• Flying Squid@lemmy.world
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    6 months ago

    The thing that amuses me about a ‘secret’ society like this is that they are entirely made up of people whose political positions are worn on their red hats- and their cars- and their lawns- etc.

    Everyone knows the “secrets” they’re getting up to. The “secret” is that they expect Trump to win and then to implement the very public Project 2025 that Republicans are making no secret about. Beyond that, it’s just standard Christian dominionism.

    Basically the only secrets they have left to them are the same secrets the Freemasons have- whatever silly rituals they perform before getting down to business.

    (Not trying to associate these guys with Freemasons otherwise, the Freemasons I’ve known over the years have been decent sorts.)

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      5 months ago

      The thing that amuses me about a ‘secret’ society like this is that they are entirely made up of people whose political positions are worn on their red hats- and their cars- and their lawns- etc.

      It’s not so much secrecy as just plausible deniability - the same way we know nine out of every ten old white guys in the US political establishment are white supremacists but are given the benefit of the doubt by the media because they don’t use the n-word in public.