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People are probably getting sick of me saying this by now buy of course Republicans aren’t doing anything, this is their philosophy, their core beliefs are in conserving traditional hierarchies and norms. God over man, men over women and children, white over black, rich over poor, cis-het over LGBT people and other hierarchies. To achieve this they really only need to do a few things legialativly,

Stop progress and change
Rollback change

You see 1 all the time, they dont even need to be in power to do it. They just need to get in the way. If they get power, you see 2, and since they’re trying to rollback generational change, not even decades old precedent is safe (see Roe vs Wade).

Their actions are best understood through the lens of conservative philosophy and the maintenance or restoration of socio-economic hierarchies.

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Linkerbaan@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago
And then Jesus said: "White power sieg heil! " - The Bible according to you

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- mercury@lemmy.blahaj.zone ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago
  He’s just explaining conservative ideology
  
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- FunderPants@lemmy.ca ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago
  Seems clear to me that my explanation covers pretty well the reasons white power groups and orthodox/conservative Christians are right wing. They aren’t the same groups, necessarily, but they both want to conserve their respective hierarchies.
  
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  - Linkerbaan@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago
    You can’t call them “Christians”. They are just racists with a Bible in their hand.
    
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    HandBreadedTools@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago
    They’re not real Christians! /s
    
    en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/No_true_Scotsman
    
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    vagrantprodigy@lemmy.whynotdrs.org ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago
    
    They are just racists with a Bible in their hand.
    
    I grew up in churches around religious people, you just described 99% of “Christians” in the American South.
    
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    funkless_eck@sh.itjust.works ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago
    Moses recieved the 10 commandments from Mt Sinai, notably among them being “thou shalt not kill” immediately after massacring an entire army and then immediately went to war and wiped out an entire nation in a genocide.
    
    And thats in the Bible.
    
    The only good Christian, by Christians’ own admission, was Christ himself.
    
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jasondj@ttrpg.network ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago
The best part is that they got us fighting each other so much. They’ve managed to divide us across whatever line you can think of.

All of this is a distraction. While racism and sexism absolutely exist, they fortunately aren’t the cornerstones of our hierarchies anymore. Thats great, but now we have a caste system, and nobody wants to acknowledge it.

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