• GinAndJuche [comrade/them]@hexbear.net
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      American Catholics are freaking over this too. Bannon did a double feature with the false flag shooting and combined it into one unhinged segment of hate.

      I hate this fucking country so damn much.

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    What’s the general consensus of these commercials?

    I know they’re funded by the same people funding horrible things.

    But most people are likely passively watching them and walking away with a brief “maybe I shouldn’t be so shitty to other people” message.

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      They’re bad. It’s literally the flailing attempt of evangelicalism to rebrand and save their declining numbers through advertising. Just rich Christians thinking they can boost numbers by acting like they think good things instead of all the bad things that their churches actually say and do.

      More like He Gets Sus indeed.

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      It’s bad. It’s literally just marketing. Putting a superficially liberal coat on the same horrific views that most white evangelical Americans have. They want to get you in the door but I promise you on Lenin’s cat’s grave, once you are in the door you’re gonna hear the same message: turn away from your sin (including gay stuff), repent, and put your faith in Christ alone and his death on the cross for your salvation. Otherwise you will face an eternity of conscious torment in hell.

      Like, people have posted chats with the hegetsus customer service or whatever it is, it’s just bog standard conservative evangelicalism.

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      Idk but every chud including my dad seem to think it’s woke propaganda lmfao. On the youtube video of it:

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      it’s classic best foot forward type propo, lead with the vague and inspecific feel-good bullshit and save the hateful cult shit for when they’re already sunk in

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        They fund He Gets Me, but I have no idea if they’re involved otherwise. It gives me Hillsong vibes, but I haven’t heard anything specific about anyone else’s involvement.

        The Green family have this like 1950s Rockefeller’s dying brain worms where they’re like “let’s create PMC Christians that are conservative to fight the wild hogs that we accidentally created” and are trying to do neo-evangelicalism again and “prove the Bible is right” with stolen new discoveries, but they also want to make money because they don’t have Rockefeller philanthropy money so they’re still directly appealing to the wild hogs through the Museum of the Bible and other shit. Something something contradictions

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    Where do the evangelical Christians get all this money to do anti-LGBT with? What the fuck? What kind of Wile E Coyote Acme nonsense is this? Do market downturns mean that they let off the gas and say something nice about a gay man?

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    Go a basic google search that Walsh could uzve done with less effort than writing the tweet.

    “Hegetsus major funding”

    One of the first articles NPR almost exactly a year ago on the same question because they bought q Super Bowl ad…OMG Matt Walsh has gone WOKE sicko-hexbear-woke and parrots NPR!

    The ‘He Gets Us’ commercials promote Jesus. Who’s behind them and what is the goal?

    The ads are funded in part by the family that owns the notably religious craft store chain Hobby Lobby, according to Christianity Today, as well as other evangelical groups, including a foundation called The Signatry. Other donors have kept their identities anonymous.

    It’s a white washing campaign on Christianity as a whole appealing to disaffected put off people because of the shitty actions directly from those same Christians. Matt Walsh should be thankful. Maybe he’s just jealous because he was denied part of an obvious large grift potential.

  • Didn’t see this one, but I did notice the “Neighbor” one. Flash a bunch of pictures of the types of people these freaks hate (mostly on the street and presumed homeless; black people; presumably trans woman in need of a shave; etc.) but all the pictures have some kind of grind core high contrast dirt filter. Then the message is that these people are all our neighbors. Okay, that’s nice sentiment and something that evangelicals should be confronted with, but that filter felt like a Freudian slip that telegraphs how they see other people.