https://www.biblegateway.com/passage/?search=Exodus 34&version=CEV

Have you considered that maybe I know something you don’t?

Like, for example, the direct translations of the original texts.

Even what’s actually listed on Exodus as the Commandments.

Impossible, I’m sure.

Liberals will lick any boot they see as long they’re charged for the privilege.

Go on a goddamn walk Melvin!

The actual Commandments or the deliberate mistranslations?

Because the original flavor is very clearly a list of rules made to enable theocratic control and create a religious apartheid.

Disagree, because it will forever haunt me with the dream of MiBxJump Street

No you fool, it’s a clearly vegan work about you eating chicken Jesus.

The oligarchy is welcome to not poison people.

Red Rising isn’t hard sci-fi, but it is more notably sci-fi as a series after the first novel and the weird little obvious Hunger Games sequence ends.

The combat-oriented Golds are also an obvious ripoff of 40k Space Marines and the author absolutely betrays the overall message in the third book but that’s not related to the question, I just hate that he did it.

There can be peasants and feudal social classes in sci-fi. Sci-fi explores how society will react to future events and technology, but you could absolutely have a, for example, post apocalypse sci-fi novel about knights fighting over fiefdoms with swords in the ruins of Earth.

One of the reasons Star Wars gets criticised for not being sci-fi is that the science just doesn’t matter to the story.

You could have told the exact same story with samurai/warrior monks, horses, and wooden sailing ships, so the science is an aesthetic, not a plot element.

Like, they have a literal slave race of androids, fusion, FTL, everything, and it just doesn’t fucking matter. There isn’t a robot uprising. Everyone’s poor for no discernable reason, despite AI being a thing and the society effectively having unlimited energy, etc etc etc.

Red Rising might have had their weird little Youth Death Tournament but there was a point to the society doing that, to create a militarised group of the next generation of the ruling class.

Why is there poverty in Red Rising? Because they’re eugenics powered space fascists and it’s a control mechanism.

Why is there poverty in Star Wars? Because Lucas apparently never considered it should be anything else.

The CEO: Well jeez, Bob, I wish you’d been more forceful, then I would have fired you and bought the property when you defaulted.

So are yours, but we don’t say anything

You absolute fools. This is proof they had time travel!

The “do not question or criticize Taoism” is a bit of an oof of a precept, but honestly it doesn’t seem that bad to me.

My understanding is practitioners were pretty given to both alchemy and astrology and those can both lead to actual scientific advancement… Unless your religion forbids questioning established practices.

Almost had it I guess.

That’s what she WANTS you to think

I hate that they think bookshelves are an indicator for it

I’ll let every nurse I know know it’s their own fault they got Covid.

If Boebert goes down for being a bit of a slag instead of for being a fascist I won’t be surprised at America, but I will be disappointed yet again.

Stop slutshaming fascists and just throw bricks at them, that’s all I want, why is this so hard :(

Kevlar needs hardened strike plates to stop rifle rounds. Funnily enough, we’re actually just right back around at plate armor with cloth tabards as personal protection and no one seems to notice.

I don’t normally like to deny the credibility of websites I know nothing about, however

RIP to that old man, born before his time. Imagine how happy he’d have been in a stripclub.