They specifically said “in some states.” Delaware is one state, not multiple states. So in this case, they were saying in some states (includes Delaware but not necessarily Delaware) that trans members of state legislatures have been treated poorly. Talking about negativity from other state legislatures is relevant here because she will be leaving Delaware and interacting with people from other states, some of whom were from those other state legislatures.
One of 17 children, he was raised by his mother and stepfather in a series of crowded houses in Paterson’s Fourth Ward.
Holy shit. Stop having children. Use contraceptives or stop fucking. No one is able to properly raise this many children.
(In no way am I ascribing his death / murder to too many siblings. It just jumped out at me as fucking nuts that anyone would keep fucking like this without taking measures to stop creating dependents.)
Minorities, including black people, continue to be dehumanized by “authorities”. I want to see the day when we stop hearing about senseless, preventable deaths.
As Lowery sounded off, police stood back and summoned an ambulance to take the 27-year-old Black man to the hospital. What happened in the ambulance remains a flashpoint in the Black community’s deteriorating relationship with the city’s 400-plus-member police department, an agency so troubled and distrusted that state officials last year took it over.
Adding the “final straw” reason state officials took it over …
New Jersey’s attorney general said Monday that his office has taken control of the police department in the state’s third-largest city, Paterson, less than a month after officers there fatally shot a well-known crisis intervention worker during a tense standoff.
If you’re black and you are mentally ill, pray, dance, sacrifice a goat, whatever your god or gods demand to avoid having a breakdown, because if you have a breakdown and someone calls the cops, you’re dead.
If I was a black man in the US, dancing around a sacrificed goat probably would not be on the list of things I’d be doing to avoid encountering the police.
The fucking USPS stamps the date on there. How is a hand written date that I could put whatever more valid than a government agency stamping when it was mailed? Fuck your voter suppression crap.
What’s nuts about Susan Paradise Baxter is that she was first nominated by Obama but McConnell let her nomination expire. She was renominated by Trump and approved.
We need to start arming priests!!! If priests had guns, this whole problem would go away. It’s common sense. So tired of hearing the liberal lefties say that guns need to go when we haven’t tried arming everyone yet. /s
The premise of their organizations is assurity in God’s plan for their lives and an afterlife.
If someone comes in and kills them the worst that happens is a beeline to heaven, according to their supposed beliefs.
Security (or emergency medical care, in this instance) only delays when they get to reach the place they claim they want to go, and insinuates they aren’t true believers.
What’s worse: a world where an all-powerful, all-knowing God lets us decide what we do, even if it’s crimes, or a world where every action one makes is decided by this all-powerful, all-knowing God?
If your god is all knowing and all powerful, he could have set the starting conditions of the world up so that no one would ever feel the need to commit murder without imposing on free will
Could he? What could we know about things that could or couldn’t have been? We can’t have even the slightest idea of what the existing realities were before time and space, we just can’t judge God’s creative process. We only know what is, and what God asks us to do in our world, that is to defend and protect the victims of the Evil.
But you don’t know what god wants from you. That’s the whole point. You are choosing to believe the words of some dudes in the desert 1700 years ago because they make you feel good. You don’t KNOW anything about God because it’s all speculation. Yes I know, that’s what faith is. But that’s not knowledge and to claim it as such is insulting. Every time I hear it.
You’re right “know” is not the good word. I don’t know if the Bible is true or not, I don’t know if God exists or not. I generally don’t use this word in this context, but there it slipped, sorry for that.
But I did not chose to believe because it makes me feel good. To say that is far more insulting than what I said.
You don’t have to respect any God, any religion. But if you don’t respect someone because he or she believes different things than you, what does that makes you?
It is most gratifying to me that you feel like your imaginary sky wizard is a he, only a man could be such a colossal screw up. Thanks for bone cancer and parasitic worms, sky guy!
A baby is born with no skin and its heart on the outside of its body. You worship the being that does that. You worship the being that does that every day?
Okay but if this article was about churches NOT teaching first aid after having been through several mass shootings, you would criticize them for that too.
I argue this point a lot when I was younger and a “believer”. They always seem to take more precautions against death then the average person.
I once told a Christian that was so goddammit precaution that they shouldn’t look both ways when crossing a street. After all you go straight to heaven want you?
Most Christian I met fear death more than anyone you met. Even ones that swear they are true believers. I’m talking speaking tongues etc fear dying. I think deep down they all had doubts.
I think it human nature to want proof of things and with god there is none. Hence deep down they fear death. Or they fear hell because they all know they are not good Christians and deserve hell.
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