by The Jim Jones Cocktail Hour » Thu Mar 04, 2021 1:26 pm
Macunaima wrote:McKinstry wrote:I'll remind you that a series of Millerite failures made more Millerites.
And therein lies a pretty clear yet depressing truism. Idiots seem to inevitably begat more idiots. I fully expect the Trumpist Q-anoniots to spawn yet more stupid and paranoid loons.
Yes, it’s a very proud American tradition. Religious radicalism, bloody-minded ignorance posed as “independent thinking” and “freedom of conscience”, and splinter groups splitting off from splinter groups of true believers, followed by witch hunting and bloodshed.
Whomever did the Septics get those cultural traditions from?
Good question because if it were a uniquely British thing you would expect Australia, New Zealand and Canada to be just as fucked up. They aren’t so pretty obviously it ain’t that. Etranger is right though, the US got the religious maniacs that nobody wanted, Oz just got the petty crims. Australia became the world’s largest open prison, the US the world’s biggest free range Christian madrassa.
Maybe it’s the Dutch influence? The tin tanks do seem to have a lot more in common with Brother Boer than they do with the rest of the Anglosphere. Sense of being God’s own folk? Check. Fundy religious nutters? Check? Big on racism? Check. Genocidal instincts? Check. Love of barbeques? Check.
[quote="Macunaima"][quote="McKinstry"][quote]I'll remind you that a series of Millerite failures made more Millerites.[/quote]
And therein lies a pretty clear yet depressing truism. Idiots seem to inevitably begat more idiots. I fully expect the Trumpist Q-anoniots to spawn yet more stupid and paranoid loons.[/quote]
Yes, it’s a very proud American tradition. Religious radicalism, bloody-minded ignorance posed as “independent thinking” and “freedom of conscience”, and splinter groups splitting off from splinter groups of true believers, followed by witch hunting and bloodshed.
Whomever did the Septics get those cultural traditions from?[/quote]
Good question because if it were a uniquely British thing you would expect Australia, New Zealand and Canada to be just as fucked up. They aren’t so pretty obviously it ain’t that. Etranger is right though, the US got the religious maniacs that nobody wanted, Oz just got the petty crims. Australia became the world’s largest open prison, the US the world’s biggest free range Christian madrassa.
Maybe it’s the Dutch influence? The tin tanks do seem to have a lot more in common with Brother Boer than they do with the rest of the Anglosphere. Sense of being God’s own folk? Check. Fundy religious nutters? Check? Big on racism? Check. Genocidal instincts? Check. Love of barbeques? Check.
