Even setting aside the Wiccanate neo-pagans, there’s always been strident opposition to the racist stuff in hard polytheist circles, include the heathen circles I was familiar with. Not sure if it’s still active, but there was a CR umbrella anti-racist group, CAORANN. They had ties to Gaol Naofa back when I was…

I wouldn’t say vastly. A lot of people don’t pay attention to the news, and many who do mostly absorb headlines. Pretty much anyone commenting here is likely in the top 10-5% for attentiveness to politics. Most people are more likely to respond to partisan signals than to news events, after all they may only hear…

I’m pretty sure flying a “Trump 2020" flag would still violate the rules. The Iron Front logo isn’t a current political party, so calling it political was always a stretch. If MLS banned the promotion of current political parties at matches I think most people would be fine with it. The problem was banning a symbol…

There is actual empirical evidence that people will follow partisan preferences and it’s certainly plausible some if not all of the increase is partisan solidification.

I looked into all the cross tabs on their last poll, and thought that much of the opposition was soft, and this seems to vindicate that. There’s still room for growth here, especially with “Independents”. The last poll was taken before the new scandal had a chance to reflect in the numbers. It’s likely the media…

Why are both of them not in jail? 

There are groups that claim that, yes. Most of them are largely online, Facebook is lousy with small neo-pagan groups that promote that sort of racial identity. Most of them get blacklisted once it’s clear they promote racial heritage ideas. I’m no longer active on social media with polytheist groups, I deleted…

Which inclusive groups? You’re making a very broad charge based on, in your own words, limited experience and knowledge. Why not just name the groups and the problem instead of such a broad claim that has been used to abuse pagans and polytheists for years?

To add to this, the last portion implies clearly that many groups are flirting with white nationalism when that’s far from the reality. Prior to Trump, prior to the rise in “white nationalism”, people were opposing these groups actively. They absolutely exist, and they claim to be pagan. Having studied a number of…

...this is dangerously close to an abusive smear regularly leveled against modern pagans. Using the small (and theologically mostly Christianate) white supremacist groups to stain the entire community is not just dishonest, it’s a common tactic of bigots. If you are actually active in the community, you’d know just…

It’s really awful and I’d still apply if I thought I had a chance in hell of getting it. Our economy is structured to make even bad offers tempting because so many people are underemployed. 

No worries, happens to everyone.

That’s not pantheism, that’s just chauvinism, which fit the Roman mindset quite well. Most of the time you see that happen is in Roman writings about foreign lands for a Roman audience. They also did accept foreign deities, the cult of Isis became popular with Romans and you also saw religions like Mithraism become…

I still cringe when I call myself a pagan but “Gaelic Polytheist” doesn’t mean anything to most people. 

Pantheism doesn’t predate the 1600s. It’s a modern philosophical position. There are some historical faiths that you can describe with the term, some versions of Hinduism for example, but the Greeks and Norse were explicitly not pantheists. They were hard polytheists. There’s been a conscious effort by modern soft…

Ugh. Such a stupid bigoted piece. Even for the Federalist this is low-quality. They know nothing about ancient pagan religions, they’re clearly repeating a bunch of Victorian era bullshit, and nothing about modern pagans either.

In theory, though in practice those laws have serious issues. Even under the Obama administration there were some really troubling trends on whistleblowers, and even at their worst there was nowhere near the level of malice and vindictiveness in that administration.

Trump is too dumb to know this, but this is going to hurt him. The whistleblower followed the rules exactly. Even when the acting DNI was illegally withholding the complaint. Trump’s relationship with the IC is already poor, but this will make it worse, and that will make at least a few Republicans uncomfortable.…

1. Many of those other offenses have been effectively ignored by right-wing media and most of the public.

It’s a human psychological weakness. The way the right-wing media/activism echo chamber works tends to fuel it on the right, so it’s not equally pervasive on the left, but that’s a structural thing. All of us are prone to it. We remember headlines more than articles. We remember dishonest statements. Our memory is…