1/ This is very true and illustrates the fact that culture is downstream from power. Cultural trends become codified when perceived power brokers (celebrities, politicians, managerials) approve or advance them

https://twitter.com/OrkBran/status/1805443238402138554

2/ This is the *real* reason why, for instance, Louisiana posting the 10 Commandments is such a big deal for the Left.

They don't give a rip about "religious freedom in the 1A" or whatever.

Posting them represents a power-sanctioned movement away from progressive trends

Keep in mind that churches are congregations of people who have committed themselves to faithfulness to worshipping God and learning of Him together.

There is zero reason why a church should feel obligated to pay bills for random people with no connexion to the assembly

https://twitter.com/JulianeWriter/status/1797980771556401576

People act like churches are there to pay bills/give financial support/whatever else to complete random strangers.

Pro-tip: they're not.

Churches that get guilted into playing along usually just end up being identified as easy marks and grifted by increasing numbers of mooches

1/ So I'd like to do a fun tweetstorm that isn't all mopey and political. This one's about an odd group of people I used to work with at a grocery store when I was in high school 2/ Many of my mutuals know that I grew up in the KCMO metro area. Back in the day, we had a grocery chain called "Food Barn." I worked at a Food Barn my senior year of high school

1/ I spent 20+ years as a scientist in Big Pharma and the one constant was that Indians and Chinese were terrible at understanding the science involved and implementing it.

I mean, they're the literal definition of cramming to pass the test.

https://twitter.com/pplsartofwar/status/1622821423642210304

2/ Anything that required independent or innovative thinking was this huge stumbling block to practically all of them.

Following straightforward test methods/SOPs/whatever? They're great, robot like efficiency.