This manoeuvre seems common among fascisms and the object is truly fungible. In Sri Lanka, for example, it manifests as a "reverence" for Buddhism that requires suspending theory or practice: it's simply an image to be projected like a banner over the violence deployed ostensibly in its defence

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You can have critical thoughts about the same religion or canon or what have you, and your local fascists *will* frame this as an ideological divide but it's really just two unrelated things happening in at best broadly contiguous spaces

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I feel like, if you are going to steal a few million dollars from Polymarket - do you first place a bet on Polymarket that Polymarket will have a security breach in the next, like, seven days?

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If you're looking for something to read while AO3 is down, how about... a certain free magazine of queer speculative fiction? 👀 We've got it all: enemies to lovers, one bed, multiverse AUs, concerningly hot monsters. Reply with your favorite fic trope and we'll recommend your new favorite story.

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'oh I miss having the poetry collections where I can easily dip into them!' you fool. you absolute idiot. they're all different shapes and sizes.

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