Seen this clip from some american fundie podcast that was… a choice.

This person was asked something like, if you could have world peace, but all governments become socialist, would you do it? They said no and fucking justified their answer with a partial quote from something like Deuteronomy 15:7-11, claiming that well the bible says there’ll always be the poor so socialism is actually bad because of that, and a quick search to see if I could find it there’s a lot of stuff echoing the same stuff, that socialism is unbiblical etc.

What the actual fuck is wrong with these people? I’m irreligious but was raised Christian, this is so vehemently counter to my understanding of Christian teachings (the flavour of which I was raised has atheist ministers so there’s that), which was more or less, raise everyone up, accept everyone for who they are, help people, don’t turn a blind eye to injustice and like just be decent to each other. Was this podcast prosperity doctrine shit or something else because yeah wow, it’s honestly sinister to me.

He won’t even get a security clearance, how can anyone trust him to run a government?

What is the flavour of them? You don’t see them on shelves here, my partner grabbed rootbeer a while back and it was foul, like overwhelming chicory flavour I think?

Cove does this type of stuff that actually tastes decent if you want an occasional soft drink, they do kombucha too, there’s stevia sweetened brands too out there.

Canada had the Residential School system, which was a genocide, don’t take my word for it, it’s one of the conclusions the Truth and Reconciliation report described as a cultural genocide, archive link. The last federal school closed in 1997, there’s been mass graves found at some of these in the news over the last decade. Many of these schools were religious and as recently as 2017 the PM was seeking a formal apology from the pope (of the Christian denoms, Catholicism is the majority).

Canada’s history is almost more sinister, we’d do well to never forget that if we want to address the systemic problems that remain to this day.

This is from a Zehrs, it’s Loblaws so not even remotely the cheapest place in town

With exchange, that pack of 30 organic eggs is ~11.90 USD. I usually just buy no name.