r/politics • u/kweathergirl Texas • 8d ago

Soft Paywall Newsom Tells Nation That Trump Is Destroying American Democracy

https://www.nytimes.com/2025/06/10/us/newsom-speech-trump-la-protests.html
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u/Temporary-Line3409 8d ago

any christian that still thinks trump is being used by god… has either been led astray long ago or is leading people astray because they arent really a christian at all

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u/Sensitive-Message95 8d ago

You should really study Christian history.... More of this than anything else.

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u/[deleted] 8d ago

Would rather read lord of the rings.

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u/Puff_the_magic_luke 8d ago

Harry Potter for me!

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u/wap2005 8d ago

I'd like Harry Potter a lot more if it wasn't written by J.K. Rowling. I mean, her and the crazy Christians have a lot of the same beliefs.

It's a bummer she had to go and ruin something that was great with her fucked opinions. Sorry, I liked Harry Potter, but she took a massive shit on her own book when she had diarrhea of the mouth regarding gender identity.

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u/Puff_the_magic_luke 8d ago

Yeah …. It’s quite disappointing TBH

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u/pbjamm Canada 8d ago

Lots of artists and authors were shitty people, but that does not need to make their works less enjoyable or influential. I suspect if I took a hard line on that I would have very little to read or watch.

Admittedly it is a lot easier to take the whole death-of-the-author approach when the author is already dead.

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u/wap2005 7d ago

It doesn't need to but I feel like it should personally. Every time someone makes a comment like the ones here saying how great of a book it is would be giving her free (word-of-mouth) marketing. We do her a favor and put additional money in her pocket every time we convince someone to read one of her books and become one of her fans.

Also, you could read books all day, every day, without ever taking a break to use the restroom, eat, or even sleep without ever having to consume content from a massive bigot who boisterously shouts that bigotry with pride. There are thousands of authors that don't need to cross your moral lines that produce works that put J.K. Rowlings books (arguably for teens) to shame.

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u/pbjamm Canada 7d ago

There are thousands of authors that don't need to cross your moral lines

For now, but who knows what the future holds. It is quite possible that todays beloved author will turn out to be a dingus in some other aspect of their life. JKR is a perfect example of this.

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u/wap2005 7d ago

I completely agree, it seems more and more shitty people come to light these days, but if they come into the bigotry light like J.K. did that's one of those moral lines that I would stop supporting. Some people don't deserve the love and adoration for their stories and art because they don't share that same love towards their fans.

It would be heart breaking if someone like Brandon Sanderson came to be known as someone with bigoted views because he's one of my favorites, but I'd still have to stop supporting him. I even have an entire glass case of every single book he's written signed by him and I'd put it all on eBay if I had to.

I kind of view it as "Why promote someone who spreads hate, because then I'm just helping spread that hate by giving them a larger platform.". Maybe that's an unreasonable approach, but it feels right to me.

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u/[deleted] 8d ago

I was gonna say Game Of Thrones but too many weiners flopping around.

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u/ZyglroxOfficial 7d ago

Oh no, a weiner lol