You can shoot homeless people on your property and not face criminal charges. Unhoused people can only stay in designated areas and will be jailed for being outside those areas. Kentucky has the 7th highest incarceration rate in the world.
There’s a competition between Republican states to see who can be the cruelest.
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AND THEY ALL HAVE THAT "F**K YOU AMERICA SMILE"! MAGA MUFFINS AND TALIBANGELICALS LOVE SO MUCH!'
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Tucker knew it too.
"Everything about Pence is false."
"Creepy as hell. I've been around him a lot and always felt that he was a totally sinister figure, craven and dishonest."
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Today’s passage about the bake shops was mysterious to me on first reading at nine, but over the course of many years of reading broadly I figured it out, and now it’s one of the two passages in this book that I consider most relevant to modern life (alas in both cases).
The first thing you need to know is, that out of London’s teeming millions, few possessed the luxury of an oven. If you lived in a London flat, you either had either no cooking arrangements at all, or you had a hob that allowed you to cook over your heat source, either in an open fireplace or on top of the heating stove. So you could make tea, or boil an egg, or toast bread on a long-handled fork, or roast anything you were willing to place directly in or immediately adjacent to the embers, but you were not able to bake your own bread or pie or stuffed goose.
Instead, you prepared the dish, covered it up, and took it to the nearest commercial baker, which put it into their oven and cooked it for you, and either you came back for it or they delivered it as fast as they could, hoping to get it to you still warm. Obviously nobody did this every day. Christmas would’ve been a big day in the business.
The other thing to understand is that for much of the 19th century the burning issue among the morality legislation crowd was not medical care, divorce, or even temperance, but Remembering the Sabbath and Keeping it Holy. Many people refused to do business or travel or work on Sunday, and many people demanded laws that would forbid these things (in all cases that would not directly inconvenience them). And these people did not consider bakeshops to be essential services, because they had proper kitchens and cooks who did not get Sunday dinner off.
So Scrooge calls out the hypocrisy of people using God as a reason to make people suffer, to control their behavior; and the Ghost admits the hypocrisy and denies sharing it. There is no basis for their cruelty in the religion they claim; do not let them distract you from their own guilt.
God does not want people without ovens to lack hot nutritious meals; does not want trans children to suffer; does not want women to have more children than they want or can afford: these human beings do, and interpret their scriptures or oracles or whatever to mask their own nastiness in a veneer of piety.
My own observation has been that it doesn’t matter what you believe or profess to believe. What matters is who you are. Dickens might be uneasy with the opinion as stated; but he agrees with me here.
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These kinds of Christians just aren't. At all.
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AMERICA!. THIS IS WHAT THE GOP CONSIDERS POLITICAL PRISONERS!
NOT MILLIONS OF WOMAN WHO HAST HAD THEIR BASIC HUMAN RIGHTS TAKEN AWAY FROM THEM!. NOT LOST!, TAKEN AWAY !.
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