now give this man a posthumous Nobel peace prize
It's definitely odd, but I think I have a good insight.
I fell into that pipeline, and I think it happened in part because atheism and online atheism had that initial 'facts and logic' streak - relying on 'biology', and especially evolutionary biology (that creationists deny).
When issues of gender came to the front, an appeal to evolutionary biology made a lot of sense to me, as it was a 'language' I spoke - far more than social biology.
But that's not all. It's the free-speech and liberalism angle too - lots of atheists rallied against the Christianity in schools, in law, and the political system, etc etc - to an end that being blasphemous was the rebellious thing to do. To be able to criticise god is free speech, and for a time it did seem quite transgressive. To judge these Christian systems in the West, you inevitably must eventually critique Islam too (rightfully so) - the difficulty is that Islam is so wrapped up in imperialist messaging, foreign policy, and decades of islamophobia, that it was susceptible to highjacking by those who wanted to use it as such. It's also difficult because in most islamic countries, the west has funded far right Islam to be the very worst version of itself, and provoked it to expressing itself violently. It's this history that New Atheism was missing.
Look at the various crossovers - Milo Yiannopoulous bridged being an atheist, who was also gay, who was also was an antifeminist. Hitchens was an atheist antifeminist liberal, who switched sides in the Iraq war to be pro war. Peterson was free speech. Dawkins was a scientist, atheist, but anti feminist, and islamophobic.
It all became a real muddle, but each character in this era did have one attractive part of their calling card that sucked people in, and once you were in, the algorithm did the rest of the work and kept feeding you worse and worse.
When I was 13, I was arguing with Christians online about being pro choice, pro gay, pro blasphemy - I was a very progressive 13 year old. But with only instincts guiding me, my 'values' aligned most with libertarianism - particularly saying whatever I wanted to say, and judging other cultures for not allowing a level of 'freedom' to women and queer people - essentially believing in one part rainbow imperialism (before the trans rights debate really took off), and one part snarky British liberal intellectualism. This just sent me down the wrong path.
In hindsight, what I needed was a history lesson. Atheism will devolve into this sort of shit if it is not accompanied by anti-imperialism. As soon as I found anti imperialism, the world suddenly made sense, and I shed my manosphere exoskeleton in a matter of months (and years - I'm sure it's still an ongoing process to purge it all).
That's crazy. I wonder how much of it is in tandem with young people's religious revival.
we need some LSW emotes
I said forget about it cuh
I once went to a sit-in (UK) against a police powers bill, and police literally started beating people on the floor with their shields. Lots of people got it on video.
The order was given to disperse, most people however continued sitting. The police then advanced with their shield wall and started clobbering/raking people on the floor using bottom of their shields. Truly was one of the most barbaric things I've ever seen.
Here's the footage:
Excuse the cringe beginning, I was only a kid and I was trying out a new 'shtick'. The police violence clips you see weren't recorded by me, but I was there when it all went down - I was just too busy seeing it with my own eyes to record!
I once went to a sit-in (UK) against a police powers bill, and police literally started beating people on the floor with their shields. Lots of people got it on video.
The order was given to disperse, most people however continued sitting. The police then advanced with their shield wall and started clobbering/raking people on the floor using bottom of their shields. Truly was one of the most barbaric things I've ever seen.
Here's the footage:
Excuse the cringe beginning, I was only a kid and I was trying out a new 'shtick'. The police violence clips you see weren't recorded by me, but I was there when it all went down - I was just too busy seeing it with my own eyes to record!
from his own diapies
As the saying goes, there's only 3 things that can keep America accountable. The senate, the courts, and the Soviet Union.
True, but the UK is just about to vote on a new bill decriminalising it up to 24 weeks, without doctors approval needed.
plus he got his ass handed to him by a mexican and a muslim
I'll allow their use of AI.
Sadly they've got a Ricky Gervais video as the ai subtitling sample, but then again it is his anti Hollywood golden globes speech... which was essentially controlled opposition.
Nevertheless.
the living embodiment of 'something smells fishy'
I will give my life to protect it
look at that nose
Clearly an absolutely pedo
Payments for 'travel' appear to align with a September 2018 trip to the Bahamas, which was reportedly part of the Justice Department’s investigation into Gaetz.
Another “travel” transaction in early January 2019 appears to sync with Gaetz’s alleged arrangements for both women to fly to New York for sex and to accompany him to an appearance on Fox News, according to the women’s attorney Joel Leppard.
In 2021, Gaetz said during an interview that he believes “someone is trying to recategorize my generosity to ex-girlfriends as something more untoward.”
According to a lawyer representing the women, one of his clients testified that she witnessed Gaetz having sex with a girl when she was 17 years old. The attorney representing that woman, who is now in her 20s, has also said that she was a high school student at the time “and there were witnesses.”
The last year has certainly been bad for 'jewish pedophile cabal controls the West's politicians' allegations, but you have to remember that the inverse relationship is more true - that Israel is owned by America, and America is owned by various business interests.
Israel serves American interests, and then vice versa. Money and religion have completely congealed in one joint pool.