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It's not his fault if people take him seriously. That's a result of a pervasive lack of political education and an unhinged focus on "calling out" every instance of everything that one doesn't like. If the left wing would just cease paying attention to freaks like BAP, they'd be consigned to small corners of the internet doing their weird bits.

Instead, you amplify these people, they literally feed on your outrage. And the fact that there is outrage is precisely what ends up giving them credibility.

It's mentioned in the article. Bronze Age Pervert. He's one of the people that are loosely lumped into things like the manosphere or "dark enlightenment." He writes about how men are weak these days and need to be more manly and how women shouldn't have rights.

He's also known for constantly showing off his body and posting images of young bodybuilders as some kind of icons of masculinity. He's also known for challenging people to "winner takes all" wrestling which is a "form" of wrestling where the winner fucks the loser.

That's why I say he's a homosexual fantasist. His whole deal doesn't stem from a serious political commitment to curtailing women's rights. It's a fantasy about powerful, strong, sexually dominant men which is actually quite common in the gay community (I know, I am gay).

Why is vegan lingo so infantile? Veggies. You can cram you veggies up your asshole. I'm having a burger.

They're not wrong. Lemmy across all its instances has a real hall monitor vibe. It's because most people here are both trans and in IT.

Prostitution is rape. Legal prostitution is legalized rape. Simple as. I reject your vulgar Marxist sophistry. 20th century communists were all against prostitution. Go read some Kollontai.

I've been thinking about this and it seems developed and developing countries have some kind of an ideological thing against ectoparasitic medications. There's a common delusion that stuff like lice, fleas, bedbugs, etc, are very rare because everything and everyone is so clean these days.

But it's not really true. All these parasites circulate, especially now that people travel so much for business and pleasure. Also, none of these parasites really care how clean your body and your house are, all they "care" about is drinking your blood.

I really think if we could get over this wrong idea, and we could start actual government-funded research into effective and safe ectoparasitic drugs for human use, we'd stand a much better chance at ending bedgbugs and other stuff once for all. Environmental treatments have been proven ineffective time and time again. They work for a while and then the bugs develop resistance. We need a way to make our blood unpalatable to them.

It seems like you like vanilla and chocolate and not plant “milk.”

If that is true then the only recourse will be antiparasitic drugs. Ivermectin seems to kill bedbugs but not for very long. Fluralaner seems promising.

It’s very interesting that when we treat animals for parasites we treat the animal itself but for humans we believe that something as nebulous as “treating the space” is actually possible.

When the world is ready to actual solve bedbugs it’ll solve them through a pill you take.

There’s no other solution than to treat them the way we did the first time — with DDT.

Bedbug populations are not necessarily increasing but returning to normal pre-DDT levels.

There’s btw no reason not to use DDT. The cancer fear was overblown. Obviously it’s not a substance that should be available over the counter, but there’s no reason why qualified and trained personell shouldn’t be able to use it.