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The wink makes me feel like you think that's a joke but it really isn't. "Forcing the End" is a common endpoint for cults, where they get tired of their doomsda

The wink makes me feel like you think that's a joke but it really isn't. "Forcing the End" is a common endpoint for cults, where they get tired of their doomsday predictions not coming true and decide the path forward is making them true, and it seems Evangelicals are hitting that point.

kristopolous 2y ago
Groups with these ideologies typically leave power only after everything is reduced to smoldering collapsed ruin. It's time to seriously think about leaving. This isn't going to be corrected in my lifetime.
- ToucanLoucan 2y ago
  Given this particular cult has access to one of the major stocks of nukes on this planet, I'm not sure "leaving" is a realistic option unless you have a timeshare on Mars.
  - kristopolous 2y ago
    It's part of the calculus. NZ/AU seems safe.
    - alabastervlog 2y ago
      There's a reason all the billionaires built their hidey-holes in NZ and bought citizenship. Stable liberal democracy that probably won't seize all their shit, relatively rich, not so tiny that there's little to do, really good natural environments, not likely to turn totally awful under climate change, really hard for climate or other refugees to reach, out-of-the-way and non-threatening enough that it's unlikely to be attacked by anyone or put entirely under the thumb of a great power for the next century or so, at least. I can't think of a single other country that even comes close to matching that list of benefits. Only major downside is Christmas in Summer.
SkyeCA 2y ago
It's not a joke, but if I don't laugh at the world at this point I'd be horrifically depressed instead. I'm one non-American with zero power, there's nothing I can do except watch.
- ToucanLoucan 2y ago
  Fuckin mad fair, and I hope that didn't read as criticism of you. If it helps I'm an American with zero power stuck in a red-state hellhole, so I feel you.

kristopolous 2y ago

Groups with these ideologies typically leave power only after everything is reduced to smoldering collapsed ruin. It's time to seriously think about leaving. This isn't going to be corrected in my lifetime.

ToucanLoucan 2y ago
Given this particular cult has access to one of the major stocks of nukes on this planet, I'm not sure "leaving" is a realistic option unless you have a timeshare on Mars.
- kristopolous 2y ago
  It's part of the calculus. NZ/AU seems safe.
  - alabastervlog 2y ago
    There's a reason all the billionaires built their hidey-holes in NZ and bought citizenship. Stable liberal democracy that probably won't seize all their shit, relatively rich, not so tiny that there's little to do, really good natural environments, not likely to turn totally awful under climate change, really hard for climate or other refugees to reach, out-of-the-way and non-threatening enough that it's unlikely to be attacked by anyone or put entirely under the thumb of a great power for the next century or so, at least. I can't think of a single other country that even comes close to matching that list of benefits. Only major downside is Christmas in Summer.

SkyeCA 2y ago

It's not a joke, but if I don't laugh at the world at this point I'd be horrifically depressed instead. I'm one non-American with zero power, there's nothing I can do except watch.

ToucanLoucan 2y ago
Fuckin mad fair, and I hope that didn't read as criticism of you. If it helps I'm an American with zero power stuck in a red-state hellhole, so I feel you.