So to return to this: Mussolini had 200,000 blackshirts for the March on Rome in a country of ~35m. Hitler had 400,000 brownshirts in 1932 in Germany for a population of ~60m.
So around 0.6% of the population.
0.6% of 340m Americans is just over 2 million.
They do not have enough goons.
"At Pentecost, we remember God didn’t just speak once in history. God continues to speak. The Spirit didn’t just descend on a few, but fills all flesh even today." @goodfaithmedia.bsky.social
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While everyone watched the Trump/Musk bromance breakup, the @nehgov.bsky.social dropped this insanity.
Want NEH funding? Better toe the line on American Exceptionalism. No critical takes allowed. Cue a flood of garbage history projects for the next few years…at least.
Dr. David Schmid, Dr. Lídia Del Rio and Hans Busstra explore a metaphysical shift that’s happening in the foundations of physics: the wave function is no longer regarded as something real, but just as a description of what we know about the world.
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Please pre-order my book #Earthbound coming this summer.
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Outraged by Jan 6, he spent two years getting inside the top ranks of militias like the Oath Keepers. He was stunningly successful. He penetrated a new generation of militia leaders, which included doctors, cops & government attorneys.
This is his story. www.propublica.org/article/ap3-...
I read 108 books in 2024 & here are my top 20 w/ short notes about each of them.
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Got this at theology beer camp! Signed by @gracejisunkim.bsky.social !!
Got this at Theology beer camp!
When God Became White: Dismantling Whiteness for a More Just Christianity @gracejisunkim.bsky.social amzn.to/4iR3Sjm
Thank you so much @trippfuller.bsky.social for including #WhenGodBecameWhite in your list of Top 20 Books!
I am so honored
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New year , new me… again
A two panel comic strip. Panel 1: A light gray human shape (like a thicc stick figure) labelled "THE WEALTHY ELITE" reaches greedily, mouth open in excitement, towards a large floating yellow ball that is labelled "A SECOND GILDED AGE" Panel 2: same as above, but behind the gray figure (who now has a sweat drop to indicate nervousness on its head) is a VERY large pink blob labelled "THE RETURN OF OUTLAW FOLL HEROES" with one arm wrapped around the gray figure, expression quietly threatening
Please tell me who first posted this so I can properly credit, bc it made me laugh hard this morning
There are roughly 330M people in this country, and I realized this morning that for less than the cost of a cheap cup of coffee a day, a S. African billionaire was able to buy the Presidency, and in effect — the country. It’s both embarrassing and sad that, not only was it easy, but it was so cheap…
You have to do your murders legally in order to get away with it. Insurance execs kill people legally. Biden and all the pols who support giving bombs to murderers do their killing of babies legally. If international and moral law mattered, Biden, Netanyahu and others would be in prison right now.
Two 26-Year-Olds: One Killed a Homeless Man, Another is Suspected of Killing a Healthcare CEO
Daniel Penny is free after killing a man victim to the system. What of Luigi Mangione, who is suspected of killing a man symbolic of it?
would be pretty funny if luigi mangione was the wrong guy they picked up after the CEO assassin look alike contest
In the past 5 days:
—Amnesty International concludes Israel is committing genocide
—CEO of largest US health insurance company killed
—Martial law declared in South Korea, fails in hours
—French government collapses
—Assad regime collapses
Weeks where decades happen…
So, the richest man in the world who spent $250 million to elect Trump wants to take away social programs that benefit seniors, children, the middle class, and the poor in order to further enrich himself?
Is that the plot? Did I get that right?
What if the UHC CEO asssasin is from the future like a scenario out of _Looper_ or _Terminator_? Well as long he doesn’t get caught we can entertain that thought …
I can't believe we used to live in a world with three other human species. So freaking cool.
on “Wonderful Christmastime,” Sir Paul McCartney set out to make a timeless christmas classic and also to figure out what every button on his synthesizer did, and he absolutely succeeded at one of those things
FRESH PODCAST with philosopher Simon Critchley on his new book “Mysticism."
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