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#current_events #politics
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#current_events #politics
SirShmoopyofAwesomtown
I'm sure that won't be a militant style training grounds /s
cardboxbob8
Why the hell are they coming here?
FuckmotheringxVampire
I bet they all swear they aren't in a cult too
DarthMatta
Nope, I wish: https://www.vice.com/en/article/4avkdw/rod-of-iron-ministries-purchases-property-in-tennessee
Neoeon
That sounds like the setup to an "Event". Like, "The now dead cult which slaughtered the entire town bought a mountain property 6m ago".
MrFancyPanzer
For the love of sweet Satan, please be satire.
JustAPileOfCats
Nope, it's real. https://www.vice.com/en/article/4avkdw/rod-of-iron-ministries-purchases-property-in-tennessee
AngryGraphicDesigner
Tax free I assume?
Lugh314159
Praise the Lord and pass the Ammunition.
NonDenominationalSpaceLaser
Holy hollow point!
LaffertyDanie1
RagtimeRaver
An armed religious sect with training compounds in the mountains and a dislike for the ruling government sounds familiar...
MonkeyFunToday
Mericaban?
Widgetboy
dakarakad
Isn't this just the plot to Far Cry 5?
rossdonohue
This is a moonie splinter group. The moonies may have been one of the inspirations for the game given all the similarities
ThatTransformersDude
It's also an episode in American Gods
Idontneedrealfacts
it was also the plot of April 1993
MemesSustainMe
Right???
CarlottaVonSprockett
I think it’s also part of the plot of Beneath the Planet of the Apes.
Idontneedrealfacts
I think it was the plot of April 1993 too
lysergia
Just started it 45 minutes ago! I've only just now met back up with the Federal Marshall. I'm so excited. I just can't hide it.
WolfofEdensGate
Its by far one of my favorite games
SublteTextErrors
I started it a few days ago, its pretty good imo. Got some buggy parts but for a ubisoft game it's holding together pretty well
dirtmarker
Great.
Lurkinjustlookinohlookarmrolls
A Sauce: https://www.vice.com/en/article/4avkdw/rod-of-iron-ministries-purchases-property-in-tennessee
petepac25
They're called militias.
DVSBSTrD
They're called the Moonies. Educate yourself.
PrettyPrettyPrettyPrettyGood
annyeonghaters
I've played far cry 5. I know how this goes
NuclearMonk
Catchy music tho...
skapanda616
Do you want to be set on fire by the ATF and/or FBI? Because this is how you get set of fire by the ATF and/or FBI.
ccman87
they are equally likely to drink the flavor-aid
LONELOBO
That’s a lotta hoops to jump for this gentleman to wear a dress and crown…
politemechanoid
If they wanted to be seen as a serious Gun Cult, they should have dressed up like Sean Connery form Zardoz
Fyreworx
They're called cults, and this is what they do.
DiamondDogLedTasso
Let's hope they love their Kool-Aid
TransAtheistMinister
Yep, we've got Christian cults, Jew cults, Muslim cults. Humans really love their imaginations.
chestbroman
I wouldn't worry. They probably couldn't hit anything. I hear they spray and pray alot
UnBobaLievable
They're literally a spinoff of the Moonies. Their leader is the son of the dude who ran that cult.
FallenJester
Tell the ATF to cue up the loudspeakers and Metallica
SarcasticComment
They are literally a branch of the Moonies.
Fyreworx
Well it's good to know i was right at least.
SarcasticComment
Yup. Rare when what you know is a cult comes with a sticker that says "headed by son of a cult leader"
CarlottaVonSprockett
Don’t they know they can get dope crowns without worshipping guns? Any Walmart will sell you one…
astronomygeek7
This is insane
tickle4berries
If it’s the same church that I read about, it’s a church founded by a the son of a cult leader in Korea. The Moonies. They do mass weddings
TransAtheistMinister
Every religion is a cult founded by someone looking to line their pockets, tax-free!
pallyman
So... Why do they need ARs again?
TransAtheistMinister
Why do they not?
MapleSyrupMafia
For the mass shootings at the mass weddings.
ThisFireGrowsHigher
This isn't any kind of cult. This is advanced cult. A cult within a cult since MAGA is already a cult.
ThisFireGrowsHigher
Cult
pyroplumbus7
Some tax loop hole to acquire more guns for cheap
thelegendofthetwistednavigator
Nah its a Moon cult. His dad was a cult leader and another relative owns Kahr arms. It's a Apocalyptic cult and gun marketing scheme in one
Asadsadsadclown
Give it about 5-10 years. Long enough for the offspring from their rape cult retreat to be old enough to escape and call the cops.
Asadsadsadclown
Assuming Tennessee isn't like Utah and the general population is in on it from the start.
Mordeths
The general population on Utah never condoned the flds. If that is what you are implying. We all knew those guys were sick kid fuckers.
Asadsadsadclown
You all knew. And they were allowed to set up shop and continue for how long? That’s the funny thing about open secrets.
retailmemedrone
Can’t talk for all of them Tennessee has idiots in charge but I for one am worried about this news
SpartaWolf117
Well, here comes Waco 2: Electric Boogaloo
weirdscienceyall
I sang this like the song "Walk on To Electric Avenue" ...this would be a great parody song: "We've got a Waco 2 Electric Boogaloo"
BigTex1
[the ATF liked your comment]
maximilianfragglebottom
2 Ruby 2 Ridge
Janewaygottheminivanstarship
Boogaloo boys are alt right Nazis so that word got ruined when it was used for Jan 6th
qtRaven
Can't even worship with a good gun like an AK-47.
Radix865
cacuin
It is a cult. Its a moonie off shot(ha pun) and they are buying the place for a training center.....hey FBI !
jkwgn
JakuMoku
I r Dumb. context? don't recall all their interactions, is this an outtake or?
CoarseAndSalty
Every Goddamned chicken in this place.
Fattbeard
Of course TN is involved.....
Imalwaysready
It's a special level of religiously-inspired nutbaggery.
Iaimtomisbehave
"Woooweee, gun Jesus is on his way!"
dudehiemer
I'm all for owning firearms, but, I'm decidedly against crazy people owning them.
GaySocialistLiberalMuslimCommieAtheist
Unfortunately, this is an unpopular opinion in america. "But what if *they* use it to disarm opposition!" Is the typical "reason"
tlamstrike
Because just that has happened, repeatedly in our history. So recently in our history that there are still people alive who were there.
GaySocialistLiberalMuslimCommieAtheist
Have people been disarmed, sure. For medically sound reasoning and not conservatives being scared of black panthers? No.
tlamstrike
When you start setting up arbitrary barriers to ownership you quickly end up with a situation where certain groups get their rights denied.
CloakedFigure
I just recently moved out of Tennessee. Glad to see I made the right choice.
silentwolf1999
I wanna move there from Florida. Talk me out if it.
CloakedFigure
Anything is better than Florida. I almost had to move there and was praying I wouldn’t have to. Sorry. That’s rough, buddy.
bluekestral
I'm currently moving from FL to TN. I'm never looking back. Fuck Florida.
tobel
Please help me get out. I'm desperately trying to move to the northeast
CloakedFigure
TN as well?
tobel
Yeah. Near Knoxville
CloakedFigure
Ah, that’s where I just moved from!
tobel
Enjoy the new locale!
oatonaboatwithastoat
This is the most religiously cringey american thing there is. Shit like this makes me wonder how they ever became a superpower...
Xelada
being industrialized after every other industrialized nation had been bombed heavily during WWII.
SarahDancePainter
Don’t forget the lend lease program!
KipperFillets
Profiteering by any other name.
thegreatgattosby
Guns... didn't you read the article
justalittlewhiskeyrichard
Honestly, we have no idea either...
DildoRodeo
Literally this reason. Let fanatics fight wars, just don't let them make more
iloveMALLRATSresponses
Not even exactly American, this place in Tennessee is to be similar to one they already have in South Korea and head of the cult is Korean
iloveMALLRATSresponses
https://www.vice.com/amp/en/article/4avkdw/rod-of-iron-ministries-purchases-property-in-tennessee
GuysJustWannaFish
See the picture above (not the priest robes).
busted88
They are an offshoot of Moonies which are Korean, so no. They are just cashing in on an opportunity
Pokegeologist
This looks wackier than some of the factions in Fallout. How did real life out weird Fallout?
Jfizefoshizzle
We’re on an island that is very hard to attack
Jbelkin
Europeans
Jbelkin
Crusades … Catholics in the americas …
Ikwilstroopwaffels
These people are not Catholics.
Jbelkin
No, just point out religious have been violent and worship weapons
busted88
It's a Korean lead religion, but okay.
CatBeagler
Thus isn't a religion- it's a militia trying to protect itself under the 1st amendment.
yzark01
Religions are just cults that got big. Thats pretty much the only difference.
busted88
No, it's a Korean cult looking to make money off idiots. Do 10 seconds of reading
CatBeagler
And by militia I mean domestic terrorist cell.
frankenmullet22
We used to keep these types out of government
oatonaboatwithastoat
Can you do so again please and thank you
moonshadowkati
Yup, no robed extremists in the American government. Nope.
frankenmullet22
Sorry, we used to keep the openly vocal ones out of national politics
ChiLLeCheeze
Yeah, they did a lot of shady shit without saying it out loud instead.
Polymenganese
This works as a klan joke and Supreme Court joke.
KiopMiko
Supreme Kourt
RackhamTheRed
Lots of resources on your own soil, no hostile neighbours and +99def ocean on all sides. Like civ on easy
greenchair
Don't forget minding everyone else's business
Blud4BludGod
Hey now, be fair. America didn't just start out owning the whole stretch, we had to fuck a lot of people over. It's more like we're...
Blud4BludGod
...in the mid-late game of a Civ campaign after killing all the small nations around our starting point.
VidiVeniThenSheLeft
On all sides? *Stares in Canadian*
theLASTromanNJ
He said what he said
zephen
Thus marks the most overtly hostile act of Canadian aggression in the last 50 years
itsapirateslifeforme
What are yous gonna fucking do about?!? Send an angry goose across the border? Actually... fuck that. Sorry Canada.
DrPepperandChocolate
Geese don't scare me too much but if Canada sent an army of moose I would surrender immediately.
IamTheBestAtDonutEating
They kicked our asses in 1812, and set our white house on fire. They're a buncha angry/crazy bitches when it comes to war
KiopMiko
Why do you think we Canadians are all so polite? It's to keep the rage suppressed.
feanoreldar
It's like having Ghandi to the north
Masonrig
They burned down the white house...
feanoreldar
Is this what they teach in American history instead of The Trail of Tears and the Tulsa Massacre?
CurbYourClassWar
*Civ V Ghandi