When I give food to the poor, they call me a saint. When I ask why the poor have no food, they call me a communist.
Liberals learning the deep hidden secrets that leftists figured out within like 20 minutes of the creation of the 2 party system.
Semi related but I have this baseless theory that the reason why the whole Q thing becomes so big among righties is because the revelation that rich people are bastards to them clash so bad with their worldview that the rich are good hardworking people that it threw them into a crisis of faith. That's where Q comes in, which promises that the bad rich people are just the bad apples but rest assured that other rich people are still good.
It's wonderful how people use the phrase "just some bad apples" without making the connection with its root that said "a bad apple rots the entire lot"
I fucking loathe Wicca. So I'm looking through Pinterest for ancient history pagan stuff for a thing at work, and anytime you type in "ritual" something Wiccan pops up.
TLDR; around the 40's some british creep wanted to molest young women and so took a ton of pagan, celtic and world ritual knowledge, mashed it together into something resembling a spicy version of christianity and called it a day. It butchers so many world myths and includes so much garbage like a super present man-stronk/woman-feeling dichotomy, what-you-do-will-come-back-to-you-three-times guilt based crap, a rigid hierachy with obviously him at the top, etc.
A shitton of stuff we interpret as pagan or witchcraft-adjacent (even the word coven!) has leaked culturally from Wicca, which is either pulled out of thin air or sourced from super historically disputable material. Nowadays, Wicca permeates any pagan or witchcraft ressource to an extent that it's impossible to find ressources or info that isn't under some weird anglo molester lens. big RIP
I loathe Wicca too. It was literally a sex cult ran by a pedophile in how it was formed. Then it became entrenched with pop culture through the 80s and 90s (Stevie Nicks I think claimed to be in it at one point). Wicca is one of those "religions" that you can make into anything, which is how it's evolved so much through pop culture. Back in the 90s, the movie 'The Craft' had a lot to do with pushing it to a new generation and there was another witch movie from the 90s that had Sandra Bullock and Nicole Kidman, I can't think of the name, but that movie also pushed a lot of it too.
i didn't know this. my partner dabbled with it when a teen and then abandoned it for straight neopaganism until it became infested with nazis and she accidently dated a cryptofash lol.
There is a strong current of anarachism in a lot of magickal circles. There is also a strong current of fascism in a lot of magickal circles. It's tricky being an occultist. Especially as a lot of the left are vehemently anti spirituality of any kind,
I feel for the people who are historians of celts and all that who aren't nazis because nazis love that shit.
It's always fun telling Neo Nazi's that Odin got his power from drinking dead mens semen and was bisexual who would sometimes change into a women to seduce men.
Sounds really cool, scandinavians would probably really like to wear it on a shirt
I'm a fairly hard core druid and the rabid environmentalism most of us practice (or at least believe) rapidly evolves into anit capitalism.
