| ▲ | mrloopex 2 hours ago |
| Born in 1968 I missed “duck and cover” but rode the wave of Reagan brinkmanship with my skater friends until 1990, watching all the broadcast TV PSAs and songs and art about nuclear war. It was real. It pervaded daily life: the notion that two old white men were having a pissing contest with every human as disposable bargaining chips. And as always, 25% of the US population cheered for purification of the planet because Jesus was coming (see: Hal Lindsay). |
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| ▲ | bloomingeek 12 minutes ago | parent | next [-] |
| I've always thought, easily, we humans were our own worst enemy. But that's nothing new, it's been known for many different eras. What gets me is we don't seem to care. Obviously many do, but why not enough? Egomaniacs seem to always be the problem, but when one pops up in a country, the people, whether they have a choice or not, protect/ignore them. Your disposable remark, to me, is the key. Most need to wake to this fact and at least talk about it. (As for Hal Lindsay, he's just like any other nutjob author who uses grains of some truth to create fear and anxiety to promote his narrative.) |
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| ▲ | baggy_trough an hour ago | parent | prev | next [-] |
| "as always, 25% of the US population cheered for purification of the planet because Jesus was coming" Come now, this is A) not true B) anti-religious bigotry. |
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| ▲ | BowBun an hour ago | parent | next [-] | | His source and claims seem backed up - https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Late_Great_Planet_Earth | | |
| ▲ | baggy_trough 28 minutes ago | parent [-] | | Where do you see there that 25% of the U.S. population cheered for nuclear annihilation? | | |
| ▲ | blooalien 10 minutes ago | parent | next [-] | | > Where do you see there that 25% of the U.S. population cheered for nuclear annihilation? Anecdotally; Growing up in the NorthWest USA, I knew entirely too many (crazy to my mind yet considered perfectly "normal" by most "average" folk back then) people in the 1980s who genuinely believed that Revelations' "rain fire from the Heavens" in the bible meant "Nuclear War" and Jesus would arrive momentarily thereafter "leading a host of angels" to "rapture the faithful" and/or "smite the wicked" who survived that initial "rain of heavenly fire". What scares me even more than that kinda craziness bein' way more common back then than it should'a been is that too many (still crazy people IMHO) still believe such madness today and some of those people are in charge of (or at least in positions of significant power) entire nations with huge stockpiles of WMDs at their disposal. | |
| ▲ | tolciho 11 minutes ago | parent | prev [-] | | 25% might be low for the "better dead than red" crowd, given the lasting and widespread popularity of communism in the worker's paradise that is America. |
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| ▲ | newAccount2025 36 minutes ago | parent | prev [-] | | Is it? There are lots of wonderful US Christians who believe in kindness and compassion and love. There are also lots of US Christians who are deep into end-times insanity, like Christian Zionists. Perhaps the 25% number is high, but this is a very real thing. | | |
| ▲ | baggy_trough 33 minutes ago | parent [-] | | I do not disagree that there are some, but 25% is a massive overstatement, not merely "perhaps" high. | | |
| ▲ | ambicapter 22 minutes ago | parent [-] | | > Anywhere from 6 to 35% of the United States population is evangelical, depending on how "evangelical" is defined. > In the 2016 presidential election, exit polls reported that 81% of white evangelicals voted for Donald Trump > Evangelicals generally view the Middle East through a dispensationalist biblical framework and strongly support Israel. Often perceived as the most vocal supporters of Christian Zionism in the West, they believe that God gave the land of Israel to the Jews and that the U.S. will be blessed if it blesses Israel. The establishment of the State of Israel was seen by many American Protestants as the fulfillment of biblical prophecy, reinforcing their commitment to Zionism as a religious duty. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Evangelicalism_in_the_United_S... |
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| ▲ | pavlov an hour ago | parent | prev | next [-] |
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| ▲ | mistrial9 an hour ago | parent | prev [-] |
| how can bigoted comment-material like this get a pass, while references to other groups are strictly enforced? |
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| ▲ | literalAardvark 31 minutes ago | parent | next [-] | | It's factual. With receipts. What do you find unreasonably hateful in the statement? | |
| ▲ | dreamcompiler 14 minutes ago | parent | prev [-] | | Because those other groups are not privileged. Criticizing the people in power is always okay and it should be encouraged. | | |
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