DigitalTraveler42 @ DigitalTraveler42 @lemmy.world

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Bogus!

(Loved this new one, thx, lol)

Nah it goes back much further than the 80's, when we're on the topic of the age of American Christian Nationalism I like to break out the only Barry Goldwater quotes I know, the first of which was said in the 60's:

Mark my word, if and when these preachers get control of the Republican] party, and they're sure trying to do so, it's going to be a terrible damn problem. Frankly, these people frighten me. Politics and governing demand compromise. But these Christians believe they are acting in the name of God, so they can't and won't compromise. I know, I've tried to deal with them.

Another banger:

I must make it clear that I don't condemn these groups for what they believe. I happen to share many of the values emphasized by these organizations. I'm frankly sick and tired of the political preachers across this country telling me as a citizen that if I want to be a moral person, I must believe in "A," "B," "C" and "D." Just who do they think they are? And from where do they presume to claim the right to dictate their moral beliefs to me? And I am even more angry as a legislator who must endure the threats of every religious group who thinks it has some God-granted right to control my vote on every roll call in the Senate. I am warning them today: I will fight them every step of the way if they try to dictate their moral convictions to all Americans in the name of "conservatism." … This unrelenting obsession with a particular goal destroys the perspective of many decent people. They have become easy prey to manipulation and misjudgment.

Yet another prophetic quote:

There is no position on which people are so immovable as their religious beliefs. There is no more powerful ally one can claim in a debate than Jesus Christ, or God, or Allah, or whatever one calls this supreme being. But like any powerful weapon, the use of God's name on one's behalf should be used sparingly. The religious factions that are growing throughout our land are not using their religious clout with wisdom. They are trying to force government leaders into following their position 100 percent. If you disagree with these religious groups on a particular moral issue, they complain, they threaten you with a loss of money or votes or both.

Another one:

The specter of single-issue religious groups is growing over our land. … One of the great strengths of our political system always has been our tendency to keep religious issues in the background. By maintaining the separation of church and state, the United States has avoided the intolerance which has so divided the rest of the world with religious wars.

Yet another accurate one:

Those who seek absolute power, even though they seek it to do what they regard as good, are simply demanding the right to enforce their own version of heaven on earth. And let me remind you, they are the very ones who always create the most hellish tyrannies. Absolute power does corrupt, and those who seek it must be suspect and must be opposed. Their mistaken course stems from false notions of equality, ladies and gentlemen. Equality, rightly understood, as our founding fathers understood it, leads to liberty and to the emancipation of creative differences. Wrongly understood, as it has been so tragically in our time, it leads first to conformity and then to despotism.

https://en.wikiquote.org/wiki/Barry_Goldwater#:~:text=Tolerance%20in%20the%20face%20of,of%20freedom%20is%20no%20vice.

Nah Al Qaida would be the proud boys or one of their other terrorist groups, this group is more the American Taliban, or let's call it what it really is, The Sons of Jacob/Gilead.

Matt Walsh, Nazi moron and overall creep, fuck that guy.

But...but... they're the party of Jesus! /s

Because the NY Times and other media companies help them spread their misinformation with no pushback?

It's like the old TMNT arcade game, but GI Joe, I'd definitely play this, but the style is retro AF.

Considering how Russian's have been found to be using Space X satellites, while Musk is blocking Ukraine from using them I'd have to say sure I bet he is, but I bet the Russians will also have access to it.

Yeah Marty really did us a disservice with making Belfort look so "good", I mean at least in Goodfellas at least Marty makes Henry Hill look like the coke addicted scumbag he was, Wolf of Wall Street was more like the My Blue Heaven version of Henry Hill's life.

Now we get every idiot who becomes a stock broker or on r/wallstreetbets or r/superstonk thinking they're going to he the next Jordan Belfort thanks to The Wolf of Wall Street, and they might not actually be wrong since the SEC and FEC both seem feckless and toothless.

It was actually meant to be sardonic, and while sardonic comments may seem funny at times, they come from a place of cynicism and judgement, which should be obvious from my calling them "genocide enthusiasts".

Dumb Genocide Enthusiasts: "People aren't starving, there's plenty of dead people and animals to eat in Gaza right now..."

To be fair, most of The Wolf of Wall Street really happened, including Jordan Belfort going to prison, however things are way different in the current corrupt politically charged environment.

Also Jordan Belfort managed to get rich again off of his crimes, through his books and Marty Scorcese turning him into one of the worst unironically idolized villains not named Joker or Patrick Bateman.

Now we just need to find 'Mabak'

How is the average kid going to afford a home? They can't afford college, cause that's super expensive now, and none of the high school diploma or GED level jobs pay anywhere near enough for them to afford to live on their own, never-the-less afford their own home.

This is what class warfare looks like, and I'd also debate that this is what economic terrorism looks like, either way we need something better and we definitely aren't going to get any better under Trump and his GOP's leadership, because they're the ones helping cause and exacerbate the problems, and they have no intention on solving them, because solving problems is expensive and the Christian Nationalists among them see poor people as being "inherently sinful", and the racists among them see poor people as the minorities they hate.

The left needs to take the House back, keep the Senate and then do something about the corrupt supreme Court, while having a left adjacent President, which is certainly not Trump.

They constantly get away with it too, i wonder what the stat is for the amount of cops that get put away for misconduct like this versus the ones that don't, it's gotta be like 1 out of every 10/100/1000 or something similar.

Don't worry it was just a joke, we know they have way too many guns not to he dangerous.

Suddenly I'm not so worried about that civil war the right wingers keep threatening us with...

Imagine the crazy conspiracy shit if this was how Musk forced McConnell to retire by forcing her Tesla into the water, or some other crazy reason.

“We want to go on social media and push back on the misinformation that’s out there,” Tarik Sheppard, the NYPD’s top spokesperson, said in an interview. “Because if we don’t, it could cause damage to the reputation of our cops and the work that we’re doing.”

Instead they want to keep their misinformation uncriticized through intimidation tactics, including letting mid-level NYPD officers attempt to intimidate judges for dropping a case the officer was in dispute about, while also lying about what the accused did and who the judge released, matched with video of a completely different person being bagged by the cops in their home.

Mayor Adam's election has let the NYPD get back to their Trump era levels of out of control, and governor Hochul is completely involved in all of these shenanigans.