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Also, Goliath was the bad guy.
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Well, the antagonist of the story at least.
The Israelites genocided the Philistines every chance they got... Whose name Palestine is descended from btw.
No they don't. "Christians" don't read, especially their own handbooks. To the point where if you quote something from the bible that disagrees with their ignorant bullshit they get extra mad.
This 100% scans.
How does somone so stupid put something like that into the world so confidently....
stupidity begets confidence
At this point, the phrase "David and Goliath" is basically a meme, and there are a lot more people that know a short guy named David fought a giant named Goliath than actually read 1 Samuel. And for that matter, more than know how the fight actually played out.
Heck, there are a lot of people that probably only know about it from The Simpsons, that episode with the skits that cast the kids as Bible characters and basically parodied the stories they were based on... I think it had Bart as David, probably Nelson or one of the other bullies as Goliath, and Ralph killing one of Goliath's brothers with a sling and a modern tombstone? That's probably about as much as a lot of people know about David & Goliath, honestly.
No.
Books.
That's funny.
So what they're saying is that Canada can win this fight if they've got good aim and a minimal arsenal of tools at their disposal. Got it.
Exactly
I assumed this was someone being funny at first but since I have learned they are serious...well it's still funny
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Also, God is on their side!
Also, we're declaring ourselves the loser bad guys of the story
The rest of the world: yeah we already knew that, though.
I just don't understand the part where we're somehow being "unfair" to the US.
During Trump's first term, Trudeau had to remind him that Canada has the deficit in trading with the US. This is probably retribution for embarrassing him. I wish I was kidding
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It's a strongarm tactic to negotiate something else they want or they're trying to spoil u.s.-Canadian relations.
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Also, remind me Jack, whose side was God on in that fight? Because if I remember correctly it might have not been Goliath's...
Canada:
USA: How dare you. Trade war it is
It's often been pointed out that Right Wing Media Literacy is poor.
We see this often when they root for villains or characters intentionally unsympathetic, like Bojack's Dad, Homelander.... heck Trump's 2020 Re-Election team compared him to Thanos, saying he was "inevitable" and making gifs of him as Thanos snapping the DNC away.
So this isn't anything new in theory, but it's amazing that this "They're rooting for the bad guys because they don't know how media works" problem extends to the FUCKING BIBLE!
The Heroes of the Bible are intentionally meek a lot of the time, the point is that even when you aren't powerful yourself, your dedication to your Faith and standing up for what's right should be enough to make up for your shortcomings, for the Lord will lift your burden.
It's why "Proud Christian" doesn't make any sense, it's a very Pro-Humility faith!
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Goliath also ate children.
perfect analogy for the american government.
And for tech bro oligarchs
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Bitch, the "unfair treatment" you are going on about was the one proposed by Trump in 2018.
Maybe he should blame the guy who last negotiated such a bad trade deal, which would be... checks notes... Donald Trump during his first term! π€¦
This has very much the feeling of βthey need us more than we need themβ
Iβm in the UK and some people voted for Brexit saying the same. Look how that turned out for us over the last five years.
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I stopped reading Reddit entirely save for deshittifying search results, but I braced myself and looked at the conservative subreddit today, and even they think this is quite dumb.
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Do these people even read their own books?
No. I thought that was pretty obvious.
That's certainly the first word that comes to mind when you hear Canada; Unfair. How rude of us to bully America around like that.
You got right to the problematic issue: "read". Reading is hard. Reading a long text is harder. Reading a very long text with complex meanings and referring to things outside the historical context of most readers, is very hard.
I've read the Bible. Twice. I don't think there is any action or concept by the current GOP where you won't find a sentence in the Bible that is actually condemning this precise move. They don't care, as they have never read it.
They're not even trying anymore
Because they don't even have to
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