adultswim.fan
  • Communities
  • Create Post
  • heart
    Support Lemmy
  • search
    Search
  • Login
  • Sign Up
@fubo@lemmy.world to Showerthoughts@lemmy.world • 8 months ago

Trumpism is just Scientology done as politics instead of religion.

message-square
16
fedilink
260
message-square

Trumpism is just Scientology done as politics instead of religion.

@fubo@lemmy.world to Showerthoughts@lemmy.world • 8 months ago
message-square
16
fedilink
alert-triangle
You must log in or register to comment.
  • originalucifer
    link
    fedilink
    34•8 months ago

    scientology is also a scam. they are the same. manipulation of people for money and power.

    the guy who created scientology was a sci fi writer who actually declared he was going to create a religion for monetary reasons, and then did so.

    • @Xeroxchasechase@lemmy.world
      link
      fedilink
      6•8 months ago

      So it’s not a scam. Scientologists are just idiots.

      • originalucifer
        link
        fedilink
        6•8 months ago

        it can, and is is for all religions, both.

  • @roofuskit@lemmy.world
    link
    fedilink
    English
    23•8 months ago

    Yes, both are cults.

  • @pivot_root@lemmy.world
    link
    fedilink
    18•8 months ago

    Credit where credit is due, at least scientologists are the better educated of the bunch. Fuck them both, though.

    • @Xeroxchasechase@lemmy.world
      link
      fedilink
      -3•8 months ago

      Yes. They at least have an aurora of a scientific organization.

      • @Maalus@lemmy.world
        link
        fedilink
        9•8 months ago

        No, they don’t. Just because they have “scient” in the name doesn’t mean they have anything to do with science.

        • @Xeroxchasechase@lemmy.world
          link
          fedilink
          -1•8 months ago

          … that’s the meanung of “aurora of…”

      • @AllNewTypeFace@leminal.space
        link
        fedilink
        6•8 months ago

        They’re exactly as scientific as the Victorian spiritualists who talked about “vibrational energies” and such, which is to say, not at all.

  • shoulderoforion
    link
    fedilink
    9•8 months ago

    see also: the 1964 southern strategy

  • @ulkesh@lemmy.world
    link
    fedilink
    8•8 months ago

    Yes, with more idiots in the congregation.

  • Ð Greıt Þu̇mpkin
    link
    fedilink
    5•8 months ago

    I mean it’s also pretty damn religious too

  • @NOT_RICK@lemmy.world
    link
    fedilink
    English
    1•8 months ago

    Immigrants being roughly equivalent to thetans in their theology, yeah that checks out

  • @drake@lemmy.sdf.org
    link
    fedilink
    -2•8 months ago

    Personally, I don’t really feel that scientology is particularly worse than other religions. So you could just say that Trump supporters are more religious than political, really. Though, I don’t think that’s unique to Trump supporters, really - modern politics really is a lot more like a sort of religious thing rather than about the actual policy for a lot of people.

Showerthoughts@lemmy.world

!showerthoughts@lemmy.world
Create a post
You are not logged in. However you can subscribe from another Fediverse account, for example Lemmy or Mastodon. To do this, paste the following into the search field of your instance: !showerthoughts@lemmy.world

A “Showerthought” is a simple term used to describe the thoughts that pop into your head while you’re doing everyday things like taking a shower, driving, or just daydreaming. The most popular seem to be lighthearted clever little truths, hidden in daily life.

Here are some examples to inspire your own showerthoughts:

  • Both “200” and “160” are 2 minutes in microwave math
  • When you’re a kid, you don’t realize you’re also watching your mom and dad grow up.
  • More dreams have been destroyed by alarm clocks than anything else

Rules

  1. All posts must be showerthoughts
  2. The entire showerthought must be in the title
  3. No politics
    • If your topic is in a grey area, please phrase it to emphasize the fascinating aspects, not the dramatic aspects. You can do this by avoiding overly politicized terms such as “capitalism” and “communism”. If you must make comparisons, you can say something is different without saying something is better/worse.
    • A good place for politics is c/politicaldiscussion
  4. Posts must be original/unique
  5. Adhere to Lemmy’s Code of Conduct and the TOS

If you made it this far, showerthoughts is accepting new mods. This community is generally tame so its not a lot of work, but having a few more mods would help reports get addressed a little sooner.

Whats it like to be a mod? Reports just show up as messages in your Lemmy inbox, and if a different mod has already addressed the report, the message goes away and you never worry about it.

  • 76 users / day
  • 517 users / week
  • 1.62K users / month
  • 4.78K users / 6 months
  • 1 subscriber
  • 1.99K Posts
  • 49.7K Comments
  • Modlog
  • mods:
  • @vatlark@lemmy.world
  • @forkball@lemmy.world
  • @Thekingoflorda@lemmy.world
  • @SuperEars@lemmy.world
  • BE: 0.18.4
  • Modlog
  • Instances
  • Docs
  • Code
  • join-lemmy.org