I have to be honest. Between this and the vegan thing a while back, I feel a bit of tone deafness in your “humor” posts.

I honestly loved it. Wish there was more.

It would be nice to see a decent show in the GoT universe again. Something that isn’t just all rich people planning who is married off to who and blah blah blah blah.

I would honestly bet money that if someone shows up to a BBQ and complains about what’s available, 9 out of 10 times it’s going to be someone who eats meat and is upset that there either isn’t their favorite meat or like, that there aren’t eggs in the potato salad or something. Not much money, because I’m broke, but I’d put like five bucks on it no problem.

I mean, you shouldn’t expect anything particular at a BBQ that you’re not bringing yourself or like helping with the planning of. Like, hamburgers and hotdogs are pretty standard, but if I showed up at someone else’s BBQ and all they had was ribs I’d be kind of an ass for whining about it.

But like… why are vegetarian options specifically a problem? Is this something that’s coming up? Is there like, a rash of vegetarians throwing a fit about it? Did someone get invited to a BBQ and ask if there’d be a veggie option? You know, like, so they could participate in a social event with their meat-eating friends?

This kind of stuff usually feels to me like people who eat meat and don’t want to think about the cost in suffering pointing a finger at people who abstain so they don’t have to think about it. Like, I personally do eat meat. I find that my brain functions better with a little animal fat than without. Buuut I’m also well aware of how much torture goes on in the process of making that meat, and I at least try to minimize the calorie to suffering ratio.

That’s not to say that I’m going to spend my days criticizing people who don’t choose to push against the horrific system of factory farming that supports our societal penchant for meat, but I do think about it. And I have noticed that certain meat-eaters seem to be pretty defensive about it, which generally translates into being shitty to people who don’t eat meat.

Posts like this coming unprompted certainly seem like that kind of defensive behavior to me.

Anyway, food for thought.

Which you equate a drag show with how, exactly? Without Leviticus?

Edit: Oh. Okay. Having finally seen images of the show, this wasn’t even about the last supper. It’s about the Feast of Dionysus. Literally had nothing at all to do with Christianity.

You’re failing to show that what you consider ‘sin’ is something he’d have found meaningful. Ceremonial law doesn’t count unless you’re also ditching shellfish and polyfibers just as vehemently as your little pet queerphobia

Fuck it, I’ll bite. Y’all are obsessed with Old Testament ceremonial law. You’re basically Pharisees. The only mention of anything remotely approaching anything we’d lump under the queer umbrella in the New Testament is when Paul is describing how the Romans are different from the Hebrews and happens to mention the sexual nature of some of the relationships common between Roman men. It’s a discussion of contrast, not a condemnation.

Let’s look at Jesus’ track record, shall we?

Here’s a guy who famously has no patience for the status quo or for authoritarian hierarchy. He literally says he came with a flaming sword and his opponents were the people in charge who were obsessed with meaningless rules and deference to corrupt power. To put it in Buddhist terms, he was trying to shake up the tendency to stare mindlessly at the finger instead of looking at the moon. I know; just Google it.

Dude was a proto-anarchist. He would have had zero patience for your hand wringing about people wearing clothes that you don’t like. He probably would be in this thread giving you shit if he wasn’t too busy with feet on the ground trying to shake down the establishment.

I have never understood how y’all are so into this guy who’s about radical autonomy and acceptance and universal love and forgiveness and yet you seem to entirely miss the plot and literally laser focus on the rules used in the same story to justify nailing him to piece of wood.

Jesus would probably be at a drag show. Just not one for rich tourists who care more about spectacle than the negative impact of the Olympics on literally every host city.

He’d be condemning bigotry, not standing beside it.

Nah, sweetie. That ain’t it.

You’re the one who’s so into the guy, you should know better.

I’m implying that Jesus would be more likely to hang out at a drag show than with the people who have a problem with them.

Yeah! Everybody knows Jesus didn’t hang out with the people society rejected and denigrated! He certainly wasn’t hanging out with prostitutes or poor people or outcasts! He was all about maintaining the social order and keeping the Pharisees happy! That’s why he was nice enough to help the money changers set back up in the temple after some whack job came in and tossed their tables all over the place!

Next you’ll start in on some leftist propaganda about how people deserve to eat and have medical care. You think Jesus would, what, hand you some fish and bread and heal your leprosy? You better be able to pay! Inns ain’t cheap around here!

I did hear of a pretty reliable source of silver, though…

It’s just Garfield under an assumed name. Probably the one who engineered the things to begin with.

That’s all we get from the Onion now? A paragraph? They set up the premise and then just… wandered off and called it a day? Okay I guess.

🎶 Goin’ over to Susan’s house

Yeah, if someone decides to pass you a joint, awesome, but pestering people for weed is annoying. Personally, after COVID, I’m not sharing anything that touches my lips with anybody I wouldn’t kiss.