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THE PIN!!!!!!!
OMG PIN!!!!
fucking hero.
Cory, you managed to break a racist record, do it while making a powerful speech about justice, disrupt the gears of white supremacy and fascism in a nonviolent but still incredibly visible way, and remind the people of the importance of freedom for *all* people including jews?
MLK would be so fucking proud of you carrying on his legacy this well.
For anyone keeping up with the Stranger Things "secret good finale" conspiracy (yes, it is just the Sherlock "secret good episode" thing with a new show.) the current theory is that tomorrow, in place of SNL, the actual finale of Stranger Things will air. They are presenting this as something plausible, and not something that Lorne Michaels would have beaten the Duffer Brothers to death over if they even suggested it.
For anyone keeping up with the Stranger Things "secret good finale" conspiracy (yes, it is just the Sherlock "secret good episode" thing with a new show.) the current theory is that tomorrow, in place of SNL, the actual finale of Stranger Things will air. They are presenting this as something plausible, and not something that Lorne Michaels would have beaten the Duffer Brothers to death over if they even suggested it.
For anyone keeping up with the Stranger Things "secret good finale" conspiracy (yes, it is just the Sherlock "secret good episode" thing with a new show.) the current theory is that tomorrow, in place of SNL, the actual finale of Stranger Things will air. They are presenting this as something plausible, and not something that Lorne Michaels would have beaten the Duffer Brothers to death over if they even suggested it.
The subreddit also has a 60 page masterdoc of all their evidence, if anyone wants to archive that for the inevitable youtube video that's going to be made.
Okay I kinda assumed that they might try to turn Charlie Kirk into a martyr but seriously what the fuck
Here's a list of real things that have happened in the past 2 days:
- He's being awarded the Presidential Medal of Freedom
- JD Vance personally escorted his body back to Arizona in Air Force Two
- All American flags both in the US and abroad are to be flown at half-mast for the rest of the week
- Republican senators are calling for a statue of him to be built in the Capitol (quote: "we have one of MLK don't we?")
- News anchors are sobbing live on television
- The governor of Utah has pledged to give the shooter the death penalty
- Vigils are being held nationwide
- Evangelicals have been equating him with Jesus
- In the House of Representatives a request for a prayer devolved into screaming that the Democrats killed him
- The New York Yankees held a moment of silence before the game and proceeded to lose 12-2
- People across the country are losing their jobs en masse for criticising him online
- MSNBC's political analyst was asked what created the environment for the shooting, said it could be his divisive rhetoric, and was fired on the spot
- A UK student wrote "he got shot lol" in a private group chat and it made the news
- The State Department announced that they will revoke the visas of foreign nationals who "praise, rationalise, or make light" of his death on social media
- Also it was 9/11
Anonymous asked:
Jim Jones being as progressive he was is still shocking to me every time some factoid comes up. What ego, paranoia, and madness does to a self serving evil bastard.
olderthannetfic answered:
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Being the one person catering to people who are usually excluded is powerful.
Y'all, cult leaders specifically target social outcasts. That's not progressivism; it's hunting for easy marks who'll kill for someone who makes them feel valued and cherished.
Btw, I don't want to hear anyone claim that Jim Jones was a progressive unless and until they've actually listened to the tapes. I have, as part of a research project, and let me tell you, they paint a very different picture. Jim Jones's wife will be talking about how he'd walk out of a barbershop with half a haircut over the barber refusing to serve Black patrons... and then she'll immediately transition into a scripted narrative about how the biggest problem facing Black Americans is actually the fact that Jim Jones isn't able to collect his followers' social security checks in Guyana. Jim Jones himself gives long, meandering speeches about sexual repression and rape culture, and then he turns around and accuses all Black women who have ever claimed to have been raped by Black men of being paid operatives trying to discredit the Civil Rights Movement. He compares himself to MLK, Malcolm X, Huey Newton, and others... only to undercut all of them and self-aggrandize by claiming to have inspired them to the cause, cured them and their mothers of cancer, foretold their downfalls, lived a purer life than them and have been more unfairly persecuted by them, etc. etc. etc. He borrows AAVE affectations without actually understanding AAVE grammar. He jokes about physical and sexual abuse, and then turns around and claims that he takes every accusation completely seriously. He employs racist stereotypes whenever it's convenient, then backs out of it and claims that he would never when it isn't. And on and on and on. Jim Jones exemplifies the banality of evil – he brutally exploited and murdered a predominantly Black congregation, and as women and children were literally crying and screaming in the background as they were forced to drink cyanide, he calmly, tiredly asked his murder victims to stop being "hysterical".







