DigitalTraveler42 @ DigitalTraveler42 @lemmy.world

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Nah it goes back much further than the 80's, when we're on the topic of the age of American Christian Nationalism I like to break out the only Barry Goldwater quotes I know, the first of which was said in the 60's:

Mark my word, if and when these preachers get control of the Republican] party, and they're sure trying to do so, it's going to be a terrible damn problem. Frankly, these people frighten me. Politics and governing demand compromise. But these Christians believe they are acting in the name of God, so they can't and won't compromise. I know, I've tried to deal with them.

Another banger:

I must make it clear that I don't condemn these groups for what they believe. I happen to share many of the values emphasized by these organizations. I'm frankly sick and tired of the political preachers across this country telling me as a citizen that if I want to be a moral person, I must believe in "A," "B," "C" and "D." Just who do they think they are? And from where do they presume to claim the right to dictate their moral beliefs to me? And I am even more angry as a legislator who must endure the threats of every religious group who thinks it has some God-granted right to control my vote on every roll call in the Senate. I am warning them today: I will fight them every step of the way if they try to dictate their moral convictions to all Americans in the name of "conservatism." … This unrelenting obsession with a particular goal destroys the perspective of many decent people. They have become easy prey to manipulation and misjudgment.

Yet another prophetic quote:

There is no position on which people are so immovable as their religious beliefs. There is no more powerful ally one can claim in a debate than Jesus Christ, or God, or Allah, or whatever one calls this supreme being. But like any powerful weapon, the use of God's name on one's behalf should be used sparingly. The religious factions that are growing throughout our land are not using their religious clout with wisdom. They are trying to force government leaders into following their position 100 percent. If you disagree with these religious groups on a particular moral issue, they complain, they threaten you with a loss of money or votes or both.

Another one:

The specter of single-issue religious groups is growing over our land. … One of the great strengths of our political system always has been our tendency to keep religious issues in the background. By maintaining the separation of church and state, the United States has avoided the intolerance which has so divided the rest of the world with religious wars.

Yet another accurate one:

Those who seek absolute power, even though they seek it to do what they regard as good, are simply demanding the right to enforce their own version of heaven on earth. And let me remind you, they are the very ones who always create the most hellish tyrannies. Absolute power does corrupt, and those who seek it must be suspect and must be opposed. Their mistaken course stems from false notions of equality, ladies and gentlemen. Equality, rightly understood, as our founding fathers understood it, leads to liberty and to the emancipation of creative differences. Wrongly understood, as it has been so tragically in our time, it leads first to conformity and then to despotism.

https://en.wikiquote.org/wiki/Barry_Goldwater#:~:text=Tolerance%20in%20the%20face%20of,of%20freedom%20is%20no%20vice.

Nah Al Qaida would be the proud boys or one of their other terrorist groups, this group is more the American Taliban, or let's call it what it really is, The Sons of Jacob/Gilead.

Matt Walsh, Nazi moron and overall creep, fuck that guy.

Internet Clout Chasing pundits and the conspiracy crowd in 2024.

And I get that, which is why I hope it works out for the guy, but I'm going to take what he's said with a grain of salt, I know how beauracrasies are, and I know how much worse they tend to get when your circumstances deviate from the norm, ultimately this guy is going to need to take this to court and fight it out in order to force the New York state bureaucracy to make a change.

Ultimately i was just making fun of the grandfathered claim, it's always the go to claim when rule changes are made that people don't want to comply with. Also an alligator is a dangerous beast, I've been chased by them, I've dealt with getting them out of my pool, I've had friends lose their pets to them, I can definitely understand why NYS doesn't want alligators in poorly trained or incapable hands, however someone has to care for this poor blind gator.

“I did everything by the book the whole time,” Cavallaro said, adding: “They changed the rules, and I should be grandfathered in. I shouldn’t have to abide by them.”

This guy: "the rules shouldn't apply to me because I'm special"

Now with that said I'm hoping they let this guy keep his gator, but they should force him to no longer let people be around it outside of him or professionals the state forces him to hire.

But...but... they're the party of Jesus! /s

Because the NY Times and other media companies help them spread their misinformation with no pushback?

It's like the old TMNT arcade game, but GI Joe, I'd definitely play this, but the style is retro AF.

Considering how Russian's have been found to be using Space X satellites, while Musk is blocking Ukraine from using them I'd have to say sure I bet he is, but I bet the Russians will also have access to it.

Oh no, I meant the correlation between being a Jets fan and MAGA, i was just saying there's probably some strong overlap, lol.

Which does make sense too, since the federation seems to like their ships to be prepared for just about everything, including massive evacuations.

Yeah Marty really did us a disservice with making Belfort look so "good", I mean at least in Goodfellas at least Marty makes Henry Hill look like the coke addicted scumbag he was, Wolf of Wall Street was more like the My Blue Heaven version of Henry Hill's life.

Now we get every idiot who becomes a stock broker or on r/wallstreetbets or r/superstonk thinking they're going to he the next Jordan Belfort thanks to The Wolf of Wall Street, and they might not actually be wrong since the SEC and FEC both seem feckless and toothless.

It was actually meant to be sardonic, and while sardonic comments may seem funny at times, they come from a place of cynicism and judgement, which should be obvious from my calling them "genocide enthusiasts".

Or just making the hallways seem fuller with different background characters rather than the same characters roaming the mostly empty hallways.

Enterprise D has a complement of 1000+ personnel, yet it seems like we only see like 50 of them the entire series.

It would be nice if the next Trek series does something to address this.

Dumb Genocide Enthusiasts: "People aren't starving, there's plenty of dead people and animals to eat in Gaza right now..."

To be fair, most of The Wolf of Wall Street really happened, including Jordan Belfort going to prison, however things are way different in the current corrupt politically charged environment.

Also Jordan Belfort managed to get rich again off of his crimes, through his books and Marty Scorcese turning him into one of the worst unironically idolized villains not named Joker or Patrick Bateman.

I like the part of the article that highlights how he's not pro-Trump either, so Rodgers collaboration with RFK Jr is going to definitely pull at the Trump voters, glad that prediction seems to be coming to fruition, either way fuck Trump, RFK, and Rodgers.

*Was a great Quarterback, we'll see if he really does come back like "Superman" from this Achilles injury like his narcissistic self thinks he will.

Also only having one Superbowl win from more than a decade ago kinda limits his greatness, even my boy Eli took two Superbowl victories away from the GOAT QB, Tom Brady, and nobody but us Giants fans would call Eli a "great Quarterback".