Do Americans Know How Weird and Extreme Their Collapse is Getting?

[MrScorpio]

Even the Dark Ages Would Laugh at Where We’re Going

umair haque



Here’s a tiny question. Do Americans know how extreme, bizarre, and weird American collapse is getting? How far off the charts it is? Forget the charts of “normal” — I mean the charts of history. Even the Dark Ages, ancient Rome, and the barbarians might laugh, astonished, at the backwardness of America in 2018. Doubt me? Indulge me — while I prove it.
Consider a tiny but telling and particularly awful example. There’s a GOP candidate in North Carolina, I read today, who proclaims that “God is a white supremacist.”

Now, you might laugh. It’s funny, in an absurd kind of way. But do we call such a belief? What does it take for a mind to think such a thing?

It’s not simple fascism — because fascism, at least the sort we know of in history, tends to reject the church. That’s because, of course, Nietzsche preached a different gospel: that Christian values make people weak, that only the strong survive, and that the job of the strong is to dominate the weak. Fascism is simply an expression of this perverse belief system, this ideology, and in that way, it tends to demonize religion — just as the Nazis did, ruling over a church they despised with an iron fist.

So what is it? Theocracy? Well, it’s not theocracy either — again, at least as we know it. Because in theocratic systems, God is an equalizer. You’re oppressed until you’re pious and faithful, maybe beaten, starve, punished, jailed, as in Iran or Saudi Arabia — but when you are pious, then you’re accepted into the community of believers. In other words, even in hardcore theocracies, God isn’t a racist (LOL) — he might be a vengeful, terrible, angry God, but he’s an equal opportunity abuser. He might call for women and gays and minorities to suffer terribly — but when they renounce their sin, and they’re pure, then they belong to society too. But “God is a white supremacist” is a belief so strange, so bizarre, so fundamentally new in history that it goes even further than that.

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[Thunderbeast]

1. Fake photo

This is s Photoshop special. Snopes has documented this one for months.

While I do not doubt the evil sentiments held by the alt-right, we are best served by keeping posts to truthful resistance.

[MrScorpio]

2. Think of it as a metaphor...

We all know that it's Photoshopped.

[Initech]

4. And a very poorly faked photo at that!

I've taken enough photography and Photoshop classes that I could spot a fake from a mile away. The pixelation around the word "white" gives it away.

[marylandblue]

3. Mr. Haque has to look harder

White supremacy has been a tenet of right-wing Christianity in America since the 1600s. It went into temporary remission in the 1960s but now is back. Also, the Mormons officially considered dark skinned people to be cursed by God until 1978.

[MrScorpio]

5. I think that Thesese Patricia Okoumou has the right take on it...

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