Lady of Longing @Lady@cat.family

@aescling but lowkey this is code for “i’m a liberal :)”

@aescling bitch if you want to know about them then ask

@coriander thorsgender transday

@katrani @coriander right but you gotta understand, these people didn’t run for office because they wanted to enact change. they ran for office because they wanted to hold positions of power, and now they are doing whatever it takes to hold onto whatever little microdoses of power they can salvage. it doesn’t matter that this isn’t effective strategy for achieving their policy agenda. they do not care about their policy agenda. they just don’t want the rug to get pulled out from under them. they would rather be useless figureheads whose primary function is as a scapegoat and foil for Republican lawmakers than be in the situation of, for example, the three Tennessee lawmakers who were stipped of their committee appointement and two of whom were expelled from the Tennessee House in 2023 after they protested in favour of gun control.

@Satsuma @wallhackio @alyssa you don’t have to accept filioque to get the ordering so long as you accept that the Holy Spirit proceeded THRU the Son if not FROM him, but some Eastern radicals seem to think that the Holy Spirit and the Son happened at the same time (well, the Son is eternal, so it would have to be the same before-time)

@wallhackio @alyssa @Satsuma i think if a biblical scholar does not acknowledge the Nicene Creed they are not much of a biblical scholar

@alyssa @wallhackio oops sorry @Satsuma the Nicene Creed states

I believe in the Holy Spirit, the Lord, the giver of life,
who proceeds from the Father and the Son,
who with the Father and the Son is adored and glorified,
who has spoken through the prophets.

so Jesus is God 2 and the Holy Spirit is God 3 it seems; we are losers and frauds

@alyssa @Satsuma @wallhackio hmmmMmmMM

@coriander @katrani the vibes we have gotten from our local Dems is that they want to keep having a seat at the table and are afraid to piss off the Republicans to the extent that they stop being offered the chance to compromise on tiny bullshit that doesn’t matter. this is obviously a nazi bar situation and the wrong tactic but. they are terrified of not being allowed in the room where it happens anymore, and are clinging to that at the expense of everything else

@Satsuma @wallhackio @alyssa i would think being nontrinitarian would make it easier to put them in sequence? but if you don’t believe God = Holy Ghost = Christ are you even Christian?

@Satsuma @wallhackio i don't think evangelicals believe this tho