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Scrivener7

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1. I agree. I keep saying this but I think we're underestimating the effect of crazy fringe

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Mon Feb 19, 2024, 04:22 PM

Feb 2024

Mormon groups on our politics. These end of the world/prepper/second coming of Jesus types are an important republiQan subgroup, especially in western states, and their numbers are growing very fast. They love themselves a messiah to blindly follow, and they've chosen tsf as one of their messiahs. These are the ones who say tsf is led by God, despite all evidence to the contrary.

The FLDS is the most extreme of these groups, but there are many of them and new ones pop up all the time that are much more mainstream and much less easy to identify. And they all love tsf.

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I agree. I keep saying this but I think we're underestimating the effect of crazy fringe Scrivener7 Feb 2024 #1