It would have to sound better. It certainly couldn't sound worse.

Sincerely, a disgruntled horn player who's tired of sharing parts with those oversized kazoos

Baptists are VERY independent minded (making them a quintessential Am religion.) Every baptist church controls its own affairs/beliefs, inc who their pastor is. Which is why you can find very liberal Baptists out there, because they refuse to follow the teachings of other Baptist churches

Yeah, I did time in both churches as a child. Baptists find hierarchy anathema. They will fully say that they follow the bible, but if a pastor says, "Well actually you are not following the bible b/c it actually says this" (cough LGBT), then the pastor is WRONG and they'll find another church. 1/

They brought that basic mindset to Catholicism when they agreed with the popes but once the popes became "woke", their internal Baptist reared its head. They were just nerdy enough to find something in Cath history to "justify" their views.

IMO it's the influence of Baptist-ism in the US alt right. Baptists do that "personal relationship with God" thing and so don't believe in any kind of God authority on earth (unless they agree with it, then it's fine.)

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The Power of Friendship includes shovels, tarps, pepper spray, bolt cutters, all in a box in the trunk.

Just feed me a nice rare steak occasionally and I'm happy.

Tribbles, but terrifyingly fucked up Tribbles.

Or a new/very old fungus.

Or tribbles being controlled by a new/very old fungus that is taking over the galaxy.

Good article!

I know many people want that centralized moderation, but as we've seen, if the site has that power, a billionaire is going to come along to moderate marginal people off the platform.

Having community tools (ie block lists) inherent in the system will HOPEFULLY prevent that.

I found this and this has been the energy I think has described everything and have shared with all my friends.