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Anthony Alaniz
@hopefulnihilist.bsky.social
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Writer. Photographer. Horror lit and film fan.

Writing about tech, civil rights, secularism, and liberty at https://hopefulnihilist.substack.com

"Religion can never reform mankind because religion is slavery." — Robert G. Ingersoll, 1899
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"The bosom of America is open to receive not only the opulent and respectable stranger, but the oppressed and persecuted of all nations and religions." — George Washington in an address to Irish Immigrants in New York City, December 2, 1783
December 8, 2025 at 6:11 PM
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A noticeable upgrade from the old uniforms.
October 24, 2025 at 11:56 AM
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Why do we allow these people to endlessly shit on American history?
October 5, 2025 at 8:24 PM
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September 25, 2025 at 11:09 AM
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September 14, 2025 at 7:17 PM
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Christianity cannot live in peace with any form of faith. Such a religion is necessarily uncompromising, unreasoning, aggressive, and insolent.

Our liberty is not safe in the hands of any church, and wherever the bible and government are in partnership, the people are enslaved.
September 14, 2025 at 3:37 AM
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A poster showing the outline of two national guard members with rakes. It reads “Defend Your Country” at the top with “Enlist now in the National Guardeners.”
September 11, 2025 at 6:42 PM
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This has been my go to. We’re all equal people, and if you don’t believe it, you’re the problem.
A quote of Thomas Jefferson that reads “Our civil rights have no dependents on our religious opinions, more than our opinions and physics or geometry” underneath a repurposed right-wing meme of a rainbow colored gun point at the back of a clergy’s head.
August 27, 2025 at 8:39 PM
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It's wild to see how readily Republicans will stand against this country's values for power and theocratic rule.
A picture of the quote, "It probably will not be long until the churches will divide as sharply upon political, as upon theological questions; and when that day comes, if there are not liberals enough to hold the balance of power, this government will be destroyed. The liberty of man is not safe in the hands of any church. Wherever the bible and sword are in partnership, man is a slave," from Robert Green Ingersoll's Mistakes of Moses.
August 27, 2025 at 2:10 AM
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July 16, 2025 at 12:15 AM
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This is who you think we should emulate?! You’re just lowering the standard for Democrats.
An image of a Molly Ivins’ quote that says “Some days, having Reagan for president was like finding Castro in the refrigerator: Remember the time he appointed thirteen people to a commission on AIDS-including a sex therapist who thought you could get the disease from toilet seats; some fruitloop who claimed gays were engaging in "blood terrorism" by deliberately donating infected blood; and a longtime friend of Reagan's who ran a controversial "AIDS testing clinic" out of her van? No one on the commission was a medical specialist with any experience in treating AIDS. It was really awfully funny, if you didn't care about AIDS.”
March 6, 2025 at 5:44 PM
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The GOP on crime…
January 22, 2025 at 5:46 PM
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December 19, 2024 at 12:47 AM
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December 7, 2024 at 4:39 PM
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Same energy, same hateful Christians, and the same excuses.
December 7, 2024 at 4:20 PM
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Trump naming Ronald Reagan his favorite president makes too much sense…
October 20, 2024 at 1:17 PM