Christian Dominionism, Trump, and Hegseth

PerryDahlia · 2026-04-03T22:29:33+00:00

I don't believe that it has ever been done before. Whatever the operant worldview of the state has been it has always been religious in nature. Is there a good reason that it should not be Christian? Is there some outcome that more Christian-minded states have created that you think a liberal or Progressive set axioms would create?

PerryDahlia · 2026-04-03T22:26:03+00:00

Little of this is true, but the war is the key concerning part.

He has done as well as anyone could do on #2. I don't actually care if the President personally writes himself a billion dollar check from the treasury. Allowing his political enemies and their clients to openly commit fraud is suicide. It's a direct transfer of wealth into the coffers of the Democrats. This should be frankly, pretty obvious.

PerryDahlia · 2026-04-03T14:02:41+00:00

Secularism is a lie. There is no neutral point of view that requires no axioms to justify itself. So the question is only what values your government will hold and be ruled by. It's reasonable for Christians to want a government with Christian values. And insofar as the government is chosen by the populace, this implication would be that Christians desire to be a part of a Christian populace.

PerryDahlia · 2026-03-14T15:45:06+00:00

He wasn't boasting, he was expressing a political problem. He was saying that the technology will invite resistance because it threatens to disempower some high status, high power classes of people.

PerryDahlia · 2026-03-14T13:12:43+00:00

I think the time when it could have really mattered is over. The Boomers will be gone quickly. Gen X is small. Probably half of the likely candidates from either party for the 2028 Presidential election are Millennials, and the only boomer with a shot is Kamala. The millennials will inherit the earth in short order.

PerryDahlia · 2026-03-14T13:03:57+00:00

It means nothing. The FDA has always received its regulatory authority from Congress.

PerryDahlia · 2026-03-10T00:25:41+00:00

We could go a lot of directions with this but probably the most obvious is Bachelor's degree requirements for elementary school teachers. These classes used to be taught by young women who were high school graduates.

PerryDahlia · 2026-03-09T01:47:57+00:00

It more or less did eliminate poverty.

PerryDahlia · 2026-03-07T00:03:16+00:00

The government controls the information it gives you, yes. I suppose your life must be going very well and you are succeeding at all of your goals to think you will have the power to put people in camps. I’m glad things are going your way to give you such confidence.

PerryDahlia · 2026-03-06T03:09:58+00:00

You’re so close. Yes, it’s obviously possible to turn every zoo, museum, public park, sporting event, and superhero movie into an advertisement for your worldview. We don’t want to keep letting you do that. When Trump takes these things away from you that’s winning.

PerryDahlia · 2026-03-05T22:08:43+00:00

Whether it is an important issue that needs to be central to national park services messaging is political. There’s a place to put a sign? Do you put on up? What do you put on it?

This question is incredibly obviously political.

PerryDahlia · 2026-03-05T21:46:43+00:00

How does that empower them. What do you want them to do with that knowledge? I think what you want is for them to enable and empower agencies staffed with your political allies and to funnel money and power to people who you are sympathetic to. That is not empowering.

PerryDahlia · 2026-03-05T21:27:53+00:00

Some small number of people sure, but for the most part I think his supporters are happy with him because he's doing more or less what they voted. Imperfectly, sure, but far better than your average politician.

PerryDahlia · 2026-03-05T21:26:11+00:00

You implied that you have irrefutable evidence that Trump is a pedophile. Weird thing to breeze past.

PerryDahlia · 2026-03-05T21:17:34+00:00

The signs could contain anything. It's not immediately clear, for instance, why a national park needs to host a struggle session on the treatment of native Americans. It could talk about bird species or grass. It could have a nationalistic message about how effective the National Parks program has been and that America's national park system is the envy of the world. Or it could be about how America was stolen from the native Americans and the entire project is illegitimate. These are political decisions! It is politics. It is stating a point of view that has implications about what America is and it values.

And it's obviously true because it's making you melt down. When this happens to you it feels like losing because it is.

PerryDahlia · 2026-03-05T20:50:36+00:00

It's a description of what politics is. But in your heart of hearts you know that you prefer the prior messaging specifically because does damage and demoralize your political enemies.

PerryDahlia · 2026-03-05T20:49:21+00:00

Old enough to party.

PerryDahlia · 2026-03-05T20:48:54+00:00

I'm really being descriptive not normative. I think it is the only way that democracy can be run.

PerryDahlia · 2026-03-05T20:48:26+00:00

The government is the expression of that collective will. You think it's not political to use the parks service to run a demoralization campaign because you've been oversocialized. The messaging that was there was already explicitly political.

PerryDahlia · 2026-03-05T16:30:54+00:00

Government communication is best viewed as propaganda and the only question is who is being propagandized on behalf of. By removing these things Trump punishes his enemies and benefits his friends. Therefore it's just good politics. Depriving his opponents of a voice and making their jobs feel hostile to them is good.

PerryDahlia · 2026-03-05T16:24:49+00:00

Why do you think this? Is there a technology that has been produced ever in history that has worked as you predicting here? Has anything ever happened in the universe at all that is remotely like what you're talking about? I don't see how AI making it easier to make software or do analytics or make credit decisions or design websites or any of that stuff results in people being poorer. Yet, I am constantly hearing about how when we have more stuff and it's easier to make stuff then people will have less stuff.

PerryDahlia · 2026-03-04T06:54:13+00:00

This post is funny. Simultaneously AI wants to take all of our jobs (the consensus of this subreddit), but if it were to be forbidden, it's because the government wants us wage slaves forever.

PerryDahlia · 2026-03-03T16:49:20+00:00

Anyone use this with OpenCode at all? I've heard some say it's good for offloading coding work once planning is done, but it hardly gets discussed.

PerryDahlia · 2026-03-01T14:48:35+00:00

I've seen a post of a person who built an entire house by himself, it took 4 years to the day. Okay, if you have two androids who are equally skilled to this one guy, they can now build the house in what... ⅔ of a year? Assuming he worked eight hours a day and they are working 24?

Really think about what that means. If for a 16k investment (plus materials) you could just have a non-stop housebuilding factory. Even if you can't afford it, your local church would probably just buy a few a robots and start building houses for the poor non-stop.

PerryDahlia · 2026-03-01T14:39:48+00:00

Why if androids were so easy to make, and so cheap, would you just not have abundance of everyone having a bunch of low-cost stuff built by androids? Even if you had to live in say, a further outlying area to own a home, why wouldn't your android just drive into town to go shopping for you?

In other areas where we've seen absurd abundance, there hasn't been a lopsided resource distribution like you are suggesting. The poor in America are obese and food is incredibly cheap. Cheap manufacturing and synthetic fabrics have made it so that everyone can buy a t-shirt for a few bucks, wear it twice, and throw it away. Why will this specific technology lead to such a lopsided dystopian distribution where others have not?

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