#ideologues

[porterdavis]

The question is WHY? They know it will kills tens of thousands of children

It surely can't be financial (although RFK Jr does seem to have some conflicts). Ideological? Are they willing to sacrifice children on the altar of ideological purity?

If so, they are sick motherfuckers.

[palatinewolfsblog]

"When wealth is passed off as merit, bad luck is seen as bad character. This is how ideologues justify punishing the sick and the poor. But poverty is neither a crime nor a character flaw. Stigmatize those who let people die not those who struggle to live." - Sarah Kendzior

[religion-is-a-mental-illness]

Learned this with Xians and then Islam, and it’s a universally transferrable skill.

It only works on those who are more in need of the approval of others by saying the acceptable thing, than saying what’s true.

[plurdledgabbleblotchits]

The rightwing US textbooks that teach slavery as ‘black immigration’

Guardian analysis finds that private schools, especially Christian schools, use textbooks that tell of a version of history that is racially biased and inaccurate.

Ironic times quipped  “They came here attracted by the beautiful plantations, and free rent for life.”  

Boy, these rightwingers, and some so- called “Christians,” are something else!

[just-a-cruel-white-man]

Most of y'all have probably already seen this video, but it's a well-spent 22 minutes.

[irreplaceable-spark]

A naively formulated goal transmutes, with time, into the sinister form of the life-lie...This kind of oversimplification and falsification is particularly typical of ideologues. They adopt a single axiom: government is bad, immigration is bad, capitalism is bad, patriarchy is bad. Then they filter and screen their experiences and insist ever more narrowly that everything can be explained by that axiom. They believe, narcissistically, underneath all that bad theory, that the world could be put right, if only they held the controls.

Jordan Peterson, “Rule 8: Tell the Truth - Or At Least Don’t Lie” from 12 Rules for Life

[deartotheheart]

Stefan Zweig, Montaigne

[religion-is-a-mental-illness]

Untribe.