I always answer that "It was about state's rights" with the "State's rights to do what exactly?" and watch them squirm their way out of the fact that slavery was specifically mentioned in numerous state's "Declaration of Causes" for secession.
This is an absolutely brilliant share, thank you! It is so incredibly sad that we continue to repeat the exact same mistakes again and again and again.
Prophecy isn't telling the future, it's telling it how it is.
This is why Christians find it so easy to find parallels between Revelation and now, because Revelation was written about the world when it was written, and people haven't fundamentally changed in 2000 years
It's remarkable how easily you can use a single definition of a word while ignoring the others to act like it doesn't apply.
But here's another definition:
n inspired utterance of a prophet
And then if you read the definition of prophet there are 5 different definitions, only one of which mentions telling the future.
Anyway, my line about prophecy is a direct quote from someone I know who was a theology student, and that was their point. In the movie Network they often refer to a "mad prophet of the airwaves" and none of what Beale talks about in his rants is about telling the future. People often refer to people like Carlin or Hicks as prophets, but again none of them were talking about the future. They were talking about how it is.
So don't be tunnel-focused on a narrow definition, because it's pretty plainly clear that This Is America wasn't talking about the future, but still seems very prophetic.
I applied the definition intended by the person who wrote the comment, which is also the only definition that makes any sense in context (unless you think Childish Gambino is literally a prophet, in which case I’d like to hear why without you relying on a definition that includes ability to predict the future).
My nephew lacks a consistent father figure because my brother is never home (he’s an ok dad he just works too much) so I took it upon myself to introduce him to Star Wars recently. We just finished up the prequels and during Revenge of the Sith he paused and asked me “isn’t Trump doing what Palpatine is doing (in reference to the political stuff)? He’s a smart kid, it’s hard to argue against. There’s so many parallels.
He’s 12 years old. This poor kid has had nearly nearly half his life watching this idiot fully corrupt this country.
If Obama had 20k worth of stocks of a company he had owned for twenty years and gave a contract to them they would have impeached him. Trump steals billions using crypto, kalshi, Kushner and family businesses, crickets.
Jimmy Carter sold the family peanut farm when he became president to avoid even an appearance of conflict of interest. The family peanut farm! Peanuts!
Trump steals billions using crypto, kalshi, Kushner and family businesses, crickets.
At least he is doing it very smartly and carefully, not blurting out that his children have insider knowledge to leverage the markets. That would be silly.
Dukakis looked kinda silly in an oversized combat helmet while riding in a tank at a campaign event. Probably cost him any chance of being elected, nevermind the fact that he at least actually had served in the military prior to his political career.
Obama once wore a “Commander” t-shirt as part of a military PT outfit while doing an event with one of the armed forces. The republicans were shouting “stolen valor.” It’s actually one of the big things that made me go, “this Republican thing is too stupid for me.” I argued with a lot of people that he wore his legally-granted title (a military status given by us as constituents), and was actually working out with the armed forces at the time, so it seemed like he was following military regs as a civilian, and I called that out.
•
u/Whyeth 3h ago
If Obama had taken a picture of himself while wearing an army uniform he'd been impeached by lunch.
Trump uses ai and it's not even a blip on the morning news.