This poetgirl on Instagram says some off the wall shit.
Some of these old bitches have totally lost their mind and just spread misinformation.
This is more than mildly infuriating for me but I wasn’t quite sure where else to post this lol.
So we should display religious things of only the original occupiers of the land? I don’t think she’s going to be happy with the conclusion there.
The basis of most modern day US Republican policies is simply might makes right.
Right!
The Clovis people?
I for one am all for this plan. Schools would be a lot cooler if they were decorated by the local Native American tribes.
Haven’t you heard? “European whites” are actually natives now. That’s literally what those fascists on Jubilee said and were cheering for.
They will just change the reality if we let them.
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As long as someone beneath me gets hurt at least a little bit…
The world is full of idiots. Save your sanity and ignore them.
The world is full of idiots. Save your sanity and ignore them.
yeah, by ignoring them, they’re bringing back diseases that were managed well (polio, etc) and put the US in the hands of fascism.
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You don’t know what the alternative is? Come on.
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Often, it’s not about the person you’re arguing against, it’s for the people watching who are on the fence.
If you can keep yourself calm, rational, and present convincing evidence, then you can save some people from falling into those conspiracy and religious holes from which they may never return.
Sometimes you get lucky and bring someone back from the brink.
It’s estimated about 2% of Americans believe Earth is flat, and a further 9% aren’t sure what shape it is.
2% of Americans is near 7,000,000 people. Near 40,000,000 don’t believe the Earth is a ball or are unsure.
Even if you can’t convince the 2%, that’s still roughly 33,000,000 people in America alone you could potentially help with critical thinking. We need all the help we can get.
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Instructions unclear, ran off into the woods and ignored everyone
Working out ok for me so far.
You’re doing it right.
It’s a tough pill to swallow because social media gives these idiots a megaphone and places their bullshit right alongside actual experts. These people are a cancer on society. Ignoring them is good for your sanity but it also allows them to spread their disease unchecked.
All social media is overrun by troll factories with the purpose of sowing discord. I just assume all such accounts are “bots” (although often human-run).
(Yes, some try to sign up also to Mastodon et.al. - but are usually spotted)
I think that just leads to people falsely believing that there aren’t a metric fuckton of people that actually do believe these things.
Unfortunately this country is filled to the brim with people who think like poetgirl53
That is the true.
But in this case this is an actual person.
Spoken like a true dipshit. Does this person think the us military is 100% Christian?? We’re doomed man. We lost 100 years of progress in the blink of an eye
Ya I’m not Christian and I fought along side other non Christians in the early 2000s. This account really spreads a lot of misinformation. And the thing is, if you dig deeper you’ll find that I think she is a teacher in Texas. I won’t go further than that. I was just doing some OSINT work for a PI buddy and just stumbled across this so I looked at it for a minute. I know there are so many people that push fake info but I just kinda hung here for a moment and then moved on.
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Texas teacher eh? Well that tells you everything
Did someone forgot to ask whose land they took from
The pirates?
That’s likely not a person, but a bot.
It’s definitely a person. I dug into them a little more to confirm.
tell me you’ve never been to arlington national cemetary without telling me you’ve never been to arlington national cemetary
Ha true.
But also I’ve never been and I fought in the early 2000s. I just lost too many buds and could never bring myself to go there. But family went and took pics and parents if my buddies sent me funeral DVDs that I still can’t bring myself to watch.
My mom once asked if my Jewish girlfriend celebrated Thanksgiving. When I scoffed, she reminded me that there weren’t any Jews on the Mayflower.
I reminded her that there weren’t any Catholics either.
In fairness, Thanksgiving wasn’t made a national holiday until 1863. By then, the US had plenty of Catholics, in no small part thanks to the Irish Potato Famine of the prior two decades.
It also had plenty of Jews, thanks to the Napoleonic Wars and the then-recent string of wars along the border of the Ottoman Empire.
Hell, it might be worth pointing out that the Mayflower was the product of the 30 Years War (of which the Hell on Earth podcast miniseries does a really excellent job of documenting), which also produced a sizable exodus of Catholics and Jews to the New World. So, it seems they’ve got as much of an excuse to celebrate 17th century Settlers Colonialism as anybody.
Nice. You gave her the burrrnn. Good job. We need to really start correcting much of this type of misinformation out there when people say it one day many many more will believe it.
It’s a fight against windmills. There’s a certain type of person who’s just totally resistant against learning new stuff. They got their opinion and that’s truth and screw everything else.
You might correct one thing, but by the time you did that they already dug up three new pieces of garbage.
It’s so frustrating.
You might correct one thing, but by the time you did that they already dug up three new pieces of garbage.
she once refused to back down on the fact that Jupiter doesn’t have a solid surface. Best I got was “I don’t know about that.”
Well, it’s a secular country, and that means freedom from religion. I don’t give a shit about your Christian bullshit, and if I saw that garbage posted in my child’s school, I’d tear it down myself.
The question never asked is if you want a bible in school which one. There are 19 different versions of the Christian bible just off the top of my head. There are probably many more. When they make they make it generic everyone just assumes they mean their version and that is how fascist get what they want.
Thats why its important to keep the state out out of church is as important as keeping the church out of the state.
It’s always the King James Bible.
- It’s dirt cheap.
- The Gideans would likely donate them anyway.
- Ain’t like anyone is going to read them and even if they do, it’s old school English and it will mean whatever conservatives want it to mean.
I went to college in a small town, there was a festival every fall in the old downtown area, and a religious group would get a booth right in front of the bar we liked to go to. They would forcibly hand out those tiny little new testaments to everyone trying to walk into the bar. The bar owner put a 50 gallon trash can right inside the door. It was full of those bibles. Such a waste of paper.
I wonder what they’d say if you tried reselling them near the local church
I should have dragged the trashcan outside and asked them to help me take it to the dumpster.
I really don’t get why English speakers are so glued to the King James Bible. Most other languages keep re-translating the bible, aiming for more accuracy and more understandable language for modern audiences.
Pretty much every time I’ve seen anyone actually deal with the King James Bible, they have a set of explanations what this or that thing actually means. It’s the worst possible bible to use for anything.
And that’s on top of the concept that a 2000+ year old text is supposed to contain all the wisdom ever needed.
The King James version was also written to specifically reword the Bible to include as many references to a monarchy as possible in the hopes of propagandizing the population during a time when kings were losing their heads at an alarming rate in Europe.
Because it has no copyright. Each new translation has a new copyright.
Other languages also have outdated shit translations without copyright and still use more modern translations.
The Ten Commandments are in the Quran as well I would guess.
Lots of muslims have died so that the US could get its hands on more oil and stuff tho.
Lots of folks in the US don’t really have an understanding of religion as a separate thing from nationality.
They think of “being Christian” as “being like the other white people in my neighborhood growing up”. End of thought.
So drinking beer, watching football, and hating taxes are all “Christian things” to them.
So when they say “Christians — and only Christians — died for this country”, they’re 100% correct, according to their understanding of “being a Christian”. Cuz to them it basically just means “being an American”.
There’s really no way to convince them otherwise. It’s like telling someone that Velcro is really called “hook and loop”.
You’re basically saying: Christians don’t read the bible, they just act like their peers and all the bad habits that can go with that.
wellllllll…
Except Frenchmen and Africans also fought and died for this country.
“If Muslims don’t like it, they should return to their native countries!” I cry, as I rubber stamp another billion dollar check to bomb the Levant.
Muricaaaa!
