General Flynn speaks

[jimbogumbo]

Essentially he is in favor of "The Handmaid's Tale" becoming fact.

https://thehill.com/homenews/media/581443-michael-flynn-says-of-the-us-we-have-to-have-one-religion

[Parasaurolophus]

So... what 2024-8 position is he (re-) auditioning for?

[Sun_Worshiper]

This is the kind of talk that lost the GOP the House, Senate, and WH

[mahagonny]

Democrats agree with Flynn, but they think the official region should be Woke-a-tarianism.

[Sun_Worshiper]

Quick, change the subject to democrats! Maybe throw in an incoherent word salad about CRT!

[ciao_yall]

Essentially he is in favor of "The Handmaid's Tale" becoming fact.

https://thehill.com/homenews/media/581443-michael-flynn-says-of-the-us-we-have-to-have-one-religion

Because that has worked out so well in history.

[Aster]

I often wonder if these people actually believe anything of what they are saying, or they are just opportunists whose market trade is in the selling of alarmist propaganda.

[Puget]

I often wonder if these people actually believe anything of what they are saying, or they are just opportunists whose market trade is in the selling of alarmist propaganda.

It doesn't matter if he believes it (and I have no reason to doubt he does)-- some of his listeners will believe it, and some of them will act on it. This is scary stuff.

[mamselle]

If you scare 'em, you own 'em.

M.

[mahagonny]

I often wonder if these people actually believe anything of what they are saying, or they are just opportunists whose market trade is in the selling of alarmist propaganda.

It doesn't matter if he believes it (and I have no reason to doubt he does)-- some of his listeners will believe it, and some of them will act on it. This is scary stuff.

Here is what Gen. Flynn should have said instead:

https://www.newsweek.com/america-built-great-culture-progressives-want-abandon-it-opinion-1649089

[Sun_Worshiper]

Flynn makes his living spreading conspiracy theories for idiots. Not sure why the media is giving him any attention at all.

[Anselm]

Well, that would help reduce internal conflicts but this is the first time I have seen a well known person actually advocate it, most likely since there is no way this can or will happen.  The only feasible way to accomplish this would be to adopt the Jedi religion as the national one while we privately maintain our own personal faith system.

[ciao_yall]

Well, that would help reduce internal conflicts but this is the first time I have seen a well known person actually advocate it, most likely since there is no way this can or will happen.  The only feasible way to accomplish this would be to adopt the Jedi religion as the national one while we privately maintain our own personal faith system.

Kind of the opposite. Catholics and Anglicans. Catholics and Martin Luther. Sunnis and Shiites. Baptists and Methodists. Orthodox and Conservative.

[mahagonny]

Well, that would help reduce internal conflicts but this is the first time I have seen a well known person actually advocate it, most likely since there is no way this can or will happen.  The only feasible way to accomplish this would be to adopt the Jedi religion as the national one while we privately maintain our own personal faith system.

In a Trojan horse. The religion comes to be enforced by governments by calling it something else.

https://www.politico.com/interactives/2019/how-to-fix-politics-in-america/inequality/pass-an-anti-racist-constitutional-amendment/

[waterboy]

I would urge everyone to listen to an old recording by Tom Lehrer called "National Brotherhood Week".

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=aIlJ8ZCs4jY