... treating guests well was critically important to many pre-modern cultures and it’s more than a cheese plate ... more like, not handing his guests over to be raped by his asshole neighbors and, instead, offering his daughter - which sucks and is it’s own set of problems - but the take away lesson was less about gay…

Varies by individual strain of religion. Islam has the least emphasis on homophobia in the Quaran itself (totally separate from the cultural practices of some Islamic traditions) and modern Judism tends to ignore or re-interpret Leviticus (and, if you interpret it strictly, it’s solely about male homosexuality). And…

So far as I can tell, there is no Christian church with the possible exception of the Catholic Church that condemns divorce with anything remotely like the intensity that Jesus’ statement suggests they should.

A few folks have been charged with making false calls but that’s a very minor misdemeanor - a law saying you are vulnerable to a lawsuit when you make an unnecessary call is a whole different thing.

Of course he’s not going to leave quietly - he’s going to face a mountain of lawsuits and a good chance of going to jail when he no longer has the entire US Justice Dept. at his beck and call. Plus, I’m pretty sure Putin has already stopped returning his calls, so he’s got no emergency out there.

In a right to work work state, there doesn’t need to be a reason to fire someone and, therefore, it’s almost impossible to (legally) prove he was fired for taking paternity leave.  

If I’m reading the judges ruling correctly.. they’re stating that men do not have the protection of anti-pregnancy discrimination laws because they’d can’t get pregnant. They didn’t refuse him paternity leave (which would, I think, be suable) but fired him (in a presumably ‘right to work’ state) after he came back. I…

This is why we need municipal alternatives to private (for profit) companies (like Zoom) handling public events.  Something built with the idea of healthy public access at the for front might be better able to handle these things.  Props to Zoom but they never intended their system to be used this way.

In our jurisdiction, the psych exam for all cops is handled by one person (white, male, old) who’s been doing it for ... twenty plus years and is the only and final say on the acceptability of the hire. We’re just now begining to think maybe there should be more than one person doing it and perhaps not someone who got…

Y’know, hyper-evangelical cultists and socially conservatives ‘Christians’ periodically go on about X hurricane is god’s judgement over (state, recently passed law, elected official) support of them queers or abortion rights, dem liberals, and so on... but god and/or the devil is practically taking out sky plane signs…

Yup, that too. Exposure to other cultures/people is also a big problem for authoritarian groups.

Because elites are snobby and make them feel stupid and, ultimately, education tends to reduce the tendency to knee jerk bias, improve people’s capacity for empathy and critical thinking, give people a wider view of the world and all of that severely limits authoritarian structures and people from being succesful.

Generally depends on what ‘level’ of sexual offender he’s been listed as.  In a just world someone who violently assaults a child should be on the most restrictive level but plea bargaining and evidence and blah-blah can change that.

Frankly, I dont’ think it takes a mental disorder. So many things goingn on right now come basically down to ‘it doesn’t (seemingly) affect me personally so why should I care? - see: masks, climate change, income inequity, racism.

If you’re serious, there are some books/ resources on how to deal with cultists that may help you have better conversations. In general accusations/blaming/negative reinforcement doesn’t work. Getting your partner to talk and make friends outside their cult associates can help (in the long run). All that depends on…

That is fake Lazardo, and a troll.  No point in interacting.

They’re going there.  It’s this, more than anything, that will wreck this country for generations - not because of whatever shitshow of conservative crap the trump supreme court does but that the only recourse dems/progressives/vaguely human people will have when they regain control of the Senate is to bump the # of…

We tried to refuse the arbitrator’s decision and it went to court and ... we lost and the shitty cop who shot someone got his job back.  More or less.  I think he spent the rest of his career behind a desk in a closet.  Still, he was paid and got pension and etc.

Their cleaning cloths are probably not cloth and their blenders could make a human body into one of those unicorn drinks if you could get it in there.

I’m even more sure, as this whole thing goes on, that tRump had a stroke that time he was rushed to the hospital for his ‘physical’ - and that’s why this basic cognitive test and so on.