In Your Heart

I never knew he was smoking crack with Bloods. Gangs are wild in Canada. There’s like a bunch of branches of American biker gangs in Canada (like Hells Angels and Mongols) that have way more power in Canada than any biker gang does in America.

One of my relatives from my maternal grandmother’s massive white trash farm poor family was a member of the hell’s angels and (apparently) got out by joining the Jehovah’s Witnesses, which to be honest feels like a lateral move at best. Hashtag maple syrup, amirite?

That’s a very “I was afraid of going to prison so I had myself committed to a mental institution” type of move.

I think it's silly when people try to frame "in many religions the question of If All That is *real* is actually not very important and the question of 'belief in god' is a very protestant thing" as evidence of those other religions being like. cooler. Only american protestants care if The Divine is literally real and does things?? and this is supposed to make me respect the other religions *more*? I can understand being careful wrt polytheism or non-lord-of-creation type gods, and yeah being religious/spiritual ≠ believing in a specific god or gods, but "we have a bunch of personal and social restrictions and norms and rituals based on some shit that may or not be real idk, what i care about is enforcing rules and norms" is not a position I can respect easily...

It's silly at the best of times, and when it's framed as "our religion is tolerant enough to accommodate atheism, so you can't ever really leave or be an ex-member" it's downright pernicious

I think a lot of religious communities have it both ways, where the majority are chill and relaxed about whether it's real but they implicitly rely on a subgroup of freaks who take it all very seriously, and if those freaks ever stopped then the whole thing starts to unravel, but the important thing is feeling more sophisticated than the serious freaks and the atheists.

Why is aestheticism so strongly associated historically with homosexuality, idk, it makes sense, like in order to decide to have a homosexual lifestyle in a social context where this is not normative you have to believe that love is more important than social cohesion; or that pleasure is, or self-expression is, or something like that. You need to be elevating some specific non-religious principle above prudence and the maintenance of the social order and family ties and so on.

I think it’s because gay guys have women’s souls.

so he wants black soldiers to transition instead? curious!

It's not razor burn, it's Pseudofolliculitis Barbae. If you have really curly or dense hair, you might not be able to shave without your whole face breaking out into ingrown hairs.

Oh I thought those were the same thing. But I looked it up and apparently razor burn is a different less severe condition. You’re correct, it’s about pseudofolliculitis barbae.

"Boys pure in mind and heart, almost children, are fond of talking in school among themselves, and even aloud, of things, pictures, and images of which even soldiers would sometimes hesitate to speak." - Tolstoy, The Brothers Karamazov

Do love that while the Ceasefire is over and we are bombing Iran now we still are not at "war" with Iran like we were earlier.

Thank God for that.

Lindsey Graham and Mitch McConnell dying at the same time. What a wonderful day.

Apparently Mitch McConnell just released a proof of life photo with a recent newspaper, so he’s not dead yet but it can’t be long for him.

I never knew he was smoking crack with Bloods. Gangs are wild in Canada. There’s like a bunch of branches of American biker gangs in Canada (like Hells Angels and Mongols) that have way more power in Canada than any biker gang does in America.

one of the silliest takes which i think still finds a lot of purchase in lefty spaces is that people often ignore politics because they're privileged and the issues don't affect them, unlike people from disadvantaged backgrounds who are deeply political as a means of survival. in the real world, though, you basically find the exact opposite, which is also way better at accounting for how the latter group continually gets screwed over

you never hear about hostages anymore. not american ones at least. what ever happened to hostages. hostages fell off

how do you get into hostage negotiation? what’s the pipeline? are they just regular law enforcement to start?

I imagine it's some sort of like. Im imagining a masters program is involved at some point

The FBI Academy trains a lot of them. It’s more of a vocational training thing than an academic degree.