Him winning was what got me interested in politics to begin with.
Hearing adults say they would vote for the president because they wanted to drink with him made me very nervous, and I’d say rightly so.
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SnailMagnitude@mander.xyz 2 days ago
Remember thinking they were hitting some peak level of moron back with dubbya bush but I was just young and didn’t realize 'merica is just permanently a circus.
Seems a bit late now, making a novel country out of guns and KJV’s for lolz isn’t as funny once it escapes the lab.
quarkquasar@lemmy.world 2 days ago
granch_bibblyfibble@piefed.social 1 day ago
Also because Bush, famously, didn’t drink. His wife made him stop long before because, well, she didn’t have the best results from her own drinking…
CultLeader4Hire@lemmy.world 2 days ago
It was never funny and the only people who thought so were those who were too privileged to see it for what it was
EggInDisguise@lemmy.blahaj.zone 2 days ago
Tbh, I’d rather they get their rhetoric from a king James version than some of the newer interpretations.
There’s a lot of word changes between them that alter context to some things.
They don’t actually read any edition, they just get soundbytes from some middle aged angry white man who hasn’t read the older editions either and really wants to push their “women are subservient, being gay is wrong, racial division is good actually,dont fight back against authority” narrative.
HostilePasta@lemmy.ml 2 days ago
Why should they get their interpretation from an apologetic translation written in the 1600s? There are many better versions with more accurate translations and include so many things that have been found since then.
If the context in the KJV was wrong, why shouldn’t it be updated?
SnailMagnitude@mander.xyz 2 days ago
It’s more that the US is just drunk on ‘the bible’ which seems likely linked to the entire country being carpeted bombed in little 66 book KJV’s as a social experiment around the 1800’s and they just can’t stop rewriting it as they need a constant flow of novel Jesuses. This week it’s Mundane Markan Jesus duct taped to some bits from the Pauline corpus for lolz, The Gospel of Bart Ehrman for the masses that stopped going to masses but still need to cling to a personal Jesus.
I don’t even think Bart’s aware of what’s he’s doing, it’s completely bizarre.
If you hear the meme ‘most scholars agree’ alongside some claim from the SBL, run for the hills.
HostilePasta@lemmy.ml 1 day ago
I’d argue that, while there are many - odd - translations (new urban bible, new living translation, new American translation, among others), there are some very good recent academic translations which shouldn’t be included in that. NRSVue and NOAB come to mind as excellent academic translations accessible to the everyday person.
It’s just unfortunate that so many people got duped into this religion by books that were making excuses and purposely translating apologetically.
Christianity is untrue either way, but some recent translations make it far more apparent than others.
basxto@discuss.tchncs.de 2 days ago
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Denjin@feddit.uk 2 days ago
Was getting nostalgic for Dubya the other day:
There’s an old saying in Tennessee - I know it’s in Texas, probably in Tennessee - that says, fool me once, shame on - shame on you. Fool me - you can’t get fooled again.
How naive we were.
SnailMagnitude@mander.xyz 2 days ago
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masinko@lemmy.world 2 days ago
There’s an old saying in Tennessee - I know it’s in Texas, probably in Tennessee - that says, throw a shoe at me once, shame on - shame on you. Shoe me… you can’t throw a show again.
PattyMcB@lemmy.world 2 days ago
Not after you’ve thrown both shoes you can’t!
aeronmelon@lemmy.world 2 days ago
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SaveTheTuaHawk@lemmy.ca 2 days ago
The thrower did nine months in prison and to this day says it was the proudest moment of his life.
jaybone@lemmy.zip 2 days ago
Tbf, he did have a decent shoe dodging game.
“If you can dodge a wrench, you can dodge a shoe.”
SnailMagnitude@mander.xyz 2 days ago
Tbf Donny out there dodging bullets
Thebeardedsinglemalt@lemmy.world 2 days ago
Back when we thought Dubya was as dumb as a president could get, and Cheney was as corrupt as you could get
jaybone@lemmy.zip 2 days ago
It’s like they combined them in a lab.
AmyAye@nord.pub 2 days ago
At least Dubya had an actual “excuse” with 9/11. These assholes now are just making up enemies.
betterdeadthanreddit@lemmy.world 2 days ago
9/11 was Trump’s requested age range on his old buddy’s island.
Duamerthrax@lemmy.world 2 days ago
And somehow, everyone forget at on 9/11, Trump bragged about now having the larger building in NYC. That was a lie, but I digress.
muusemuuse@sh.itjust.works 2 days ago
I guarantee the Trump regime will intentionally cause another 9/11 event to stay in power. I am absolutely certain.
Valmond@lemmy.dbzer0.com 2 days ago
“Fool me twice, shame on me”
sketchyenchantment@sh.itjust.works 1 day ago
He stopped himself to avoid having “shame on me” turned into a soundbite for use by the media and political opponents.
WhyIHateTheInternet@lemmy.world 2 days ago
I believe that fish and human kind can coexist
chunes@lemmy.world 2 days ago
Getting nostalgic for a million innocent people killed with direct violence. Classic.