April 27, 2023

A man in unincorporated Antioch in Illinois was charged on Tuesday with shooting and killing his neighbor over a noisy leaf blower earlier this month. 59-year-old William Martys was working in his yard with a leaf blower when he was shot in the head and killed during an argument with his neighbor, 79-year-old Ettore Lacchei, who the Lake County Sheriff's Office said had "various perceived grievances" with Martys.

  • MoneyIsTheDeepState [comrade/them,he/him]
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    2 years ago

    That's fair, it does go into an area that I don't have a very nuanced vocabulary for. For the purposes that I usually talk about, the lines get very blurred. I mean, a lot of people are surprised to find out how rare it is among Evangelicals to read or understand the Bible, but it gets hard to draw a line between religion and ideology when nobody in your religion actually knows anything about it outside of a shared US ideology and a vibe

    But then, where you might think they'd be less devoted for that reason, they'll jubilantly agree with Pat Robertson that the people of Haiti brought earthquakes upon themselves via wickedness. An atheistic version of US civic religious would reject that as silly, but would probably still say that it's Haiti's fault for not having been a better-behaved colony that would deserve help. You're probably right that it's a stretch to use the word "religion" to describe something potentially atheistic, but admittedly I usually use the litmus test of "do they implicitly uphold the Doctrine of Discovery?" for whether or not I lump them in with Evangelicals

    • usernamesaredifficul [he/him]
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      2 years ago

      I think the difference here can be simply explained with one legal difference. American conservatives defend child marriage. The Taliban based on the fact the Quran demands marriage be between consenting adults have banned child marriage

      • MoneyIsTheDeepState [comrade/them,he/him]
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        2 years ago

        :data-laughing: that is a perfect contrast

        I didn't know that about the Taliban but I can't say I'm surprised. I worded my yeehawd comment clumsily for having only meant to compare the US' tactics and goals between the two, but the results are radically different. I'd wager that no matter how much you stoke far-right elements in any other country on earth, you will never be able to make them ontologically evil like the US

        This is my fault for not thinking about what my comment might line up with. I think it's because I forgot that most people online don't categorically refuse to condemn governments outside of the imperial core, and you'd have no reason at all to assume that I do, so I'm sorry for getting snippy