• aquovie@lemmy.cafe
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    10 hours ago

    Doubtful. Mormons aren’t going to support murder and Kirk had that veneer of reasonableness that made him the wolf in sheep’s clothing that he was. Despite quotes being thrown around, Kirk’s fascism was more subtle because otherwise he wouldn’t have attracted the uninitiated the way he did.

    Mormons will disown him and MAGA will keep their hold on Utah. It might even increase since everyone loves a martyr.

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      9 hours ago

      Mormons aren’t going to support murder

      Have you heard, like, anything about Mormanism?

      Quick edit:

      Like, too many examples for me to possibly list them all, but Netflix made a whole TV show about this one:

      https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mountain_Meadows_Massacre

      The Mountain Meadows Massacre (September 7–11, 1857) was a series of attacks during the Utah War that resulted in the mass murder of at least 120 members of the Baker–Fancher wagon train.[1][a] The massacre occurred in the southern Utah Territory at Mountain Meadows, and was perpetrated by settlers from the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints (LDS Church) involved with the Utah Territorial Militia (officially called the Nauvoo Legion) who recruited and were aided by some Southern Paiute Native Americans.[2] The wagon train, made up mostly of immigrant families from Arkansas, was bound for California, traveling on the Old Spanish Trail that passed through the Territory.