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All your life the odd person out, self-loathing, only to realize you were the one wfio saw through and saw more clearly than those within your world. You paid the price of deference and assuming those who were older, those who were "just teasing" you were superior, wiser, more knowledgeable.

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There is a perverse and bizarre bloodlust in certain strains of Christianity (Are you washed in the blood of the lamb? — WTF?). Pete Hegseth is but one iteration of this curious aspect of the religion"s origins and differs not all from the audiences watching gladiator spectacles in the Coliseum.

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You know who has a lot to answer for but never will? John Danforth and the late Kit Bond.

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US apocalypytic evangelical Christianity, simplified 1. French Revolution -> 2. British evs fear end of world -> 3. John N Darby-> North America. -> Spreads rapture -> 4. C.I. Scofield... 5. Two world wars, Depression 6. New Deal, GI Bill -> 7. Evs $$$ = power 8. Evs attempt societal suicide

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When the real society of the spectacle turns and shouts back at Guy Debord, all Jack Nicholson style, 'You want spectacle, I'll show you spectacle!' Public crucifixions: just another day in the US that the apocalypytic evangelicals built. There will be, there must be, blood.

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Clifton Lee @cliftonlee.bsky.social · 09/10/2026

Tell me again how polarization and wokeness created this monstrosity, Jonathan Haidt. Jesus fucking Christ.

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The rule, not the exception. The rule, not the exception.

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Clifton Lee @cliftonlee.bsky.social · 09/10/2026

«La crisi consiste appunto nel fatto che il vecchio muore e il nuovo non può nascere: in questo interregno si verificano i fenomeni morbosi più svariati.» — Antonio Gramsci, Quaderni del carcere

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Clifton Lee @cliftonlee.bsky.social · 06/10/2026

I know this is a reaction to a song that came out decades ago, but I just want to say to U2, and Bono specifically, that there is no shame in eating from a can. ;) In fact a certain California-based store sells tins of dolmades and tins of seasoned chickpeas that are amazing eaten in this manner.

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Clifton Lee @cliftonlee.bsky.social · 05/10/2026

I know someone who was at Princeton same years as Alito. Asshole then, asshole now. Some people, I guess, never evolve.

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Clifton Lee @cliftonlee.bsky.social · 05/10/2026

Jesus of Nazareth was a Carpenter Jack Smith is my hero

Clifton Lee @cliftonlee.bsky.social · 05/10/2026

And the apocalypytic evangelical element of the populist right is a big part of that appeal. It began long before Trump. One could argue it began with Billy Graham and his televised crusades.

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jamelle @jamellebouie.net · 05/10/2026

i just want to note that as soon as i posted this i did think "oh yeah, this is just fukuyama's last man"

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What he is good at, as with all demagogues, authoritarians, and fascists, is one thing: destruction. With a casino, who gives a damn? With a country, it will take some time to recover.

Trump's Atlantic City Taj Mahal Casino closed fifteen months after opening.

“The scale, Charlie, is what brings the people. The opulence, the size, the everything is really what’s going to make the Taj Mahal the most successful hotel anywhere in the world..." — Trump to ABC News' Charlie Gibson, 1990. The words change, but the bullshit is always the same.

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You know when I see things like this of course I'm not surprised, where my mind goes is that the evangelical Christians of the US blew what little capital they had on this pathetic man.

jamelle @jamellebouie.net · 03/10/2026

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whoever my photographer is, he sometimes liked to get a little artsy, as in this photo.

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Clifton Lee @cliftonlee.bsky.social · 03/10/2026

You cannot read all the essays and books and speeches about the brilliance of the US Constitution and the tripartite system of governance and then read the daily headlines without thinking something is more than rotten in the state of America.

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Clifton Lee @cliftonlee.bsky.social · 03/10/2026

There is no breaking news. Ever. Only a world breaking.

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And some wonder why and how the US evangelicals support this vile human. It's a feature, not a bug. The SBC and the other Christian groups that put him in power share his misogyny, his patriarchal authoritianism. They are, despite surface appearances, cut from the same moldy, moth-ridden cloth.

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They let me know there was a larger world out there even if I'd quite comprehend it in grade school yet.

I'm sure I'm the only one in the house whoever removed one from the shelf.

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You just made my day. And brought back a childhood memory. My parents were lower middle class fundamentals Xians but for some reason they had the Great Books/UChicago. I won't I pretend I understood them at 7 yo but I did comprehend the beauty of a logical argument produced by a human brain...

Jen Mercieca @jenmercieca.bsky.social · 02/10/2026

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Spending the afternoon reading ARISTOTLE because I love to live the life of the mind, AI motherf*ckers.

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You are right of course, and further, the definition of elite becomes problematic. The true elite in assets don't give a shit either way. Further, their children will be admitted by legacy or other means to the institution of their choice.

Yes, but we really need the old Republicans, the Eisenhower Republicans to do even a third of what needs to be done. I agree with you. That's where I'm at a log jam. How does a country do this that has only one functioning secular political party in country that needs at least two??

Lug Rig @lugrig.bsky.social · 02/10/2026

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-Tear down vanity monuments -Restore national parks -Reestablish alliances -Rejoin Paris accord -etc., etc.

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Apologies for the typos. It is early here, I am thinking this out as I type and my eyes are failing me.

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This is the double bind: human institutions are inherently evil (except for their tribal group) and even if they weren't, the Christian gods have preordained history anyway. Such a double bind also creates - coincidentally - a perfect exploitive space for late stage capitalism and grifters.

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since childhood and is more powerful than any empirical data unless the fire is on their rooftop, the famine is in their pantry, and the drought is in their water faucet.

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concerns. So even if the Maga evangelical's rational brain tells them xyz is looking pretty bad and left to their own will try would speak up, the cosmic battle happening in their brains' subconscious narrative - and stoked by conspiracy theorists and fear mongers - has been drilled into them...

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doomed to fail. Hence the Xian movies and novels depicting the UN as the instrument of Satan and source of antichrist... Second, however, because Earth's history is in the broadest sense predetermined, there is really no need to concern one's self with the public good beyond one's own immediate

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First, an apocalyptic worldview that dates back to the Scofeld Reference Bible which sees the Earth as 6k years old and segmented human epics, seven, that end in failure before the deity returns to kills most everyone but the chosen. Hence all international orgs are like the tower of Babel and ...

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The logic of the US evangelical ideology that dominates the Maga party at the congressional, state, and local level necessarily leads to institutional failure and societal collapse. It is an ideology subconsciously built on a religious double bind...

Assume a rout of Maga in November by the Dems. Tell me what happens to the billons allocated to ICe through 2029. Tell me who stops Hegseth's theo-fascist crusade. Tell me who rolls back Steroids Kennedy's dismantling of public health. Who puts AID back together again? Who stops the grift?

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and directly across the hall from the Insider Trading Benefits From The Pain and Suffering of Others Office. Praise the white ab-shredded American Jesus and pass the drone controls. Midterms is a term from the before time. These midterms will not save us. The Constitution is broken.

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