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      Exactly! They know their book says “love your neighbor” and care for the widow, the orphan & the stranger, but they don’t even vaguely do anything like that.

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        And our most famous monument says “give me your tired, your hungry, your huddled masses yearning to breathe free”

        But I guess that only belongs to Texans who have had that freedom their whole life and are threatened by others seeking the same thing.

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            Gotta question whether even White Northern Europeans would be accepted by these people. I suspect no, not really. Such is the extent of the hateful fear mongering they subject themselves to daily.

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              So racist they hate everyone who isn’t themselves.

              TBH I detest much of humanity as well, but it’s mostly because there are so many of us that we’re wrecking the planet / ecosystem. It’s easy psychologically to dislike the faceless ‘other’ until you meet them personally and grok their individual humanity. At least I understand the concept and can temper my instincts with logic. These dipshits need a good therapy session.

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                grok their individual humanity.

                I was legit going to say something until I looked it up and grok does, in fact, turn out to be an actual slang term:

                grok

                1. To understand something intimately and completely. (originally from Stranger in a Strange Land, by Robert A. Heinlein)
                1. With programs, having sufficient understanding.

                TIL 🤷

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          The problem is that won’t happen, they won’t get that reprimand. They’ll be an asshole now and then they’ll just be dead.

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    If there’s one thing Jesus was consistent about, it’s that poor refugees seeking shelter should be ruthlessly murdered by drowning in a river tangled in razor wire.

    Pretty sure that’s in the gospels.

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    Most likely scenario is that they drive around in their trucks waving both flags of the US and flags of traitors to the US, block traffic, and post to Facebook.

    Worst case scenario, there is a wave a of hate crimes as these hyped up fascists try to “defend America” by picking fights with any random brown person they see.

    Best case scenario, they try messing with federal agents, get arrested, and wont be voting in November.

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    This honestly feels like a Russian intelligence op. Not that these yokels are Russian spies, but that they’ve been duped by misinformation, spun up my Russian troll farms, and aimed at the southwest border.

    They are dumb enough to do the rest on their own.

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        most this stuff comes out of nutters like Alex Jones that think they get secret info from god and profess to fighting a war with satan while they do coke every night.

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      Oh all this s*** absolutely stinks of interference. They want to start riots. Half this f****** governors are probably on the Russian payroll.

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      Maybe. Or it’s just Trump and Abbot conspiring ahead of the 2024 election and a bunch of morons are swept up in the propaganda

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    There’s so much fucking crazy in just the first two paragraphs of that article:

    A trucker convoy of “patriots” is heading to the U.S. border with Mexico next week, as the standoff between Texas and the federal government intensifies. The organizers of the “Take Our Border Back” convoy have called themselves “God’s army” and say they’re on a mission to stand up against the “globalists” who they claim are conspiring to keep U.S. borders open and destroy the country.

    “This is a biblical, monumental moment that’s been put together by God,” one convoy organizer said on a recent planning call. “We are besieged on all sides by dark forces of evil,” said another. “Blessed are the peacemakers, for they shall be called the sons of God. It is time for the remnant to rise.” (The remnant, from the Book of Revelation, are the ones who remain faithful to Jesus Christ in times of crisis).

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      Why on earth would “peacemakers” need the probably mobile armories those idiots are carrying?

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        It’s doublespeak, a la 1984. In this case many of the words used are inversions of their usual meaning.

        I’ll provide some translations:

        patriots -> seditionists

        biblical -> cloaked in the authority of God – which here must be explicitly stated because their actions are opposed to any God of justice

        open boarders -> following legal and ethical principles (remember, these people oppose ethical principles)

        peacemakers -> those who use violence, or the threat of violence, to obstruct peace. See also, terrorists

        besieged by dark forces of evil -> opposed by morality, ethics, or the law. The addition of “on all sides” changes the ‘or’ to ‘and’

        As a bonus, “globalists” is antisemitism. There’s an old canard that justice for minorities = communism = Jewish conspiracy. This is particularly common among nazis. The convoy organizer is signaling that their group is accepting of these ideas

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      Fucking brain dead morons sacrificing their livelihoods for the party that is actively blocking any action on securing the border.

      That’s the whole game, create problems and stop progress so you can claim that you are the only group capable of solving it. This is just an op to try and smear the Ds

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      The Hypocrisy is palpable. Where in Christ’s teachings does it say to use razor wire and allow women and Children to drown to protect your way of life?! These Chuds are as much antichrists as 45.

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      I’m a pagan so maybe I’m misinterpreting but I did read the Bible in catholic school and I’m pretty sure Jesus said to do the opposite of this. I’m pretty sure he’d be saying that we should see each family as though they were Jose, Maria, and their baby Jesus as no different than Yusef, Miriam, and Ieshiua 2000 years ago. I’m pretty certain that was in fact his entire point though he’d also be saying that single 20 year old men also should be welcomed because they’re either good or lost and able to be redeemed.

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        The thing is…what may Christians believe is based less on what Jesus said and more on what suit-wearing, vitriol-spewing grifters tell them.

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      A lot of untreated mental health issues making themselves visible in those two paragraphs. If only their parents hugged them once in awhile when they were kids maybe they’d be productive members of society instead.

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      I read that as “besieged on all sides by dark…forces of evil,” narrowly avoiding saying dark people instead and losing all pretense.

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    Ads for the convoy have gone up on 40 digital billboards in Florida, Texas, Louisiana, and California, courtesy of a “private donor” whose identity organizers would not disclose. 

    Oh, I’m willing to bet:

    It’s six letters.

    Starts with an R

    Ends with an A

    And is currently getting absolutely decimated with mothballed weapons we last used 15 years or so ago.

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    Army Of “Wouldn’t Recognize God If He Got In The Passenger Seat.”

    That’s who they really are.

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    Ffs can you lot just have your civil war already so the rest of us can deal with the fall out

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      Wont even be a civil war. National guard will fall in line and in the event of Texas actually seceding from the Union, they will find out exactly how much money the US sinks into their state to keep it afloat while their own elected officials flee the first power grid failure

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        Honestly as a non yank I’m bored just do the fucking thing and let the world get on with it.

        Deal with your fuckwits or let them roll over you (and yhe rest of us)

        I’m just sick of the will the won’t they and I say that as someone who has to deal with Boris Johnsons ilk

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      Right?

      One of the biggest changes with the advent of the Internet was that no matter what your interests, the Internet was always there with that most comforting of messages: "You are not alone.

      Now that we can see that notion taken to it’s inevitable and absurd conclusion, I think we can safely say that for lots and lots of people, it’s for the best that they’re left to believe they are, actually, alone.

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      And there are more of them than we realized back when we started creating the internet. We fucked up pretty bad.

      I sometimes miss the days when the internet was just for scholars, nerds, and geeks.

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        Language might have been the mistake. Or maybe agriculture. Perhaps it was evolving from great apes. All I know from looking at history is that this shit has been going on since long before the internet.

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      Which hopefully exposes some to reality. And wouldn’t be so bad when it doesn’t if the 3 letter gang did their fucking jobs with these domestic terrorists.

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      I bet one gets pulled over by a statie because expired tags/speeding/reckless driving and takes a shot at a cop or two. Then they get absolutely swiss-cheesed by local authorities