Is it though?

"After School Satan Club"

Is that provocative? Is that offensive? Would you say that the school's evangelical "Good News Club" is provocative or trolling?

Calling is a Satan Club is "only to make Christians mad" but calling it a "Good News Club" is not trolling to make non-Christians mad? This says more about your own prejudices than anything else.

Articles like this are exactly what the club wants.

Yeah, probably.

I don't see it that way. What I see is the author giving a platform to bigots under the disguise of what should have been a story focused on what the club actually does.

The club is being protested because of ignorance and bigotry. A responsible journalist would help to banish the ignorance by exposing the truth that fear and hatred is unnecessary. Instead, they provided a platform for bigots to spew more their hatred, even quoted two of them, and promoted a Christian club that has absolutely nothing to do with the subject of the article.

That's not neutral reporting.

American healthcare system is very good and affordable for the vast majority of Americans. Sure it sucks if you’re poor, but most Americans are not poor.

Taxes are not that hard to do. The vast majority of people get a single income statement from an employer and use the standard deduction. Could it be better? Sure but it’s not bad for most people.

This is just...

My god dude. Try living in another country for a while. You're speaking like an abuse victim who keeps defending their abuser. The US's societal infrastructure, including health care and taxation, are 50 years behind the rest of the developed world. Americans pay top-tier costs for bottom-tier society.

"Sure it sucks if you're poor" is the kinder sibling of saying "Got mine, fuck you!" Being poor sucks everywhere, just by nature, but the entire point of societal programs is to uplift the poorest and make it suck less, not to give handouts to the rich so they can say "Well geez, at least I'm not poor!"

Part of me wishes that that particular person experiences the same level of “goodwill” that they give to others. I don’t like wishing ill on people

Don't guilt yourself for wishing ill on people. Those people deserve it, and you are not being a bad person by wishing ill on those who deserve it. Society tells us it's bad to do that, but all that does is make us feel guilt and let bad people get away with it. Wish ill, and do it freely!

Hopefully this prick gets a visit from the FBI for Christmas.

Unfortunately it's the American public that is paying the price for the stupid prizes.

Something something sincerely held beliefs.

Well for an actual "list of demands" I would expect things like "release these people:" followed by a list of names, and "stop doing these violations:" followed by a list of the violations they are accusing Israel of. "Release everybody" and "stop doing bad things" are technically demands, but they're not the kind of things you'd expect in an actual list of specific demands. Those certainly work as summaries of the demands, but I was hoping that some news agency would have an actual list of the specific things Hamas is demanding in order to release the hostages rather than just "do everything we want." I've seen them mention the drones in another article, which I suspect must be one of the things on the actual list.

"Waaaahhh, I've been doing this my whole life but I never wanted to get caught!"

Lovely. All this bodes well for upcoming elections as well...

Social media has been under scrutiny for this kind of shit for a while, and even more-so since 1/6. How is that that almost 3 years later they still can't figure it out??

Facebook and Twitter seem determined to be the match that lights the powder keg.

Trump and Democrats have done the same thing????????

Get the fuck right out of here.

There is no room for this kind of false equivocation in any honest conversation. You're parroting sheer --and dangerous-- propaganda. Take that back to Russia or wherever pays you 10 cents to post it.

Bingo.

People like to toot democracy's horn like it's the best thing ever, but they forget that also comes with responsibilities. Everyone expecting that we'll just vote in some savior who will fix everything has a complete misunderstanding of how government for the people by the people works. The people we elect merely represent us. It's still up to us to change things the way we want them to change. If the only time you're active in politics is when you push a button on a voting machine once a year (or every 4 years for some), then you don't have much room to complain that things aren't the way you want them to be.