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Exactly, turning the other cheek really means be the bigger man when someone insults you, especially for your religion, which was vital at the time when Christianity was heavily mocked and is still widely in practice today. It’s the fundamental difference between Islam and Christianity. Christians are supposed to rise above insults and minor offenses, Muslims will murder you for doodling a face.
But it was never meant to say “don’t defend yourself.” Jesus’s apostles carried swords, and Christians have never been taught to avoid self defense when facing harm or threats. It all boils down to more people having never read the Bible
It’s Protestants. Protestants have essentially turned Christianity into a hippie religion.
 
Eventually, you need the kind of plausibile deniability that tattooing I MURDERED JOSE DIAZ ON 2/2/2002 on your left pectoral doesn't grant you.
Sure. But that's kinda different than what I'm talking about, don't you think?

I mean... They kinda don't give a fuck and never have:

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Can anyone explain the 1 and 3 tattoos? Is it supposed to be 1 God? I have no clue about the skull though
It was all just a big mistake. He was trying to get a secret coded MST3K tattoo, but accidentally got a secret coded El Salvadorian narco gang tattoo. The problem was the tattoo shop was using an outdated secret decoder ring.
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The lesson is, when you get your fingers tattooed, make sure your marijuana leaves and skulls don't accidentally affiliate you with a murderous international crime syndicate. It all worked out okay in the end for Kilmar Garcia. He got a free flight to his home country, and his government is making sure he isn't treated unfairly.
 
You’d think that with California’s hostility to firearms that might come up
Oh no no no, California's hostility concerns only private citizens -- the state can have as many guns as it wants. They're bitterly jealous and protective about the "government monopoly on violence."
 
I thought we were supposed to ignore downturns in GDP/stock and use fake numbers to make it look better, or was that only OK with biden?

I will say the moment to moment stock/GDP downturn or upturn should never be taken as some extreme indication. You're looking at one datapoint and wildy extrapolating from it. You need to look at longer term trends to understand.
You are asking for financial patience from the group that buys funko pops.
 
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Oh no no no, California's hostility concerns only private citizens -- the state can have as many guns as it wants. They're bitterly jealous and protective about the "government monopoly on violence."
Some sneaky gits should see if they can trigger the golem to outlaw the police having firearms. They can carry tazers instead, it's much safer that way.
 
All I hear is that China was sucking up copper to make cheap shit which was just another way to keep the US from making competitively priced goods.
I don’t think you can call it sucking up when they have 80% of all the refining. That means 20% elsewhere in the world, and I don’t believe that the US has the majority of that reminder of refining.
 
U.S. District Judge Jennifer Thurston orders a stop to arrests or searches done by border patrol along the border. If any such stops are done, the border agents are to immediately write and email her an essay on why they did it.

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How much further do these mentally ill people in black tutus have to push before we tell them to fuck off? "Border patrol isn't allowed to patrol the borders because I don't personally think we need borders" is fucking madness and she should be disbarred and removed from the bench immediately. Via black bag tactics if need be.
 
U.S. District Judge Jennifer Thurston orders a stop to arrests or searches done by border patrol along the border.
This seems performative and toothless - First page there establishes that they cannot perform the stop "Unless they have reasonable suspicion" that the persons an illegal. "Reasonable Suspicion" is just "A normal person would agree that they may be suspicious", and for that line on a Border Patrol Officer, "I found them skulking around unusual areas of the border away from the designated crossings" is already going to pass this hurdle.
 
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