Power over women's bodies, power over everyone's mind, power over the state and how it reacts to reality, and most importantly, the power to snuff the Enlightenment ideals of equality (which, flawed as they were, when followed to their logical conclusions actually say some wonderful things). /5 - ThreadSky

stealthbadger.net • 43 days ago

Power over women's bodies, power over everyone's mind, power over the state and how it reacts to reality, and most importantly, the power to snuff the Enlightenment ideals of equality (which, flawed as they were, when followed to their logical conclusions actually say some wonderful things). /5

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heidiheidiheidi.bsky.social•43 days ago

This is Always what it’s about. It’s getting stale.

stealthbadger.net•43 days ago

But much like Martin Luther during the Peasant's War when the lower classes took his idea of equality before god a bit too literally for his tastes, the controlling classes are busy standing athwart history screaming "NOT LIKE THAT" (or "derp," as you prefer). /6

stealthbadger.net•43 days ago

Side note: This is part one of a wonderful two-part series on the Peasant's War, and she also has a series on the Reformation, the Great Schism in the Christian church, and many other things! /7

stealthbadger.net•43 days ago

Anyhow: my final point is that Trump is not a radical departure from the modern GOP. He is the apotheosis of it. Everything he's doing is largely a logical continuance of previous Republican policy, just saying the quiet parts out loud. So when someone who has subsisted on entirely too many /8

heidiheidiheidi.bsky.social•43 days ago

Having grown up in that Church, you’re 100% right. They’re just saying the quiet part loudly. Some may honestly be so brainwashed they can’t see that what they’re doing is wrong. The church really takes the small sliver of cognitive dissonance we’re born with and just prys it open until it’s a chasm

stealthbadger.net•43 days ago

Right-wing or clickbait TikTok videos, Xitter posts, or other intellectual garbage sounds effusive about something Trump is doing, ask them what the logical consequences of doing that are, and tell them when they give you a blank look. A handy rule of thumb is this: /9

stealthbadger.net•43 days ago

Simple solutions always involve disposable people.

So when someone proposes a simple answer, look for who dies or (at best) becomes destitute. /fin

heidiheidiheidi.bsky.social•43 days ago

So so true. And so disgusting. 🤮

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