"To understand JD Vance, you need to meet the 'TheoBros.' These extremely online young Christian men want to end the 19th Amendment, restore public flogging, and make America white again. ...
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Jon Sterlingreplied to William Lindsey :toad: last edited by
@wdlindsy Isn’t JD Vance and his hole trope just catholicism? What does this have to do with Calvinism???
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Citoyen européen Ray Hindle ✔️replied to William Lindsey :toad: last edited by
@wdlindsy One of “America's True Owners”
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troy_frizzellreplied to William Lindsey :toad: last edited by
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bennyreplied to William Lindsey :toad: last edited by
@wdlindsy holy @!&#
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Michaelreplied to William Lindsey :toad: last edited by
@wdlindsy @lisamelton These are the guys Margaret Atwood warned us about.
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Andrewreplied to William Lindsey :toad: last edited by
You can always rely on religious fundamentalism to take you back to the dark ages.
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Christo. London, Englandreplied to William Lindsey :toad: last edited by
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Michael Buschreplied to Bart Van de Poel last edited by
@bartvdpoel @wdlindsy J.D. Vance is too extreme even for the Catholic bishops: https://eu.dispatch.com/story/news/state/2024/09/19/haitian-immigrants-springfield-catholic-bishops-vance-ohio/75293214007/ .
Which reveals the contingent within Catholicism that Vance belongs to.
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Michael Buschreplied to William Lindsey :toad: last edited by
@wdlindsy @inthehands Being a former-Catholic atheist:
It is no longer surprising, but remains striking, to encounter people like J.D. Vance who profess to have once been atheists but then re-associated themselves with the most extreme parts of Catholicism for the sake of bigotry and authoritarianism.
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Kierkegaanks regretfullyreplied to William Lindsey :toad: last edited by
@wdlindsy and he didn’t even chainsaw a whale
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Greenpete (No Flag)replied to William Lindsey :toad: last edited by
@wdlindsy Do these deadheads ever wonder if some people might want to make America red again?
I can only imagine what native Americans must think of stupid white people wanting to make things 'great' or 'white' again... -
George Snorewellreplied to William Lindsey :toad: last edited by
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“The sexual act cannot be made into an egalitarian pleasuring party. A man penetrates, conquers, colonizes, plants. A woman receives, surrenders, accepts.”That's the core of half of it. The other half being racism.
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George Snorewellreplied to William Lindsey :toad: last edited by
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Check out this fawning sophomoric panegyric on Erik Prince at the TheoBro "American Reformer" rag.It's got that amazing "I hope Mr. Prince sees this" dork energy. Wow.
The first paragraph alone is pure Tom Cruise '80s movie Duke Football pre-game preppy. Reads like a high-school honors essay at a suburban Dallas Christian academy.
Have a quick peek and you can throw in your own descriptors.
A Man For Our Times | Terry Gant
A Review of Civilian Warriors by Erik Prince
American Reformer (americanreformer.org)
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William Lindsey :toad:replied to George Snorewell last edited by
@DoesntExist Erik Prince — of all people. Another of those right-wing opportunist-operatives like JD Vance who has chosen Catholicism in its hard-right theocratic iteration. And rooted in the Calvinism that sustains the TheoBros, as is his sister Betsy DeVos, another piece of work.
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William Lindsey :toad:replied to George Snorewell last edited by
@DoesntExist Yes. Very well-stated and well-noted.
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William Lindsey :toad:replied to Greenpete (No Flag) last edited by
@greenpete Yes, imagine trying to run these arguments about to whom America belongs by the native peoples of the country.
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William Lindsey :toad:replied to Kierkegaanks regretfully last edited by
@Kierkegaanks No, he didn't.
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William Lindsey :toad:replied to Michael Busch last edited by
@michael_w_busch @inthehands Yes, I agree. But when one considers the enormous unelected and for-life power that a handful of hard-right Catholic operatives employ on the highest court of the land, one begins to see the appeal — for those who want ruthless power to coerce the majority in the name of their theocratic aspirations.
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George Snorewellreplied to William Lindsey :toad: last edited by
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Exactly as you say. Like his sister, he draws direct inspiration from apartheid in South Africa.It astonished me that, when DeVos was Ed Sec, she was up-front about her ideological affinity for Abraham Kuyper, particularly Pillarisation.
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William Lindsey :toad:replied to Michael Busch last edited by
@michael_w_busch @bartvdpoel Yes, thanks for noting that — though I'd say that as a body, the bishops have done far too little in the past decade or two to catechize their flock about what Catholic magisterial teaching has to say regarding the treatment of immigrants. If they'd been doing their pastoral job, over half of white Catholics wouldn't be telling pollsters they intend to vote for Trump in 2024 — as they did in 2020 and 2016.