“Boy, these conservatives are really something, aren't they? They're all in favor of the unborn. They will do anything for the unborn. But once you're born, you're on your own. Pro-life conservatives are obsessed with the fetus from conception to nine months. After that, they don't want to know about you. They don't want to hear from you. No nothing. No neonatal care, no day care, no head start, no school lunch, no food stamps, no welfare, no nothing. If you're preborn, you're fine; if you're preschool, you're fucked.”
I just realised something that bothers me about the modern internet. Back in the late 2000s and the early 2010s, the average annoying online dude's idea of a "based" guy would have been George Carlin (or more unfortunately, some dipshit like Richard Dawkins), now many of them stan fascists and enthusiastically agree with everything Carlin was railing against
they'll also turn around and tell you with a straight face that carlin wouldn't be able to say the things he says without being cancelled
they just don't realize that they'd be the ones doing the cancelling
George Carlin certainly knew how to call 'em out
Also uncritical support to any Christian fundies that'll light themselves on fire
Imagine calling yourself a person of God in and then immediately start talking about how we need children to starve. Are you trying to rot in hell for eternity??
Christian Fascists have no meaningful connection to any historical Christian tradition. They're more or less a new religious movement that started the US in the 1800s. The fundamental premise was that you didn't need to read the bible to know what Jesus wanted. So it's solipsism + ambient American calvinism + proud ignorance + American Fascism, all under one ruth. A real, true religion of evil with no redeeming features. Hell, they barely have any theology.
I’m reading a book right now that mentions just how absolutely savage white settlers were on the American frontier. I mean, they make the army at the time look saintly by comparison. No concerns at all about slaughtering indigenous men, women, and children just so they could be yeoman farmers living the dream. Honestly I might even put them ahead of some of these present day settlers in Palestine just in terms of sheer evilness.
Then I had a thought. These are the same people who essentially founded the modern day evangelical movement in the US. Evangelicals today are both the literal and figurative descendants of the monsters who genocided an entire people so they can get a little slice of that pie. Their morals haven’t improved at all in 2 centuries.
Straight up - From the book of Mathew: "A good tree cannot bear bad fruit, nor can a bad tree bear good fruit."
Their own book (admittedly they neither read nor are they interested in scholarship or theology) condemns them endlessly for their bullshit.
I was raised evangelical. A big reason I deconverted was I started taking the idea of “faith without works is dead” very seriously. Except, within the evangelical framework there isn’t really a way to do “good works”, even though it’s right there in the Bible. Evangelical churches and groups don’t offer any programs to genuinely help the poor and needy. You can try and organize things yourself but no one’s gonna help you. And if you dare start talking about “social justice” enough your fellow Christians will get real suspicious that you might be one of those “liberals” and start shutting you out. The whole system is designed to discourage you from doing actual good things so I couldn’t figure out how I was supposed to do “good works”. Could not be happier to be out.
You start looking to hammer things out and get your beliefs in order only to find out that everyone around you treats everything that could be good or beautiful about your religion with scorn
Nazis got their inspiration of generalplan ost and "living spaces" from America Manifest Destiny.
also evangelicals seem to have very similar attitudes and social views as the pharisees
"doesn't actually believe and just wants money and power"
Missing the slick mega church pastor that deep down is dead inside but the money is good. These true believer freaks are something else and dangerous af
You know what's more dangerous? Forcing 36 unhealthy, hungry, emotionally damaged children in a room and trying to teach them anything.
Akshually, sweaty, what's dangerous is inviting the devil in by *checks note* clothing the naked, healing the sic, feeding the hungry, etc.
What would Jesus think if he heard we were just handing out food willy nilly?
The only good Fascist etc etc.
Does anyone find it weird how white Christians in America seem to fulfill more antisemitic stereotypes than Jews do?
Sure, I'm the problem but some spoiled, pig-like brat who inherited their wealth from daddy's slave plantation going generations back is totally fine, despite never earning a single honest penny in their lives.
A loving god would have obliterated America decades ago by exploding Yellowstone.
No you see, if an unhealthy, hungry and emotionally damaged child fails to learn enough in school that is actually the child's personal failing and a billionaire's (superior) child would have enough individual responsibility to persevere.
Giving children free food is communism.
A vote for Bart is a vote for Anarchy.
Sure whatever, it's communism.
If they want to tell people objectively good things are communism I am not going to correct them.
Good is bad and bad is good. That's how the villains think in kid's TV shows, and in real life too I guess.
It's funny. I don't even write characters like this. They'd left my psyche and it's weird seeing them again.
I assume this lady also refuses to brush her teeth because she loves tooth decay
Communism is when you want to see children happy and healthy and the more happy and healthy they are the more communist it is. Damn, guilty as charged.
how do you even go about deradicalising and reeducating these people?
God forbid we nurture children
Just kill them, deworming that much would take decades per person
I think the cultural revolution model might be better than that.
I also don't think we live in a culture that would need as much reforming as pre-Maoist China as that society had rigid class oppression baked into many many facets of life. Although by contrast Americans are all weirdly obsessed with race
Don't put that on Alaska Alaska is a nice place the Alaska Natives have had enough problems with white people.
That's a special kind of evil.
Child neglect is serious abuse that can fuck them up for life.
This woman should be in prison.
This woman should be in prison.
Sounds like she's running the prison, aka the classroom.
but that's still free!
new bit idea: actually we should abolish the family unit because its inherently communist
and yet when we do the same to the man of the house, we go to jail...
Unironically, this is exactly her issue. She wants children corrected and controlled by direct patriarchal violence. That's what she means when she says school are replacing families - emotional competency is replacing patriarchal violence, which is the most fundamental social structure of conservatism.
The type of person who treats their children like personal property instead of sapient beings with rights.
...Also known as the status quo in most of the English speaking world!
You know an idea is good when some oinker is screeching "what are we, a bunch of Asians!?!?" over it.
If you pigs get to laugh at me and rub your overvalued homes in my face, I should be allowed to force you to by schoolchildren lunches as punishment for your decadence.
- : "I am a proud machiavellian, I should do whatever I want and who cares if anyone gets hurt in the process? Can't make an omelette without breaking some eggs!": "Who cares if free meals is one of the cheapest ways to drop truancy rates? It's funded by the T-word (don't ask why I fully support subsidizing porky tho)! Poors need to die in famines for honor!"
its time for the right wing hjacking of 'emotional labor'
