• InevitableSwing [none/use name]
    hexagon
    hexbear
    44
    7 months ago

    If you're not American you're probably thinking "What the ever-loving fuck?" I'm American and I'm thinking the same thing. But American fundies are whack. Many of them actually hope for an apocalypse so they can be raptured up to heaven.

    • charly4994 [she/her, comrade/them]
      hexbear
      14
      7 months ago

      Pretty sure it's at least a part of why the Christian Zionists are so gung-ho for the zionist entity, if they can get everything to line up as according to weird prophecy, they'll see the apocalypse arrive sooner.

      • SUPAVILLAIN@lemmygrad.ml
        hexbear
        6
        edit-2
        7 months ago

        Except they're wrong, because the messiah, whichever one it is, hasn't come back yet

        So they're all gung-ho over a man-made entity that's really closer to blasphemy than it is divinity; and there's something simultaneously hilarious and 'parable of man's folly' about the whole matter and I look forward to hearing about how they all self-selected for Abrahamic Hell

        • UmbraVivi [he/him, she/her]
          hexbear
          13
          7 months ago

          because the messiah, whichever one it is, hasn't come back yet

          trump-kubrick-stare He'll be back next year

        • Wheaties [comrade/them]
          hexbear
          12
          7 months ago

          You know, I haven't studied the bible much as an adult. But I'm pretty sure God really likes it when people try to force his hand, that's all hunky dory and He'll be waiting to thank 'em personally in heaven.

        • StellarTabi [none/use name]
          hexbear
          2
          7 months ago

          the messiah, whichever one it is, hasn't come back yet

          messiah came and left in the 1200s

    • Dingus_Khan [he/him, comrade/them]
      hexbear
      3
      7 months ago

      For more in this vein, the last few Trillbilly episodes were great. Two leftists who grew up in the church trying to make sense of the current state of the world

  • edge [he/him]
    hexbear
    29
    7 months ago

    Seems like it's more that he's monitoring his son's porn intake in a way that makes it sound less like over-controlling spyware being imposed on the son and more like mutual accountability.

    He's either already ideologically committed enough to fundamentalist Christianity to not watch porn, or more likely just has another device. So there's nothing for his son to "monitor".

    • @rjthyen@lemm.ee
      hexbear
      7
      7 months ago

      My guess was the latter, but if I guess the former is a possibility although I'll skeptical

  • Rom [he/him]
    hexbear
    24
    7 months ago

    Why do crackers do shit like this

  • StellarTabi [none/use name]
    hexbear
    24
    7 months ago

    I think what's actually happening is that they share onlyfans accounts and are trying to save money by not collectively subbing to the same JOI content creator twice.

  • ClimateChangeAnxiety [he/him, they/them]
    hexbear
    23
    7 months ago

    I thought at first that his son was, ya know, an adult, and I was like “Okay, that’s fucking weird, but whatever I guess”

    But no, the son in question is a minor. This is a bizarre form of abuse and privacy invasion.

  • @jayknight@lemmy.ml
    hexbear
    10
    7 months ago

    Honestly, the concept isn't that much different than going to AA meetings, but having your minor son be your accountability partner is pretty weird.

    • drhead [he/him]
      hexbear
      15
      7 months ago

      It is very much abusive. These groups effectively treat watching porn as the one of the worst things you can do other than murder. Even disregarding how something like this would be treated as a compulsion and not an addiction, this is NOT how you would treat any mental health condition. Alcoholics Anonymous is Anonymous partly so that you can manage that with people outside of your normal peer group. But having shit like this set up to go to someone in your peer group is just for social blackmail: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Accountability_software -- this isn't for "helping combat addictions", it's for social control and for making queer people afraid to come out.

      I did write another comment elsewhere not too long ago (though in a different context) that covers some of how things like this are used as part of far-right radicalization and historically how shaming over sexuality is used as a sort of self-sustaining feedback loop for social control: https://hexbear.net/comment/4178468