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Why is this dude still alive?
Probably because the Dominion defamation case has News Corp worried. >

Good.  I pray it cripples them. >

I don’t think that’s a given. Programming and brainwashing are not transferable. Look at OAN and Newsmax struggling to gain an audience.
A personal anecdote to drive home the point:
I was raised Mormon. Left on a mission to Japan. Went to BYU. Married young. Had a kid. Still went to church and was dreaming about growing old in the church. I was a smart kid that loved science and math, and I was good enough to have a full ride at one point, but I was committed to the church too. I reconciled it as I went, and my faith seemed unshakable.
Then post partum hit my spouse, and I took a 6 month vacation to help parent the newborn so we could try to finish school without the stress of church volunteering. When I returned to church, everything my was different. I didn’t agree as fervently. I couldn’t relate nearly as easily. It was like the spell was broken.
If Fox is taken down, the largest part of the infrastructure and ecosystem of right wrong propaganda dies with it.
We can only hope. >

Why do you think your opinions changed? >

Zero reinforcement. I had flirted with historical material that wasn’t flattering to the church narrative throughout my youth and into adulthood. I was at BYU where they teach Sunday School and give you college credit (Disney Dollars version, to be sure)!
But being out of that with my head down just trying to finish a few college courses and make ends meet with a kid at home made me go, “Maybe this isn’t all it’s cracked up to be.” And that’s all it took. Maybe it’s not true. What would I do if it wasn’t true? Would I stay here and pretend just in case I could capture the magic again?
My family was back in my home state on a completely different trajectory within 2 months. >

Former Churchgoer here:
I'll tell you a story.

And behold, a lawyer stood up and put Him to the test, saying, “Teacher, what shall I do to inherit eternal life?”
And He said to him, “What is written in the Law? How does it read to you?”
And he answered, “You shall love the Lord your God with all your heart, and with all your soul, and with all your strength, and with all your mind; and your neighbor as yourself.”
And He said to him, “You have answered correctly; do this and you will live.” 
But wanting to justify himself, he said to Jesus, “And who is my neighbor?”
Jesus replied and said, “A man was going down from Jerusalem to Jericho, and he encountered robbers, and they stripped him and beat him, and went away leaving him half dead.
And by coincidence a priest was going down on that road, and when he saw him, he passed by on the other side.
Likewise a Levite also, when he came to the place and saw him, passed by on the other side. 
But a Samaritan who was on a journey came upon him; and when he saw him, he felt compassion, and came to him and bandaged up his wounds, pouring oil and wine on them; and he put him on his own animal, and brought him to an inn and took care of him. 
On the next day he took out two denarii and gave them to the innkeeper and said, ‘Take care of him; and whatever more you spend, when I return, I will repay you.’ 
Which of these three do you think proved to be a neighbor to the man who fell into the robbers’ hands?”
And he said, “The one who showed compassion to him.” Then Jesus said to him, “Go and do the same.”


Luke 10:25-37

Do you know what's so much easier than bandaging wounds, carrying a man to the next town, and bringing him to safety?
Getting your goddamned vaccine and wearing a goddamned mask.
All Covid did was tear off the veil of lies Churches tell about which master they serve.
And the People saw it. >

Weird. Churches around here were offering free transportation to get vaccinated. >

local anecdotes aside.... the Church has only hurt its own reputation as general thing. too many preachers, and thus their followers, confuse right wing politics and anti-science rhetoric with the teachings of Jesus. they've literally chosen the golden (i mean orange) calf over their own purported religious teachings. those within the community that retain both faith and sanity have largely remained silent as large #'s of their flock drift off onto a path of hatred and destruction instead of shepherding them back to Jesus' actual teachings. >

One day I’ll see the Rupert Murdoch headline I want to see. >

Hes like 154 yrs old. He's more machine than man at this point >

His hoarcrux must be in some alternate dimension keeping Mitch McConnell’s empathy and Lauren Boebert’s brain company >

it's right next to Kissinger's. >

Hes 99! >

I had no idea he was still alive. >

The Grim Reaper will get him.. eventually. he's just stuck in a gacha game >

I mean, the queen wasn't the worst get. Kissinger is absolutely worse. Just feel like the grim reaper wouldn't complain that much. Maybe he called it a day. >

Fox News is a sewer of disinformation. It’s a national security threat disseminating fear, vitriol and lies. >

This is hyperbolic. It's fine to get your news from some place like the Associated Press. And while it's good to have a skeptical mind, radical skepticism will leave you irrational. >

The comment of a sociopath >

The comment of George Carlin. >

The Dominion lawsuit is going to sink Fox News. >

I can only get so erect