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Wasn't sure where to put this, but we need a thread for the wing nuts. Lauren Boebert.
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Somehow these things only ever go one way, don’t they?
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It's a horse race!!! We can most certainly catch the Taliban!
The Absurdity of the Taliban’s New Restrictions on Women
MEP Global Fellow Sola Mahfouz reflects on the absurdity of the new Taliban decrees, which include restrictions on women speaking in public.
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of course, the men are fine with doing it. Someone needs to look into him more closely.
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Tell me you sexually abuse and assault women without saying the actual words, "I sexually abuse and assault women."
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The devil works hard, but the Republican party works harder. Not a day seems to go by without anti-abortion zealots on the right advancing some cunning new plan to strip women of their bodily autonomy.
As well as shutting down abortion clinics, Republican states are trying to essentially outlaw abortion pills: on Friday, Missouri, Kansas and Idaho renewed a legal push to drastically reduce access to mifepristone.
Amid this hellscape, help may be at hand from a somewhat unlikely source: Satan. Or, to be more accurate – and since the devil is in the details – the Satanic Temple.
Founded in 2012, the Satanic Temple (which is not to be confused with the very different Church of Satan) is not about devil worship. Rather, it is about raising hell to fight for freedom from the religious right’s crusade to impose their beliefs on everyone else.
“Right now, we have a minority religious theocratic movement, so entrenched in politics and getting away with whatever they want,” co-founder Lucien Greaves told the Guardian earlier this year.
Recognized as a religion by the IRS, the Satanic Temple uses the religious right’s tactics, and their victories, against them. When a Ten Commandments monument was erected at the Oklahoma state capitol in 2012, for example, the temple submitted an application to put a 7ft-tall statue depicting Satan as Baphomet, a goat-headed figure with horns, alongside it.
In its application, it argued that the decision to have a Ten Commandments monument paved the way for satanic representation. (They weren’t the only ones protesting: the satirical Church of the Flying Spaghetti Monster also requested a monument.)
In the end, the Ten Commandments statue was removed by order of the state’s supreme court and the Horned One did not get immortalized in Oklahoma.
Over the years, the Satanic Temple has taken on issues like prayer in the classroom, after-class Bible study groups, and the distribution of Bibles in schools.
Now, for obvious reasons, it’s increasingly turning its not-so-evil eye to abortion rights. Last year, it opened an online abortion clinic in New Mexico called The Samuel Alito’s Mom’s Satanic Abortion Clinic, in reference to the conservative justice who wrote the majority opinion that overturned Roe v Wade.
“In 1950, Samuel Alito’s mother did not have options, and look what happened,” Malcolm Jarry, co-founder of the Satanic Temple said at the time.
As with its other causes, the Satanic Temple brands abortion as a core part of its religious beliefs. Women are asked to recite a ritual (“By my body, my blood, by my will, it is done”) before taking abortion pills to ward off “unjust persecution”.
The temple has also sued states that have banned abortion, arguing that abortion is a religious rite for their congregation and that denying them access to these ritual abortions would be a constitutional violation.
All of this has had the desired effect of driving the satanists’ adversaries bonkers. The Christian Research Institute, an evangelical group, described the group as “troll lords” and said they were “exploiting their cartoonishly dark and villainous branding to agitate the public and pester the Christian Right into a judicial showdown”……..
www.theguardian.com
As well as shutting down abortion clinics, Republican states are trying to essentially outlaw abortion pills: on Friday, Missouri, Kansas and Idaho renewed a legal push to drastically reduce access to mifepristone.
Amid this hellscape, help may be at hand from a somewhat unlikely source: Satan. Or, to be more accurate – and since the devil is in the details – the Satanic Temple.
Founded in 2012, the Satanic Temple (which is not to be confused with the very different Church of Satan) is not about devil worship. Rather, it is about raising hell to fight for freedom from the religious right’s crusade to impose their beliefs on everyone else.
“Right now, we have a minority religious theocratic movement, so entrenched in politics and getting away with whatever they want,” co-founder Lucien Greaves told the Guardian earlier this year.
Recognized as a religion by the IRS, the Satanic Temple uses the religious right’s tactics, and their victories, against them. When a Ten Commandments monument was erected at the Oklahoma state capitol in 2012, for example, the temple submitted an application to put a 7ft-tall statue depicting Satan as Baphomet, a goat-headed figure with horns, alongside it.
In its application, it argued that the decision to have a Ten Commandments monument paved the way for satanic representation. (They weren’t the only ones protesting: the satirical Church of the Flying Spaghetti Monster also requested a monument.)
In the end, the Ten Commandments statue was removed by order of the state’s supreme court and the Horned One did not get immortalized in Oklahoma.
Over the years, the Satanic Temple has taken on issues like prayer in the classroom, after-class Bible study groups, and the distribution of Bibles in schools.
Now, for obvious reasons, it’s increasingly turning its not-so-evil eye to abortion rights. Last year, it opened an online abortion clinic in New Mexico called The Samuel Alito’s Mom’s Satanic Abortion Clinic, in reference to the conservative justice who wrote the majority opinion that overturned Roe v Wade.
“In 1950, Samuel Alito’s mother did not have options, and look what happened,” Malcolm Jarry, co-founder of the Satanic Temple said at the time.
As with its other causes, the Satanic Temple brands abortion as a core part of its religious beliefs. Women are asked to recite a ritual (“By my body, my blood, by my will, it is done”) before taking abortion pills to ward off “unjust persecution”.
The temple has also sued states that have banned abortion, arguing that abortion is a religious rite for their congregation and that denying them access to these ritual abortions would be a constitutional violation.
All of this has had the desired effect of driving the satanists’ adversaries bonkers. The Christian Research Institute, an evangelical group, described the group as “troll lords” and said they were “exploiting their cartoonishly dark and villainous branding to agitate the public and pester the Christian Right into a judicial showdown”……..
The Satanic Temple is taking on the Christian right. It may be effective – it’s definitely fun | Arwa Mahdawi
Recognized as a religion by the IRS, the group uses the religious right’s tactics, and their victories, against them
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well, we wouldn't want to impact their future swimming career.. ...
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You damn skippy they are.The Christian Research Institute, an evangelical group, described the group as “troll lords” and said they were “exploiting their cartoonishly dark and villainous branding to agitate the public and pester the Christian Right into a judicial showdown”……..
The Satanic Temple is taking on the Christian right. It may be effective – it’s definitely fun | Arwa Mahdawi
Recognized as a religion by the IRS, the group uses the religious right’s tactics, and their victories, against them
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They should use the same naming tactics as the Religious Reich.
"The Patriot's Freedom Clinic."
"The Donald J Trump Memorioal MAGA Clinic."
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That would be awesome actually
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The term “damned skippy” will always be great and isn’t used nearly enough
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I say it a lot, but don't usually write it. It was my immediate reaction to reading that quote from the evangelist, so I went with it. To me, it's the most triumphant and defiant way of saying "that's right," even more than "you bet your arse." And it's PG.
I always thought it was damned too and that's what I originally wrote. I did a search and they all said it was damn. Fortunately, it works either way.
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Posted about this before. Truly bizarre
First time hearing the term parallel or freedom economy
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Last year, an intense transphobic backlash erupted in response to Bud Light using a trans influencer in a social media campaign. Bomb threats were called in to breweries, bars stopped selling Budweiser products, people posted videos of themselves pouring Bud Light down the drain, and Kid Rock filmed himself shooting several cases of it with a submachine gun.
Against that backdrop, a company launched a Bud Light alternative called Ultra Right Beer, marketed as being “100% Woke-Free.”.
Ultra Right is one of many products in a consumer movement that’s been picking up steam in recent years: the so-called parallel economy.
The parallel economy is an attempt by conservatives to create a separate economy made up of businesses and services that are less “woke” than those in the mainstream. (It’s also referred to as the “patriot economy” and the “freedom economy”.)
I’ve had incredibly jarring moments exploring the parallel economy. Like when I was browsing a parallel economy Christmas catalog put out by the rightwing social networking site Gab, and ended up on the website of a candle company that was selling products featuring swastikas and racist caricatures of Black people (the owner of that candle company has since been arrested for allegedly mailing threats to a rabbi).
I’ve been attempting to document the parallel economy for the last year or so, and have photographed dozens of businesses and services.
Things like ForTrump Cookies, an alternative to regular fortune cookies that contain messages like “CNN is fake news”; and Maga Realty, a Florida-based real estate company that offers a free AR-15 with every home purchase; and Patriot Mobile, a company that bills itself as “America’s only Christian conservative wireless provider”…….
www.theguardian.com
First time hearing the term parallel or freedom economy
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Last year, an intense transphobic backlash erupted in response to Bud Light using a trans influencer in a social media campaign. Bomb threats were called in to breweries, bars stopped selling Budweiser products, people posted videos of themselves pouring Bud Light down the drain, and Kid Rock filmed himself shooting several cases of it with a submachine gun.
Against that backdrop, a company launched a Bud Light alternative called Ultra Right Beer, marketed as being “100% Woke-Free.”.
Ultra Right is one of many products in a consumer movement that’s been picking up steam in recent years: the so-called parallel economy.
The parallel economy is an attempt by conservatives to create a separate economy made up of businesses and services that are less “woke” than those in the mainstream. (It’s also referred to as the “patriot economy” and the “freedom economy”.)
I’ve had incredibly jarring moments exploring the parallel economy. Like when I was browsing a parallel economy Christmas catalog put out by the rightwing social networking site Gab, and ended up on the website of a candle company that was selling products featuring swastikas and racist caricatures of Black people (the owner of that candle company has since been arrested for allegedly mailing threats to a rabbi).
I’ve been attempting to document the parallel economy for the last year or so, and have photographed dozens of businesses and services.
Things like ForTrump Cookies, an alternative to regular fortune cookies that contain messages like “CNN is fake news”; and Maga Realty, a Florida-based real estate company that offers a free AR-15 with every home purchase; and Patriot Mobile, a company that bills itself as “America’s only Christian conservative wireless provider”…….
‘Woke tears’ water, Hillary toilet roll: the US right’s ‘parallel economy’ – in pictures
A conservative consumer movement is trying to create a separate economy from the ‘woke’ mainstream. So what are they selling?
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Rudy Giuliani must give control of his New York City apartment, a 1980s Mercedes-Benz once owned by Lauren Bacall, several luxury watches and many other assets to two Georgia election workers he defamed.
Lewis Liman, a US district judge in New York, appointed Ruby Freeman and her daughter Shaye Moss as recipients of the property and gave the former New York mayor and Trump confidante seven days to turn over the assets.
A jury ruled that Giuliani owes them around $150m for spreading lies about them after the 2020 election though Giuliani is appealing the ruling. Liman authorized the two women to immediately begin selling the assets.
“The road to justice for Ruby and Shaye has been long, but they have never wavered,” said Aaron Nathan, a lawyer representing Freeman and Moss. “Last December, a jury delivered a powerful verdict in their favor, and we’re proud tat today’s ruling makes that verdict a reality.”
“We are proud that our clients will finally begin to receive some of the compensation to which they are entitled for Giuliani’s actions,” said Nathan. “This outcome should send a powerful message that there is a price to pay for those who choose to intentionally spread disinformation.”……
www.theguardian.com
Lewis Liman, a US district judge in New York, appointed Ruby Freeman and her daughter Shaye Moss as recipients of the property and gave the former New York mayor and Trump confidante seven days to turn over the assets.
A jury ruled that Giuliani owes them around $150m for spreading lies about them after the 2020 election though Giuliani is appealing the ruling. Liman authorized the two women to immediately begin selling the assets.
“The road to justice for Ruby and Shaye has been long, but they have never wavered,” said Aaron Nathan, a lawyer representing Freeman and Moss. “Last December, a jury delivered a powerful verdict in their favor, and we’re proud tat today’s ruling makes that verdict a reality.”
“We are proud that our clients will finally begin to receive some of the compensation to which they are entitled for Giuliani’s actions,” said Nathan. “This outcome should send a powerful message that there is a price to pay for those who choose to intentionally spread disinformation.”……
Giuliani ordered to turn over property and Benz to Georgia election workers
Judge appointed Ruby Freeman and Shay Moss as recipients of ex-mayor’s assets in defamation case
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about time he was fleeced instead by woman no less black woman even better.
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They should make a TikTok of them licking their fingers and then touching all his stuff.
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You mean donning EPA approved full coverage moon suits, and using long handled tongs from a six foot distance, touching all his stuff.
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Republicans and the right had to come up with a euphemism for segregated economy, because they know they can't sell what they're shoveling if they call it what it really is.Posted about this before. Truly bizarre
First time hearing the term parallel or freedom economy
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Last year, an intense transphobic backlash erupted in response to Bud Light using a trans influencer in a social media campaign. Bomb threats were called in to breweries, bars stopped selling Budweiser products, people posted videos of themselves pouring Bud Light down the drain, and Kid Rock filmed himself shooting several cases of it with a submachine gun.
Against that backdrop, a company launched a Bud Light alternative called Ultra Right Beer, marketed as being “100% Woke-Free.”.
Ultra Right is one of many products in a consumer movement that’s been picking up steam in recent years: the so-called parallel economy.
The parallel economy is an attempt by conservatives to create a separate economy made up of businesses and services that are less “woke” than those in the mainstream. (It’s also referred to as the “patriot economy” and the “freedom economy”.)
I’ve had incredibly jarring moments exploring the parallel economy. Like when I was browsing a parallel economy Christmas catalog put out by the rightwing social networking site Gab, and ended up on the website of a candle company that was selling products featuring swastikas and racist caricatures of Black people (the owner of that candle company has since been arrested for allegedly mailing threats to a rabbi).
I’ve been attempting to document the parallel economy for the last year or so, and have photographed dozens of businesses and services.
Things like ForTrump Cookies, an alternative to regular fortune cookies that contain messages like “CNN is fake news”; and Maga Realty, a Florida-based real estate company that offers a free AR-15 with every home purchase; and Patriot Mobile, a company that bills itself as “America’s only Christian conservative wireless provider”…….
‘Woke tears’ water, Hillary toilet roll: the US right’s ‘parallel economy’ – in pictures
A conservative consumer movement is trying to create a separate economy from the ‘woke’ mainstream. So what are they selling?
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Oh' Deer:
Deer are basically goats.
Deer are basically goats.
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