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🧵If fascists were to take over the government from within, but people were so ignorant they didn’t understand the political actions taking place: consolidating power, firing people, installing loyalists, at what point do you think people would realize they were living in an authoritarian system?

submitted 5 days ago • 1 comment

Don’t know why it’s so hard for so many to face the facts about Trump being a Russian asset. Everybody in NYC and NJ has known about his money laundering for Russians forever. open.substack.com/pub/spytalk/...

submitted 6 days ago • 4 comments

Honestly, I'd love to see other House Dems devote some of their floor time just to calling Musk a dick, over and over and over again. It'll highlight the Trump effort to crack down on protected speech, emasculate Ed Martin and completely enrage Elon Musk.

submitted 6 days ago • 62 comments

You never imagine the descent into despotism being quite this embarrassing, you know? You expect liberal democracy to fall to a Palpatine, not Biff Tannen.

submitted 7 days ago • 332 comments

The biggest danger to fascism and authoritarianism is love and empathy.

submitted 8 days ago • 0 comments

Planes are crashing because Trump and Musk wanted to cut their own taxes even more. Say it over and over and over again until it sinks into people's brains and they correctly associate every crash with two billionaires who never fly commercial.

submitted 8 days ago • 79 comments

It turns out that MLK’s arc bending toward justice actually bends toward whiteness.

submitted 9 days ago • 1 comment

Where do people hear god saying his church could baptize injustice and cruelty? The most prevalent command old or new is to Love others as your self. Jesus says Love your enemies. A church that defends hierarchies and capitalism, and moralizes cruelty to doctrinalize it as correct. +

submitted 9 days ago • 1 comment

Religion is used by the powerful to get millions to ignore their own consciences and to harm, hate and fear others.

submitted 9 days ago • 0 comments

What’s the best way to spread virulent white supremacy and Nazi ideology? …Talk continually about censorship and free speech while banning books, policies and speech around discrimination and hate.

submitted 9 days ago • 0 comments

Of curse! -> not only are they being told they don't have to feel guilty about their hatred, they're learning that their hatred has God's sanction, and they're learning to revel in it.

submitted 9 days ago • 2 comments

Why is the Nazi playbook being used right now? It works. Especially with white Christians.

submitted 9 days ago • 0 comments

There is already lots of hate for immigrants, minorities, women, queer folks in America, but man do people get excited when they think that God told them to hate via the church.

submitted 9 days ago • 0 comments

It’s amazing to watch Christians who obsess about absolute truth fall for leaders who continually lie on purpose.

submitted 9 days ago • 1 comment

When love is like a vine… 'If you want to grow a substantial vine, give it something safe to lean on.' - Old House Online #BlueskyArtShow #YearArt #FebuArty

submitted 11 days ago • 1 comment

Complacency of the privileged makes God go silent.

submitted 12 days ago • 0 comments

It’s remarkable how God is answering all the prayers of arrogant white men right now. Why is God not answering the prayers of black women or queer folks?

submitted 12 days ago • 2 comments

“people always swallow the biggest lies easiest”

submitted 14 days ago • 0 comments

There's a lot of discussion around whether or not liquidating public resources in a fascist bureaucratic coup is "legal." I think that asks the wrong question. My latest:

submitted 20 days ago • 4 comments

If racial segregation made a comeback, would white evangelicals make a sound?

submitted 20 days ago • 3 comments

Oppressing and exploiting people via religion is the life mission for many rich and powerful people throughout human history. It’s extremely easy to get caught up in their schemes and believe that it gets us access to God and heaven.

submitted 20 days ago • 1 comment

They are seeking to criminalize integration efforts across public life. We must be clear eyed and direct about what’s happening here. We have not witnessed this blatant of a comprehensive governmental attack on integration since the Civil Rights Movement. slate.com/news-and-pol...

submitted 21 days ago • 170 comments

Call it what it is.

submitted 21 days ago • 0 comments

We are seeing the revival of the dream of the "massive resistance" post Brown vs Board of Education segregationists, but I think even in that crowd many might be shocked by their descendants' open valorization of ignorance and corruption.

submitted 26 days ago • 0 comments

I was warned about Social Darwinism. Never occurred to me it would come from the Christian Right though. 🫣

submitted 24 days ago • 2 comments

White evangelicals have voted for Social Darwinism. May the strongest, fittest and richest survive as government protections and support get shut down.

submitted 26 days ago • 6 comments

White evangelicals tell me all the time that their theological heroes owning slaves was merely a coincidence to rather than a consequence of their theology. But there are too many parallels between their views about sovereignty and slavery to consider the two topics as unrelated.

submitted 29 days ago • 1 comment

I’ve never seen anyone articulate my thoughts better… Was enslaving Africans a coincidence of their theology.. OR A consequence. It was a consequence…and the theology was never changed.

submitted 29 days ago • 4 comments

Christianity has been used to justify and encourage imperialism, enslaving, segregating. It’s now being used to hating and harming refugees, queer folks, black folks, women. We all have the Golden Rule at all historical moments. History is watching.

submitted 31 days ago • 0 comments

Christianity is easily used to encourage hate. Is that really the religion you chose?

submitted 31 days ago • 4 comments

How would you want to be treated if you followed American laws and were here seeking protection and safety? Do unto others… The Jesus teaching thing.

submitted 31 days ago • 0 comments

God: you shall not wrong the sojourner for you were once sojourners Republicans: get rid of the stupid sojourners — all of them!

submitted 31 days ago • 0 comments

It may be a good time to recall that almost 100 yrs ago wealthy businessmen hatched a scheme to weaken progressive Christianity because the social gospel wasn’t conducive to corporate profits. They poured $$$ into Chr orgs that preached a different tune: the gospel of free market capitalism.

submitted 36 days ago • 20 comments

Some theology makes withholding love way easier to justify.

submitted 42 days ago • 0 comments

Slavery and genocide are Biblical, but they aren’t good or loving.

submitted 42 days ago • 0 comments

70% of the world’s population has universal healthcare, but not the US We are the only highly developed nation without it Our healthcare is twice as expensive as the average wealthy nation US ranks last among industrial nations for deaths that could be prevented with timely access to healthcare

submitted 56 days ago • 1252 comments

Evangelical Christians are the ones who indoctrinate hate, in the form of constant differentiation: We are not like those evil folks over there. And in so doing inculcate forms of hate towards the outsiders. The "different" are to be judged & spurned. The Good Samaritan parable no longer applies.

submitted 55 days ago • 3 comments