• randomquery [none/use name,any]@hexbear.net
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    What would happen if capital succeeded in smashing the Republic of Soviets? There would set in an era of the blackest reaction in all the capitalist and colonial countries, the working class and the oppressed peoples would be seized by the throat, the positions of international communism would be lost.

    Joseph Stalin

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      Can someone explain the psychology on why being a delinquent is so attractive to normies? Like why is good universally despised and evil is universally beloved?

      Even among Brits, why does the Amerikkkan culture of being a mannerless scumbag appeal to them so much?

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        I think it’s cargo cult behaviour in the case of stupid, powerless, losers. They see powerful people being evil and think that by emulating that behaviour they too will become powerful

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    Rise in anti-abortion sentiment is inevitable when there’s an all-out campaign by the ruling class against bodily autonomy laundered through gender conservative reaction against trans people, but I’m still surprised by the age breakdown here

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          The whole “lol atheists are neckbeards and they have bad taste in hats” has to be one of the most astroturfed character assassinations of an entire movement.

          Literally just “being smart is bad because it makes you a neeeeeeeeeerd!” but repackaged into less dorky language.

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          I mean, looking at the big names of the new atheist movement I think both support violating women’s rights.

          Though they’ve turned into ‘cultural Christians’ now.

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            I’m still baffled by this. I was an atheist because I was anti-sexist and anti-racist. It was the racism and sexism of Christians that made me an atheist.

            I don’t know how you end up an atheist in a Christian majority country and continue being sexist and racist or how you target Islam more than Christianity.

            If you want to be sexist and racist, just be a Christian! It’s right there! It’s the easy default option here!

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              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).

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              because they still want to own women, they just dont want to own them religiously.

              elevatorgate was the watershed moment for the “atheist movement”.

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            Watching how the atheism community evolves over time is interesting bc you see the schisms between people who actually espouse atheism and those who embrace the ‘cultural Christian’ archetype. It’s pretty obvious early on in their careers which path they will end up following

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    A lot millennials back in 201x were extremely confident that right-wing reactionary thought would somehow “die out” and they dont need to do nothing. Guess what, those reactionaries have a massive “youth outreach” to recruit new members and they noticed those overconfident statements.

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    This is probably related to the “Nobody has sex these days” statistics, because, like there’s a very obvious self-interested reason for young men who are having sexual relations to be supportive of abortion, that they don’t want the responsibility of being dads