Don't you just love it when a religion with a nearly-2000 year history of blood, violence, death and destruction starts falsely accusing others of extremism?
LGBTQ extremism = acknowledging that queer people exist. Got it. I guess that makes me an extremist among extremists, since I not only acknowledge the existence of queer people, but I also want them to have actual rights.
As moderate christianity fades out, the extremists have to keep setting their intolerance barriers at a higher level. Anyone who is not 100% with them is 100% against them. They are shining a very bright spotlight on their obsessive intolerance and hastening their own disintegration. Good riddance! (I typically go to the grocery on Sunday mornings and the church parking lots are looking very anemic, these days.)
Have the wingnuts demanded that the franchise owner be kidnapped by the military and taken to another country yet? C'mon wingnuts, yer slacking off! That's the way we deal with things we don't like now!
This one sentence says it all:” Chick-fil-A built a business model based almost entirely on faith. And frankly, that means they should be held to a higher standards.”
They are so ironic and so right—far right.” Christianity built a business model based almost entirely on faith*. And frankly, that means they should be held to a higher standard.” But they don’t of themselves to that standard at all. Every year, another four or 500 pastors and professional Christians make it into the news for sex crimes against children, often against women, occasionally against men. We hear every year about Christian financial scandals. Entire denominations have been investigated, weighed in the balance, and found wanting. They bear false witness routinely, lying, reviling, and slandering innocent people on a regular basis, when they’re not busy doing the same to their own membership.They support the worst, most incompetent, most adulterous, fornicatingly stoopid lying sack of shit that ever disgraced public office. They even shop at Walmart on Sundays.
I’ve said it before and I’m just going to have to say it again. They are not merely hypocritical. By their own very shallow standards, they are deeply corrupt.
Just because sometimes I feel like total sarcasm should prevail and because I have always been a skeptic, how do you build a fast food business based on faith? Does that mean customers should have faith the food won't hurt their bodies? Or have faith the chick they're eating is real and not some drummed - up synthetically manufactured food? Faith!Believe! Whatever.
They build it on faith because that’s how they sell their product— to other believers. Building their business on faith is the apologetics of fast food. It’s only there to convince the believers. No one else cares.
Well, to be accurate, I do care. If someone goes out of their to let me know that they are believers, it is very likely that I will not want to give them my money.
I have zero desire to eat at CfA, zero desire to shop at Hobby Lobby and zero desire to patronize any bakery that won’t bake a wedding cake for a gay couple. You want to be a bigot, I can’t stop you, but I don’t want to support your “lifestyle” either. See how that works? 🙄
I recently wrote to a company urging them to stop using Uline boxes to ship their products which I buy regularly. The Uhlein family is among the biggest supporters of Republicans and crazed Christians. Uline is the Hobby Lobby of packaging.
We get the uline catalog at work * have you seen the letter they print in every catalog. Its unhinged right wing lunacy. I might see if I can find a copy to post. It is something to behold, that’s for sure.
*(my employer uses uline for everything not specific to labs, don’t come at me they make the decisions and there isn’t an affordable alternative, my job is filled with only progressive people though the owners are still capitalist but in a progressive manner),
I certainly wouldn’t fault you for something out of your control. However, I’d love to see the letter.
We used to receive all kinds of weird missives that the mailroom sent to me because I was the librarian and they didn’t know who else to send it to. Easy answer: toss it into the recycle bin.
> "the cancer of diversity, equity, and inclusion should be eradicated from headquarters."
JFC!! Does this guy even listen to himself? Words have meaning. What the eff is wrong with equity? Or inclusion? Or diversity, in this so called melting pot of a nation? I know that the droolers and knuckle-draggers don't understand these concepts but everyone else should understand the validity and value of these attributes.
Ever since Trump darkened the White House, the entire concept of DEI has become one of the right's new official thought crimes. Just as being "woke" is the worst thing in the world to them. And as you'll recall, being "woke" was once thought of as a GOOD thing. All it meant was to be aware of racial inequality and acting towards making the world a better place for EVERYONE, not just straight white Christians.
Well as we all know, those kinds of ideas are an existential crisis for these fucking HIGHLY intolerant people. And intolerance of others is now official US Government policy.
Equity, inclusion, and diversity are detrimental to white, cishet, male dominance and makes Real Christian men's scrotums shrivel. Do you want those poor racist, homophobic misogynists to feel less than? Or is that poor homophobic, misogynistic racists? Poor racist, misogynistic homophobes? Eh, whatever.
40% shrinkage possible. Every business sells 40% less. Less sales means less wor. Never fear. The billionaires will be okay. It is juist the "other" ppeople wsh suffer. But, they don't count to the kkrister kkkropwd.
DEI means white guys have to actually work to get jobs, raises, and promotions. They can’t hide their mediocrity behind their white peepee when the people they used to oppress by making them work three times harder and six times better show up and do their base level. Look at the military, Kegsbreath is in charge, he got rid of all the women and minorities in the highest leadership roles, and put his toadies in, they can’t do fuckall anywhere near competently. The invasion and kidnapping of Meduro might have worked, but when you are working outside the law, you don’t have to do it correctly. All the activities that came before this were complete failures, Iran bombing was an expensive fireworks show with no damage, reporters invited to classified information dumps online. It’s all a shit show now.
My last few years of being a conservative bigot, I had begun to realize that it really wasn't any of my business, let alone the government's business from stopping two people in love from marrying. I was skewing away from conservatism to a more libertarian outlook. (I would later shift from libertarian to liberal.)
But I did ask my fellow bigots to give me a reason... any reason... that was secular to oppose same-sex marriage. I begged them for just one reason. Something my intellect could seize on and say, "See! I'm rational! Not a religious bigot!"
I never got one.
Basically it always broke down to "God said so! And it's yucky!" or "It's yucky!" or "I don't want to think about two handsome naked men... LALALALALA... can't hear you... "
Gay marriage doesn't impact opposite sex unions. It didn't bring about the fall of the Republic, Christian nationalist bigots are doing that. It hasn't impacted my straight ass life one tiny bit other than I know that some of my neighbors are happier now and that's nice. Life is short. People should be free to pursue happiness as long as it doesn't hurt other folks.
So congratulations, Dougie and Toby, may you always be as happy together as you are now.
Perfect dissection of manufactured outrage. The progression from "one franchise congratulates one couple" to "DEI is destroying the company" is such a microcosm of how culture war economics works nowdays. What's wild is how fragile the whole apparatus is, they need constant fresh grievances to stay relevant and this barely qualfied as a paper cut. When the base shrinks, the performace gets more extreme but less persuasive.
Manufactured outrage is how xtians try to divert attention from their child rape activities, pilfering the wallets of their followers and their use of those funds to do anything but help the poor, hungry and sick.
Same. Hobby lobby is in town and the Michael's is two towns away but I make the drive. Never set foot in any Hobby Lobby. We don't have Hate Fil A here but we do have Popeye's which I haven't yet tried.
I think there are probably a great many over-compensating closet-cases in the Anti-LGBTQ community. If they just make enough noise, then maybe their urges will go away. In any event, we're talking about people whose world view centers around who and what they hate, all painted over with a thin coat of Christian justification.
This is a great example of the simple minds that abound in Christianity. Chick-fil-A is a fast food company, not a Christian institution. Expecting a retail company to be the personification of your stupid religious beliefs is wildly absurd. They're in the business of making money, not pandering to the fragile egos of Christians.
Look at those nasty extremists- just look at them! For goodness' sake, they're... 𝘴𝘮𝘪𝘭𝘪𝘯𝘨! That will 𝘯𝘦𝘷𝘦𝘳 do- everyone must be kept in a constant state of groveling misery, just like the Good Lard intended. The extremist agenda of 𝘩𝘢𝘱𝘱𝘺 𝘱𝘦𝘰𝘱𝘭𝘦 must be stopped at all costs!
Maybe it’s my cynicism, but after working in workplace/HQ design for a number of years and getting a firsthand look into the inner workings of these companies and how they treat their employees, my conclusion is that they are all generally the same. Some have no shame (Walmart) and others like Google and the likes tried to pay their employees with free snacks instead of dollar bills. Look at this cool design. Don’t you want to stay here after hours and keep working instead of spending time with your family?
Don't you just love it when a religion with a nearly-2000 year history of blood, violence, death and destruction starts falsely accusing others of extremism?
Actually, I'm getting tired of it. It seems to be a daily thing.
Bullies hate it when their intended victims fight back.
Good point. And I was naive enough to be shocked by the phrase "Christian hate group"!
It's almost like Republikan$.
Don’t forget the pedophilia and s assault!
Yes absolutely. And look who is the newest "baby catholic" according to himself. jdv.
[𝑃]𝑟𝑜𝑜𝑓 𝑡ℎ𝑎𝑡 𝐶ℎ𝑖𝑐𝑘-𝑓𝑖𝑙-𝐴 ℎ𝑎𝑠𝑛’𝑡 “𝑤𝑒𝑒𝑑𝑒𝑑 𝑜𝑢𝑡 𝑡ℎ𝑒 𝐿𝐺𝐵𝑇 𝑒𝑥𝑡𝑟𝑒𝑚𝑖𝑠𝑚” 𝑤𝑖𝑡ℎ𝑖𝑛 𝑖𝑡𝑠 𝑟𝑎𝑛𝑘𝑠. 𝐴𝑠 𝑖𝑓 𝐶ℎ𝑖𝑐𝑘-𝑓𝑖𝑙-𝐴 𝑤𝑎𝑠 𝑒𝑣𝑒𝑟 𝑒𝑣𝑒𝑛 𝑚𝑖𝑙𝑑𝑙𝑦 𝑝𝑟𝑜-𝐿𝐺𝐵𝑇𝑄, 𝑚𝑢𝑐ℎ 𝑙𝑒𝑠𝑠 𝑝𝑟𝑜𝑚𝑜𝑡𝑖𝑛𝑔 “𝑒𝑥𝑡𝑟𝑒𝑚𝑖𝑠𝑚.”
LGBTQ extremism = acknowledging that queer people exist. Got it. I guess that makes me an extremist among extremists, since I not only acknowledge the existence of queer people, but I also want them to have actual rights.
𝑀𝑖𝑘𝑒 𝐻𝑢𝑐𝑘𝑎𝑏𝑒𝑒, 𝑖𝑛 2023, 𝑠𝑎𝑖𝑑 𝑡ℎ𝑒 𝑐𝑜𝑚𝑝𝑎𝑛𝑦 ℎ𝑎𝑑 𝑔𝑜𝑛𝑒 “𝑓𝑢𝑙𝑙 𝑏𝑜𝑟𝑒 𝑤𝑜𝑘𝑒”
I guess anything less than death camps and pink triangles and hunting the homeless for sport is now "woke".
As moderate christianity fades out, the extremists have to keep setting their intolerance barriers at a higher level. Anyone who is not 100% with them is 100% against them. They are shining a very bright spotlight on their obsessive intolerance and hastening their own disintegration. Good riddance! (I typically go to the grocery on Sunday mornings and the church parking lots are looking very anemic, these days.)
He probably doesn't realize that it is a compliment.
Have the wingnuts demanded that the franchise owner be kidnapped by the military and taken to another country yet? C'mon wingnuts, yer slacking off! That's the way we deal with things we don't like now!
Turkey?
Fuckin-A
Turkey sandwich sounds good.
Had one for dinner last night.
Are they trying to say it’s ok for someone to come to our country and kidnap our president?
Maybe us Nordic countries should do that. Jens, do you hear me?
great wreck, agree!
Good morning and happy new year to everyone.
This one sentence says it all:” Chick-fil-A built a business model based almost entirely on faith. And frankly, that means they should be held to a higher standards.”
They are so ironic and so right—far right.” Christianity built a business model based almost entirely on faith*. And frankly, that means they should be held to a higher standard.” But they don’t of themselves to that standard at all. Every year, another four or 500 pastors and professional Christians make it into the news for sex crimes against children, often against women, occasionally against men. We hear every year about Christian financial scandals. Entire denominations have been investigated, weighed in the balance, and found wanting. They bear false witness routinely, lying, reviling, and slandering innocent people on a regular basis, when they’re not busy doing the same to their own membership.They support the worst, most incompetent, most adulterous, fornicatingly stoopid lying sack of shit that ever disgraced public office. They even shop at Walmart on Sundays.
I’ve said it before and I’m just going to have to say it again. They are not merely hypocritical. By their own very shallow standards, they are deeply corrupt.
*and grifting for dollars.
Just because sometimes I feel like total sarcasm should prevail and because I have always been a skeptic, how do you build a fast food business based on faith? Does that mean customers should have faith the food won't hurt their bodies? Or have faith the chick they're eating is real and not some drummed - up synthetically manufactured food? Faith!Believe! Whatever.
They build it on faith because that’s how they sell their product— to other believers. Building their business on faith is the apologetics of fast food. It’s only there to convince the believers. No one else cares.
Well, to be accurate, I do care. If someone goes out of their to let me know that they are believers, it is very likely that I will not want to give them my money.
I have zero desire to eat at CfA, zero desire to shop at Hobby Lobby and zero desire to patronize any bakery that won’t bake a wedding cake for a gay couple. You want to be a bigot, I can’t stop you, but I don’t want to support your “lifestyle” either. See how that works? 🙄
I recently wrote to a company urging them to stop using Uline boxes to ship their products which I buy regularly. The Uhlein family is among the biggest supporters of Republicans and crazed Christians. Uline is the Hobby Lobby of packaging.
We get the uline catalog at work * have you seen the letter they print in every catalog. Its unhinged right wing lunacy. I might see if I can find a copy to post. It is something to behold, that’s for sure.
*(my employer uses uline for everything not specific to labs, don’t come at me they make the decisions and there isn’t an affordable alternative, my job is filled with only progressive people though the owners are still capitalist but in a progressive manner),
I certainly wouldn’t fault you for something out of your control. However, I’d love to see the letter.
We used to receive all kinds of weird missives that the mailroom sent to me because I was the librarian and they didn’t know who else to send it to. Easy answer: toss it into the recycle bin.
It’s really hard to cancel getting their (entirely unsolicited by me catalogs ) I finally called and got them to stop.
👆🎯
That's how I live too.
> "the cancer of diversity, equity, and inclusion should be eradicated from headquarters."
JFC!! Does this guy even listen to himself? Words have meaning. What the eff is wrong with equity? Or inclusion? Or diversity, in this so called melting pot of a nation? I know that the droolers and knuckle-draggers don't understand these concepts but everyone else should understand the validity and value of these attributes.
Ever since Trump darkened the White House, the entire concept of DEI has become one of the right's new official thought crimes. Just as being "woke" is the worst thing in the world to them. And as you'll recall, being "woke" was once thought of as a GOOD thing. All it meant was to be aware of racial inequality and acting towards making the world a better place for EVERYONE, not just straight white Christians.
Well as we all know, those kinds of ideas are an existential crisis for these fucking HIGHLY intolerant people. And intolerance of others is now official US Government policy.
Equity, inclusion, and diversity are detrimental to white, cishet, male dominance and makes Real Christian men's scrotums shrivel. Do you want those poor racist, homophobic misogynists to feel less than? Or is that poor homophobic, misogynistic racists? Poor racist, misogynistic homophobes? Eh, whatever.
> "makes Real Christian men's scrotums shrivel."
Do your balls hang low?
Can you tie them in a knot?
Can you tie them in a bow?
Can you throw them over your shoulder like a Continental soldier?
Do your balls hang low?
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xPlqLHcphyw
One of my favorites.
"If your name is on the guest list
No one can take you higher"
Get your tickets now. NSFW:
http://www.puppetryofthepenis.com/html_site/
Most definitely NSFW:
http://www.puppetryofthepenis.com/html_site/video.htm
These idiots think they can kick out all the furriners and the immegrents and Make America White Again, or so I suspect.
And they haven't the slightest idea of the impact that would have or how much they would LOSE.
"These idiots think they can kick out all the furriners and the immegrents and Make America White Again, or so I suspect"
A waste of profitable material, much better to turn them into slaves.
No, that's their plan for the black people in the USA after they get rid of all the brown people that talk funny or look like they might talk funny.
40% shrinkage possible. Every business sells 40% less. Less sales means less wor. Never fear. The billionaires will be okay. It is juist the "other" ppeople wsh suffer. But, they don't count to the kkrister kkkropwd.
DEI means white guys have to actually work to get jobs, raises, and promotions. They can’t hide their mediocrity behind their white peepee when the people they used to oppress by making them work three times harder and six times better show up and do their base level. Look at the military, Kegsbreath is in charge, he got rid of all the women and minorities in the highest leadership roles, and put his toadies in, they can’t do fuckall anywhere near competently. The invasion and kidnapping of Meduro might have worked, but when you are working outside the law, you don’t have to do it correctly. All the activities that came before this were complete failures, Iran bombing was an expensive fireworks show with no damage, reporters invited to classified information dumps online. It’s all a shit show now.
They only know DEI. Don't know what the words stand for, what they actually mean, and can't even pronounce them.
JFC? It's been done.
https://www.creativereview.co.uk/kfc-afc-zfc/
Just to be clear, I wasn't referring to Jamaican Fried Chicken. 😃
My last few years of being a conservative bigot, I had begun to realize that it really wasn't any of my business, let alone the government's business from stopping two people in love from marrying. I was skewing away from conservatism to a more libertarian outlook. (I would later shift from libertarian to liberal.)
But I did ask my fellow bigots to give me a reason... any reason... that was secular to oppose same-sex marriage. I begged them for just one reason. Something my intellect could seize on and say, "See! I'm rational! Not a religious bigot!"
I never got one.
Basically it always broke down to "God said so! And it's yucky!" or "It's yucky!" or "I don't want to think about two handsome naked men... LALALALALA... can't hear you... "
Gay marriage doesn't impact opposite sex unions. It didn't bring about the fall of the Republic, Christian nationalist bigots are doing that. It hasn't impacted my straight ass life one tiny bit other than I know that some of my neighbors are happier now and that's nice. Life is short. People should be free to pursue happiness as long as it doesn't hurt other folks.
So congratulations, Dougie and Toby, may you always be as happy together as you are now.
> "may you always be as happy together as you are now."
Hey, they're married. Ain't gonna happen. 😏
Perfect dissection of manufactured outrage. The progression from "one franchise congratulates one couple" to "DEI is destroying the company" is such a microcosm of how culture war economics works nowdays. What's wild is how fragile the whole apparatus is, they need constant fresh grievances to stay relevant and this barely qualfied as a paper cut. When the base shrinks, the performace gets more extreme but less persuasive.
“Lost their damn minds” is sorta the conservative brand these days, isn’t it?
One wonders if they ever had minds to lose...
They do, they just have no use for them.
Jesus demands conrol over what they thnk. A power no other dictAtor can ever have.
Manufactured outrage is how xtians try to divert attention from their child rape activities, pilfering the wallets of their followers and their use of those funds to do anything but help the poor, hungry and sick.
As an LGBT person, I still won't patronize CFA.
Never been to either, never will. I rarely eat fast food and if I need hobby supplies, I go to Michael’s.
Same. Hobby lobby is in town and the Michael's is two towns away but I make the drive. Never set foot in any Hobby Lobby. We don't have Hate Fil A here but we do have Popeye's which I haven't yet tried.
Love that chicken from Popeyes!
I will eventually try it but it hasn't happened yet.
Good stuff.
As a decent human being, I won’t either.
I wouldn’t either!
I don't go there because their food is bland.
I think there are probably a great many over-compensating closet-cases in the Anti-LGBTQ community. If they just make enough noise, then maybe their urges will go away. In any event, we're talking about people whose world view centers around who and what they hate, all painted over with a thin coat of Christian justification.
This is a great example of the simple minds that abound in Christianity. Chick-fil-A is a fast food company, not a Christian institution. Expecting a retail company to be the personification of your stupid religious beliefs is wildly absurd. They're in the business of making money, not pandering to the fragile egos of Christians.
Look at those nasty extremists- just look at them! For goodness' sake, they're... 𝘴𝘮𝘪𝘭𝘪𝘯𝘨! That will 𝘯𝘦𝘷𝘦𝘳 do- everyone must be kept in a constant state of groveling misery, just like the Good Lard intended. The extremist agenda of 𝘩𝘢𝘱𝘱𝘺 𝘱𝘦𝘰𝘱𝘭𝘦 must be stopped at all costs!
<clap><clap> (If you're happy and you know it. : )
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SBWpPtPjk9g
https://ibb.co/Q7FC8knS
A most accurate description of Christianity!
I don't hate Christian assholes because they're Christian, but because they're assholes.
Assholes who believe in supernatural entities impregnating underage virgins with themselves. IOW, Christians.
Assholes are perfectly useful orifices. Christians ofacertaintype, not so much.
Maybe it’s my cynicism, but after working in workplace/HQ design for a number of years and getting a firsthand look into the inner workings of these companies and how they treat their employees, my conclusion is that they are all generally the same. Some have no shame (Walmart) and others like Google and the likes tried to pay their employees with free snacks instead of dollar bills. Look at this cool design. Don’t you want to stay here after hours and keep working instead of spending time with your family?
End rant, thanks for coming to my TED Talk
All of this to say, the Hobby Lobbies and Chick-fil-As are still at the top of the absolutely not list.
“(An incredible thing to say given that his daughter is Sarah Huckabee Sanders.)”
Hahahaha