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Jacq 🍉

@JOesterblad

16 days

I fundamentally do not understand the sudden mainstream adoption of the idea that, because students who carry Israeli flags into the midst of Palestinian protests face jeers and are ostracized by peers, those campuses are “unsafe for Jews.”

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@JOesterblad

16 days

But in this situation, sorry, Zionism really is an idea, and people really are only being rejected for their shitty ideas and politics (and interpersonal skills/tactics). Jewish students can and do walk through the protests every day (or join them!) without incident.

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16 days

I am generally quite familiar with the idea that a lot of people in a place “disagreeing” with something that they characterize as an idea and that you characterize as fundamental to your identity can be jarring, uncomfortable, and untenable. I am queer. Hello.

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16 days

@Ruth_Mensch That’s why they called the cops, like, 24 hours in. They realllllllly wanted things to down quiet this weekend haha.

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16 days

@tomri33le No—pulling yarmulkes off of heads or otherwise accosting people just for wearing one is unacceptable and a genuine safety risk. I will not downplay that.

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@JOesterblad

16 days

Like, obviously it should still be bodily *safe* to be an asshole counterprotestor provocateur, and we can all commit to working on that, but that’s a far cry from “it’s unsafe to be a Jewish students on this campus.”

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16 days

And it’s definitely not fundamentally contrary to the liberal university campus or whatever for young adults to learn to discern between shitty and unshitty politics and to shun provocateurs.

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29 days

At this point, I am utterly incapable of being personally hurt by anything the Vatican says about LGBTQ people. But I was still able to be intellectually disappointed by this doc. 1/

The Pillar

@PillarCatholic

30 days

To help you unpack Dignitas infinita, a new Vatican document on human dignity, @PillarCatholic invited moral theologians to offer their analytical reflections, as they read:

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Jacq 🍉

@JOesterblad

16 days

@tomri33le That doesn’t appear to be what most people talking about antisemitism at Columbia mean, though, because there haven’t been many of those incidents connected to the current protest. If you know otherwise, please feel free to furnish the evidence.

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@JOesterblad

16 days

@tomri33le But I know students at Columbia who are camping in their yarmulkes/Magen David necklaces.

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Jacq 🍉

@JOesterblad

29 days

This document was not that. It was incomprehensible. In the literal sense. It ignores the baseline questions. • Given the variety across human societies and history, what *is* gender? What can it mean to say that it's given by God?

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Jacq 🍉

@JOesterblad

29 days

• What does God "say" with intersex people? Is that a theodicy question, like "why are some children born with terminal illnesses?", or a question about the goodness of diversity in God's creation, like "why are some children born with intellectual disabilities?"

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@JOesterblad

29 days

In conclusion, I would never apply a "if you don't have anything nice to say, don't say anything at all" rule to the Vatican about queer people because, again, impossible. But I would at least suggest that those with nothing informed or intelligent to say should stay silent.

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@JOesterblad

29 days

It honestly makes me question the honesty and rigor of all other documents put out by the Dicastery, especially those about topics that I understand less well and have been more willing to take their word on. If this is the Catholic intellectual heritage...

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@JOesterblad

19 days

@K2Shauna @michaelmannspc @babadookspinoza Being told to leave a private property where you live, pay, have a lease, and receive mail is...an eviction, and it's regulated by courts, and it can't happen without notice.

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@JOesterblad

29 days

But that's impossible when the Vatican continually engages with a strawman and avoids the real argument. It's hard to take someone else seriously who consistently refuses to do you the same favor.

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@JOesterblad

29 days

• Is the sinfulness of body modification measured by intent or in more objective terms? • Short of body modification, what does it mean to deny sexual difference/one's gender? Is there some objective measure of femininity that I need to stay on the right side of? How?

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Jacq 🍉

@JOesterblad

29 days

It's long past time to have a real and honest conversation about how and whether the Church can think about gender in the modern world. I could, and would like to, engage with people who have a good faith belief that either *being* trans or *living as* trans are sins.

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Jacq 🍉

@JOesterblad

29 days

It's not that no LGBTQ person was convinced by this document—I think many correctly recognize that most of us never will be. But I would posit that there'd be benefits to a doc that trans folks can understand, even if they ultimately disagree with it or find it hard to respect.

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Jacq 🍉

@JOesterblad

12 days

@coolerkdawg @jrhopkin @constans How do you feel about economics?

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Jacq 🍉

@JOesterblad

27 days

I'm more than a little disturbed by the number of you who appear to think that you can assault someone you invited onto your property if they stay on your property after you asked them to leave. Like, the invitee should not do that, but you also very much cannot do that.

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Jacq 🍉

@JOesterblad

7 days

[One of] the reason[s] it’s bad to summarily suspend students for a protest without due process is that you’re often wrong about who was involved.

maryam مريم🇵🇸🍁

@bluepashminas

7 days

A Palestinian student at Columbia was arbitrarily suspended along with many other arbitrary suspensions today. Columbia is racially profiling students who have no involvement with the ongoing protests and suspending them with no due process.

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@JOesterblad

6 days

We already held our nose and voted for Biden. *This* is step two after voting for Biden. You told us, “vote for him to preserve democracy and then you can protest and push him to pass better policy.” We did that. That’s what this is.

Yurok Around The Clock

@HellcatBruce

7 days

What is Step 2 after radically not voting for Biden?

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Jacq 🍉

@JOesterblad

15 days

@BarExamTutor Right—trespass remains illegal, which is why stealing (from another private citizen with rights) is still illegal. If we had a public food commons, the way we have public green spaces and right of ways, *then* maybe you could draw that analogy.

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@JOesterblad

18 days

@lisamichelle771 @TheUglyPhoto @MaxKennerly What if we—hear me out—produce more? Why does anybody with a scrip have to be turned away when we could just make more?

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Jacq 🍉

@JOesterblad

11 days

Personally, I think it’s good for white women with tenure, wealth, respectability, and other privilege to leverage that privilege in exposing state violence—but what do I know.

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Jacq 🍉

@JOesterblad

22 days

@EarnieAdams @lisakwildman @Nowooski Good thing your reading wouldn't hold. I could find about 1000 experts to testify to the fact that "Holocaust denial" in the accepted, academic definition involves denying or downplaying any specific Nazi atrocity.

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@JOesterblad

28 days

I would go to this in a heartbeat, but I would rather shoot myself than participate.

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@_pem_pem

28 days

over the weekend i hosted a reading where writers were only allowed to read things they’d written between 6th and 12th grade. not to brag but like 100 people showed up and it was 14000 times more fun than basically every other “literary event” i’ve ever been to

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7 days

@mirandayaver Did you really mean to post this *tonight*? This isn’t satire or a joke about this moment? Because…

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Jacq 🍉

@JOesterblad

14 days

@alan_uplc Worse: They’re doing it for free. It was a Gibson Dunn “pro bono” project.

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@JOesterblad

22 days

@j_waller3 @angorellanah They are in California.

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Jacq 🍉

@JOesterblad

15 days

@ChristoSilvia @DavidAstinWalsh @lionel_trolling You have to start from the (inherently Islamophobic) assumption that intifada means “murder Jews” to reach the conclusion you just did.

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Jacq 🍉

@JOesterblad

20 days

@Distant_Warrior @GoingDutchDEN So when I start carrying around a large rock to throw at the windshields of cars that threaten to murder me, I expect your answer to be "well, that's illegal under traffic law, but under the laws of physics, she wins."

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Jacq 🍉

@JOesterblad

1 month

@thefurlinator @drewross @erikmbaker You appear to have fundamentally misunderstood OP. Try reading again.

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@JOesterblad

15 days

@ChristoSilvia @DavidAstinWalsh @lionel_trolling In what universe do you read “globalize the intifada” to mean that?? Intifada is principled resistance to Israel, and the call to globalize it is a call for all people everywhere to join the movement.

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Jacq 🍉

@JOesterblad

21 days

Hooo boy. "[R]ecords documenting what was taken during cleanups and the legal authorization for the seizure were altered or created up to two years after the cleanup occurred and in some instances just days before they were turned over to the plaintiffs."

A federal judge has found that L.A. city officials doctored records in a case over homeless camp...

A federal judge has found that Los Angeles city officials altered evidence in a case alleging that the city illegally seized and destroyed homeless people's property.

www.latimes.com

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Jacq 🍉

@JOesterblad

16 days

The comments here are revealing, given the constant refrain of “if anti-Zionists aren’t antisemitic, why don’t they speak out against antisemitism at the protests???” They do, you just…reject it….

Mehdi Hasan

@mehdirhasan

16 days

This is a key point from Eric. We have to be able to recognize growing & actual antisemitism, anti-Jewish hate, of the type described below, & condemn+tackle it, while also recognizing, separately, how bogus antisemitism charges are used to smear pro-Palestine activists & chants.

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Jacq 🍉

@JOesterblad

29 days

@ThomasPudgy3 Correct.

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Jacq 🍉

@JOesterblad

27 days

@mary_pezzulo ?? Arizona has been super purple for eight years now. We have a Democratic Governor, AG, and two Democratic (sort of) senators. Of course we’re a battleground state!

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Jacq 🍉

@JOesterblad

26 days

People are losing their goddamn minds. 1) E.C. is by all accounts a very kind person & protesting at this time/place was illegal 2) Laying hands on the protestor was also illegal 3) E.C. was not just the generic Jew at hand & he is not a target of protest because he’s Jewish

Greg Shill

@greg_shill

27 days

"It's pretty clear what's going on: students who feel impotence in the face of the horrors in Gaza are taking it out on a symbolic representative, i.e., their Jewish Dean. There's a word for that, and it's not one that reflects well on them." - @BrianLeiter

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Jacq 🍉

@JOesterblad

22 days

Babies and children should be permitted in literally every public space except strip clubs and places with smoke until, like, 8:30 or 9 PM. I think when we're having this discussion about place, people are often unconsciously thinking about time.

Brooke “Crosswalk Bitch” Bikes MKE

@brookebikesmke

23 days

Every time kid free space discourse comes up, posts like these fill my feed and it’s like, have you heard of Wisconsin? I went to a concert specifically designed for children this weekend and had an old fashioned. My neighborhood brewery has high chairs. LOL.

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Jacq 🍉

@JOesterblad

27 days

@Eve_Barlow Nah, bought mine in Al-Khalil.

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@JOesterblad

22 days

@EarnieAdams @Nowooski hey @BadLegalTakes , you want to handle this one?

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Jacq 🍉

@JOesterblad

28 days

@Ruth_Mensch Incredibly shitty framing for those of us who woke up IN ARIZONA today.

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@JOesterblad

27 days

@wacentrist @Mitchichu02 @RationalWins @Redistricter435 Right, so you’re failing at something you want, and democrats are not. So.

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@JOesterblad

6 days

@paleselan 🙃

Laila Al-Arian

@LailaAlarian

7 days

In response to a Fox News question about campus protests, the White House spokeswomen said the Department of Justice, Homeland Security and the Department of Education will be involved. This means the Biden administration may be pursuing federal charges against student protestors

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@JOesterblad

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I keep hearing that people won’t become family doctors because the pay won’t cover their loans, but…the average ed debt of a young doctor is 200-250k, which is more or less what I had out of law school. And I definitely won’t hit these salaries. Is this real?

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@JOesterblad

23 days

@varsha_venkat_ How to Survive a Plague? That’s actually the one I watched in school…

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@JOesterblad

27 days

@lee_kovarsky Someone is presumed to pose a threat to people or property if they weren't an invitee. So the original status of the person when they entered the property matters a lot.

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Jacq 🍉

@JOesterblad

27 days

Bringing this to the top of the thread for the people in my DMs etc. fighting with me:

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Jacq 🍉

@JOesterblad

27 days

California law is very clear that you can only use force to eject a trespasser when they pose an immediate danger to a person or property, and someone you invited cannot be presumed to pose a danger (unlike someone who broke and entered). Go yell at someone else; I'm right.

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Jacq 🍉

@JOesterblad

26 days

(I think prof dinners are an important part of law school culture and generally recoil at the ideas about professionalism that would make them out of bounds. But the intent question is interesting to me.)

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@JOesterblad

16 days

@HarrisPeskin @POSIndustries I think someone singing the Russian national anthem at a pro-Ukraine protest would be a shitty person who deserves to be yelled at. Not threatened! But definitely jeered and shouted over.

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@JOesterblad

6 days

Look, I get it. I understand that voting is harm reduction, etc. etc. These arguments have not only always worked for me, I’ve often made them. But it’s not particularly helpful to ask about step two after abstaining when step two after voting hasn’t turned out great, either!

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@JOesterblad

26 days

@paleselan She left once they threatened to call police! So you might not have to actually engage the threat. They also have the option of threatening school-only discipline or bar reports.

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Jacq 🍉

@JOesterblad

1 month

@ArmandDoma @UYBAroundCorner No but like, if the public health justification is a sham and the only reason to ban smoking in public is to protect those of us who find it gross and unpleasant, I would fully support rolling the bans back. Undo it all.

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@JOesterblad

26 days

4) It’s worth asking whether an official school graduation dinner was held on private property in the first place in an attempt to suppress speech.

🍉Prof. Thrasher is with our students🔻

@thrasherxy

26 days

This prof couple is trying to have it both ways! They are claiming it's their private home. They are also denying public university students who want to participate in a graduation dinner the right to do so on campus or in a restaurant, but forcing them to come to their house!

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@JOesterblad

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@joshtpm @mehdirhasan @tofu_kano @TheRubberBaron @Leopardonbackup Ok but that makes it neither “easy stuff” nor a “conversation ender” but actually a serious argument worthy of discussion. So.

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@JOesterblad

27 days

@lee_kovarsky Ha! I was just linking to this to reply to you. California's jury instruction on the use of force to eject a trespasser is pretty clear that there's has to be a threat to people or property. The reason I brought us invitee is because there's an exception.

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@JOesterblad

1 month

It turns out, all those comparisons to the Holocaust were quite apt. Harnessing the new technology of the day to automate and optimize mass murder.

+972 Magazine

@972mag

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‘Lavender’: The AI machine directing Israel’s bombing spree in Gaza. An investigation by @yuval_abraham , in partnership with @mekomit .

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@JOesterblad

7 days

@Ruth_Mensch Yeah. It’s an eery campus. Everyone walks along the winding pathways and sidewalks rather than take the obvious shortcuts.

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@JOesterblad

12 days

Three generations of based.

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He went with HIS father😭

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@JOesterblad

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@hubbstercat @HannahPosted Of course they do—which is why lots of people just start with "I'm from Rome" or "I'm from Bologna" and that's good and we all know what that means. If I say my state, people immediately know both that I'm American and where in America I live.

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Jacq 🍉

@JOesterblad

29 days

@EmilyKath319 I don't prefer or use medicalizing language for all this. But even as the Church fights/frames this in primarily medical terms, it fails to reckon with those terms. What is a "perfectly healthy organ" if modern medicine says it's making someone "sick"?

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@JOesterblad

9 days

@hubbstercat @HannahPosted It all works out, while skipping the (slightly insulting) first answer of “I’m from the United States.”

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@JOesterblad

19 days

@MatthewBoedy In order to have the students arrested for trespassing, they first had to suspend them for violating the student code of conduct. So wouldn’t action against tenure here have to come *before* arrest for trespassing?

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Jacq 🍉

@JOesterblad

27 days

@maxdubler @LittleMammith Sure, but how do you hit adulthood and not know that someone else violating the law/your boundaries does not give you the right to lay hands on them except in direct self-defense?

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@JOesterblad

27 days

@bill_of_lefts Anyway, besides all the obvious issues (disproportionate, no actual risk of damage to her property), California castle doctrine only kicks in when a person forcibly entered your home. The only way to deal with invitees like these students was to call the cops, unfortunately.

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@JOesterblad

6 days

@DanaBashCNN @InsidePolitics Quit your job, please, and give it to a real journalist.

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@JOesterblad

26 days

@Ruth_Mensch Absolutely not.

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Jacq 🍉

@JOesterblad

15 days

@JehadAbusalim “But why are they wearing masks.”

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Jacq 🍉

@JOesterblad

22 days

I don't think I've ever been in a brewery (that serves food) before 8 PM that *didn't* have at least one child in it. I'm trying to figure out which puritan, backwards-ass states y'all are living in.

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Jacq 🍉

@JOesterblad

29 days

@EmilyKath319 Sure, but that assumes, without explaining, that dysphoria is not a legitimate condition and that GAS is not its legitimate treatment. If it is, then a mastectomy to treat dysphoria is *very much* like a mastectomy to treat, say, a man "with intersex characteristics."

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@JOesterblad

26 days

@cgreathouse @BarExamTutor Is it “invite only” if every single 3L students gets invited? Could they have legally chosen to only invite, say, white students?

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@JOesterblad

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@Ruth_Mensch Okay, but I did a little google and it’s not technically against the rules, just a strict social norm that nobody has ever violated haha.

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@JOesterblad

27 days

@bill_of_lefts When the YLS dean invited people over to her home, she always did so with her official email. It sounds like this was similar—an official school Ramadan event sent out on official school channels. Messy, messy.

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Jacq 🍉

@JOesterblad

17 days

@bill_of_lefts I think now it’s about avoiding all-out war with Iran.

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Jacq 🍉

@JOesterblad

28 days

@SethJoh44336031 @keenye93 Not because there are places I won’t follow her, but because she would be teaching verifiably false things, a gospel of bad news, and it would tell me beyond all doubt that she lies and thus cannot be the voice of the Holy Spirit.

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Jacq 🍉

@JOesterblad

26 days

Get 👏🏼 your shit 👏🏼 together 👏🏼. This timeline is going to drive me over the edge of the nearest cliff.

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Jacq 🍉

@JOesterblad

26 days

@paleselan But yeah, I mean, the law that forbids laying hands was written with the explicit intention that you instead call the police, which...

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Jacq 🍉

@JOesterblad

28 days

@SethJoh44336031 @keenye93 I’m going to bow out of this conversation now because it isn’t/can’t go anywhere good. I cannot express enough how quickly I would leave the Church if she doctrinally said that the races are “real.”

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