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What changes if we start to see Capitalism as the latest wildy successful world religion, not just an economic theory? Once you see it: Be wise as a serpent, gentle as a dove.
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Being poor is expensive. Being poor is unhealthy too. There's a Venn diagram and a thesis hidden there somewhere. Is where the expense and unhealthiness of poverty overlap homelessness? Or is being poor all just one circle? Or are there circles we're missing?

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What if when we met friendly aliens for the first time, they have something even better than chocolate?

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Golf is the ambient sport.

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Hypocrisy is just how people are. Unless you died on a cross for us all while none of us were looking, you're a hypocrite just like all the rest of us. So why get so upset that other people are hypocrites too?

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For good and for bad, people are going to people. There's no point in being surprised and upset by it every time it happens. People will people. Regardless of what we think should happen. Might as well get used to it, and then go to the march.

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The US is a Ferengi country trying to become Cardassian.

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Christianity has the most followers, but do you know which religion is even more dominant? Capitalism. Capitalism is the dominant religion of our planet.

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Quote post this with a picture of the airplane you’ll accept as a bribe.

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I’m no fancy big name theologian or anything. But if you were to ask me what Jesus likes, I’d say two things: 1. Ponies 2. Ice cream Like any other red blooded American.

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Just finished my first full game of #Civ7 — and loved it! Not because it’s a better #Civ6 but because it isn’t trying to be Civ6 at all. 1/ 🧵

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You don’t hate being laid off. You hate Capitalism.

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The Chicago Pope implies the existence of a New Keynesian Pope and a Behavioral Pope

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Has your tolerance really gone up? Or do you need to recharge the damn battery?

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A Chicago Pope implies the existence of an MLA Pope and APA Pope

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What we’ll build after we defeat MAGA will be better than what came before MAGA. But we will have to work like hell to make it happen. MAGA won’t disappear on its own.

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Their playbook: Step 1: Introduce mass chaos. Step 2: Use the chaos as the reason to establish total control.

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Off point, but we needs as many AOCs as we can get. Two isn't nearly enough.

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A church founded on chattel slavery. May it be totally destroyed by God

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The great thing and the terrible thing about the Corporation is that it's the most successful tool for wealth creation our species has invented to date.

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The mission of DOGE: Rapid enshittification of government.

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I just used an organ playing metaphor to describe an NBA playoff game. Do I gain points or lose points for that? And how many points?

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An antidote to facism is more community.

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We have now arrived at the "arresting judges" level of fascism.

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If Jesus had focused more on kitchen table issues and less on unpopular outcasts like lepers and prostitutes, he might have won more support from white working-class Judeans.

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It’s time for us to renew our apocalyptic imaginations. Apocalypses get imagined when things get so shitty that we need God to burn it all down and start over from scratch. We’re not there yet, but we’re well on our way. Might as well start reimagining now. #theology #apocalypse

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my favorite Bible story is probably the one where Jesus disappears an innocent person into a slave-labor gulag and then jets off for a weekend of golf at Galilee-a-Lago

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