Strong disagree; they have an ideology, it’s just one that people on the left find disgusting because we value equality and they value the polar opposite: heirarchy.

They’ve also captured the majority of State houses and all three branches of the federal government. They’re highly organized with a sophisticated political media that knows how to communicate with their target demographic.

They believe that societies are successful when the right people are empowered; it’s why the talking points against DEI work so well— they see it as a restructuring of heirarchy back to their proper order. It’s why they push for Christian & white Nationalism— they want the “right” people to rule. Every policy they push for is framed by this dynamic.

They have goals, vision, drive, plans, and power. What is that if not an ideology? If the left continues to underestimate the reactionary right, we will continue to fail.

Even given the most charitable reading that he was doing a Nazi salute to troll people instead of because he’s an actual Nazi, the whole intention behind trolling is to piss people off.

And I’m not inclined to give this steaming coprolite any charity, because he acts like a fuckin’ Nazi.

(I’m not going to play along with the whole “he said his heart goes out” bullshit. Other Nazis sure knew what he was doing and loved it.)

They’ll still say this even though he clarified that he wasn’t joking.

The sanitation of his tyrannical insanity is infuriating.

How can anyone look at the US justice system and say that it produces justice?

Between the two-tiered conviction & sentencing, the routine torture, the prevalence of rape, the corrupt self-dealing, the reckless disregard for those in their care, the slavery, the murders, the forced confessions, and the crooked cops, the entire system is an unfunny joke.

I thought a “dip” was the CEO of Reddit.

Looks like we’re both right!

Thought you were gonna say fascist there at the end.

Glad to see I was right!

It’s hilarious to me when modern Republicans try to claim that Lincoln was a conservative when he was decried as a radical progressive by his detractors.

Hell Lincoln even called out conservative bullshit back then, saying that the policy of admitting new slaver States is contrary to the will of the founders and the traditions of the young nation.

From his speech at Cooper Union prior to his presidency:

But you say you are conservative - eminently conservative - while we are revolutionary, destructive, or something of the sort. What is conservatism? Is it not adherence to the old and tried, against the new and untried? We stick to, contend for, the identical old policy on the point in controversy which was adopted by “our fathers who framed the Government under which we live;” while you with one accord reject, and scout, and spit upon that old policy, and insist upon substituting something new. True, you disagree among yourselves as to what that substitute shall be. You are divided on new propositions and plans, but you are unanimous in rejecting and denouncing the old policy of the fathers. Some of you are for reviving the foreign slave trade; some for a Congressional Slave-Code for the Territories; some for Congress forbidding the Territories to prohibit Slavery within their limits; some for maintaining Slavery in the Territories through the judiciary; some for the “gur-reat pur-rinciple” that “if one man would enslave another, no third man should object,” fantastically called “Popular Sovereignty;” but never a man among you is in favor of federal prohibition of slavery in federal territories, according to the practice of “our fathers who framed the Government under which we live.” Not one of all your various plans can show a precedent or an advocate in the century within which our Government originated. Consider, then, whether your claim of conservatism for yourselves, and your charge or destructiveness against us, are based on the most clear and stable foundations.

This exactly.

They don’t see imposing a state of fundamentalist Christian supremacy as tyranny, because their ideology is one of Christian Nationalism (which in the US is inherently white nationalism).

They see the erosion of their relevance as the tyranny they’re supposed to stand up to despite it mostly being driven by cultural changes instead of government mandates. This means that the militias are meant to commit violence against civilians; they know the cops will side with them in a scrum. They’re more afraid of a lesbian with blue hair than a rogue sherrif depriving them of rights.

Then it seems awfully cruel to design this life otherwise.

Yup. The common answer to “why does evil exist” is that humans have free will.

Therefore it follows that if there is no sin in heaven, there is also no free will.

I was raised as a fundamentalist, but I got out.

American evangelical fundamentalists firmly believe in heirarchy— children are under the authority of their mother, who is under the authority of her husband, who is under the authority of God.

They see any disruption of this heirarchy as an attack on their religion.

Taxes? You’re usurping the man’s authority to spend his money as he sees fit.

Women’s liberation? You’re usurping the man’s authority over his wife.

Entitlements? You’re usurping the man’s authority to use his pocketbook as leverage over his family.

Immigration? You’re usurping the man’s authority by lowering his cultural relevance.

LGBTQ+ acceptance? You’re usurping the man’s authority by undermining the patriarchy.

You’ve probably noticed a pattern as to who is primarily driving these issues.

The gospels were written by anonymous authors decades to nearly a hundred years after Christianity became a religion, and then became canonized centuries afterwards.

They’re not the basis of Christianity, the Epistles are; and even many of those are forgeries. And those were just cementing the strictures of the existing mystery cult.

One of the most insidious parts of the Dobbs ruling is that they took away abortion by stripping our right to privacy.

It’s natural to focus on the people it targets most: people who are pregnant. However, we lost a lot more than reproductive freedom when that reactionary decision came down.

They want to return the status quo of the 19th century in so many ways.

I’m colorblind and it looks like he’s covered in buffalo sauce.

“MAGA influencer” is just another name for “professional antisocial gremlin.”

And that goes all the way up to President Musk at the very top; it’s pathetic how people look up to the lowest form of life on planet Earth.

They literally don’t care. All they want is to win an argument against leftists in the moment; they actually see it as a weakness to be beholden to facts.

They’re playing a different “game” entirely, one where rhetoric is more important than reality.