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I don't understand how the Church keeps its tax exemption, because it OFFICIALLY meddles in our politics, to wit, the abortion issue. Archbishops giving public speeches, nuns demonstrating...but then, religion should simply be classified as part of the entertainment industry, with no special tax status of any kind. All religions. Temples, synagogues, churches, and mosques should have to pay ordinary local property taxes that support fire and police departments and maintain the roads.
nostr:npub1r3yzxm0a2g3zse048reywfnvw3ez3u3cxp89a4jvsdgtacuqx2vq5kep08 It's more complicated than that. It's easy to believe that all people are just "like" that, but that's not what's going on here. It's a culture thing.nostr:npub1e9hkedxnxwsvqa3ld5xqcg6pehxl7hfchs7w6q7v9tw8zlytqjdq2tghzz nostr:npub1j5xtncc0y9c94hlnt8ljnukugl69hngslmpgg7grsa7njj07qfesld5frn
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It's a statistical thing. Our schools are dedicated to team sports now, where our children are taught to cheat if you can get away with it, injure the star players on the other side if you can, and winning games is the most important thing a school provides its students. Follow the money. HS football and basketball coaches make large multiples of teachers' salaries and more is spent on sports facilities than on classrooms. Team loyalty becomes nationalism.
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Citizen is the most important job in America, and they better start voting like it.
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Sadly, America is all about individual rights, freedom, and not having to do anything you don't want to do. The idea of civic responsibility is an alien thought in the US. The concept of duty is only something one runs into if one chances to join the military for some reason. We a country of selfish people concerned about their personal rights, not about obligations and responsibilities. We're a fun loving people and nothing is more important than fun.
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Somebody on here said the other day that they would accept him "stepping down from politics" as a punishment and said that it worked well in Agnew's case. I have rarely been so mad. Trump is a particularly arrogant criminal who is currently facing 78 charges, and he was found liable for being a rapist (yes, the judge ruled that what he did counts). To NOT have him spend time in prison should have more Americans rioting than the reverse.
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Trump is a dangerously decompensating Narcissistic psychopath. He should be placed not in a prison but in a facility for the criminally insane.
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Almost. #Trump is a bioterrorist and mass murderer (covid), in addition to his other charged crimes. After his conviction, he should be sent to Guantanamo where he will be safe and there won't be any demonstrations outside the facility to cope with.
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Everything from his very weird Bible verse tweets (frequently from the Old Testament, which seems odd from a Catholic turned Mormon turned Catholic), to his unparalleled dissociation from whatever current event he comments on. He seems genuinely oblivious to reality, often not even following the GOP talking points, blasting off at strange tangents, seemingly unaware of what is actually being discussed in public or debated in Congress. No fact is too big or too obvious to ignore.