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The Supreme Court rewarded religious coercion by a Christian football coach

BitFlipper comments on Jun 27, 2022:

That coach is using his position to push his religious fantasies on his subordinates. He gets to decide who plays and who doesn't. He gets to decide who gets encouraged and who doesn't. It's the essence of American Christianity.

TomMcGiverin replies on Jun 28, 2022:

I bet if that school is in some area where open enrollment is available for players to transfer to other nearby schools, the better players and the less religious ones, are getting the hell out of there to play somewhere else, rather than put up with this horseshit...

Anybody else noticing any weird stuff happening on the ordinary ground level that might be related ...

creative51 comments on Jun 27, 2022:

That is very unfortunate you have to deal with that. I usually go to bars (rarely) in the college town 17 miles from my small town. It is much more liberal and I have not had such experiences there. Not all college towns are liberal and I do not know if you have any liberal college towns in Iowa. I ...

TomMcGiverin replies on Jun 28, 2022:

There is a lot of truth to that last sentence. As far as college towns and bars that are higher class, and less likely to have redneck bullies in them, I do have two karaoke shows each week, each at a different bar, that attract a higher class crowd for the most part, and they are more liberal. I can still safely go to those two weekly shows. But as for the other two bars where I was bullied last weekend, it would be a risk, esp. if I go by myself and don't hang with anyone. The bullies always like to pick on the loner men, esp. libs like me. They are less likely to if you have a companion with you to witness it and tell the guy to fuck off as well, since these guys never hit or pick on women, since, as I noted elsewhere on here, they know the bars do want to protect women from male assholes and keep a safe rep.. So the bullies know that messing with a woman victim will get them barred from there. Guys are mostly on their own as far as anyone getting barred for bullying them, it seems. It wasn't always that way around my metro area, but these days, karaoke shows are mostly a blue collar working class crowd that is into country music and politically conservative. So I am an outlier and not the typical karaoke customer. There used to be more educated middle class people like me at karaoke shows a couple decades ago, but those people have mostly aged out of the scene or retreated to buying a home karaoke machine or system and just having private karaoke parties, so they don't have to deal with or mix with lower class people. Sort of the karaoke version of gated communities... Most of my friends are very highly educated and middle class and married. They almost never go to bars, probably mostly because they feel bars are for lower class and single people, so they stay away from them and don't want to be exposed to any of that, tho they probably aren't even conscious of that bias..

Anybody else noticing any weird stuff happening on the ordinary ground level that might be related ...

BitFlipper comments on Jun 27, 2022:

Bullies just like to intimidate people, and they want to be seen by the group as intimidating. It's how they keep their shallow egos inflated.