Because a blocked account cannot see posts by the user that blocked them, they are also not able to reply. So one user can reply to another and then block them, making it look to everyone else like the blocked account had no comeback etc. That it was such a good response, the blocked gave up and walked away. When they were actually not given a chance. Consider that when you're reading conversations here. #BadFaith
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Just the first 15min of #BadFaith made me physically sick, listening to so many voices & attitudes from my youth.🤢 😖 PLEASE hear me: if you're not one of those who's spent time in RW fundamentalist circles, you NEED to watch it. More people need better understanding. Yes, it'll make you sick & prob scare you. It should. #ChristianNationalism is as old as Christianity, but this film NAILS our current version--the truth of the culture that brought us to 2016 and beyond.
Haven't watched "#BadFaith" yet, but will be soon. In truth, I prob don't need to watch it. I was there. I saw #ChristianNationalism firsthand as a young adult. When my slow-maturing brain finally plugged in, when I could no longer tolerate the cognitive dissonance, I left churches forever. Anyone who knows me at all, already knows I've long-since been pounding that drum--that #Christofacism has been pushing the hyper RW agenda for decades before 2016. Film review pending....
Bad Faith,
a new documentary on the rise of Christian nationalism in the United States,
opens with an obvious, ominous scene
– the storming of the Capitol on 6 January 2021
– though trained on details drowned out by the deluge of horror and easily recognizable images of chaos.
That Paula White, Donald Trump’s faith adviser, led the Save America rally in
a prayer to overturn the results for “a free and fair election”.
That mixed among Trump flags, American flags and militia symbols were numerous banners with Christian crosses;
on the steps of the Capitol, a “JESUS SAVES” sign blares mere feet from “Lock Them UP!”
The movement to overturn the 2020 election for Donald Trump was, as the documentary underscores,
inextricable from a certain strain of belief in America as a fundamentally Christian nation,
separation of church and state be damned.
In fact, as Bad Faith argues, Christian nationalism
– a political movement to shape the United States according a certain interpretation of evangelical Christianity, by vote or, more recently, by coercion
– was the “galvanizing force” behind the attempted hijacking of the democratic process three years ago.
Bad Faith traces the origins of the movement as a savvy, disproportionately powerful political force,
from churches to Republican political operatives to donors,
either from conviction or convenience.
“I think a lot of Americans have a very difficult time accepting and understanding the fact that such treason, such anti-democratic activity,
could be carried out by people who basically look like Sunday school teachers,” Stephen Ujlaki, the film’s director, told the Guardian.
By looking back on the half-century of Christian nationalist belief, organizing and action, the events of January 6 no longer seemed shocking,
but the logical endpoint of anti-democratic ideals.
“It was unmistakable, once you looked in the right place and you listened to what people were saying,
and you understood how to decode what they were saying,” said Ujlaki.
Other #NBC & #MSNBC hosts & contributors will undoubtedly now be under pressure to speak their minds as well. MSNBC’s prime-time lineup today will be worth watching.
The on-air #protests may be a seminal moment in #PoliticalMedia as #news orgs continue to grapple w/how to responsibly represent voices from the #Trump#RightWing on their screens & in their pages w/o handing their #platforms over to #ElectionDeniers or #BadFaith actors who have attacked & attempted to discredit their own reporters.
On Gadigal land, outside the office of Australia's federal Environment Minister @TanyaPlibersek's office, with a large group of school students and their allies, demanding the Australian government #EndFossilFuelSubsidies and commit to #NoNewFossilFuels. #SS4C
Stop repeating their talking points & narratives (not sure which commonly-repeated tropes are part of their decades-long #ClimateDisinformation campaign? Never too late to learn)
Consider the stakes: life as we know it is incompatible with the public business plans of the most powerful corporations on the planet. One/both of those realities will definitely change. Will you?
Listen to better stories (life-affirming, grounded in local realities, respectful of non-exploitative difference, centring the marginalised, acknowledging complex interdependence, subversively intersectional, incrementally transformational, with a horizon that is future-oriented, intergenerational and global)
Tell better stories
Resist dehumanising and evocidal tendecies wherever you find them
Reduce your dependence on #DirtyEnergy (to the extent possible), without succumbing to #BadFaith purity tests, and taking every opportunity to discover richer and more joyous alternatives:
"The #Therme spa proposal at Ontario Place has not been approved by the City of #Toronto. There are places for it, but not there. Destruction of the hundreds of trees on the West Island would be an act of bad faith by the Ford government." Cllr. Josh Matlow
Judge Box-Wine manufactures another no-win situation for President #Biden. She's criticizing him for traveling to #Israel in the aftermath of the historic #terrorist#attack by #Hamas. But, if he stayed home, there's no doubt she would be criticizing him for not visiting Israel. This is the essence of #badFaith, and #biased reasoning. Why does this drunken #Karen still have a show?
Ah oui, quand ça ne veut pas prendre, c’était de ✌️l’humour✌️
On ne connaît pas DU TOUT la rengaine de l’humour de Schrödinger 🥱
Quelle fatigue et surtout quelle plaie, le charlatanisme.
Pensées émues et soutien inconditionnel aux vraies victimes de « harcèlement ignoble ».
(Pardon j’ai oublié d’empiler aléatoirement du franglais pour faire genre je m’y connais ; réglons ça de suite : #DogWhistling#DogPiling#BadFaith et autres écrans de fumée).
The unnamed informant, described in the Aug. 28 lawsuit as the "designated person," (DP) accuses police officers of acting in #BadFaith by reneging on the co-operation deal and then allegedly #blackmailing him or her
@PacificNic funny the contradictory stats people latch onto. "A 10% chance of getting #LongCovid is not high enough to worry about mitigating transmission, and a respirator's 95% efficacy is too low to provide protection anyway. :mastozany: "
Throw shit at people, which will be guaranteed to stick for quite some time, damaging the reputation of the targeted institution, then simulate backpedaling to limit the chances of being sued for damages.
While the obstructive intention to cause public harm is clearly recognizable & identifiable.
Antisocial construction (lemmy.world)