i'm sure the ability to fabricate convincing historical footage that eventually drifts across the internet, where it's picked up by people who present them as real, at a time when trust in educational and media institutions is already eroding, will prove to be a net positive
Because American Evangelical Christianity is not a religion and has nothing to do with Jesus. It's a political movement meant to entrench repressive white male hegemony at the behest of moneyed interests.
There’s never been a bigger signal to me that 90% of Twitter is fake than the made up culture war against the Odyssey. If you’re normal and go see the movie you have ZERO idea there’s some uproar about the casting. Everyone on this app is fake and/or insane now.
"We want a high trust, moral society based on Christian values. Also, rape is funny and cool and our favorite president is a pedophile who was never religious in his life."
How do people keep falling for this slop?
From roughly the late 1960s on , there was a broad consensus in American society that being overtly racist was a bad thing, and the right had to at least pretend they believed that. That era is over and now nearly every self-identified Republican under 30 is some variety of Nazi.
IMO, a lot of people don't have a worldview. For them, politics is about gender performance. Andrew Schulz fantasizes about joining the military to fight for his country, but won't set his thermostat to 78°. It's not about civic responsibility, but about performing machismo.