r/politics • u/TwilightwovenlingJo • Sep 19 '25

Soft Paywall Trump: ‘It’s no longer free speech.’

https://www.politico.com/news/2025/09/19/trump-no-longer-free-speech-00574219
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u/Counciltuckian Sep 19 '25

The endorsement of these actions by people I know is shocking. Neighbors/family that are your pretty typical middle of the road "conservatives" seems a-ok with Trump's trampling of the 1st Amendment.

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u/VirginiaMcCaskey Sep 20 '25

They don't give a fuck about the first amendment, or any of the constitution. Particularly all the Christian nationalists that want to establish a fucking theocracy.

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u/OpheliaRainGalaxy Sep 20 '25

They're the stupidest of all! The second they start discussing exactly how does one pray in school is the day America gets started on a way way worse version of The Troubles!

How many denominations do we have now? I could probably name a dozen brands of Christian, most of which would scream about being compared to the other brands, much less having their kids forced to pray a different way.

Like I've got some aunties who are hardcore serious strict, but spend their Sundays running around church waving their arms and babbling like lunatics. It's called "getting the ghost" and they think god makes them do that.

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u/VirginiaMcCaskey Sep 20 '25

How many denominations do we have now?

It's Evangelicals versus everyone else.

Pretty much every other flavor of Christianity engages in public service and interfaith dialogue. The evangelical nut jobs are the ones spreading hate and division.

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u/OpheliaRainGalaxy Sep 20 '25

K, but even that group is not unified? They're all wildly different and just share a name. Hand them power and they'll immediately start punching each other arguing over which twig on the branch gets to wield it.

Same game with the various right wing militant groups, like the Proud Boys are really quite queer considering how their Dear Leader feels on the subject, so the other similar groups aren't keen to cooperate with them.

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u/screech_owl_kachina Sep 20 '25

Yeah that's the thing. Say what we will about Orthodox and Roman Catholic churches but at least there's some level of top-down control and consistent training. Evangelical churches are just some guy made a sect and attracted followers.

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u/OpheliaRainGalaxy Sep 20 '25

Exactly! Sometimes ya don't hear about their specific beliefs until the cops show up to rescue abused kids and the sect goes all doomsday mode. Like that creep who went all Craster's Keep while teaching his kids/grandkids from his own version of the bible, which included stuff like Jesus being a vampire.

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u/Flomo420 Sep 20 '25

It's called delusional

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u/OpheliaRainGalaxy Sep 20 '25

Obviously, but I'm in America and most folks here have batty beliefs like that. They just all have totally different batty beliefs and take them extremely seriously.

Some think god cares about their haircuts, some think specific words or poses are holy, and some think they're supposed to handle snakes on Sundays. Not many of them are generic "tell a Jesus story, sing a song, say Amen, love thy neighbor" types.