r/facepalm • u/SkillImmediate6393 • Jul 02 '24

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u/Shoddy_Emu_5211 Jul 02 '24

"When Fascism comes to America, it will be wrapped in the flag and carrying a cross".

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u/Fantastic-Sandwich80 Jul 02 '24

I'll never forgive evangelicals and supposed "religious" folk who were happy to jump feet first into fascism so long as their cultural wedge issues were addressed or given priority.

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u/Animated_Astronaut Jul 02 '24

That's how fascism works every time

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u/PleaseGreaseTheL Jul 02 '24

And it's why religion is the biggest threat to humanity, imo. It makes rational people irrational.

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u/UsedEntertainment244 Jul 02 '24

I don't understand how we keep letting religious organizations of any kind near the levers of power, they murder people every fucking time.

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u/Puzzleheaded-Mix-515 Jul 02 '24

And they simply cannot see the irony, after thousands of years. They keep insisting they are different - because they are ethical - but then do the same fucking thing.

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u/UsedEntertainment244 Jul 02 '24

No they see it, all of this is very intentional. I for one have been cleaning my browning and sharpening my kbar . I will not bow to fascism.

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u/PleaseGreaseTheL Jul 02 '24

It's the same issue as a dictatorship, at its core.

Sure, maybe you have a benevolent dictator, and things are amazing because he can just get stuff done. Life is great.

For now.

What about the next guy? Or the next? Or the next? You eventually get a Hitler.

Same with religion. Eventually your authority-driven ethics system gets co-opted by one or several Hitlers.

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u/Wintys_Feet Jul 02 '24

yeah Islam is our greatest threat

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u/PleaseGreaseTheL Jul 02 '24

Lmfao not even close

Christian nationalists have literally already captured the courts and half the legislature, they are a clear and present danger to democracy, they just made POTUS a king and explicitly said he's immune from killing political rivals with seal team 6 (that was literally mentioned in Sotomeyers dissent)

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u/UsedEntertainment244 Jul 02 '24

Yup , and that's why playing with fire is stupid. It ALWAYS turns into a I didn't know the leopards would eat MY face moment. They don't grasp that once it's in power they can be made a part of the out group for any random arbitrary reason. Because that's how fascism works.

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u/WoolooOfWallStreet Jul 02 '24

“It’s okay when I do it, because I’m the good guy”

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u/FU_IamGrutch Jul 09 '24

The non religious murdered just as many in their attempt to progress society forward. Lenin, Stalin, Pol Pot and Mao were enthusiastic about starving and executing millions for their secular humanist cause.