Wait, were there people who actually thought Marianne was even slightly good? She just seemed to me like a person with bizarre views on energies and shit who almost accidentally found herself in a position one iota to the left of the Democrats and who would instantly concede to the party line without even the slightest hesitation if she somehow managed to achieve power of any kind. AOC but farce. I think the orb jokes are funny but she'd do the exact same shit Biden and other genocidal fascists are doing
Its always funny when they accuse the left of purity tests but scold people who don't cosign them becoming more racist, Xenophobic genocidal etc. I bet right now there are libs whinning about jon stewart roasting dick cheney. Hell the amount praising macron for that bitch move he pulled is a ton
[...] the frustrated and humiliated intellectual, the rich and scared speculator, the spoiled son, the labor tyrant, the fellow who has achieved success by smelling out the wind of success—they would all go Nazi in a crisis.
People from some countries probably eat cats, just as some people in China definitely eat dogs, but neither are coming after your pets and there is no real difference between eating cats & dogs and eating pigs/goats/chickens/cows. However if you're already inside the moral event horizon of thinking it's okay to murder some sentient creatures for food and your ill-though-out cultural mores say some of those are off limits (just because okay?) I can see why the only real avenue available to you, if you want to be not racist, is to deny that it happens.
carnies explaining why mass murdering some sentient creatures is cool and normal but why murdering the ones they keep locked up in their homes is profane and horrifying.
Voodoo was practiced by many slaves, especially in Jamaica and Haiti. Escaped slaves from the Caribbean would make their way to the American south, bringing their religion with them. White christians saw voodoo as a threat to the white power structure, so they deliberately made stuff up to demonize voodoo practitioners. This allowed them to control the narrative, such as slaves should be kind to their masters.
People who aren't part of the religion often have negative stereotypes about voodoo and its adherents. Even today, it carries a lot of negative connotations. White Christians often consider it a form of witchcraft or devil worship.
Continuing to dump on Democrats because of the “psychic warfare” issue will create blowback on Nov. 5. The CIA experimenting with psychic powers is in fact real, and to dismiss the story out-of-hand rather than listen to the citizens of Springfield, Ohio confirms in the minds of many voters the stereotype of leftists as smug elite jerks who think they’re too smart to listen to anyone outside their own silo.