‘Young earthism’, Speaker #MAGAMike doesn’t just tout a pro-FF stance, he claims that the earth is only 6,000 years old. Johnson lies, he’s anti-science, but knows it took millions of years for crude oil to be formed. On Christian Nationalism, Carville believes that this movement, Mike supports, is more dangerous than al-Qaida. “What Johnson represents is a level of breathtaking hypocrisy, his anti-homosexuality & young earthism are hypocrisy on steroids.” https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2023/dec/16/james-carville-mike-johnson-christian-nationalism
Don't even try to "#debate" them and their #reactionary#shitposting|s, but consequently outcast and boycott them from everything to the maximum extent legally possible!
What a great illustration of the perversion of #capitalism: someone who owns two restaurants in downtown Minneapolis is asking Target to force thousands of employees to spend literal pieces of their lifespan every day (and polluting and adding to traffic and wearing down/depreciating their cars in the process) to #commute#returnToOffice#RTO so that their restaurant business model continues to be profitable.
The #remoteWork#flexibleWork revolution is likely unstoppable: thanks to three years of lockdowns, workers now know that rote commuting is a waste of time. Flexible and remote work allows more work-life balance and costs everyone less to produce the same output.
The forces against remote work are almost entirely #reactionary: a desire to return to the Old Ways, to Manage By Walking Around, to go back to the Old Business Models, to save Commercial Real Estate; in other words, to save old capital.
(Article title is clickbait, so I wont’t repeat it)
Why do we call the #Republicans “conservative.” Call them what they are; #reactionary and #nationalist. They have no interest preserving what they find to be the best of the USA. They are radical nihilists who want to blow up whatever offends them on any given day. Their main goal seems to be to return us to the 19th century, hardly a conservative goal. There is nothing about this crowd that is restrained or respectful of institutions or the #ruleoflaw.
As Alan Bean notes, in his new book Defending Democracy from Its Christian Enemies, David Gushee draws attention to the way in which the reactionary authoritarian Christianity of white Christian nationalism in the US is also manifest in other nations now, including Hungary, Russia, and Brazil.
Binding these disparate national movements together is the following:
How To Deradicalize a Movement
by Eliyahu Ungar-Sargon
"As you can see, Marotta’s antisemitism is inclusive. He draws on the past with some old Christian anti-Jewish theology (Jewish as an adjective in the phrase “Jewish Justice”), but he also serves up a perverse misapplication of critical theory which he clumsily attempts to weaponize against an entire people’s identity."
USA is a fucking #dystopic#retrogade, #reactionary piece of shit: a young girl and her mother get charged for taking #abortion pills and the police knew about it because #facebook gave them their "private" messages.