ChunkMcHorkle

I didn't know too much about canning before the drama last summer (except that it's hard physical kitchen labor I'd rather not do), but when I read what was going on it was clear you guys were really holding the line against the continual bombardment of the sub with truly unsafe "hacks" and "shortcuts" and "it never hurt me and I've been doing it for years" posts. I am absolutely convinced there are a non-zero number of people who are alive because you stopped them from this stupidity, and the painstaking, precise work you put into sourcing your statements and linking the science was quite impressive even to this total non-canner.

And then Reddit admin put their scabs in anyway.

Which is to say that Reddit admin is made of fools. I split in solidarity when the API changes kicked the accessibility users off (the third party app devs were the ONLY folks who cared enough in almost two decades to make Reddit usable for anyone needing accessibility) but afterward, reading about what they did to gut harm reduction in various subs like r/canning just convinced me that I was right to consider them literally conscienceless and take my posting elsewhere.

Their loss. In so many ways. Glad you're here on Lemmy too.

I don't know who's downvoting you or why, but this is just nth on the list of reasons I wish I'd been born north of the border. We (US) should never have left paper ballots.

Your system works, and why wouldn't it? It was the gold standard for decades, even here, until we fucked with it. And it wasn't just the unnecessary switch to unsecured electronic voting, either: anyone remember "butterfly" ballots and hanging chads in Florida?

If we still had paper ballots, much of the current accusatory atmosphere regarding the 2020 election would simply not be possible: maybe the count would have been contested or repeated in certain areas, but in the end they'd have had to find some other conspiracy.

Jared Kushner is a fucking slumlord and a losing one at that; I don't think for two seconds anyone is expecting him to successfully "manage" anything but his in-laws. Which is what the cash is for, regardless of what they want to call it. If his father-in-law weren't Donald Trump they wouldn't even know his name.

No, they were looking for the "holiness" angle. Sacr- is a word root meaning "consecrated" or "holy," and you see it a LOT in religious texts: sacred, sacrosanct, sacerdotal, etc.

As an ex-christian it was the first thing I saw; it would be sort of a non-secret code that anyone deeply familiar with the linguistics of Christianity would see right off the bat.

The acronym SACR was no accident, unfortunately: they worked for it. Which is to say that they know all the right words but have completely lost the meaning.

Apparently not. It's about crazy ass book bans in schools to begin with. This seriously creepy fuck just gratuitously tacked on his coworker's name as though she was part of the narrative, but the original effort goes on:

The sponsor of the bill, Republican Sen. Joni Albrecht, apologized to her colleagues on Monday. "I'm so sorry that your name was injected into it," she said. "That is absolutely, I will be the first to stand up and say I'm sorry.

But then, in the SAME SENTENCE, without a breath between, she adds,

This is in our schools. This is what's going on. And I don't want to see this elevated to any level."

I absolutely do NOT believe a person with a working conscience (!!!) would narrate a passage of graphic sexual violence out of a book as an example of what is being read by kids in schools and then ADD THEIR COWORKER'S NAME to the retelling as though she was a participant in the events described, whether as a joke or a come-on or for whatever perverted reason. That's the difference between knowing right and wrong.

But what I'm getting from the article is that some (most?) of those present were fine with it, no one stopped him while he was doing this, and at least one of them (Albrecht, above) apologized only to try to rescue the book banning effort from this perv's "one twist too far" efforts to use fear and loathing to ban more books.

So pointing out this asshole's new low, as justified as it is, is almost like trying to find the worst protagonist in the last chapter of The Lord of the Flies, IMO. Because in the end, all this seriously warped bastard did was manage to shoehorn some very open and tightly targeted workplace sexual harassment into their concerted group workplace effort to harass the entire student population of Nebraska.

Which is the worse crime?

I honestly don't know. I only know I would not be caught dead participating in either, and no one I know with an operating sense of human empathy would either: if you're already lying to ban books, killing women by criminalizing pregnancy, demonizing people of color, and openly embracing other equally repugnant fascist principles, why would this further misbehavior against a woman shock and horrify you so much?

Also, consider that whatever justification he comes up with, it only has to work for his fellow Republicans, and that's a bar low enough to turn an average cockroach into an Olympian.

But a male Republican state senator openly sexually harassing a Democrat female state senator on the floor of the Nebraska state senate? As horrific and gratuitous as that performance was, as much of an open sexual act toward his coworker as it was, nothing will be done, except the female senator will be pressured to "forgive" and let it go. Why? Because the doer is a man, a Republican and a state senator in Nebraska.

Oh, he wrote a letter.

I was wondering how anyone could tell McConnell had a reaction to something.

other Christian or near-Christian faiths will not be spared. This is certainly a religious movement, but it does not have Jesus of Nazareth at its head.

They certainly were not spared during the original exercise of fascism.

And I'll go one point further and assert that the closer a single individual is to walking the tenets of classical Christianity -- compassion, honesty, practicing ethical consideration in choosing personal acts, abhorring unnecessarily hurtful acts -- not only will they NOT be spared, they will be among those most violently targeted, as soon as they become known to the persecutors.

Why? Because these are True Believers, and they are what real resistance is made of.

Regardless of the belief system underlying a True Believer, that's what makes a True Believer tick: the belief itself. It doesn't have to be Christianity, or even any specific religion; just their own belief system and their near-exclusive personal reliance upon it in daily life, and especially in times of crisis.

Nothing outside that belief system moves them in matters that are important to them, nor do they require external validation for their choices. That makes them impossible to control, hard to spot because they are not necessarily talkative or participative on social media, and frequently impossible to predict if you don't know them personally.

So when that belief system involves a deep abhorrence of all things unnecessarily hurtful to others (or "evil" if you will), when they are the ones who actually decide to be that One Good Man in their current reality when they hear the old maxim “The only thing necessary for the triumph of evil is for good men to do nothing” -- classic Christianity, in a nutshell -- they are deeply threatening to authoritarian governments and regimes that rely on manufacturing fear and the manipulation of personal belief to maintain control over individual citizens.

Yeah. In a nutshell. The number of commentaries, old and new, formal and informal, asking the exact same questions from every possible angle, are countless. And every single one of them is pointed at trying to make it make some kind of sense, lol.

Funny you should mention that.

In the mythology of the bible, 2 Samuel 24 talks about how King David took a census of Israel, and it pissed god off so much that he killed 70,000 completely uninvolved Israelis over it, and would have killed more but he stopped when he got to Jerusalem.

And these modern day chuckleheads are doing it on purpose, lol. If only they believed a fraction of their own holy book, I would have the best time gladly explaining to them via scholarly biblical exegesis how and why they're gonna DIE a nasty death if they do this.

If only. -sigh-

I know it seems like a fantasy now, but back before regulatory capture, Ronald Reagan and the outsourcing of whatever remained of state healthcare, the rise in HMOs and politicians that openly decided to work for Putin and fight culture wars instead of legislate, back when Clearance Thomas was just a groping lawyer and million dollar motorhomes were still a twinkle in his eye, THIS IS WHAT GOVERNMENT REGULARLY WORKED TO NOT ONLY STOP, BUT PREVENT.

If you read carefully, you can spot multiple state and federal organizations whose primary job it would have been to interfere in this at multiple steps of the process -- SEC, FDA, DOJ -- and even some secondary ones like the IRS.

Did they? No. Our government's ENTIRE regulatory system has been captured and defanged. The Senate can get a dress policy enacted in a week because they don't care for the length of Senator Fetterman's shirts, and the House is led by a guy so weak he has to get his own teenage son to monitor his porn intake, but none of them can lift a fucking finger to do their jobs in any other respect because it too has been captured, many of them working openly for the best interests of Vladimir Putin, and the honorable ones who do care -- Sanders, AOC, Warren, and the like -- are simply outnumbered.

We have the right constitution. We have the right system. We have the resources as a nation to corral vultures like this, to stop this in its tracks. We did it for most of the 20th century. It's not that there were no failures, it's that there were ongoing collaborative successes in enough number to minimize what did get through the various safety nets. We had those too, once upon a time. Good ones, too.

What we do NOT have, and have not had for decades now, are people in office who will hold the line against corruption.

THIS is corruption on every level of government. And there's more to come.

That's what I was wondering: whether this was just a generic fuck you or a special Fuck YOU In Particular. Glad to see him pulling out his special Tea Party skills just for her and the rest of the GOP, I like it.

Thanks for answering the real question, hope you get someone actually interested in representing their own constituents in the special election. (Lol I know, but I can dream, can't I?)

With no offense taken but with respect to this community, I'm going to decline to answer.