Josiah Sutton 🌹
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Episcopalian socialist & remedial cinephile living in a Grant Wood painting. Creator of @FruitlessMedia. Musician, Writer, Bartender. Same @ on Bluesky. He/Him
Des Moines, IA
Joined May 2011
This is one of my favorite bookclub eps we've done. Check it out!.
A new installment of the Fruitless Bookclub is here! We discussed And Forgive Them Their Debts by Michael Hudson, where he looks at Bronze Age debt practices & how they influenced the religious traditions of the Near East. Available wherever you get your podcasts.
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The guy on the left is helping run a soup kitchen in some part of the country you’ve never heard of, the guy on the right records rants in his truck for the internet and will eventually be arrested bc of the contents of a hard drive in his possession tbh.
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Every community that has "no autism" will then also be like "oh yeah, that’s just Jonathan. He doesn’t make eye contact much, but he’s incredible at woodworking" or something like that.
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Random Twitter fascist guy in a suit: Uh, this is what masculinity looks like. Menswear guy: Actually, your jacket ends close to the waistline which makes it more of a women’s jacket, & fix the collar gap,…. Me, mustard on gray t shirt I’ve been wearing for a week: get his ass,.
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It is awesome that there's this whole wing of Christians on here that are just explicitly like "actually, loving your neighbor is gay".
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Watching a bunch of right wingers try to square this circle is pretty funny
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Most efficient PM in UK history.
In this clip from 1994, Leeds student Liz Truss tells ITV News the idea of the monarchy is 'disgraceful'. Today she meets the queen to be appointed as the new PM.
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You’re seriously trying to tell me there are no autistic Amish? Seriously? Come on now.
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@ButtUglyBabies @GSOYankee You are replying to a survivor of the Bosnian genocide and a genocide researcher, you understand, right?.
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This isn’t really even a Prot / Catholic divide thing; there’s guys like the one on the right in plenty of Prot churches and they’re also pedophiles.
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Trying to believe both a) the whole "how would you feel if you didn’t eat breakfast this morning" thing must be a genuine representation of people’s mental faculties, and also b) being incapable of basic human empathy or actual hypothetical thinking doesn’t make them dumb.
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There is a baffling amount of religious ignorance on here
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It’d be funny if the Episcopal Church had the whole weirdly abrasive reactionary convert syndrome issue that Catholics and Orthodox have. Just imagining a whole congregation of stunned elderly democrats watching some schizo kid in crusader armor explain how based Anglicanism is.
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@ButtUglyBabies @GSOYankee Elaborate on that. Are you saying that genocide researchers and the ICJ are bigots, or are you denying the Bosnian genocide right now?.
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Someone should make a Christian version of the Babylon Bee.
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The AI art really helps this post out, man. Good use of AI art. "TAT THE PUST," as we socialists say.
The U.S. federal income tax system is already highly progressive, yet for some reason Americans absolutely refuse to believe it.
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[Every Republican congressman suddenly stands up] now that Roe v Wade has been dismantled, it’s time for the real prolife work. That’s right, we’re going to build a strong welfare state. We’ve all been leftcath socdems this whole time, and it was your fringe posts that helped us.
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The entire book of Jonah is genuinely hilarious if you read it as a parody of prophetic books. He’s this terrible prophet, he immediately disobeys God, and when he gets to Nineveh, everyone is like "oh dear, we will repent immediately!".
The Bible is a serious book. But it does have some funny moments in there, you gotta admit. What moment in the Bible do you find funny or makes you laugh?.
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boy do i have a religion for you.
they should give all the college debt to one guy. everyone else clear, one guy 2 trillion in the hole. but no loophole for the guy. his punishments should be real and meaningful.
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it's so cool to not check twitter for like 20 hours, enjoying the world outside, and then log back on to find a bunch of the most shrill and whiny losers in my mentions.
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i muted this when it had 70 likes and now just saw this. That’s crazy. I stole this meme from Facebook. I have a podcast and a Substack I guess you can check out.
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It absolutely does not lol.
"Neighbor" in Biblical context means "your people" and "anyone of your kin.".
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Catholic (has sex): Sex is very bad. Episcopalian (doesn't have sex): I am sex positive! :).
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In a (undergrad) history course in college, I was supposed to submit a rough draft for a paper and then meet with the prof for revisions. When I got to her office she quietly read my paper and then said, "This is so weird… the other professors told me you were a good writer.".
What’s the most memorable feedback you’ve received on your work?.
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i'm sorry i called the buff priest a pedophile, i will try my best to take the lived experience of X users into account before i post in the future.
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If you’re under 30 and want to feel like a celebrity, attend an Episcopal liturgy at a church you don’t normally attend.
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As Steven Crowder has said he has been going through a divorce since 2021, let's see what he's had to say about women throughout that time. Hm.
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While I am a universalist, I do believe that Dave Ramsey will go to hell.
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"Makers"."Content".
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Hello! I’m a service worker in Des Moines, IA right now. You may be in town for the caucus right now. That’s cool. Please don’t be an asshole to workers. We’re trying our best, but most of the restaurants or coffee shops in the area aren’t used to this quantity of people.
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When sex positive posts annoy me, i become sex negative. When sex negative posts annoy me, i become sex positive. As for my actual views, i don’t believe sex is real.
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Everyone knows, like, five history facts and they attempt to connect them to every event.
New Archduke Ferdinand just dropped.
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There’s this really annoying and condescending attitude in arguments like this that seems to believe people 2000 years ago were not aware that people don’t raise from the dead.
This tweet inspired me to google stages of human decomposition. (Don’t do this). By day 3, given no intervention like mummimifaction, embalming etc, the body is literally “eating itself” and liquefying from the inside out. Logic doesn’t allow for the acceptance of the Jesus myth.
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Like, I don’t expect most people, especially nonreligious people, to care about religious history or whatever, but certainly "the Bible was written in the 15th century" is something you should know is wrong with an elementary school history education right?.
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“He’s not your son, he’s dead" is an insanely freakish thing to say and exactly why the whole "they’re weird" line about conservatives has worked so well.
Wow . Jill Biden just said “our son Beau”. He’s not your son, @DrBiden. 1. He’s dead . 2. His mother was the woman who died in a car accident while you were having an affair with Joe Biden. Why does Jill Biden lie and say another woman’s son is her son? . It’s so gross.
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Now is when the real prolife moment begins, where five very online left catholics will seize control of the state apparatus and institute, like, paid leave or something. This is a very serious political persuasion and not at all LARP.
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Check out Fruitless, I guess. A podcast I do. It’s not about being Amish or autistic. Uh I did a video essay about zombies one time. You could check that out. Feel free to make fun of me for both of those things in the replies to this.
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In New York we are witnessing what will be the downfall of the DSA: the christofascist unitarian univeralist wing of the party which has now shown its ugly head.
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me, most of the time: Death to Amerikkka. The empire of moloch must be crushed. 1000 9/11s must reign down on it. Me, when Europeans try to shame a dude for wearing pjs in a gas station:
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It honestly feels like a joke that a thread where a guy is horrified by his sister being married off to a groomer is currently being bombarded by accounts called LolitaCath69 or NaziPedo who are calling him a loser.
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They’ve had an explanation for this fire for several years now and we still keep getting guys with the leviathan frontispiece as their avi posting "where were the jews on april 15, 2019 🧐".
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What I don’t understand about a lot of extremely liberal Christianity is just why even remain Christian. If Christ crucified did not resurrect, I’d be sleeping in on Sundays.
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@keepbobbin I’m really baffled when people’s issue with Christianity is Jesus, the Passion, or the Resurrection. Even when I went through a period of being an atheist, my issue was struggling to believe any of it happened, but I always thought it was good/beautiful.
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Look. I’ll say it. I’ll go normie mode here. I like CS Lewis. I think he’s nice.
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Remember when you guys raided a gay bar and arrested people at gun point for providing water to protestors.
Capitol City Pride Fest begins this Friday in the East Village! . Follow this link for more info about this weekends events! .
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I promise, in front of God, that I will stick with you until I am not longer feelin the vibes anymore.
Instead of “till death do us part” how about “for as long as this feels healthy, safe, and meaningful for both of us”.
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Steven Crowder has followed me for years, and I today I wasted it for this.
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@GamesByKinmoku @SimpsonsQOTD Rashomon is a Japanese film about a bunch of people recalling a crime but they all have different recollections of what happened.
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[guy who watches Skyrim lore videos on YouTube nine hours a day] the west is under attack,.
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Actually, the Bible never condemns slavery. [faucet water starts to turn to blood]. It is clearly stated by God that slavery is fine. [starts itching boils on skin]. but the wisdom of it is case by case. [locusts enter window].Anyway. I wonder where my son went,.
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I’m not usually the guy to break out CS Lewis quotes but I think about this quote a lot when people do this shit
“Where is heaven exactly, given that we have multiple telescopes up there beaming back information.” - Sam Harris
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Sometimes I think about this 4chan post I saw floating around one time where a guy was happily dating a beautiful Latina woman and then got redpilled and realized that he needed to break up with her to avoid race mixing, so he ruined his very good life because of weirdos online.
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This is a bit of a common practice globally, and it’s prevalent specifically in the American South. Even then, this specific use seems to be coming out of starvation conditions, so what’s the own here? "Ha ha Haiti is starving"?.
Haitians eat dirt cookies called bonbon tè. Women buy sacks of dirt, often on credit, and mix them with a bit of fat and salt.
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me reading this tweet
I was born in 2004 so whenever I heard the phrase "Kony 2012", I always assumed it was some embarrassing independent presidential campaign I knew nothing about, but Im just now learning it was a grassroots campaign to get the US to invade Uganda????.
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If we do not fight back, we may lose the party to these crusaders who will force everyone to believe in a sort of energy or metaphor to live your life by.
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My grandmother passed away. Prayers would be appreciated.
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These kinds of posts genuinely are the best indictment of the American education system you could cook up. These are adults!.
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@BoltzmannBooty The main reason this song resonates with so many people isn’t political. It’s because the song is raw and authentic. We are suffocated by artificiality. Everything around us is fake. A guy in the woods pouring his heart over his guitar is real.
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Isn’t the whole thing about the minions is they’ve been on the villain’s side of every conflict in the world.
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when the priest tells you to act like a christian
I went to Church this morning . The most Trad Catholic you can get. Rural (you pass cows on the way in). 100% White Irish . The Priest did a speech during the service celebrating the Christian virtue of taking in Refugees. He praised a nearby town that is now 60% immigrants
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Like after reading the other prophetic books or narratives, when you do get to Jonah, the parodic parts are actually pretty funny. God literally needing to have the guy get eaten by a fish because he won’t do his one job. It’s great.
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It always rocks how these kinds of threads are always just a list of the worst books ever written.
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@keepbobbin There’s so many things in Christianity that I can understanding ‘deconstructing’. Jesus is not one of them at all lol.
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So much right wing politics boils down to weird resentments about what’s on TV. This is half of what’s behind most of the culture war stuff. It’s rarely any material grievance, it’s about ads feeling more gay or whatever.
He is quite literally the sum of every white male in modern commercials:. - Always the fool.- Subordinate role.- Fat dad.- Bumbling customer.- Ignorant questioner.- Cynical inquirer
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I have decided to stop the decline of the Episcopal Church. I’m gonna fix it.
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me rn
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In classic Catholic fashion, what’s meant by evangelical slop here is stuff like "having faith," "actually living out your beliefs," and "not being an antisemite".
@loverboy_blu The whole Bonhoeffer narrative is just evangelical boomer slop.
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someone who is an expert in electoral politics help me out here. Does this mean the reelection campaign is going well?.
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Holy shit lmfao dude are you name searching yourself right now.
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@ReidBtweenLine @KyleKulinski right yes, the majority of Americans must have applied to work for her campaign.
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"You believe in a God that stands with the poor, ugly, and meek."
It is always sickening when people confuse virtue with Christian virtue. Christian virtue is poverty. Christian virtue is ugliness. Christian virtue is meekness. Real virtue is excellence. Real virtue is beauty. Real virtue is power.
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Anyone wanna pay me to advertise a vibrator or something? No? Ok. Podcast is @mammonburgpod. Also have another one in the works, and a defunct one here: @vlegalvcoolpod . Substack is I talk about religion and leftism mostly. Thanks for the follows.
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In Hades, Ramsey called out, 'Father Abraham, please send me a drip of water to cool my tongue.'. 'If a drop of water changes your life, you were pretty much screwed already,' he replied.
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