• betterdeadthanreddit@lemmy.world
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    4 months ago

    For now, he’s busy collecting evidence on those soon-to-be criminals and building a reputation for his cover identity. Wouldn’t fool anyone if some new law gives him what he says he wants and then he starts showing up at the local gloryholes the next day.

  • BarneyPiccolo@lemmy.today
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    Okay, so we know what this guy is fixated on.

    Time to start a betting pool. I’m taking “Caught in a seedy motel room, smoking meth with 3 male naked underage MAGA Pentagon interns.”

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      I love how clear it is that they spend more time imagining gay sex than most gay folk. Then he gets an erection, gets angry, hits his wife, and blames the gays.

  • meme_historian@lemmy.dbzer0.com
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    4 months ago

    Apart from the fucker being a condemnable fascist that’ll hopefully do us all the favor of greeting the worms soon, he sure has an interesting fixation.

    Maybe I’m doing this “being straight”-thing wrong… But what other men do with their genitals and orifices is of very little interest and importance to me

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    When I was young I worked a grunt-work job with some repulsive people, people I never would have associated with otherwise. Once I was doing some grunt-work with a guy I’ll call Tony. (His real name is also Tony. Fuck you, Tony.)

    Tony was a legal adult. Tony had graduated from high school and had a full time job, a car, a place to live, etc. Tony was the sort of performatively super-hetero guy we used to call “macho.” Always making comments about women’s bodies, taking every opportunity to suggest a level of sexual experience he surely did not actually possess, etc. I was very young, I was very naive, and even I thought Tony was full of shit.

    On one particular day, Tony was cheerfully and self-righteously showing how macho he was by ranting about “the f*ggots,” how much he hated them, how despicable they were. As if this was just a totally normal topic of conversation among young blue-collar men-of-the-world such as ourselves.

    I told Tony that I was actually in favor of encouraging as many men to “turn gay” (I never imagined that was a real thing, I was just trying to express this in a way he’d hear) as possible.

    Tony’s demeanor changed. His face darkened. He looked at me and said something like “What the FUCK did you just say?” He was genuinely upset.

    I told Tony that if more men were gay, that could mean more unattached women in the dating pool for me. If more men were gay, it would mean more unmatched ladies out there for him.

    I wouldn’t say it took him a long time to work through this, exactly, but the contortions of his face made it clear there was some working-through involved. He was sort of floored. Derailed. Off-balance. He tried to recover: “Oh yeah, that would work out that way,” with a weak smile and not much conviction. It was pretty obvious that this had never occurred to him, not for one second.

    I’ve wondered sometimes, in the years since, if he was closeted himself. But how could I know, really?

    Closeted or not, I think he was into homophobia for the permission it gave him to hate An Other without reservation or regret. He thought of homosexual people as exotic and far-away, a phenomenon with no actual relevance to his daily life. And of course, that very attitude, that culture, that environment, made it next to impossible for him to meet any real person who would openly identify as homosexual. His hate made homosexuality exotic in his environment, and that exoticism gave him permission to indulge his hateful impulses, a vicious cycle.

    • oceancloud@discuss.online
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      Queer men are sometimes more masculine-looking than straight men, both in appearance and in interests, if I can for a second stereotype a group of people I know fairly well.

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      Interesting insight. I hope Tony didn’t end up predictably, beating on some poor woman in a trailer park.

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        Mercifully, I got an opportunity to leave that job, and instead work at a public library.

        As a result, I never saw Tony again.

        So that’s funny.

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    Sounds like guy in the closet. No one cares what other folks do as consenting adults that much unless they are trying to block scrutiny of something they do that they are ashamed of.

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    Just a reminder that if you haven’t already, check out if there’s a Pink Pistols, Liberal Gun Club, or Socialist Rifle Association (SRA) chapter for your area.

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        I’ve wondered about that. I suppose failing trust in your local instances of those organizations, then one should strive to build solidarity in their local communities (which, really, we should probably be doing anyway), though I know that isn’t practicable for many.

        The best option in that situation may be, loathe as I am to say it, Reddit. There’s a liberalgunowners community in the Fediverse, but it’s not quite as established as Reddit’s yet (be the change you want to see in the world!). Not to say that subreddit isn’t a target for bad actors (it certainly is), but it’s at least easier to control your exposure to risk.

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          then one should strive to build solidarity in their local communities

          There’s this really notorious wokescold in my local organizing community who joins EVERY leftist space and fractures it. I stopped being friends with them after discovering they were trying to blackmail and defraud a local LGBT charity. Although they’ve been banned from a lot of organizing groups, their method of aggression is to frame themselves as a righteously indignant victim, so it takes a really long time to be able to effectively call them out on their behavior. Their complaints about other organizers would, if repeated by back to a third party who didn’t know the context, seem reasonable or sympathetic.

          I thought they were making all these accusations due to past trauma or mental illness, and I was already distancing myself from them when I found out about the blackmail. But this wasn’t just one person. This is a Type of Person who is allowed to exist unquestioned in most Leftist communities.

          Meanwhile, a chapter of one local organizing group has sexual assault prevention bylaws which were written by an alleged serial sex pest or alleged rapist, depending on which victim story you believe. Said individual has allegedly convinced multiple formerly homeless trans women, some decades younger than themselves, into cohabiting with them in their large estate home. After these bylaws were published, most female-born people left the organization, leaving only male-born people and very early transition transfems (who were promptly taken advantage of, allegedly).

          The best option in that situation may be, loathe as I am to say it, Reddit.

          Um…no? Not only is it full of bots and 4chan psyops but it’s a toxic environment even if none of those things were true. That’s aside from the fact that Reddit is full of violent transphobia.

          There is no Leftist party or organizing space. Not for lack of trying, but you’ve got to be willing to critically think in order to keep these communities alive.

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      And of course, no problems with pedophilia.

      They really backed off on the gay pedophile tropes…wonder why?

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        DW: I don’t think that I’m making that association. I think the LGBTQ+ acronym, that whole chain, is sort of a sexual alliance of people who are defying traditional biblical norms. And pedophilia is one of those things that defies those norms.

        Nah, he’s still saying it. It’s in there.

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    People like him made me reconsider freedom of religion. I think any religion advocating for stripping other people’s rights and or wanting to dominion over society first should lose any state funding and tax exemptions, and any religiously motivated act of terror or conspiracy attempt of subverting secular democracy should be also be punished with one’s religious rights getting stripped in prison.

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      All religions should lose state funding and tax exemptions. You can still practice your religion but why are we giving them money.

      That’s my interpretation of separate of Church and State.