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    9 days ago

    I don’t think that man can go a month without self owning on social media

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    Steve Hofstetter is a great comedian and has the best comebacks. He is wasted on this “explaining words to Kevin Sorbo”-series, there’s no character growth, no shred of understanding, no positive character arc, Kevin just keeps mouth-shitting bullpucky every week and Steve or Lucy Lawless or a five year old have to explain to him that he’s saying dumb shit.

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    One correction for Sorbo: People weren’t boycotting Chik-fil-a for “being christian”. There are tens of thousands of businesses that are “christian”. It was Chik-fil-a’s large donations to homophobic groups and the president of the company at the time Dan Cathy (and current Chairman of the Board) making public homophobic statements.

    Be whatever religion you want, but when you use your money and power to repress other people, that’s where you earn a boycott.

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          Bible god wasn’t ambiguous about being pro slavery and women as property, or war, or genocide, or hardening hearts violating free will, or.

          Also never speaks up to distance himself from the monsters using his name in vain.

          Good christians never read the book.

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          I will similarly argue there was a WHOLE lot of bad done by folks labeling themselves as Christians during that time period.

          I’m not a Christian, but I was raised as one and I know what I was taught goes in the face of most of all of the things they do.

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            That’s because Christianity basically just exists to justify hating others.

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              The true Christians are the ones that are good and do everything we agree on. Meanwhile the true Muslims are the ones that value Jihad and violence above everything else. Not like those Christians (the good ones).

              Are you even American?

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        The rules are all made up and the points don’t matter. They’re just a Christian as any other Christian I’ve ever met.

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    It’s not actually that simple.

    The difference between boycotting vs “just not eating there” is that the former is a loud movement, instead of a simple quiet preference that the free market will take care of itself.

    Kevin is implying that people who don’t band together to actively fight wrongdoing are somehow superior. However what he’s really advocating for is divide and conquer in order to maintain the status quo.

    Steve is usually funny and correct, but this time in doing so has missed a greater, more important, point.

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        Analyzing it is complex, but the behavior itself is more instinctual. I think Kevin feels the difference, but doesn’t think about it rationally.

        I do think categorizing Steve’s comments as “wrong” vastly oversimplified the exchange, though. He’s pulling the emotional argument Kevin is making into a rational one, which is the point of the exchange.

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    This is partially my fault. When people started to boycott chick fillet I misheard their call to action and enacted a blockade upon their establishments. He must have seen one of the frigates I had patrolling in the parking lot and mistaken boycott for blockade.

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      I enjoyed it. I have the ability to not care about the actors real life personality though. It’s an alright show. If you like stargate, -trek and farscape type shows and can see past the actor, you’ll probably enjoy it.

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      I enjoyed it up till the last season. The last season was just dumb and kind of a temporary reset.

      Basically Andromeda is ‘we have Star Trek Discovery (in the 32nd century) at home.’

      All the shit Discovery skipped rebuilding the Federation is basically in Andromeda.

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      If you can get past the pro religion undertones. But it was a ok show, kinda a cross between Farscape and Star Trek but the worst of both of them.