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Happy Independence Day !!!

posted by janrinok on Friday July 04, @05:35AM   

From the staff, may I wish all members of our US community a very happy Independence Day and holiday weekend.

When the BBQs and beer get too much, when being sociable with other family members is getting you down, come back and join in a discussion or two.

• Re:Subject of a monarch???Re:Subject of a monarch??? (Score: 5, Insightful) by https on Friday July 04, @04:18PM (1 child)

  by https (5248) on Friday July 04, @04:18PM (#1409319) Journal

  The government just passed a bill that's kicking people off medicare & medicaid, while increasing taxes on the poorest and decreasing taxes on the richest. Estimates are about 14 million extra people will die prematurely due to that over the next few years. Calling yourself collectively good, caring, and generous is, and I'm going to be unreasonably generous here, a lie.

  If you think criticism of blatant unconstitutionality, corruption, and openly Nazi polices is somehow taking away more from your country than the blatant unconstitutionality, corruption, and openly Nazi police, congratulations! You are supporting Nazis, corruption, and unconstitutional conduct. I know how much to value your explanations.

  If you want the country to stop rotting away, fuckine well start by throwing out the convicted felon from the highest office. The conviction literally means he cannot hold office. It's literally right there in the latest version of your constitution. Oh, wait, I forgot - you don't give a fuck about constitutionality. My bad.

  Trump's administration is not "winning in court" - they're ignoring the courts. ICE just got the most massive line increase in the budget, but the immigration courts did not get a similar rise. Congratulations! You've just built a bunch of concentration camps, and they shall rapidly become overflowing with people held outside habeus corpus. I wonder what that will lead to.

  I ain't gonna be bashing Trump in this particular post (not that such bashing would be unwarranted). The real problem is that he's just a PR frontman, hired to distract, incite hate, and to redirect useful outrage. Republicans are working hard to advance Project 2025, destroy your republic's version of democracy, and replace it with a ethnostate theocracy with pockets of technofeudalism (cf. "network state"). Trump is simply the most polite face they could find to be their calendar girl.

  You fail it.

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• Re:Subject of a monarch???(Score: 3, Interesting) by canopic jug on Sunday July 06, @08:36AM

  by canopic jug (3949) on Sunday July 06, @08:36AM (#1409428) Journal

  Republicans are working hard to advance Project 2025, destroy your republic's version of democracy, and replace it with a ethnostate theocracy with pockets of technofeudalism (cf. "network state").

  Along those lines, here is a well thought out piece about the late Confederacy has been revived by dressing it in Christian vocabulary [notesfromthecircus.com]. The main culprit there has been the late Jerry Fallwell [genius.com]. As the author puts it, Fallwell is the man who turned the gospel into a weapon against the very people Jesus spent his life defending:

  The answer was theological camouflage.

  Falwell understood that the Lost Cause mythology needed updating for the post-civil rights era. You couldn’t openly defend white supremacy anymore, but you could defend “traditional values.” You couldn’t explicitly argue for racial hierarchy, but you could talk about “law and order” and “biblical family structure.” You couldn’t promote Confederate ideology directly, but you could wrap it in scriptural language and call it moral revival.

  The genius was using Christianity as a delivery system for Confederate nostalgia. Instead of “states’ rights,” you had “religious liberty.” Instead of “racial purity,” you had “biblical family values.” Instead of “the South shall rise again,” you had “taking back America for God.”

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