You’re describing Revelations Jesus. And by the time he finally shows up, all the killing’s been done by the Fake Jesus that’s tricked legions of people into damnation.

This is also the only Gnostic text that made it into the canonical texts. If you get into the actual Gnostic beliefs about Jesus, you’re on a rollercoast ride of spiritualist philosophy bordering on the Sci-Fi. Alternate dimensions, shared souls, astral projection, just all sorts of weird goofy shit that the Council of Nicea cut from the program.

Revelations is, at its heart, a story of how Rome and its pagans will all eventually get what’s coming to them. That the Christians-Who-Are-Doing-It-Wrong will get what’s coming to them. That the Jews will get what’s coming to them. It is a story wildly out of line with the prior books, but one that resonated strongly with the post-Constantine neo-Christian order.

The Iranian government is a bunch of evil assholes, just like the Israeli and US governments.

The need to paint everything in broad brush “Good v Evil” is what legitimizes these wars to begin with. The idea that you’re doing anyone a favor by bombing them should be ridiculous on its face. But we consistently build up this narrative of the Just War, we declare everyone we don’t like is Hitler, and then we throw more and more of the planet into the “Hitler” bucket when they aren’t along for the ride once the bombs land.

It’s just that they have been attacked by equally evil cunts.

When you kill off all the nice guys, what you’re left with are the assholes. The Iranian government is the end result of this multi-generational culling process. The American and Israeli governments are, too.

He’s running for campaign donations.

He’s going to be out in front with every national media apparatus screaming “Electable” and “Do you want another four years of Trump?”

No idea if he can win, but he’s got all the right friends to make it happen. A real Hillary Campaign for 2028.

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the theocratic authoritarian government of Iran is looking like the good guys

It’s almost as though Americans have been brainwashed to believe brown people with the wrong religion are inherently evil. And, as a consequence, they find themselves on the side of a genocidal regime that venerates child murder.

It’s an authoritarian theocracy.

Americans have been posting those “Before the Shah” photos of women in bikinis for so long. I gotta wonder how they’re going to respond to a bunch of dead little gi-

Oh, nope. It’s racist slurs. They’re just screaming slurs.

You want to start a genocide?

We’ve been sponsoring or engaged in genocide in the Middle East since the Nakba of '48. Trump’s just doing it badly.

Retribution for what?

Fighting back.

Not immediately kowtowing to the wounded narcissist?

Practically since Reagan, it has been crazy to see how many times the Iranian Revolutionary Guard has done exactly that. The Ayatollah worked with Rumsfeld. He worked with Bush. He worked with Obama. He worked with Trump the first time. He worked with Biden. It’s amazing how many times Iranian leadership could be bought off with the promise of sanctions relief or was willing to turn the other check in the face of a political assassination or a stuxnet computer virus or a frigate seizure.

Whipped dogs rolled over less frequently than the Iranian government, until we straight up started putting bullets into the heads of their senior leadership. Now the only people left to run the country are the real, actual, not-fucking-around revolutionary diehards.

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I mean, that’s not wild on it’s face. You can explain shifting morality with respect to changing material conditions and social relationships.

I might argue that the Old Testament God was intended to offer leverage to the intelligencia (priest class) over the military/aristocracy (kings and their courtiers).

Meanwhile, the New Testament was fundamentally describing a God of Slaves, preaching equinimity and grace in the next life for the hardships of the modern day.

And then, when the slave class overthrew and supplanted the Pagan aristocracy, suddenly the Old Testament was back in fashion again.

It makes sense historically

No no no. That was the Old Testament which doesn’t count anymore.

The New Testament is the one that we care about (except we’ve we don’t)

Why don’t you start with that South African illegal immigrant who overstayed his visa illegally?

Because he’s one of their biggest donors, obviously

Ilhan has been targeted by the entire Washington establishment since she took office.

The US government cannot stomach a Somali community engaging in any form of self governance anywhere on earth

The government belongs to and serves the people

It clearly doesn’t. Any amount of time interacting with a police officer should tell you as much.

A traitor to whom? The billionaire class quite literally owns all the property.

By not supporting the reigning despots, it’s liberals and leftists who are definitionally the traitors.

The people ruling the county aren’t on your side. They are your enemies.

I’m just holding everyone who voted for trump in 24 responsible

What’s the sentence, your honor?

An allegation

Everything the Trump cult does is to cut off our balls.

You know, there are ways of undermining US socio-economic hegemony without killing millions of people.

I’ll never get the BlueMAGA head who looks at American GOP-lead fascism and insists that the real victims of it are Americans.

This, while we’ve got multiple genocides occurring on our watch.

Absolutely sickening.

If Trump is the cause of America’s destruction, perhaps its deserved. He’s not an agent of Putin, he’s an agent of Karma