He wants his worldview violently imposed by force, not because it makes any sense, not caring that it would destroy, among other things, the economy...
He wants it because that is what his definition of morally righteous is.
Ya'll Qaeda.
It is better to starve in a sanctified and Godly realm, than it is to dine with heretics.
You can probably find more info on this event than what is in this video, but this is the oldest upload of it to youtube I can find.
So yeah... right wing Christians tended to massively listen to radio talk shows more than other groups, Rush Limbaugh, Michael Savage, Sean Hannity, etc...
So, probably a lot of them heard this, and well its been 30 years, 30 years for ... collective lore development.
Its like how just most kooky spiritual gurus can trace back their ideas to Helena Blavatsky snd Theosophy, late 1800s / early 1900s.
Which includes the Thule Society, and thus Nazis.
For a long time there has been crossover between right wing politics and zany belief structures... I think it boils down to just an authoritarian approach to knowledge.
I mean, yes, but he's just gotten worse and worse, and as best I can tell, his viewer demographic is roughly the same people who think the New York Times represents 'reasonable progressivism' or something like that.
They're going to cancel or seriously disrupt the midterms, and they will go door to door, with ICE, based on your known political affiliation, after they declare anyone who disagrees with them to be a terrorist.
Be ready.
Hopefully they fuck it up and turn on each other before it gets to that point.
But... do you really wanna just rely on that happening?
omfg, BlueSky continues to just knock it out of the park.
Incredible.
It was like less than a week or two ago I was trying to explain that BlueSky is just rainbow capitalism, that is centralized, and will censor you, just give it time.
A year ago some goober was extremely convinced that it was totally possible and not actually that difficult to set up your own Relay, so, it actually is federated and decentralized the same way Lemmy or Mastadon are!
Year later, nobody has gotten around to doing it.
And now it has a hallucinatory theft powered autocomplete machine... that... ostensibly exists... to... manage their feeds.
Because apparently that is so complex or difficult that it... needs an assistant?
And this was made by a former member of the board who apparently just left so that he could focus in his side project, which is totally different from BlueSky, but also only works with BlueSky.
Just chef's kiss, mwah.
We need a 'Fell for it Again' meme variant for turbolibs.
There's 0 difference between TwitterBrains and RedditMods.
Well ok, TwitterBrains are better at scamming people, at least they're getting paid.
If your brain has enough time to process actually seeing a mushroom cloud, well, that means you were far enough away from the blast that you were not evaporated or otherwise fucked up by the initial explosion.
Otherwise, you would have felt or been destroyed by that first, before the mushroom cloud have even formed, before you could have possibly seen it.
So, if you are able to see a mushroom cloud, before you hear or feel a nuclear explosion, that means that you may actually have moments to scramble to find cover, and that may actually protect you from the blast/pressure/heat wave that has not hit you yet, as well as the immense, sucking/updraft winds that will be created by... essentially the hole that a nuclear explosion punches in the atmosphere.
Also, "fun fact", you wanna know something reported by soldiers at nuclear tests and the Japanese at Hiroshima and Nagasaki?
When the bomb goes off, ... even if you close your eyes, look away from the blast... you can still see your own bones, if you're holding your hands/arms to shield your eyes.
There is so much radiation flying around that you get momentary xray vision.
“We were told to put on long trousers and a long-sleeved shirt,” he says, “and we had these dark goggles which meant you couldn’t see your hand in front of you. Then we had to go and sit on the football pitch with our backs to the detonation, because if we’d faced it, the fireball would have burned our eyes.
“When the bomb went off, it was so bright that I could see the spine and ribs of the guy sitting a metre in front of me, like an X-ray. I put my hands over my eyes and could see the bones in my fingers, and could see the blood pumping around my hands. It was 4am but the sky turned blue, like it was daytime. The blast was like the sound of a pistol, except 1,000 times louder. After the fireball, a couple of minutes later, you feel the blast and a strong gust of very hot wind – if you had no shirt on it feels like it would burn through your back – then once the fireball starts to dissipate you get the mushroom cloud.”
That's just one recollection I can find via quick websearch, but there are numerous accounts of this 'momentary xray vision' effect happening, UK, US soldiers, Japanese, etc.
EDIT
The ... HL2 Mod -> 10+ years of development -> Indie Game G STRING arguably does a fairly decent portrayal of experiencing the effects of a nuclear detonation, in sequence.
It just does a screen flash bang instead of the whole x ray vision thing, but the order of events is roughly correct.
Flash, white out, people screaming from both being irradiated and the shock, gigantic visible second sun ...
... lull of time where power transformers are heard exploding due to the EMP ...
... massive pressure/blast/heat front hits, random shit is thrown away from the blast, more people screaming as they are now being incinerated ...
... then the wind direction changes and random shit is now sucked toward the explosion, which by now has more or less assumed the form of a proper mushroom cloud.
Uh, I guess potential [Content Warning], this may or may not qualify as nightmare fuel.
Yes, some terms are basically just shot in the pan, fairly short lived fads... but, sometimes they stick around enough to distinctively form part of a kind of age bracket / location specific dialect, or even spread more broadly.
'Cool' 'Radical' 'Tubular' 'Groovy'... those are all older terms that were popularized by older age brackets, you can take a while bunch of millenialspeak/redditisms as examples as well, 'smolbean' 'chonker' 'adulting', etc.
But also yes, often, terms get reappropriated or basicslly misappropriated, kind of transmuted into having a just totally different meaning, which can then create a lot of confusion when some people are using a more original, domain specific meaning, and then there is a kind of nebulous, vague, commonplace usage of the term.
'Therapyspeak' as proliferated by Tiktok is a great example of the dangers and problems of that.
Tons of people misuing terms that have actual specific meanings, that they then almost always use to essentially weaponize their own narcissism.
There are tons of other more technical terms that have more specific meanings in some field of study, but then also have a vague or different colloquial meaning, and then people will just conflate the two different usage/meanings...
That's pretty much the basis of a bunch of woowoo, psuedo-intellectual, spiritual guru type nonsense, its also used by cults and con artists.
'Energy' in physics is not the same thing as 'energy' used to describe basically someone's demeanor, their current mood.
But, in another comment, up the chain in this thread, I did try to lay out how 'cats are autistic' is actually a reasonably accurate and defensible use of the term.
I think that if people are more commonly using complex terms... actually relatively correctly... that is just a good thing.
It normalizes the idea that yeah, autistic people exist, they are different, and thats ok, and its also ok to talk about how they are different, because maybe we can all understsnd and relate to them better by way of decently accurate analogies.
What would worry me is people using the term very incorrectly, accidentally or purposefully promoting false stereotypes, or just purely using 'autistic' as an insult.
So, I wanted to try and point out some of the details, have the conversation.
Essentially, I'm arguing that language does broadly change over time, and also, broader acceptance and discussion of how neurodivergence actually works is a good thing.
Is me doing that 'forced', not a 'natural' evolution of language? Eh, sure.
But if a whole bunch of people are also just... using the term autistic more frequently... well, I'm not in charge of all of them, but maybe I can try to at least... shape the flow of that river, so to speak, so that more people know more about the word they're now using more often.
He is a fanatic.
He wants his worldview violently imposed by force, not because it makes any sense, not caring that it would destroy, among other things, the economy...
He wants it because that is what his definition of morally righteous is.
Ya'll Qaeda.
It is better to starve in a sanctified and Godly realm, than it is to dine with heretics.
That is how this kind of person earnestly thinks.