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Ho hum, more exclusionary tribalism.

𝐼 𝑐𝑜𝑢𝑙𝑑, ℎ𝑜𝑤𝑒𝑣𝑒𝑟, 𝑎𝑟𝑔𝑢𝑒 𝑡ℎ𝑎𝑡 𝑝𝑒𝑜𝑝𝑙𝑒 𝑤ℎ𝑜 𝑐𝑎𝑟𝑒 𝑎𝑏𝑜𝑢𝑡 𝑐ℎ𝑢𝑟𝑐ℎ/𝑠𝑡𝑎𝑡𝑒 𝑠𝑒𝑝𝑎𝑟𝑎𝑡𝑖𝑜𝑛, 𝑠𝑐𝑖𝑒𝑛𝑐𝑒 𝑒𝑑𝑢𝑐𝑎𝑡𝑖𝑜𝑛, 𝑎𝑛𝑑 𝑒𝑣𝑖𝑑𝑒𝑛𝑐𝑒-𝑏𝑎𝑠𝑒𝑑 𝑝𝑢𝑏𝑙𝑖𝑐 𝑝𝑜𝑙𝑖𝑐𝑦 𝑜𝑛𝑙𝑦 ℎ𝑎𝑣𝑒 𝑜𝑛𝑒 𝑟𝑒𝑎𝑙𝑖𝑠𝑡𝑖𝑐 𝑜𝑝𝑡𝑖𝑜𝑛 𝑜𝑛 𝑡ℎ𝑒 𝑝𝑟𝑒𝑠𝑖𝑑𝑒𝑛𝑡𝑖𝑎𝑙 𝑏𝑎𝑙𝑙𝑜𝑡.

Thirty years on, it's still worth remembering that Congress at one time had it's own scientific research arm (the OTA), specifically tasked with giving congress the apolitical scientific facts related to policies they were making. Evidence-based background information, basically. But Newt's republicans zeroed out it's budget because the information it was producing contradicted the things the GOP wanted to say to the public.

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Holytape's avatar

Exactly, Jesus was a gun-loving, capitalist, who believed in border walls and capital punishment. He gave lecture after lecture on the evils of wokism, transgender people and renewable energy. It's not like Jesus ever said, “If you want to be perfect, go, sell your possessions and give to the poor, and you will have treasure in heaven. Then come, follow me.” Nor does the bible every say stuff like "Keep on loving one another as brothers and sisters. Do not forget to show hospitality to strangers, for by so doing some people have shown hospitality to angels without knowing it." or "The foreigner residing among you must be treated as your native-born. Love them as yourself, for you were foreigners in Egypt. I am the Lord your God." The bible never says that. Never forget what Jesus said, "I gots mine, now shove off."

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