“This is NOT a purity spiral”
That’s just what a purity spiral would say
How old is this photo? Where did they find snow?
DES MOINES, IOWA - JANUARY 15: Republican presidential candidate, former U.S. President Donald Trump’s senior campaign advisors Susie Wiles © and Chris LaCivita ® leave a meeting with Trump on caucus day, January 15, 2024 in Des Moines, Iowa.(Photo by Chip Somodevilla/Getty Images)
I bolded some parts
This is NOT a purity spiral
Right, because that’s exactly what people who are not in a purity spiral say.
I have honestly never that’s this term.
Basically, it’s a term used for infighting in a group/cult stemming from one or more members being pointed to as straying from the original cause. It often happens when one group sees another group within the same crowd as not pure enough. The first sign of this in this particular context was when Maga started referring to many supportive Republicans as Rinos.
Yeah no it was clear from context, just never before publicized to any degree, and a weird term to begin with.
The term “RINO” is much older than MAGA. I remember hearing about them in the 1980s and 90s, and even then it wasn’t like it was a new concept.
Right, but nowhere in the comment you are replying to did the commenter say it was a new term.
You’re right, I read it wrong. My mistake.
Happened to my grand parents’ church in the 90s. They had this big disagreement over rocks (not joking) and then the infighting tore the church apart. Half of the group left and built their own building across the street and the other half stayed. Neither church ever really recovered from that.
And the green party in Sweden. Went from a lefty pro environmental party to some crazy anti everything party.
Rocks? Was it Church for Geologists? lmao
There was a children’s summer program where they painted crosses on rocks and other symbols of faith, like the Jesus fish. They were having the kids hold them in their pockets and hold them while they prayed, like a daily reminder kind of thing but also an arts and crafts idea.
Well, one elder got super pissy about the idea their grandkids were “praying to idols” and got a bunch of parents all hot and bothered. After a bit of handwringing, the church asked the teacher to either step down or leave the church. That triggered the other half of parents who either 1) didn’t see the whole ordeal as such a big problem or 2) liked the teacher and their family. Chaos spiraled from there… all over painted rocks.
Edit: this happened in rural Texas, there wasn’t much going on down there so I’m convinced people did this kind of thing for the mere sport of it.
Amazing that arguments like this were tearing European cities and nations apart 500 years ago. At least this time no one was willing to die for their cause. But you can see how quickly it spirals out of hand.
They had this big disagreement over rocks (not joking)
Please don’t leave us hanging on the details
I replied on the other thread. https://lemmy.world/comment/11678263
Probably a disagreement about what kind of rock was best for stoning impure women and children.
“Are there any women in this crowd?”
Squirm, you giant bag of rats!
Rats are actually wonderful, loving little creatures. Maybe “wasps” is a better perjorative, for more than one reason?
https://youtu.be/9lYPntgZwTI I always think about this video, the first time I ever came close to shedding a tear for a rat.
To be perfectly clear, domestic rats and wild rats are different. Domestic rats are bred to express behaviors appropriate for living with humans. But either way, they are incredibly smart, clean, and capable of a lot of love and compassion.
There have been many experiments to investigate rat social behavior, which show that they will ignore food in order to help another rat “in trouble,” even if they’ve never met that rat before. They will also show friendliness to a new rat from a different species if they have met and interacted with a different rat from that species before.
As the video explains, rats do have a very short lifespan. Two years is good for a domestic rat, and I’ve been in full weep over losing them. I just can’t do that anymore, it’s too often.
I’m not that guy, but someone from science_memes will be here shortly to advocate for the many wonderful qualities of wasps for some reason.
I guess they’re also considered pollinators? And . . . some of the species aren’t psycopathic murderous bastards? Or something.
Fine, mosquitos.
They kill pest insects. They’re voracious hunters. And they are the only insect that pollinates figs.
How’s that?
Amazing how even asshole wasps manage to be more useful than MAGA creeps. There’s not a single useful thing they do for anyone or anything. Hell, they even shoot dogs!
