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A masked Priest ready to yeehaw an infant with 0 hesitation belongs on the front of a metal album.

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[–] [email protected] 62 points 1 year ago (2 children)

i loved the parts where it felt like we were examining all of our social norms and skipping the ones that were dumb and pointless. but now everything has to be just as dumb and shitty as before for no reason [no social safety net allowed, WFH bad, etc]

[–] [email protected] 2 points 1 year ago (2 children)

There absolutely are reasons. They just aren't reasons you agree with.

The oncoming commercial real estate collapse is a big one. You just don't give a dick about it. And neither does anyone here.

[–] [email protected] 21 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago) (1 children)

I've been priced out of real estate, why the fuck should I care?

[–] [email protected] 12 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Real estate is a rich people problem now and I hope they're having a fucking crisis.

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[–] [email protected] 3 points 1 year ago

Nobody with a brain gives a shit about it, because it SHOULD happen. Land isn't a commodity to hold and rent, even the fathers of capitalism thought so.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 1 year ago

Now everything has to be as dumb shitty as before for no reason

Just as I thought I was out of having to shake the hands of twenty people when arriving at a family party, they PULL ME BACK IN! Some of them literally!

[–] [email protected] 36 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago) (5 children)

Bonus: Me wondering how the fuck I got community banned by the Atheism community as a card carrying atheist:

[–] [email protected] 60 points 1 year ago

How can you be an atheist when you have g*d in your username. Checkmate theist/s

[–] [email protected] 32 points 1 year ago (1 children)

The atheism community is such a circlejerk that I decided to block it. So, congratulations I guess.

[–] [email protected] 12 points 1 year ago

"Next on the agenda: still no gods"

[–] [email protected] 29 points 1 year ago (2 children)

Good to see lemmy has already inherited the worst of reddit's issues: Shitty powertripping moderators.

[–] [email protected] 7 points 1 year ago (2 children)

I don't see an easy way to fix it

[–] [email protected] 11 points 1 year ago (2 children)

Make the community be able to vote kick or vote for new Moderators although that would maybe just make the circlejerking even worse

[–] [email protected] 11 points 1 year ago

You'd get brigading and bot led hostile takeovers

[–] [email protected] 9 points 1 year ago

Yes, that's very hard to implement. How do you prevent bots from voting? Thinking about it gives me headache

[–] [email protected] 4 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago) (1 children)

Modlog for all actions including every single ban and the conversation about it and a way for a user to report mod abuse to admins.

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[–] [email protected] 3 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Even worse are power tripping instance admins.

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[–] [email protected] 15 points 1 year ago

Turns out there are no cards in atheism.

[–] [email protected] 11 points 1 year ago (1 children)

You'd think I'd be the one banned for saying that the water pistol was full of the priest's semen.

[–] [email protected] 36 points 1 year ago (2 children)

Interesting how the parents aren’t masked up at all. I’m wondering they were part of the anti-mask crowd snd didn’t even care about all of these precautions anyways. At least the priest was trying to stay safe, but yeah, it looks silly as fuck. You’d think they’d just let the parents have done it instead, or does the holy water behave differently when splashed by a priest vs your parents?

[–] [email protected] 18 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Maybe that'd establish a precedent that a Priest wasn't actually needed for the ceremony.

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[–] [email protected] 12 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Not sure if you're looking for an honest answer but the funniest/dumbest thing about this picture is that no, the "rules" are that anyone can baptize someone else. So it definitely doesn't need to be a priest. This entire scenario is completely unnecessary.

[–] [email protected] 3 points 1 year ago (2 children)

I assumed it was something more for "officially" recognizing the child as being part of the Church, or some sort of thing like that. Interesting though, from the 5-minutes of googling that I did, it seems to be only in "extreme cases involving life or death" that anyone other than a priest or deacon would normally baptize somebody else. It would probably be debated about whether this was really a life or death situation, though it does seem like an unnecessary risk for that old priest given that the parents are unmasked. Literally all they had to do was sprinkle some water on the kid and say, "I baptize you in the name of the Father, and of the Son, and of the Holy Spirit." and they could've avoided the silliness.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 1 year ago

They're in a church, the silliness is literally all around them.

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[–] [email protected] 30 points 1 year ago (2 children)

I've always wondered if this photo would be better or worse if he used both hands on the gun instead of just one.

[–] [email protected] 26 points 1 year ago (1 children)

it would be better if he held the watergun sideways

[–] [email protected] 3 points 1 year ago

“KILL SHOT!!!”

[–] [email protected] 11 points 1 year ago (2 children)

Should have gone with dual wielding.

[–] [email protected] 3 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Ah, the old JOHNWOO code...

[–] [email protected] 2 points 1 year ago (1 children)
[–] [email protected] 2 points 1 year ago

Makes me feel very old that you're right about that 😬😂

[–] [email protected] 2 points 1 year ago

If it's ok for Master Chief and Woo, it's good enough for you too!

[–] [email protected] 21 points 1 year ago (3 children)

Most Metal Stage of the Pandemic

People were drowning in their own necrotic lung tissue. That is far more metal than a guy in a robe playing with a squirt pistol in a church.

[–] [email protected] 19 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago) (1 children)

Imagine working in the ICU and having people you try to save die on a daily basis just because they would not get the vaccine and you have to pull double shifts because of it. I'd have quit in the first couple of months probably. How they managed to even get up in the morning and force their body to go to work I will never be able to understand.

[–] [email protected] 11 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Ask anyone who worked in healthcare and them not taking the vaccine wasn't the real problem.

It was the combativeness, the level of self delusion, entitlement, and often physically violent nature of those people. And unfortunately a lot of them survived.

Daily reminder that people were getting shot for not giving gran pappy's brother, and cousin, horse dewormer so they can shit their brains out. Or for asking to wear a mask.

[–] [email protected] 7 points 1 year ago

And unfortunately a lot of them survived.

A tragedy really lol

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[–] [email protected] 14 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Some would say baptism is weird, no matter the circumstances

[–] [email protected] 2 points 1 year ago

Baptism is pagan is prolly why, not in the bible, neither is circumcision, it's for Israelites that don't exist anymore.

[–] [email protected] 11 points 1 year ago (2 children)
[–] [email protected] 7 points 1 year ago

Pretty clever too, Religion, firearms, and masks. They taped together three internet flame wars all in one, I love it.

[–] [email protected] 4 points 1 year ago

Staged or not, it's still pretty metal.

[–] [email protected] 7 points 1 year ago

This is insane outside pandemics in 2023

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[–] [email protected] 5 points 1 year ago

Strongly disagree, when a US president suggested we inject bleach and shove light sources into people, that was the most insane stage.

[–] [email protected] 4 points 1 year ago

Love seeing that community mods are gunggo banning people for fuck all no reason, no warning and no direct communication. Really gives me hope Lemmy will be better than Reddit /s

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