Uriel238 [all pronouns] @ uriel238 @lemmy.blahaj.zone

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Wait until you see the difference between a 1920 fighter and a 1940 fighter.

In my experience, this happens way less on Lemmy than on Reddit before the IPO.

There's a Behind The Bastards two-parter on How The Rich Ate Christianity (I'm on mobile and lazy so you'll have to websearch for it.) It reveals all.

TLDR / RANT There were a bunch of industrialists who were really sore about FDR's New Deal. And yes, this is to say they liked the US public living in shantytowns and eating flour paste and boot leather. This is the futue Bezos and Musk want for you!

So the New Deal happened and Disney and Ford and Edison and other industry bros went to their volcano clubhouse to build a plan to sell capitalism to the people. (If it weren't for the New Deal, the public was looking at Lenin's project with intense interest.)

In walks James W. Fifield Jr. who made himself a Protestant cathedral, the first megachurch. Fifield was way in debt so he appealed to millionaires by preaching a version of Christianity that downplayed all that charity and mercy stuff in favor of calvinist virtues of hard work and being rich means God loves you.

And this worked. Fifield payed off his church. Meanwhile the industrialists poured money into their young propaganda project that mixed this new supply-side Christianity with American Exceptionalism and the Red Scare.

Enter Jerry Falwell in the 60's. Falwell was super sore about the legalization of interracial marriage and the end of segregation. Friends of Falwell had schools they wanted to be white-only, which just became illegal. So, he forged the Moral Majority, a bloc of Republican voters who (Falwell checks his notes) hate abortion.

The Moral Majority got Reagan elected by a landslide (a real landslide, not what Trump did in 2024) at which point all the election regulations were deactivated so that lobbyists could openly bribe candidates and buy elections.

By then Christianity mostly looked like the White Nationalist Evangelism we see today. It's essentially a monarchist ideology that people who have power (money, real property, etc) should be able to keep it all and use it however they want. And it says so in the bible (no matter what the scholars say).

Also in the 1980s, the Republican intelligentsia totally knew their policies, e.g. the prison industrial complex, would lead to the very precipice of fascist one-party autocracy that we're staring down in this moment in December, 2024. So any of the big-name Republicans who are saying the GOP has too far, are totaly complicit. They toed the line even in the aughts when the George W. Bush administration was totally seizing power and pushing the limits of decorum...and torturing people.

They knew, and did it anyway, for money and power. And those who never-Trumped still believed in the policies that would hand their party over to new charismatic autocratic strongmen. They're lying to us, or maybe they're lying to themselves.

Anyway Christianity today is a warped subversion of what it was a century ago. And it shows us that money really can control minds until we all love Big Brother like Winston.

Commenters are referencing numbers but I'm not seeing labels.

I'm a dumb, sometimes. Is that part of the joke?

Thank you.

So long as Federal shennanigans don't accelerate my situation (say by killing Social Security) then I should be okay.

But yeah, I'm super vulnerable like brain surgery during a hurricaine.

Boots has gone on my list of kinks.

Weapons of terror tend to be messy. There were railroad guns that could hit Paris from seventy miles but couldn't accurately target a spot within Paris, so it was used to stomp civilians.

Nukes are terror weapons in that they dont just kill the target but plenty of territory around it as well, which is an exclusion zone for a while.

I can't speak for the Star Destroyer but the Death Star super-laser is clearly a mining tool used to crack open planets to get to the gooey center minerals. It can be used to annihilate a planet, but that's usually a waste of real estate.

I don't. I'm literally on suicide watch trying new psych meds and wondering if the emotion storms are triggered by news, or the new drugs. Whee.

When the entire country is tilting day by day over the precipice about to fall into the abyss of fascist, one-party autocracy, it feels like the night before the Martians emerge with their tripods and heat rays. I feel like Fiver seeing the notice board portending the disaster of Sandleford Warren. I feel cursed for slighting Apollo somehow.

People are carrying on as if there's nothing wrong or nothing we can do, and I can't understand how they continue to function.

Now wondering if there are six-year-olds in Africa using M16/AR-15 style rifles as part of some warlord's army. I guess they don't get to go to kindergarten, though.

Remember that in the US (whose laws have been extended by trade agreement through most of the world), intellectual property laws are To promote the Progress of Science and useful Arts according to Article I, Section 8, Clause 8 (or the Copyright Clause of the Constitution of the United States

(Europe has older stuff based on guild secrets and has had literal wars waged over things like cloth buttons vs. brass buttons)

Since we have a long list of instances now in which Science and useful Arts have been inhibited or simply robbed from their developers (case in point Charles Goodyear) within the current system, we might get better art and science without any IP law at all rather than trying to reform the system we have, which is used entirely to control and inhibit progress.

And the efforts by software publishers to inhibit the archival of old games, and the effort of book publishers to eliminate libraries are only the latest examples of how IP is only an instrument of oppression in the 21st century, and has been pretty much since Disney.

When you pirate, you're not stealing from the developers or authors or creators. You're stealing from the shareholders, and they are already fat and marbled.

So fuck intellectual property rights.

You know there are cosmic horrors that get me hot, so I'm totally not going to kink-shame.

The possibility that scares me is J D Vance and his ilk creating programs like the German lebensborn program that informed the Handmaid program in Atwood's Gilead.

The German Reich also went through a population implosion, but wanted soldiers and laborers for the cause, and so chose (young, pretty) Aryan women to bear kids?

Whose kids? High ranking SS officers usually had the option to volunteer. No, the women didn't have a say in it: It was voluntary in that they were compelled to volunteer.

So yeah, not only is it a bad time to have kids, its a bad time to have working genitals. Some women are getting sterilized, though you will struggle to find a doctor through mainstream healthcare channels; they'll try to talk you out of it.

Instead, look up witchy circles, lesbian circles, feminist circles and reproductive healthcare circles to get connected. You can also seek counciling at Planned Parenthood, and they'll set you up with a doctor.

Imagine being forced to have the child of J D Vance or Stephen Miller or Ted Cruz. That is not beyond the scope of reality now.

History teems with famines, and with famines you'll find cannibalism.

This is what we expect after the world runs out of water to run our farms. Mad Max with fewer cars and more cannibalism.

Oh that's a good one. Get the pope to pass a bull offering everyone salvation, past, present, future, fictional, factual, human, animal, spirit.

They'd reverse it quickly, but it would be too late. It happened.

And because the Holy See has ecclesiastic jurisdiction (as we all learned in Dogma ) then it would totally count. Heaven for everyone.

And if there are angels in Wisconsin cursed by God and breaking divine infallibility unmakes the universe (it doesn't) then the world would end.

Some people prefer visible men.

I only recently learned this exists. You, also, should know.

I don't trust them. But some established software hosts provide them.

Ads are a security hazard themselves and a vector for malware, and people have gotten infected from the Forbes site without adblocking, so yeah, it's a risk. USUALLY the site / developer will report that it's adware so you can make that choice, which makes it slightly less unethical.

I guess I'm antisemitic. I'm not a hereditary jew, but my father is.

But principle is super important to me, and the current situation in Israel shows us its not what the German Reich did in the holocaust that is offensive, but to whom it was done. I wonder if our zionist brethren ever cared about the Roma, the disabled, the LGBT, heck the civilians who had jobs Heydrich didn't approve.

Who will care when ICE decides their overflowing detention centers cost too much to maintain, and deporting them all is too much work? Who will care when they decide on the solution to the immigrant question.

Interestingly, Jewish media during the German Reich was more sympathetic to NSDAP then they were their working-class Jewish brethren. It tracks with the non-right-wing media in the US (NYT / LAT / WaPo) are happy to give Trump all the press he wants (and neglected the whole Harris campaign)

I think it was a class war all along.

Sadly Elon Musk remains a threat to us all.

You've demolished (a portion of) my childhood.