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[OC] The idol of a foreign religion (lemmy.world)
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[–] 35 points 2 years ago* (2 children)

This is at a Buc-ees. This golden beaver is their mascot. Southerners love them some Buc-ees. The reason is that they are awesome for reasons too numerous to mention.

People in the South talk about Buc-ees like New Yorkers talk about fashion pop-ups.

OP is referring to this as the “Golden Calf” of the South. And since as the South is foreign to the leftiest of the leftys, you have the joke.

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  • [–] 0 points 2 years ago (1 child)

    Still lost, but happy to say the joke is on me if that makes some shithead feel better.

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  • [–] 3 points 2 years ago* (last edited 2 years ago)

    I’ll try:

    OP is pointing out the cultural/political divide between the North and South in the US or just how the South is different from a lot of the US. They’re “foreign” to outside eyes.

    Southerners treat Buc-ee’s like a religion almost with their obsession. Like some people get cultish about Chick-fil-a.

    Ergo the symbol of Buc-ee’s, the beaver, is an idol of that foreign religion (buc-ee’s worship) as viewed from the outside.

    The idolatry is a reference to Moses coming down from the mountain when he got the 10 commandments and all that to find people worshipping a golden calf instead of god. The South is very religious…or at least presents that image.

    So a bunch of stuff happening in that short OP comment. Got the religious south worshipping a beaver for a store that people outside the south don’t know about or understand the cultish following it has.

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