"The time for gentile politics as usual has come to an end."
I think you meant to write "genital politics"
― Chappies banging dustbin lids together (President Keyes), Thursday, 19 May 2022 19:32 (one year ago) link
fuckin yikes dude“dark maga”
― Tracer Hand, Thursday, 19 May 2022 19:32 (one year ago) link
'it is time for Dark MAGA to rise' may sound like a supervillain in a comic book, but sadly there are millions out there for whom that kind of fantasy vision of the world is more real than the humdrum facts of daily life and there's a ton of "content" out there they can gorge on every day to feed that fantasy life.
― more difficult than I look (Aimless), Thursday, 19 May 2022 19:33 (one year ago) link
As far as I can tell "Dark MAGA" just means pics of Trump with laser eyes
― Chappies banging dustbin lids together (President Keyes), Thursday, 19 May 2022 19:35 (one year ago) link
C'mon people, he didn't actually write that
― Eggs Benedick (Eric H.), Thursday, 19 May 2022 19:35 (one year ago) link
shadow maga was right there!
― in places all over the world, real stuff be happening (voodoo chili), Thursday, 19 May 2022 19:36 (one year ago) link
https://www.isdglobal.org/digital_dispatches/dark-maga-the-latest-cycle-in-the-far-right-aesthetics-laundromat/
The aesthetics Dark MAGA combines are:
Vaporwave: characterised by synthetic beats, neon-tinted visual artwork and semi-ironic nostalgia for the 1980s and 1990s.
Fashwave: inspired by vaporwave, a music genre and visual style that incorporates neo-Nazi and fascist iconography and narratives into the vaporwave aesthetic.
and blah blah Nazi stuff
― Chappies banging dustbin lids together (President Keyes), Thursday, 19 May 2022 19:44 (one year ago) link
Oh this list is pretty precious:
Latest Instagram post from Madison Cawthorn who remains a member of congress for another 229 days. What is the “dark MAGA” he references in his caption. Is there a “light MAGA”? pic.twitter.com/oARGdZwdT0— Yashar Ali 🐘 (@yashar) May 19, 2022
― Eggs Benedick (Eric H.), Thursday, 19 May 2022 20:09 (one year ago) link
Dark Maga needs to go in the gritty reboot thread.
― PBKR, Thursday, 19 May 2022 20:16 (one year ago) link
These guys love dark stuff:
The Intellectual Dark WebThe Dark Enlightenment
― Chappies banging dustbin lids together (President Keyes), Thursday, 19 May 2022 20:22 (one year ago) link
#onlydarkmagathings
― Bruce Stingbean (Karl Malone), Thursday, 19 May 2022 20:30 (one year ago) link
Speaking of Carlson...
― Malevolent Arugula (Alfred, Lord Sotosyn), Thursday, 19 May 2022 20:40 (one year ago) link
Okay, definitely lost my sympathy for Cawthorn and my lunch reading that IG post.
― we need outrage! we need dicks!! (the table is the table), Thursday, 19 May 2022 20:51 (one year ago) link
Yeah, I mean, if and when he ends up trying to murder a bunch of people, I don’t think anyone at all would be surprised, whatsoever. Kind of telling.
― Bruce Stingbean (Karl Malone), Thursday, 19 May 2022 21:19 (one year ago) link
i don't think we need to cooperate with the the paramilitary fascist right's attempt at a rebrand.
― 𝔠𝔞𝔢𝔨 (caek), Thursday, 19 May 2022 23:54 (one year ago) link
He does know he lost, right?
― Andy the Grasshopper, Friday, 20 May 2022 17:26 (one year ago) link
Sure, it's part of his super villain origin story.
― a superficial sheeb of intelligence (jon /via/ chi 2.0), Friday, 20 May 2022 17:30 (one year ago) link
It'll be interesting to see if his fellow Legionnaires of DOOMAGA actually respond to his calls or texts
My guess is that he'll soon be hawking gadgets on QVC, but what do I know
― Andy the Grasshopper, Friday, 20 May 2022 17:40 (one year ago) link
Depends how big his email list is I imagine
― Chappies banging dustbin lids together (President Keyes), Friday, 20 May 2022 18:17 (one year ago) link
whoa
I read in the news that this "Up-and-Comer" lost his "primary." Alas, perhaps he was just too repressed to advance in today's hot political climate.My best, Kelly@TheOnion pic.twitter.com/uDwV6xBadX— Stan Kelly (@KartoonistKelly) May 18, 2022
― frogbs, Friday, 20 May 2022 20:52 (one year ago) link
Here we go again...
SAN FRANCISCO - San Francisco Archbishop Salvatore Cordileone said Friday that House Speaker Nancy Pelosi is barred from receiving Holy Communion over her support for abortion rights.
Cordileone said in a letter to the California Democrat that she won't be admitted to Holy Communion at Mass. The archbishop said Pelosi ignored his warning in April to either repudiate her advocacy for abortion rights or refrain from using her religion to justify her stance.
I thought this had been settled by the Vatican
― Andy the Grasshopper, Friday, 20 May 2022 21:53 (one year ago) link
Meanwhile, banning contraception continues its march to becoming a mainstream Republican idea.
https://www.huffpost.com/entry/birth-control-ban-abortion_n_6287a89ae4b01a50ab579e39?ier
― a man often referred to in the news media as the Duke of Saxony (tipsy mothra), Saturday, 21 May 2022 15:02 (one year ago) link
this is a short thing on msnbc about christian nationalism. watch one minute in, though. paula white. it's from jan 6. many of you have already seen it, no doubt. but please watch one minute in. this, to me, is really what a TON (it is never all, it will never be all) of white evangelicals are really like. paula white is a very upstanding citizen and her clothes are probably new and she will attend some dinner party tonight and behave more or less "properly", and all that - but when it comes down to it, she wants everyone that is not a evangelical christian to die and go to hell, she wants everyone that is not cishet to burn eternally, and she wants it to happen as soon as possible.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zx8tsompfiM
xp shit, sorry tipsy mothra. to try to connect this to what you just posted, i'll add, "oh yeah, and they want aaaaaaaall the white evangelical babies that can possibly be born to live, even if it means turning their country into handmaiden's tale.
― Bruce Stingbean (Karl Malone), Saturday, 21 May 2022 15:04 (one year ago) link
i don't watch msnbc (or any other channel) and don't know Mehdi Hasan, i don't know if he's good or not -- he seems good to me, i'm glad he did this segment. i really wish there were more big ol' white cishet americans leading the charge on this. i understand why they're not, because if you're white in this country and you grew up in and around church, you are in an elite club with special protections, and that's true whether you were evangelical or not
― Bruce Stingbean (Karl Malone), Saturday, 21 May 2022 15:10 (one year ago) link
watch at 5:55 - this is where it's leading. they will spill blood on the ground, and then they will say that it was will of jesus, all the way to their very last breath, you better believe it.
― Bruce Stingbean (Karl Malone), Saturday, 21 May 2022 15:12 (one year ago) link
Yeah, to me the most alarming things I've read have been from people who are either evangelicals themselves or have spent many years closely observing/writing about the movement — people like David French, who I disagree with on lots of things, but who wrote this a month or two ago: https://frenchpress.thedispatch.com/p/the-seeds-of-political-violence-are?s=r
― a man often referred to in the news media as the Duke of Saxony (tipsy mothra), Saturday, 21 May 2022 15:24 (one year ago) link
Like, people who actually know this territory well are sending up flares saying, Christian nationalism is headed for bloodshed. At this point I can't really see how it's not. They're primed for it.
― a man often referred to in the news media as the Duke of Saxony (tipsy mothra), Saturday, 21 May 2022 15:26 (one year ago) link
Moreover, if Christians know anything about the far right, they know it’s vicious. Silence is the safe course. For all the (legitimate) talk of cancel culture from the left, many Christians self-censor out of fear of the right. They know Michael Flynn is dangerous, but saying so out loud carries a cost. So they remain silent. They stay in their anti-left lane.
The proper response to fear and fanaticism is reason and faith. It’s demonstrating by word and deed that the response even to the worst forms of extremism on the left is not to stampede to extremism on the other side. But we have to know what we face, and what we face is an Christian subculture that is full of terrible religious purpose. The seeds of renewed political violence are being sown in churches across our land.
― Malevolent Arugula (Alfred, Lord Sotosyn), Saturday, 21 May 2022 15:29 (one year ago) link
seriously, watch that clip at 5:55. there are thousands of people in that room cheering him on, and many, many more watching at home.
as the host notes, if an imam said anything 1/1000000000000000000000th as inflammatory, you know what would happen
― Bruce Stingbean (Karl Malone), Saturday, 21 May 2022 15:34 (one year ago) link
and it is definitely NOT just that one guy. that guy is just a successful version of all the other people that are trying to be that guy. it's fucked up
― Bruce Stingbean (Karl Malone), Saturday, 21 May 2022 15:35 (one year ago) link
has anyone here ever been part of a Christian service where they openly talk about the other denominations, politics, and how their name (and Jesus') is being defined and represented by some of the most extreme, dangerous people in the country?
(I'm not sure there's a more dangerous LARGE group of people in the U.S. then white evangelical christians. there are always people out of their mind on an individual level and in relatively small groups. I'm talking millions, tens of millions of people here)
i see discussions of it online sometimes, christianity today articles where they carefully, politely, minimally, and sporadically, mention this giant group of extremist goons that now represent Christianity. is this ever brought up during a sermon? I can only speak to my evangelical experience, which was a long time ago now, was already horrific, and has (as I always expected) only gotten worse and more extreme as time passes. Is there any Christian movement to make clear where they stand on things like White Christian Nationalism? Or rather, since there are always small movements and groups of people who do the right thing -- is there any movement that has been remotely successful to speak out against the largest and loudest voice of Christians, white evangelicals?
― Bruce Stingbean (Karl Malone), Saturday, 21 May 2022 15:58 (one year ago) link
CASTLE ROCK, Colo. — "Thou shalt not kill" was not the message at a Castle Rock Church on Thursday night when it hosted a right-wing extremist group's election fraud meeting.
linked in that piece above, at least a normal-ass news station frames things like this this way. small comfort tbh
― global tetrahedron, Sunday, 22 May 2022 17:04 (one year ago) link
MAGA Christian nationalism is concentrated in the churches most removed from elite American culture, including from elite Evangelicalism.
― recovering internet addict/shitposter (viborg), Sunday, 22 May 2022 18:04 (one year ago) link
The world-famous Holy and Apostolic Catholic Church was in cahoots with the original fascists and Nazis, too. The just can't seem to get their fill of 'em.
― more difficult than I look (Aimless), Sunday, 22 May 2022 18:08 (one year ago) link
Wtf is "elite american culture"?
― m0stly clean (Slowsquatch), Sunday, 22 May 2022 18:29 (one year ago) link
Non-flyover country
― recovering internet addict/shitposter (viborg), Sunday, 22 May 2022 18:39 (one year ago) link
Too bad I had to unfollow the account on Twitter that was posting all that stuff about the Alioto-Opus Die connection because they felt compelled to post some fairly overt copaganda re the Young Thug case.
― recovering internet addict/shitposter (viborg), Sunday, 22 May 2022 18:44 (one year ago) link
576 officers lost their lives in the line of duty in 2021. We passed a Senate resolution designating this week as National Police Week to honor the officers who put their lives on the line every day to protect our communities. One small way to recognize their courage.— Amy Klobuchar (@amyklobuchar) May 21, 2022
I don’t know if “on a respirator in the COVID ward” counts as in the line of duty?
― papal hotwife (milo z), Tuesday, 24 May 2022 02:54 (one year ago) link
Which is higher, the number of cops who died of covid or the number of people who died of covid because the cops refused to wear masks
― Bruce Stingbean (Karl Malone), Tuesday, 24 May 2022 02:55 (one year ago) link
Looking like the worst cycle for Blue Dogs since 2010: Schrader, Cuellar, Bourdeaux at risk in primaries. Crist, Murphy, Cooper retiring. Golden, Gonzalez, O'Halleran, Spanberger at risk in general. That's almost half of the 19 Blue Dogs. https://t.co/DdbAFi3HhC— Mike DeBonis (@mikedebonis) May 24, 2022
― Eggs Benedick (Eric H.), Tuesday, 24 May 2022 13:31 (one year ago) link
And when they lose they’ll blame “Defund the Police”
― DAMAGED by Black Flat (Boring, Maryland), Tuesday, 24 May 2022 13:54 (one year ago) link
JUST IN: A federal appeals court has ruled that the 14th Amendment's bar on insurrectionists holding office may be applied to current/future political candidates. https://t.co/RPuI4duUSu— Kyle Cheney (@kyledcheney) May 24, 2022
― Eggs Benedick (Eric H.), Tuesday, 24 May 2022 18:43 (one year ago) link
O rly
― Legalize Suburban Benches (Raymond Cummings), Tuesday, 24 May 2022 18:51 (one year ago) link
Not sure I would call Bourdeaux a blue dog. It's unfortunate that Lucy McBath is running against her in the primary since her district was rejiggered by the legislature.
― immodesty blaise (jimbeaux), Tuesday, 24 May 2022 18:52 (one year ago) link
xp don't worry, we're going to get a new (to us) definition of what insurrection actually is very soon
― Eggs Benedick (Eric H.), Tuesday, 24 May 2022 19:23 (one year ago) link
anyone who votes by mail
― frogbs, Tuesday, 24 May 2022 19:23 (one year ago) link
the patriots of arkansas have decided that sarah huckabee sanders did such a good job for trump that she should be their governor as well. they have seen her on television
― Bruce Stingbean (Karl Malone), Wednesday, 25 May 2022 02:47 (one year ago) link
she will continue her father's grand and honorable legacy
― Clay, Wednesday, 25 May 2022 02:54 (one year ago) link
the good people of arkansas are sick of politics being treated like a television show. with their support of sarah sanders, combined with elevation of NFL superstar herschel walker by the proud people of Georgia, there is no real issue involving the lives of hundreds of millions of people that they cannot solve!
― Bruce Stingbean (Karl Malone), Wednesday, 25 May 2022 02:57 (one year ago) link
politics: actually very funny
― Bruce Stingbean (Karl Malone), Wednesday, 25 May 2022 02:58 (one year ago) link