I announce that his folk hero status has now been revoked.

ban-hammer

Just another jilted alt right dude who was fine when he thought the system was for him and then got burned and lashed out.

No praxis, only edge and entitlement.

My authority to decide this? None, don't @ me.

    • Yukiko [she/her]
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      2 days ago

      I refuse this notion as that's what a lot of Harry Potter fans say to justify their bullshit.

    • ComradeMonotreme [she/her, he/him]
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      2 days ago

      The weirdest one for me is the guy who wrote Altered Carbon. Who is a transphobic centrist who wrote three books about how transhumanist Maoists are cool and good (apparently wasn't his intention).

      • AcidSmiley [she/her]
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        2 days ago

        Being a centrist usually requires a ton of "communism bad" brainworms and being a transphobe always requires a ton of patriarchal brainworms. Neither of these are opinions you arrive at rationally, they are the result of people taking a wrong intellectual turn due to indoctrination, and both of these wrong turns can be found among all kinds of people, even those who in theory agree that Maoist goals and bodily autonomy are cool and good. These people will only agree these principles are cool and good as long as they are not exposed to the socially ingrained triggers of their fears, like a crowd of workers waving red banners, or people transing their gender.

    • SpiderFarmer [he/him]
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      2 days ago

      Chuds really ruined that phrase, for sure. It's for shaking your head while reading Mists of Avalon on the bus, not cosplaying as a fascist kid wizard.

      • GrouchyGrouse [he/him]
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        2 days ago

        shaking your head while reading Mists of Avalon

        That was 100% my reaction when I was reading that and in a world of Lothars and Morgaines and Taleisins we are introduced to a guy named "Kevin."