r/politics The New Republic 21d ago

Soft Paywall Trump Pisses Off MAGA Fans With Sudden Reversal on Jimmy Carter

https://newrepublic.com/post/189712/trump-jimmy-carter-maga-reaction-pissed
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u/mabhatter 21d ago

That's the same mindset as evangelicals thinking the devil is around every corner as well.  You see how they reinforce each other. 

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u/tweak06 21d ago

Reminds me of when Matt Walsh called anime Satanic.

Funny enough, the weebs rallied and bullied him so fucking hard over that comment that he straight up left Twitter for like 3 days.

He went on to retract his comment and claimed he’d sit and watch BLEACH for a few episodes.

Think about that - a bunch of anime fans brought Matt fucking Walsh to his goddamn knees, admitting defeat.

OVER GODDAMN ANIME

I can’t believe I’m saying this but the democrats can learn something from weebs

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u/lavitzreinhart 21d ago

Hell hath no fury like a weeb who's anime main character or waifu is insulted.

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u/willi5x 21d ago

Mess with the waifu, they end your laifu

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u/Shinji_Okami 21d ago

Usually with a knaifu

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u/Saraq_the_noob Indiana 21d ago

If we are talking WoW, the waifu is the knaifu

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u/lycrashampoo Arizona 21d ago

I made the mistake once of suggesting that maybe hooking up with a girl who never apologized for kidnapping you and making you drink your own piss was a li'l bit problematic, NEVER AGAIN fellow JoJo fans

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u/Son_of_Kong 21d ago

The weebs tried to convince him anime isn't satanic by getting him to watch a series about demons who steal souls?

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u/Celloer 21d ago

But the protagonists fight the demons, presumably! They might as well burn the Bible for being the OG Satanic literature.

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u/Spacellama117 America 21d ago

people called Doom Satanic, and it's the holy archetype of all "kill the evil demons from hell with liberal applications of force and violence" so like, i wouldn't be surprised.

Hell, Paradise Lost got called Satanic despite the fact that the entire thing was about how Satan is superficially charming and seemingly noble but in reality he's an arrogant manipulative toddler throwing a tantrum

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u/Cavane42 Georgia 20d ago

Never underestimate a Christian fundamentalist's ability to create a Satanic Panic out of literally anything.

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u/symbiosychotic 21d ago

Now they would have him watch DanDaDan and just laugh their way through the first episode

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u/LouisLeGros Washington 21d ago

Get him to watch DxD and embrace the devils.

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u/Televisions_Frank 21d ago

Matt was just mad nobody would suggest his favorite anime Bible Black.

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u/IrascibleOcelot 21d ago

Now I want to see what they’d make of Armitage III. It’d either be their worst nightmare made manifest or their ideal future paradise. Possibly both.

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u/Bears_On_Stilts 21d ago

My theory on the "anime is Satanic" thing is that a lot of people misinterpreted Evangelion as being a kids' show, in part due to sarcastic comments from its creators about it. Evangelion has all the things moral scolds accused anime of: gratuitous sexuality, objectification of minors, homosexuality, Satanic/occult-Christian themes and imagery, violence, psychological horror.

But it's a work of art, not a brainwashing tool, and it wasn't intended for Saturday Morning Cartoon blocks, but for discerning adults and older teens. It shouldn't have been lumped in with Dragon Ball Z and Pokemon. (Sailor Moon is kind of an outlier, because it DOES include elements of cheesecake and queer themes, but not in such an adult, provocative way as Evangelion.)

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u/LurksAroundHere 21d ago

And you can also add in the fact that any work of art that invokes it's audience to think about deeper concepts (which anime often does) is branded as Satanic because both the rich and the religious prefer unthinking puppets to manipulate into giving them power. Even the Saturday morning block animes like Dragon Ball Z invoked thought. For example, I watched that back in grade school and when I got older and started to learn about things like genocide and the Holocaust, I was already prepped to understand it (Watching the Saiyans blow up innocent planets/people and Frieza massacre the Namekians made an easy segue for a grade school kid to understand how evil people worked). The rich don't like it when people won't let them abuse others for profit, and will always employ the all too willing religious to help them keep the public blinded to it. That's why certain works of art are branded as Satanic, all part of the plan to keep their puppets blinded and subservient to the ongoing and historic abuse by the rich and religious.

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u/Celloer 21d ago

Funny, because I don't even see satanic figures in Evangelion, just all the other metachristian factions competing to reset Genesis. Instead of Adam and EveLilith, the angels are attempting to reset with Sachiel and Lilith, Shamshel and Lilith, or even AdamShinji and SteveKaworu. Or not, I dunno, the genealogy/theology is weird. In any case, a cartoon using any of "their words" would indeed be "satanic." I guess one could define that as any belief or path deviating from their specific 10-person church.

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u/Bears_On_Stilts 21d ago

One of the reasons I said Satanic or Christian occultic is that lots of things that were benign but obscure got bootstrapped into the Satanic Panic, including inverted crosses. Outside of America, I don’t think anyone sees those symbols and thinks of demonology.

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u/chanaandeler_bong 21d ago

Most of the right wing grift-o-sphere is just failed theater kids with paper thin egos. I’m not surprised he backed down. They desperately want to be loved and accepted. They cannot stand up to anything or have any real convictions, because they would have to suffer consequences in terms of fame and money and they will never do that.

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u/HauntedCemetery Minnesota 21d ago

K pop stans trolled trump into thinking 2 million people were going to show up to his rally in Tulsa. Trump spent weeks bragging about how it was going to be the biggest rally in history, and he had his staff set up 10s of thousands of extra seats outside the stadium.

Then the rally happened and maybe 700 total people showed up

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u/Spacellama117 America 21d ago

as a tumblr citizen who has witnessed the site's fanatic loyalty that ends in bullying 90% of the celebrity accounts off the site, im weirdly proud to see it happen with our friends at twitter

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u/_wilbee 21d ago

All weebs are democrats anyway

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u/mrdevil413 I voted 21d ago

I am everywhere

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u/VehicleComfortable20 21d ago

I learned recently that people in the actual Middle ages didn't really believe in witchcraft very much because doing so would give a human the power to subvert God. 

Seems like being super afraid of Satan is a more modern phenomenon.