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[-] aLaStOr_MoOdY47@lemmy.world 1 points 20 hours ago

No one is sending you anywhere. You know Trump isn't even a Christian himself, right?

[-] Kintarian@lemmy.world 2 points 16 hours ago

The Gulag was a government agency in the Soviet Union that administered forced labor camps, particularly during Joseph Stalin's rule, especially in the 1930s through early 1950s. Stalin was not a Christian either. Similarly, if Putin considers you a threat, you may disappear. Trump has followed a similar approach, gathering loyalists in as many government positions as possible. He has vowed retribution against his perceived enemies, much like the forced internment camps the U.S. used for Japanese Americans during WWII. He may indeed imprison those who speak out against him, having already promised to deploy the National Guard against protesters.

[-] Rhynoplaz@lemmy.world 22 points 6 days ago

I'd say start studying the Bible so you can blend in, but actually knowing scripture is VERY uncommon among the MAGA crowd.

[-] Hideakikarate@sh.itjust.works 11 points 6 days ago

Just buy a red or black hat and have a shitty cross necklace to wear under your wife-beaters to go with a Punisher skull tattoo on one arm and a "Thin Blue Line" flag on the other.

[-] Kintarian@lemmy.world 5 points 6 days ago

I have a pentagram on my left hand. I'm pretty much fucked.

[-] Hideakikarate@sh.itjust.works 3 points 6 days ago

You just REALLY like the metal band Slayer.

[-] bramkaandorp@lemmy.world 2 points 6 days ago

Satanic! To the gulag.

If they actually followed Jesus' teaching in the Bible they might be decent people lol.

[-] Dr_Box@lemmy.world 6 points 6 days ago

Yeah they basically only know the stuff they saw on veggie tales and the stuff they can use to judge other people

[-] paddirn@lemmy.world 16 points 6 days ago

Probably after the other low-hanging fruit has been "dealt with". They'll start with illegal immigrants because they're easier to pick out and have less people to stand up for them. Then they'll turn their attention somewhere else, then somewhere else, but eventually they'll get around to Atheists, because obviously they're all ungodly heathens who commit all sorts of atrocities, not at all like Church leaders and devout Christians, who can do no wrong.

[-] AreaKode@lemmy.world 20 points 6 days ago

illegal immigrants

And that's a dog whistle for "the coloreds". Not just the illegals, but anyone who doesn't "belong". Racism and bigotry have never been more rampant in this country in my lifetime.

[-] Nougat@fedia.io 9 points 6 days ago

Racism and bigotry have never been more openly rampant in this country in my lifetime.

ftfy

[-] Nollij@sopuli.xyz 4 points 6 days ago

It'll be the LGBT groups, just like last time. Do you hear how violent the rhetoric has become about trans people? They're also a small enough and defenseless group.

But yes, it will be other groups before atheists.

[-] Lemming421@lemmy.world 4 points 6 days ago

“First they came for the immigrants, but I did not speak up because I was not an immigrant…”

[-] FlyingSquid@lemmy.world 5 points 6 days ago

Hopefully not until Putin takes over the UK since that's where we're fleeing to.

It might not be the best country, but it is a country where the government is actively working on banning conversion therapy with cross-party and church support.

[-] Flax_vert@feddit.uk 0 points 4 days ago
[-] FlyingSquid@lemmy.world 2 points 3 days ago* (last edited 3 days ago)

I see, you want to stop citizens from going to a country where they are a citizen.

How Trump of you. (Or, I suppose, Farage.)

[-] Flax_vert@feddit.uk 0 points 3 days ago* (last edited 3 days ago)

Nevermind 🤣 assumed you were a yank

[-] FlyingSquid@lemmy.world 2 points 3 days ago
[-] cranakis@reddthat.com 1 points 7 hours ago* (last edited 6 hours ago)

I understand if you have to but;

Don't go m8. I thought about it too, Canada is where I'd go, but... Let's stay and be old dickheads about it. I don't know you irl but, let's go somewhere and get a pint, and wait for this to all blow over (cough cough explode cough). Also, someone is going to have to rebuild. I appreciate you, even if union jack Flax doesn't.

Stay. Resist. Just my two cents buddy, as a fellow "sorter by new."

[-] FlyingSquid@lemmy.world 1 points 26 minutes ago

I am the parent of a queer girl. There is no way I can justify staying and risking her being taken away and put in some conversion therapy camp. Or just have to be in the closet she's never been in and never find love except in secret. In fact, due to the internet being forever, she can't even really go into the closet if she needed to.

Meanwhile, Britain is working to outlaw conversion therapy with cross-party support. It's safer for her there.

Children owe their parents nothing; they didn't ask to be born. Parents owe their child everything. I would never, ever forgive myself if we stayed when we had the option to leave and something bad happened to her because of it.

[-] Flax_vert@feddit.uk 1 points 3 days ago* (last edited 3 days ago)

I'm so sorry to hear that. I ~~pray for~~ ask darwin to evolve your recovery

[-] K1nsey6@lemmy.world 4 points 6 days ago

We will be fine.

[-] iii@mander.xyz 4 points 6 days ago

I'll be fine as I have been masking most of my life.

[-] Hideakikarate@sh.itjust.works 7 points 6 days ago

Whelp, you're caught. Masks are illegal.

this post was submitted on 08 Nov 2024
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