• D_C@sh.itjust.works
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    2 hours ago

    This is EXACTLY what the devil wants you to think. WAKE UP!!
    “The greatest trick the devil ever pulled was convincing the world he didn’t exist!”

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    13 hours ago

    What’s crazy is that a month after she sent this tweet, someone blew up the guidestones, and the authorities still have no idea who did it. No idea if they questioned her about it, but that’s where I’d start if I was part of the investigation.

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      10 hours ago

      She didn’t even have to get elected governor for her campaign promise to come true! What a rare politician. Well, I guess she no longer needs to run for office. Mission accomplished.

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      12 hours ago

      ‘authorities have no idea who did it’

      From what I’ve heard from a friend who lived nearby, they ain’t looking hard. Or at all. They were… controversial, to say the least, with locals.

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      13 hours ago

      weren’t those things put up by some weird “new world order” people who wanted to reduce the world population to 100 million total?

      anyway, she sounds like a psycho, don’t vote for her

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        The whole thing was pretty weird, tbh. The person who fronted the cash for the project went by a pseudonym, “Robert Christian”. The person who was approached to carve the stones for the monument said that he didn’t really want to do it, so he quoted a ridiculous price, to which “Christian” immediately agreed. According to the front man, the group he represented believed that humans would eventually bomb ourselves back to the stone age, and so they wanted to provide a guide post for rebuilding civilization. To that end, they designed it to function as a compass, calendar, and a clock, in addition to a moral guide. They inscribed the same text in several different languages on it that included such commandments as keep the human population to a maximum of 500 million to stay in concert with nature, unite humanity with a new living language, don’t elect petty people to public office, etc.

        Anyway - he donated the monument and the land it’s on to the county, so the destruction of it in 2022 was considered destruction of public property, which carries a minimum sentence of 20 years, provided they ever find out who did it.

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          Those are pretty good points though, if our civilization ever collapses people really should do things different than us. Keeping the population in check to maintain ecological balance is something we practice on a regular basis on many other animals, it seems quite presumptious to exclude ourselves from that necessity.

          That being said, i am also strongly opposed to the nihilists trying to convince people to stop having kids. The only people who would willingly do that for the sake of everyone are the very same people working to improve our ways, not the ignorant asshats. Those often make it a point to have as many kids as possible.

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            Requiring permission to have children is too close to eugenics, for me to agree to that. I get the point, sure. But it will inevitably turn into something where only certain people with “desirable” traits will be allowed/forced to breed with each other. Humanity’s history does not make me hopeful that this’ll work out fine.

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            Yeah - I don’t really know much about the ultimate goals of the group that was behind it, but it doesn’t seem like a bad idea to plan for what happens after an apocalypse, considering that we’ve been on the verge of an apocalypse since the 60s.

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                8 hours ago

                Welp. I was not expecting the eugenics angle, but in retrospect, I absolutely should have been. I mean, it was the 80s in fucking rural Georgia, of all places. Obviously, it was commissioned by a David Duke fan.

                That does, however, make the whole Satanic Panic thing pretty god damned hilarious. I mean, the people freaking out about it are the same people who would have been 100% on-board with the group who commissioned it’s politics. Guess they’re just miffed they weren’t consulted 10 years before they were born.

                Edit: I think the thing that threw me off the eugenics scent in the first place was just that it was translated into several different languages, including Arabic, Hindi, Swahili, Hebrew, and Chinese. It doesn’t seem like the type of thing that David Duke fans would think to do.

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    Luciferian cabal

    Like… I mean… I…

    I don’t even know how to respond to that, is she 5?

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      I mean it’s just the end result of intentional fuckery with the American education system. So intellectually? Yes, she’s got less critical thinking skills than a 5 year old.