this is the wrong thread for this, but idk, given that don trump has weapons that could end most species (certainly our own) on this planet, it’s going here. anyway, today is the 75th anniversary of the bombing of Nagasaki, and this thread is quite good:
That was a fun read. Terrifying and awful, but very interesting. Also insightful on how slow info was transmitted back then vs how instantaneous now.
Have an old friend who lives in Iowa and due to circumstances in life she turned to God for salvation. Now she’s a die hard MAGA because Trump is a good Christian. The shit she and her fellow make believers post is shocking. These are pure stupid people. I blocked her. Don’t need any of my friends knowing I associate with trash like that.
Whatever that article says is probably not new, the evangelicals co-opted the GOP in the '80s and have never answered for their blatant hypocrisy. Trump just makes it more obvious to anyone who was ignorant before.
Small town white evangelicals are racists pieces of shit. I, for one, am shocked. They vote for Trump because they are just like him but don’t want to admit it.
205,000,000 Christians in the US and they don’t have power? The US could lose Christianity in one generation? These are the fear tactics that cause people to lose reason.
My best friend had a huge argument with his mom a few weeks ago after she said that trump was sent by god. She said she could tell the first time she heard obama speak he was the devil. Southern Baptist is the worst kind of cult.
The thread kind of glosses it over. Didn't read the story. Her basic concept is that Trump helps ensure Christianity will continue. They're scared the next generation will see Christianity evaporate. Where I think she glosses it over is she keeps the veil of Christianity up when it's really their identity they want to persist, which is wrapped in white nationalism whether they acknowledge it or not... Imo of course
how have they not replaced Todd yet? I DVR the Sunday morning shows and usually watch the interviews of importance and his interviews are so much worse than any of the other hosts. It’s really not even close. Not all are good or even average but everyone is levels above him.
Reminds me of this story, and it'd be a real shame if it ended the same way https://www.theguardian.com/world/2...-by-tribe-north-sentinel-island-declare-jesus
This is the line of thinking my church fed the congregation when I was growing up (in the 90s). So many bought and still buy in to it. It's really sad.
Re: Pelosi's inaction w Trump's actions (Asha Rangappa) "If there is ANYTHING that should be learned from 2016, it’s that you can’t make preemptive outcome-based decisions about protecting national security, because that decision itself affects the outcome! (See, e.g., Comey’s letter to Congress) Worse, if you gamble wrong you are exponentially weakened from taking action after said outcome" Spoiler: Thread Asha Rangappa 13 hours ago, 6 tweets, 2 min read THIS.I have news for @SpeakerPelosi and @RepJerryNadler: the Obama administration banked on HRC winning in choosing to delay taking action against Russian election interference. In doing so, they actually helped alter *the very outcome their decision was based on* 1/ If there is ANYTHING that should be learned from 2016, it’s that you can’t make preemptive outcome-based decisions about protecting national security, because that decision itself affects the outcome! (See, e.g., Comey’s letter to Congress) Worse, if you gamble wrong 2/ you are exponentially weakened from taking action after said outcome, not only from a power but from a legitimacy perspective, because the natural question will be, “If it was so bad, why didn’t you do anything before the election?” Your INaction will be weaponized against you 3/ It’s a pretty standard part of law that you need to object when the action takes place, in order to stake and preserve your claim (in law, you can’t raise objections you never initially made on appeal). Why would you NOT document, for the record, the abuse of power by T & B 4/ to interfere with and impede, using both domestic and foreign devices, the integrity of very election on which you are relying on to return to our country’s principles? When Trump makes his power grab after Nov. 3, and *then* they object, it will be too late. END P.S. The fact that Trump was impeached, even if not removed, over Ukraine will be the MAIN reason that Ron Johnson & The Kool Aid Mafia’s attempt at Ukraine/Biden 2.0 from being effective. Impeachment exposed and neutralized, to a very large degree, this disinformation op
the article was good i think because it mostly lets you draw your own conclusions but she clearly positions things to make you see what you're supposed to as in the super religious hispanic people in the community aren't included in the "christian" goals of the whites. how they talk about people being intolerant while refusing people of other faiths or gay people etc might go to their schools. how they don't want liberalization on things like gender roles in their community but the one woman says she'd literally die defending her submission to her husband, etc. she rhetorically builds the whole piece around the contradictions in these peoples views but the only logically sound part is keeping their communities as white as possible. it's similar to the "how to talk to white people about race" pieces, you basically have to very very subtly lead a horse to water before the defensive walls shoot up.
HA! I told y’all back in June that he was going to make a push to be added to the Mt. Rushmore monument. If he stays in office I predict he will issue an Executive Order to make it so. https://www.cnn.com/2020/08/09/politics/mount-rushmore-trump-south-dakota/index.html
We have these in Georgia too, the problem is going to be that not enough people know about it, can't drive to one, or getting the ballot itself takes so long that you have to figure out how to cancel it when you go to vote in person (this happened quite a bit in Fulton county in May).
Yeah. Not hard Elizabeth need to stop thinking that racism is only yelling the n word and committing acts of violence.