Notice when Nationalists take power, they do so by talking about how “kino” everything used to look. But whenever they try to reproduce it, it looks tacky and gauche. Evangelicalism is hands down the ugliest political expression.
In simple terms, Brazil is fucked. Evangelical fundamentalism is spreading rapidly, and it’s poisoning the country’s politics. I cannot overstate how much more extreme evangelicals in Brazil are than their American counterparts. It’s spreading even among younger Brazilians.
@IndSocEnjoyer I think he’s probably a useful idiot who has been fed information he doesn’t know how to parse. Throughout the ep., he constantly uses words incorrectly, calls himself an “alpha,” it’s like he has the mind of a 12 year old. Perfect fit for the audience I guess.
Rod Dreher explains that the groundwork is being laid for a rise of Nazism in America...
"The demographic group in Germany after the crash of 29 that ran first and in greatest numbers into the arms of the Nazis were middle class educated men in their 20s"
"This generation is the least church generation. But even those who did go to church, if all they got out of church was this moralistic therapeutic deism, then that's not going to be strong enough to fight off the demons of racism, anti-semitism, radical nationalism, and identity politics."
My Ten-Gallon Troubadours and I are hitting the recording studio later this month to begin recording an EP of honky Tonk heartbreak songs. Here’s just a small snippet of our original song “Heaven Knows”.
@HunterMercian Can Peru not be attributed to Irish immigration? And could it not be Irish are more akin to some proto group that came out of the steppe that also migrated and maintained a presence in India ?
Alabama’s first capital is gone.
Cahawba….built at the meeting of two rivers was once a hopeful city of mansions, markets, and politics.
Today it’s a ghost town, swallowed by swamp.
They called it America’s Atlantis
🧵 The Lost City of Cahawba
We have the lowest property taxes, the cheapest fertile land, beautiful nature. People have manners. Relative to the rest of the country, things seem to be going as good here as they could be. I’m not surprised people attribute that to the current regime.
Are people morons captured by a false consciousness entrenched in racial prejudice? Yes. But people don’t understand we’re not like Mississippi economically. We’re the 25th largest economy, and SO MUCH money has come into Huntsville and Tuscaloosa.
Alabama is so backwards that they are going to choose a football coach who can’t name the three branches of government over a guy who prosecuted the KKK