State Rep had secret plan for killing non-believers and establishing a Christian Theocracy

[Yukaphile]

Gamergate disgusted me for the sheer death and rape threats female journalists had to endure. It still goes on, shamefully, to this day. Yeah, they keep on proving they're no better than the strawman in their minds of the SJWs they hate.

Oh I see.

[CharlesPhipps]

Much like Islam, the vast vast majority of evangelical fundamentalist Christians let alone mainstream Christians are not evil nutjobs.

The vast majority of evangelicals support the Republican party. Given that the party thinks it's sound, morally defensible, public policy to do nothing to prevent catastrophic climate change, to effectively revoke the principle of one-person-one-vote, and to put migrant children in concentration camps, 'Republican' is pretty much the definition of an evil nutjob. Evangelicals are evil nutjobs for what they enable.

Kentucky is a good example in the contradiction in these terms and why it's important not to immediately jump to the belief politics defines you. There are 600,000 people going hungry in Kentucky right now and 7000 people dying every year thanks to the opioid crisis. This is because of the Republican Party and Mitch McConnell will burn in hell for this because he's deliberately waging a campaign on the poor. He is an evil shitstain of a human being.

However, the very evangelical Christians supporting hm are devoting thousands of hours of labor and duty to feed those people in the "Feed the Hungry" program that is an alliance of evangelical Christian churches and the sole reason 60,000 children eat every day because their families can't (or won't) feed them. Otherwise, they'd only eat at school. They sacrifice and work hard to look after their fellow man.

So, no, I can't call those people evil. I'm going to call them being stupid for supporting a monster.

because....what are YOU doing to save lives down here? (directed at myself as well)

[Cassandra]

I don't see much difference between the evangelical position and cases where first responders or medical professionals put endanger people and property just so they can be hailed as heroes for resolving the artificial crises they create. There are many cases of screw-loose firefighters starting fires and putting them out for the rush of being a hero, or of nurses pushing patients to the brink of death so they can save them. The people who do these kind of thing don't get hailed for resolving their manufactured emergencies; they get sent to prison. They're not heroes for leaping in at the last second.

Evangelicals aren't helpless. They are the most powerful voting bloc in America and if they truly cared about 600,000 people going hungry in one state alone they could put their lobbying power into making sure that the working poor have the labor rights to get paid enough to put food on the table.

[Yukaphile]

Have to agree with CharlesPhipps here. The only reason the GOP has so much power is through gerrymandering, voter apathy, and electoral college.

[CharlesPhipps]

I don't see much difference between the evangelical position and cases where first responders or medical professionals put endanger people and property just so they can be hailed as heroes for resolving the artificial crises they create. There are many cases of screw-loose firefighters starting fires and putting them out for the rush of being a hero, or of nurses pushing patients to the brink of death so they can save them. The people who do these kind of thing don't get hailed for resolving their manufactured emergencies; they get sent to prison. They're not heroes for leaping in at the last second.

Evangelicals aren't helpless. They are the most powerful voting bloc in America and if they truly cared about 600,000 people going hungry in one state alone they could put their lobbying power into making sure that the working poor have the labor rights to get paid enough to put food on the table.

I think you misunderstand them. Perhaps much as the (extremely misguided) voters who actually think the Republicans are looking out for their interests. They believe that because the Republicans LIE and say they support family values, small town jobs, and protecting society. They are WRONG to believe so but that's why they do it.

They are sincere in their charity, their love of their neighbors, and basic goodness. They have been subject to a propaganda campaign that Democrats are responsible for the conditions in the state and not the GOP.

Because that's how propaganda works.

Just saying.

Also, in simple terms, the person who votes Democrat but does not do charity is closer to the GOP than the person who does the reverse.

Edit:

Mind you, there's some confusion as well as Mitch McConnell is one of the most hated men in Kentucky and I'm genuinely confused at how he continues to be voted because he's subject to constant protests by the non-megachurches (which are corporations designed to divert money from charities to their owners) and the public as a whole. People hate him because he is open about his hatred of the poor and killing any initiatives to help them via medicaire, opiod treatments, poverty programs, or legalizing pot to wean people off harder drugs or stimualte the economy.

I wouldn't be surprised if the only reason he is re-elected constantly is due to the fact his control over the party in Kentucky (and the GOP as a whole) is absolute.

[CharlesPhipps]

I've heard Gamergate and the Dark Web are connected to the far right evangelical roots. That true?

Gamergate is an anti-SJW, anti-ideology, secular alignment that has closer ties to the 'rationalist' community than to evangelicals.

The Dark Web is an umbrella term for websites that are accessed through the TOR onion system. It's primarily a place for people to buy/sell drugs and other black market goods online.

The " 'intellectual' dark web" is alt-right.

Milo Yiannopoulos is a Christian (of sorts--yes, I am not a fan of the guy) but he's the odd man out as the internet Alt-Right tends to be aggressively atheist.

Because it's formed from trolls and techbros.

[Admiral X]

'Republican' is pretty much the definition of an evil nutjob. E

This attitude right here is why this country is going to hell in a handbasket.

[Yukaphile]

Shit, even I don't think the Republicans are all evil. I respect the moderates. And the moderates did wanna pass sanctions against Russia. I know, I know, some people still think there's no proof. But the moderates tend to lean more towards the center, where they can agree with reasonable Democrats, who also are disturbed by the idea of Russia choosing and influencing our President as well as their repeated aggressions, so they wanna take action. Or, there's numerous dedicated Republican family men who don't cheat or molest underage kids or have hook up with gay people and then preach against the evils of homosexuality. It's varied, just as much as with Democrats. Or lest we forget Anthony Weiner and Al Franken?

[Worffan101]

'Republican' is pretty much the definition of an evil nutjob. E

This attitude right here is why this country is going to hell in a handbasket.

Nah, it's more because the Republicans have pushed the Overton window so far right that the main difference between the Republican Party mainstream and actual fucking Nazis is that the Republicans like some Jews (i.e. the ones in Israel and the ones who hate women enough to vote Republican) and the Nazis want to exterminate them.

That and nobody has the balls to point out that everything Ronald Reagan did gutted the foundations of America in favor of hollow patriotism, militarized responses to inner-city problems that Reagan himself created by gutting black families with his absurdly racist and completely ineffective crime policies, and sleazy foreign policy little better than that of the USSR.

God, fuck Ronald Reagan. After I piss on Trump's grave I'm gonna drive a fucking bulldozer into Reagan's and light his corpse on fire. Fuck that worthless, sleazy, lying, racist, hateful sack of shit and his oily fake smile.

[Yukaphile]

Let's be clear, though, in that I'm not a fan of Israel at all. I'm not anti-semitic, and I think anti-semitism is stupid (as is all human prejudice) and shocked it's still around after WWII. And I'm not a fan of Israel. I think they're slowly morphing into that which they hate, which had tormented them so badly several decades ago.

I dunno, wasn't this the era of Gorbachav? I'd say the USSR might have been better - at least at the time. They did tear down the Berlin Wall and let Germany reunite as a whole nation again after how badly they broke them.

I think Reagan was a saint compared to Trump. Refer to his comments about how there should be no good reason for armed citizens to walk the streets or something like that. Hell, my more Libertarian AnCap friends prefer Trump over Reagan precisely because Reagan had a few more reasonable elements that Trump possesses none of, so there you go.