• YeetPics@mander.xyz
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    4 months ago

    wealth and power

    Before industrialization and the infrastructure to use oil, religion was the main source of wealth and power. These assholes simply changed work modes.

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      4 months ago

      Yeah that’s true of every place on earth. It’s just a coincidence that people in power in oil rich parts of the world are assholes? Putin, Mister Bonesaw, Maduro in Venezuela, whoever runs things in Iran these days… all a bunch of assholes. All in places where religion was dominant in the past, but is that really the determiining factor?

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        4 months ago

        Well maybe we can link religious extremism with oil profiteering. It fits in the middle east and in Texas.