Acts 2:43-47 “Life Among Believers”

All who believed were together and had all things in common; they would sell their possessions and goods and distribute the proceeds to all, as any had need. Day by day, as they spent much time together in the temple, they broke bread at home and ate their food with glad and generous hearts, praising God and having the goodwill of all the people.

The believers sold all their stuff, loved everyone, and things were great. If the US is a Christian nation, why aren’t we doing that? (Rhetorical)

Both of them beating up a penguin probably.

This is the Russian plan. It was never about Trump. It was about payback for break up of the USSR.

United we stand, divided we fall.

They’ve made us divided: not MAGA, but the gov’ts abroad who have exported the subversion of a debatable reality. Look at Vladislav Surkov’s strategies and how they are here, in America. You don’t debate your enemy, you debate the notion of truth.

Trump 1 introduced the term “alternative facts,” and now these people sit in a room talking about an ideology as bad, not a formal group or person.

Whyyyyy?

Seriously, this behavior only makes sense as someone with blackmail. Why not just, I dunno, ignore it? Why bring chance of the pardon back into potential? Why remind people of the Epstein files?

I’m glad in some sense that he’s exposing his vulnerabilities in broad daylight. Seems like a really dull minded decision on his part.

I’m a millennial, and I keep holding my breath for our generation to show up. There’s plenty of statistics that show a deep blue wave. I think we’ll lose more before we win, but nothing lasts forever.

I don’t have a ton of stock in any data from 2025 voting behavior. There’s some suggestions of vote manipulation from reputable statisticians, so I don’t really trust that voting data.

Hmm…

It’s the ACA. “ObamaCare” was created as a nickname by Republicans to outrage their base. I don’t know if this post is supposed to have a /s, but if not, you fell for the propaganda, homie.

Good. Let them continue to be incompetent.

I don’t want ScreamingMinecraftYoutuber67 on my watch history, and yet, it’ll be there tomorrow morning.

/s

Accounts used by multiple people enter the room.

By kids often use my account on our shared family TV. We have adults in 30s/40s, early teens, and toddlers all using YouTube for different things.

This is a stupid idea.

Tawny frogmouths. Great expressions!

We already don’t have them.

What if 8 years of election fraud bullshit was the setup to poison the waters when they actually use the techniques?

This is Russian psyops 101: play/fund both sides so when both are revealed corrupt, the populace is too confused to know what’s real.

So republicans say, for years, “Your Russian election claim is a hoax!” And then we get, “They stole the 2020 election!”

Now we have more statistical information showing signs of manipulation, but because Republicans have called out their opponent as manipulating elections, researchers are afraid too report facts based on voting tabulation.

We are in crisis. The country is socially fractured. We’ve been manipulated by our enemy (Russian oligarchs/mob/Putin). They repeated the lies enough that MAGA will believe any dumb shit while Democrats look like they are using Republican insults or tactics.

We’ve all been duped.

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fifteen_Million_Merits

So H1-Bs are $100k per year…or you could spend $1m and just skip the line…

Yeah, this is capitalism and the US in complete decline. The whore of Babylon selling herself to the world in the worst way…

The group defines “TIVE” as “the belief that violence is justified against people who oppose [the trans community],” as well as the belief that opposing trans rights “itself constitutes a form of violence towards people who identify as [trans or gender nonconforming]… or poses an imminent threat to such persons’ emotional, psychological, or physical safety, including through self-harm or suicide.”

What an insane redefinition of “self defense.” Violence isn’t justified…unless you are being targeted, harmed, or killed, which many trans or NB people are. It’s absurd to preemptively label self defense as “violence.” It’s cart-before-horse, intentional PR spin to dehumanize a subset of human people. One species, all human.

The administration will need scapegoats when its policies fail. They’ve laid this ground work for years now. They want justification for violence through violence themselves in this mental gymnastics.

It’s the Heritage Foundation, which might as well be called “Propaganda Hut.” Let me guess: more divisive, American-dividing ideas? Yes, Heritage, let’s keep pushing tribal behavior to encourage class war while the rich destroy the planet and their fellow humans.

“Now, I think it’s a wholesale prostitution of America and its values in order to sell weapons. And increasingly profiteer on this stuff.”

9 “When the kings of the earth who committed adultery with her and shared her luxury see the smoke of her burning, they will weep and mourn over her. 10 Terrified at her torment, they will stand far off and cry:

“‘Woe! Woe to you, great city, you mighty city of Babylon! In one hour your doom has come!’

11 “The merchants of the earth will weep and mourn over her because no one buys their cargoes anymore— 12 cargoes of gold, silver, precious stones and pearls; fine linen, purple, silk and scarlet cloth; every sort of citron wood, and articles of every kind made of ivory, costly wood, bronze, iron and marble; 13 cargoes of cinnamon and spice, of incense, myrrh and frankincense, of wine and olive oil, of fine flour and wheat; cattle and sheep; horses and carriages; and human beings sold as slaves.”

From a lay person’s perspective living here my whole life:

• I grew up middle class. My parents made like $60k combined in the 90s/00s.
• I grew up around lots of different classes.
• I lived in the New England and Southern Belt areas.

One extreme, poverty:

• Many of my friends lived in public housing. This means smaller apartments and usually shadier folks.
• People try to pitch you on schemes or odd jobs.
• A lot of my friends had single mothers.
• I found out later that several dated drug dealers.
• I’ve had many people die from overdose (heroin, fent).
• In south and north, the poorer you are, the more your ethnic accent comes out (southern slang & Boston southie).
• Many smoke or eat poorly. Eating is usually because of material circumstances.
• A lot of people are giving in terms of money or time. They’ll rib you about it, but they’ll help you.

Other extreme, wealth:

• I work in tech. I’ve been successful and have hung out with pretty wealthy people, certainly much wealthier than me.
• They often live somewhere lavish, like a lake house, expensive apartment, or a family house.
• Most have some generational wealth. Some had successful parents. Others come from linages.
• Many have no awareness of how difficult things can be on the poor side. They lack lived experience.
• Most are kind, and self aware of their wealth.
• However, it feels like many have a “rules don’t apply” mindset.
• Tend to have worse empathy for the poor.
• Tend to have worse manners, but I wouldn’t say they are spoiled.
• More giving to their friends, less giving or trusting of strangers.
• Many are good at managing optics & image. I’ve heard a lot of stories about how home lives were too faced, like everyone saw the good side, but there was some darker edge beneath the surface.
• Older rich people seem to be the least empathetic. Younger rich people seem better.

It’s not really possible to capture what it’s like to live. Homelessness is a real problem and a worse version of poverty. The most sociopathic people I’ve known have been ultra wealthy. This is anecdotal.

This man’s pants are holding on for dear life in the thumbnail. Just floating in the wind.

Yeah, this feels like correlation vs. causation. I don’t doubt the figures, though.