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Ryan Hubbs@matthewryan.bsky.social |
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Kaitlin Has Had Enough
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The United States has always been a democracy for some and a brutal authoritarian regime for others, and the effort to expand it to democracy for all has led to a 70+ year backlash culminating in SCOTUS claiming that kings are totes cool and also judges are the ones to coronate them
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Ryan Hubbs
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Renji says hi
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Ryan Hubbs
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Renji enters the chat
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Jonathan Ladd
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The 14th Amendment says if you were involved in an insurrection you can't be president. SCOTUS said they won't allow anyone to enforce that because of reasons they made up. The Constitution doesn't say the president is immune from criminal law. SCOTUS decided he is because of reasons they made up.
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Ryan Hubbs
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And his opponent is 78, morbidly obese, thinks exercise is bad for you, rambles incoherently, and seemingly can’t even hit the links without adult diapers. Meanwhile, Biden is lean and goes biking. Ask any medical professional which one is likely to last longer…
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Ryan Hubbs
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Niche. Nicely played :)
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Ryan Hubbs
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Second this
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Ryan Hubbs
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No soup for you! One year!
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Howard Tayler
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Saw this for the first time today. Seems legit.
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Adam Serwer
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I hope people understand that what we are seeing is the systematic destruction of the civil war amendments by the Supreme Court, which are what made America and actual democracy and upon which all minority rights in the United States rely
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Ryan Hubbs
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Anecdotally, the Cardinal Sin in the fundamentalist homeschooling circles I grew up in wasn’t child abuse; rather, it was questioning parents’ unfettered property rights over their own children, even in instances of obvious abuse.
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Ryan Hubbs
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Great quote.. also Kahlil Gibran’s “On Children” from The Prophet is amazing.. What has become striking to me trying to sort out my own fundamentalist homeschooled past is the degree to which fundy HS doctrines so despise, and often actively seek to destroy, the child within its own children.
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Ryan Hubbs
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Yup exactly. Every economist has said for decades that a carbon tax is the best solution. Internalizing the cost of negative externalities into the price of the product is basic economics, but oil companies own too many politicians
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Ryan Hubbs
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If Dobson/Farris/Pearl et al genuinely believed the words of Jesus they’d be out feverishly shopping for millstones out of sheer self-preservation…
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Ryan Hubbs
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Yup. Even the idea that “I’ll buy an EV to help save the environment” completely misses the fact that oil is a global market/commodity. Say half the people care and buy an EV. Gas prices go down, and the other half who don’t GAF will just buy bigger pickups because they can afford to fill them up.
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Ryan Hubbs
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Just install a bidet bolt-on to your toilet and you can build out as big of a library as you want guilt free ;)
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Dan Greene
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I consider myself Terminally Online but this story of exiting the conservative mediasphere reads like cult deprogramming. To the point where her former compatriots are waving guns at her in meetings because she bucked the memes about library porn.
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Link is coconut-pilled. 🥥 🌴
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Tracy O’Connell Novick
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"after taking office and examining hundreds of pages of curriculum, Gore was shocked by what she found — and didn’t find.
The pervasive indoctrination she had railed against simply did not exist."
www.texastribune.org/2024/05/15/t...
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Ryan Hubbs
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Dude, either read some basic civics about how the various branches of government & the judiciary work or just admit you’re acting in bad faith here. C’mon man.
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Ryan Hubbs
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Yes, the person who warned you repeatedly about the crazy person with a knife is definitely the one to blame when you ignore them and get stabbed. Good lord dude. 🙄
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Ryan Hubbs
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The weirdos saying that are on the right, and they do mean it. How many of your hated “libs” are rolling back voting rights, jailing women for miscarriages, making ita crime to tell the truth about slavery/racism, and talking about executing trans people? I’ll wait.
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Ryan Hubbs
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Yeah, a lot of awful stuff is happening. As it has for all of recorded history. What are you doing to make it better? A peaceful egalitarian panacea doesn’t just happen. Handing the house keys to an arsonist because we’re pissed it isn’t nicer misses the fact that we’re all stuck living in it.
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Ryan Hubbs
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Cheese grater. I can get a little too into a “flow state” when shredding a block of cheddar…
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Ryan Hubbs
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I like that being a Masshole is a cross-species phenomenon
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Ryan Hubbs
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No no, if you’re not aware, the perfect, Platonic Ideal of the Divine lay in wait for all of human history until it finally met the perfect vehicle for its unveiling and dissemination: 20th century American commercialism and consumerism. Praise the Lord and pass the Black Friday sales. Amen.
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Ryan Hubbs
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🎵 Ohhh, Santa got bent over by a reindeer… 🎹
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Ryan Hubbs
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That may be true. But that’s very different from saying that it has no relevance/importance. The high-control dominionist faction of Christianity in the US is very large and includes many in senior government positions.
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Ryan Hubbs
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Those of us from high-control fundamentalism shared our experiences of how the flag and its dominionist themes were key features in our churches & lived experience growing up. But you aren’t denying that those fundamentalists are “real Christians.” So are you saying our experiences didn’t happen?
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Ryan Hubbs
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Also, it seems your background is not from a high control fundamentalist segment of Christianity - might be that those of us who grew up fully immersed in that world might have some perspectives / first hand insights worth considering? Just a thought.
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Ryan Hubbs
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Im not sure what you’re arguing — it seems we both agree that the “Christian flag” is a jingoistic symbol of high control religion. Where I’m not following is how that makes the flag irrelevant to the large proportion of dominionist white Christian nationalists that exist in the US today.
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Ryan Hubbs
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Arguing that a militarised, jingoistic, and predatory religious nationalism isn’t authentically Christian runs up against troublesome historical realities such as the Crusades, colonialism and genocide in the Americas and elsewhere, endless European wars during the Middle Ages, etc.. could go on&on.
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Ryan Hubbs
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I wasn’t trying to attribute anything to you. I’m pointing out there’s a difference between what one person views as normative or historically consistent and how others in the group interpret the same thing. One could argue that the Christian flag goes as least as far back as the crusades, no?
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Ryan Hubbs
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It’s the “no true Scotsman” fallacy that comes out whenever someone notes that the KKK quoted scripture ad nauseam to support their murderous racism, or ISIS leans on the Quran to justify their atrocities. A theology is defined by its beliefs, but a religion is largely defined by its followers.
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Ryan Hubbs
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Yes agree. Re: my last post about the flag — arguing that it doesn’t belong to an authentic expression of Xianity ignores the fact that your normative vision of the faith is not shared by a large portion of today’s American evangelicals. It’s not an expression of your faith, but it is of theirs.
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Ryan Hubbs
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By “not real” you’re positing that it doesn’t belong in an idealised version of Christianity that you believe to be the “authentic” faith. The 1/20th of Christian history (the last century) during which the flag has existed encompasses the entirety of time all of us here have been alive.
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Ryan Hubbs
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I remember going to AWANAS and all of us pledging allegiance to the American Flag — and then to the Christian Flag (yes, it has its own pledge) — on a weekly basis. I was homeschooled K12 in a high control environment and that was the one consistant social event each week, so I remember it well…
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Rob
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Hard to believe it's been over 50 years and NASA are still turning to Nazis for help with rockets. Some traditions die hard
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Standplaats Krakow
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Edith Charles 🏳️⚧️
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this must be what they mean when they talk about the “woke mob”
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Ryan Hubbs
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Thank you for writing this. Growing up deep in the Farris/Pearl HS subculture there was little emphasis on actual “schooling” - it was all about taking power and “parental rights.” Namely, parents’ right to isolate and ritualistically abuse their children, to make them pliant soldiers for CN.
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The Onion
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"We are proud to announce that the 2023 Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine will be awarded to insurance broker and Findlay, OH resident Darren Weston for his astounding discoveries that vaccines don’t work and will kill you."
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Ryan Hubbs
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Yup. Elon’s selling/elevating of blue checks — most of which seem to be puerile right-wing bots — reminded me of Steve Bannon’s media strategy… namely “Flood the zone with shit.”
amp.cnn.com/cnn/2021/11/...
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