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.
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.
Fuck twitter, I can't understand why people still have accounts there.
Fuck Musk, he's never going to get anything into space.
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?
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
All I did on there was dunk on shitheads but I can do that here without some "well actually..." dumbass spoiling the mood.
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.
