The LDS Church controls every lever of politics that matters in Utah, Wyoming, and Idaho (not in the sense that they can give them orders, but in the sense that if you piss them off in any of those states you do not get reelected). They are substantially more unified and consequently important than any other individual denomination in the US.
I 1000% guarantee that close to 100% of the LDS faithful consider themselves LDS first and whatever political affiliation they are several standard deviations less than that.
The mormons are serious people and not to be fucked with. If they press the exit button on the GOP the three states I mentioned flip entirely from the GOP to the Democrats.
Theyāve got a long history of changing with the times too. Itās built right into the churchās DNA.
LOL Iām not a Mormon and never was. I do however do a lot of business with them and know a few pretty well. As religious people go itās as good as youāre going to get. Even if a Mormon hay shipper tried to rip me off once. At least itās not like the people who name their businesses something religiousā¦ those people are ALWAYS scumbags. If Iām doing business with Jesus Trucking the guy Iām talking to better be a hispanic dude named Jesus.
I found this interesting, especially from the authorās perspective
Gates has been buying land like itās going out of style. He now owns more farmland than my entire Native American nation.
In total, Gates owns approximately 242,000 acres of farmland with assets totaling more than $690m. To put that into perspective, thatās nearly the size of Hong Kong and twice the acreage of the Lower Brule Sioux Tribe, where Iām an enrolled member. A white man owns more farmland than my entire Native nation!
Billionaire philanthropists like Gates hold a form of emotional blackmail over us, where if we dare to criticise them weāre met with the riposte of āBut look at all the good heās doing in xyzā.
Google wins Google v. Oracle 6-2, important copyright fair use case.
BREYER, J., delivered the opinion of the Court, in which ROBERTS, C. J., and SOTOMAYOR, KAGAN, GORSUCH, and KAVANAUGH, JJ., joined. THOMAS, J., filed a dissenting opinion, in which ALITO, J., joined. BARRETT, J., took no part in the consideration or decision of the case.
