• LegionEris [she/her] @feddit.nl
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    1 year ago

    Throw some bombs at Mississippi, kill the bulk of their leadership, and they’ll be hanging queers in a week. I have been attacked in public by an American Christian extremist; I sometimes get to fear for my life right here in the Midwest. Put these people in a state of desperation, and it’ll be a swampy theocracy in no time. America is ~250 years into running a country that was founded on not having a state religion. That’s a far cry from a theocracy founded under violent foreign interference less than a century ago, and we still have dangerous religious extremists. It’s not a matter of culture. It’s a matter of circumstance.

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      1 year ago

      Mississippi, Alabama, and Missouri are 100% archaic Christian shithole countries that are just propped up by virtue of being US states. The religious stranglehold is just as real.

      • duffman@lemmy.world
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        1 year ago

        To be honest I’ve avoid that region pretty much entirely because that’s the impression I have as well.

        The descriptions I hear about conservatism down there are wild.