Not to put too fine a point on it, but it reeks of colonialism. God is with us is a bone-chilling sentiment

Some do. There’s a concept in some kinds of Pentecostal mysticism called Gifts of the Spirit iirc, including the Gift of Discernment, which means being able to intuit (technically god’s telling you and it feels like intuition) whether a statement is true or false

I grew up in a non-denominational (Pentecostal but worried that people will think they’re poor if they say so) church that didn’t use any of the Gifts lingo, but still taught that you receive that same set of supernatural abilities

Blasphemy sorta maxes out as soon White Jesus makes an appearance

I’ll join the auxiliary labor corps, and then get kicked out for being too sore and creaky all the time

It’s constantly astounding how the US can make the most out of every opportunity to become worse. Elementary school gets shot up? Must be a hoax to take guns away from white christian men

Ah yes, I forgot that all things exist in a vacuum and not in dialectical relation to each other

Thank you, I will join your movement and :vote: with my wallet

Also, it’s not some fucking gordian knot. We know how to untie it, it’s just that it involves replacing our entire government

In the meantime, more criminalization in the US is just more criminalization

yeah, you can’t name another because there isn’t one

It’s a weird, really bad situation. The distribution of guns in the US is strange, with gun-hobbyists holding a lot of them, particularly assault weapons. We have “licensing” programs for “illegal” weapons that allow you to own and use them if you’re rich, meanwhile we sentence weed dealers to mandatory minimums for just possessing an otherwise legal handgun when they fall victim to a sting operation

The US is ontologically evil is what I’m saying