But you weren’t drawing a distinction between Buddhists and evangelicals theologically in your initial post - another example of your trying to save face and move the goalposts. You claimed broadly that evangelicals vote based upon faith and Buddhists do not - not realizing that there are serious flaws in that…

Friendly reminder: Sweden is actually considered among the worst nations in the world in terms of assimilating its immigrants - it has one of the WORST immigrant to citizen employment ratios in the world - meaning your chances of getting meaningful work if you are foreign are pretty low. A wildly xenophobic political…

In truth, living together before marriage - or just having all the “essential” items already - doesn’t preclude you from having a registry. My husband and I used the registry to ask for things that we wanted but had never been able to really justify the purchases - like, my husband was desperate for a personal deep…

But why be the same? Your point was not specific to Buddhists theologically - you were speaking to the supposed difference between Buddhists and evangelical Christians in terms of their alleged “religious” vs. “secular” morality. My point is that morality has little to do with it - it’s a numbers game. (Oh, and BTW,…

I can see your point with that. I think the quoted text is more problematic to alter, but I can see your argument on the Jez text.

But like I mentioned before, doesn’t that create attribution issues? Kara is citing and sourcing the Texas coverage, which is covering the trial, which is using the legal names of the defendants and accused. Are you arguing that Jez should either 1.) alter the source material to remove the legal name (which creates…

Except you know that platforms ARE a form of pandering...right? That’s what pandering is, essentially - giving a large portion of the electorate what they want personally. That’s why I mentioned Hindutva - it’s essentially creating a platform of laws premised upon Hinduism - and it’s pandering to the majority of the…

Then don’t you think that’s something to take up with Jez? They certainly could do that (as Jez isn’t really a journalism outlet, it’s a blog). I’m not sure of that simply because it would require either not using any of the Texas reporting, as that includes the dead name) which would create sourcing/attribution…

She was included in it due to her being one of the accused (and I do believe they were both arrested and charged, and the charges would have been under the legal name) and due to the accusations of the defense that she was the primary wrongdoer. Which, okay, I get, but still, I’m not sure how they could NOT use the…

Your theory only works if the evangelical vote was scattered sufficiently in order to assure enough swing states - but guess what? It’s not. The vast majority of evangelical protestants are concentrated in 2 major areas - the South and the Midwest - areas that Trump would have likely won handily even without their…

Respectfully, how is this article not covering the trial? It quotes the prosecution, defense, describes the crime and the outcome of the trial, etc. And if it is about the trial, which was conducted under the legal name, I’m not sure how it’s really feasible to not mention that name in the process.

Somebody wrote a piece a while back that a huge portion of the business comes from exotic dancers who believe a larger butt will result in more money or better jobs. So....mostly strippers, I guess is the answer.

The paper, in my understanding, is not reporting on HER as much as they are covering the trial itself - and the trial would be carried out using the legal name (the case would be “state/people vs. Jimmy Joe Clark” (with a possible “a/k/a/ Alicia Clark”). The trial is obligated to be carried out under the legal name. I…

I suppose the issue with that is that Kara’s article is largely a reiteration of the Texas reporting and the Texas reporting is largely coverage of the trial - and in the trial, the court would have been obligated to use the defendant’s legal name (and hence, the prosecution, defense, etc. all would as well). My…

Yeah, I learned that too a while ago, but it never really changed my opinion. I liked that it was just there, never really addressed. I also did martial arts as a kid too. I think part of why I liked Trini so much was that she was not a stereotypical Asian - Billy was really the nerd. They resisted making her into a…

Police and courts are generally obligated to refer to individuals by their legal names - my suspicion is that Clark likely has not done the name change process, so that is why that is done. I don’t think I’d call that deadnaming as much as I’d call it “complying with the law.”

How so? Your own cited link shows that the only 2 faith groups that went solidly for Trump were 1.) Mormons and 2.) Evangelical Protestants (both of which are minorities within the country). He narrowly won Catholics. No other. And you haven’t defined the difference you claim - I suspect that’s because it’s a term of…

I don’t really have an issue with her facing a very long sentence. There have been multiple deaths and serious injuries linked to black market butt injections. There is no way they were not aware of the dangers of it. And leaving her on the table like that is pretty depraved. So...yeah, I’m not really torn up about…

Because you can never EVER move the furniture without ruining it! I’d be so irate at this solely because I love to move stuff around on a quarterly basis in my home.

I’m not sure it’s “threat to national security” stuff, but the film felt like it was using queerness as an excuse or a reason for making terrible behavior “less bad.” I mean, he goes along with Gaston lying to get Maurice institutionalized, goes along with the initial plan to storm the castle and kill the Beast, etc.…