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Cake day: July 15th, 2023

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  • Fourteenth amendment’s equal protection clause says “no person shall be denied equal protection”, not “no citizen”

    the same distinction is made in the fifth, “no person shall be deprived of life, liberty or property without the due process of law”

    The constitution is actually quite clear.

    Edit to clarify: the SCROTUS is definitely going to come up with some reason to explain why words do not mean what they mean, but both trump’s actions and siding with him like that are in fact impeachable.







  • Historically, the whole point to the loyalty card coupons was because then they could track your purchases and sell that data on you.

    It used to be incredibly valuable, and it techncially still is. But your big box retail stores are going to insane lengths, including tracking you from the moment you pull into their parking lot (including knowing what kind of car you drive,) and how many times you circle, lets say, the lego aisle, or the cookies. They know how long you spend looking at stuff and are selling all of that. (as well as using for marketing to sell you more shit you don’t need.)


  • Given that Jesus wasn’t the messiah… they’re two peas in a pod.

    if you're curious as to what I mean by Jesus not being a messiah.

    Depending on how much of the gospels you assume are true… if Jesus is son of god by marry… then he can’t be the messiah at all and Joseph’s lineage is meaningless. The entire reason they gave it is that the Messiah was supposed to be of David’s direct line.

    If you go with Mathew’s lineage, he can’t be the messiah because Jeconiah (son of Jacob), gone done fucked up and got cursed. (The curse being that none of his descendents would ever be king.) But even if you accept all of that, Jesus was never anointed the king of Israel and never actually ruled anywhere.

    Of course Christians will then retcon all of the messianic prophecies to be “oh they meant a ‘spiritual’ king!” cuz, yeah. that’s totally what the messianic prophecies meant. (they meant that there would be a king who was also a high priest, of the line of david, who would defeat all of Israel’s enemies, and conquer the world and then we would <shifts into Paplatine’s Voice> have everlasting peace.)