Post AXGd8Bsnm3kFmMD4wi by jeber@mastodon.social
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 (DIR) Post #AXGZamdYJjsm3rSK6i by clive@saturation.social
       2023-07-01T23:55:20Z
       
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       Back in the early 1800s, a popular American conspiracy theory held that nunneries were hotbeds of sexual exploitationOn August 11, 1834, a large group of Boston residents decided — having carefully, publicly, and even *leisurely* laid plans — to burn down the Ursuline Covent in what is now SomervilleThey boasted to the nuns that they’d liberated themHere’s a superb essay about it, and how US conspiracy theories about sex cults go back centuries: https://www.theatlantic.com/ideas/archive/2023/07/conspiracy-theory-burned-convent-down/674599/
       
 (DIR) Post #AXGd8Bsnm3kFmMD4wi by jeber@mastodon.social
       2023-07-02T00:35:02Z
       
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       @clive Americans are such puritans in public and horny little devils in private.
       
 (DIR) Post #AXGdudvUoQpAecZeCm by clive@saturation.social
       2023-07-02T00:43:30Z
       
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       @jeber Truly!
       
 (DIR) Post #AXGec8BgB7gYxWsdjE by SloanStudio@mastodon.social
       2023-07-02T00:51:34Z
       
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       @clive The continuing theme is that conservatives are quick to violence based on stupid lies. Very dangerous.
       
 (DIR) Post #AXGgXddW1ZFYxNszFA by clive@saturation.social
       2023-07-02T01:13:14Z
       
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       @SloanStudio Alas, that was sure the case here