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Will Slack

@wslack

@CityofDecaturGA native, prev @USDS, @18F, & hospital tech. Opinions mine; RTs/likes/follows ≠ endorsements. 🦋: https://t.co/i34WE99kEx 🐘: [email protected].

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Will Slack
Will Slack@wslack·
I see a lot of people on Twitter confused about how others wholly reject their views, and I think a good chunk of it comes down to not understanding the feeling of being polarized. It feels good to be polarized, to have certainty, to know you're on the good team. Storytime. 1/
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Will Slack
Will Slack@wslack·
@ScareOBG Respectfully, I don't think the other commenters are jumping to the conclusion that you are. It's perfectly permissable for anyone to think that disability ratings shouldn't be available for people who didn't see action. They want the policy changed.
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Original OBG
Original OBG@ScareOBG·
@wslack 100% read the comments. if you and he do not agree with what they were rated for it is fraud. you and him do not have access to the medical records of any of these people. you have zero leg to stand on condemning them for rating for mental health and other no visible ratings.
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Will Slack
Will Slack@wslack·
@ScareOBG There are certainly people who likely don't think their condition merits benefits even though they are eligible, and there are people who will tell doctors whatever they need to to get a higher rating. All of that is separate from benefits for people who never saw action.
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Will Slack
Will Slack@wslack·
@ScareOBG @BradD80 @Itsjoeco @No_Strike_List I think Brad's point is that while any specific case can't be litigated by tweet, he's seen fraudulent patterns of behavior by large groups of people, and that merits investigation. (Such as, people are proactively finding/pitching vets to apply to get commission on them.)
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Will Slack
Will Slack@wslack·
@Itsjoeco So many posts are. Two people can look at the exact same thing and both think it fully confirms their priors. That said, I think the original poster is engagement farming. People complaining about the lying just help him.
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Will Slack
Will Slack@wslack·
@Cfrench02 @MBurtwrites I don't think its any of those, though the last is def true. She's saying that homeschooling has some downsides and that we should acknowledge them (and work to address them) instead of denying there are any downsides.
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Craig
Craig@Cfrench02·
@MBurtwrites As I read through your thread I became a bit confused. Are you calling on families to not homeschool? I don't think so, but I'm unsure. Are you calling on Christians to stop abusing their children? Are you calling on Christians to become educated on abuse and to report it?
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Marissa Franks Burt
Marissa Franks Burt@MBurtwrites·
I've been getting some pushback from homeschooling parents for suggesting that homeschooled children are more vulnerable to abuse. Guys, we have got to set aside defensiveness & talk honestly about our communities. Homeschooling parent fragility is a real problem.🧵
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Will Slack
Will Slack@wslack·
@realmattcarr Not only that, but that sort of stance will fail to reach/engage with some people (as much as it resonates with me). You can draw moral lessons from college sports and marvel movies that will speak to people who aren't as inclined to read Augustine.
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Matt
Matt@realmattcarr·
I mean, churches already expect pastors not to be fully human - why not create that expectation in digital space as well?
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Will Slack
Will Slack@wslack·
@garonnevik @ostrachan Anger is also often easily based on lies - we hear that Johnny down the street did something wrong and then accidentally commit fault in retribution, and now there's anger on both sides. It self-perpetuates, but it feels so *good* to know that we're right we happily harm others.
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Gretchen Ronnevik
Gretchen Ronnevik@garonnevik·
While I'm not sure I could weigh one sin against another as far as impact, I agree that anger can be more dangerous sometimes because it gets entangled with self-righteouesness. While both anger and lust are rooted in entitlement, lust usually feels wrong. Anger often feels right.
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Owen Strachan
Owen Strachan@ostrachan·
WOW. John Piper recently said that he is more "scared of anger" than lust: "I’m scared of anger. More than I’m scared of lust.…It’s my besetting sin....anger is emotionally destructive. It’s so destructive in a marriage, for example....It eats everything." Worth pondering.
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Will Slack
Will Slack@wslack·
@realmattcarr I can't claim to know for sure here - but I visited an awful lot of churches growing up and found my church to be much more thoughtful and God-seeking about this than others in a wider culture that played "smear the queer" on the playground. Thanks for listening. /5
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Will Slack@wslack·
@realmattcarr I have heard some say that the solution is celibacy and denial of a family of their own, but that doesn't seem just in the context of (IMO) a Bible that doesn't address sexual orientation. Romans does tell us that we shouldn't exchange our natural state for the unnatural. 4/
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Dan Green
Dan Green@DanGreenMN·
As a Christian, I’ve watched the Democratic Party cede faith voters to Republicans by running away from faith instead of toward it. James Talarico unapologetically shared his faith, countered Christian nationalism, and won. Democrats need more people like him to run for office.
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Will Slack
Will Slack@wslack·
The abuse of the filibuster to create an effective super-majority requirement for anything in the Senate means federal law became stagnant/wasteful and the executive/judicial branches took more control of policy-making. There is a reason Congress declares war.
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Will Slack@wslack·
@realmattcarr I don't think they support what many churches still teach today. Would be happy to engage on any. I have no idea what its like to be gay, but I do know that there are countless kids who lost their faith because they were told that God couldn't have made them as they are. /5
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Will Slack
Will Slack@wslack·
@realmattcarr I know all of the passages that homophobic people cite in support of their views; we talked about them in youth group. Romans 1 is the most pointed for me, but I'm happy to talk about any of them. In context of the original language 4/
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mattgallagher0@MattGallagher0·
EFPs - the advanced IED - were indeed the prominent ground threat in Iraq circa 2008, at least in our sector. One blew through my best friend’s Stryker, came inches from slicing him in two. Iraqi teenage boys were paid chump change to emplace them. We found many but not enough.
Jim Sciutto@jimsciutto

U.S. veterans of the Iraq war will remember the Supreme Leader for the fact Iran supplied advanced IEDs to Iraqi militants which killed and maimed hundreds of US servicemembers. Many are likely welcoming these strikes tonight.

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