Well, if there are going to be consequences, I guess you have no choice but to comply.

Grandad is rolling over in his grave right now.

Seems like they could just restrict their people from ordering butt plugs, what with having the ability to order them to do things.

Don’t comply

Can’t it just be Taiwan’s?

Hasn’t China stated that they intend to reclaim Taiwan? Don’t they claim Taiwan as part of their country right now?

That menacing, life robbing, black ice! A perfectly safe neighborhood can be terrorized by the appearance of black ice!

I like this mentality, but from from your average citizens please

The beauty of open source projects is that if they are abandoned, other people can pick them back up. Sure it may be difficult, but if it wasn’t FOSS it wouldn’t even be possible.

I’m here because Reddit started buying CBP adds. Fuck collaborators

He’d rather we just lay down and let him do whatever he wants

Naw man, nerds don’t salivate hoping that someone will break into their house in the middle of the night so they can throw 20 sided dice at them.

Who attacked gun rights? The guy making fun of hypocrites?

That was my Dad.

He was a lifelong republican who listened to Rush Limbaugh and was terrified of Immigrants. Literally thought Obama was the literal antichrist. Built a bunker and went “off grid” to avoid societal collapse.

Those people’s lives are based only on fear. Anything unknown to them is to be distrusted, feared, or destroyed. If this same shit happened when Dad was alive and youthful, he probably would have been wearing an ICE vest.

Because the NRA and decades of right wing gun culture have convinced Americans that the 2A is about their right to own firearms.

The 2A very clearly is about the right for armed people to gather together and use violence to protect their communities.

I’ve never once checked my voicemail and I never will

But the brother will likely suspect that someone called the cops. And there’s a good chance he will suspect his family members. With a personality like OP describes, having proof of who filed the report isn’t likely relevant, he will “know” who filed it, and that will be good enough for him to act on. Hypothetically, anyway

Better IMO to just leave. Don’t even let yourself be put into that situation in the first place.

That’s an emotionally devastating environment apart from the real physical threats.

Very cool of you.

Get out now. It will be hard, but it’s better than dying and better than living in constant fear of violence.

Please take this seriously. Protect yourself

Oh and to answer your original question, I don’t think any modern denomination “believes” that stuff. Aquinas is considered an important theologian, but his ‘scientific examinations’ or whatever he called them are generally regarded as a product of their time.