Zippygutterslug @ Zippygutterslug @lemmy.world

In dark times should the stars also go out?

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Opus Dei is

Peter Theil is a patron of many postliberal (fascist) Catholics, but he is not Vance's only Catholic patron.

Lol OK, I guess God will protect the Pope from Trump lmfaoooo

So they're going to try to arrest Democratic senators at the Capitol Building? Or would they need a DC judge to sign off for that?

Democrats are so eager to eke out any win they can, you should see what they would do for a Klondike bar right now.

Is Sweden a NATO country? Trump is demanding they do all kinds of dumb crap. Is Greenland a sovereign country? Trump says he hasn't ruled out military action to take it. Let's be real about one thing: the day after the pope died, Trump posted an AI picture of himself as pope. If this pope speaks out against him, Trump will fuck with him. That dementia riddled felon don't give a fuck. And when he does, I hope the pope holds his ground.

A pope could make a lot of ground pushing antiabortion and anticontraception and anti-lgbtq policy in exchange for support. It was Ohio Catholics that got Vance his VP seat. So hopefully Pope Leo isn't a "postliberal" catholic.

Yeah, it was Ohio Catholics (and their momey) that put JD Vance in the running for VP in the first place. People are putting a lot of faith that this Cardinal wrote his own tweets. I wouldn't be opposed to an anti-Trump pope but to call him one is counting chickens before they hatch. Let's see what he does when Trump puts some pressure on him.

To be fair, we have a nazi problem.

Maybe using soft language like subbing "autocracy" in for "Nazis," will help?

Fuck Yarvin and his coterie of would-be nazis

Nazis can March in Charlottesville but I guess Republicans liked those "protesters."

"Anyone who can make you believe absurdities can make you commit atrocities."

This is why it is an individual's responsibility to be critical of their own and others' motivations, to attempt awareness of manipulations by others and our own self-deceptions.

Even the best of my countrymen are not good at any of these things, but people that do not even make the attempt certainly seem to skew toward MAGA.

And when such violent crimes are done for political or ideological reasons, those crimes become acts of terrorism.

It's pretty wild to hear a conservative calling anyone other than themselves a nazi, tbh. Thanks for the chuckle.

Humans are irrational creatures that have transitory states where they are capable of more ordered thought. It is our mistake to reach a conclusion that humans are rational actors while we marvel daily at the irrationality of others and remain blind to our own.

Finally, someone got it right... Trump would be a fan of the Sith, if he knows what they are.

Thank you so much for your time! Being an American there is a real dearth of information about the politics of other countries, at least in terms of what is "fed" to me via social media and legacy news.

I really wish my country could have learned some lessons from your guys' election system, it seems much better tuned in terms of producing democratic results and avoiding polarization.

Don't give him ideas

I'm not steeped in Australian politics like I am in US politics, please correct me if I am wrong, but there are some things I've heard (though they may be out of date) that work in the left/center's favor more than the right, particularly that young Australian men do not seem to be pulling hard right like their US counterparts. Also, it is my understanding that "minor" political parties are more popular and feasible than in the US. Probably the biggest thing working against radicalization is ranked choice voting, it probably splits right more than the left. However, your right wing parties risk losing their identity if they move left and will have to be very competitive as moderates, where they could probably secure a much more ideologically "pure," resilient, and loyal base by going further right.

Seigheiling nazi piece of shit