As I just noted in another Topic … BORING! Anything involving a barcode or QRcode and these imagination-addled dopes roll out the old 'Mark of the Beast" trope. Someone smarter and more creative would try to incorporate the “Jewish Space Lasers” as the supermarket barcode scanners in this little story, but not Marjorie.
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I’m not generally a fan of Malcolm Gladwell, but his article, “How School Shootings Spread” (New Yorker, 2015) is really relevant. He describes school shootings as a riot in slow motion:
A riot was a social process, in which people did things in reaction to and in combination with those around them. Social processes are driven by our thresholds —which he defined as the number of people who need to be doing some activity before we agree to join them. In the elegant theoretical model Granovetter proposed, riots were started by people with a threshold of zero—instigators willing to throw a rock through a window at the slightest provocation. Then comes the person who will throw a rock if someone else goes first. He has a threshold of one. Next in is the person with the threshold of two. His qualms are overcome when he sees the instigator and the instigator’s accomplice. Next to him is someone with a threshold of three, who would never break windows and loot stores unless there were three people right in front of him who were already doing that—and so on up to the hundredth person, a righteous upstanding citizen who nonetheless could set his beliefs aside and grab a camera from the broken window of the electronics store if everyone around him was grabbing cameras from the electronics store.
The Republican party has had a few instigators – Donald Trump since the 1980s, Rush Limbaugh and Newt Gingrich in the 1990s – and it’s spiraled into a slow motion riot of shitposting, deepfaking, and trolling for the sake of trolling. It’s about trashing every city, breaking every window, and causing as much harm as possible.
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Just wait until she hears about these
So, what happens when Heaven and Hell don’t want you?
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Limbo and/or purgatory!
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She never will, though. People like Greene live in carefully constructed bubbles of ignorance intended to keep out information that might upset their worldview or reduce their outrage (i.e. all facts).
If it somehow penetrated her bubble, she’d just dismiss it. I saw some college conservative who was outraged by a professor actually talking about Jesus’ wealth-sharing mandates, dismissing it with, “Well, they didn’t teach us that in Sunday school!” as if that was somehow an argument, rather than simply an acknowledgement that the version of “Christianity” she’d been taught was heavily expurgated to fit an ideology.
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Uhhhhh that’s called capitalism. Why do right wingers keep outright lying about basic stuff like this? I’m just so tired of this nonsense that I can even feel my Rush Limbaugh-loving teenage past-self cringing through time. Seriously, this stuff is just incoherent.
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Yeah, that pretty much sums it up. Or, as is frequently stated, “Those that the law protects but does not bind vs those the law binds but does not protect.” Consequences are for the “others,” not for the likes of us, amirite? (/s)
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Neither wacky nor irresponsible: direct calls to violence and terrorism:
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Because sadly, this promoting of ignorance works for them.
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Corporate communism is when the free market acts in ways that the right wing don’t like and can’t control. The more they don’t like and can’t control it, the more communist it is.
It’s a bit like how right wingers think anarchists are fascist because the anarchists won’t let them coerce other people into doing things.
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We had a trolley insist that Japan was “very socialistic” because it’s fond of slinging people in prison. I can’t link to it because all his comments were deleted, but it was in relation to this:
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I decided to stop replying to that individual, but I was very tempted to point out to them that the Japanese government has been right wing dominated since the end of WW2.
They seem to be the polar opposite of dictionary lawyers. Any word they say could mean anything, so there is no point in actually debating them.
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This is all looking like that joke about mutualism where even mutualists don’t know the proper definition for it.
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Yes - exactly! Like flying or using public transportation. Let’s see how long people last not carrying a ‘passport’ if it interferes with their right to party in Vegas.
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MTG seems to be forgetting FREEEEDOM! As in, she’s totally free to get into a little boat of her own and start rowing across the Atlantic or Pacific – no devil passport required.
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I guess the Yellow Card US Citizens already get to travel to many places are the marks of lessor demons?
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To quote the Spartan response to Philip II of Macedon: “If.”
She’ll end up in Purgatory. Hell knows Heaven doesn’t want her, and for Heaven’s sake neither does Hell.
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But, National Socialist…
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