Did they shave him?. From head to toes so he could seamlessly slide through the re-birth machine?
Did they shave him?. From head to toes so he could seamlessly slide through the re-birth machine?
Of course, one should consider that economic and social factors have robbed them of the chance to develop. But their insistence on undermining everything they are not makes them complicit in their own destruction. Their standard of humanity is themselves, and they are nothing.
Racist nationalists are people who have added little to their personhood since birth; their only defining characteristics are sex, race, and gender. And not even in a culturally significant way, since they are poorly socialised. Their roots are imagined, not lived.
You see, it's not the absence of the lowest common denominator that oppresses them, it's the existence of anything else
Griffin’s definition of fascism as palingenetic ultranationalism—specifically a reactionary nostalgia for a lost history of the nation that never existed—remains undefeated. A nostalgia for a type of bread that is ubiquitous, created in the 20th century, and rage towards bread as old as civilisation
I've noticed that the conservative outrage machine only latches to media that is hard to defend post-release. They very quickly drop their crusades if reviews and box office align positively, but if something is genuinely subpar, they can exploit it.
This is fascinating because it was so hyped up back when it was released. People kept talking about its scale and themes. I'm very intrigued.
The reason why it's usually disparaging to call something "for children" is that it implies a question: Why would an adult invest their time in something introductory?. Harry Potter camouflages by being both shallow and expansive, in the way many videogames are.
Makes me wonder, what constitutes "for children"?. And I think it's a quality best described as "baby's first X". "Baby's first character development", "Baby's first use of colour theory". As media that introduces developing children to new concepts and tools, one is meant to outgrow them.
Outer Worlds. Soy una persona que se da por satisfecho muy fácilmente por el combate en los juegos. Así que cuando digo que el gameplay de combate en ese juego es como nadar en gelatina, lo digo en serio. Sé que la historia era lo importante, pero en este caso no lo compensaba.
Tom Clancy's The Adventures of Tom Sawyer Tom Clancy's Who's afraid of Gender? Tom Clancy's Communist Manifesto Tom Clancy's Lord of The Rings: The Two Towers (oh no) Tom Clancy's Uncle Tom's Cabin Ok. That last one is not ruined by it, more like exponentially worsened.
They think "I'm actually a genius scientist explorer noble king pioneer conqueror artist great leader" while simultaneously being at war with art, science, culture, language, and their peers. Because their standard of humanity is themselves, and they are nothing. Nullities offended by being.
I think it's because racist nationalists have very little to say about themselves beyond a) place of birth, and b) skin colour. They've added nothing to that. So, they pride themselves on some spiritual, pseudo-genetic connection with people who share those characteristics.
He is red because he hasn't mentioned that he's an atheist in 14.72 seconds.
Exactly. To them, marriage is being entitled to the unpaid domestic and sexual labour of a woman. That's also why purity culture exists: to channel the greatest possible number of women into this system, into insoluble relationships with men who repay them "spiritually" (that is, with nothing).
Want to leave your abusive husband? You won't get help raising that child. Want to leave church? You won't get help raising that child. That's also why they hate women building communities, welfare, divorce, public education, etc. They can't tolerate women having choices, or breathing space.
Ah, because it's actually about punishing and controlling women. The burden of motherhood is their last remaining proof and consequence for "sin": that's why they keep saying that "they should be responsible for their actions". It's a life-long coercion and shaming tool.
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@swordsjew.bsky.social talked about this during a panel. When evangelicals call people demons or servants of Satan they aren't being hyperbolic, they are being sincere about that and ALOT of people have a hard time wrapping their heads around that. Go read these two books to better understand this.
It was America that destroyed the third world with its anti-communism terror campaigns. It was America that trained and spoiled armed forces so that they would take over independent nations, to forcefully insert their "free" market. It was America that flooded the world with bigoted missionaries.
The most egregious thing was the way they talked about other countries. "Haitians are poverty-ridden because of their laziness and voodoo", "Venezuelans and Cubans chose communism and now their daughters have to be prostitutes". Knowing what America did to those countries, it makes my blood boil.
My last church was founded by American missionaries. Even though we were already evangelicals, they did a lot to nullify any localized expression of Christianity, or just our culture. They procured hostility against catholicism and mexican customs, and insisted on the virtues of the free market.
100%. The problem with religion, when it's problematic, is almost invariably its patriarchal element. And atheists that do not reckon with the fact that there are pre-existing systems (systemic sexism and racism, and capitalism) that shape religious abuse have achieved nothing.
To be or become a transphobe is to declare implacable total war with no quarter against everything human in oneself, and thus to cease to be human
its crazy how much all the nonsensical transsexual woman typology stuff would disappear from the cultural consciousness if people read just the first few chapters of heaney's the new woman etc etc
[CN: transmisogyny, #transhate] Sexologists like Bailey see trans women as part of their fiefdom and they resent us having lives outside of their control. That's why this pathetic little man feels the need to creepily sexualise this teenage girl and demand that be prioritised over her achievement.
Exactly. The entirety of sexual morality can be adequately, no, perfectly framed through consent. But few people, even progressives, actually go beyond "Ew, icky" as their standard.
I know someone is gonna say it reeks of "Reddit atheism", but evangelicals, especially charismatic ones, do lean into behaviours that are indistinguishable from demonic possession and evil cult clichés: rich members plotting to take over society, stressed members unwillingly carrying out his plans.
We all understand that it’s not the words these awful idiots have a problem with, it is the concepts themselves? It’s not like they’re suggesting better terms they like. When they tell you they want to remove the words, they mean “here is a list of things we do not care about and will not address”.
I’ve seen some folks refer to James Dobson as some coincidental “evil twin” to Fred Rogers, and I would like to clear the record: Dobson was an intentional fundamentalist _reaction_ to Mr. Rogers and his liberal Christian influence on children. It wasn’t an eerie coincidence it was violent rejection
It goes back even further, he specifically was a reaction to Dr. Benjamin Spock, who made HUGE waves in how people viewed child-rearing with his 1946 book Baby and Child Care, and who became an outspoken socialist and figure in the anti-Vietnam War movement.
Comes really close to "Neil Breen" territories by framing Ethan as a chosen one able to unshackle humanity from determinism.
She doesn’t engage on Bluesky where people really disagree with her. That’s because she is lying about what she values in these interactions; it isn’t a formal commitment to debate and persuasion, it’s an aesthetic preference. I’m curious what about the truth she finds too embarrassing to admit.
Oh my god, this is very similar to what Big Joel said about Bill Maher: leftists are a nebulous entity that doesn't merit consideration or respect, but conservatives are people and deserve endless accommodations and dialogue.
"Los estudios sobre el fascismo recogidos en este libro pretenden dotar de material para reflexionar también sobre la fragilidad de la democracia liberal en una época de la modernidad que no ha dejado de cultivar el fanatismo del odio como una virtud noble del ser humano."
James Dobson, the founder of Focus on the Family, is dead. He left behind broken homes, traumatized children, and a movement that treats cruelty as a commandment. My reaction here: www.friendlyatheist.com/p/james-dobs...
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The extent to which people who get a little bit into Gender Crit world have a tendency to become utterly obsessive haters is remarkable. Somehow it seems to induce monofocus in a way that other political movements (or even other bigotries) do not seem to ime.
Sometimes, it throws you off in the way clouds, mountains, and volcanic eruptions do. The dread of something rising vertically but requiring one to raise their head up till you feel as if looking backwards; so tall the sky bends for it, it's both in front and behind you.
I mean, I guess Bluesky is the quintessential liberal app: they say all the right things and then harm marginalized people anyway.
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I’m back! I saw your messages on here & elsewhere—thank you all <3. I’m deeply disappointed in @bsky.app moderation; equating pushback against people like JKR with the harm they cause to trans ppl only enables more violence. I’ll talk more soon but even a day away from social media has been healthy.
You can't just "wish ill" upon someone. That's not allowed. You have to use your vast fortune and influence to shape public opinion and law against the millions of people upon whom you wish ill.
it appears that @bsky.app have suspended the account of @jessiegender because a trans person saying "I wish ill on JK Rowling" is against the rules, so let me say with my loud cis voice that I too wish ill on all perpetrators of hate speech against trans people reinstate Jessie, this is ridiculous
The thing is, these guys precede Evangelicalism: a force whose homogenising and anti-cultural tendencies inform our conception of WASPs.
I think many men bet that they can exploit alienation for their own gain, so they become complicit in their own isolation. That's also why they simply won't acknowledge capitalism as the cause: anything that threatens hierarchy threatens this fantasy. They refuse help because they dream of abuse.
Such a fun event. The volcano developed secondary vents that got cute names, and a famous painter lived in an improvised shack nearby to register and paint the eruption, and had his leg amputated after suffering an injury there.
I think it's hilarious that American conservatives are threatened by every single thing and person in existence. Constantly at war with thought, interaction, culture, labour, action, space, and time. Terrified of losing their essence, they never develop actual properties. They are hostile zeros.
Terfs, LGB without the T's, Trump-supporting latinos, and bigoted new atheists are actually arguing that they deserve a higher spot in the hierarchy, unlike -those- trans/migrant/muslims. That's how you get your "cultural Christians" and "white supremacist latinos".
The same way people whose rights are not as explicitly threatened do: gambling for a chance to, one day maybe, occupy a higher position in the hierarchy. Threatening the possibility of using the hierarchy (what they call "freedom") is what they find intolerable about progressives and leftists.
instead of treating queerness & transness as a minority it probably better helps to understand that it is basically the protagonist force of the still-ongoing long 21st century version of the sexual revolution
Lo ridículo es que hagan tantos, con presupuestos tan elevados, y esperen éxito inmediato. Más enfurecedor es que presionen a los estudios para que cada juego que desarrollan pueda convertirse en uno.
Defining concentric circles of in-groups and out-groups facilitates the establishment of hierarchies where the lower stratum's labour is directed towards the top. If that lower stratum is "othered", uprooted and foreign, they have no leverage and no power to negotiate with.
Diablos, pensé que el mundo se había librado de Prager desde que se tronó la espalda ese gusano pálido.
A teleological account of reproductive biology will always be misogynistic because the idea that the reproductive functions of our bodies have purposes is foundational to patriarchy.
Estoy leyendo "El Método Yakarta" y me ha producido una ira incontenible descubrir lo que Estados Unidos le hizo a Indonesia. Y a todos nosotros, realmente.
Bertrand Russell was spot on when he said that Christianity procured "being" good instead of "doing" good. And that kinda bleeds out as a culture where evil spiritual substances are generated through action, so only inaction is truly blameless.
Lo mejor de Sapiens es que no me gustó, tanto que busqué libros mejores que lo criticaran y llegué a "El Amanecer del Todo". Y luego buscando críticas a ese encontré el canal de "What is politics?".
"why are you enjoying life and pleasure and friendship? You should be having children and working endlessly". Like, are those children going to enjoy life? Is anyone in this vision of humanity?.
Their idea of legacy and future is just more of this misery. They have found their years of discipline and work so unrewarding, that they can only bet on its continuation to justify it. A sunken life fallacy. And if others are not suffering, their suffering is meaningless, and that's intolerable.
It's about time I announced a project that I've been working on in the last year... I wrote a book! 'Volcanoes: 10 things you should know' published by @orionbooks.bsky.social Seven Dials will be out in September. It's available to pre-order now. Links: linktr.ee/volcanologist
The left is not silent on the alienation of capitalism and patriarchy and social media radicalizing men and profit oriented dating sites and no third spaces and an unstable future and economy leading less people to settle down and people working more We just don’t frame it as “men not getting laid”
That's why incels become violent misogynists: they are not blaming women aimlessly, but cultivating and maintaining coercion structures. They both resent the conditions and desperately want to maintain them until it's their turn.
Most men have a veiled interest in NOT recognising or addressing the structures that lead to their isolation (destruction of communities, competition in the workplace, patriarchal standards, etc) because they'd rather gamble for a chance to, one day, use those structures.
Jinkx Monsoon about J.K. Rowling’s transphobia: “I know that oftentimes, female authors use initials so that people assume it’s a male writer, J.K. Rowling was unsatisfied with the way that the world saw her, and then she transitioned herself so the world would perceive her the way she wanted to.”
Stand by this: www.politico.com/newsletters/...
It just occurred to me that Rowling, who tends to associate physical appearance with moral quality, simply registers Graham as an "evil magically twisted man-creature". Which is hilarious, that he actually is an evil sleaze, but she only believes that he is because he's ugly.
Me, a Mexican, hearing that hypothetical while being fully aware of the kind of bloodshed that the American War on Drugs caused in Mexico. And how our government has continuously satisfied American interests by suppressing social movements and avoiding meaningful reforms:
So yesterday I learned about Ava Cordero, a transgender woman who, in 2007, sued Jeffrey Epstein alleging he sexually abused her when she was 16. Her lawsuit was filed in 2007 while Epstein was negotiating a plea deal in Florida for abusing other girls, but her claims were mocked and dismissed
As Dem politicians like Pete Buttigieg throw trans athletes under the bus and efforts grow to erase their records, I highly recommend this book on how fascism shaped modern sports to ostracize queer and BIPOC people and naturalize gender hierarchies.
Psalm 82 is fascinating already in translation, but it’s many layers weirder in Hebrew. We start with a really odd choice of terminology for God. Since the Psalm uses “Elohim” to mean “gods” in a few places, you’d think they would use the Tetragrammaton for God to avoid ambiguity. But nope.
Virus feeling violently rejected by the immune system of a body it's destroying: These benign bacteria and tissue cells don't belong here.
Conversely, harmless religious practice is very similar to the consumption of fiction, so bigoted atheism is very similar in structure to the pedantic arguments used by older people that scoff at entertainment and media. "This is bad because it's not true, you should only do productive things".
"Racial and gender differences are Intrinsic, prescriptive, and supernaturally ordained as markers for differential treatment". It's much easier to call religious abuse out when these structures are identified. And it's also very much distinct from harmless religious practice.
I think there is a very clear structuring of religion that must be called out: when it undermines knowledge of reality such that unfair transactions are facilitated. "Marry someone and give the entirety of your life and labour to them in exchange for spiritual rewards".
"Thankfully"
Like, eugenics is a whole ass movement and conception of the world, not a spirit that is conjured when "genes" and "good" are uttered together.
This why conservatives latched on to the framing of leftists as "whiny hyper-regulators". Symbolic acts of bigotry, aimed to maintain hierarchies, are usually backed and sustained by systemic and materialistic structures. By putting the "meaning" in the forefront, they get away with the "doing".
The problem here is the absence of a sense of proportion. Which is something conservatives cultivate continuously, reducing morality to "meaning". But progressive people seem to fall into it out of despair. "Things are so bleak that I'll get my satisfaction out of scolding the easiest target, us".
"I'm so smart that I don't understand a thing and also are not curious at all. Truly, I'm the standard of humanity."
My favourite is Netflix's Star Trek content warning: "Sex, Fear"
This book is crazy bc you will read some of the most heinous, unbelievable shit and then when you go check the cited source it's literally the CIA's website
Algo curioso de la "campaña del catolicismo vs islam" es que... Es infructífera. Dejen me explico: A diferencia del islam, la verdadera religión que HA INVADIDO espacios y que, de hecho, sí ha tenido órdenes de eliminar católicos es el EVANGELISMO www.sdmorrison.org/when-the-cia...
Y no uso una palabra tan "LinkedIn" a la ligera. Lo que lo define es un espacio de empresas cristianas, editoriales y productoras de medios, que canalizan las posturas convenientes (pro-libre mercado, anti-LGBT, anti-ciencia) a las distintas denominaciones.
La Iglesia Católica amerita todas las críticas que se le hacen como institución y tradición, partícipe y autora de abusos. Pero como religión contiene una multitud de corrientes culturales y sociales, muchas admirables. El cristianismo evangélico no. Es puro "networking" gringo.
Oh, adoro que hables de esto. Genuinamente, el cristianismo evangélico es una fuerza anti-cultural, definida por un mercado y no una teología, que facilita el camino para la predominancia de los intereses de Estados Unidos.
"En el núcleo de todo esto hay un círculo diminutos de personas que han sido envalentonadas para transformar los principios feministas en propaganda de odio." medium.com/@missfredawa...
American Evangelicalism genuinely is an anti-cultural force. Walsh is catholic, but his complete disdain for everything engaging is antithetical to the rich cultural traditions of Catholicism.
Es como dicen siempre los de RedLetterMedia. Las películas "tan malas que son buenas" solo funcionan como tal si alguien genuinamente se estaba esforzando por hacer algo bueno... y fracasó estrepitosamente. Si la hacen mala intencionalmente resulta tedioso.
A timely follow-up to this story: John MacArthur is dead. He was a racist, sexist, conspiracy theorist who protected abusers. That's it. That's the obit. www.christianitytoday.com/2025/07/died...
I’ve been reporting on militant accelerationism — a hyper-violent tendency within the white power movement that seeks to bring about a white ethno-state though industrial sabotage, racist mass murder, antisemitic vandalism and harassing LGBTQ+ people at drag shows — since 2022. 1/4
The thing is, this is a one-way mirror. We don't need to engage directly with the malignant lunatics to learn from them. There's nothing new to extract from talking with the grifters or pundits or trolls or nazis. They monologue endlessly, anyways.
"Oh no, nos mentiste sobre tus intenciones originales, aunque desde entonces nos hemos vuelto amigos y has cambiado. Ahora vamos a pasar 40 minutos de la película ridículamente enojados contigo en medio de una crisis mucho más importante".
This is just another version of blaming the outcome of the 2024 elections on trans activism
I liked this movie when I was like 9 because of the minerals. Loved me a crystal. Loved me rocks.