Yes, the United States' misguided religion is causing a lot of conflict.
this post was submitted on 05 Mar 2026
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Democrats did all that talk about how troops shouldn't follow "illegal orders," then are totally silent when these brave officers and enlisted follow blatantly illegal orders. But they don't want the president to lose that power for their dream blue maga presidential candidate.
Their misguided religion was maybe going to lead them to attack Isreal and the US someday, so Isreal and the US preemptively attacked them unprovoked instead, guided by our superior religions. The hypocrisy is completely lost on me, as well as the irony of, again, justifying their antagonism towards Isreal and the US in the first place for the umpteenth time.
Bomb Saudi Arabia then!
And unite Sunnis and Shia? They prefer to target each sect separately.
Yeah... Probably nothing to do with the fact we've been fucking with them since we helped to overthrow their Shah...
It was the CIA who put the "Shah" into power in the 1953 coup. Before this Iran had a democratically elected prime minister who nationalised the country's oil, his name was Mohammad Mosaddegh. The USA have never been big fans of middle Eastern countries controlling their own oil.
Thank you for the correction!
No worries, it's hard to keep track of who America has screwed over and when.
I love how the republican Jesus is okay with blowing up schools and hospitals and parents fishing parts of their children out of rubble, but somehow it’s their religion that’s misguided.
I appreciated the ambiguity of the sentence.
Unlike your doomsday religion, which believes it is waging an apocalyptic war to immanentize the eschaton. 🤡
For anyone else who never heard the term before: In political theory and theology, to immanentize the eschaton is a generally pejorative phrase referring to attempts to bring about utopian conditions in the world, and to effectively create heaven on earth. Theologically, the belief is akin to postmillennialism as reflected in the Social Gospel of the 1880–1930 era, as well as Protestant reform movements during the Second Great Awakening in the 1830s and 1840s such as abolitionism
All religions are misguided. People, in this situation, just use them as an excuse to kill each other.
Cthulhu is real and it hungers for you very much. Have you accepted Cthulhu into your dreams?
That's why the US administration is in war with the nation of US.
and who is going to wage war on the U.S. for the misguided religion overtaking it?
Themselves. Don't you see the masked goons running around in military gear and shooting up people on a whim?
It's yallqidas holy war
You don't have to deflect. Christianity gave us the Crusades and Zionism.
They’re gonna kill a bunch more children so Jesus will come open up the gates of heaven for them. Not for the children, but for the murderers of children.
I swear I keep making this joke about "Jesus hates this one neat trick to bring the apocalypse!"
Like wtf is wrong with these fundamentalist assholes thinking they can force a massive bloody war to happen and that will somehow trick Jesus to come because they completed some checklist? Are they playing some kind of card game? "Ha! My conditions have been met, I force Jesus to the field! He casts Absolution! We all go to heaven and collect 23 virgins!"
...ffs
Sufficiently motivated reasoning is indistinguishable from insanity
Yeehawdists in power
I cannot believe that was actually said by a United States representative, where it is and has been codified in the nations constitution, that freedom of religion is a right of the people via the first amendment. Freedom of religion means any religion, but also, freedom from religion.
to wit: The civil rights of none shall be abridged on account of religious belief or worship, nor shall any national religion be established, nor shall the full and equal rights of conscience be in any manner, or on any pretext, infringed.
In the United States, the 13th Amendment (1865) formally abolished slavery and involuntary servitude, except as punishment for a crime for which a person has been duly convicted. Because of this exception clause, forced labor can legally be imposed on incarcerated people within the prison system. Historically, after the amendment was ratified, some states used laws—such as “Black Codes” and vagrancy statutes—to arrest large numbers of people (especially formerly enslaved Black Americans) and then compel them to work through systems like convict leasing and chain gangs. Today, prison labor programs still exist in federal and state facilities, where incarcerated individuals may be required to work.
yeaaa, no one expected at all that a usonian politician would say something like this, they are so wholesome most of the time!11!1!!
If MAGA manages to stay on power, the 13th Amendment is going to be the foundation for their new economic model.
As unemployment one inevitably rises due to AI/ Robotics/ Automation, they will make unemployment, homelessness, and even debt illegal, and you will go to the work camp to be leased out to corporations. If you need food assistance, or any other help from the government, you will work it off in the camps.
Of course, as more paid jobs are replaced by low-paying slave labor, unemployment will continue to rise, and the camps will fill up even more. Eventually there will be more slaves than jobs for them, and then they will have to figure out what to do with useless workers who are eating, getting sick, reproducing, spreading rumors, causing trouble, trying to escape, fighting, etc.
Stephen "PeeWee Himmler" Miller has already said that he wants to reduce the population from 335 million to 100 million. How do you think he's going to handle that situation?
It's easier to imagine the end of the world than the end of capitalism, huh? I feel you, but relax, the Usonian Empire will fall before y'all have to go through all that, hopefully.
It's easier to imagine the end of the world than the end of capitalism, huh?
I don't know how you extrapolated that conclusion from my post.
Yeah, I bet dads in Iran don’t even check in on their son’s pornhub search history. Fucking heathens.
Actually, the spiders around my house believe in 8 different gods. Shall we exterminate those little biches from my house? Daddy long Legs? Buddy, come here!
this is poor writing, highly ambiguous, there's no way to tell from context which country "its" is supposed to refer to
edit for those apparently not getting it: there is, but only because we know he's a hypocrite