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by warmowski_Archive
Things that are better than Trump include Mayo Pete, The Hairsniffer, and a poke in the eye. "Better than Trump" is an immense, useless category, of interest, I think, mainly to persons whose political involvement = 1% voting + 19% browbeating people online + 80% napping. Seething hobbyists.Mayo Pete is a cipher. There was a long US tradition, dead currently, called Social Gospel, or left christianity. Anybody who's studied what JC said knows it makes a lot of sense for such a thing to exist. But if Pete is supposed to represent a restoration of this tradition, then why do these two articles, both published by the god squad, both predicated on exactly that premise, both totally fail to meaningfully associate him with that movement or its ideas? They try to, but they can't.That is a tell. At best the guy is a blank slate upon which milquetoast liberals may project any old shit they wish to see, and at worst, he's not actually associated with left christianity at all. That would be a real shame and loss of opportunity, because as long as we've got holy rollers everywhere, for fucking sure we could use a whole bunch of left christians getting in the face of US business.-r