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[–] cyborganism 87 points 2 years ago (1 children)

So a bunch of closet pedophiles are organizing another convoy to "save the children" from "groomers" and "pedophiles" which they are projecting on drag queens?

That's rich.

[–] [email protected] 15 points 2 years ago (1 children)

Yeah I’d put all these weirdos on a list.

[–] [email protected] 11 points 2 years ago (1 children)

Yup can't wait for the inevitable searches of their computers/phones and finding of horrible things.

[–] [email protected] 13 points 2 years ago

There’s a reason they take such an interest in kids. Normal people aren’t lost in daily thought on how strangers are interacting with children in sexual ways. Especially people without their own kids to worry for.

[–] [email protected] 49 points 2 years ago (2 children)

These people are too stupid to exist holy shit

[–] [email protected] 30 points 2 years ago (1 children)

And yet my aunt does, in fact, exist. Blows my mind every time I see her. Her beliefs are so stupid I'm fairly certain she lowers the collective intelligence of any room she's in.

[–] [email protected] 9 points 2 years ago

Give her a jar of cookies and tell her that one of them ate a child but you don't know wich one, so she has to look at it forever to make shure it won't happen again XD

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[–] Showroom7561 39 points 2 years ago (2 children)

The convoy's private Facebook group, which coun nearly 300 members, indicates that it is focused on issues like pedophilia, child trafficking, grooming and indoctrination.

Funny, they NEVER protest against churches. Why is that?

[–] OutlierBlue 15 points 2 years ago

No, they mentioned "grooming and indoctrination".

Oh wait...

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[–] CaptainFlintlockFinn 36 points 2 years ago (1 children)

If it wasn’t actually problematic it would be fascinating. It’s like watching a documentary about a cult.

[–] [email protected] 21 points 2 years ago* (last edited 2 years ago) (2 children)

I've always found it funny that the reason why science fiction and fantasy villains are almost always such lackluster characters is because science fiction and fantasy writers have to stick within the realm of plausibility whereas real life villains are not hampered by such trivialities.

Your sci-fi villain has to have a tragic backstory where he's using the power of the universe killing machine to bring back his dead girlfriend or something.

In contrast, your real life villain is organizing a civil war militia to protect himself from enemies that he imagines existing somewhere even though he has no proof whatsoever, and all over the Western world people are proudly following these nut bags and even buying the merch.

[–] PeriodicallyPedantic 10 points 2 years ago

Honestly, is risky, but that could make for a pretty interesting sci-fi or fantasy villian, if handled correctly - but it'd be a fine line between playing it deadly straight and melodrama overload.

[–] [email protected] 10 points 2 years ago (1 children)

In the real world the biggest villains actually believe that they are good, and they use that belief to justify that everything they do, even bad things, are done in the pursuit of good. They are convinced that they are doing good and that they are pure, good people, and they don't ever feel bad.

Villains aren't like some Joker, or Dr. Evil. They are culty and give themselves a license to control and harm other people.

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[–] MrBungle 34 points 2 years ago (1 children)

So cute of them to pretend that they give a fuck about kids or anyone outside their ridiculous worldview.

[–] [email protected] 17 points 2 years ago (1 children)

I feel like many of these people are at that point where they're trying to make themselves into a hero to shore up all of the other fundamental deficits they have in their character.

One thing that I realized when I was going through mental health issues of my own was that a lot of the core of my issues centered around wanting to be someone who was important, a hero, someone that saved other people and for me that boiled down to acting like I already was the hero and doing things that I thought of hero would do like pointlessly sacrificing my opportunities for other people who did not appreciate me or attach any meaning to it.

I realized that once you're smart enough to start meta-analyzing your own life, there is a trap for you and that trap is your internal need for importance.

When you base all of your thinking around that, making yourself into the hero of your own life, then that thinking will cause you and more importantly , the people around you, so much grief.

My only saving grace was that I couldn't convince other people to go along with my self-appointed hero worship. I imagine if I had I might have ended up just like them so really it was my own lack of charisma that was my salvation I guess.

[–] MrBungle 8 points 2 years ago

I hear ya, looking back I think went thru a similar thing in my 20s so I can understand that feeling.

It must be hard to dig out of if you're surrounded by a bunch of people who are buying in or supporting that behavior

[–] [email protected] 31 points 2 years ago (1 children)
[–] [email protected] 22 points 2 years ago (1 children)

Would you want to employ someone that thinks trans = pedophilia?

Cause i think not and that should awnser your question.

[–] [email protected] 15 points 2 years ago

Good point.

[–] TemporaryBoyfriend 30 points 2 years ago

These people are literally a herd of cats in a room with a laser pointer pointed at a disco globe.

My mother is a conspiracy theory sucker. Being isolated during the pandemic with her idiot boyfriend literally spun her around from being a compassionate intelligent woman who ran her own successful business for over a decade to literally being afraid of everything and everyone.

[–] Kelsenellenelvial 29 points 2 years ago (3 children)

“Save the Children” has been considered the cry of people that can’t put forth a reasonable argument for the thing they want for decades. Right up there with the people that like exclaiming “muh rights” and then either complain about something that’s never been a right, or immediately following up by trying to remove other people’s rights. I feel like using “save the children”(or similar variations) is a pretty good indication that I’m not going to agree with most of what follows.

[–] [email protected] 9 points 2 years ago

It's how they justify the unjustifiable. God and The Children have the same utility in the minds of monsters: anything you do is okay if you're doing it for them.

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[–] RagingNerdoholic 28 points 2 years ago (5 children)

Someone explain the math thing, because I have no clue what it could be.

[–] JuvenoiaAgent 20 points 2 years ago

It doesn't add up?

[–] [email protected] 16 points 2 years ago

Math requires logical thinking.

They're against that.

[–] DerisionConsulting 11 points 2 years ago (1 children)

I've looked up "bat-shit math conspiracies for those that sniff glue" online; here is what I found:

https://hotair.com/david-strom/2023/05/12/queer-math-camp-without-the-math-n550283

[–] ZC3rr0r 13 points 2 years ago

Thanks for sharing that barely coherent rant. I'm now both 3 minutes older and I probably lost some brain cells trying to process his nonsense. Who reads this and thinks "Yeah, this guy's got a handle on reality and some good ideas."? It's rage bait for people who are already angry at society.

[–] streetfestival 9 points 2 years ago (1 children)

Maybe the 'math agenda' is forcing kids to keep doing math after grade 6 or something like that :P

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[–] tezoatlipoca 25 points 2 years ago* (last edited 2 years ago) (3 children)

“Get up off your god damned couch and show some passion for this country and some passion for the children that don’t have a voice, they get kidnapped, thrown in a railcar,” McDavid told viewers of one recent TikTok video, adding that children are being “tortured, hunted down like animals by – not the elites – by the degenerates on horseback.”

Oh man, I thought we outlawed organized small children hunts. Those bourgeoise snobs in their red coats and riding britches.

Also, where would one get a railcar of children. Is that what the "Dark Web" is for?

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[–] sndmn 23 points 2 years ago (7 children)

These people obsess about child rape 24/7. What does that say about them?

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[–] [email protected] 22 points 2 years ago

The world would be a better place without right wingers

[–] lifttruckoperator 19 points 2 years ago (1 children)

I wouldn't be surprised if they also started going off about the "round earth agenda" or something like that. These dudes are absolutely braindead.

[–] [email protected] 15 points 2 years ago (1 children)

Earth is obviously donut shaped duh

[–] [email protected] 15 points 2 years ago* (last edited 2 years ago) (2 children)

I already know the trans agenda is to let trans soldiers fight, but what's the math agenda? I want in.

[–] DerisionConsulting 18 points 2 years ago* (last edited 2 years ago) (8 children)

The "Math Agenda" boils down to the idea that every subject is supposedly being used to push the LGBT agenda.

This is what they are freaking out about:
https://www.maa.org/programs-and-communities/outreach-initatives/camp-of-mathematical-queeries

And this is them freaking out about it:
https://hotair.com/david-strom/2023/05/12/queer-math-camp-without-the-math-n550283

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[–] [email protected] 13 points 2 years ago* (last edited 2 years ago) (4 children)

Had to share a work van with one of these sort for work. I would get an hour of details on how math is just "a trick to make people believe certain things"

Also "Jews are from Saturn"

And "the chemtrails are full of microchips"

There is literally nothing you can do to sway any of their beliefs, because basic reason and logic are the enemy.

Rather, maybe we need to subvert their base instincts in a way they can turn them towards logic despite their preconceptions and inability to process basic information. Kind of like the mobile game market or unethical media companies which have free reign to influence these people for malicious self gain.

The issue is that ethical people are too upstanding to use such subversive means, which means they will ultimately lose out in our current socio-economic ecosystem

I think smart people need to fight evil with the same tools used by evil, until such tools are invalidated.

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[–] [email protected] 13 points 2 years ago (1 children)

Ah, yes. The math agenda. The deadliest of all the agendas. He who masters it, masters the universe.

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[–] Bleach7297 12 points 2 years ago* (last edited 2 years ago) (1 children)

Get your showers ready, Toronto. There's more than 18 cowboys a-coming.

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[–] willybe 10 points 2 years ago (8 children)

I haven't dabbled in hard drugs, but this seems like an altered perspective.

Has he been sitting in front of the computer for a couple of years sucking on a pipe and letting flame bait reprogram his mind?

[–] [email protected] 9 points 2 years ago

I've done a shitload more than dabble, and I assure you, it didn't end me up here. This is just people who desperately lack critical thinking skills.

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[–] [email protected] 10 points 2 years ago

My fucking father in law is gonna eat this shit up. We're going out to his family gathering next weekend and my son has a really cute rainbow and pink outfit he's been dying to show off. For context, this extended family has an ex-in law who came out as trans and whom they violently hate, so my kiddo won't be exposed to them too much as he grow up. Alas, the old G-pa in law doesn't have much longer so we gotta go hang out with peeps.

[–] phx 9 points 2 years ago

Can the take the weirdos that protest weekly by the highway in my hometown with them? Preferably and not come back

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