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kleinbl00  ·  1452 days ago  ·  link  ·    ·  parent  ·  post: ACB is ALREADY enforcing christian morality over the rest of us.

    A theocrat, installed by a president brought to power by theocrats, is installed to push theocracy and somehow its' MY responsibility to prove that it's a religious motive that drives her to keep churches packed to the brim every sunday and legally protect plague rats who continue to do so?

No, your responsibility is to attempt to have a meaningful discussion.

I'm no fan of ACB, nor how she got there, nor the people who put her there, nor the climate that let them. I am deeply sympathetic to your health, and I agree that there's a direct line of responsibility between ACB's ruling and the very threats to your life. I'm sorry. I truly am. I understand your viewpoint 100%. I empathize with it completely.

But there flavors of evil here other than "evangelical christian." Here's a script:

BEN: I hate sushi. Sushi is disgusting.

KB: There's definitely some gross sushi out there but I actually kinda like alaska rolls -

BEN: All sushi is disgusting and anyone who defends sushi is a traitor to cuisine.

KB: There are plenty of people who eat sushi who aren't terrible humans-

BEN: and plenty of people that eat sea urchin which is proof positive that sushi is fundamentally disgusting!

KB: Dude I'm no fan of uni and never will be but I mean, I've met people who eat uni and they aren't terrible. Terrible people eat uni, good people eat uni, plenty of people eat uni without becoming terrible people-

BEN: I WAS FORCED TO EAT UNI AS A CHILD THEREFORE ALL SUSHI IS AN ABOMINATION IN THE EYES OF GOD

EVERYONE: (why does KB keep engaging Ben in discussions of sushi)