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There's that whole "go forth and sin no more" bit that people aren't very fond of.
That is a Catholic addition, Jesus himself never ordered anyone not to sin, just said that God would forgive if you asked him to.

Catholicism is all about sticking the Church between the individual and God, and honestly goes against most of Jesus' actual teachings.
 
It is the epstein files not the epstein tapes.

Besides which I'm still unclear on whether these files will even relate to sexcepades or to his dodgy financial shit.
If they released tapes wouldn’t it just be classified as CP? Unless they heavily censored it as proof that these people rape kids, it would just be material for pedophiles. They’ll release names but nothing else.
 
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You understand someone has to manage the finances for the children, don't you?
Yes, of course. But that doesn’t mean that single mom gets to live off of benefits that are meant to support her kids, just like how parents with custody aren’t supposed to live off of child support payments from the other parent.

I'm not opposed to the government offering a buffer to people who make stupid decisions (or just have bad luck; this can happen to single mothers, men can promise their girlfriend the moon and disappear once she's pregnant.)
I am. Don’t have sex with men you aren’t married to. I don’t oppose aid specifically for the children because they’re the victims in this situation.

If single motherhood was less normalized in our society I would probably be more sympathetic, but that isn’t the case. The major exceptions are moms who were sexually assaulted and choose to keep the baby or moms who are widows. That’s what I would consider actual “bad luck”, although describing either situation with those exact words is a gross understatement.

The problem is when people game the system, be it a welfare queen or the civil servants in charge of organizing it.
100% agree. I think a lot of the problem too is that welfare has become so expansive that not enough attention can be paid to each individual case and the exact needs in each situation, and the lack of oversight makes it easier for people to slip through the cracks and take advantage.

Ideally I’d love to see welfare happen on a more local level that works within the immediate community, but this doesn’t seem to be feasible outside of small rural and suburban communities. Urbanites tend to think everything should be the government’s responsibility to fix.
 
It's wild to think that Trump was playing nice during his first term. He let a lot of their corruption slide and their associations with guys like Epstein go unnoticed. But they repaid his kindness by screeching that he was the second coming of Hitler, arresting him, trying to personally destroy him, and even shooting him when it was clear that all their other efforts to take him down failed.

Now the gloves are off and it's fucking glorious.
But at least they had their peaceful transfer of power.
 
I personally hope that a few EUcrats get mentioned in the Epstein files, combined with the recent Timmermans scandal (EU secretly funding billions to green/lefty activists), Vance embarrassing Eurocrats, the unlawful arrest of the right wing leader in Romania, Austrian & German parlements forming absurd coalitions to spite the 'far right', new German chancelor saying that nothing will be done about migration, Keir Starmer being an absolute retard, the new EU tariffs and Dutch goverment policy being constantly blocked by activist judges; Will finally destroy any and all legitimacy of the European democracies and the relevancy of the EU.
 
The way they're handling the epstein files is honestly deflating. They should have just kept their fucking mouths shut until it was ready to be released.
This makes me think they're going to be a total nothing burger or very devoid of any significant detail without redactions impacting them at all.

I think people forget that Epstein did grey financial / tax avoidance shit for "the elites" besides all the sex stuff, so these could be really boring and potentially have nothing even illegal in them.
 
The reason given for not releasing the Epstein list has been that there's "ongoing investigations" which if it were true, would be a good reason. My guess is that the delay so far has been the Trump people figuring out if there were actually any legit ongoing investigations that they would fuck up or not. That doesn't get sorted in 10 minutes no matter how fast you're moving.
 
That is a Catholic addition, Jesus himself never ordered anyone not to sin, just said that God would forgive if you asked him to.

Catholicism is all about sticking the Church between the individual and God, and honestly goes against most of Jesus' actual teachings.
that verse is constantly taken out of context anyway. he was telling the prostitute to leave her life of sin, as in, do not continue living an intentionally sinful life. reform yourself as best you can. the whole point of those verses is that jesus rebukes the pharisees and others around him who have tried to bring her before him for the purpose of stoning her to death or seeing jesus condemn her.

The reason given for not releasing the Epstein list has been that there's "ongoing investigations" which if it were true, would be a good reason. My guess is that the delay so far has been the Trump people figuring out if there were actually any legit ongoing investigations that they would fuck up or not. That doesn't get sorted in 10 minutes no matter how fast you're moving.
that's not what the previous document received by representative luna said, and it's embarrassing that people are still quoting that retard's misreading of what was in that letter.
 
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