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Sharia, really? You can’t possibly be that stupid.

It’s that too! But it’s also a cult. People who study cults for a living confirm the heck out of that.

I recommend this lady as a starting point if you’re curious. She’s former SpecOps.

This is a very good analogy!

Although to be pedantic, there are white crows; there was one living in my neighborhood some years back.

And they want things to get worse.

As long as everyone else has to scrabble in the mud, they don’t care. Their desire to feel superior and rub it in everyone’s faces is stronger than even their desire to live.

I just don’t get it.

Historically, yes. But these days almost all the proselytizing going on these days is from American groups, or groups bankrolled by American religious groups.

But it does appear that he was just doing it for TikTok clout.

Little coward is probably afraid of getting the Brock Allen Turner treatment.

Please tell me you mock him roundly for it.

I’m with ZombiePirate. They do. This video explains it rather well, actually.

People who want money or resources. You have to remember though, these aren’t the brilliant businessmen they think they are.

Most of these rich people are rich through family and luck, and believe they have magical powers to resurrect businesses and economies with a snap of their fingers.

They think they’ll just put everything back together with them at the top. They really have no idea how they’ll do that, of course.

Same here. What a pile of bullshit.

And it’s easier to get to a polling place in the city than the country. This is just republicans not wanting to listen to their constituents again.

Wow, helping people instead of jailing them actually works? How shocking /s

In this case it’s just the rich punishing a plebeian for daring to challenge them, in the hopes of they make his punishment terrible enough everyone else will be too scared to rise up.

But in answer to you astute observation that the ‘pro-life’ people love the death penalty, the reason is simple: to these people, being ‘bad’ isn’t something you do, it’s something you are.

So to them it’s not a break in internal logic at all. They gave the pure, innocent baby a chance, but they turned out to be a Bad Person, so they must be punished, because that’s what you deserve for being a Bad Person.

This is why they favor punitive jailing and killing criminals instead of trying to reform criminals; criminals are Bad, and so they will always do Bad Things.

It’s also why they do stuff like try to get rid of abortion. If a woman got pregnant from ‘sleeping around’ then she’s a Bad Person and deserves to be punished by carrying the child to term.