• Etterra@lemmy.world
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      Probably not. It’s a cult of personality. The good news though is that most cults don’t survive the death of their leader. Usually it requires a solid second in command to step up and reform things to save it.

      The most likely result here will be the crazy brigade will stay around until T***p dies. After that it’ll splinter and dissolve into infighting while some few people go back to something vaguely like reality.

      • Usually it requires a solid second in command to step up and reform things to save it.

        And like most petty dictators, Trump has been diligent in preventing anyone from becoming a solid second-in-command, because he fears all potential threats to his dominance. If he dies, because he’s an out-and-out monarchist, the only possible heirs will literally be his heirs, and fighting between his children to assume his legacy will be bitter and bloody.

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    Christians are very easily duped and therein lies the problem.

    Trump has never attended ANY church organically of his own volition.

    He was a registered Democrat— easily Googled. He raw dogged a porn star while cheating on his pregnant wife. They don’t give a fig unless Fox News tells them ‘they are upset now’, and feeds them their latest talking point.

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      I think you are misunderstanding Christian nationalists. They don’t believe in anything remotely like what Christ taught. They believe in white supremacy, misogyny, and greed. Trump ticks all the right boxes for them.

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        They don’t believe in anything remotely like what Christ taught.

        They should rename the fallacy to, “no true Christian” at this point.

        Interesting how it’s never actually the real Christians that behave this way, because if they do, then they’re not “real” Christians. Convenient, huh?

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        Right but they don’t admit that, they want the appearance of giving a shit about Jesus

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      Christians are very easily duped and therein lies the problem.

      Yeah, it’s literally baked into the scripture. The authority figures that made it up made sure to include blind obedience as a central virtue, so they could better control the masses. That’s why they came up with the whole thing.

      If you convince a Christian (or Muslim or Hindu or whatever) fundamentalist that you’re a righteous defender of the ideals of their religion, they’ll let you get away with literally anything, including but not limited to “grabbing them by the pussy”.

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        Exactly. The fact that their pea brains disallow critical thought is the mechanism politicians have seized on.

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    If you aren’t a cis white het male willing to lie about being prot this is the time to get dual citizenship somewhere else. And this is exactly why I am making sure my daughters get it.

    You do not want to be in a line behind 30 million refugees trying to get into Canada. You want to be able to go to an embassy and secure right of return.

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      They’re fascists for sure, but Nazis had a mixed view on Christianity. Most of the leaders didn’t want Christianity, or if they did, a flavor that was neither Catholic nor Protestant, but Naziism first and Christian second. (And of course Islam and Judaism were right out.)

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        And of course Islam and Judaism were right out.

        “First shalt thou take out the Holy Pin. Then, shalt thou count to three. No more. No less. Three shalt be the number thou shalt count, and the number of the counting shalt be three. Four shalt thou not count, nor either count thou two, excepting that thou then proceed to three. Five is right out. Once the number three, being the third number, be reached, then lobbest thou thy Holy Hand Grenade of Antioch towards thy foe, who, being naughty in My sight, shall snuff it.”