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[–] vaguerant@fedia.io 67 points 9 hours ago (1 children)

Sorry to go all Godwin's law, but astrology can and has been used as a tool of oppression. Nazi Germany had a state-sponsored astrologer, Karl Ernst Krafft, appointed by Deputy Führer Rudolf Hess and Chief Propagandist Joseph Goebbels. Krafft was employed to write astrological propaganda that justified anti-semitism on the basis of celestial events. He was also tasked with using astrological observations to predict threats to the Führer Adolf Hitler and offer military advice.

Ultimately, it's not the stars and Moon that do the oppression, just whoever is in charge of divining their meaning, which is also pretty much how religious oppression works.

[–] CosmicTurtle0@lemmy.dbzer0.com 16 points 5 hours ago (1 children)

It's almost as if certain types of people want to be assholes but want an irrefutable entity to say it's okay.

[–] nanoswarm9k@lemmus.org 5 points 4 hours ago (1 children)

Never trust someone else's imaginary friend over one's own.

[–] otter@lemmy.dbzer0.com 4 points 1 hour ago (1 children)

Here's a thought: go one further. Kill all gods & masters.

[–] HikingVet@lemmy.ca 1 points 47 minutes ago (1 children)

We will only be free when the last monarch is strangled with the entrails of the last priest.

[–] otter@lemmy.dbzer0.com 2 points 44 minutes ago

Repair world hunger with a woodchipper & fertilizer tumbler... Yeet The Rich.

[–] Iheartcheese@lemmy.world 24 points 9 hours ago (2 children)

Given the chance, Saturn would remove women's right to vote.

[–] edgemaster72@lemmy.world 1 points 4 hours ago

Dammit Saturn I thought you were cool

[–] TwoBeeSan@lemmy.world 3 points 5 hours ago

Typical Saturn energy.