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This is NOT a purity spiral
Right, because that's exactly what people who are not in a purity spiral say.
I have honestly never that's this term.
Basically, it's a term used for infighting in a group/cult stemming from one or more members being pointed to as straying from the original cause. It often happens when one group sees another group within the same crowd as not pure enough. The first sign of this in this particular context was when Maga started referring to many supportive Republicans as Rinos.
Happened to my grand parents’ church in the 90s. They had this big disagreement over rocks (not joking) and then the infighting tore the church apart. Half of the group left and built their own building across the street and the other half stayed. Neither church ever really recovered from that.
They had this big disagreement over rocks (not joking)
Please don't leave us hanging on the details
Probably a disagreement about what kind of rock was best for stoning impure women and children.
Or for translating golden plates left by ancient Mesoamerican Jews in upstate New York.
This is why we fought, they're minerals!
Rocks? Was it Church for Geologists? lmao
There was a children’s summer program where they painted crosses on rocks and other symbols of faith, like the Jesus fish. They were having the kids hold them in their pockets and hold them while they prayed, like a daily reminder kind of thing but also an arts and crafts idea.
Well, one elder got super pissy about the idea their grandkids were “praying to idols” and got a bunch of parents all hot and bothered. After a bit of handwringing, the church asked the teacher to either step down or leave the church. That triggered the other half of parents who either 1) didn’t see the whole ordeal as such a big problem or 2) liked the teacher and their family. Chaos spiraled from there… all over painted rocks.
Edit: this happened in rural Texas, there wasn’t much going on down there so I’m convinced people did this kind of thing for the mere sport of it.
Amazing that arguments like this were tearing European cities and nations apart 500 years ago. At least this time no one was willing to die for their cause. But you can see how quickly it spirals out of hand.
The term "RINO" is much older than MAGA. I remember hearing about them in the 1980s and 90s, and even then it wasn't like it was a new concept.
Right, but nowhere in the comment you are replying to did the commenter say it was a new term.
Squirm, you giant bag of rats!
Rats are actually wonderful, loving little creatures. Maybe "wasps" is a better perjorative, for more than one reason?
I’m not that guy, but someone from science_memes will be here shortly to advocate for the many wonderful qualities of wasps for some reason.
I guess they’re also considered pollinators? And . . . some of the species aren’t psycopathic murderous bastards? Or something.
Fine, mosquitos.
(straightens nerd glasses)
Well actually,
They kill pest insects. They’re voracious hunters. And they are the only insect that pollinates figs.
How’s that?
Amazing how even asshole wasps manage to be more useful than MAGA creeps. There’s not a single useful thing they do for anyone or anything. Hell, they even shoot dogs!
We want the energy, passion, and future-facing vision
Maybe the candidate is the problem? Just a thought.
"Those people are all working against us, sir."
"So who do we got?"
"Cynical self-interested assholes and weirdos who sniff bike seats."
When the leopards start eating each other's faces.
Ironic that a bunch of traitors are calling anyone else a traitor.
In a monarchy, a traitor is anyone who fails the king.
"This is NOT a purity spiral"
That's just what a purity spiral would say
The revolt was likely begun by far-right extremist Nick Fuentes
I hate that this shitbag has any amount of sway in our politics.
The fact that this "incel" got caught on stream watching gay porn and wasn't immediately purged from the right-wing movement says a lot about how seriously the right takes their values.
I don't think I'll ever understand how non-white people end up involved in a white supremacist movement in any capacity, much less in leadership positions. What exactly is your end game here my man?
From his Wikipedia page (the first sentence is the relevant part but the rest is so funny I had to include it):
According to himself, Fuentes is of Mexican descent via his paternal ancestors and is Catholic.[27][28]
Fuentes identifies as an incel (or "involuntary celibate"), although some of his supporters have criticized him for being a "voluntary celibate" after he admitted that he kissed a girl while he was in high school.[14][29] He has described himself as the "straightest guy" and attempted to defend himself as an incel by claiming that "the only really straight heterosexual position is to be an asexual incel", as "having sex with women is gay ... What's gayer than being like, 'I need cuddles. I need kisses ... I need to spend time with a woman.'"[30][31][32]
If an HBO dark sitcom had a character that's exactly like Nick Fuentes, audiences would complain that he's too much of an over the top parody to be a believable character.
having sex with women is gay
I don't understand why someone who is gay would align themselves with people who hate gay people so much, and go through these Olympic level mental gymnastics. You could just... Not be a part of the group that hates you, and be a part of a group that doesn't care if you're gay.
These people are the worst kind of stupid...
Yes, please do fire them and hire even worse ones, just like you did with your lawyers in your many court cases.
It's almost like conservatives are prone to devouring their own at the sign of any weakness. What sad, terrible existences.
I like their energy…
“I can clearly see that [the Trump 2024 campaign is FAILING! We want to see changes! We want the energy, passion, and future-facing vision that we know Donald Trump for. Stop the autopilot into oblivion and fight for us!"
Trouble is that it’s sleepy Don that’s lacking the energy and the passion.Sad!
I can't wait til they notice things really took a nosedive when he announced his VP pick. I'm willing to bet that sooner or later, they will demand he dump Vance.
They would have to then lose Ohio's votes for VP because the Ohio filing deadline has already passed (Aug 7th) and they didn't change things before it
Ohio's deadline is the reason why the democratic party had their virtual rollcall thing recently
That would require Don Jr to loose face with his father (he recommended Vance)
Are the Trumpets going to try to hang another of Trump's VPs? That was a record turn around time.
Wouldn't it be ironic if the Civil War we were all so worried about turned out to be a bunch of incels in Spider Man PJs angrily pointing at each other
How old is this photo? Where did they find snow?
DES MOINES, IOWA - JANUARY 15: Republican presidential candidate, former U.S. President Donald Trump's senior campaign advisors Susie Wiles (C) and Chris LaCivita (R) leave a meeting with Trump on caucus day, January 15, 2024 in Des Moines, Iowa.(Photo by Chip Somodevilla/Getty Images)
I bolded some parts