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It’s even affecting things in the UK, requiring a passport photo and selfie video to “prove” you are you.
You can blame whoever you want, but the real blame comes down to one simple thing.
Religion.
The true cancer of society. The ultimate grift and control. The ultimate lie that turned millions into monsters. I hope that when soceity resets itself that all religion is abolished or at least a real law that restricts all religions from public services. Apparently, the separation of church and state is a smoke screen in today’s society.
Unfortunately, the phenomenon of social dogma that gives rise to religion has an evolutionary advantage. It’s how you get a bunch of people to focus on a common ends without spending too much time and energy being critical of the means. Humans who rally unquestioningly behind some percieved commonality get stuff done, regardless of how ethical it is. It’s why the Catholic church is immune to “cancel culture”. If any other modern institution had a documented history of figureheads systematically abusing children, they would be finished. But if everyone involved can say “that’s just the actions of a few evil individuals, they don’t represent my faith,” then they’ve achieved social immunity.
I honestly believe that until we see a belief system that emphasizes human dignity over corporate profits, we will continue our race to the bottom of capitalism. This isn’t something a democracy “reasons” its way out of, because falsifiable beliefs based in reason will always lose some argument (by design).
I think the Japanese religion of Shinto is pretty close to a best case scenario for a religion. It’s actually really fascinating. At its core is a belief that a spirit or godlike entity inhabits every single thing, living or inanimate, so you should treat everything with the respect of a divine being. But what you wouldn’t expect is, most people don’t literally believe these gods exist, they just see that practicing the religion makes their society better. In the west, we have a huge number of “non-practicing religious” people, but in Japan there is a huge number of “shinto-practicing non-religious” people. Combined with the fact that it (somehow) doesn’t have any figurehead trying to coopt it, it’s basically exclusively a net win for their society.
Btw abolishing religion is also be the quickest way to convince a bunch of people to start/join a religion.
While I hear you and mostly agree, “abolishing” religion will not have the intended effect.
Example: Much of Japan was atheist or basically non-religious before christians came along. Fast forward a couple hundred years, once christianity was legally banned in Japan, it just created a fuckton of martyrs and actually galvanized the remaining christians, who’ve persisted to today.
Probably the only/most effective way to stamp out religion is education—plain and simple. Education and creating a secular culture is the way to go imho.
You can blame whoever you want, but the real blame comes down to one simple thing. Religion.
Gov’ts stood against the mixing of church and state for years, so blaming religion alone neglects the whole story.
In reality it was politicians and gov’t pandering to the Moral Majority and Tea Party that set America on this particular road to hell.
The Tea Party was an astroturf’d campaign cooked up by the Koch brothers to realign conservative ideology with oligarchy under the guise of “originalist” patriotism. A very successful farce.
Much like the “right to life”, “Moral Majority” (which is a useful misnomer for Christian Conservative minority), and the rest of American Conservatism. Effective smoke and mirrors. All of it.
Hear, hear. Give me myth. Give me legend. Leave your theology at the door, though. I love me an ancient tale.
To be fair, though, popular myths are what led us here.
Ancient Aliens is the perfect gateway to anti-science, which gave us figures like RFK Jr who now has the power to fuck all the progress we’ve made in the hundreds of years since vaccines.
Creationism is now being taught in public schools, which undermines centuries of science. Public science is being dismantled, all for their rapture fantasies.
They’re not hiding climate science because they disagree, but because they think it’s a sign of the apocalypse and a good thing, so they don’t want people to fight it.
They’ve said this out loud, many times. It’s all on video. Again, Pikachu face.
Could you link one of those videos, or some names or something so I can find them myself?
Anything from the Discovery Institute or the stuff aimed at kids by PragerU is usually a good start. Materials by Creation Ministries or any of the christian textbook companies is good, too.
I don’t have specific video links, but like I said, it doesn’t matter much. If you search for ‘christian curriculum’ or ‘christian textbook’ you’ll see many various examples.
Too much drama for something natural for humans, that humans evolve anew when it’s taken from them.
You can’t live without religion, you’ll just invent a new one.
Kinda how Christianity took over Mediterranean when the plethora of old cults turned into something like attractions in a park, and for mystery religions it was just another mystery religion, but easier to access.
Or how Soviet ideology was quite similar to a religion (the magical part was concentrated in the “dialectical materialism” and “scientific communism” things), and when people stopped believing into that, hundreds of sects and superstitious beliefs start popping like mushrooms after a rain.
Clearly some of us can. But as a whole we do seem to crave finding purpose behind random events.
I feel like nobody read Project 2025. Everyone seems all Pikachu face lately, when they’ve not only told us all this, but blatantly captured all the levers of power.
What did you expect they’d do?
Spoiler: VPNs will be outlawed soon.
Also spoiler: This stuff regarding pornography is built so that they will soon define existing as a trans person as being pornographic, and if you’re seen existing as a trans person in front of children, you’ve committed a pedophilic crime against children, and oh yeah, they want to bring back capital punishment for those kind of crimes.
This is just an excuse to literally start murdering the LGBTQ+ community at large.
I don’t think they’re thinking it through like this. Yeah, that will likely happen, but I doubt this is an end goal they have. They don’t think things through like that. They’re reactionary, and trans people make them feel things they don’t want to feel, because Jesus watches them touch themselves. It’s really that simple.
The genocide is on the horizon, but most of them don’t know that – and won’t know it for decades afterwards. That’s why this is so dangerous.
e: look at the porn they watch then tell me this isn’t true. They think these are fetishes, not identities, because they’re devoid of empathy. It’s horrible, but if you understand this, their actions, however reprehensible, make sense.
It’s literally on page 5 of Project 2025, which equates being transgender with abusing children. Then on page 554 they posit that they must increase the use of the death penalty and they single out “crimes against children” to be one of the things that they should put people to death for. This is literally the plan.
https://static.heritage.org/project2025/2025_MandateForLeadership_FULL.pdf
Page 5:
Pornography, manifested today in the omnipresent propagation of transgender ideology and sexualization of children, for instance, is not a political Gordian knot inextricably binding up disparate claims about free speech, property rights, sexual liberation, and child welfare. It has no claim to First Amendment protection. Its purveyors are child predators and misogynistic exploiters of women. Their product is as addictive as any illicit drug and as psychologically destructive as any crime. Pornography should be outlawed. The people who produce and distribute it should be imprisoned. Educators and public librarians who purvey it should be classed as registered sex offenders. And telecommunications and technology firms that facilitate its spread should be shuttered.
Page 554:
Capital punishment is a sensitive matter, as it should be, but the current crime wave makes deterrence vital at the federal, state, and local levels. However, providing this punishment without ever enforcing it provides justice neither for the victims’ families nor for the defendant. The next conservative Administration should therefore do everything possible to obtain finality for the 44 prisoners currently on federal death row. It should also pursue the death penalty for applicable crimes—particularly heinous crimes involving violence and sexual abuse of children—until Congress says otherwise through legislation.
Sorry, I guess I wasn’t clear.
The Heritage Society has thought this through – I meant rank and file republicans haven’t. Thus my original comment about people going Pikachu face when this shit happens when it was all spelt out in Project 2025.
It’s infuriating that most people had no idea what they were voting for, but that’s true. It’s also true that many would still deny it whilst ruffling the ashes of their neighbours from their hair. And they won’t acknowledge it in the future, either.
e: sorry, my fault; rereading, I see I switched between ‘they’ meaning the leadership vs the majority of constituents mid-sentence.
e2: this is exactly why citizens in towns near the Nazi’s death camps were made to walk through and look at what they’d done, by the way. People refuse to reckon with their decisions unless made to look.
Thank you kindly for the clarification. This, I largely agree with. However I do think a large contingency of Trump voters literally want to return to an era where they can abuse the LGBTQ+ community and other minorities with impunity.
That’s true, but again, not consciously. They think of themselves as morally pure, and they’re only following their god’s word. It’s not their fault that others are wicked, and they’ve tried to save us from hell.
That’s why we can’t reach them. They think they’re the righteous ones, and will think that long past when they’re literally lighting the fires upon which they burn us.
I still think that’s giving them a little too much credit and that religion is just a convenient excuse to hate people who are different.
I too am quite surprised so few people seem to have been reading that book. I’m not even American but I’ve read it.
So much of what has been happening recently is explained in it.
Is this federated? I use Voyager on iOS exclusively, and that link doesn’t resolve to a community for me. I searched for those terms on Lemmy and didn’t find anything.
If this doesn’t exist on Lemmy, I might start a community and dedicate my life to it.
It should just be a hyperlink to a website that was built by a couple of redditors. So not technically federated at this point.
Okay, thanks. It doesn’t want to load properly in whatever built-in mobile browser Voyager is implementing.
I might make a community…
It works on Voyager on iOS. Or at least for me it does.
I have an older phone and I’m not up to date. It’s probably a ‘me’ problem. Thanks, though!
It’s defeating. I remember telling folks left and right. Anyone that would listen. I really don’t even feel like talking to folks about it anymore now. It’s been a very numb year…
Washington state should call the SCOTUS decision pornography and ban it in the state for anyone under 1200 years old.
Jokes on them. My 100s of TBs of downloaded porn has a backlog that will take me decades to get through. Funny enough my steam backlog is in the 500s but I’ll only keep playing the same 10 games until I die.
