People of all religions can be mobilised and people of all religions can be demonised - Mormonism particularly as an American cult has a place in American imperialism that others don’t share, but I have met plenty of lovely Mormons and really have no interest in antagonising
Replying to @% EXACTLY , if you go back and look at what herzel was saying it’s very clear the nationalist myths took off AFTER he ideated colonizing Palestine.
Social pressure is often a real inhibitor of people making different equal economic choices and we cannot just lay down when we observe the empire using social pressure to push people into doing harmful things #greenscreenvideo
It’s almost like exposing them really scares them because they’re whole entire thing only works if they receive the glory that they were promised#greenscreenvideo
This is true in different context of many other religions, but in the particular American context, in a Christian supremacist state, which has given one of its 50 states effectively to the Mormon cult I don’t wanna hear shit#greenscreenvideo
Oh my I wonder, and let me be clear. I have no doubt that they make material genuine impacts on peoples lives … but if we aren’t critical of those power we lose all of our own, and my God there are things to be critical of them for (the comments are about be “social democrat not
Right wingers are often times the most honest about the colonial dynamics because they are trying to directly to the colonial core for support#greenscreenvideo
And yes, the second you enter even a high school you are recruiting children, becaus aboute most people in a high school are not 18 and you will get access to people in that high school#greenscreenvideo
They believe in their distorted form of Christianity which place is whiteness and Americanness and the American empire much above any of the implicit or explicit teachings of Christian
You are a bad politician if you are this disalignment with your base, but that is because your base is the same corporate Democrats that I’ve been losing every election of the past 10 years#greenscreenvideo
It all seems a little random seeing people like this stand so clearly for people that are extremely racist towards them but we have to understand that colonialism predates that particular form of that colonies ideology, and it will choose its own power over its own ideology
whenever he sentiments like this it’s always like soaking in hypocrisy because at the same time we are doing the Lord’s work in foreign intervention and we are freeing them from religious radicalism…. Which is it?
You’ll need to recognise the expansiveness and extent of American intervention and American imperialism, and the fact that co-opting the imperialist terms (and what they hide like tasks at trade agreements in their effect) is not revolution it is capitulation#greenscreenvideo
Just link Pinochet implementing what he claimed to be free market principles there has never been an intentionality of free market principles for anyone outside of the imperial core, just using them as an excuse to do theft