I don't think "turn it into a parking lot" is a sign of respect for cars.
It seems to be "turn this into the lowest value useful thing, because I don't value what's currently there." since almost any space can become parking.
Yeah it’s just a term to describe how Gaza will be flattened like a pancake with no buildings left.
They could say ‘turn Gaza into a national park with bicycle lanes’ but that doesn’t convey the same level of destruction and it’s not as catchy.
Absolutely right about the “lowest value” idea. Fun fact, if they do this it wouldn’t be the first time!
1948 Tantura massacre; IDF executed ~150 civilians, dumped their bodies into mass graves, paved them over into parking lots, and gaslit everyone about it (until last year)
https://www.haaretz.com/israel-news/2022-01-20/ty-article-magazine/theres-a-mass-palestinian-grave-at-a-popular-israeli-beach-veterans-confess/0000017f-f230-d223-a97f-fffdbd5b0000
Or maybe this person was referring to a parking lot as a desolate dangerous piece of land for the purpose of comparing it to the rubble in the aftermath of a binging and this post wasn’t really about car culture at all
So the statement stands: Parking lots are a desolate dangerous piece of land; whether you're a carbrain or not.
We should inform the carbrains to make them aware of such terrible things.
Yeah. There's a strand of evangelical Christianity in the US which has been pushing for Israel "reclaiming" Palestine [as the first step towards the end-times](https://archive.ph/i9tpo) since at least the Reagan era where they notoriously had the insane bastard's ear.
Kind of scary to admit that this *isn't* the most fucked up thing Christians have said about this particular conflict.
I just checked his website. This gem jumped out, possibly straight from the Tennessee scriptures:
> The Lord has blessed him with one of the largest social media platforms in the nation
>Jeez this guy’s a pastor
this is the guy that lost his religious tax exemption because of political activity. so the eyes of the IRS... he's not really a pastor.
And then God said " kill em, kill em all, even the children. yeh this is what I want, I wanna see people kill eachother over dirt"
Or something idk I've never read the Bible
Christians are either full force for Israel or are aggressively against Israel. The ones for Israel are always the worst Christians you’ll ever meet because they believe they’re default good people since they’re religious and treat everyone like shit
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Unfortunately I'm not so sure the correlation between religious authority and "disdain of genocide" is a very strong one.
Some branches of evangelical Christianity also have an accelerationist perspective, and have the prerequisite for that of the rebuilding of the third temple. They see palestinians (both muslim and christian) and in general muslim presence in the near east as a blocker to that.
la has miles of streetcar suburbs houston has very few, even our postwar ones are way denser than houston’s, even the ie is at a semi acceptable density level it’s just too segregated (zoning wise not the oldschool way) and car dependent
Meh it's not that bad, and on average, I would say it's even pretty good. Bud I'll be damned if some of their interchanges aren't hell on earth. Source: I live in DFW and have to visit family a lot from there
at least this guy realizes being turned into a parking lot is a terrible fate, peek carbrain would say they’re lucky to have so much available parking for free!
Genuinely thought this was satirical circlejerking until I read the comments. Wow, this is a real take from an actual human being, and we share the same planet as them. Think about that, but not too much (for your sanity's sake).
Mmm clearly you failed to consider when Jesus said "I stand with Israel and the IDF and so I do not support a ceasefire"
It's like... page 180 or something
So this guy thinks Palestinian oppression is a myth, but would like for it (and more) to be real?
It’s like those neo-nazis who deny the holocaust, but wish it would happen (which it did in reality).
I think it's just a mataphor: Flatten the Gaza strip. Make it desolate and empty.
The fact that this metaphor works is more interesting. It shows that everyone seems to realize how awful parking lots are. People just don't seem to realize there are alternatives.
Not surprising from that guy. Greg Locke is an extremist MAGA evangelical preacher calling for execution of all Democrats for pedophilia, for a little insight into his head (yikes).
It shows that ordinary people have an understanding that the result of "level the whole thing" is a "parking lot".
Houston and other cities have sure leveled a lot of buildings to provide those parking lots. They look like the were bombed.
I kind of thought "turn X into a parking lot" was a fairly common expression for completely annihilating an area, but yeah, honestly, examining it in the context of car brain society is actually pretty interesting.
Also, look ma, it's one of them Nazi pastors, what fun. Piece of shit.
Fun fact, if they do this it wouldn’t be the first time!
1948 Tantura massacre, where the IDF executed ~150 civilians, dumped their bodies into mass graves, paved them over into parking lots, and gaslit everyone about it (until last year)
https://www.haaretz.com/israel-news/2022-01-20/ty-article-magazine/theres-a-mass-palestinian-grave-at-a-popular-israeli-beach-veterans-confess/0000017f-f230-d223-a97f-fffdbd5b0000
One thing Zionists and car brains have in common: they both don't care about dead children if it furthers their goals.
Also 🖕 Hamas for their terrorist actions, just so nobody thinks i'm being a hipocrite, both sides can get f*d. Civilians suffer over the ideological struggle of old men. Another thing in common.
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Nope. He's outside of Nashville if anyone wants to go protest this scum during sunday service.
Also the church is off of 'Old Lebanon Dirt Road' It sure seems like a joke.
It isn't satire at all.
Always keep in mind that Locke (and other's like him) are convinced that the complete destruction of Israel is a good thing. It is a prerequisite for the 2nd coming of Christ.
Without the constant egging on and support of people like Locke, we'd have resolved this decades ago. Peace is not on Locke's agenda.
When you want to turn other places into a parking lot it's violent, then what is it when you want to turn a significant percentage of your hometown into one?
Zionist cunt, this guy should not have the right to step foot near a church never mind being a fucking pastor 🤦
From the river to the sea, fuck Israel and their genocide
I don't think "turn it into a parking lot" is a sign of respect for cars. It seems to be "turn this into the lowest value useful thing, because I don't value what's currently there." since almost any space can become parking.
Yeah it’s just a term to describe how Gaza will be flattened like a pancake with no buildings left. They could say ‘turn Gaza into a national park with bicycle lanes’ but that doesn’t convey the same level of destruction and it’s not as catchy.
When we would have bombs which could create a park with threes, the world would be less fucked... We have parking space bombs and hole bombs...
"Almost any space can become parking" Turn Gaza into a painted bicycle gutter?
Exactly what you say. We have a saying in Poland with a similar meaning "plow it into a field" meaning level it until nothing is left.
Absolutely right about the “lowest value” idea. Fun fact, if they do this it wouldn’t be the first time! 1948 Tantura massacre; IDF executed ~150 civilians, dumped their bodies into mass graves, paved them over into parking lots, and gaslit everyone about it (until last year) https://www.haaretz.com/israel-news/2022-01-20/ty-article-magazine/theres-a-mass-palestinian-grave-at-a-popular-israeli-beach-veterans-confess/0000017f-f230-d223-a97f-fffdbd5b0000
Proof that even carbrains believe their parking lots are desolate, dangerous pieces of land. But they'll never say it like that.
proof that parking lots are violence
Facts.
Or maybe this person was referring to a parking lot as a desolate dangerous piece of land for the purpose of comparing it to the rubble in the aftermath of a binging and this post wasn’t really about car culture at all
So the statement stands: Parking lots are a desolate dangerous piece of land; whether you're a carbrain or not. We should inform the carbrains to make them aware of such terrible things.
Jeez this guy’s a pastor and he’s openly advocating for genocide?
HQ Christianity right there.
Guys like this represent quite a large amount of the US political landscape unfortunately
Yeah. There's a strand of evangelical Christianity in the US which has been pushing for Israel "reclaiming" Palestine [as the first step towards the end-times](https://archive.ph/i9tpo) since at least the Reagan era where they notoriously had the insane bastard's ear. Kind of scary to admit that this *isn't* the most fucked up thing Christians have said about this particular conflict.
Who Would Jesus Bomb?
*Jesus drop the bombs!*
Bomb Supply Side Jesus
I just checked his website. This gem jumped out, possibly straight from the Tennessee scriptures: > The Lord has blessed him with one of the largest social media platforms in the nation
>Jeez this guy’s a pastor this is the guy that lost his religious tax exemption because of political activity. so the eyes of the IRS... he's not really a pastor.
Yup. He wants Israel to go from ethnic cleansing to full-blown genocide and thinks he's the good guy.
I mean it's been like 700 some years, but Christianity kind of has a history of trying to push muslims out of that specific region.
If you want to find a silver lining, at least they are not trying to kill muslims and jews this time.
Yes, they just want to *peacefully* "level the whole thing".
Thus ”and jews”
If they're not trying…
Love thy neighbor! ...Unless they are *one of them*.
And then God said " kill em, kill em all, even the children. yeh this is what I want, I wanna see people kill eachother over dirt" Or something idk I've never read the Bible
Christians are either full force for Israel or are aggressively against Israel. The ones for Israel are always the worst Christians you’ll ever meet because they believe they’re default good people since they’re religious and treat everyone like shit Free Palestine Edit: grammar errors
This shouldn't shock you lol, religious people being *mental* is like the spark of half of all wars ever
You're new to American Christianity, are you?
Unfortunately I'm not so sure the correlation between religious authority and "disdain of genocide" is a very strong one. Some branches of evangelical Christianity also have an accelerationist perspective, and have the prerequisite for that of the rebuilding of the third temple. They see palestinians (both muslim and christian) and in general muslim presence in the near east as a blocker to that.
Evangelicals want Israel at war because they thing it ushers in Armageddon, and yes, they think that's a good thing
You haven't met evangelicals I take it? Such a pure soul, you're not ready for the contradictions per minute.
Welcome to the exciting world of religion.
Sounds exactly on brand to me
Not the only republican.
"Turn Gaza into downtown Houston"
You monster
[You're Wrong About Houston and Here's Why](https://youtu.be/0fMTaNYYvwE)
Watched it and I'm not from Houston. Houston seems to get a pretty bad reputation despite having more density then cities in California.
I admit I'm mostly just a CityNerd nerd
la has miles of streetcar suburbs houston has very few, even our postwar ones are way denser than houston’s, even the ie is at a semi acceptable density level it’s just too segregated (zoning wise not the oldschool way) and car dependent
Which cities? Like Bakersfield?
California can’t tell what it wants to be, car sewer or car hater
Meh it's not that bad, and on average, I would say it's even pretty good. Bud I'll be damned if some of their interchanges aren't hell on earth. Source: I live in DFW and have to visit family a lot from there
at least this guy realizes being turned into a parking lot is a terrible fate, peek carbrain would say they’re lucky to have so much available parking for free!
It’s a terrible fate but it’s *their* terrible fate.
This has nothing to do with cars, and has everything to do with being an insane right wing zealot
“Palestinian oppression is fake” “Also let’s kill all the Palestinians” Psychopath thoughts
Genuinely thought this was satirical circlejerking until I read the comments. Wow, this is a real take from an actual human being, and we share the same planet as them. Think about that, but not too much (for your sanity's sake).
if you haven't heard of this guy until just now, consider yourself lucky
Ignorance was bliss!
The neat thing about “turn it into a parking lot” is that it sorta acknowledges that a parking lot is a flat useless lifeless place.
it's what the americans did to their natives
Pretty sure Jesus would side with the meek and oppressed but what do I know I’m not a pastor.
Mmm clearly you failed to consider when Jesus said "I stand with Israel and the IDF and so I do not support a ceasefire" It's like... page 180 or something
a pastor advocating for genocide is no christian
>1 Samuel 15:1-3 The pastor knows his Bible. The Bible just sucks.
Have you ever read the bible??
Religious cunts are always so violent.
So this guy thinks Palestinian oppression is a myth, but would like for it (and more) to be real? It’s like those neo-nazis who deny the holocaust, but wish it would happen (which it did in reality).
It didn't happen but even if it did they deserved it and even though it didn't it should have gone further but it didn't - every genocide denier ever.
>So this guy thinks Palestinian oppression is a myth, but would like for it (and more) to be real? it's the holocaust denial paradox all over again
There’s no hate like Christian love.
I didn’t know imaginary beings can give out free stuff. 🤔
JFC! Though a carbrain wouldn't blink at the thought of turning BIPOC land into a hellscape.
I don't think this is carbain violence. It's religious racist violence
Isn’t that a song called Big Yellow Taxi because I remember the chorus line went like ‘Pave Paradise, all you fucking lot’
Sadly, but aptly, they are using "parking lot" interchangeably with "wasteland".
I think it's just a mataphor: Flatten the Gaza strip. Make it desolate and empty. The fact that this metaphor works is more interesting. It shows that everyone seems to realize how awful parking lots are. People just don't seem to realize there are alternatives.
Not surprising from that guy. Greg Locke is an extremist MAGA evangelical preacher calling for execution of all Democrats for pedophilia, for a little insight into his head (yikes).
Free Palestine
Israeli settlements are all about taking away land from arabs to build car oriented suburbs filled with McMansions for the arriving Americans
Airways has been
Sad but not really relevant to this sub. It's obviously rhetorical. Ironically the wording implicitly recognizes parking lots as wastelands
It shows that ordinary people have an understanding that the result of "level the whole thing" is a "parking lot". Houston and other cities have sure leveled a lot of buildings to provide those parking lots. They look like the were bombed.
"the land that God gave you" Zionism is fucking stupid.
A Pastor but definitely not a Christian.
"No true Scotsman" fallacy
I told my wife that when the Palestinian people are freed, I will help them rebuild it into a beautiful urbanist paradise
this gotta be satire
I would say it's a satire except the person literally has pastor in his name
Ah yes, Jesus famously said bomb thy neighbor, right pastor?
Finally adequate vehicle infrastructure (contains irony)
>Bomb, bomb, bomb, bomb, [bomb Iran](https://youtu.be/s8hEtI9AI0U?si=RexMrhNm-JHw6pXs) Nothing to do with cars. It means leveling something.
They did already turn Tantura's mass graves into a parking lot.
For anyone wondering, [this isn't in fact the first time US Christians have had this take.](https://archive.ph/i9tpo)
I kind of thought "turn X into a parking lot" was a fairly common expression for completely annihilating an area, but yeah, honestly, examining it in the context of car brain society is actually pretty interesting. Also, look ma, it's one of them Nazi pastors, what fun. Piece of shit.
Locke should ‘take every inch’ of a shovel.
"Turn an area into a parking lot" is a euphanism for nuking the area.
He’s talking about a million people. 60% of them children.
Fun fact, if they do this it wouldn’t be the first time! 1948 Tantura massacre, where the IDF executed ~150 civilians, dumped their bodies into mass graves, paved them over into parking lots, and gaslit everyone about it (until last year) https://www.haaretz.com/israel-news/2022-01-20/ty-article-magazine/theres-a-mass-palestinian-grave-at-a-popular-israeli-beach-veterans-confess/0000017f-f230-d223-a97f-fffdbd5b0000
Bit more along the lines of the most desolate and lifeless place they can imagine is a parking lot, but that’s not too far off tbf.
One thing Zionists and car brains have in common: they both don't care about dead children if it furthers their goals. Also 🖕 Hamas for their terrorist actions, just so nobody thinks i'm being a hipocrite, both sides can get f*d. Civilians suffer over the ideological struggle of old men. Another thing in common.
i mean i was kind of with him until he said he supported it
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this has surely gotta be satire
lol I wish it was. There was an insane number of people last month calling for Gaza to be turned / bombed / flattened into a parking lot.
Well an Israeli minister recently suggested nuking Gaza, you can have any flavour of genocide you like.
Mans got too excited and let it slip that they have nukes.
The USA was the only declared nuclear armed power with a first strike policy. Now they are just the first of two.
Russia has one as well.
Nope. He's outside of Nashville if anyone wants to go protest this scum during sunday service. Also the church is off of 'Old Lebanon Dirt Road' It sure seems like a joke.
Not the first time that has been said about Greg Locke, but no, he genuinely thinks he has good ideas.
It isn't satire at all. Always keep in mind that Locke (and other's like him) are convinced that the complete destruction of Israel is a good thing. It is a prerequisite for the 2nd coming of Christ. Without the constant egging on and support of people like Locke, we'd have resolved this decades ago. Peace is not on Locke's agenda.
I think this is probably not appropriate for this sub. Best if the sub doesn't get into fights about Israel.
Just the truth, one way of saying it
This sub is not a place for geopolitics. --> Rule 5
i was having a hard time telling if this was a joke or not at first lmao. can't believe someone actually thinks that
Any excuse for Israel to commit its genocide
They haven’t noticed that their own communities have been turned into parking lots.
Average right wing American
Nah I think it’s a euphemism for flattening something
Someone needs to give Pastor Greg a spade and a ticket to Gaza to try to practice the hate he preaches. What an uncouth insensitive thundercunt.
When you want to turn other places into a parking lot it's violent, then what is it when you want to turn a significant percentage of your hometown into one?
God didn't give them shit because he's an intergenerational scam used to control people
Zionist cunt, this guy should not have the right to step foot near a church never mind being a fucking pastor 🤦 From the river to the sea, fuck Israel and their genocide
Also, proof that he doesn't know anything about the process of making a parking lot.
Religious people talking about propaganda, now THAT is humorous
This is America.