“Like I said, my opponent, she didn’t even hide it,” Masterson added. “She talked—they had witch—I mean, they’re doing like witchcraft spells on TikTok so she can win the governorship. I mean, they’re like … it’s like demonic stuff that they’re doing, right? Just in your face that way.”

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[–] 9 points 5 hours ago (2 children)

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The state senator had seemingly drawn his conclusions from a series of playful TikTok videos posted by Holscher’s 20-year-old daughter, Maddie, who had shared clips of her and her mom brushing their teeth set to a song from the Wicked soundtrack.

“Casting a spell so my mom wins Kansas Governor except she’s so done with me,” Maddie Holscher captioned one clip from April, in which she waves her arms around her mother.

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  • [–] 4 points 4 hours ago (1 child)

    republicans believe anything social media or a news network tells them.

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  • [–] 1 point 4 hours ago

    Gullibility isn't reserved for Republicans though. Just look at how many people were eager to believe that a Yandex datacenter being hit meant that a Russian bot farm got taken out and that it was affecting online discourse.

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  • [–] 17 points 6 hours ago

    why would you name your city have witchita then.

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  • [–] 2 points 4 hours ago

    whats his tanning leather skin doing outside.

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  • [–] 13 points 8 hours ago* (2 children)

    I figured this was going to start soon. I have made friends with a Murder in my neighborhood, I am related to two accused witches one of whom was hung in Salem and I own a black cat so I expect to be named in the upcoming witch trials too.

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  • [–] 16 points 10 hours ago

    She’d be cooler if she were.

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  • [–] 59 points 12 hours ago (11 children)

    Question from another part of the world: do they believe this nonsense, or do they just think their voter base believe it, or is it just a shared excuse for misogyny? I’m so lost.

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  • [–] 27 points 12 hours ago

    Kansan here, Masterson probably doesn't believe it, but I also bet he's not entirely sure. There will be a small subset of voters who actually believe it because the American Heresy is strong. The vast majority of his voters/Kansans will literally never hear about this. And if they did, my guess is that most wouldn't believe it and most wouldn't change their vote if they heard about it.

    Party loyalty is dumb.

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  • [–] 19 points 12 hours ago*

    It's dehumanization language, make the enemy an "other".

    Some are true believers, but most seem to treat it like a football game or something mentally where as long as their team or the one issue they vote (usually abortion, bigotry or guns) is satisfied they don't care about all the other performative crap.

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  • [–] 12 points 12 hours ago (3 children)

    Unfortunately, a large percentage of the Christian population in North America actually believes that witchcraft is A Real Thing that needs to be fought against tooth and nail. I was raised by people like this, who believe to this day that Harry Potter is evil because "spells" and "magic" are evil, as though they're some kind of insidious gateway to hell itself. It's madness. :)

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  • [–] 5 points 10 hours ago

    I’m not sure if the speaker actually believes it. He’s a slimeball. But yeah far too many people here will. I hate what it’s gonna take to fix this, or else a millennia of darkness. ☹️

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  • [–] 9 points 9 hours ago*

    So his opponent is practicing her Freedom of Religion. In this instance, Wicca. If he's a solid Catholic, he's free to go drink the literal blood and eat the literal flesh of Jesus (after transubstantiation) during mass. By the same token, she should be free to perform whatever spell/s she likes. That doesn't make her 'demonic'. Unless she's literally summoning demons, in which case, Masterson needs to play The Best Song in the World.

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  • [–] 24 points 11 hours ago*

    This person belongs in a mental ward.

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  • [–] 7 points 11 hours ago

    Masterson is a fucking blight in human form. Even this hellhole of a state deserves better.

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  • [–] 5 points 11 hours ago

    When we said if you don't have dirt on your opponent then make it up we meant something like misappropriation of funds.

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  • [–] 4 points 11 hours ago

    Go pray on TikTok, then. Either it's not witchcraft helping her, or your God is a farce.

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  • [–] 4 points 13 hours ago

    We aint in Kansas anymore, Toto...

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  • [–] 4 points 13 hours ago (5 children)

    "I am not a witch." - Christine O’Donnell,

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