MAGA and Christian nationalism: Bigger threat to America than Hamas could ever be
MAGA and Christian nationalism: Bigger threat to America than Hamas could ever be
Even Mitch McConnell is trying to push back against Mike Johnson and the MAGA lunatics. It isn't working
It honestly worries me how many people roll their eyes when you say this. When it's blatantly fucking obvious. Where are all the patriots to scream " THE SEPARATION OF CHURCH AND STATE IS THERE FOR A FUCKIN REASON"
76They truly unironically believe that America is a Christian nation and intended to be one by the founding fathers. I don't know how they believe something with such a massive contradiction as if that's the case why is separation of church and state something the founding fathers included. Doesn't have to make sense to people living in reality.
31That's just the thing- they've got church-funded groups churning out historical revisionism in which the Framers were really trying to found a Biblical version of Sparta but the wicked usurpers got power and ruined it with their War of Northern Aggression
Reality? LOL they're trying to replace reality with their version, which tells you to bend your contemporary knee to them
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Because MAGAs deny they've aligned themselves with religious extremists because Gregg who goes to church every Sunday likes football and guns so he's probably not a fascist.
11I suspect if you paraphrased or converted to more generalized language things like Sharia law and what the ChristoFascists want, they wouldn't be able to tell them apart.
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People actually think hamas is a threat to the USA?
49I think the risk is more in the way of Hamas getting recruits in the US and inciting terrorist acts here.
That said it’s a vague possibility compared to the certainty that christofascists will absolutely incite terrorist and insurrectist acts.
15Nobody seriously does
3Lots of people do. I'm surrounded by them.
They're wrong. But they're out here.
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If only we could get more people, especially young adults, to care about politics. Those asshats would get eradicated in the primaries.
47A big part of the problem is that the damn DNC doesn't have anybody worth anything. They're all a bunch of geriatrics whose platforms are so uninspiring that the only reason people vote for them is because of how vile their GOP opponents are.
If there were no possible way that anybody in the GOP could win and two DNC candidates were running against each other, I'm not sure I could even be bothered to vote, they're all equally bland and useless. They're practically the embodiment of "business as usual".
On one side you have a party whose entire platform is essentially "we're going to burn everything down and in the ashes rebuild all the worst parts of the 20th century, from robber barons to slave plantations with a little neo-nazi spice for flavor". Then on the other side you've got "we'll slightly improve things, but not too much because we don't want to step on the toes of the ones signing our paychecks, and we'll actively oppose anyone who makes too big a wave".
64As a lifelong democrat, I have to agree. The DNC is running scared, just like the RNC, but for different reasons. And yes I could be called a geriatric.
But I believe the problem is that we need to stop worrying about stepping on toes, maintaining a status quo that has never really worked, and has always favored the rich. I think we need a real, true blue, dyed in the fur ass-kicking braying Donkey to shake things up and say, "to hell with pleasing the moderates, we're gonna lead this nation into the 21st century whether it likes it or not." We need someone willing to be extremely far left enough to shake up people and wake them up and get truly progressive on their asses.
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1I’d love for Beto O’Rourke to run with someone like AOC as his running mate. There are younger democrats with influence and pull.
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Blaming young people is a great way to convince them to vote for you.
In case you didn’t know… Boomers held the largest voting block for all but the last election or two. So if your gojng to play the generational blame game, why don’t you blame people who’ve been creating policy for the last 60 years or so.
7I didn't see anyone blaming, I read that comment as saying that younger people significantly disagree with the Christian right, so if we could get more of them voting we'd be able to trounce the generally older folks who vote GOP.
It's a little oversimplified though. If you look at the demographics of the last presidential election, there were lots of older people voting for Biden and younger people voting for Trump. Not the majority, but the difference isn't as stark as a lot of people think.
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They've been saying that the whole time, just like "people don't want to work".
So sadly I don't think that's going to work and that the system is more fundamentally broken.
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Hamas has no airforce, no navy, no modern army. They shouldn't even make our top 100 issues list
44Hamas has no airforce
Tbh neither did Al-Qaida, until they hijacked a couple of planes. That's the sort of threat being talked about, not like Red Dawn shit
5Yeah but Al-Qaeda was ranting about attacking the USA for years and had actually already done terror acts by 9/11
Hamas basically doesn't exist outside Israel. Technically, they're Hezbollah's little brother according to the US. They really only care about whatever happens in Gaza. Kind of like the Taliban in Afghanistan
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Yeah I don't think Hamas is any threat to us in any serious way. But I do think so called "Christian" and Maga ethics of banning books, hurting others, limiting people's healthcare rights, and taking away social programs is doing more damage to our country than any third-world outside terrorists could ever dream of being capable of doing. Like most countries, America has failed, and is crumbling away from within. Ignorance is the real threat to our continued existence.
41You don't need to be nuanced about it. MAGA extremists have actually killed people on American (and Canadian) soil, planned bombings, and attempted to overthrow the government.
27True. There's nothing nuanced about MAGA extremism to be sure. It makes me truly question the mentality of those who willingly join in it.
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Y'all Quaeda.
29Well yeah, since when is Hamas a threat to America?
27Maybe you can ask /r/conservative. Those snowflakes were frothing from their mouths at this headline.
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The title is 100% correct. The FBI rated homegrown terrorism from radicalized right wing a bigger threat way back under the Bush regime, even. And of course the cons got all butthurt about this simple fact.
25Always has been.
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“Has the White House considered the possibility that a terrorist could be in the country right now after crossing the southern border?”
What a bullshit question. The core question is valid, “Has the White House considered the possibility that a terrorist could be in the country right now."
But the rest is a bullshit political talking point, “...after crossing the southern border?”
As if we only have one method for a terrorist to get in. Nevermind the northern border, the shores, air flights, and then the truly scary threat that the terrorists were born here and are citizens. But, screw all that, WhAt AbOUt tHe MeXiCaNs!?
This framing shows that the asker has more interest in building support for a Republican talking point into the coming elections than giving a shit about terrorist threats within our borders (all of them).
7This article was barely about the headline. It was far worse and I'm actually afraid of 2024
7Bit of a weird comparison
6They're responding to this
5Ah alright. In the context it makes more sense, it just hadn't occurred me to make such comparison
4The warning from the FBI was not about potential for attacks by Hamas, it was about attacka against America that might be carried out by Islamic extremists potentially from anywhere in the world. Basically, the word is that they're hearing more chatter about attacking American in the homeland than at any time since September 11th.
This I thought was in response to people on the right dear mongering about how dangerous Hamas is, and reminding Americans that people riding around the desert in pickup trucks with rocket launchers are not and never will be an existential threat to America.
You know, most of these violent extremists want America out of the middle east, usually with reference to Saudi Arabia and Israel. They are religious fanatics, and right now it's more or less about America's patronage of Israel which people from which version of sky daddy get to control the hours of operation and P.A. announcements at each other's shared holy sites. More or less.
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MAGA is the last breath of the religious right.
3No it is not, not by a long shot.
They currently control the lower house in the legislature and the Speaker of the House, 2nd in line for the presidency, is a lunatic that is one of the the worst.
They also control the Supreme Court. The fact that all it took for one geriatric woman to die is all it took for them to overturn over 50 years of reproductive rights for women in the U.S.
To paraphrase Tom Clancy: These fucking lunatics are a clear and present danger to everyone in the United States. They will not go away any time soon.
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lol
0Geriatric biden is sure much better right?
Biden: 2 wars Trump: 0 wars
Saying this as a person with criteria, im from a developed country
-7Demonstrably so, yes.
4Yes.
What the fuck is this comment lol
4Wasn't enough to get banned from World News? It's cool, I can do this all day.
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The BLM Riots looked exactly like domestic terrorism. Maybe the idea behind it was different, but actions speak louder than words.
-12Wtf dude. Are you serious? First of all, no it didn't. They never targeted people, even when things got bad. They targeted buildings at worst.
Second, "terrorism" isn't the issue. Cops use "terrorism." Terrorism is just when methods normally reserved for the state are used by other groups. It's what they're trying to accomplish that matters. If they're trying to enforce their fundamentalist religious ideals, it's bad. If they're trying to promote something most people would call good, then it's good.
The American Revolutionaries aren't called terrorists. They're usually called "patriots" or "freedom fighters" because they won. Most people think all actions taken were good, because they were working towards something we generally see as good. Terrorism is just a set of tools the establishment wants to reserve for itself.
9Riots are not terrorism. Terrorism is a specific type of tactic used by organized groups to wage asymmetric warfare against a state actor whereas rioting is a spontaneous type of crowd violence that can be motivated by a number of different factors from sports to politics to religion or racism/ethnic tension.
You want to blur the distinction between the two because like terrorism BLM scares you and is therefore "bad," but that's not a good reason to throw away what is in fact a meaningful difference.
If you need more evidence that rioting and terrorism are not the same thing, you need only look at the fact that law enforcement takes very different approaches in how it seeks to prevent rioting vs terrorism. Were they essentially somehow the same thing, this would not be the case.
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