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Bridging the gap between left and right. I came across this clip showing Glenn Beck and Samantha Bee, and thought that this SoylentNews story / comment thread should be stickied till the new year so we have an ongoing conversation. It's a short clip from her show where Glenn Beck is a willing guest; the key point is they are trying to find common ground. Beck points out that Bee is following some of his own patterns of crying "catastrophe" but they really don't provide much insight beyond the significance of their little coming together moment.
The divide is clear and present on this site as most everywhere else, I would like to see a meta discussion where we fact check each other and drill down through the rhetoric until we get some straightforward lists and proposals on how we can move forward together. What are the fundamental blockers? Which ideas do we consider to be too outrageous for credibility? Many here are guilty of attacking each other — can we try and Spock it out for about a week?
I'll start us off with my supposition:
Climate change is real and human activity has an important effect on it. We must agree on this point in order to move forward, and social/economic issues must be handled after needed environmental changes."
If you post as AC — try and behave as if you were logged in — reduce the flames for better quality discussion.
(Score: 3, Insightful) by Gaaark on Friday December 23 2016, @11:08PM
Go with Satan FTW, everytime.
It'll put you in good stead:
1. it pisses off the truly religious
2. if there REALLY is a Satan, then he may treat you better, lol.
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(Score: 2) by Bot on Saturday December 24 2016, @03:10PM
I don't agree.
Looking at the past, or at current mafia/corporations, people who obey satan (be it real or abstract) are in a backstabbing, ultracompetitive, environment which periodically gets destroyed from the inside, because even people working for evil tend to mollify when given too much power and time. Look at how nobility evolves from the biggest bully.
Note also that cryptosatanists have more power and wealth than outspoken satanists, which is quite unfair to the latters.
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(Score: 2) by Gaaark on Saturday December 24 2016, @06:51PM
But, history proves that if you go with God, you could wind up censored, raped, tortured, murdered.....
Going with Satan: could it be, really, any worse than with Dog?
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(Score: 2) by Bot on Saturday December 24 2016, @09:04PM
of course it is worse, satan wants the soul before delivering, the contract has a random duration and no rescission option.
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