This country needs to address the “god” issue. It’s infuriating. None of the supernatural shit stupid people believe in is real. We can’t let fiction run the show.
this post was submitted on 25 Feb 2024
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Believe whatever you like, the world is scary and if it helps someone make it through the world then whatever. You do you.
But omfg stay the fuck out of politics with it. Your beliefs are not inherently morality you arrogant twats.
People always think the two can be separated... They cannot. Belief in bullshit permeates all choices and votes they ever make.
These guys: "Were not going to stop until we have theocratic fascism."
Democrats: "Well maybe we should try and meet them half way."
So let's recap the narrative:
- Joe Biden stole the election, so we had to storm the capital! 1776 part 2!
- It wasn't Trump supporters that did that, it was antifaaaaaa
- Trump went too far we're done with him
- After consulting the polling numbers, I now think Trump did nothing wrong
- The crowd was infiltrated by the FBI, the deep state did this
- While Trump was the greatest President ever, maybe he's just too divisive so maybe we should have someone else
- I've always supported Trump (please don't primary me!)
- Trump Forever!
- Pardons for everyone that was involved in Jan 6, because it was the FBI that made them do it!
- Jan. 6 was good and correct and we'll do it again, but this time we'll get it right! Because it's what Jesus wants us to do!
Yes. They think they should succeed because they're better than you. Their words don't mean anything specific, it's like a general grunting meaning "me group good, you group bad".
There are no conservative "policies" anymore. They just want to win, and barely care how. Specific things they say are just justifications for their actions.
Notice the abortion debate. They didn't really want to overturn Roe V. Wade, they just wanted to "win". That's why the pro-life people aren't unified or energized since then. They all have random unexamined "beliefs" that don't match. Literally every state is different and all of their policies cause a ton of backlash
Conservatives like Trump because they think they can win with him, and their other candidates are losers. That's what they care about: winning. Vote and they won't.
If I'm reading this correctly, I am left to conclude that the FBI is Jesus.
Jan 6 was our Beer Hall Putsch. The Nazis didn't get it on their first try, either.
Yeah thy seem to be moving towards the Reichstag Fire phase now.
They've been pushing the Reichstag Fire thing for a while, actually.
In that scenario, Hitler was saying that it was those damn "communists," namely Marinus van der Lubbe, (there's some debate on if he could have acted alone) who was allegedly a known pyromaniac with a history of mental illness.
The Nazis convinced a mentally ill person or persons to attack their capitol building and blamed it on the "communists." Does that sound at all derivative?
History doesn't repeat itself, but it does echo.
What do we do?
Fuck if I know, but we've at least got a pretty solid case study to work with. What should the average German have done preceding the Nazi's rise to power?
Cuz... that's probably what we should do.
How is this is okay that the entire right wing of our government is platforming this? Wouldn't stating this make you an enemy of the United States?
And we didn't do our jobs, which is throwing Trump et al in prison to rot.
Saltily slowing the process, holding a grudge over losing his seat on the supreme court /s
Can you imagine the impromptu party we would throw across the country if Trump were to die??
How fast do you think to GOP will eat itself in that power vacuum?
Judges literally found this to be Sedition so I'm GLAD they're letting this man and others who by definition are Terrorists Against the United States of America walk FREE! The TRUE Criminals are BLACK CHILDREN in the PARK!
Do these people not realize that the first thing a new regime usually does is put any person who would be a threat against a wall and executes them? Are they convinced this will be different or that they won't be that person? My history education may have been lacking, but that was very clear.
They all know the leopards would never eat their face. They don't understand the creeping nature of fascists' "other". Once you've identified the other and killed them, you need another other to serve as your enemy. In time it will consume everyone.
They're counting on it. They just have no capacity to realize it could ever be them.
Who is "we"? Was that clown actually there? Or does he prefer to sit back and agitate the mentally ill.
Was that clown actually there?
A big part of what makes this such a joke. Right in the middle of the riot, a bunch of these online freaks and losers were screaming "It's Antifa! False flag! Fake News!"
They're scorpions. They'll take you for a ride and stab you in the middle of the river. It's just their nature.
Who is this dumbass CPAC bufoon anyway? Another conservitard with more money than brains, and absolutely no moral compass of any kind. I certainly hope his tire blows out on the interstate and he goes into a death spiral. His ignorance and hatred is the type of filth no society can afford.