Spyke
lemmy.world

i loved the parts where it felt like we were examining all of our social norms and skipping the ones that were dumb and pointless. but now everything has to be just as dumb and shitty as before for no reason [no social safety net allowed, WFH bad, etc]

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Patchesreply
sh.itjust.works

There absolutely are reasons. They just aren't reasons you agree with.

The oncoming commercial real estate collapse is a big one. You just don't give a dick about it. And neither does anyone here.

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canreply
sh.itjust.works

I've been priced out of real estate, why the fuck should I care?

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Zhaoreply
lemmy.ca

Real estate is a rich people problem now and I hope they're having a fucking crisis.

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Nobody with a brain gives a shit about it, because it SHOULD happen. Land isn't a commodity to hold and rent, even the fathers of capitalism thought so.

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Now everything has to be as dumb shitty as before for no reason

Just as I thought I was out of having to shake the hands of twenty people when arriving at a family party, they PULL ME BACK IN! Some of them literally!

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lemmy.world

Interesting how the parents aren’t masked up at all. I’m wondering they were part of the anti-mask crowd snd didn’t even care about all of these precautions anyways. At least the priest was trying to stay safe, but yeah, it looks silly as fuck. You’d think they’d just let the parents have done it instead, or does the holy water behave differently when splashed by a priest vs your parents?

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RQGreply
lemmy.world

Maybe that'd establish a precedent that a Priest wasn't actually needed for the ceremony.

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theragu40reply
lemmy.world

Not sure if you're looking for an honest answer but the funniest/dumbest thing about this picture is that no, the "rules" are that anyone can baptize someone else. So it definitely doesn't need to be a priest. This entire scenario is completely unnecessary.

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paddirnreply
lemmy.world

I assumed it was something more for "officially" recognizing the child as being part of the Church, or some sort of thing like that. Interesting though, from the 5-minutes of googling that I did, it seems to be only in "extreme cases involving life or death" that anyone other than a priest or deacon would normally baptize somebody else. It would probably be debated about whether this was really a life or death situation, though it does seem like an unnecessary risk for that old priest given that the parents are unmasked. Literally all they had to do was sprinkle some water on the kid and say, "I baptize you in the name of the Father, and of the Son, and of the Holy Spirit." and they could've avoided the silliness.

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They're in a church, the silliness is literally all around them.

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lemmy.world

Bonus: Me wondering how the fuck I got community banned by the Atheism community as a card carrying atheist:

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feddit.de

The atheism community is such a circlejerk that I decided to block it. So, congratulations I guess.

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lemm.ee

Good to see lemmy has already inherited the worst of reddit's issues: Shitty powertripping moderators.

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Atleast you can register to another instance and still interact as usual. Or if the admin is being obnoxious, defederate.

Mods escape all accountability.

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lemmy.world

You'd think I'd be the one banned for saying that the water pistol was full of the priest's semen.

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Did you post it to the atheism or the atheistmemes one?

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I've always wondered if this photo would be better or worse if he used both hands on the gun instead of just one.

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lemmy.world

Most Metal Stage of the Pandemic

People were drowning in their own necrotic lung tissue. That is far more metal than a guy in a robe playing with a squirt pistol in a church.

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Holzkohlenreply
feddit.de

Imagine working in the ICU and having people you try to save die on a daily basis just because they would not get the vaccine and you have to pull double shifts because of it. I'd have quit in the first couple of months probably. How they managed to even get up in the morning and force their body to go to work I will never be able to understand.

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Patchesreply
sh.itjust.works

Ask anyone who worked in healthcare and them not taking the vaccine wasn't the real problem.

It was the combativeness, the level of self delusion, entitlement, and often physically violent nature of those people. And unfortunately a lot of them survived.

Daily reminder that people were getting shot for not giving gran pappy's brother, and cousin, horse dewormer so they can shit their brains out. Or for asking to wear a mask.

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And unfortunately a lot of them survived.

A tragedy really lol

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Pretty clever too, Religion, firearms, and masks. They taped together three internet flame wars all in one, I love it.

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Love seeing that community mods are gunggo banning people for fuck all no reason, no warning and no direct communication. Really gives me hope Lemmy will be better than Reddit /s

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Strongly disagree, when a US president suggested we inject bleach and shove light sources into people, that was the most insane stage.

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lemmy.world

As a metalhead, no, idiots continuing to play make-believe during a pandemic was not metal. This was idiotic.

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Godricreply
lemmy.world

Bro if the image of a priest aiming a gun at an infant isn't anything to you, damn

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Leviathanreply
lemmy.world

Sorry partner, I just can't stop seeing a bunch of dumpy folks playing make-believe with dollar store toys.

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Is it edgy to grow up abused by the Catholic Church? I think you'd find you'd hate it too.

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