there's a Allan Bloom book on the "American religion" and one thing i think Bloom was basically right on is that 95% of the time, whatever American evangelicals *think* they're doing is in practice basically a form of Gnosticism
it's genuinely fascinating how the big sort of content basically means that mainline Christians and secular/non-Christians never realize that this is basically the online evangelical lifeworld
twitter: father’s day is for men. real men. men who never wore a dress. men who drive fast. men who don’t have custody or visitation.
bluesky: shout out to the fathers and the daddies
there was a brief period where everyone appeared to go “oh fuck maybe electing the far right is a bad idea” after Trump got back in and apparently that is over now
guys he has not gotten better in the meantime
the right-wing populist mindvirus has basically hit every major Anglosphere nation besides Canada, and I suspect we're likely to get our own version if Pierre implodes in the next year or so
as usual, the "it was all bullshit" revelation moves prices but only like 50% as much as the bullshit announcement moved them in hte opposite direction. its a very strange pattern!