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My my my, if it isn't the first personal consequences of his actions. He should count himself lucky, seeing as he deserves a cell in the Hague.

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Chaplains don't have the authority to hand out nine gram pensions.

Remember to vote Gavin Newsom for being stuffed into a wicker man!

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Whelp, I guess that means I'll be voting for Newsom to be stuffed into a wicker man.

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Ryan Smith @rysmith.bsky.social · 30/09/2026

I guarantee the goal behind this is to turn chaplains into commissars. Whether that succeeds is a different question. Also, expect every non-far right Christian chaplain to get the boot in record time.

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Today's divination pull: The Ace of Cups from the Thoth Deck, signifying harmony Uruz of the Elder Futhark, the rune of the auroch Yr of the Younger Futhark, the rune of the yew Reið of the Younger Futhark, the rune of travel #HeathenSky #PaganSky #WitchSky #Divination #Spirituality #Tarot #Runes

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The extent to which they've talked themselves into thinking Skynet is inevitable unless they build it first is simply astounding. Especially when the guy who made Skynet in Terminator *shut it down* once he got proof it was too dangerous to continue working on it.

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*damned, stupid autocorrect

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Also even calling Thor a himbo isn't quite right because he's quite a bit more cunning than the term himbo suggests, even tho he radiates himbo energy. Either way, he'd thwack these guys into orbit with his hammer if they tried to seek his favor and probably laugh like a drain while doing so.

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Speaking personally, such behavior also reads as duplicitous and untrustworthy to me. It scans to me as repeating the same mis-steps that got us here while also guaranteeing we will be repeating this mess AGAIN.

If the Christian opponents of the Christian nationalists want to call them dawned, heretical apostates who will bathe in the lake of fire on Judgment Day when Christ tells them to depart from him, for he knows them not, then good. Calling them Pagan is a huge dodge & failure to own their mistakes.

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B) has an ugly history of being used by Christians to justify atrocities on every inhabited continent is a very dubious choice that shows a failure by the people using it to learn from their own mistakes or part in allowing such conditions to develop in the first place.

For two, if what the Christian Dominionists say is truly at odds with the core teachings of Christianity, then the right terms are ones that emphasize their failure to meet those standards. Trying to, "no true Scotsmen" them by using a term that a) is used by a living religious movement and...

For one, Thor is not a thug, he's a himbo. There's an exchange in the Harbardsljoth from the Poetic Edda where he boasts about taking the thralls (effectively slaves) into his halls over noble warriors. Ares is, but he's an honest thug who probably wouldn't appreciate Christofascist duplicity.

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Thanks, I'm glad to hear that! It's always nice to meet readers in the wild.

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This feels like someone is scrambling to protect the bag.

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Yup. And he doesn't pretend to be anything else, which is more than I can say about the followers of the Prince of Peace who howl for war, threaten hellfire, and celebrate the positively thirsty revenge fantasy that is Revelations or the ones who pretend that isn't part of Christianity.

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When? Sounds like you're talking one of said WN groups getting run out or times when things were very different. In either case, the ducking and dodging in a bid to score points says more than anything else about you.

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If all Christians want to do re Christo-fascists is call them pagans then what I see is a faith that fails to reckon with its past or own its present failures. Which makes your remarks quite rich with Christian hypocrisy.

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You may want to talk to some actual Heathens. Most reject the crimes of the past, recognize them for what they are, & are building towards something better. The ones who don't are actively being driven out of the movement. We have mechanism for that while doing the work instead of shifting blame.

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He says while sporting the symbols of a church that blessed programs, imperialism across Central Asia, and has easily stacked enough bodies to make it to the moon and back. If you want to play that game, Christendom will always lose.

headfallsoff @headfallsoff.com · 19/09/2026

Reposted by Ryan Smith

also. the thing people hate is not ‘the technology’ it is the tech industry. they hate move fast and break things. they hate having everything they say tracked and processed while companies do whatever they want. they hate every single ideological value that animates silicon valley

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If there is a central teaching to that branch of Paganism, it is that we are defined by what we do & how we live. When you do wrong, you seek to make right & when you see wickedness you act to stop it. Hence why @windhover39.bsky.social 's remark is both incorrect & highly offensive.

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Rainesford Stauffer @rainesford.bsky.social · 27/09/2026

I've written two books on the subject, have a podcast, and help run an org that is focused on Norse Pagan practice. Thor, specifically, is a protector, the God who gives strength to workers, & is associated with laughter & joy. His strength is the strength that empowers rather than enslaves.

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Reposted by Ryan Smith

“Why were these men allowed to “pursue their education in a secure and nourishing environment” and she was not? Why was she not informed of the outcome of her own Title IX investigation? Who benefited from the 23 months of elapsed time when the public knew nothing?”

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EDITORIAL | Cornell Won’t, We Will

The Editorial Board demands that Cornell stops protecting the alleged Chi Phi rapists through the University's opaque sexual assault policies.

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You also never know if defeat is certain. Sometimes, rolling the dice can produce surprising results.

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Also quite a bit of spiritual bypassing and passing the buck at work in that thread. We are here because the far-right beat their coreligionists at their own game. They don't get to dodge that responsibility or pass that debt on to their God.

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If you want to make that case, then I know many non-Christians will be more than happy to use such cowardice as further proof that Christian grace is mostly a nice way of dodging responsibility for your actions. Clean up your mess. Stop trying to make it someone else's problem.

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If Christians want to fight what are your fascists, then you need to start by taking real responsibility for your failure to stop this lot, Christianity's long history as a willing servant of empire & oppression, and the role Christian churches played in legitimizing OG fascism as well.

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Speaking as a Pagan, Thor would dropkick these thugs from a great height & Ares would reject them as honorless scum. Trying to make them ours strikes me as spiritual bypassing & a great example of Christians avoiding taking responsibility for their coreligionists, esp given Christianity's history.

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