SpookyBogMonster
@SpookyBogMonster@lemmy.ml
- Comment on Post title lol 10 hours ago:
But consider:
Emojis have no soul, and will never see the light of Heaven
Text based emoticons, meanwhile :) :( :3 :o Are God’s chosen tone indicator, animated with the breath of life
- Comment on Who?¿ 3 days ago:
2 Manly P. Hall – known for writings on esoteric philosophy.
That picture is actually of Gerald Gardner, the guy who founded (kind of? Its complicated) the religion of Wicca.
To answer the question though, white Jesus easily has the most toxic fan club, by sheer volume of followers.
Anton LaVey was an edgy fuck though, so he probably gets 2nd place for just being kinda cringe ¯_(ツ)_/¯
- Comment on Sneacking a meme in before .world updates 3 days ago:
Log off and come suck my gock, fuckwad lmao
- Comment on Sneacking a meme in before .world updates 3 days ago:
Get the ever living fuck off Lemmy, we don’t want misogynistic dipshits like you
- Comment on They cannot see the things that will hurt them 3 days ago:
I don’t really want to argue with a fellow leftist here while there are liberals attacking us all over the place
Me, an ML, defending my anarchist comrades from the liberals o7
- Comment on Hee Hee Ho Ho Ha Ha 4 days ago:
A left wing political commentator on the internet, who’s popular among the 18-35 set
- Comment on They cannot see the things that will hurt them 4 days ago:
Somalia is a failed state, not a project built around anarchist organizing principles
- Comment on They cannot see the things that will hurt them 4 days ago:
How can a territory with borders containing hundreds of thousands of individuals hide?
Real Wakanda EZLN
- Comment on We thought it would be free forever 6 days ago:
Get your ass on Soulseek
- Comment on 😎😎😎 1 week ago:
The “Recent Data” in question was largely a piece of satire which claimed that the Grindr CEO called the 2024 RNC, “Grindr’s Super Bowl” this never actually happened.
There were also claims that Grindr crashed during the 2024 RNC:
Over 1,000 users reported a Grindr outage in the Milwaukee area around 4 p.m. on Tuesday, according to Downdetector, a website that collects online service status information.
The Grindr app also allegedly experienced problems in the Cream City on Thursday— the fourth and final day of the RNC — as well as in Chicago, Los Angeles, and New York. However, Grindr’s official status updates show there hasn’t been an outage since May.
According to Newsweek, those appear to be unsubstantiated.
Further, the majority of the spike in Grindr traffic during the RNC was due to journalists, curious locals, and law enforcement, all of whom got on the app with the intent to monitor the goings on.
And why would all those people want to do that? Because we’ve created this largely fake “gay on gay violence” trope wherein all of the people most opposed to queer rights are secretly queer themselves.
People believe this trope, everyone flocks to Grindr during the RNC to watch. Then the inflated Grindr numbers, of people there to see the supposed flood of secret Gay conservatives, are cited as proof that the flood of secret Gay conservatives is real.
It’s like if I claimed a Rhino was ice skating downtown. The fact that people showed up to see if there was actually an ice skating rhino, is not proof that such a thing ever existed. It’s pointing at shadows cast on the wall, and mistaking them for reality.
- Comment on 😎😎😎 1 week ago:
Ehh, I know we’re in the shitpost community, but if I can be serious for a moment, this “Homophobes are actually secretly gay” schtick always rubs me the wrong way.
It’s not actually that common of a phenomenon, and the idea absolves straight people of their own culpability in the oppression of queer people, by pinning it on an imagined “Gay on Gay violence”, as opposed to actual systemic factors
- Comment on 😎😎😎 1 week ago:
Mr. Hands, is that you?
- Comment on Your opinion is important 1 week ago:
There wasn’t a single American slave revolt that contributed substantially to the end of slavery.
Except I literally gave you an example of one…The massive general strike of slaves which crippled the southern economy
- Comment on Your opinion is important 1 week ago:
Fellow white transfem here, I definitely agree that there’s a time and place for unaffected people to advocate for a minority.
That said, if I’m being charitable to OP, there are absolutely times when minorities get talked over in ways that really suck.
I once attended a listening circle/support group that came together as a piece of transphobic legislation was likely to pass in my state. I went, expecting a good mix of trans folks and allies, and that we’d be coming together to vent our frustrations and figure out a way forward.
But what I got instead was a room full of mostly cis people, talking over the trans people in the room, and being all sad and morose, like the bill in question was already a foregone conclusion. Like the trans people in the room were a lost cause to mourn, rather than worth helping.
And that… Sucked! That bill didn’t pass, but it wasn’t because any of the cis people in that room did anything to help.
- Comment on Your opinion is important 1 week ago:
Slavery didn’t end because the slaves revolted. It ended because white people fought to abolish it.
Holy revisionist history!!
White abolitionists absolutely played a role in ending chattel slavery in the United States, not the least of which were John Brown, the 48ers, and others who were doing what they did for the goal of Abolition primarily.
The vast majority of northern politicians, generals, and soldiers, were engaged in the Civil war to preserve the Union, first and foremost. Abolition was a distant secondary concern for most of them.
Furthermore, Slaves weren’t just sitting on their asses waiting to be freed by the benevolence of white people, they were agents of history all on their own. W.E.B. DuBois argued in Black Reconstruction in America that an underdiscussed turning point in the Civil War was when slaves engaged in one of the largest general strikes in American history. A strike which crippled the southern economy and thus its ability to sustain the war.
So yes, Slavery did end in very large part because the slaves revolted.
- Comment on Ups and downs 1 week ago:
Pretty sure this is fetish content…
- Comment on Killing the intellectual future of Iran. Science has no borders. 1 week ago:
The person you responded to was talking about the United States’ war in Korea:
They utterly destroyed the North of Korea during their genocidal anti-communist war, for example
You responded with:
“This is just like what the US did to my favourite monarchy 75 years ago” - a totally normal leftist response to a war crime happening today
The DPRK, in no way, resembled a monarchy prior to the Korean war, like you implied. The DPRK developing such a centralized cult of personality, and took up it’s particular foreign policy positions, as a direct result of US war and occupation.
The US and Israel indiscriminately bombing civilian targets in Iran with the explicit intention of inducing some sort of societal collapse is absolutely comparable to the Korean war.
The response of Iran to dig in its heels, appoint the previous Supreme Leader’s son as his successor, and take up such an aggressive posture, is also a direct result of US intervention, and has clear parallels to the DPRK example.
These countries, like Iran and North Korea, are the way that they are, not in a vacuum. Not because They’re ontologically evil. But because they’re responding to genuinely horrific conditions imposed upon them by the United States.
Whatever we might feel about them. Even if I don’t like that the DPRK has developed this cult of personality around the Kims, that fact is secondary to the material reality of what has caused this state of affairs in the first place.
You’re not getting dragged in this thread because “Le Stoopid Takies Luv Teh Commie Monarchy!1!” But because you’re missing the forest for the trees.
If you actually care about the People of the DPRK, and ending the Kim’s cult of personality, then you should want a formal end to the Korean War, the withdrawal of all US military assets from the peninsula, and for there to be UN mediated talks between North and South Korea about how they might be able to integrate, politically, socially, and economically.
Similarly, if you actually care about the people of Iran, and the wider middle east, you should want an end to this war, withdrawl of all US military bases from the region, the dissolution of Israel, in favor of a multi-ethnic Palestine with right of return and reparations for all Palestinians, and a laying down of arms for all Iranian-backed non-state actors who would no longer need to fight in the absence of Israel.
Complaining about Tankies online does none of this
- Comment on Just a friendly welcome post 1 week ago:
:)
- Comment on Just a friendly welcome post 1 week ago:
:(
- Comment on Just a friendly welcome post 1 week ago:
PubJesus is PugJesus’ cousin who posts exclusively
- Comment on Killing the intellectual future of Iran. Science has no borders. 2 weeks ago:
This is just like what the US did to my favourite monarchy 75 years ago
Are you referring to North Korea? The DPRK has a cult of personality thing going on, for sure. But that hadn’t developed yet, by the time of the Korean war. Rather the DPRK was a really quite vibrant multi-party Socialist democracy.
The overwhelming dominance of the WPK, and the ostensible sidelining of other parties and organizations in the Supreme People’s Assembly only starts to occur after the war. With the genocidal bombing of the Korean peninsula by the United States, and subsequent economic and diplomatic isolation, being the primary engine which drove political centralization.
Compare the results of 1948 SPA election results with those of 1957.
- Comment on [deleted] 2 weeks ago:
Her*, (unless there’s a Chris-chan detransition arc that I’m unaware of) but yeah it’s a wild and honestly pretty sad story. Chris-chsn is obviously someone who needs a lot of help, but instead was serially harassed by the internet’s weirdest little freaks
- Comment on [deleted] 2 weeks ago:
Oh gosh, lol
Sonichu has so much… Let’s say intertextual baggage, that it, more than a lot of art, is inseparable from the, uh…art and art criticism, that it helped spawn.
Like, more than Sonichu itself, I think the 100 part Chris-chan documentary is more interesting as bad art. It comes out of this incredibly toxic online millieu of harassment and stalking, that ends up saying more about the community that birthed it, then it does about its nominal subject
- Comment on [deleted] 2 weeks ago:
Art can be hot fucking garbage in ways that are interesting and worth exploring
- Comment on [deleted] 2 weeks ago:
You’ve clearly never had a truly great soup
- Comment on it's literally zero 2 weeks ago:
What, and you think I haven’t? And you think I’m not one? The thing is, you never know who is behind the keyboard,
That’s perfectly fair
but that’s fine because the point is finding an excuse to an asshole, LGBT edition.
I find it troubling that you care more about me being mean, than people on Lemmy being casually transphobic. I don’t want people like OP here. That’s the priority.
I’ve had plenty of perfectly nice and pleasant conversations with people here on Lemmy. The minute I see some transphobic garbage (or any other bigotry for that matter), I’m going to shout that shit down.
- Comment on Is the "Gen z stare" a real thing? 2 weeks ago:
Being compared to a cat sounds like a wonderful compliment. I should go nap in a sunbeam tbh
- Comment on it's literally zero 2 weeks ago:
“Boo hoo, the put upon minority was man to me wahh”
This is how you sound. In my real life, I do actual trans organizing work. Being shitty to transphobes on Lemmy is swinging the proverbial bat around to try keep the Nazis out of the bar.
- Comment on it's literally zero 2 weeks ago:
Not “enemies” in any ontological sense, but there’s plenty of casual transphobia on Lemmy… Like in this thread, and I have no interest in letting that shit slide
- Comment on it's literally zero 2 weeks ago:
Damn right I’m mean to transphobic dipshits! Suck my gock, you triggered loser, lmaoo
