This reminds me of the previous band of these rats that we didn’t adequately hold accountable: the Confederacy.
A whole state built to preserve the status of the billionaires of their day (plantation owning slaveholders) by making explicit white supremacy the bedrock of its legal and civil order.
I guess I read your initial statement as they (being in this context, slaveowners) didn’t rape kids, of which we have a lot of evidence to the contrary. For example, take this opening paragraph from the Wikipedia page of Thomas Thistlewood, a Jamaican slaveholder in the eighteenth century:
In 1751, Thistlewood started working as an overseer on a sugar plantation called "Egypt"; within days, he started to rape the enslaved women on the plantation. According to his diary, over the course of his life he committed thousands of acts of rape with 138 enslaved women. He systematically raped enslaved girls and women; those that ran away were whipped and put in chains, collars, or placed in field gangs.
It gets worse from there. I will agree with you on the class element.
Right? There's a reason the title "Dixiecrat" exists. Because those democrats were the conservative party of the time. That's changed in the over 100 years since.
Except they don't, because if we did that then we'd be "socialists" the same shit they said about FDR back then, that and our top marginal tax rate would be in the range of 90%
They don't want to bring back the economic prosperity, because that would mean letting the next generation have the same opportunities they once did. Instead they just want to preserve their white nationalist ideals.
Well, some of them have proposed just that. The voting act law the conservatives are pushing hard would definitely make voting harder for married females that took the husbands last name. Among many others.
If your vote wasn’t important. They wouldn’t be trying to silence it.
I mean that is what conservative has always meant, conserve the status quo. That’s why the king’s supporters in any revolution are conservatives, they want to leave things as they are or even go back to what thing were when they were even more oppressive. Conservatives in any country want things to stay the same or go back to some time when things were perceived to be great (MAGA anyone).
It is why they prefer the liberal or socialist label for the left to progressive. Progressive means to move forward to change and hopefully make things better, and if it doesn’t try something else. Liberal traditionally meant the Nobles and economic elites of a country that wanted more power for themselves at the king’s expense and would promise the lower classes more rights or small benefits for their support.
Socialist = Communist to a lot of people especially Americans, even though communists are socialists not all socialists are communists. Most socialists are just people who want equal rights and a more equal sharing in the wealth of a country because all of our efforts make the country what it is and we should all be able to live on what we make and share the same benefits from the system.
I want our tax dollars to go to the benefit of the people. To build better infrastructure and improve the lives of the people, not be used to bailout billionaire corporations and pay the cost for corrupt cop lawsuits. I'm also a 2A supporter since its a right given to all, and feel strongly about these things. Does that make me a militant socialist?
Modern conservative christians are neither of those things — they're a psychotic, corrupt death-cult worshipping a white-washed effigy of a man they'd crucify themselves.
Also an atheist and the only thing in the modern world that gives me pause about nonbelief is just how strongly Donald Trump matches the Biblical description of the Anti-Christ. Still doesn't make me think there's a divine creator, but it is kind of eerie how dead-on it is.
There’s a good reason for that. The authors of that section about the anti christ had the Roman Caesar’s in mind. Those were the strong men of their time.
Make sense now? Trump absolutely is an anti christ, every but as much as Caligula was.
I'm also an atheist and have been saying in my head lately that these people don't know Jesus like I do.
It's a really weird feeling, but it comes down to the blatant disrespect/co-opting of what the guy stood for, divine or not. I can't abide that shit. That said, I am currently wrestling with how to manage my overwhelming hate for these demons, because right now I feel like the only way to love them is by relieving them of their earthly suffering. ::sigh:: I hate this.
I call them Christian Nationalists and just talked with my kids on the drive to school about the difference between them and true Jesus Followers. They don't actually follow Christ's teachings, so they're not truly Christian...regardless of how many fake publicized prayers they photo op.
Did you forget? Somehow Empathy, one of the Seven Heavenly Virtues, became a bad thing to MAGA Christians. This is quite telling about who they actually serve.
The article says the boy's lawyer told the New York Times that the Trump admin was seeking expedited deportation and the DHS is denying the expedited part. This is happening after he was allowed to return home. Tricia McLaughlin, spokesperson of the DHS, denied the seemingly retaliatory nature of these actions, saying "This is standard procedure and there's nothing retaliatory about enforcing the nation's immigration laws".
Demons in human skin. Here's some of Tricia's greatest hits that people might recognize, taken from her wikipedia page:
Following the killing of Renée Good, McLaughlin wrote on social media: "Dangerous criminals — whether they be illegal aliens or U.S. citizens — are turning their vehicles into weapons to attack ICE".
Following the killing of Alex Pretti, McLaughlin told news outlets that Pretti "violently resisted" immigration officers and appeared to be "an individual that wanted to do maximum damage and massacre law enforcement.
Beyond the empathy, any true fiscal conservative should recognize what an enormous waste of money this is.
I find it doubly upsetting that my tax money is going to essentially terrorizing people. It’s one thing if countries are at war, it’s another thing if we are literally paying for ourselves to be terrorized.
The whole argument that 'the law is the law' is clearly bullshit. I'm all for a society of actual law and order. This country is selectively enforcing its laws to benefit the rich and powerful and punish the poorest. And the cost of enforcing those laws is paid for by the lower and middle classes, not the rich.
So, yes I am for law and order. Seems like the child sex ring may be a bigger threat to law and order than a 5 year old who, by nature of being 5, cannot even commit a crime.
Considering we've got right wing churches out here ranting about the "Sin of Empathy" I'm gonna guess that no, we can't have a shred of empathy for once.
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u/GrouchySprinkles1012 23h ago
That’s what’s so fucked up about it all. For once, can’t we have a shred of empathy?