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Basically, it’s a term used for infighting in a group/cult stemming from one or more members being pointed to as straying from the original cause. It often happens when one group sees another group within the same crowd as not pure enough. The first sign of this in this particular context was when Maga started referring to many supportive Republicans as Rinos.
Happened to my grand parents’ church in the 90s. They had this big disagreement over rocks (not joking) and then the infighting tore the church apart. Half of the group left and built their own building across the street and the other half stayed. Neither church ever really recovered from that.
Please don’t leave us hanging on the details
Probably a disagreement about what kind of rock was best for stoning impure women and children.
Or for translating golden plates left by ancient Mesoamerican Jews in upstate New York.
“Are there any women in this crowd?”
I replied on the other thread. https://lemmy.world/comment/11678263
This is why we fought, they’re minerals!
The term “RINO” is much older than MAGA. I remember hearing about them in the 1980s and 90s, and even then it wasn’t like it was a new concept.
Right, but nowhere in the comment you are replying to did the commenter say it was a new term.
You’re right, I read it wrong. My mistake.
Well I think it’s more the fact that it became more common to refer to people as RINOs
Yeah no it was clear from context, just never before publicized to any degree, and a weird term to begin with.