splincoln.bsky.social
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Such is the contempt that the worst cowards bear towards the truly brave.
It should shame us all.
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Or to paraphrase Terry Pratchett, "A Lie will go around the world before the truth has got its boots on."
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Aside from that, the analysis is spot on.
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I'd beg to differ on your description of evangelicalism as the Christianity of America's founding. I'd say that distinction belongs to Mainline Protestantism.
I'd argue the Christianity of sharp, white evangelicalism you identify owes more of its pedigree to the fire-eaters of the 1840's.
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Meanwhile I remember a harsh lesson from my mother. Sore-winners are as bad or worse than sore-losers, and I would say excessive victory celebrations, including stunts like planting a flag on the hosting team's 50 yard line is most definitely being a sore-winner.
It's just poor sportsmanship.
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There is a sort of a perverse logic to it.
In an environment of intense negative polarization, there isn't a whole lot of guess work on what the desired policy outcome is based on who's proposing it.
That goal being to reward friends and punish enemies.
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The only comfort I may yet take from this is that the worst and most bloodthirsty of the cheerleaders may someday find out the hard way, not unlike Robespierre, that the revolution has an axe to grind with them as well
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My wife's mother and her family lived through the cultural revolution.
What started as the justifiable rage of China's rural poor at the profligacy of dowager empress Xixi ended with my wife's grandparents, a lawyer and a school principal, spending a few years on a collective farm.
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That people cheerleading the death of a business executive today will be the people carting off middle-class professionals to collective-farms to "teach them a lesson about honest work" tomorrow.
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What worries me more is that this all feels like the crossing of a point of no return.
That a spark final found a pile of dry grass clippings.
That a mass of uranium got just big enough for fission to become self sustaining.
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We Americans have always had a strongly class/tribal oriented cruel streak, and too often indulge in celebrating the suffering of our class/tribe's perceived enemies and outsiders.
It's not new, social media just tore the veil off and made it easier to voice and easier to hear.
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Extend 3) to cover cabinet members, staff reporting immediately to the president, the president's close associates and donors, and for any act reasonably assumed to have been induced by a "dangled" pardon or statement given by the president given under the color of law.
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That's what Rumble basically is to streaming video.
kotaku.com/dr-disrespec...
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As a matter of fact, they are *particularly proud* of the the fact that they rent to registered sex offenders.
They loudly proclaim that even these offenders deserve a place to live, that they have valuable contributions to make, and that they have been wrongly maligned.