cross-posted from: https://lemmy.ml/post/12367209

“Welcome to the end of democracy!” Posobiec declared. “We’re here to overthrow it completely. We didn’t get all the way there on January 6th, but we will endeavor to get rid of it and replace it with this right here,” he said, holding his fist in the air. “That’s right, because all glory is not to government, all glory to God.”

Steve Bannon, former White House adviser, is heard in the background exclaiming, “All right! Amen!”

All Republicans are perfectly happy with the idea of having a (Christo-)fascist dictatorship in power in the U.S. . All that they care about is that the dictatorship rewards them with money and power. I know Republicans like this, people you might think were just ordinary folks, and they’re masters of telling themselves stories to justify their violence and thievery and masters at not seeing anything that might cause cognitive dissonance, to the extent that they’re capable of that at all.

  • PoopSpiderman@lemmy.world
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    8 months ago

    This country needs to address the “god” issue. It’s infuriating. None of the supernatural shit stupid people believe in is real. We can’t let fiction run the show.

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      8 months ago

      Believe whatever you like, the world is scary and if it helps someone make it through the world then whatever. You do you.

      But omfg stay the fuck out of politics with it. Your beliefs are not inherently morality you arrogant twats.

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        8 months ago

        People always think the two can be separated… They cannot. Belief in bullshit permeates all choices and votes they ever make.

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        8 months ago

        Religion makes people dumb and easily manipulated. Fascism just takes advantage of that.

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        8 months ago

        “Those who can make you believe in absurdities can make you commit atrocities” - Voltaire

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          And Voltaire is entitled to his opinion. I’m under no onus to give it any more credence than the rest of his body of work.

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            Based on my experience with religious people, a lot of them want to commit atrocities but know they need more people believing in their absurdities to get there.

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        8 months ago

        Don’t bother arguing with this religious nut guy, this one is about as nutty as they come, even is trying to get a c/Christianity community going lol

        Another fine candidate for my religious nut user tag!

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          When your definition of “religious nut” becomes anyone who holds any religion whatsoever, you’ve officially lost all credibility.

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            8 months ago

            Lol, if religion and it’s people keep getting used as a “thinly veiled veneer” over and over across the thousands of years we’ve been stuck with it, maybe just maybe the problem is with religion itself.

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              8 months ago

              No, the problem is with the fascists and authoritarians using it for their own ends, just like they use culture, race, sex, gender, class, national origin, and any other tool they can to get people to send them to power.

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                8 months ago

                Do all those pastors and bishops also use culture, race, sex, gender, class and national origin, in order to manipulate and control the masses into holy wars?

                Or is that just Religion?

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                  No, ideologues of all kinds use religion, culture, race, sex, gender, class, and national origin to manipulate and control, and engage in wars for their own purposes. Sometimes they use religion for those purposes, sometimes some other avenue. Blaming religion is idiotic.

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        Keep your religion out of our government. You have no right pushing your religious beliefs upon others through the use of government.