sometimespdx.bsky.social
Portland activist focusing on the Christian extremism, police brutality, and local issues.
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When the senior officers and checks and balances that stood in the way of a fascist dictator are removed, do the people lower in the hierarchy really believe they could make a difference and defend the Constitution and democracy? It's much easier to carry on like normal.
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Abusers always push boundaries.
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You're probably right. If they get caught doing crimes, they could always do an NDA and pay-off the people and keep trucking or start a new church in another wealthy neighborhood.
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In the next decade, how many more of these Charismatic conspiracy theorist "prophets" and "healers" will crash and burn in scandals and cover-ups? I predict at least a third of them.
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You still can pay $159 to sign-up for an eCourse with Nathan French, disgraced clergy sex abuser Chris Reed, Bill & Beni Johnson, Lance Wallnau, James Goll, QAnon Johnny & Elizabeth Enlow, Steve Schultz, Kat Kerr, and more right-wing Christian Dominionists leaders. Yikes!
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Nathan French hosted anti-COVID restriction religious rallies with Sean Feucht, Chris Overstreet, Cindy Jacobs, and other right-wing NAR Christian Supremacists.
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Oh look, Nathan French was preaching with Dave Hodgson last fall. Hodgson is a former mercenary for the white supremacist Rhodesian government and now wealthy scam artist. bsky.app/profile/some...
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It's spiritualizing consumerism, self-gratification, and humble-bragging while manipulating people into donating money to their ministry with the implied promise that they too can become rich by giving to God through giving to the preacher.
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This was December 2022.
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Nathan French prophesies that God's going to use some "wicked people" to do "swift justice" to remove leaders who aren't obeying Nathan's version of God or are promoting a socialist agenda. He lists Justin Trudeau and Gavin Newsom as examples of people God will remove. 👀
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They're one conspiracy theory after another. They spent a long time talking about how the big wildfires are caused by "energy weapons" in space controlled by the "deep state" as an attempt by wealthy communist elite to do a "land grab" (because that's what leftists do, hoard wealth and property).
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Nathan French is a big fan of the accused repeat rapist Russell Brand and of Jordan B. Peterson. Nathan prophesies that both will be guests on Elijah Streams.
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I hadn't heard of Nathan French before but he lives somewhere near Tacoma, WA and he still believes Biden stole the 2020 election, Biden was never president, and Trump has been president all along, making this Trump's 3rd term. He's occasionally on Elijah Streams based out of Albany, OR.
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It would be great if the local churches that currently support and host Compassion To Action would stop their support because they don't want to be associated with far-right Christian Dominionists and people like accused domestic terrorist Matt Shea, who is a supporter.
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1. It's her story to tell, not his. 2. Joshua and Compassion To Action are liars and their rendition of the story is to be considered overt propaganda to bolster their right-wing Christian extremist sect. If the woman Joshua is referring to reads this, I'd love to hear your side of it.
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Joshua then claims her pain (caused by a suicide attempt) miraculously disappeared and she was able to walk and dance. He actually posts video of her dancing in the street while pushing a wheelchair. These people are toxic. 3/3
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Joshua phrases it in such a way as to emphasize that her "freedom" from oppression is dependent on her being willing to "forgive us men" for the sexual abuse she suffered. No mention of justice, accountability, restitution, etc., just "forgive." 2/3
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The crypto creeps I know keep trying to tell me it's the most secure way to keep your money.
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When people say the Nazis and their symbols are controversial, what I hear them saying is that merits of Nazi ideology and the dehumanization and genocide in minorities is, in their minds, up for debate and the Nazism hold some legitimacy in their minds.
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We are taught from an early age that doing a Nazi salute is taboo and will have consequences in society. White supremacists and sociopaths know it's taboo and will do it anyway for various nefarious reasons. We must uphold the social consequences and not appease the assholes or use euphemisms.
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I'm partially concerned about this because law enforcement has a long, long history of using State violence and intimidation to harass and harm Black, Brown, and Indigenous people, leftists, religious minorities, LGBTQ+ people, and immigrants. The current administration will use the police.
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The law doesn't say, "law enforcement is authorized to collect, maintain, edit, and pass-on information to outside entities when there isn't reasonable grounds of criminal conduct." In fact, it says the opposite of the current practice of the Portland police.
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In the case of the protestors at PSU, the police and city absolutely allege criminal conduct was taking place but the police reviewing their own footage judged it necessary to misclassify the footage and pretended to delete it so defendants didn't have access to it? Those cops need to be fired.
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Oregon Revised Statute 181A.250 says law enforcement can't even collect, much less maintain recordings, of video of people if they don't have "reasonable grounds to suspect the subject is or may be involved in criminal conduct."
Yet here we are with the police doing just that with the City's help.
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I'd also like an investigation into how often these unlawfully retained recordings are accessed by City attorneys and law enforcement for investigative purposes. Are they acting like they're above the law?
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I'm not a lawyer, but isn't police surveillance and recordings of lawful political activity illegal in Oregon? Here's a practice of the police and city retaining those unlawful recordings, presumably to protect their financial interests in case they're sued. This loophole needs to be dealt with.
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Lots and lots flattery with these folks. Vague flattering statements to manipulate and build blind loyalty.
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Not a bad deal, really depends on the location and arrangements of this "eternal life."
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Me too. They didn't share the name unfortunately.
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A picture of Dave Wakefield and his team in 2013. That's the year he and his wife started abusing one of the kids they coached.
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I'm wondering if she'll lose donors if the "prophet" down the street starts offering 1,000,000x return on their investments, I mean donations?
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Bob Donnelly's attempting to claim severe persecution - "getting kicked in the teeth," by mostly other Christians. He resorts to gross exaggerations of violent persecution to persuade his audience they're right and all others are wrong. No Bob, you're not getting kicked in the teeth.
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There's a lot of sin-leveling in the pastor's "sexual immorality" sermon where consensual sex between unmarried adults is treated just as bad as sex abuse. The offender just needs to "repent" and they can be welcomed back among their target audience. Ahhh...
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My advice:
1. Teach sex ed and bodily autonomy.
2. Hire 3rd-party independent investigators (not lawyers).
3. Be transparent results of investigation.
4. Determine why the abuse wasn't discovered and change policy to prevent similar abuse.
5. Take responsibility for abuse rather than scapegoating.
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It's institutional self-protection and scapegoating. The Wakefields were literally leaders in their church and school for 2 decades and the pastor is blaming the "world" and morality in America and homosexuals and people having sex outside of marriage instead of the church leadership's failure. 13/
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Fundamentalist Christians declare they're morally superior and everyone needs to submit to their decrees and rules but when abuse happens, they claim the abuser was never really one of them and never question how their own church systemically undermines victims while protecting abusive leaders. 12/