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return2ozma@lemmy.world to News@lemmy.world · 1 year ago

Protest Convoy Headed to Southern Border in Texas Is Calling Itself an ‘Army of God’

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    If there’s one thing Jesus was consistent about, it’s that poor refugees seeking shelter should be ruthlessly murdered by drowning in a river tangled in razor wire.

    Pretty sure that’s in the gospels.

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      I believe that’s in the book of Donald, 6:66

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        6:66 is a long-ass chapter in that particular book. Covers a lot.

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      Matthew 25:31-40, as I recall.

      Oh wait, this is from the Opposite Bible.

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      Nah, that’s one of the ten commandments right? “Thou shalt murder thy neighbor by rain of gunfire” I think it was?

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      its old testament genocide : kill the canaanites, every last man, woman, and child

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    So they’re basically ISIS

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      WhIteSIS

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        Gravy Seals

      • 🐑🇸 🇭 🇪 🇪 🇵 🇱 🇪🐑@lemmy.world
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        (What their mothers are)

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      Minivan Taliban.

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        This one in particular :-D

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        Nah they love their trucks.

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      Talibangelicals

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        Bruh this is genius.

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      Yeehaw-dists

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      Meal Team Six

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      Y’all Kaida

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      Vanilla ISIS

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    Most likely scenario is that they drive around in their trucks waving both flags of the US and flags of traitors to the US, block traffic, and post to Facebook.

    Worst case scenario, there is a wave a of hate crimes as these hyped up fascists try to “defend America” by picking fights with any random brown person they see.

    Best case scenario, they try messing with federal agents, get arrested, and wont be voting in November.

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      My best case scenario has a trebuchet for them

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        Maybe they’ll be hoisted in their own razor wire.

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        Toss a 90 kg insurrectionist over 300 meters.

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          Over the border to Mexico.

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    Army Of “Wouldn’t Recognize God If He Got In The Passenger Seat.”

    That’s who they really are.

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      They also can’t spot the antichrist, despite a lot of predictions in the bible pointing to a certain orange cult leader

      Could American Evangelicals Spot the Antichrist?

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      Well, their God probably has horns, hooves, and a tail.

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        Hey, Baphomet is one of the good guys.

        https://thesatanictemple.com/pages/about-us

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      Trigger discipline is for lib’ruls - that guy probably

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    Ads for the convoy have gone up on 40 digital billboards in Florida, Texas, Louisiana, and California, courtesy of a “private donor” whose identity organizers would not disclose.

    Oh, I’m willing to bet:

    It’s six letters.

    Starts with an R

    Ends with an A

    And is currently getting absolutely decimated with mothballed weapons we last used 15 years or so ago.

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      Would you like to buy a vowel?

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        I’ll take two vowels, Pat!

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    Ffs can you lot just have your civil war already so the rest of us can deal with the fall out

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      Wont even be a civil war. National guard will fall in line and in the event of Texas actually seceding from the Union, they will find out exactly how much money the US sinks into their state to keep it afloat while their own elected officials flee the first power grid failure

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        Honestly as a non yank I’m bored just do the fucking thing and let the world get on with it.

        Deal with your fuckwits or let them roll over you (and yhe rest of us)

        I’m just sick of the will the won’t they and I say that as someone who has to deal with Boris Johnsons ilk

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          Its just political drama. Republicans pull bullshit every election year to rile up their base and get them to vote

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          As a yank. Agreed. Let em succeed. See what happens.

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        Not to mention a battalion of weekend warriors will fall overnight.

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          Assuming they don’t abandon the cause as soon as the first shot is fired and hits one of them.

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    I prefer the original Arabic name, Hezbollah.

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      Hezbubba

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        Perfect!

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      Hezbullshit

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      Huh

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        Their name means “party of God”; when I posted I was thinking it meant army of God.

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    I am willing to lay a bet that they completely fuck this up.

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      Minivans tangled in razor wire.
      Road warriors in their pavement princesses sunk into the Rio.
      Immigrants crossing elsewhere.

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      I bet one gets pulled over by a statie because expired tags/speeding/reckless driving and takes a shot at a cop or two. Then they get absolutely swiss-cheesed by local authorities

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        Local authorities will let this pass the same as they let these fuckwits run a Biden campaign bus off the road in 2020. It’s Texas, local authorities love this shit

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          I think they’ll fuck it up the same way that truck protest in DC fucked up. They’ll spend a couple of weeks sleeping in parking lots and pissing in Gatorade bottles while live streaming (no pun intended) asking for donations. Then there be a cult split where multiple people claim ownership of the movement and denounce each other, and they’ll all be very sad that although people follow them on a streaming service and post about how great they are, 99% of them are going to be limiting themselves to Truth Social support and $25 donations.

          These things are like Only Fans for fascists, but they’re also in direct competition with each other for a limited grift audience.

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          Most aren’t in Texas yet. They are leaving Florida and traveling through multiple states. Plenty of time to pull a piece on one.

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    These guys probably don’t hate Illinois Nazis.

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    Lol, it always comes back to an intellectually deficient group of morons and their baseless deity.

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      Yes, the army of God here to (checks notes) be absolutely monstrous fuckheads to their neighbors, just as Jesus teaches…

      “And the Lord said unto thee: fuck those brown skinned mofos, they don’t even pay taxes!”

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        I always find it ironic when religious people try to use race as a justification for their bigotry when Jesus was clearly of middle eastern descent.

        It infuriates me beyond belief that I was one of the few individuals who actually read through the bible when I was forced to go to catholic school.

        That and the absolutely abhorrent state of humanity really designates evidence that these books of all major religions are just the words of man to trick people into believing a god.

        Malleable idiots are the easiest to control, after all. The inquisition proved this and every major violent engagement since has just been additional evidence.

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          one of the few individuals who actually read through the bible

          What just dumbfounds me is that about every other year, my religious family start talking about how they’re going to do some group thing where they read through the entire bible. I know how that goes… Even while they’re reading through it all, they still cherry pick what they are going to talk about each week because there is just so many gosh dang words in there. Then they forget 60% of what they even talked about. Then they spew off as if they know everything ever about christianity while never having read any of the apologetics or philosophical underpinnings of even their creed, much less any other. It’s a symptom of the last few decades, I think, where we accept the barest minimum of understanding of a subject as being enough to confidently believe we are knowledgeable. Dunning-Kruger strikes again, I guess.

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    This kinda shit is at least part of the reason the fastest growing religion in America is “none.”

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      Exactly! They know their book says “love your neighbor” and care for the widow, the orphan & the stranger, but they don’t even vaguely do anything like that.

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        And our most famous monument says “give me your tired, your hungry, your huddled masses yearning to breathe free”

        But I guess that only belongs to Texans who have had that freedom their whole life and are threatened by others seeking the same thing.

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          No no! That only means Christian WHITE folk from some parts of Northern Europe.

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            Gotta question whether even White Northern Europeans would be accepted by these people. I suspect no, not really. Such is the extent of the hateful fear mongering they subject themselves to daily.

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              So racist they hate everyone who isn’t themselves.

              TBH I detest much of humanity as well, but it’s mostly because there are so many of us that we’re wrecking the planet / ecosystem. It’s easy psychologically to dislike the faceless ‘other’ until you meet them personally and grok their individual humanity. At least I understand the concept and can temper my instincts with logic. These dipshits need a good therapy session.

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                grok their individual humanity.

                I was legit going to say something until I looked it up and grok does, in fact, turn out to be an actual slang term:

                grok

                1. To understand something intimately and completely. (originally from Stranger in a Strange Land, by Robert A. Heinlein)
                1. With programs, having sufficient understanding.

                TIL 🤷

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                  Great word

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          not anymore, they removed that part already from the statue of liberty

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            Ok… Really they removed that part or are you being sarcastic? I can’t tell.

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              It’s so hard to tell anymore, but it’s either sarcasm or misinformation because the plaque is still on the statue and a replica of it is displayed in the museum.

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        They’re going to be shocked when their time comes and Christ denies knowing them.

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          The problem is that won’t happen, they won’t get that reprimand. They’ll be an asshole now and then they’ll just be dead.

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      Sadly that only means they don’t go to a church and just believe whatever, actual atheists agnostics are only 10%.

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        I don’t know why people are down voting you. This is exactly what Pew Research has said about religious “nones” in America. The number of dyed-in-the-wool atheists is still quite low and projected to decrease because birth rates.

        Religious “Nones” in America - Pew Research

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          The reason for the low “nones” is because those who profess to being atheists and agnostics are discriminated against, socially, employment-wise and politically. The vast majority of so-called Christians don’t believe a fucjing thing in the bible - it’s a dishonest social maneuver designed to create acceptance by the tribe, especially if you are a low-life.

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            Do you have any evidence of this, or is it anecdotal?

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              Here’s something:

              • https://news.unl.edu/newsrooms/today/article/study-shows-many-american-atheists-hide-their-non-belief/#:~:text=Her research revealed that because,said Abbott%2C a research affiliate.
              • https://academic.oup.com/sf/article/101/3/1580/6501180
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            Good thing atheists never make up facts to fit their narrative, and are always scientifically objective in their ideas 🤣

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      These convoy people… false religion…

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    Christian ISIS

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      deleted by creator

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      Y’all-qaeda

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      Crisis?

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        ChrISIS

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    “Protest Convoy” or “Anti-Immigrant Caravan”

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      Like in physics, this particle-antiparticle pair would annihilate.

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    For the uninformed, Here’s an illustration of how actual Armies of God handle border walls

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