re: #350 Shiplord Kirel, Friend of Moose and Squirrel

That also explains why Russia is doing what it’s doing with America. There’s no real world way for “Russia To Be Great Again”. It’s economy is crap, it’s military is crap, nobody wants to reconstitute the old Soviet Union again even as a voluntary alliance-all the exes want NATO and the EU. So if they can manipulate a corrupt old like Trump, they can at least burn it all down.

Which is what I see here with climate change mitigation resistance, Brexit, the Rapture craze, and all the rest. It’s a Denethor moment where if he can’t have what he wants, he will burn himself and his progeny alive. (Those of you who have read the Lord of the Rings know what I’m talking about.) So it is with this. Fundamentalist Christianity and its toxic nationalist offshoots would rather burn it down than turn it over to the young, brown and aspiring. Rather than let women have a place in this world. Toxic masculinity at its worst.