• ThePowerOfGeek@lemmy.world
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    3 days ago

    Everyone knows Vance has been simping on Erika Kirk ever since Charlie died. And that he would love to ditch Usha for her, if he could. He’s not fooling anyone with this fake rage.

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                  1 day ago

                  Honestly as an experienced multi-generstional Mormon basher I legit forget that part of their fucked up theology. Kinda hard to keep that in frame when the practical shit they tend to do in the practical, what with the theocracy that is Utah, the rampant environmental abuse, the unearned self righteousness so many of them have, and the weird as fuck cultural infantalism that is so common amongst the Utah variant in particular it’s just kinda hard to care about the hypothetical space slavery y’know? Though I will say the further you get from Utah the saner they become, for example for some reason a lot of the younger ones in my area both men and women like Fallout NV, don’t know of Joshua Graham has anything to do with that but yeah.

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              3 days ago

              For the record, the culty terminology of calling each other brother and sister is not tied to the polygamy. It just comes with being a member of the cult in general.

              It wouldn’t be out of place to stop a bratty twelve year old running around on Sunday and say to him “Brother Harris, I’ve already told you once to stop running in the hallways.” (Harris being the last name of the child.)

              I’m not saying it isn’t 100% cult behavior, but it isn’t part of the multiple wives aspect. It’s just how they all talk to each other regardless of who is married to whom.