DHS draft document: White supremacists are greatest terror threat

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ok doser

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What Trump supporters do on weekends:

5 Boats Sink At Trump Boat Parade In Texas

Ultimately, five boats did sink during the event. Three of those were recovered, but two remained submerged Sunday.

There were no injuries among those who called for help, the sheriff's office said. The office said it found "no evidence of foul play."

The weather on Lake Travis, which is west of Austin, was calm Saturday, but the large number of boats moving together produced large waves, the sheriff's office said in a news release




In other words, they sank their own because the larger boats didn't watch out for the small boats.

But that didn't stop the conspiracy theorists!

No injuries, fellow boaters stopped to assist, no businesses were burned down, no Molotov cocktails were thrown at authorities, no children were murdered.

MAGA!
 

ok doser

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Maybe even the same ones whose wakes swamped the smaller boats... :chuckle:

maybe even

I've been in very similar situations, several times just this past summer. Stopped going down to the 4th of July fireworks by boat several years ago for the same reason.

Worth re-emphasizing - at an event with Trump supporters, no businesses were burned down, no Molotov cocktails were thrown at authorities, no children were murdered. Just some over-enthusiastic, inexperienced boaters got wet.

No children were murdered.

That's a good thing :)


MAGA :)







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ok doser

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Just sad little morons...

No, they weren't morons, and they weren't sad. They were little. Happy little children who didn't deserve to be murdered.



But I get it - you and anna aren't interested in discussing murdered black children. Those black lives don't matter to you.





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annabenedetti

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No, they weren't morons, and they weren't sad. They were little. Happy little children who didn't deserve to be murdered.

You sick little man. Arthur wasn't talking about the children. He was talking about white supremacists like you.


But I get it - you and anna aren't interested in discussing murdered black children. Those black lives don't matter to you.

How sick-minded do you have to be to actually search for murdered children so you can post them online to 'own the libs?' What is wrong in your head that you would google for photos of murdered children for the purpose of using them as pawns in your sick little game?
 

ok doser

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You sick little man. Arthur wasn't talking about the children. He was talking about white supremacists like you.


White supremacists like me who abhor the killing of innocent children, no matter the color of their skin?

You're insane.
 

ok doser

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White supremacists like you ...


... like me, who cares about murdered children regardless of the color of their skin or their location, in utero/ex utero.

Unlike you and artie who despise them because they're brown, and support killing them in the womb.
 

ok doser

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Now quit derailing the thread.

The thread is about racists like you and artie who despise brown children because of the color of their skin, who don't care that they're murdered, who call them "sad little morons" because they got themselves murdered
 

annabenedetti

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American Christianity’s White-Supremacy Problem
History, theology, and culture all contribute to the racist attitudes embedded in the white church.


"If you were recruiting for a white supremacist cause on a Sunday morning, you’d likely have more success hanging out in the parking lot of an average white Christian church—evangelical Protestant, mainline Protestant, or Catholic—than approaching whites sitting out services at the local coffee shop."

In the end, however, ameliorating the theology of white Christianity is likely inadequate. In “Taking America Back for God” (Oxford), published earlier this year, the sociologists Andrew L. Whitehead and Samuel L. Perry examine racist and xenophobic attitudes among white Christians through the lens of a distinct set of cultural beliefs—most notably, the idea that America is, and should be, a Christian nation. They find that this collection of cultural markers, which they call “Christian nationalism,” was a better predictor of support for Trump in the 2016 election than economic discontent, religious affiliation, sexism, or any number of other variables. The defining concern of Christian nationalism is the preservation of a certain kind of social order, one threatened by people of color, immigrants, and Muslims.
 

annabenedetti

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Christians Against Christian Nationalism

As Christians, our faith teaches us everyone is created in God’s image and commands us to love one another. As Americans, we value our system of government and the good that can be accomplished in our constitutional democracy. Today, we are concerned about a persistent threat to both our religious communities and our democracy — Christian nationalism.

Christian nationalism seeks to merge Christian and American identities, distorting both the Christian faith and America’s constitutional democracy. Christian nationalism demands Christianity be privileged by the State and implies that to be a good American, one must be Christian. It often overlaps with and provides cover for white supremacy and racial subjugation. We reject this damaging political ideology and invite our Christian brothers and sisters to join us in opposing this threat to our faith and to our nation.

As Christians, we are bound to Christ, not by citizenship, but by faith. We believe that:

People of all faiths and none have the right and responsibility to engage constructively in the public square.

Patriotism does not require us to minimize our religious convictions.

One’s religious affiliation, or lack thereof, should be irrelevant to one’s standing in the civic community.

Government should not prefer one religion over another or religion over nonreligion.

Religious instruction is best left to our houses of worship, other religious institutions and families.

America’s historic commitment to religious pluralism enables faith communities to live in civic harmony with one another without sacrificing our theological convictions.

Conflating religious authority with political authority is idolatrous and often leads to oppression of minority and other marginalized groups as well as the spiritual impoverishment of religion.

We must stand up to and speak out against Christian nationalism, especially when it inspires acts of violence and intimidation—including vandalism, bomb threats, arson, hate crimes, and attacks on houses of worship—against religious communities at home and abroad.

Whether we worship at a church, mosque, synagogue, or temple, America has no second-class faiths. All are equal under the U.S. Constitution. As Christians, we must speak in one voice condemning Christian nationalism as a distortion of the gospel of Jesus and a threat to American democracy.
 

annabenedetti

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A former counterterrorism official under Donald Trump has sounded the alarm about white nationalism within the administration, saying that extreme ideology is directly informing various government policies.

Interviewed on MSNBC last night, Elizabeth Neumann was asked by host Joy Reid to what extend the administration’s policies on security and immigration were being shaped by white nationalist ideology.

Ms Neumann replied that while divining exactly what motivates senior Trump advisers and staff is not always easy, racist motives are clearly playing their part.

“Early 2017, I just assumed that the rhetoric we were seeing, the behaviour we were seeing was from an inexperienced group, that they didn’t understand how to govern – rhetoric and how it takes on a different effect when you’re sitting in the White House.

“And I gave them a lot of grace, or room to grow, and was deeply disappointed at what I saw. And I came to realise that there is some design to it. \
 
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