• slugbones@lemmy.ml
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    Left and right do have actual definitions though. Left is anticapitalist. Right is capitalist. Blame the US media for insisting that liberals are left.

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      In the original definition, left was capitalist, right was monarchist. (And normal people weren’t allowed into the parliament)

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      Blame the US media for insisting that liberals are left.

      In the USA, I find one of the most troublesome “media” is the Levant double-imported Bible. And the “USA media” who teaches that Bible without any regard for verse “1 John 3:17”. They actually think that the Bible is “right” and “extreme capitalism”… and avoid teaching “1 John 3:17”.

      The same awful media teachers I have mostly encountered in my 50+ years in the USA also seem to think gender matters above all else and can’t find verse “1 John 4:20” or “Galatians 3:28” in the media book they claim to follow. I question their ability to interpret all media when I can flip to “1 John 3:17” (2000 years to get that book right) as they praise Fox News as “factual news”.

      /// double rant

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        sounds pretty superstitious of you to talk about versions of the Bible ngl

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          The Founding Fathers edited and produced their own Bible in the year 1820.

          There is nothing magical or supernatural about anything on earth, including the imported Bible form the Levant. It’s just a book, and you can teach it correctly. They don’t know how to read or interpret ANYTHING (including The Constitution). They think Fox News is factual.

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              Take your pick: in public schools they don’t teach The Great Seal to students, social media ignores it in favor of blind faith in “left vs. right” street gang philosophy, universities don’t seem to do it, so-called churches don’t read right, TV news doesn’t, newspapers don’t.

              I live in a nation where Donald Trump walks around waving a Bible in his hand and not one (supposedly education) person can say “verse Matthew 6:5”. They clearly have no reading comprehension when it comes to any media. They just chase signals of media, blindly.

              The verses are numbered, you can say an exact quote in the Bible by line number, and they still can’t do it (Trump is there waving The Bible around for a camera, it’s right here in the book). Something very wrong with their reading comprehension here.

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                  it’s what they could agree on at the time. The Great Seal was the master plan to last thousands of years. The Constitutions was made to be rewritten, revised, a rolling release that goes along with The Enlightenment (science). It’s a lot of hard work to keep it current and on-course in basic prose true to the era, and that work has largely been forgotten and abandoned.

                  The Great Seal is written in art symbolism, way beyond the Constitution and laws.