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[–] 49 points 8 months ago (1 child)

and who is going to wage war on the U.S. for the misguided religion overtaking it?

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  • [–] 36 points 8 months ago* (1 child)

    Unlike your doomsday religion, which believes it is waging an apocalyptic war to immanentize the eschaton. 🤡

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  • [–] 13 points 8 months ago

    For anyone else who never heard the term before: In political theory and theology, to immanentize the eschaton is a generally pejorative phrase referring to attempts to bring about utopian conditions in the world, and to effectively create heaven on earth. Theologically, the belief is akin to postmillennialism as reflected in the Social Gospel of the 1880–1930 era, as well as Protestant reform movements during the Second Great Awakening in the 1830s and 1840s such as abolitionism

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  • [–] 33 points 8 months ago*

    I love how the republican Jesus is okay with blowing up schools and hospitals and parents fishing parts of their children out of rubble, but somehow it’s their religion that’s misguided.

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  • [–] 28 points 8 months ago

    Yeah, I bet dads in Iran don’t even check in on their son’s pornhub search history. Fucking heathens.

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  • [–] 17 points 8 months ago

    I swear I keep making this joke about "Jesus hates this one neat trick to bring the apocalypse!"

    Like wtf is wrong with these fundamentalist assholes thinking they can force a massive bloody war to happen and that will somehow trick Jesus to come because they completed some checklist? Are they playing some kind of card game? "Ha! My conditions have been met, I force Jesus to the field! He casts Absolution! We all go to heaven and collect 23 virgins!"

    ...ffs

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    [–] 17 points 8 months ago

    I appreciated the ambiguity of the sentence.

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  • [–] 16 points 8 months ago* (4 children)

    I cannot believe that was actually said by a United States representative, where it is and has been codified in the nations constitution, that freedom of religion is a right of the people via the first amendment. Freedom of religion means any religion, but also, freedom from religion.

    to wit: The civil rights of none shall be abridged on account of religious belief or worship, nor shall any national religion be established, nor shall the full and equal rights of conscience be in any manner, or on any pretext, infringed.

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  • [–] 12 points 8 months ago* (3 children)

    In the United States, the 13th Amendment (1865) formally abolished slavery and involuntary servitude, except as punishment for a crime for which a person has been duly convicted. Because of this exception clause, forced labor can legally be imposed on incarcerated people within the prison system. Historically, after the amendment was ratified, some states used laws—such as “Black Codes” and vagrancy statutes—to arrest large numbers of people (especially formerly enslaved Black Americans) and then compel them to work through systems like convict leasing and chain gangs. Today, prison labor programs still exist in federal and state facilities, where incarcerated individuals may be required to work.

    yeaaa, no one expected at all that a usonian politician would say something like this, they are so wholesome most of the time!11!1!!

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  • [–] 3 points 8 months ago (2 children)

    If MAGA manages to stay on power, the 13th Amendment is going to be the foundation for their new economic model.

    As unemployment one inevitably rises due to AI/ Robotics/ Automation, they will make unemployment, homelessness, and even debt illegal, and you will go to the work camp to be leased out to corporations. If you need food assistance, or any other help from the government, you will work it off in the camps.

    Of course, as more paid jobs are replaced by low-paying slave labor, unemployment will continue to rise, and the camps will fill up even more. Eventually there will be more slaves than jobs for them, and then they will have to figure out what to do with useless workers who are eating, getting sick, reproducing, spreading rumors, causing trouble, trying to escape, fighting, etc.

    Stephen "PeeWee Himmler" Miller has already said that he wants to reduce the population from 335 million to 100 million. How do you think he's going to handle that situation?

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  • [–] 4 points 8 months ago (1 child)

    It's easier to imagine the end of the world than the end of capitalism, huh? I feel you, but relax, the Usonian Empire will fall before y'all have to go through all that, hopefully.

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  • [–] 16 points 8 months ago

    Their misguided religion was maybe going to lead them to attack Isreal and the US someday, so Isreal and the US preemptively attacked them unprovoked instead, guided by our superior religions. The hypocrisy is completely lost on me, as well as the irony of, again, justifying their antagonism towards Isreal and the US in the first place for the umpteenth time.

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  • [–] 11 points 8 months ago

    What the fuck

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  • [–] 11 points 8 months ago

    I am old enough to remember that after September 11, 2001 very similar things were said by all mass media. The didn't even update their rhetoric.

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  • [–] 20 points 8 months ago (2 children)

    All religions are misguided. People, in this situation, just use them as an excuse to kill each other.

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  • [–] 17 points 8 months ago (1 child)

    Yes, the United States' misguided religion is causing a lot of conflict.

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  • [–] 14 points 8 months ago (4 children)

    Yeah... Probably nothing to do with the fact we've been fucking with them since we helped to overthrow their Shah...

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  • [–] 13 points 8 months ago (3 children)

    It was the CIA who put the "Shah" into power in the 1953 coup. Before this Iran had a democratically elected prime minister who nationalised the country's oil, his name was Mohammad Mosaddegh. The USA have never been big fans of middle Eastern countries controlling their own oil.

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  • [–] 24 points 8 months ago*

    Democrats did all that talk about how troops shouldn't follow "illegal orders," then are totally silent when these brave officers and enlisted follow blatantly illegal orders. But they don't want the president to lose that power for their dream blue maga presidential candidate.

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  • [–] 10 points 8 months ago

    Release the Epstein Files

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  • [–] 5 points 8 months ago

    Which misguided religion is he referring to? Islam, Judaism, or Christianity? Or is he referring to all three?

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  • [–] 6 points 8 months ago* (last edited 8 months ago)

    The only religion the ghouls in Washington believe in is pedophilia, capitalism and imperialism.

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  • [–] 3 points 8 months ago

    Actually, the spiders around my house believe in 8 different gods. Shall we exterminate those little biches from my house? Daddy long Legs? Buddy, come here!

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  • [–] -1 points 8 months ago* (last edited 8 months ago)

    this is poor writing, highly ambiguous, there's no way to tell from context which country "its" is supposed to refer to

    edit for those apparently not getting it: there is, but only because we know he's a hypocrite

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  • [–] 12 points 8 months ago

    Maybe the blue team should have stopped the genocide and won their votes??? Not that their votes are necessary to win, but why should they be entitled anyone's votes when they started the open extermination of Palestinians???

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    [–] 26 points 8 months ago (8 children)

    Why choose one misguided religion over another?

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  • [–] 6 points 8 months ago (7 children)

    It’s all about money. None of these people are actually religious.

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  • [–] 2 points 8 months ago (6 children)

    Mike Johnson actually is. That's the dangerous thing.

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    I feel like this is a reference I'm not getting lol.

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    Ahh, I'm not really aware of his works.

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    Yeah, alright that's why I'm not aware of it. His music is a little too high concept for me. I have always been more into "in your face" stuff like Slipknot, system of a down and rage against the machine. I'm not saying it's bad or anything, it's just out of my time, I guess.

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  • [–] 15 points 8 months ago

    Funny, I think that about his religion

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  • [–] 23 points 8 months ago

    All religions are misguided and should be abolished.

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  • [–] 10 points 8 months ago* (last edited 8 months ago) (1 child)

    “And in defiance of every president since Jimmy Carter, the Iranian regime has pursued the means to acquire a nuclear weapon, so they could take that madness and that ideology to its full conclusion.”

    And the US had nothing to do with Iran's current political state.

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  • [–] 7 points 8 months ago

    Wanting to destroy the US isn’t a religious thing.

    I’m not religious at all and want to destroy the US.

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  • [–] 1 point 8 months ago

    But he repeats himself

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    [–] 26 points 8 months ago (1 child)

    Wow, I agree with Mike Johnson for once.

    Wait… never mind, I’m being told that “Its” refers to Iran.

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  • [–] 21 points 8 months ago (2 children)

    100% a quote you could expect ISIS or the Taliban to make. This guy's fucking insane. Fuck MAGA americans for enabling this...

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  • [–] 20 points 8 months ago (2 children)

    Good to know the crusades are back, I guess. How is he going to square the US running this war with Israel though?

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  • [–] 7 points 8 months ago

    These religious idiots sound like the other religious idiots

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  • [–] 6 points 8 months ago

    Void, I hate this man so much.

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  • [–] 5 points 8 months ago

    Said the country that lies 24/7 non stop. If you believe them, you are a murderer.

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  • [–] 2 points 8 months ago

    This was why we had separation of church and state...

    ...at least in theory...

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    [–] 1 point 8 months ago

    "Examples of Iranian acts against US in last 40 years" is an argument that gets unanswered in any media debate. US has had no good will towards Iran within that period, including especially its sanctions regime. Having negotiations to lift sanctions was supposed to mean a constructive path forward, instead of an opportunity for Israel to derail the negotiations.

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