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Geoffrey Little's avatar

These are the ninja 🥷 moves I’ve been waiting for. Excellent thoughts.

Sorry you had to watch the pure-out genius manipulation of an aww shucks Southern weasel for 3ish hours (meaning Andy “Griffith” Stanley).

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Barbara Sanders's avatar

Although I was not sure I could abide reading this piece in Dark Matter, when I finally did, I applaud you, David, for sharing your friend's views, words and beliefs (Reva Russel English). I agree with so much of what she writes. I only wish that Christian Nationalists, White (Christian) Supremacists and others would enter into a discussion with you and her on these very matters. I am happy to help market such an event if there is one planned. I am happy to volunteer at that event as well!

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Philip Madeira's avatar

I appreciate the unvarnished truth!

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John Deacon's avatar

Fabulous article which demands a re-read to morrow morning when my mind is working better. Love her insights and her read on Andy Stanley, prone as I am to making the same mistakes he does, of not calling out the people who really put the 'dis' in Christian unity.

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Philip Madeira's avatar

Wow. This is perfect. Not what you were hoping for in your tweets to Andy, Scott Sauls / Christ Pres Nashville, but probably true. Why can’t you play nice and not sucker punch the brethren? Because the gospel isn’t nice.

What an intriguing endeavor- tweeting these harbors of tyranny. Don’t stop.

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David Dark's avatar

Reva has helped me see when and where and how my optimism outruns my critical discernment more than once. She's a gift.

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Carol Buckley Frazier's avatar

Interesting! And she is a brilliant thinker and expresser. I am a little confused--but maybe I want to be--by this: "It’s why COINTELPRO was (and probably still is) a thing, and it’s proof to us that the state sees DT as a real threat to its continuation and world domination and ongoing protection of the elite at the expense of the planet itself." I didn't know about COINTELPRO but looked it up, so I did learn something new and very disturbing. I knew that this sort of thing went on, but had never heard that name before. But isn't DT an elite? Isn't he an active participant in the ruination of the planet? As an American leader, wasn't this part of his agenda? So, a little confused.....

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David Dark's avatar

I won't speak for Reva. But it is indeed the case that DT was/is a real threat to certain interests (high rollers) within out industrial-military-entertainment-incarceration complex in a way that President Biden (we might say) isn't. I think of the night of the Republican primary debates when George Bush appeared on camera (perhaps for the last time) and DT publicly derided him and his sons on live television. None of this excuses DT's abusive behavior or the threat he poses to public safety, but what I see in Reva's words is something akin to Conrad's phrase in Heart of Darkness: "a choice of nightmares."

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