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The post Xitter web has spawned soo many ā€œesotericā€ right wing freaks, but thereā€™s no appropriate sneer-space for them. Iā€™m talking redscare-ish, reality challenged ā€œculture criticsā€ who write about everything but understand nothing. Iā€™m talking about reply-guys who make the same 6 tweets about the same 3 subjects. Theyā€™re inescapable at this point, yet I donā€™t see them mocked (as much as they should be)
Like, there was one dude a while back who insisted that women couldnā€™t be surgeons because they didnā€™t believe in the moon or in stars? I think each and every one of these guys is uniquely fucked up and if I canā€™t escape them, I would love to sneer at them.

  • jax@awful.systemsEnglish
    19Ā·
    6 months ago

    nsfw, and at a risk of beating a dead horse, but this article, although brief, does a decent job at connecting the dots between ā€œsilicon valley pronatalismā€ and regular olā€™ nationalism/white supremacy, while debunking some of their EA bullshit too

    The Collinses are leading spokespeople for a movement called pronatalism, popular in Silicon Valley. Elon Musk, a father of 11, is one of its leading proponents. ā€œPopulation collapse due to low birth rates is a much bigger risk to civilization than global warming,ā€ Musk tweeted.

    Demographers disagree: there is no collapse, and one is not even predicted. Such evidence has not stopped the rise of pronatalism in response to an imagined ā€œpopulation bomb.ā€

    In short, the problem for pronatalism is not declining reproduction, but who is reproducing. Pronatalism is inextricably tied to nationalism alongside race, class and ethnicityā€¦ Here, nationalism tips into ethnonationalism and reproductive debates descend into violent racism.

    • Soyweiser@awful.systemsEnglish
      17Ā·
      6 months ago

      and at a risk of beating a dead horse

      None of us are doctors, so we cannot declare the horse legally dead. So please keep beating it so it doesnā€™t stand back up and turn us all into paperclips.

      E: it also was a good article.

      • froztbyte@awful.systemsOPEnglish
        15Ā·
        6 months ago

        Yeah.

        I had parents that did this shit (and more). Emphasis on ā€œhadā€: I walked the fuck away from the whole goddamn lot.

        Does my fucking head in to see this kind of shit not only being given airtime but done so without criticism in the coverage.

      • BigMuffin69@awful.systemsEnglish
        4Ā·
        5 months ago

        I donā€™t understand why the wife does not simply consume her husband, a parenting style Iā€™ve developed from observing the noble praying mantis in the wild.