brambledog

"I read an essay by a christian a while ago that pointed out that the separation of church and state wasn’t about protecting the state from religion - it was about protecting religion from the state."

Without knowing the author or their reasons for saying that, I would say that they have it wrong entirely. The majority of governments before the US almost always had some level of theocracy attached to it. We took our independence from a man who quite literally was pretending to be God's representative on earth.

Within that context, its very hard to see the constitution as intending anything other than a full divorce between politics and religion.

I don't think so.

Essentially everybody who was going to murder for Trump has already done so or attempted to do so.

The entire paramilitary wing of Trumpism is behind bars because of January 6th. Everybody left knows they are being watched.

Even the most deluded know they are only years away from their retirement. They are going to go.back to football and essential oils, and like Bush, they will pretend they were against Trump the entire time.

I foresee right wing terror returning to essentially lone wolf attacks on children or chitches.

That's pure racism.

But I get it, you aren't allowed to be angry at the actual people responsible for your lack of ability of to afford housing, because if you did, you would have to acknowledge that you helped put the people in place who screwed you.

So instead, we will pretend our problems are the fault of other people. Because we are cowards. Yes?

I didn't say that there weren't legitimate people in the field, i said many of the original era of them were not legitimate people. They were either pastors or others affiliated with a church who largely were kidnapping women and holding them hostage at the behest of the parents, who were almost always members of the congregation.

Most of the deprogramming going on nowadays is done by volunteers in the digital spaces, and the time and resources invested is going mostly to fighting post-Qanon and white supremicist cells, because that is where the majority of group violence is coming from.

Believe me, i wish our problems could be solved by taking kids hostage until they renounce religious/political extremism but that is not the case.

Professional cult deprigranners was never a real career. They tended to be church councilers.

I don't think you can or should blame immigrants for America being a playground for the rich where the citizens are just a servicing class.

Is something lost in translating 100 Years of Solitude from Spanish into English?

Absolutely?

Are there many books originally written in English that are better than the English translation of 100 Years of Solitude?

Very very few, actually.

Except this isnt a random person looking to get famous. This is a well respected journalist and editor represented by established publishing houses and a respected law firm.

I hate saying it because its an obvious statement, but he literally wrote the book on the subject.

If people are being interviewed specifically because they previously participated as a source in a book and they are provoked to give the same specific anecdotes they gave to the original author, just to get around paying a fee, then the original author's work is still being adapted.

I think what probably happened is Apple refused to greenlight production with the author's involvement. He might be the specific editor of gizmodo that Apple had swatted about 10 years ago, accusing gizmodo of espionage.

That is always possible, but in this case I suspect that isn't so.

This author has independent research and can likely prove that nobody before them ever presented the story in the structure of a spy thriller.

The author can also prove the Tetris company had the galleys before publishing. A professional studio would have likely never allowed one of their screenwriters to ever read the book. I think this case.is going to get settled.

I am sure he can prove what in the film came from his book and what didn't. The article specifies much of the book was written from his own sourcing.

If there is even 1 thing in the film that cant be sourced to a 2nd published article, than that proves his book was in part adapted.

Yeah, I think the moment he was first aproacged with this idea, he likely assumed they weren't asking and began formulating a plan.