The condemnation of "thoughts and prayers" seems to have really taken off once people realized that these are conservative markers, and most people do not want to be conservatives any more. (The fact that the outgroup is responsible for the situation has not changed, of course.)
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Replying to @Plinz
No, the condemnation is because the phrase is used in lieu of action. If God's plan includes one being in a position to pass legislation to change the problem one is praying about, then what is one praying *for* exactly?
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Replying to @RitaJKing
"Thoughts and prayers" is the Christian conservative's way of saying that they are deeply concerned about the situation. It betrays lack of empathy to say that it means they do not want actually want to change it. (Of course they prefer different policies than progressives.)
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Replying to @Plinz
I understand what you meant. In some cases, of course, a person means this when they say it. In other cases it is a smokescreen hiding inactivity while at the same time knowing that a situation requires some kind of response.
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Replying to @RitaJKing
I think that most people agree that a situation they find horrible might require some kind of response, but in the context of politics are afraid that the other side is just going to use it as a pretext to implement their nefarious agenda.
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Replying to @RitaJKing
Yes. But none of my children actually wants to kill the other. They just have very different ideas about what should happen, and poor awareness about how different the experience, world model and resulting policy preferences of the other.
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Replying to @RitaJKing
You have to be, if you find yourself in a crazy country where one half believes banning guns is nefarious and the other thinks imposing religion is nefarious and neither of these policies would actually work in that country
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Yes, there are also some people that are considering that none of the solutions that can be directly inferred from the dominant tribal value system might work
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Replying to @Plinz
For this reason I am happy to see some unusual candidates running for office. Now if only we could get the armchair quarterbacks to vote. It's a start.
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