I haven’t read the whole thread yet, but so far the choice line is:

I like how you just dropped the “Vance is interested in right authoritarianism” like it’s a known fact to base your entire point on. Vance is the clearest demonstration of a libertarian the republicans have in high office. It’s an absurd ad hominem that you try to mask in your wall of text.

  • @gerikson
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    422 months ago

    I think we can all agree now that US Rationalists are basically all ex-Christians who are looking for the same thing but with the serial numbers filed off.

    • @saucerwizard
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      242 months ago

      Some of them are even returning to presumably evangelical churches.

      • @AVHeiro
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        142 months ago

        Sedevacantist Catholic or Russian Orthodox more likely

        • @Soyweiser
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          132 months ago

          Apparently for all the cosplaying of alt righters going Russian Orthodox, not that many actually go to church. ( Which is an important part). Thankfully for the priests who would have to deal with the madmen.

            • @adrienne
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              417 days ago

              Another reason right-wing shitheads are becoming tradorthodox instead of tradcath these days is because they think the current Pope is a woke liberal monster.

              • @maol
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                117 days ago

                That too - a significant section of the tradcath subculture spends most of its time fulminating against “Bergoglio” these days.

                Also, if they happen to be the pro-Russian/anti-Ukraine kind of right-wing shithead, then the political alignment of some Orthodox churches may be amenable.

          • @YourNetworkIsHaunted
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            42 months ago

            I mean, I think actually having to interact with these loons would be a strong incentive to liberalize their theology which would be a good thing.

        • @saucerwizard
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          92 months ago

          I could see the two fusing again or something.

          • @swlabr
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            122 months ago

            More or less the plot of evangelion

    • @barsquid@lemmy.world
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      192 months ago

      Tired: I can speak directly to god and will be taken to paradise.

      Wired: the god we will create will run a simulation that is indistinguishable from what I am currently (therefore it is literally me) so my thoughts right now are being read directly.

    • @maol
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      42 months ago

      I happened to be at mass today. There was a little explanation in the missalette that not only did Jesus’s death redeem the sins of everyone today, he also redeemed all the sinners who lived and died before Christ came. I dunno, it reminded me of the Roko’s Basilisk eternal judgment computer simulation…