Barbarian

joined 2 years ago
[–] Barbarian 6 points 3 months ago (2 children)

If you mean added to the bible after the council of Nicea decided on the contents of the bible, no. The bible, both old testament and new, is very explicitly pro-slavery.

[–] Barbarian 11 points 3 months ago (4 children)

Ephesians 6:5

Slaves, obey your earthly masters with respect and fear, and with sincerity of heart, just as you would obey Christ.

[–] Barbarian 10 points 3 months ago (1 children)

On top of all that, I honestly can't conceive of why he'd prefer Trump. People like him care about one thing: money. A Trump economy attempting to create autarky via blanket tarrifs would annihilate his investments.

He has no major outstanding court cases he needs protection from and no major government contracts in danger (in either case, Trump might be more useful since he's very bribable), which means the only selfish logical choice for him is Kamala.

[–] Barbarian 27 points 3 months ago (3 children)

Also, look at her counsel. My brother's wife's hairdresser's mechanic said that there's very big questions about where Chewbacca's from. He hasn't even released his birth certificate!

[–] Barbarian 24 points 3 months ago* (last edited 3 months ago) (1 children)

Totally unrelated historical fact: Hitler's attempted coup failed, and he was appointed as chancellor later on in a completely legal manner.

[–] Barbarian 18 points 3 months ago* (last edited 3 months ago) (2 children)

Pretty low, even if Trump wins. The things preventing that scenario are two-fold:

  1. Trump can't unilaterally leave NATO. He would need the Senate to do it I think (I'm not 100% sure here).

  2. Even without NATO, the EU (especially the Nordics & Poland) have sizable militaries and a defense agreement with the Baltics. It would be suicide for Russia to do that.

Personally, I'm more worried about the potential of Ukraine being left out to dry causing them to fall, immediately followed by Moldova falling, which would then pull Romania (and therefore the EU) into the war. This would not be a defensive war, which wouldn't trigger article 5. Who knows how things would spiral from there.

[–] Barbarian 12 points 4 months ago (2 children)

I think Brexit has also been a significant factor in making UK way more xenophobic.

Personally, I don't think it's made the UK more xenophobic. A decent percentage of people supported Brexit due to xenophobia, and the success of the referendum made them more outspoken. Basically, Brexit is a symptom of xenophobia rather than the other way around.

[–] Barbarian 36 points 4 months ago* (last edited 4 months ago)

He didn't. He just regrets the way he phrased it, and has a bit of pity for those who believe Trump's lies.

[–] Barbarian 6 points 4 months ago* (last edited 4 months ago) (6 children)

Yeah Alex, people having too much info about you can be scary.

[–] Barbarian 2 points 4 months ago

Innocentia nihil probat.

[–] Barbarian 4 points 4 months ago

Our enemies hide in METAL BOXES, the cowards! THE FOOLS! We should take away their METAL BOXES!

[–] Barbarian 12 points 4 months ago* (last edited 4 months ago) (7 children)

Personally, the game I run the most is Shadowrun. Managed to transition my DnD group to Pathfinder 2e and it's great. Pathfinder is DnD but so much better.

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