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  • givesomefucks@lemmy.world
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    29 days ago

    A far right Hasidic leader who’s followers claimed he was the Messiah…

    You may be familiar with them as the Hasidic group in NYC that got caught building tunnels to illegally expand past their property lines and take over vacated building as their own.

    Created in 1775, it’s been controlled by one family, although a few times power was transferred to a son in law instead of the son. However the son-in-law was always descended from the founder too. Just crazy amounts of inbreeding over and over again for generations.

    https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Chabad

    There’s no current “leader” because a significant amount of followers don’t see death as something that can stop their Messiah from coming back.

    Trump’s not the only one that likes this guy tho, every president going back to Nixon have been on this guy’s nuts, and multiple have declared his birthday various “national _____ day”.

    It’s incredibly fucked up how much we’re legitimizing this cult.

    Edit:

    Link to the tunnel story:

    https://abc7ny.com/chabad-headquarters-arrests-secret-tunnel-brooklyn/14301084/