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[–] Zink@programming.dev 1 points 19 minutes ago

"To confront such weaponization and religious persecution, today I'm signing an executive order to make our Attorney General, who's a great person — she's going to be a great Attorney General — Pam Bondi the head of a task force, brand new, to eradicate anti-Christian bias," Trump said.

I feel like Trump’s quote here from the article is even worse than the headline suggests.

First is the use of the word eradicate rather than prosecute. It’s a much more dehumanizing tone, as if there a bunch of pests that need to be wiped out.

And second, which is no surprise but is even more worrying, is how much praise he put on Bondi there. That means loyalty to a person rather than to a nation or constitution.

[–] Doorbook@lemmy.world 5 points 1 hour ago (1 children)

It is funny after years of fighting taliban the US now need to deal with neo-taliban at home.

[–] nomy@lemmy.zip 1 points 1 hour ago

The takeaway can be Bin Laden won, the terrorists won.

[–] HawlSera@lemm.ee 3 points 1 hour ago

And the less specific he is in talking about things like this, the more this will be blatantly abused

[–] noxypaws@pawb.social 7 points 2 hours ago

says the fucking antichrist

[–] the_q@lemm.ee 8 points 2 hours ago (3 children)

Anyone wanna get together, publicly, and burn a huge pile of Bibles?

[–] NikkiDimes@lemmy.world 1 points 48 minutes ago

Never have I felt the urge to do so, but yes.

Whoawhoawhoa...have I been going to the wrong Communist Socialist Democrat America Hater meetings? We've been burning babies, not bibles. Looks like we goofed.

[–] Honytawk@lemmy.zip 2 points 1 hour ago

Sure, as long as we don't do crosses.

[–] phoenixz@lemmy.ca 22 points 3 hours ago (1 children)

And this is it. This is the step that makes the US a theocratic dictator.

This is the thing with religion: ANYTHING can be labelled as being against it. Muslims? Anti Christian bias. Atheists? Don't get me started. Gays? Obviously. Scientists? Doh! We do want the results from science, though, like computers, food, clean water, etc, but scientists are evil devil anti Christian.

I want nothing to do with the US anymore

[–] eatthecake@lemmy.world 11 points 2 hours ago

My dude you forgot women. Women are the prime target of all religion. They'll end no fault divorce, end marital rape, institute child marriage and call it all gods fucking plan to procreate. The right to vote will only belong to male heads of family.

[–] waterSticksToMyBalls@lemmy.world 7 points 3 hours ago (1 children)

So we can still be anti christianity as long as our opinions are based on facts?

[–] just_another_person@lemmy.world 10 points 3 hours ago

They have no idea what "bias" actually means, they just intend to weaponize it to be whatever they want. Like they do with every other word.

[–] phoenixz@lemmy.ca 11 points 4 hours ago (1 children)

Hi Canadians!

Want to join our christofascist state where we jail those that don't believe in sky daddy?

that don't believe in sky daddy the right way?

[–] w3dd1e@lemm.ee 19 points 4 hours ago (2 children)

Didn’t Elon Musk and Michael Flynn just post about how they will stop processing payments to a Lutheran organization?

Let’s start there.

[–] VerdantSporeSeasoning@lemmy.ca 1 points 53 minutes ago

In case anyone wants to see the post. It's not an organization that only liberal Lutherans supported either. LCMS (the larger conservative branch) supported this organization for years, too.

[–] UnderpantsWeevil@lemmy.world 7 points 4 hours ago (1 children)

Those weren't Real Christians. They were followers of some fringe leftist ideology from the Middle East.

[–] w3dd1e@lemm.ee 1 points 19 minutes ago

The Lutheran church isn’t Christian? Bro, wut.

[–] MilitantAtheist@lemmy.world -1 points 1 hour ago (2 children)

Under his eye. You're all so fucked. Anyone not looking to leave that country is fooling themselves.

[–] Olhonestjim@lemmy.world 1 points 18 minutes ago

I'm not leaving. I'm here til the bitter end.

[–] Jyek@sh.itjust.works 1 points 38 minutes ago

It's not as simple as leaving the country. Not everyone has a passport here. And the vast majority of Americans cannot afford to spend their lives and skip town let alone move to another country entirely. Then it comes to which country to move to. Most countries have requirements for visa entry. If you intend on staying permanently, you have to meet even stricter requirements like higher education, and even then, they won't permit your visa if you aren't in a field that would do good for their country. Some places may have a program similar to America's H1B visa where you can get a job and work in that job to stay in the country but then your livelihood is at the mercy of a stranger in a foreign land letting you keep your job until you can. Convince the government to give you citizenship. You don't just move to another country. And anyone who can just move to another country is exceedingly privileged.

[–] frog_brawler@lemmy.world 21 points 7 hours ago (32 children)

Jesus pretty much was a socialist so where does that leave us?

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