Hellequin: The Affable Satanist

@RandPaul how can you support the Big Bill that's going to close rural hospitals in Kentucky? Let alone add to the national debt to the tune of trillions?

@ask_aubry Should be immediately fired

Dudes don't do this, it's not cute

@41voted @LucienGreaves @CarmenLSatanica @InfernalZoey If you walked away, why brigade on Lucien's thread? What are you doing to fix the problem for LGBTQIA+ people? Would I be safe in assuming that you're not engaging with David; that his views about trans healthcare are wrong and against science?

@af7v @LucienGreaves @CarmenLSatanica @InfernalZoey You're only accepting activism and/or criticism if it looks polite, or meets your standards. There was the immediate backlash of individuals, Then a considered letter signed by congregation members (no reply), We weren't happy, So we voiced that and walked away.

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@41voted Because conflating opinion with action is the foolishness that says punching Nazis in the face makes them no longer a Nazi. Are you really that dumb?

TST want members like this to stay and explain why we all just need to "be civil and politely disagree" on whether trans people should have access to life-saving medical care - or whether we should politely tolerate people (DS) saying that trans people cut kids. 🏳️‍⚧️🤟

@41voted @LucienGreaves @CarmenLSatanica @InfernalZoey Same can be said about death penalty, abortion rights, religous police, slavery, fascism, etc. How many Nazis have you swayed by punching them in the face?

@af7v @LucienGreaves @CarmenLSatanica @InfernalZoey Not when you're "civily and politely disagreeing" over whether trans people get to have life-saving medical care or not. How very compassionate of you.

Slurs aim to hurt and denigrate. Gender is an identity independent of sex-based characteristics. Cisgender means assigned sex at birth aligns with gender. Transgender means assigned sex at birth differs from gender. If you aren’t trans, you are cis. Not a slur. A fact.

BREAKING: AOC just called out Kevin McCarthy, and did not hold back. She said Kevin McCarthy is a "deeply unserious leader who diminishes the House" by "indulging in stunts.” Is she right, or DAMN RIGHT? 👇 I don't agree with AOC on everything, but I'll tell you what. I would rather have her as leader ANY day over Kevin McCarthy. She fights for the people. Kevin McCarthy only fights for one man — Donald J. Trump. When we flip the House back, should McCarthy be censured?

FFRF is calling on the Davis School District to return banned books to school shelves after a vote that would keep the Bible in lower grade libraries. By banning classics and allowing the bible to stay, the district is engaging in viewpoint discrimination. ffrf.us/3Jr7xVj

McCarthy is a spiteful coward who punishes anyone who successfully exposes his weak leadership, Trump’s crimes and stands up to his lies. It’s beneath the dignity of Congress to vengefully go after @AdamSchiff because he hurt Trump’s feelings. This is a pathetic way to govern.

@ValkyrieLadyK @RomanticSlob @christapeterso Man was originally gender neutral. Per etymology online: Old English used wer and wif to distinguish the sexes, but wer began to disappear late 13c. and was replaced by man. Universal sense of the word remains in mankind and manslaughter.

philosophers are like “questions about gender categories are apt for our particular skill set” and then philosophers talking about gender categories are like this, inexplicably,

@heyjenbartel @KittenBalerion Totally agree. Imagine living in a world where people could engage in work that they found enjoyable without fear of starving, homelessness, or illness. We might have to pay more for the less desirable, harder jobs instead of the other way around.

Efficiency and tech advancement could be prioritized if we had a societal structure that didn’t require people to work in order to obtain access to basic resources required to stay alive such as healthcare, housing, and food. We prioritize jobs bc we lack a social safety net.

I need people to focus on the real issue here: the value of creative labor, aka jobs. This is not about whether or not it qualifies as "art", whether or not it looks bad, etc. All of that is a just a distraction when we live in a world where we need to work to in order to live.

@TommyLavinTST @LucienGreaves Preach!

This was a great piece. Since this whole thing started it was sad to watch the knee jerk reaction of individuals. I've tried to put it in terms of if Ted Cruz came by, asked for a tour and a picture, he would get one and you'd probably throw the horns in the picture. That doesn't mean you support Cruz or even need to make a statement. We've developed a culture where we are eating ourselves from the inside out. You didn't share the picture, you didn't have lunch with David and exchange hate speech. You had someone ask for a picture and they got one like everyone else. The sad part is that the splinter groups hell bent on tearing TST apart were able to manipulate people and make a little progress (although temporary). In the days of past this would have been called LBM. David wasn't worth the attention this has received. Stay strong @LucienGreaves

@svdate Memorize and burn. 🤣

100 percent correct. Do not, repeat, DO NOT hide your stolen DoD plans to attack Iran in your bathroom. The fascist FBI will totally find them.

@harrisonjaime I'll be clapping to the music and cheering you on.

Oh Nikki… did I hit a nerve?! I’m going to enjoy tap dancing on a few more of those nerves over course of the next few months. #BuckleUp

@mtcolucci @CalltoActivism If the world doesn't agree that I'm one of a kind, that's the world's problem, not mine. I'm the one that succeeds or fails in my life. It's too bad you don't seem to have this level of self esteem, what have you missed out on as a result?

@CalltoActivism I’ll take the contrarian view. Having your child know unconditional love is vitally important. The drumbeat of “you are great”, “you are phenomenal”, “you are brilliant” leads to an adulthood filled with shock because the rest of the world doesn’t quite agree with the sentiment

From a Teacher ❤️ ✏️ Today I was running low on pencils so I asked all of my kids to pull out any of my pencils that they had in their desks. I had one student ask me if he could keep his pencils that his mom gave him for school. Of course, I said yes. He then said, “well, I guess I’ll give you a few so my classmates can have them too.” I thought nothing of it and took the pencils that he handed me. When I was sharpening them, I noticed writing on a few of them. I then realized that my student’s mother took the time to write on his pencils. I asked him if he would mind showing me the rest of them. What I read melted my heart: - You are so talented. - This will be a great year. - You are creative. - You are phenomenal. - Never give up. - You can do this. - You are knowledgeable. - You are a math whiz. - You are intelligent. - Proud of you everyday. - I love you. - You have a brilliant mind. - You are wonderful. - You are a problem solver. - Follow your dreams. - You are perfect. - I am proud of you. - You will change the world. - You are amazing. - You are the best. - You are important. -This probably took his mom a few minutes to do yet it lit up his whole day at school. He wasn’t embarrassed that his mom wrote on his pencils. Thanks to his mom, he was reminded of his self worth and wanted to share the same feeling with his classmates. - THESE are the things that we should be reminding our kids (both parents AND teachers). Imagine the look on a child’s face when they are reminded that they are important, talented, loved, knowledgeable and so much more. - Help them know that someone believes in them and is proud of them in everything they do. Even if you think it is cheesy or you don’t have enough time or that you will have little impact, remember that you may be the only one telling and reminding them these things and EVERY kid needs to know their value. This is why I teach. ❤️❤💜💜😀⭐

@41voted @LucienGreaves @CarmenLSatanica @InfernalZoey People are demanding a Satanist, let me reiterate, a Satanist, act according to how they want and don't see the disconnect? Also, civility and compassion grant the ability to disagree and still remain friendly. Tribalism has given us the current political climate.

@LucienGreaves @CarmenLSatanica @InfernalZoey No one expects you to vet people. You were asked to do more for trans people than to casually ignore their struggles, and do more. DS is still in your comments saying trans people want to cut kids. But your life is hard...

@LucienGreaves @satan4congress The overthrow of the divine right of kings and instituting a secular government is truly satanic. The theocrat just wants their person that "speaks for god" in charge which is just a variant on the above divine right.

@satan4congress That's patriotism!

American mobs are the best!!

@LucienGreaves If I can squeeze in a nap this afternoon after work, I'm going to try to watch. Practically falling asleep at work and just exhausted.

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Cis and cisgender are not slurs, and I will continue to use them where appropriate. The free speech absolutist seems to be all about speech policing nowadays.

@SPLlFFQUEEN You got this!