• barneypiccolo@lemm.ee
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    8 hours ago

    Don’t forget Scientology. They had members infiltrate the IRS all over the country, working from the inside to get tax-exempt status for them, cementing their identity as an official religion.

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      7 hours ago

      Oh god yes dear fucking lord.

      I would say its astounding they haven’t been banned, but they have a loooot of money, so, no, that makes perfect sense.

      Yeah Scientology, is the most direct analogue to the insano cult shit in East Asia.

      They stalk people, have probably assasinated people, imprison people in their little nonsense navy, buy entire city neighborhoods and all the local municipal politicians… got the insane alien religion, the fucking e meter cans things… entire thing is basically a massively gaslighty, manipulative and dangerous cult.

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      6 hours ago

      There’s interesting connections between Scientology and transphobia… look into Anna Slatz. Reduxx is what a lot of TERFs like Rowling read…