@NocIntellect@Meldougherty77 Hey can you provide me a detailed schedule of how she spends her day to back up your claim? You seem to know a lot about people you don't personally know
@Meldougherty77 How's your heart for her children? 227 days ago she made the decision to abandon her children, and live the lifestyle of a CEO, and an elite on the weekends. Children be damned. Mommy's gonna party.
@RachelR1221@Meldougherty77 Based on your profile picture of a cross on a hill, the hate you're spewing toward a widow either exposes you as a fake Christian or a fake user.
@3rdGrace@Meldougherty77 You blue peeps view everything through a power lens. There are other forces besides power in the world. One you might be unfamiliar with is called love
@Meldougherty77 You behave as if she’s the girl next door. Get a clue! She’s at the center of power, and you can bet there are many sharks and deranged lunatics with power trying to control her. This isn’t little house on the prairie Melissa!!
Religious kids used to be noticeably happier than secular ones. After 2012, that gap exploded.
Jonathan Haidt dropped this on The Daily Show: Religious children have built-in community, rituals, and traditions that anchor them. Secular kids, especially those handed phones and iPads early, are left floating without real roots.
Haidt (who’s an atheist) says non-religious parents now have to work much harder to intentionally create stable social connections, because a network of strangers, bots, and algorithms is not a community — it’s crazy-making.
In the smartphone era, the protective effect of community and ritual has weakened dramatically for everyone, but especially for kids growing up without traditional anchors.
We traded thick, real-world belonging for thin digital freedom — and we’re watching a generation pay the price in anxiety and meaninglessness.
Do you think religious community still gives kids a real advantage in 2025, or can intentional secular parents create equally strong roots without it? What’s worked (or failed) in your experience?
@CraigCaplan DO WE ACTUALLY GAVE A GOP MAJORITY IN THE SENATE OR NOT?!!!!!!
I AM SO FREAKING SICK OF THE GOP!!!!!
WHAT ARE WE EVEN DOING HERE IF WE CANNOT PASS THE SAVE ACT???????
I’m convinced that a lot of the “GOP” are actually secret Democrats.
This makes no sense.
48-50: Senate voted against Louisiana GOP Senator John Kennedy's effort to include elements of the SAVE America Act, the GOP voter ID and citizenship requirements legislation, as part of the filibuster-proof reconciliation bill. Republican Senators Collins, McConnell, Murkowski, and Tillis voted No with all Democrats.
@andybrohard Both can be true. But also consider that when you pay someone to identify racist organizations, they find more than if you don't pay them. And that is what has been happening with SPLC. So it might be a measurement incentive issue too.
I hate to say it…
But I’m struggling to be generous after all the fraud we’ve seen.
There’s so few charities I trust now.
I do a deep dive on a homeless charity… oh look, my tax dollars are funding that and it’s run by a Trump-hating Leftist.
A Christian charity? Oh look, they’re helping illegal aliens.
An education nonprofit?
Oh look, it’s getting money from Left-wing political groups to send in Democrat activists to give lectures on LGBTQ oppression.
Even my TAX DOLLARS I know are being used to fund some BS non-profit that probably has me on a list somewhere as an extremist and is actively trying to cancel me.
It’s hard to be generous when I’m already being generously stolen from in taxes and when even the nonprofits aren’t actually solving the problems they reportedly exist to solve.