Being an asshole to someone reinforces outgroups. To belong to one group requires that outside groups exist. If I’m right it requires you to be wrong. It also reinforces toxic masculinity in the sense that I’m fighting for “something”. I’m a badass.
If I’m a warrior and you’re a farmer or a religious person my life is both more expendable and more important to protecting “our group.”
Inherent human selfishness may require me to remind you of this? Not sure. Still not sure if this plays into the “sacrifice” narrative. I feel like it does.
What I am sure of is oceans of ink have probably been spilled talking about this in philosophy and psychology texts.
For anyone who doesn’t want this to turn into another Ukraine thread, just go find more Stupid MFers In The News… or give us an excuse to start comparing marmalades.
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But, seriously, you’ve got to love the kick you get from a tart marmalade when you add a smidgen of ginger…
Holy crap, I love ginger. It’s one of my favorite flavors, it’s great in sweet dishes, savory… And it’s actually good for you. No need to sell me on that!
Joe Manchin and Marco Rubio have introduced a bill to prevent the federal government from using money to pay for crack pipes. Something that nobody has suggested be done.
The Drug Policy Alliance does think the kits in question would have included pipes. The terms used officially were certainly broad enough that the could have included pipes, despite the later denial that they would have.
The bill in question bans using federal funds for both syringe programs and pipe programs. Syringes were definitely part of the original plan. So this bill is not just spitting in the wind.
And it’s not stupid for an organization to react to a media kerfuffle by saying, “look, we never intended to do this thing, but since the possibility has been raised here’s a policy explicitly banning it”.
“Two of you in my wife’s ladies’ Bible study, and you know who you are, and we gonna ask you to get out, or I’ll expose you in front of everybody!” screamed Locke. “We got all six of their names. All six of them … So you got a choice. You can leave with your spells, all by yourself, or I’ll show up next Sunday with a stage full of brooms, and I’ll give you one and I’ll fly your tail up out of this place in the name of Jesus. But we ain’t playing your spellcastin’, witchcraft nonsense sage-burning games.”
The witch community there must be really bored, to get their kicks by infiltrating a church just to cast spells on these people. Last I read, you’re not supposed to cast unless they deserve it.
