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  • Baker's dozens!

  • Congress broke the strike with a veto-proof majority, Biden didn't have much choice in the matter.

    At least Biden was able to negotiate and apply pressure to get most of the demands met for the rail workers after the strike was prevented. The unions were largely grateful for the administration's efforts on the issue.

  • He's the second oldest overall, only Jimmy Carter beats him in age.

  • He's the oldest living Republican former president.

  • Personally I think the heartfelt people working there are also being taken advantage of, having their genuine human compassion used to pressure desperate people into the faith.

    This is actually the first thing it says on their 'about us' page:

    Youth in America are in crisis. Millions have lives filled with pain and empty of meaning. Seventy-eight million Americans were born between 1980 and 2000. This is the Millennial Generation. Although 65% of them would claim Christianity if they were filling out a government form, less than 20% have a biblical understanding of Jesus and matters of salvation.

    If statistics are true, less than 1 in 5 Millennials have a relationship with Christ that provides forgiveness and the promise of Heaven. This leaves over 60 million who are dying in their sin. This is a huge mission field. One we cannot ignore.

    It has been said that the Millennial Generation is the most difficult to reach with the Gospel, but if you know where to reach them…and how, the task becomes much easier.

    It seems like they're more interested in leveraging desperation to convert millennials to their religion than in offering genuine heartfelt support to people in crisis.

    For anyone who might be in crisis and is looking for a secular solution, the newly established 988 hotline in the US will offer genuine help without the sales pitch for Jesus.

  • Same as it ever was.

  • Are they trying to help the desperate, or take advantage of them?

  • Solidarity with a movement or organization is different than solidarity with a person.

    Like everyone in your office might wear a company logo sometimes to show your affiliation, but if they all put on a bandaid everytime the boss got a paper cut it would seem a bit cultish.

  • I think it's possible that nation states are inherently unstable. An improvement on monarchy, but still vulnerable to oligarchy.

    I'm not sure what the future holds, or what comes next, but I suspect that federation will play an important role.

  • New words were found for the original meaning that were less pejorative, causing the slang to take over?

  • When has solidarity resembled anything like this? Wearing a fake bandage is a strange way to show it, it's hyper focused on the leader as opposed to the movement. It reads more as devotion than solidarity.

  • I think it's a bit different when the word has been totally abandoned for the previous use. I don't know anyone who uses 'lame' or 'dumb' to refer to people with those disabilities. It's practically an archaic meaning at this point. Gay is still most popular as a reference to sexuality.

  • I thought they meant the slur that's also slang for a car's transmission.

  • There's hunter-gatherer tribes that have been more or less stable for over a thousand years. It's said that the Nez Perce have lived on the Columbia River for 11,500 years.

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