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"Pope Francis on Friday criticized Donald Trump over his plan to deport millions of immigrants and Kamala Harris over her stance supporting abortion rights."

"'You must choose the lesser evil', he continued. 'Who is the lesser evil? That lady, or that gentleman? I don’t know. Everyone, in conscience, [has to] think and do this'."

Fuck the Pope, and fuck this bullshit false equivalence 🚮

But hey, it's the Catholic Church, they tend to like fascists and people who commit sexual abuse.

https://www.theguardian.com/world/2024/sep/13/pope-trump-kamala-harris-immigration-abortion

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Pope criticizes Harris and Trump and tells US Catholics to choose ‘lesser evil’

Pontiff, 87, likens abortion to ‘assassination’ and condemns Trump over immigration plans

The Guardian

Sindarina, Edge Case Detective Sep 14, 2024

“A Russian media outlet accused of running a covert influence operation in the U.S. is conducting similar activities elsewhere around the world — with the help of a cyber unit tied to Russian intelligence services, the Department of State said Friday.

[…], Secretary of State Antony Blinken said that the Russian government embedded ‘a unit with cyber operational capabilities’ within the news agency RT in the spring of 2023, with the full knowledge of the organization’s leadership.”

Remember when journalists were handwringing about RT being banned here in Europe? 🙄

https://therecord.media/russia-rt-news-agency-intelligence-military-functions-state-department-blinken

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Russia’s RT news agency has ‘cyber operational capabilities,’ assists in military procurement, State Dept says

Secretary of State Antony Blinken said that the Russian government embedded “a unit with cyber operational capabilities” within the news agency RT in the spring of 2023, with the full knowledge of the organization’s leadership.

Sindarina, Edge Case Detective Sep 14, 2024

“Donald Trump repeated racist claims about Haitian migrants in Springfield, Ohio, on Friday, doubling down on anti-immigrant rhetoric as residents in the town have faced bomb threats and have detailed their fears amid harassment.”

“JD Vance, who represents the residents of Springfield as Ohio’s US senator, continued to attack the town on Friday, leaning into racist tropes that immigrants were responsible for bringing disease and crime to the community.”

As Jamelle Bouie says in the video; this is blood libel. They know what they are doing.

https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2024/sep/13/trump-repeats-lies-haitian-immigrants

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‘They’ve destroyed the place’: Trump repeats racist, anti-immigrant lies

Trump spews hate again toward Ohio’s Haitian migrants, where residents are fearful over bomb threats and hate

The Guardian

Sindarina, Edge Case Detective Sep 14, 2024

For those of you unfamiliar with the term 'blood libel’, it is a deeply antisemitic practice that goes back a long time;

“Blood libel or ritual murder libel (also blood accusation) is an antisemitic canard which falsely accuses Jews of murdering Christians in order to use their blood in the performance of religious rituals.”

Targeting Jews is the most well-known function of it, but it has also been used (and continues to be) to target anything else that the dominant religion deems to be deviant behaviour.

Linking to the fact check again;

https://www.dw.com/en/fact-check-how-the-stigmatization-of-haitian-vodou-led-to-a-disinformation-campaign/a-70200764

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Fact check: Disinformation targets Haitian migrants

Disinformation against Haitian migrants is now baselessly connecting the pet-eating accusations to Vodou rituals fueling a decades-long urban myth.

Deutsche Welle

Sindarina, Edge Case Detective Sep 14, 2024

I'm sure someone else has already flagged this as well, but I would argue that the claims that there are kids who are being turned trans and undergoing sudden sex change operations without the knowledge of their parents also falls into this same category.

The lies are bleedingly obvious, but truth is not the point. Instead, it's an incitement to violence against anyone who even looks out of place in a white supremacist society, anyone who isn't white, male, cis, hetero, etc.

It's a deliberate dehumanisation tactic designed to separate the Other, so they can be attacked, and then eliminated.

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Sindarina, Edge Case Detective Sep 14, 2024

Also, please note that they have been at this for a very long time, and that things like ‘Pizzagate’ are also part of this.

This is the Overton window moving, from fringe conspiracy theories to a US candidate for president spouting the same lies in front of a live television audience in the tens of millions.

It is also why people focusing on the supposed narcissism or Trump's incoherence are missing the point; not all fascists are great orators like Hitler.

They don't have to be, in this day and age.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pizzagate_conspiracy_theory

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Pizzagate conspiracy theory - Wikipedia

Sindarina, Edge Case Detective Sep 15, 2024

“Liz Cheney, the Republican vice-chair of the House January 6 committee, did ‘all she could’ to protect the rightwing supreme court justice Clarence Thomas and his wife, the political activist Ginni Thomas, by blocking an in-depth investigation of Ginni’s involvement in Donald Trump’s attempt to overturn the 2020 election, a new book says.”

This is probably unsurprising to most, but still a good reminder that the Cheneys are about power, not about doing what is right.

https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2024/sep/15/liz-cheney-ginni-thomas-january-6-investigation

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Liz Cheney blocked January 6 scrutiny of Ginni Thomas, book says

Anti-Trump Republican stymied investigation of activist married to supreme court justice, says reporter David Brock

The Guardian

Sindarina, Edge Case Detective Sep 15, 2024

Yet another reminder that the Catholic Church is a bankrupt institution, both morally and, in this particular case, literally. An institution that still refuses to properly deal with any of its long history of abuse and other forms of violence.

It is a regressive force that has always supported white empire and its colonial ambitions, and continues to do so to this day.

The current pope is no different.

https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2024/sep/14/new-orleans-catholic-church-abuse-victims

See also;

https://ngmx.com/@sindarina/113131907902970406

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New Orleans Catholic church offers $62.5m after abuse victims seek $1bn

Archdiocese’s proposal comes as survivors of sexual abuse by clergy request ‘very reasonable’ $1bn to settle claims

The Guardian

Sindarina, Edge Case Detective Sep 15, 2024

“Project 2025, the 900-page conservative playbook for the next Republican president, issues an ultimatum for California: track and report abortion data to the federal government or risk losing billions in Medicaid funding for reproductive health.

California is one of only three states that do not report abortion data to the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention.”

This here is exactly why people have been warning about data gathering for such a long time; because it’s not a matter of IF it will be abused, but WHEN 😒

https://calmatters.org/politics/2024/09/project2025-trump-california-abortion-surveillance/

https://themarkup.org/hello-world/2024/09/14/project-2025-targets-californias-abortion-data-privacy-protections

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Project 2025 to California: Report abortion data or lose billions in Medicaid

Project 2025’s plan for a Donald Trump presidency would require California to monitor abortions and send sensitive data to the CDC.

CalMatters

Sindarina, Edge Case Detective Sep 15, 2024

“Trump’s running mate JD Vance, Elon Musk and prominent Ohio Republicans had already spread the false rumors, lying about how Haitian immigrants had been killing and eating people’s pets in Springfield, a blue-collar town of 60,000 people in western Ohio. But the rumors, leaving Salomon and other Haitians in fear of being targeted for violence and discrimination, didn’t start with them.

They were initially spread online in August on social platforms used by far-right extremists and by Blood Tribe, a neo-Nazi hate group.”

https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2024/sep/14/neo-nazis-springfield-ohio-haitian-immigrants

https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2024/sep/14/more-bomb-threats-hit-springfield-ohio-after-trump-elevates-false-claims-about-haitians

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Haitian immigrants helped revive a struggling Ohio town. Then neo-Nazis turned up

Springfield’s immigrant community was targeted by far-right extremists months before Trump shared racist rumors

The Guardian

Sindarina, Edge Case Detective Sep 15, 2024

Splitting the thread.

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In the meantime, another reminder that language matters, that words mean something, and that, if you persist in using them wrong, you can make them meaningless containers robbed of their meaning and context. This is why Musk calls people 'fascists’ whenever anyone tries to restrict the spread of hate from his nazi bar. It is why words like ‘socialist' and 'marxist’ get thrown at Harris. It is why 'woke’ is now a broad brush to paint anything even remotely progressive with, robbed of its original meaning, and why fascists are now ‘activists’. — Thread continues from here; https://ngmx.com/@sindarina/113142041925264085 #OrganisedAffiliatedFuckers

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Erik Ellestad Sep 15, 2024

@sindarina If TFG is elected, just as last time he was in office, federal funds for cities and states which did not support him will be on the chopping block. Frankly, if TFG is anointed President-King by the CORRUPT Supreme Court and Project 2025 is enacted, CA and CA citizens should withhold any taxes and revenue sent to the Federal Gov't. If not, it WILL be taxation without representation.

SilvertipGrizz Sep 15, 2024

@sindarina ………… perish the thought Californian’s (with the fifth largest economy in the world) should decide to revisit tax revenue transfers to the Fed. I’m sure Courts could easily sort out legalities within 8-10 years ………

Edelruth, PBS Passport Holder Sep 16, 2024

I believe the California response would be to stop sending $ to the Trump government. We are a net contributor state.

I can't see California enduring a USA as envisioned by project 2025.

Chris Petrilli Sep 13, 2024

@sindarina someone who has continually covered up for child rapists isn't someone to get ethical leadership from

@sindarina there's a reason it's legal to call the #CatholicChurch "#ChildfuckerCult" in #Germany!

Pat 4 Resistance Sep 13, 2024

Speaking of "conscience" the Pope should clean his own house of the priests who sexually abuse children before he weighs in on U.S. elections.