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            Strawman. If you dont know actual christians dont claim things about them that are based on a meme.

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              My comments SADLY come directly from experience. Both my family and a lot of former close friends think exactly that way.

              They ALL voted for Trump and even today all these years later seeing it clearly will STILL double down on it.

              So no, not a straw man at all. I wish it was. I wish it was…

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                I am sorry you have such a low opinions of your family and close friends. I personally doubt they are as bad as you believe.

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                  See that is the problem though. How does one reconcile when a PERSON is good and nice and all, yet their ACTIONS lead to direct suffering and harm to a lot of people?

                  And if Christians were as good as people keep claiming, then why are they not out in force:

                  • Housing the homeless
                  • Feeding the poor
                  • Condemning SAers from their midst
                  • Decrying school shootings
                  • Protesting Israel’s genocide
                  • Supporting and loving ALL PEOPLE from ALL NATIONS

                  Hmm? I don’t see it. I mean sure, some Churches do some small token gestures of that list, but it’s an afterthought, PR for the religion, look at us doing good deeds! They do a good deed here and there and then feel morally superior and their pastor has a private jet and 4 mansions, all the while people starve and die all around them. They don’t care. If they did the actions would show it and they don’t.

                  Don’t care what is said, show me the actions.

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    i really need a hip/leg bag like that. they look so cool and ar so useful!!

    i already got one but its not entirely optimal and the part holding the lap strap ripped off :<

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      My roommate has one with two straps that go around the thigh, instead of one around the waist. She loves it.

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      I have a fanny pack/ bum bag that I use for surfing. Having an extra strap to hold it flat on my thigh would be super useful, but it has to be watertight.

      Edit: for anyone confused, yes, those two terms refer to the same thing, we just call it a different thing depending on which side of the pond you’re on. As I understand it, fanny refers to something quite different in the UK.