• madcaesar@lemmy.world
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    I have never taken any moral criticism from the right seriously. They are corrupt immoral hypocritical assholes.

    That said, I will call out any democrat doing unethical shit because I don’t give a shit about party or celebrities. If you are a piece of shit, I don’t care about the letter next to your name.

    And if you have an R next to your name, I give zero shits about any of your opinions you morally bankrupt piece of crap.

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    Lemmy is an echo chamber but I’ll say if for those rare republicans in the back:

    If a prominent democrat has skeletons like this in their closet, they deserve the same scrutiny / disrepute as any republican.

    Party means nothing

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      Honestly, what even is a political scandal anymore? The goal post has been moved so far, I’m not sure it’s even still in the same zip code.

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    It’s a bit hard to grasp but most practice ‘ social’ Christianity. Church is a social space to hang out, sing, read the Bible and be with people they like and are like them. Cookout and camping Christians. The people discriminated against as ‘sinners’ are just people they make them uncomfortable and they don’t want around.

    So the poor, homeless ,trans, gay are vilified because they. Really really don’t want them to show up in their church. It would make them uncomfortable.

    On the same side there is 0% backlash against the guy who drinks to excess specifically looking to hook up with as many hot women as possible on Friday or Saturday nights. As long as he is from the in group it’s fine to them and will be forgiven.

    There is 0 remorse, thought or strain over this. You’re judging them by rules they don’t consider important.

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      Exactly. The alcoholic cheater who sometimes hits his wife is a fun guy to them, a good Christian who’s trying his best. But a trans woman who spends Friday night driving around to pick up food for food not bombs needs to repent and live as Jesus said.

      I’m not pretending Christianity is amazing, I’m an apostate for a reason, but I’ll say this: I’m still a better Christian than a large portion of Christians I know despite the apostacy and the paganism.

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        I don’t even think it’s like that. If the trans person happened to be a church member before they may be somewhat comfortable with them thus, one of the good ones. If the wife was liked in the church the guy would be out.

        The whole notion of good and bad is comfort level. That is why anyone who questions their faith is rejected as an other. They viscerally dislike being uncomfortable and externalize it as hate so they don’t need to feel bad.

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    cheating, rape, and violence ARE conservative family values, as long as it’s the men doing any of those things

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      The Nationalist Christian logic … if I did bad things and God didn’t punish me, then I was allowed by God to do these things and get away with it.

      These are the reasons why I don’t like Nationalist Christians and I don’t believe in God … any God that would allow this stupidity is in a universe I don’t want to take part in. I would rather burn in hell rather than join some fanciful heaven filled with psychopaths, sociopaths and narcissists.

      Also I always liked the short form of calling them “Nat-Cs” … Nationalist Christians

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    I wonder how Elon’s “Kung Fu lessons” with Ghislaine Maxwell panned out.

    I wonder if he “sparred” against 12 year old girls.

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    I feel like the whole ‘Family Values’ thing hasn’t been a talking point from the republicans in a long time. Have any of these 3 actually lectured about family values?

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    I like these things but would prefer them as a text post to politcal community or such so its searchable and because I tend to block meme communities. Basically im saying this is way to good to be a meme.

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      I tend to block meme communities

      Which is why you are discussing here in the political meme community, right? Well, thanks for letting us know :D

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        I tend to filter my all over time so it happens when it happens and new ones come up all the time with the fediverse. I block sports to its just I block and subscribe based on relative interest.

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    What is the criteria for “credibly accused”? Accused is easy enough. One simply must make an accusation against you. But what criteria is used to elevate that credible?

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      witnesses, accusations, court trials, investigations by law, settlements and outright admission.

      Some of them have more of one type than the other but most of the people mentioned in this political context are not unlucky people who only have one or two incidents.

      That does not mean the other people are saints. But most seem to at least not glorify in it, and many are content to exploit and rob the working class without such public incidents.

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        Not that I care about or even like these guys, but just playing devils advocate (mostly because very few people here do) but witnesses, accusations, court trials, and investigations by law is just due process. Also, with an outright admission, we’ve gone past the point of a mere accusation (credible or otherwise). I suppose a settlement is the only one I would attach to credible. Most people aren’t going to pay up unless they’re guilty.