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Male lead (well, after Christ) gets £14,000 more than the female lead – sounds about right.

Perhaps the great problem that Christianity has is that Christ is always played by a plastic doll.

A remarkably tasteless nativity scene came up on my Facebook page, depicting Baby Hitler, in place of Baby Jesus. The wise men and shepherds had swastika armbands, and there was a Nazi flag on the stable wall.

You need to stop following the Republican Party on Facebook.

Honestly, I’m getting bombarded with Holocaust denial, Russian trolls, rants by Lozza Fox, and Rupert Lowe, and assorted idiocies, despite blocking these sites.

I stopped actively using Facebook years ago and never embraced Twitter. Facebook pissed me off when it went to overwhelmingly showing people/groups I never followed rather than my 'Friends'. Defeated the entire point of it as far as I was concerned.

Only thing I still use it for is Messenger with my friends and family.

Like most changes from big tech companies thesedays they seem designed for the company's benefit, not the customer.

Which is a shame, as so many things are much more convenient now thanks to companies, but the attitude seems to have shifted.

As someone who worked in the industry rather more recently than Roger -

The scene you're looking for is the scene in Breaking Bad where Jesse goes to a Narcotics Anonymous meeting just to sell them drugs. Then gets angry. "Don't you understand? I'm just here to sell you more meth."

That is social media in a nutshell.

It's a dopamine hit designed to keep you scrolling for just long enough that the algo can a) learn a bit more about what pushes your buttons and b) can serve you an ad it thinks you will click. And it doesn't care if it pushes the worst shit imaginable on you, all it wants is to keep you scrolling for long enough to sell you that click

I have not used social media in five years and I used to sell it for a living. Take that for what you will.

Male lead (well, after Christ) gets £14,000 more than the female lead – sounds about right.

Perhaps the great problem that Christianity has is that Christ is always played by a plastic doll.

A remarkably tasteless nativity scene came up on my Facebook page, depicting Baby Hitler, in place of Baby Jesus. The wise men and shepherds had swastika armbands, and there was a Nazi flag on the stable wall.

You need to stop following the Republican Party on Facebook.

Honestly, I’m getting bombarded with Holocaust denial, Russian trolls, rants by Lozza Fox, and Rupert Lowe, and assorted idiocies, despite blocking these sites.

There are some sites where Nativity denial is rampant.

Well one gospel doesn't mention shepherds, one gospel doesn't mention wise men, and the earliest doesn't mention either. Our nativity story is the equivalent of an AI amalgamation of several documents to come up with a whole that none of them says.

Accepting that Jesus was a historical figure, he had to be born somewhere, but very unlikely that any biblical accounts represent the reality of it.

Male lead (well, after Christ) gets £14,000 more than the female lead – sounds about right.

Perhaps the great problem that Christianity has is that Christ is always played by a plastic doll.

A remarkably tasteless nativity scene came up on my Facebook page, depicting Baby Hitler, in place of Baby Jesus. The wise men and shepherds had swastika armbands, and there was a Nazi flag on the stable wall.

You need to stop following the Republican Party on Facebook.

Honestly, I’m getting bombarded with Holocaust denial, Russian trolls, rants by Lozza Fox, and Rupert Lowe, and assorted idiocies, despite blocking these sites.

There are some sites where Nativity denial is rampant.

Well one gospel doesn't mention shepherds, one gospel doesn't mention wise men, and the earliest doesn't mention either. Our nativity story is the equivalent of an AI amalgamation of several documents to come up with a whole that none of them says.

Accepting that Jesus was a historical figure, he had to be born somewhere, but very unlikely that any biblical accounts represent the reality of it.

He was clearly born near Glastonbury. Drawn there, magnetically, by King Arthur. Who was also born there. Or died there. I think. Anyway - it's in the Bible. At least the bits of the bible the "Special secrets they don't want you to know" FB/Insta/WhatsApp group tells me.

Did you know the bible is also strongly against wind turbines and pro-Russian fossil fuels? It's an amazing book. Not sure there's much more to it than that. But it lays it out quite clearly in a post about BA pilots back in 2021.

Male lead (well, after Christ) gets £14,000 more than the female lead – sounds about right.

Perhaps the great problem that Christianity has is that Christ is always played by a plastic doll.

A remarkably tasteless nativity scene came up on my Facebook page, depicting Baby Hitler, in place of Baby Jesus. The wise men and shepherds had swastika armbands, and there was a Nazi flag on the stable wall.

You need to stop following the Republican Party on Facebook.

Honestly, I’m getting bombarded with Holocaust denial, Russian trolls, rants by Lozza Fox, and Rupert Lowe, and assorted idiocies, despite blocking these sites.

I blocked Fox a decade ago, I block lots. Never read a shithead twice is the rule. And they still feed me his hate.

Social media is vile.

Male lead (well, after Christ) gets £14,000 more than the female lead – sounds about right.

Perhaps the great problem that Christianity has is that Christ is always played by a plastic doll.

A remarkably tasteless nativity scene came up on my Facebook page, depicting Baby Hitler, in place of Baby Jesus. The wise men and shepherds had swastika armbands, and there was a Nazi flag on the stable wall.

You need to stop following the Republican Party on Facebook.

Honestly, I’m getting bombarded with Holocaust denial, Russian trolls, rants by Lozza Fox, and Rupert Lowe, and assorted idiocies, despite blocking these sites.

Twitter has now defaulted to showing me 'For You' rather than 'Following'.

I get the stuff you're seeing now and worse.

In the past week I get to see the posts from the likes Lozza Fox, Rupert Lowe, somebody Lucy White who doesn't want Muslims in parliament.

It's like following Tommy Robinson's Twitter feed.

Male lead (well, after Christ) gets £14,000 more than the female lead – sounds about right.

Perhaps the great problem that Christianity has is that Christ is always played by a plastic doll.

A remarkably tasteless nativity scene came up on my Facebook page, depicting Baby Hitler, in place of Baby Jesus. The wise men and shepherds had swastika armbands, and there was a Nazi flag on the stable wall.

You need to stop following the Republican Party on Facebook.

Honestly, I’m getting bombarded with Holocaust denial, Russian trolls, rants by Lozza Fox, and Rupert Lowe, and assorted idiocies, despite blocking these sites.