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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???(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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  Money is not free speech. Elections should not be auctions.

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