SatanicNotMessianic

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[–] SatanicNotMessianic@lemmy.ml 49 points 2 years ago (12 children)

I’d just like to make the note that the men’s liberation movement is the exact opposite of the men’s rights movement, despite the two sounding similar.

The men’s lib movement was founded specifically as being complementary to women’s lib and uses many of the same approaches and intellectual analyses. It explicitly rejects the MRA/red pill narratives while still trying to figure out masculine toxicity and honor cultures, as well as trying to elevate the idea that too few men seek or are able to receive the care they deserve. It’s very much against the patriarchy.

Unfortunately, like many communities on lemmy, it’s less active here than it was on Reddit, but it’s worth using the term as a search of nothing else.

[–] SatanicNotMessianic@lemmy.ml 102 points 2 years ago

Hey man, I’m really hoping you have been able to get someone to speak to about your situation as well as medication to help manage your symptoms. I did not take those options, and it has taken me years to recover.

It sounds like you’re still carrying a lot of that weight, and I hope you can put it down.

[–] SatanicNotMessianic@lemmy.ml 19 points 2 years ago (1 children)

Every year I’m convinced that more and more people are just Andy Kaufman in disguise.

[–] SatanicNotMessianic@lemmy.ml 23 points 2 years ago (3 children)

That’s also how “Tucker” Carlson got his nickname, from what I heard.

[–] SatanicNotMessianic@lemmy.ml 12 points 2 years ago

I think he meant “SECDEE!”

[–] SatanicNotMessianic@lemmy.ml 12 points 2 years ago

I think they’ll fuck it up the same way that truck protest in DC fucked up. They’ll spend a couple of weeks sleeping in parking lots and pissing in Gatorade bottles while live streaming (no pun intended) asking for donations. Then there be a cult split where multiple people claim ownership of the movement and denounce each other, and they’ll all be very sad that although people follow them on a streaming service and post about how great they are, 99% of them are going to be limiting themselves to Truth Social support and $25 donations.

These things are like Only Fans for fascists, but they’re also in direct competition with each other for a limited grift audience.

[–] SatanicNotMessianic@lemmy.ml 18 points 2 years ago

It’s just political posturing.

  1. They don’t have a military. The National Guard units would come under the command of the President of the US, and any units in rebellion would know they’re facing courts martial for crimes that would be career limiting in that the penalties could include anything from life in prison to execution. It’s literally treason by the legal definition.
  2. Even if any significant number of troops were to choose to violate the law, modern war isn’t about riflemen. There’s a massive infrastructure required to keep tanks and planes running, not to mention things like carrier battle groups. Northrop and Raytheon aren’t going to be forfeiting USG contracts to sell missile systems to Ohio.
  3. Only the president has the nuclear codes, so nuclear blackmail can’t work either.

There isn’t going to be another civil war. Too much has changed between then and now in terms of military and economic organization. This is just Texas whacking off yet again, as they did under Obama and Bill Clinton.

The very real risks we’re facing are the election of Donald Trump - this is the biggest threat - and far right domestic terrorism. The former is an existential threat to the United States and should be treated as such. The latter is a law enforcement issue and should be treated as such. I suspect the Proud Boys are infiltrated all to hell as are the other major organizations, but there’s the potential for a significant amount of harm being done on a larger than 9/11 scale, although it’d be drawn out.

[–] SatanicNotMessianic@lemmy.ml 22 points 2 years ago* (last edited 2 years ago) (4 children)

Not only is this just about the only deadnaming I support, I think we should all use the Spanish rolled “R.”

Also it’s the only time I’d be comfortable saying “No, where are you really from?”

[–] SatanicNotMessianic@lemmy.ml 21 points 2 years ago (5 children)

I am willing to lay a bet that they completely fuck this up.

[–] SatanicNotMessianic@lemmy.ml 62 points 2 years ago (6 children)

There was a quote that I’m remembering coming from Nixon about Vietnam that observed that when he lost Cronkite, he lost the war. I’m seeing a shift in the mainstream American press that’s increasingly highlighting what in all honesty are war crimes using the kinds of bleak language normally reserved for things like civil wars in Africa.

I can only see Israel, particularly while still under the Netanyahu government, becoming more and more isolated from the rest of the world.

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