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in fairness to the prots, since they have no barrier to entry it is easy for non-prots to set up some kind of fake church or beliefs and then just teach other prots "this is the true protestantism", which is what seems to have happened. like at one point previous prots probably didn't believe like this, but "wronger" beliefs seemed to become more popular over time and become their mainstream
I want this to be true, but it seems to be outlandish enough to fit today's bullshit, not 2000s bullshit.
Those were the days, when we thought GWB was the pinnacle of stupidity and maliciousness.
He was never malicious. He was a puppet, like Trump. But, actually competent people were pulling his strings.
Oh yeah, invading a country causing hundreds of thousands of deaths, suspending civil rights in his own country, instituting unprecedented mass surveillance and all that other shit that would take hours to spell out totally wasn't malicious.
...oh his administration's acts were absolutely malicious but the cabal were playing him mostly in service of rational self-interest...
...by contrast, emperor f*ckhead's coalition are a train-wreck of kleptocrats, irrational conspiracists, incompetent sycophants, and opportunistic capitalists all competing to yank his strings in whichever way the winds might serve their interests for the next twenty minutes...
...while both were played, i think bush-the-lesser's intentions bore little agency in his performance versus the gleeful declaration with which our current narcissist shouts whatever the last person in the room told him to think...