[-] Afterthought_C@lemmy.dbzer0.com 23 points 4 months ago* (last edited 4 months ago)

A few years ago a christian organisation in US did a poll on how aware the christian population was on the church's teachings or something like that. MoBlack (anarchist-communist anime blogger that wrote many Medium articles breaking apart Shield Hero) pointed out that while people generally answered questions regarding sex and abortion 'correctly' (as in they were aware of the church's stance), when it came to things like "are children born innocent" (correct answer: No. All children are born with original sin because Adam and Eve ate the fruit.) only like 30% could match the church's stance.
The conclusion he came to was that the super religious people are not actually super religious. They are just very political about their religion.
Link: https://archive.moblack.xyz/1585278114569019393/

[-] Afterthought_C@lemmy.dbzer0.com 19 points 5 months ago

First they came for the Gazans and... I supported them because I was foolish enough to think it would stop them from coming for me

[-] Afterthought_C@lemmy.dbzer0.com 30 points 5 months ago

I wonder how super-pro-Israel countries like Germany and US will behave when the settlers come back. Are they going to let themselves be the new zionist base or will their anti-Jew ass show itself? Like there is a huge difference between virtue signalling on how anti-nazi you are while having an unrelated third party pay for your mistakes and actually having to pay with your own land and pockets.

[-] Afterthought_C@lemmy.dbzer0.com 23 points 5 months ago

The poll from Tel Aviv University. It was previously posted on one of the weekly news posts.
https://social-sciences.tau.ac.il/sites/socsci.tau.ac.il/files/media_server/social/2023/Findings-November-2023-EN.pdf

[-] Afterthought_C@lemmy.dbzer0.com 20 points 6 months ago* (last edited 6 months ago)

Gamergators: religious fundies and feminists are just as bad because they both want to take away my video game treats

Hexbear: liberals and what they label conservatives may be rhetorically different but ultimately they both protect the imperial core because they depend on it

Liberals: clearly the above two groups are exactly the same

[-] Afterthought_C@lemmy.dbzer0.com 27 points 6 months ago* (last edited 6 months ago)

"What goes around comes around" just like when Israel did nakba right?

[-] Afterthought_C@lemmy.dbzer0.com 37 points 6 months ago* (last edited 6 months ago)

How many of these 'hexbearhatesjews' or 'hexbearwilldie' users have there been? I noticed quite a bit.

[-] Afterthought_C@lemmy.dbzer0.com 38 points 6 months ago* (last edited 6 months ago)

Singapore itself is an Israeli ally and has been trying to frame the whole war as just a case of racial and religious disagreement rather than colonialism. It is also participating in Operation Prosperity Garden (the US-backed operation to stop Ansar Allah from enforcing the red sea blockade on Israel). I feel for the charity workers. The government's hands however are stained with both Palestinian and Singaporean blood.

[-] Afterthought_C@lemmy.dbzer0.com 25 points 6 months ago

Reminds me of a reddit conversation I had regarding Anne Rice after she died; aside from harassing fanfic writers Anne Rice was also part of Stop the Goodreads Bullies (For those who don't know, STGRB is what you get when a bunch of authors and their fans set up their own kiwifarms to attack bloggers that call out bigoted writing and rating manipulation while claiming to be an anti-bullying movement. Gamergate's own wiki last time I checked sees them in positive light.).

When I pointed out the latter to the OP that wanted to discuss her death OP and other users were like 'she just died', 'there are worse people out there' or 'she supports lgbtq/ is pro-democrat'. Later on other redditors commented that 'yeah in view of what I said she is kind of a pos'. OP deleted the thread after that.

[-] Afterthought_C@lemmy.dbzer0.com 23 points 7 months ago

I know using pop culture to describe politics would be considered very... liberal by you guys but I feel like this is how I'm processing it; it feels like blue apologists engage with politics the same way a ttrpg player engages with a Blades in the Dark campaign. If something undesirable happens just do a Flashback to rewrite reality in your head.

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