A lot of this is speculation based on that disgusting comment AND an interview with her where she toured her old home and showed her childhood bedroom.
When she got there she just went quiet for a moment with a disassociating thousand-yard stare.
Unless he’s serving a purpose to punish us, and show us the logical extremes of a declining hateful and money-worshipping imperialistic culture.
A LOT of us understand the lesson and would like to be excused from the ride now, PLEASE.
EDIT: Apologies for the reply length!!
The overwhelming majority of Christians in the US
I respectfully, sincerely, beg to differ.
Yes, that’s definitely a picture we get when seen through the lens of headlines. We see the loudest and most obnoxious, hateful, and arrogant. We see ‘megachurches’ dodging taxes and preaching patriotism and idolatry to a flag and empire. We see crosses paired with those stupid red hats. We see gospel music “rockstars” at Turning Point rallies.
Raised hackles mean clicks! And clicks mean money. Our enemies boost this coverage to rile up their fanbase and demoralize their opponents.
We don’t see the number of faith based initiatives and charities desperately filling holes left by a gutted social system. We don’t see the everyday believers and even churches who are trying their best to stay sane and love their neighbors (and enemies!) as Jesus instructed.
I’m not even Catholic but kudos to the Pope for calling out the US goons’ nonsense!
Heck, look how long it took for the Guardian to actually report on Christians who are vocal against this stolen identity the Republican fascists are waving around. Ministers and other believers of a multitude of faiths are at protests, getting maced in the face by jackbooted govvie thugs. Churches are delivering food and supplies to families hunkering down trying to avoid capture by ICE.
And keyboard warriors want to lump them as enemies because they have belief?! How about all the people of differing queer identities that believe? Yeah, there’s lots of them too. God bless them, that’s got to be rough.
I’d argue the “vast majority” of Christians are pretty neutral: They could be doing a lot better. They just want to stay out of it, but they’ll try to help other human beings if they can, but they don’t read their Bible too deeply and are easy to lead astray.
The republifascists want to recruit these neutrals by taking over their church’s narratives, by equating faith with patriotism, and that gets easier when these poor (often self inflicted) ignorant neutrals keep getting bombarded with “ReLiGiOuS pPl SuK” messaging. It makes the bad guys look like friends. Then those neutrals become radicals.
A LOT of money has gone into this narrative that Christianity is simply “conservative by default.” Why? Because Christians used to be a leftist thorn in the side of capitalists! (Highly recommend “Behind the Bastards: How the Rich Stole. Christianity”
We’re harder to see. I definitely could do a better job, but we’re there.
The hard-right lean on pretending to be Christian because it serves two purposes: It galvanizes their radicalized blind fanbase, and attempts to snuff out the followers of Jesus that still remain. Letting them win is a net negative.
Thanks for listening to my ramble and for your thoughtful reply. I have to get back to work hahaha. XD
Oo, “beleif iz 4 dums” such a bold and controversial take on Lemmy. 🙄
I hesitate to post this because I really don’t intend to start a flame-chain but…
This is why we collectively struggle to fight these fascist bastards, because so many on “our side” can’t see past the establishment’s glaringly obvious false-flag bullshit, and are so ready to throw many of their friends and allies away, unable to see past their own arrogance.
If you leave no room to reconcile with those of differing experiences or beliefs, you will quickly find yourself isolated, bitter, and surrounded by enemies.
As a Christian who holds utmost love for friends and allies of a plethora of backgrounds and belief systems (or professed lack thereof), and who will resist this “Murica-brand xtian fascism” with all our might, I implore you and others who behave this way:
Please, leave this bigoted edgy pseudo-intellectual Hitchens/Dawkins-esque nonsense to rot, back on Facebook in 2006. Seeing it repeated so often on every stupid thread where this stupid government does a pathetic imitation of Christianity does not help the resistance. It plays right into their hands.
It’s the same reason the “manosphere” and other toxic movements have taken root: It tells certain groups of people who would have taken your side that they are not welcome because of who they are, and yet we’re surprised when they end up clustering with those who exploit them as pawns with claims of acceptance.
We need them, and WE NEED YOU.
Take care out there…
I like using Blender too. Granted, I’m already somewhat familiar with it for art purposes. But just for STLs, if you know what you’re doing you can actually get away with quite a bit using a boolean CAD-like workflow!
It’s free under the guise that everything you make is OnShapes IP.
This sounds insanely predatory and messed up. Is this not as absolutely nuts as it sounds? O.o
Just make a tool, and take someone else’s work with that tool as your own? For real? This sounds really sus.
Aircraft carriers and nukes, of course! Yay. So much “winning” for you and me.
Oh crap, how’s KeePass got an LLM involved‽ Time to look into this now…
I did find https://codeberg.org/ChiPass/ChiPass , but it looks like a very new project.
Yep. Seconding this!
KeePass + Syncthing is the best.
Back up the database(s) regularly. (Syncthing can also retain x number of versions and things like that, but also do your own 3-2-1 backups.)
You can use something as simple as a Pi, or an old laptop, or even an old phone if you get creative, as an always-on syncthing server to keep them synchronized. KeePassXC even has a fancy integration with Firefox, so all you gotta do is unlock your database and click autofill on websites.
Edit: lmao seriously, not like I care but what’s there to downvote about this? 😂
But the IRS is like “Sorry. Hands tied :(” going after all those Swiss bank accounts and offshore shells within shells where 0% goes to taxes.
I agree with you for the most part.
The thing that bugs me is myself and family not being that way here, but the system that permeates every single interaction starts to clench on you. You’ll be content, but the water keeps rising and trying to take more and more from you.
The costs keep rising, the packages keep shrinking, the wages are always stagnate so you’re supposed to hustle harder, work longer, get another job or clown around for attention or ‘sell feet pics bb’ or whatever other ridiculous hustle just to maintain a basic standard.
For people who see the consumerist rat race for the scam it is, we’re passively and actively punished at every turn.
That’s the part I’m sick of. I just wanna live simply, splurge on hardware every few years, and make videogames.
I struggle to imagine it being different elsewhere. It’d be cool to be smart / valuable enough to be a desirable immigrant to a civilized country. Lol
LOL. Quite mischievous. Although I feel the poor sucker having to remove them would probably end up being another working class person, as funny as it is to imagine someone scratching vainly with rage at a sticker ridiculing their Dear Flawless Leader. 😂
Shows everything you need to know about MAGA, when the bastard hawks altered, cheap, self-glorifying Bibles the “religious right” is maybe mildly grumbly.
Grift them with a smartphone though and NOW THEY’RE SUDDENLY PRETTY ANGRY.
Their idolatry is obvious. One cannot serve both God and the stupidest political faction the U.S has ever seen since the confederacy.
“Designed with American values in mind”
“Everyone involved in the design and supply chain was promised they’d be paid in exposure after the work was completed.”
$47.45/month
Wait was it pitched at “47.45” because…of his presidential terms?! THAT’S SO STUPID!
Lol it also illustrates the mentality so well, that the numbers are out of sequence but this would hypothetically squeeze people for 2 more bucks, so of course that’s what they’re gonna do.
I honestly shudder to think how such a shamelessly narcissistic mind operates. This man is a disgusting creature.
Oh hey, remember when he showed up in Borat 2 and showed us what a gross old scumball he is, then floundered to save face? Lol
ROFLMAO Actually laughed out loud at this. 😂
Like, we all assumed they were comically evil villains and we joke that they might talk and think like this.
But the confirmation of it is somehow hilarious to me. Their complete lack of understanding of the world, the zero self awareness, the cheap attempt for sympathy while lounging on the weary bones of the entire working class.
If EVER we needed that smoking gun to show that class has nothing to do with intelligence or hard work, this definitely goes on the wall.
LOL, sir. 🖕 Taxes are the most humane thing coming to you and your ilk, you filthy curr. I thumb my nose at you, indeed! Go forth and repent to all those you hath wronged, or freely go fucketh thyself to expiry, thank you VERY MUCH.
I just wanna thank you for being, seemingly the only person on the Internet that I’ve seen, to spell “warily” correctly and not be watching “wearily”, although this nonsense makes us all a bit of both. 😂
Anyway, Lemmy award for you that others might learn from your excellence. 🏆
(I’m being sincere lol)
Hope if I’m not in that figure, I can be #5. :) 👋
But, yeah, all I can say is, I very much agree.
Unfortunately I’m not “John Christian” who can change the image of an entire people, but…
…Yep, that’s what I’m trying to do, at least. :) That’s what gets me to write paragraphs and correct misconceptions and try to build bridges out in the wild wherever I can and just…try to be good. I want to do more I just… don’t really know how.
I truly believe there is a distinct and tangible evil working in this world, and the nationalization of the Church is its most diabolical weapon. It disgusts me and breaks my heart.
The biggest obstacle is simply organizing the true followers and seekers. (I know “true” is often loaded. Are they actively trying their best to follow Christ and His teachings? Then let’s rock, I say. Theology can be endlessly debated over coffee if they like lol.)
We are often disparate and isolated, and unfortunately easily cowed into silence by both sides of these culture clashes. Those “maybe Christians but you wouldn’t even know it” types you spoke of.
We’re up against “principalities and powers and forces of darkness” here. There’s so much NOISE created by these ultra-massive organizations backed by rich, evil people, that shuffle their true intentions under layers of facade and funnel money into politics, pretending to be righteous while exploiting and robbing and abusing to further enrich themselves.
Then there’s us: We have the Word, we have the Spirit, and we have love. These are enough, but we have to use it and amplify it…and not enough are doing that right now.
Just like trying to start a union at work: lots are content to just keep their heads down and hope it shakes out. And the news definitely isn’t going to cover the strike!
Maybe I respond like this because I hope that speaking out will encourage more believers to make themselves known, to disown the regime, to call out the false teachers, to loudly rebuke the all-around jerkwads attempting to poison the well and keep people from reaching the living water.
I actually see it! Here on Lemmy even, I see tons of posts calling out this regime’s bullshit every time they try and claim they’re Christian, or that the country is, or that their actions are remotely so.
Loads of posts of unmistakable Bible verses refuting every word and action of these monsters. I try to join that chorus.
We have so much noise to overcome, and sadly one of our biggest problems can be a lack of coordination and a lack of fire.
But if I didn’t believe
weGod could change this through us, one little bit, one changed mind at a time, I would probably be keeping my mouth shut too…I appreciate your thoughtful responses and the conversation. I hope I haven’t taken too much of your time. Thanks for hearing me out and sharing your experiences as well. ❤️