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[-] ccunning@lemmy.world 75 points 1 month ago

Voodoo is real ∴ Immigrants are eating pets

I can’t help but think there are missing steps here.

[-] MagicShel@programming.dev 21 points 1 month ago
[-] lolrightythen@lemmy.world 9 points 1 month ago

I reflexively say brain worms these days.

[-] WoahWoah@lemmy.world 14 points 1 month ago

It's a woman that ritualistically eats the flesh and drinks the blood of her god. I wouldn't trust her.

[-] Semi_Hemi_Demigod@lemmy.world 24 points 1 month ago

So is the city manager of Springfield, who has said there are no reports of this, also a smug elite jerk?

[-] OhStopYellingAtMe@lemmy.world 19 points 1 month ago

And the [R] governor of Ohio as well (but he actually is a smug elite jerk).

[-] idiomaddict@lemmy.world 5 points 1 month ago

I’m an American, and I work in a bakery in Germany. Marianne Williamson got a weird amount of press here, roughly equivalent to Nikki Haley. For some fucking reason, they never talked about any of her woo, which means I had customers trying to talk to me about her for weeks. When I mentioned the crystals or astrology or anything, they all thought I was just really politically biased and listening to rumors from trump or something. It was infuriating.

[-] Big_Boss_77@lemmynsfw.com 1 points 1 month ago

Isn't it supposed to be blue?

[-] MonkRome@lemmy.world 19 points 1 month ago* (last edited 1 month ago)

Animal sacrifice does seem to exist in Haitian culture, but not in the way racists are portraying it. I see no evidence that cats and dogs have ever been used. From what I understand, more common in some pockets of their culture would be sacrificing a chicken, and then cooking it and eating it. Which is the same thing anyone can do, just with extra religious steps...

[-] FlyingSquid@lemmy.world 9 points 1 month ago

I don't know about Haitian Voodoo, but Santeria, which comes from nearby Cuba and was similarly inspired by traditional African religions, definitely involves sacrificing a chicken for some rituals.

Santeria is practiced by many Cubans in Florida. Trump's Florida. DeSantis' Florida.

I don't hear anyone screaming about immigrants killing the chickens.

[-] MonkRome@lemmy.world 8 points 1 month ago* (last edited 1 month ago)

What I think is funny about this is that food is most often (or probably always) used, and then you're still allowed to cook and eat it. Basically anyone that eats meat complaining about animal sacrifice is completely lacking in self awareness.

[-] FlyingSquid@lemmy.world 3 points 1 month ago

I'm also guessing that a chicken raised by someone for a religious sacrifice is probably going to be treated a lot better while it's alive than a factory farmed chicken.

[-] frezik@midwest.social 3 points 1 month ago

Which also led to the "Lukumi Bar", an actual legal term that sounds like the name of a tiki bar.

Basically, the city of Hialeah tried to ban the Lukumi church (alternate name for Santeria). The language of the law was neutral on its surface (banned slaughtering of animals in the city, but made exceptions for kosher, hunting, fishing, etc.). However, the transcripts of the town meetings around the law revealed it was pointed straight at the Lukumi church, like applauding the fact that they were banned in Cuba. Which maybe should have been a red flag to everyone at the time.

Since the Supreme Court hadn't yet been taken over by knaves, they told the city of Hialeah to go pound sand. You can't make a "neutral" law that carves out enough exceptions that it targets one specific group. And if you do, don't be so obvious about it at your city council meetings.

[-] N0body@lemmy.dbzer0.com 18 points 1 month ago

Please, please someone tell Trump about the Voodoo angle right before he goes on stage at a rally. Or right before he does one of those cringy call-ins to Fox News.

[-] proper@lemmy.world 17 points 1 month ago
[-] Zink@programming.dev 15 points 1 month ago* (last edited 1 month ago)

Yeah, could you guys even imagine republicans voting for a smug elite jerk who wouldn’t listen to other people?

[-] xantoxis@lemmy.world 11 points 1 month ago* (last edited 1 month ago)

Wowwwwwww when you give a person the chance to shut the fuck up and not remind people they exist and then they do this

[-] whotookkarl@lemmy.world 10 points 1 month ago* (last edited 1 month ago)

"If only he had joined a mainstream religion, like Oprahism or Voodoo." - Professor Hubert Farnsworth, Futurama

She's not being a racist moron, she's just predicting the same popular religions in the year 3000 as Futurama did and is worried about Nov 5th 3022.

[-] WoahWoah@lemmy.world 9 points 1 month ago

I think it's important that we realize that people are doing this kind of thing in the Midwest though. They may not be eating them, but Republicans have written books about shooting dogs and dumping them in gravel pits, so we'd be blinding ourselves if we didn't recognize that these kind of people exist. I think she shot a goat she "hated" as much as her dog too.

[-] FlyingSquid@lemmy.world 6 points 1 month ago

Are you saying Kristi Noem is a practicioner of Voodoo?

[-] WoahWoah@lemmy.world 5 points 1 month ago

I don't ask questions.

[-] AFKBRBChocolate@lemmy.world 8 points 1 month ago

I don't have a xitter account, is this real?

[-] thefartographer@lemm.ee 6 points 1 month ago

It'd be fucking awesome if they released a 4K Weekend at Bernie's box set right now

[-] dylanmorgan@slrpnk.net 5 points 1 month ago

Man, she had a handful of good points over the years but this is just one more example of her being mostly a whack job.

[-] Dkarma@lemmy.world 3 points 1 month ago

Total. Not mostly,total.

[-] MagicShel@programming.dev 2 points 1 month ago

She has good stage presence. But she's a fucking loon. If there was a left-wing Trump, she would be it.

[-] niktemadur@lemmy.world 5 points 1 month ago

What a word salad, an IQ temporarily drops a few points after reading that, like a headache but without the ache.

[-] HootinNHollerin@lemmy.world 4 points 1 month ago
[-] Burn_The_Right@lemmy.world 3 points 1 month ago

A new-age crystal-healing palm-reading grifter who ran for president, but was somehow not completely laughed off the stage for some reason.

[-] inb4_FoundTheVegan@lemmy.world 2 points 1 month ago

Orb mommy! Noooooo! 😔

[-] Big_Boss_77@lemmynsfw.com 2 points 1 month ago

I believe the word you were looking for was "dunk"... dunk on trump...

[-] DarkThoughts@fedia.io -2 points 1 month ago

I hate those esoteric fucktards.

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