Making friends all over. Blocked by the way

And this is why we will bail them out again.

That 9 billion could have been spent on making a low cost EV to compete. It could have been spent as retention bonuses for their best workers. It could have been spent so many things that would secure their future in a changing world.

Call whatever you want. He was/is a Russian asset.

Now did he or did he not tease a data release about Clinton during election yes or no?

Mention the 6Billion dollar stock buyback plan GM announced this month.

June 11th 2024 GM announced that the board approved a 6 Billion dollar stock buyback plan.

That is a direct wealth transfer from the company to the owners.

We have met the enemy, and they are us.

When I make an argument I have a certain level of intellectual pride. I know it’s the best I can do. However, I always have evidence to back me up.

Huh what 80k example?

I doubt I will ever buy from the Big 3 again. Bailout parasites. Tried of these piece of shit too big too fail corps pulling this crap.

My next car will be a Chinese EV, if I have to drive it over the Mexican border myself.

Past tense. They are ending the production line this year. They just didn’t have the margin.

It won’t matter how fair things were if we are all dead.

You should always preorder games and cars, really any tech

Comparable vehicle.

A dumpster full of lithium batteries shows up

Yeah they don’t even get that part right. Paul got rid of the OT rules, but he grandfathered in ones he liked.

It still bothers me that I don’t have the same story other people have. Reading and studying the Bible didn’t deconvert me.

I can’t believe that you think this is an argument you are proud of making.

I don’t think there was a real Jesus but I concede you do have a point. Everyone builds Jesus in their own image, even atheists. It takes effort not to. The natural tendency of anyone who was ever infected with this meme or has Christian friends is to try to find something redeeming about him.

Have heard male homosexuals tell me he was gay, heard black power types tell me he was black, heard a scholar in Greek literature tell me he was a secret Hellenistic Jew, heard him described by hippies as a hippy, by fire and brimstone types that he laid down the law, by SJW that he was a social activists, by communists that he was a communist, by a pacifist that he was a pacifist, by rabbis that he was a rabbi…

He can’t be all of those things, he can however be none of those things. He is the blank slate that people scribble on what they want, and what they want is a version of themselves with super powers.

They had them at the time.

but one of them features a zombie apocalypse of the dead rising out of their graves when Jesus dies on the cross.

Matthew. I am not sure exactly what the author was thinking at the time. It does align with what a minority of Jews believed would happen (Ezekiel hints at it) as well as Paul’s letters so I want to say he invented it to align but it almost feels like he got it from the oral tradition.

He did not have a steady job, he was not a productive member of society and he certainly did not have a nuclear family.

I almost feel bad for mentioning this because it is minority view but I think Paul had a conception of him as a Nazar from birth, like Samson. As you said he is living this sexless, unproductive life, wandering around, barefoot, telling people that the Lord will provide. It could also explain the incident at the temple. From what we can tell Paul knew something hostile happened there but not what exactly. Nazarsbl were required to give an offering to end their lifestyle and at the same time the Temple almost always turned them away as insincere.

So Paul thinks the orders of events are something like this:

Jesus is a born Nazar He goes around until he feels his tasks are completed. Shows up to the temple with his followers. Temple says no way, get out. His followers convince the Temple. They let him into the first gate. Satan sees defeat so gets involved and starts a brawl. Infests Pilot and Pharisees. He gets crucified. Satan thinks he has won. Turns out God disagrees and accepts the perfect sacrifice. And since the ending the Nazar oath was a forgiveness offering it all works out nicely, Jesus gets everyone forgiven.

Not them but

Basically it started as a back to earth movement. With the idea that since civilization wasn’t working out everyone should hunker down with their little group following some shaman. For all the many flaws of Chinese government it ran the irrigation systems that kept people alive, it protected the population from invaders, it brought order and wealth that were not only good things in its own right it allowed some part of the population to do things like make art.

Taoism tried to roll this all back. Instead of philosophy and law seeking greater and greater clarity it wanted mysticism. Instead of finding ways that less people would starve it asked people to accept the world with the blind faith that over enough time problems would be fixed. Try telling your hungry child that in nine generations everything will be fine.

The greatest sins of Taoism are engineering and organization. Instead of humans adapting the world to us we must adapt to it, no matter the cost. The only way you can believe in this doctrine is if you believe in a fall. We had a perfect world that we broke. Thus we get original sin again but I can’t even give them credit for that since their philosophers didn’t take their ideas that far.

We humans live in a world that is undesigned. That’s what the data tells us. There was never a one that became two or whatever.