I work with someone, who's not a stupid person, and not a Republican, and he told me at the time that it was propaganda that the Democrats put out.

Nothing I said got through. All I said was that we'll have to revisit the conversation in 6 months. Haven't talked to him about it again yet.

Part of the problem is that the divide is more urban vs rural than state by state. We might end up with dozens of city states with all the tech and money, but none of the staples of life and vast tracts of impoverished rural thocracies that can only survive by selling food and raw materials to the city states.

Will there be refugee programs for those of us in red states? The second you give these fuckers Gilead, they’ll start culling LGBT people and life will get a lot worse for anyone with the wrong amount of melanin in their skin.

i dunno texas and ohio make a LOT of food

I imagine Texas, maybe, but it’s a gas station at that point I’d imagine as things that are different to that would probably want to leave.

A lot of everywhere else would be a whole mess with progressive cities being screwed by the rest of the state with many of them leaving before the borders close and those that couldn’t being trapped in hell.

This is my favourite whenever people try to weaponise the Bible. Jesus said that he is the fulfilment of “the law and the prophets”, and even goes so far as to say some of the laws that were given were only because of how messed up the people of Israel were. If Jesus is the fulfilment of “the law and the prophets”, then what he says is authoritative over what is written in the Old Testament.

As an aside, in the Old Testament “God’s wrath” is most often seen in the form of letting a nation destroy themselves (usually Israel) by doing whatever they want instead of what God instructed them to do, which essentially boils down to the verses I originally quoted. Usually that meant being conquered by another nation or famine. Some may say that same sort of thing is playing out for MAGA. The people claiming to represent God have been doing exactly the opposite of what he told them to do, and now they’re getting what they wanted but it’s destroying them.

Love how this is the comment they chose not to downvote

When did Jesus teach about authoritarian death cults?

Did NatC that coming.

Beautiful

Double fucked

Thank you for reiterating his point?

Those Republicans aren't gone. They're just Democrats now because the entire spectrum of political discourse in the US has shifted that far right.

Remember when the Cheneys found themselves on the outs with the Republicans? Their alliance with Dems would have been utterly unthinkable 25 years ago, but look at them now. As Republicans move further right and Democrats keep trying to court "centrist" voters, all they're doing is moving their party to the right.

There's many, including those in dem leadership, who think maga is just a small part of gop and eventually it'll go away and gop will go back to how it was.

They don't want to acknowledge or admit this is what gop has always been

One of these will be pilloried and eventually destroyed. The other will blame the prior for all its bad actions, claim innocence and continue onwards

Thanks for this lol