this post was submitted on 29 Aug 2024
272 points (99.3% liked)

politics

19090 readers
3994 users here now

Welcome to the discussion of US Politics!

Rules:

  1. Post only links to articles, Title must fairly describe link contents. If your title differs from the site’s, it should only be to add context or be more descriptive. Do not post entire articles in the body or in the comments.

Links must be to the original source, not an aggregator like Google Amp, MSN, or Yahoo.

Example:

  1. Articles must be relevant to politics. Links must be to quality and original content. Articles should be worth reading. Clickbait, stub articles, and rehosted or stolen content are not allowed. Check your source for Reliability and Bias here.
  2. Be civil, No violations of TOS. It’s OK to say the subject of an article is behaving like a (pejorative, pejorative). It’s NOT OK to say another USER is (pejorative). Strong language is fine, just not directed at other members. Engage in good-faith and with respect! This includes accusing another user of being a bot or paid actor. Trolling is uncivil and is grounds for removal and/or a community ban.
  3. No memes, trolling, or low-effort comments. Reposts, misinformation, off-topic, trolling, or offensive. Similarly, if you see posts along these lines, do not engage. Report them, block them, and live a happier life than they do. We see too many slapfights that boil down to "Mom! He's bugging me!" and "I'm not touching you!" Going forward, slapfights will result in removed comments and temp bans to cool off.
  4. Vote based on comment quality, not agreement. This community aims to foster discussion; please reward people for putting effort into articulating their viewpoint, even if you disagree with it.
  5. No hate speech, slurs, celebrating death, advocating violence, or abusive language. This will result in a ban. Usernames containing racist, or inappropriate slurs will be banned without warning

We ask that the users report any comment or post that violate the rules, to use critical thinking when reading, posting or commenting. Users that post off-topic spam, advocate violence, have multiple comments or posts removed, weaponize reports or violate the code of conduct will be banned.

All posts and comments will be reviewed on a case-by-case basis. This means that some content that violates the rules may be allowed, while other content that does not violate the rules may be removed. The moderators retain the right to remove any content and ban users.

That's all the rules!

Civic Links

Register To Vote

Citizenship Resource Center

Congressional Awards Program

Federal Government Agencies

Library of Congress Legislative Resources

The White House

U.S. House of Representatives

U.S. Senate

Partnered Communities:

News

World News

Business News

Political Discussion

Ask Politics

Military News

Global Politics

Moderate Politics

Progressive Politics

UK Politics

Canadian Politics

Australian Politics

New Zealand Politics

founded 1 year ago
MODERATORS
top 14 comments
sorted by: hot top controversial new old
[–] TransplantedSconie@lemm.ee 46 points 2 months ago (1 children)

Andrew Beck, Beck & Stone’s co-founder, is closely involved with the Society for American Civic Renewal (SACR), a secretive invitation- and men-only fraternal lodge

That's some weird shit

[–] TransplantedSconie@lemm.ee 26 points 2 months ago* (last edited 2 months ago) (1 children)

And it you want to know what kind of assholes those guys are, this is from the tail end of a Guardian piece on the SACR;

Brad Onishi is the author of Preparing for War, a critical account of Christian nationalism, the host of the Straight White American Jesus podcast, and an academic with appointments at UC Berkeley and the University of San Francisco. He is also a self-described former Christian nationalist.

In a telephone conversation he said that the prayers include “coded” references that may function as justifications of violence.

Explaining the reference to the story of the conquest of Jericho in the book of Joshua, Onishi said: “What happens when the walls fall down? Joshua’s men go in and kill everyone: men, children, women, animals.

“It’s an attempted genocide, right?”

"In that prayer they’re saying we’re Joshua’s men. We’re the type of men who trust God,” Onishi added.

“And when God, when God gives us the signal, we’re going to go kill everybody. That’s what we do.”

[–] Buffalox@lemmy.world 26 points 2 months ago (1 children)

How is that different than working for Vance?

[–] Diplomjodler3@lemmy.world 15 points 2 months ago (1 children)

It's all about plausible deniability.

[–] FuglyDuck@lemmy.world 8 points 2 months ago (1 children)

is that like the couch thing?

[–] harrys_balzac@lemmy.dbzer0.com 11 points 2 months ago (1 children)

That's called "plush availability."

[–] cheese_greater@lemmy.world 5 points 2 months ago* (last edited 2 months ago)

Bravahahaha

[–] traches@sh.itjust.works 11 points 2 months ago (1 children)

At first glance I thought it said “extremist kinks”

[–] essell@lemmy.world 12 points 2 months ago

Wouldn't surprise me. They're all sofa king weird.

[–] RedditWanderer@lemmy.world 7 points 2 months ago

It's in the job requirements

[–] ILikeBoobies@lemmy.ca 6 points 2 months ago

Vance aide worked for Vance

Is that supposed to be newsworthy?