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      If they really thought Hillary was the devil, they’d worship her.

      I guess Baphomet for president it is.

      We all know he is going to win, right?

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    I didn’t read the article, but I watched the “rally.”

    It’s been a while since all this shit gave me the chills. That is, or rather should be, legitimately very, very concerning language…

    History doesn’t repeat, but it rhymes. Let’s punch it in the throat before it can finish this bar.

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    There’s no way either outcome in the 2024 election will resolve without at least some sort of attacks from the far-right, and I can’t imagine what would happen after a Trump victory. The fate of the nation hangs by a silver thread.

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      And next time, project 2025 will ensure there are no more threads for our democracy to hang from, in addition to helping Putin to destabilize the cis region and boost his ussr resurrection dream, catapulting us ever closer to wwiii

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    Oh really? So why hasn’t God smote the Democrats already? Why is retribution always an in-the-future threat?

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        “Bow before the Lord, or get smote!”

        “I’m not going to bow before th- OOW! Why’d you hit me for?”

        “I acted as a vessel for God.”

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        "Next time on:HumanitZ AHHHHHHHHHHHHHHH!!! “Tune in next week for more AHHHHHHHHHHHHHH!!!”

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      God commanded us to smite the infidels! How do I know? I feel it in my heart! If you don’t believe it, you’re obviously an infidel.

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    I hate my country, the UK, for its crimes against humanity. We’ve done some shitty, shitty stuff; stuff that makes you sick. But nothing, nothing makes me more embarrassed than the thought that the USA was our mistake. We created the worst mistake in history.

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    God could come down from the Heavens and say that to my face and I’d still flip him off. Fuck Trump.

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      “And I saw one of his heads as if it had been mortally wounded, and his deadly wound was healed. And all the world marveled and followed the beast.”
      — Revelation 13:3

      What if the mortal wound doesn’t mean the death of a person? Donald Trump’s loss in 2020 could be seen as a mortal wound to his presidency or his power. If he wins in 2024, wouldn’t he have recovered from the wound? And certainly a bunch of people would be marveling and following him.

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    The “pastor” commanding everyone to worship the golden calf is worried about “demonic forces.” Look in the mirror.

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    Yeah that’s what the Catholic Church told us in Québec during the great darkness. (La Grande Noirceur) That if we didn’t vote for the then leader of the Union Nationale party, Maurice Duplessis, we would go to hell.

    The Catholic Church was promptly kicked out when the boomer generation finally reached voting age and the silent revolution began.

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    If there was a god, i am sure that he wouldbe with a cheater, grifter, liar, misogynistic, adulterer, idiot like the mango mussolini

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    I’m always confused on this. Is god supposed to be directly effecting people and their lives or is it supposed to be free will?

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      A lot of these super crazy religious people are Calvinists. There are different levels of Calvinism, but as you go higher it means that there is no free will. All humans are “on rails” essentially, just completing the design of God. Even to the point that all humans who exist have been pre-sorted into going to heaven or hell before they are even born. Individual actions don’t matter, and if you’re going to hell there’s nothing you can do to change it. It’s the will of God.

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        I’m not sure that’s true. I think they’re much more likely to be mainline evangelicals or Baptists (like the SBC) - more the dominionist types.

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    As long as they rely on God to do it, I’m ok with that. If the almighty smiter has the need to break its divine silence to punish me, not much I can do.

    However, if they try the whole “God is working through my human hands” bullshit, I’m calling swat

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        Oh I know. Just play the game since they are so easily manipulated. In other regimes, the extra-judicial killings were done with paramilitary, not established forces. They would use established forces, but play to their policies.

        So you set them uo against eachother.

        Results not guaranteed if you are non white.

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      The MO for every exalted leader in history. No, no, I’m not saying I am God, I’m just his go to guy.

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      I’m pretty sure the implication is the latter. No one will come out and directly say it but there are certainly nuts in the crowd interpreting as a call to arms. Unfortunately I’ve lost three friends to this trump shit and I’ve heard the way they twist what is said to fit their beliefs.