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[–] waddle_dee@lemmy.world 150 points 1 week ago (26 children)

How Trump supporters, a lot them I know hard-line McCarthyists, don't see the takeover of the US by Russia is fucking beyond me. But then again, it was never about Russia, it was always about authoritarianism.

[–] PunkRockSportsFan@fanaticus.social 45 points 6 days ago (20 children)

I always wonder: Why is it tied so closely to American evangelical Christianity?

And it makes sense if you consider:

They need some absolute power to punish people different than them

They believe they are absolutely correct per God (gott mins uns, anyone?)

And no mentally healthy reasonable grown up human believes in magical stories about sexy abs-jacked Jesus performing magic.

They’re all liars. Arguing in bad faith

It’s all to punish anyone different thab them who have things they wish they had.

The entire objective is some weird “prima noctum” scheme where they remove all the men, and force all the women to birth their rape babies.

I’m sure there’s some other plausible explanation for what they are doing.

Right? There’s another reason for all this? And it’s not rape and murder and theft.

Right?

Please?

[–] Sanctus@lemmy.world 19 points 6 days ago (4 children)

I got some information about human history you seem to already be privy to.

[–] entwine413@lemm.ee 16 points 6 days ago (1 children)

Yeah, idk where people got this idea that humans are some altruistic species. The last few decades of relative peace is an outlier in human history.

[–] Sanctus@lemmy.world 11 points 6 days ago (1 children)

The Enlightenment.

Which Peter Thiel hates.

Go figure the world looks like this now.

Maybe rich people shouldn't influence everything.

Maybe they have shit ass ideologues that will kill all progress we've made.

These dudes suck so much I just read Starship Troopers and they make the Terran Federation look like saints.

[–] Ledericas@lemm.ee 1 points 6 days ago (1 children)
[–] Sanctus@lemmy.world 1 points 6 days ago

Yeah whatever its called. Surprisingly they mention the name like once or twice in the book. Also, most of it is not in a class room.

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