She said, I ended up finding girls who actually believe in what I believe in, who are Christian women, who are conservative women, who uplift me every single day.
I’m thinking they uplift you every day by knocking other people down.
Do these Evangelical types also think that In-n-Out burger is ‘one of their own’? I seem to recall references to some bible passages printed on the bottom of their cups. Same with Alaska Airlines. All these subtle signals always made me wonder WTF was up, like the local plumber who has that fish symbol printed on the side of their van next to their contractor license number, stuff like that. Like a club. Or a cult.
“I found people who agree with everything I say, believe it even more firmly than I do and help me to squelch those nagging doubts I have. Without them I might even lose my faith.”
It gives them justification in their mind for the violent “retaliation”, and not the instigator. Otherwise, they would just be plain asshole. I pointed out the obvious thing with a few of them and most of them couldn’t accept it. Their brain melt down and they just started calling name.
In-N-Out is on the list. So is Hobby Lobby, Marriott, Cracker Barrel, Carl’s Jr (Hardee’s), H.E.B, Forever 21…there’s a list of businesses that are not just “Christian” friendly, but in particular, cater to the Evangelical SBC crowd…primarily white, affluent, suburban, WASPy, homeschool types who have been marketed to that these businesses are on their side of the culture wars.
That’s why they get especially offended like this girl did when they feel these businesses “betray” their values.
Over the past several decades I’ve had numerous opportunities to deal with contractors, mechanics, plumbers, and handymen who sported the fish symbol. Every last one of them did a lousy job and immediately went full asshole when their work was challenged. Correlation isn’t causation, but there’s a certain pattern. It’s as if a part of them knew they had issues, and they needed to still the voice. By slapping on The Fish they reassured themselves that they were superior beings.
I don’t know, you can get “impossible” meat substitutes there. When Cracker Barrel announced this, conservatives, predictably, lost their shit.
Additionally, just this week two of my partners and I were able to eat there without difficulty. (They were next to the hotel and we wanted pancakes.) That’s a very obvious trans person and two feminine presenting people, holding hands together and occasionally smooching one another and not once did the staff kick us out. Hell, I even got a compliment from a staff member on the skirt I was wearing and was able to use the bathroom I prefer without harassment! Shocking how woke they are, isn’t it?
I use that as a filter when hiring repair people. You got a fish on your work vehicle? Yeah, I’m going with someone else.
Hoo boy. One of my classmates from high school makes the lists of top young conservatives for being one of the group organizers. He’s just cashing in on that Ivy League prestige to shop around the same old hack in a rebrand.
Dude keeps wondering why people awkwardly keep avoiding him at every chance.
oh, yes. those $#!+ birds are on all the islands in the Keys. descendants of wild jungle fowl that were brought to the Carribean - especially Cuba, then Key West - for fighting. that bloodsport was a favorite of the Spanish colonizers. many escaped, some were just turned loose and they interbred with domestic chickens until what we have now are some wily-ass, scrawny, nasty, loud fekkers what tear up gardens and landscaping and shit all over everything.
sometimes, we get eggs, but not often.
nuisance animals.
truly the lord’s chickens shameless self promotion: i wrote and illustrated a book about them, Street Chickens of Key Largo - Papiermeister Press, 2022
Yup. Learned it myself while staying in a $7/night hotel in Luxor overlooking a tiny yard with chickens. As a citified-city-slicker-citygirl I was astonished to learn they start at dawn and NEVER STOP.
Also, $7/night hotels are worth exactly what you pay.
