• ExtremeDullard@lemmy.sdf.org
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    It’s strange how all dictatorships have the same control freak obsessions with the same things around the world, across eras:

    • Obsession with squelching science and education
    • Obsession with denying basic reality and facts
    • Obsession with religions and cults of various kinds
    • Obsession with the population’s natality
    • Obsession with people’s sex habits and the contents of their pants

    Trump’s regime, being a run-of-the-mill fascist dictatorship, is no different and ticks all the boxes.

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        Like religion, sex in general has long been used to control people. In fact, sex habits is one of the common tools religions use to control their devotees.

        Only the women and girls. Men and boys get a free pass. One may refer to it as “penis pass.”

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            The religiopolitic circle doesn’t seemed so concerned with Thiel or Santos money. We have to learn to separate our feelings from issues, because not doing so leads to confusion. All the money cares about is realpolitik, and until we learn to think like them and teach our children to think like them, we will continue to happily hand them our power, then be confuzzled about how it happened, and more importantly, how to regain and keep it. The real magic is not becoming them, in learning to think like them.

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      because it contradicts everything republicans believe in, authotarian gov cant have contradictions, otherwise they fall apart easily. just like many studies have said conservatives are basically “dumber” than non-conservatives.