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EAll @ealluia.bsky.social · 2h
There's a lot of scriptural proof texting that goes into supporting this habit, as evangelicals are wont to do, and I read most of that as sincere rationalization, as oxymoronic as that sounds.
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EAll @ealluia.bsky.social · 2h
Once you grasp how ingrained this behavior is, particularly at the ecclesiastical leadership level, that also fits within supporting monsters as a vessel of God.
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EAll @ealluia.bsky.social · 2h
Eh. I think it's important to understanding conservative Protestant culture in America that there's a deep, widespread habit of being willing to relentlessly and shamelessly lie if it serves the higher purpose of advancing one's religious goals.
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EAll @ealluia.bsky.social · 2h
But you understand that there are Christians who believe in sola fide and the Christians who think that are one in the same with the ones that tend to surround Trump as his religious boosters, right?
EAll @ealluia.bsky.social · 2h
Yeah, though I have in mind sincere evangelicals who believe in sola fide to the point of being willing to fight wars over the issue who for Trump are willing to extend their lying for the Lord behavior to pretending as though Trump isn't a walking mockery of what they believe.
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EAll @ealluia.bsky.social · 2h
I'm not sure if it's good or not that he thinks he needs to make good to get into heaven as he's surrounded himself with Nazi types who have twisted ideas about what is good, but the idea of Trump chasing moral behavior based on narcissistic self-interest fits.
EAll @ealluia.bsky.social · 2h
I'm fascinated by the fact that the by faith alone Christians surrounding him can't get to his beliefs and how they are willing to bite their tongue on this blasphemy over what to them is a major doctrinal issue.
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EAll @ealluia.bsky.social · 5h
It’s precisely because it was a real issue that gave media the moral permission to cover it into the ground and not feel biased for doing so despite the extreme bias in their collective behavior.
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EAll @ealluia.bsky.social · 5h
it is important that government communications are handled with propriety. It’s not that this was a non-issue. It’s that this was a real, if minor issue blown way out of proportion. It also was not placed in the context of contrasting the candidates where even on that issue Trump was more suspect.
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EAll @ealluia.bsky.social · 5h
I think it’s worth thinking about why the atypically high inflation in egg prices was top of mind water cooler conversation for two years, even when egg prices were rapidly dropping, but you don’t see anything near that with high beef inflation. I don’t think you can explain it w/o media focus.
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EAll @ealluia.bsky.social · 19h
Tron Legacy had great visuals and sound, but wasn’t exactly a good movie. Speed Racer I’d defend as a legitimately good, if flawed film.
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EAll @ealluia.bsky.social · 19h
It’s one of the all time greats. I love the bit that starts as a Philip Glass homage that transitions into a Danny Elfman homage before veering straight into lords of synth stuff all while feeling like one natural, continuous piece of music.
EAll @ealluia.bsky.social · 1d
It's odd to pick France in particular since its neo-fascist movement has been gaining steam for a generation or so and is now the single most popular political faction within the country, at least for the time being.
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EAll @ealluia.bsky.social · 1d
It is not true, though, that France has such a robust culture of pro-democracy civic virtue that the people wouldn't let it happen, nor is it true that the French government by design would not permit such a thing.
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EAll @ealluia.bsky.social · 1d
If you're going to keep retreating your claim to the point that you've special pled your way into arguing that France specifically won't fall to the far right (again) because it hasn't yet, then you're engaging in a type of reasoning that would have worked for USA up to Oct. 2024.
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EAll @ealluia.bsky.social · 1d
I thought you were talking about Eurozone countries. I agree that Presidentialism is more prone to democratic collapse than parliamentary systems, but it false to believe that parliamentary systems are resistant or even immune by design.
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EAll @ealluia.bsky.social · 1d
What position does Orban have again?
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EAll @ealluia.bsky.social · 1d
I think you are being naive to what Euro far right parties will do if and when they gain a critical mass of support. Hungary isn’t the only nation that can go the way of Hungary.
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EAll @ealluia.bsky.social · 1d
Far right parties hostile to liberal democracy are leading in polling in several EU countries as well as Great Britain right now. The US election was decided by a very narrow margin based on anti-incumbent retrospective voting. The difference here is both contingent on luck and fickle.
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EAll @ealluia.bsky.social · 1d
Yeah, unfortunately the ambition and aggressiveness often present in those who take leadership positions also comes with major downsides. Leaders who aren’t moral black holes or up in the night are a precious resource.
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EAll @ealluia.bsky.social · 1d
I think it does, because insofar as a major political party wants to assault democracy, you will get people who support that due to partisan effects. Also, the Euro far right is similarly fascism-esque.
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EAll @ealluia.bsky.social · 1d
Mostly what it proves is that Americans, like citizens of democracies around the world, are highly partisan and take cues about what to support from the political parties they identity with.
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EAll @ealluia.bsky.social · 2d
The MLK one comes from a specific viral misreading of a passage from his Letter from Birmingham Jail that could be cleared up immediately if you just read the document that is only a few pages. But why do that when you've read some tweets of people you trust to know what they're talking about?
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EAll @ealluia.bsky.social · 2d
This is why it seems like almost every single jargony concept from academia to break containment into popular social media use has a rapid lifecycle of being distorted into something else entirely while retaining the condescending, "learn a book, idiot" posturing.
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EAll @ealluia.bsky.social · 2d
I think the synthesis here it is it is very common for people to learn a new thing on social media poorly, and the specific versions of those misunderstandings that are most likely to drive engagement get shared and spread from there.
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