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Like as bribery or punishment??
This isn‘t surprising. Lots of right wing “alternative” media types, plus some mainstream ones, have been pushing Russian propaganda talking points since Putin invaded, 
Repetition, in and of itself, is a form of propaganda. Especially if a person is too intellectually lazy to seek out contrary opinions. If people hear night after night from their favorite talking head the Ukrainian war effort can never succeed, many people will start to to believe it simply because of the level of input. And most right-wing media conditions their audience to only turn to them as source. >


Lots of right wing “alternative” media types, plus some mainstream ones, have been pushing Russian propaganda talking points since ~~Putin invaded,~~ 15 years, at least >

That would be around when Obama took office. 
Which would incidentally affirm my suspicions that they hated the idea of a black man being president so much that they're not only becoming anti-democratic, but they also are willing to to ally with or hand the keys to any dictator with clout or money. >

You are absolutely wrong.
They were anti-democratic fascists under Bush too.
rimshot >

And Bush Senior and Reagan and Nixon.....hmm I'm beginning to to think they've always been fascists and the only real difference now is that they're much worse a playing politics and hiding their true intentions. >

They can't give away something they don't control. The GOP needs to be done in this world. >

And the next. >

Republicans claim to be christian and I get we don't agree with republican positions but I'm okay with people wanting to believe in an afterlife as long as they don't want to do bigoted shit to people while they're alive. >

Spoiler alert Rulare, the vast majority eagerly want to do bigoted shit to people while they're alive. And I won't even entertain their beliefs by bringing up the tenets of their faith that they fail to follow, because I don't give a shit. I don't care about their stupid religions. I don't believe their deities exist. They don't like living in a country that bans the establishment of religion and rejects their bigotry, they can hop on the first flight to Russia and they can see what it's like to live in a country that actually reflects their terrible, terrible values. >

Maybe, but the bigoted shit is what I take issue with, not the concept of an afterlife.  
I don't really believe in one, but lines in the sand should be drawn in the right place, if we're going to be drawing them >

No, the goal of humanity should be the total end of religious belief. I'm tired of being surrounded by people that believe in monotheist nonsense and pantheons of ridiculousness. None of that shit exists.
Pretending like mass bigotry isn't intricately linked to communities of faith, particularly Protestant communities in America (and especially overtly racist orgs like the Southern Baptist Conference) helps no one. Drawing an imaginary line to protect the "good" ones is counterproductive to creating a world that doesn't have these fucking hellish delusions guiding people's entire lives and fucking everything up for the living. >

Look at it as a matter of prudence.  If there are people who would otherwise agree, who are alienated by that kind of rhetoric, then it's not expedient to alienate them.
If you're loudly telling people to their face they shouldn't exist, there's no chance they will ever work with you.  Even I won't want to work with you and I'm not religious and I don't believe in mysticism.
If you wanted to play dirty like the republicans, that would still be the correct play. >


If you're loudly telling people to their face they shouldn't exist, there's no chance they will ever work with you. Even I won't want to work with you and I'm not religious and I don't believe in mysticism.

The fuck are you talking about? I'm not saying they shouldn't exist, I'm saying we should normalize telling them to their faces that their religion doesn't matter when it comes to discussing public policy and that the non-religious are done with them commanding the conversation as if their imaginary bullshit matters. It doesn't when we're discussing Federal law. They don't get to establish their religion, end of story. There's no discussion.
That's a very far cry from whatever nonsense you've concocted. >


The fuck are you talking about?

I'm talking about, 

No, the goal of humanity should be the total end of religious belief.

That sounds the same, to a person with religious beliefs.  
Not normalizing bending to their whims is a very different thing, and I agree with that, but that's not what you said at first. >

Considering how generous that GOP base seems to be, perhaps they wouldn't mind sharing a few of their towns with Russia, as well
*Edit.  Not just share them with Russia, but with any other despotically run country that the MAGA crew ~~sucks up to~~ 'admires' >

I’d rather give Texas to Mexico >

Are we sure Mexico wants a third world petro-state with a barely functioning power grid? >

What if we also threw in the entire american south?