Has that ever been a taboo?

Pretty much since their inception, although it has waxed and waned with public perception.

I still can’t think of many more significant examples

Pedophilia is always one that leaps to mind. Faith groups regularly wrestle with the age of consent, and largely shape their views around secular consensus rather than any liturgical instructions.

The Madonna / Whore Complex has it’s imprint stamped all over modern Christendom, with religious leadership being the textbook cases.

Do you have examples?

Medicalized secular acceptance/resistance toward vaccination has been picked up by religious organizations and turned into a sectarian belief.

The NIH even had a study illustrating how outreach to religious leadership heavily impacted how communities adopted vaccination.

I mean, a lot of religions don’t particularly denounce cannibalism

Virtually every modern world religion has a stated position on murder generally speaking, human sacrifice specifically, and dietary taboos around cannibalism.

Unironically what conservatives actually believed

you’re sick, buy some medicine

Absolutely how that works

“My cardiologist smokes a pack a day”

I can understand something like cannibalism and incest resulting in some diseases, which is fair, although they’re not exclusive to religion.

They don’t need to be. Religious and secular moral codes regularly inform one another.

Cocaine, famously great for your mental health

“They’re not going to bail me out,” Nelson said. “I’ve been on food stamps and welfare. Anybody help me out? No. No.”

If only there was some way to change that

Sorry, but Bari Weiss is running a story on 60 minutes about a rich black woman using food stamps to buy a fancy car. So now we’re cutting the Give Surplus Food to Starving People program in half and giving twice it’s value to a company run out of Hondorus by Peter Thiel’s Ket dealer called QueefCoin.

Taboos aren’t just intended to uphold individual moral integrity. They exist to prohibit social harm.

Famously, there is no relationship between the chief executives of big business and the politicians in high office

Maduro’s grip on power relies fundamentally on electoral manipulation.

All the “Maduro cheated to win the election” stuff comes from the same people insisting Biden cheated to win in 2020 and Obama cheated in 2008.

Following the contested 2024 election, Maduro launched “Operation Tun Tun” (Operación Tun Tun), a brutal crackdown described by experts as “state terrorism”.

Were these experts affiliated with Elliot Abrams?

Conservatives do love self-owning with the anti-Castro rhetoric

People care. That’s the truly bizarre thing.

They’re deeply invested in Evil Foreign Brown Man as someone they can hate and Wise Righteous Western Liberal is someone they can cheer for.

I mean, Admiral Ackbar, pretty much by definition

The perfect libertarian doesn’t exi-

needlessly oversimplifying to imply that all or only western governments work with authoritarian leaders

What else do you call it when a multi-trillion dollar corporate enterprise sells surveillance data to every racist sheriff’s office and royal secret police and aspiring military dictator from South Dakota to Siam?

I wish we were oversimplifying things.

Han Solo was a Tankie

Heretical trigonometry has no place in God’s poop disposal system.