I'm out of words to say about this.
The return or resurgence of the Satanic Panic is something people love to call out, but this genuinely feels like it can culminate in something like that, children coached to tell stories of having their gender transed or being forced to wear makeup, broad bullshit laws used to convict people with no evidence, massive media circuses around OBVIOUSLY nonsensical and false claims.
All the ingredients are there and have individually been there for a long time, but to me at least it didnt feel like they were being made into one big soup yet.
:my-hero: is pulling the "will no one rid me of this turbulent priest" card for his chud devotees, and he has millions of potential targets for them, all because his ex left him for :chelsea-stare: and his daughter disowned him.
I'm really surprised there hasn't been some kind of high profile child martyr yet like you said. Some kid who got coached into lying about the content of a class taught by a trans person.
I though that's what was going to happen when that Florida school put a Disney movie under investigation because a teacher showed it and one of the characters is openly gay. But it seems like even the most hare brained of chuds can't seem to twist this into something nefarious. "Teacher fired for showing Disney movie to kids" just doesn't seem to reach people unless you're terminally internet poisoned.
The only thing I can point to for why it's not hitting yet is the Satanic Panic happened in the context of the 1980s and the current panic is happening with cameras everywhere and different standards for high profile litigation. There has yet to be a single photo, video, audio, etc. that shows a teacher forcing kids to be gay or trans or whatever, meaning it's stuck in this limbo of reactionaries screaming gibberish and pointing at innocent things that simply aren't what they claim to be. Also there's probably something to be said about how reactionaries are going after teachers, who are generally more class conscious than other professions, plus they've got unions.
The satanic panic also had the advantage of "legitimate" doctors and psychiatrists claiming that satanists had such occult powers and mastery over hypnosis, that they could erase both physical and mental scars from both victim and perpetrator.
People would literally get told they ate kids but had their memory hypnotically locked away, then confessed to doing those crimes. I can't imagine that happening today.
I mean, those same doctors are still active today but way more marginal, and still doing the cult grift.
Also reactionaries wanted to forgive any confessors to such satanic crimes, those who didn't stupidly go to the cops became massive celebrities despite claiming to be mass murdering sex criminals who targeted anything and anyone living for the worst violence possible.
Detransitioners barely get the most basic human courtesy, and those doctors who "dissent" disavow any involvement, merely being witnesses.
I’m really surprised there hasn’t been some kind of high profile child martyr yet like you said. Some kid who got coached into lying about the content of a class taught by a trans person.
trans people make up like 1% of the population and because of systemic transphobia, it's incredibly hard to even be a trans teacher or be able to get a job of some level of authority at a school above lunch lady or janitor so there's an incredibly small crop of potential targets for this strategy, making it unlikely to be one that would bear much fruit. I think if someone went the coaching strategy, they'd pick a liberal cis teacher that's openly in favor of LGBT rights because there's a lot more of them to be potential targets.
also it's very hard for transphobe to coach people the way you're talking about when transphobes don't understand basic concepts about trans people. you can't just say "my mom made me wear make up and that turned me trans" because most people would already recognize that type of behavior as a different type of abuse. that type of story wouldn't be able to hold up to scrutiny. Someone attempted something like this in 2016 or so and it failed. Basically a super reactionary divorced dad tried to sue his wife for child abuse claiming she turned their kid trans but when the story came out in court, none of it could hold up to cross examination especially when actual mental health professionals were brought in to testify. I'm not saying it's entirely impossible to do it, but it's an extremely hard story to make stick.
Fuck twitter, I can't understand why people still have accounts there.
Fuck Musk, he's never going to get anything into space.
Fuck Musk, he’s never going to get anything into space.
He grifted the US government into subsidizing a glorified car commercial in space.
They are putting shit in space at an incredible rate and fucking up the night sky.
At least you're admitting how much garbage is being spewed into orbit, fucking up both planetary telescopes and adding a lot more pollution with each launch, all with public funding while supposedly there's no money for anything else except that and colonialism.
Lmao literally ruining the natural world because he has money
Such a deep level of evil
Like the bad guy from Fern Gully but a white south African so even worse
It's kind of like if the local post office or library got suddenly bought out by Hitler
Yes, Twitter sucks and it sucks that it and other shitty social media platforms have integrated themselves into our society but them's the brakes
Everyday something new is revealed to me, against my will, about Musk. And everyday I say to myself he's really fucking dumb.
I deeply dislike that I have the same organs in the same places as him. A thing whose shape is so cringe that humanity becomes more obscene for the resemblance.
Remember that time a Tesla caught fire and the doors wouldn't open and bystanders had to bust the window to save the driver? Yeah I hope that happens but in a remote place with no bystanders.
I dont understand this guy, he tries to appeal to right wingers, even thought thats literally not the demographic that wants to buy electric cars. Twitter is literally tanking in profits because of his antics. Is he so deranged that hes literally willing to lose billions just because of his estranged trans daughter?
he is losing billions. he's just rich enough because of the things you pointed out that he can eat losing billions and still largely be okay. he spent enough on Twitter that you could argue he's lost "billions" on that alone.
I mean he fucked up and had to make a deal with the devil (Saudi family). He's only doing what he's told. You don't want to end up in eight different duffel bags out of the Saudi embassy.
they're gonna start buying electric cars once they see how epic elon is
He's too rich and white to know how consequences are supposed to work because they usually don't apply to him.
he's a rich apartheid baby so he's a reactionary from birth. there's not much to understand. most of his business ventures didn't succeed because of him, he was basically just seed money or buying companies at the right time, but in spite of him.
All of us hate him, but not enough to go outside or, God forbid, touch some grass.
I was actually suprised that hes still alive after he pissed off the slava ukraina people.
I mean call me crazy but the NAFO guys don't exactly scream "competently violent" to me.
I thought some of those NAFO guys are three letter agents
Then again realistically three letter agents treats ukraine as just a chess pawn against Russia anyway.
Even they know which side their bread is buttered. Killing American oligarchs would be very bad for business.
That "Diia" shit in Ukraine right now needs bazinga oligarchs from the west to help prop it up. :no-mouth-must-scream:
All I did on there was dunk on shitheads but I can do that here without some "well actually..." dumbass spoiling the mood.
