It's amazing how lacking an understanding of materialism fails to hold powerful people accountable. Surely no theorists warned about conflating reduced harm with harm-reduction.

Politicians can just not harm. Them reducing the harm they do isn't a good thing.

Anyway, that was a fun thread.

    • BodyBySisyphus [he/him]
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      1 year ago

      Genesis 10:9:

      He was a mighty hunter before the LORD: wherefore it is said, Even as Nimrod the mighty hunter before the LORD.

      Read it for a class in undergrad, saw the name, had questions. Got answers (the answers may not surprise you!)

        • BodyBySisyphus [he/him]
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          1 year ago

          Oh, that part is also not a joke. Nimrod was a pretty common playground insult when I was a kid (probably less so now but idk what invectives kids these days have coined so maybe it's still around). Americans do not truck with their own holy texts unless they're passing them out on street corners.

          • Magician [he/him, they/them]
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            1 year ago

            I remember my mom scolding me for calling my brother nimrod because I didn't get the joke and thought it was just an insult.