#christofascists

[victusinveritas]

[warrioroflight5000]

maga is little dick energy 🤏

[megmelodia]

This evil fuck is gone

[creature-wizard]

We gotta be able to talk about how dangerous it is that Republican leaders think they're following God's "voice" without throwing people with actual psychotic disorders under the bus.

These people are not psychotic. They are not delusional. They have been taught how to focus on and listen to a particular part of their own minds that hold certain ideas and values, and to obey it whenever it "speaks." And I think pretty much anyone can train themselves to focus on and listen to some part of their mind or other. (This is what a lot of spirit channelers are doing, by the way.)

This kind of ableism has been a problem among critics of far right Christianity for a long time now, and it simply does not help. It fails to address and criticize what's actually happening which leaves people unaware of what the real problem is, which can leave them vulnerable to falling into it themselves. It also contributes to shame and stigma around those who suffer from actual psychotic disorders, which isn't just wrong for its own sake, but also benefits the far right by making it easier for them to pathologize anything they don't like or don't understand.

[in4newz]

[existennialmemes]

When I was in high school the conservatives' pet moral panic was evolution. "Teach the controversy!" They shrieked, while trying to get evolution stricken from all school curriculums.

Back then I thought their rallying cry was so funny because the "controversy" was a disconnect between decades of rigorous scientific investigation and the feelings of a group of belligerent religious extremists.

But they gained ground. They ultimately lost, but not before costing a lot of kids an appropriate education, because their baseless claims were treated as reasonable concerns worthy of debate and compromise.

It's 20 years later now and those same belligerent religious extremists have a stranglehold over the US government.

I feel like, there's a domino effect here, between hordes of shrieking housewives tearing evolution pages out of textbooks in 2004 and open fascism going completely mask off in 2025.

[bogleech]

I feel like it shouldn't need stating that ideologies rather than races are responsible for problems but apparently the public discourse right now is about what "went wrong" with various ethnic or gender demographics. Uh what went wrong is a predatory political movement targeting whoever's been most useful to it. Beliefs aren't genetic. You have to take out the source of the idea and that's always a rich guy with influence. That's what goes in the wood chipper first. Then maybe the people who clung to an evil message will disperse and get better or those that choose to stay vile just fade into oblivion.

[last-fast-naturalist]