• dhork@lemmy.world
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    17 days ago

    Hegseth also has deep connections with the so-called TheoBros, a collection of ultra-conservative and extremely online millennial Christian men who follow an Idaho pastor named Douglas Wilson. Some of Wilson’s followers believe that the United States should, as Mother Jones’ Kiera Butler has written, “be subject to Biblical law.”

    Interesting. The only difference between these guys and Islamic Fundamentalists who are in charge in places like Afghanistan are which book they want to use as the basis of their laws, and the color of their hats.

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      17 days ago

      If you haven’t realized the parallels of what is happening right now in the US and the Islamic Revolution of 1979…whooboy. It’s not light reading. These people are gunning for that outcome specifically.