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  • RNAi [he/him]
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    3 years ago

    THIS IS HOW YOU WIELD AND RETAIN POWER.

    CW: it made me sick to type it

    WE SHOULD FUCKING LEARN.

    • SorosFootSoldier [he/him, they/them]
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      3 years ago

      But isn't accusing literally everyone you don't like of being a pedophile a chicken little scenario where people stop taking you seriously? Sure it's fine for other Q-pilled freaks and they're onboard but the general public is going to think you keep crying wolf.

      • RNAi [he/him]
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        3 years ago

        They topple the leaders not because they think they are pedophiles (which I'm 10000% sure they are) but because they want to control the means of propaganda among their group: fucking evangelical churches.

        They want to replace any big chair who might disagree slightly with them.

        Are they sane enough to control all republican senators? Probably not cuz they are batshit crazy so big capitalists will never get fully on board with them . But they are gonna control 20% of the senate that I'm sure

    • Homora [she/her,fae/faer]
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      3 years ago

      have you tought a bout transitioning in a state that doesnt consist of small elected bodies which are subject to petty squabbles

    • SerLava [he/him]
      hexagon
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      3 years ago

      This topic is keenly fascinating and I want to learn all about the inversion of Christianity represented by American Protestantism

      • star_wraith [he/him]
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        3 years ago

        Some day I want to make an effort post about how there is a real divide in White American Evangelicalism. That's a group that makes up roughly 25% of the US population. I've been pretty deeply involved in that culture up until the last 6-7 years. I would say very roughly, of that 25%, maybe 20% are "true believers". Not to say they're not political, but I'd say they are people who are pretty sincere in their beliefs and would still probably put their religion ahead of their politics. But the other remaining 80%, I think they are folks who are in it for the social and political reasons and not so much the religion, even if they don't realize it themselves. They're happy being in Evangelicalism so long as it wraps around how they see the world. The QAnon stuff could easily supersede religion for this group of people.

        And 80% of 25% is a pretty damn big number. That's the population that I think is susceptible to QAnon.

    • SerLava [he/him]
      hexagon
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      3 years ago

      correct, these people are going to do pogroms in the next 6 years

  • Owl [he/him]
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    3 years ago

    Other sites are treating this like it's infighting rather than consolidation of power.

    I don't know if it's possible to tell the difference at this stage. They're the same activity, we just have different names for the different outcomes.

    I'm hoping it turns out to be infighting.

  • fusion513 [none/use name]
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    3 years ago

    Ok, personal rant incoming. I find this development pretty soul-crushing (but mostly expected).

    Growing up, my family was rather religious. Not evangelical protestants, but "mainline" protestant in a working class "rust belt" community.

    I fondly remember attending potlucks in the church banquet hall and playing with other kids while the adults cooked the food in the communal church kitchen. It was a huge well-kept commercial-style kitchen and was definitely nicer than the tiny kitchens in our little factory town tract houses. There'd always be elderly folks there whose families had long since moved away and they'd be happy to be there and included. Sometimes visitors from other churches from out of town would stop by and be welcomed.

    After college, I moved away. Now many years later when I visit, most of the folks there are pretty solidly chuds who rant about big government and evil Democrats, and it honestly kind of blows my mind. The Saturday potlucks ended years ago.

    I dunno, maybe rose-tinted glasses and all, but in my life experience, these Saturdays felt like "actually existing socialism" to me... a group of working class people pooling their resources for the benefit of the collective. I don't know why others didn't come to same conclusion. The totalizing aspect of capitalism marches on, I suppose.

    I have nothing but admiration for Liberation Theology. A church community that genuinely focuses on radical egalitarianism and fiercely advocates for the poor and marginalized is most true to actual theology, I believe.