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  1. Silmarien

    50,000 strong "Election Day Operation Army for Trump" to monitor polls for non-voter-looking people

    Honestly... I feel like even that would be a step up right now, but we'll see what happens in a couple weeks. ^_^
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    Needed: A coalition of feminists and conservative Christians

    We're TERFs, not TARPs. ;) (Trans-exclusionary radical feminists, though the preferred term for the movement is "gender critical.") Radical feminists have historically worked with conservatives--Andrea Dworkin and Catharine MacKinnon did it when they were trying to take down inappropriate contentography, and...
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    Needed: A coalition of feminists and conservative Christians

    Brilliant, thank you! Managed to grab it pretty cheaply off Amazon also, so I'll check it out!
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    Needed: A coalition of feminists and conservative Christians

    Haha, fair enough. You were caught up on the gender critical terminology will before I was, so I was wondering if you'd already been following the Terven Coven somewhere. I mean more along the lines of scholarship and feminist theology. Most of what I manage to stumble across is more within...
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    Needed: A coalition of feminists and conservative Christians

    I'm having fun on it, haha. I can see how it's completely destroyed all discourse in the modern world, since the sort of us vs. them group dynamics that build up are wild, and I think the character limit really hinders genuine conversation, but my political identity was so shattered by this...
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    Ur-Platonism, Naturalism, and Atheism

    I can't imagine you being a materialist in the true sense of the word, Philo! We do need to distinguish between materialism as an ontology and materialism as philosophy of mind. When it comes to mind, I am... not quite a materialist, since I've got a bit of a Scotist haecceity thing going on...
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    Needed: A coalition of feminists and conservative Christians

    Bekkilyn, are you on Twitter, by any chance? I joined a month ago and have been following the gender critical (radical feminist / apostate transsexual / angry LGB) community there. The TRAs I have encountered are... worse than I expected, to be honest. The pure hatred they direct at you simply...
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    Kamala Harris

    Not a fan. I found her vicious race-baiting attack on Biden during one of the debates really, er... cynical, and then it came out later that she apparently didn't believe a word she was saying anyway, but only attacked because "it was a debate."
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    Everyone but far-left feels intimidated into silence, new survey finds

    Yep. It starts there and then only gets worse, since they've done stuff like defund the last rape crisis center in Canada that only services natal women, tried to force rape and domestic abuse hotlines in Britain to hire trans-women for the sake of "inclusion," since who cares if potentially...
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    Everyone but far-left feels intimidated into silence, new survey finds

    Sure. The problem is that rather than being a standard civil rights movement, the transgender movement has very controversial ideology concerning the relationship between sex and gender, whereby a person has a subjective "gender identity" that may or may not match their biological sex, and it is...
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    Everyone but far-left feels intimidated into silence, new survey finds

    Er... I am a leftist who thinks that transgender ideology is a totalitarian cult founded on misogynistic narcissism and internalized transphobia. Leftists with such views generally aren't concerned about getting censored by conservatives.
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    Everyone but far-left feels intimidated into silence, new survey finds

    You'll notice that I didn't say that 42% of leftists felt intimidated into silence by conservatives. Doesn't matter how far left you are; step out of line, and the woke cult will declare you an evil fascist. :)
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    How to believe when reason don't want to let you believe?

    Judaism isn't the work of a single individual, though. There is an idea in Christianity called progressive revelation, whereby God's message does unfold over time, finally culminating in the Gospel itself, but that people aren't given more than they're prepared for at any one point. I also think...
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    Everyone but far-left feels intimidated into silence, new survey finds

    Note that the survey says that 42% of the left also feels intimidated into silence. Which sounds about right.
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    How to believe when reason don't want to let you believe?

    I would look at what they say and try to figure out which one looks most likely to have some truth value behind it. A key part of that is going to be researching the historical aspects of any religion. For example, I don't find Islam at all compelling for a variety of reasons, one of which is...
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    How to believe when reason don't want to let you believe?

    Even within Christianity, there's not really one single specific set of rituals, and people don't always meet on Sundays. Some branches are sacramental, so taking Communion regularly is less a matter of correctly following a ritual, and more a matter of... well, actual communion with God. I...
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    [MOVED] No christian should support BLM because it is anti-christian, marxist and promotes LGBT.

    The question is how do we help those who have no immediate ability. Free job training? Welfare programs? Universal basic income? Any of this things is going to be social justice, so arguing about what how best to carry out social justice seems more useful to me than arguing about whether social...
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    [MOVED] No christian should support BLM because it is anti-christian, marxist and promotes LGBT.

    If you're basing everything on qualifications, on merit, on character, and on work, you end up with a meritocracy that only serves to celebrate those who were able to get somewhere on their own. That is definitely un-Christian. Society's most marginalized do not necessarily have qualifications...
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    [MOVED] No christian should support BLM because it is anti-christian, marxist and promotes LGBT.

    LGBT black lives do matter. I think it's the business of the LGBT movement (to the extent that it hasn't imploded), rather than BLM, to focus on LGBT lives, but the statement itself is not false. I agree that they're not for Christian values, though.
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    How do we make a stronger Christianity?

    I don't think this is necessarily true. If a parish isn't interested in actually teaching people and correcting them when they're wrong, what exactly am I as a parishioner getting out of that parish? (Aside from sacraments, I suppose.) There are reasons that conservative churches do better than...