The Merkinman posted:

Did you know that if there are more people that don't vote compared to the ones that did, that none of the candidates become President?

Oh, that's not how it works?

relax-o-vision posted:

You don't care about segregation. You don't care about Clarence Thomas. The only thing you care about is giving yourself an excuse not to participate. That's the only principle you actually hold. There's something deeply comforting about nihilism. You can just pull it around yourself like a nice warm blanket, and watch the rest of us struggle onward without you.

You'll be fine under Trump. Other people will suffer, but you won't. You know nothing really matters. Go ahead and sit this one out.

Vib Rib posted:

Yeah it totally didn't do anything last time, and they're repeating the exact same corrupt fuckup failures that lost the general in 2016, but this time they'll definitely learn their lesson, watch

hawowanlawow posted:

system doesn't work, olds in denial and addicted to internet browbeating

pathetic

Transmogrifier posted:

Andrew's not the idiot.

https://twitter.com/ndrew_lawrence/status/1237174846355841024

Badger of Basra posted:

https://twitter.com/roddreher/status/1238833491720142854?s=20

HiroProtagonist posted:

not sure if you missed the joke but uh

ed: idk who this person is but they seem like a shithead, that being said this is clearly a joke, just look at the initialism

quote:

Righty journalist, Orthodox Christian, Southerner, Europhile, Ignatian (Team Reilly), eclecticist. Author of 'The Benedict Option'; new book drops Fall 2020

chitoryu12 posted:

HiroProtagonist posted:

not sure if you missed the joke but uh

ed: idk who this person is but they seem like a shithead, that being said this is clearly a joke, just look at the initialism

a stupid joke, though, at that

quote:

UPDATE.3: On Chu’s website, [she] posts a PDF link to a paper he delivered earlier this year at a Columbia University conference. This is the kind of thing they’re talking about at one of America’s great universities. The paper is titled “Did Sissy Porn Make Me Trans?” There are no images, but don’t click through to it and start reading unless you are prepared to go to an extremely dark place. I almost didn’t post this here, but after thinking about it, I concluded that it’s actually vitally important to know.

I’m going to summarize the paper for those who don’t want to read it. Again, I cannot caution you strongly enough about its content, and the pornographic images Chu describes in detail in the paper.

The paper’s title comes from a comment Chu saw on an online forum. “Sissy porn,” we learn from the paper, is a genre in which submissive men are forced to have sex with other men, in such a way that their masculinity is forcibly taken from them. Chu says this genre is also called “forced feminization porn.” Chu says that sissy porn explicitly intends to turn male viewers into transsexuals, in part by “instruct[ing] them to understand their addiction to the genre as constitutive of their own feminization.” Chu writes:

Now Jon would hardly be the first closeted trans woman whose gender dysphoria felt like porn addiction. Indeed, the internet is full of women like this, if you know where to look. The phenomenon is common enough, in fact, to have given rise to an entire subgenre of anxiety fielding on the popular discussion website Reddit. In typical post from 2014, titled “Did sissy porn make me trans or was I trans all along?,” one user writes: “About 3 years ago, I discovered sissy hypno videos [that’s “hypno” like short for “hypnotism”], which in a nutshell are flashing subjective images telling you to wear panties, be girly… and even take hormones. I became completely obsessed with these videos….”

This person is now “95% sure she is trans,” writes Chu.

Now, imagine a confused 12-year-old boy — perhaps one experiencing same-sex desires — finding sissy porn on his smartphone, and giving himself over to it. It’s only a few clicks away.

Chu goes on to talk about the dynamics of sissy porn. Here’s is a key portion, one I can quote here

Sissyhood is not the obliteration of subjectivity, but its diminishment. Sissies have selves, in other words, but these selves are simplified, emptied, dumb. The technical term for this is bimboification. Numerous captions instruct spectators to submit themselves to hypnosis, brainwashing, brain-melting, and other techniques for scooping out intelligence.

Chu describes, unprintably, that the porn video’s explicit instructions order the viewer to surrender his entire to the sexually dominant male’s desires. The act of sexual submission is not only castration, and the willed destruction of the submissive’s masculinity, it is — this is crucial — also the willed destruction of personhood. Of sexualizing the desire for obliteration.

What Chu describes here is the process of demonic possession. If that is what is in Andrea Long Chu’s head, no wonder [she] is depressed and suicidal. This is profoundly evil stuff.

MizPiz posted:

This is who Rod Dreher is

Badger of Basra posted:

https://twitter.com/roddreher/status/1238833491720142854?s=20

Badger of Basra posted:

https://twitter.com/roddreher/status/1238833491720142854?s=20

TinTower posted:

e: also oh my god literally nobody takes sissy hypno porn seriously. It’s even more ridiculous than saying “you are getting very sleepy” in a vaguely offensive Central European accent.

freemandela posted:

Idiots on Social Media: The technical term for this is bimboification

NO gently caress YOU DAD posted:

Lol I looked this up and it's just hot girls intercut with close-ups of big swingin' dongs and I cannot see how even an insane person could make the leap between that and trans identity.

Well, not unless their entire understanding of trans came from pornogr...

Oh, I think I see the problem.

Pththya-lyi posted:

Has this guy been to a hospital

HiroProtagonist posted:

Idiots on Social Media: Lol I looked this up and it's just hot girls intercut with close-ups of big swingin' dongs

NO gently caress YOU DAD posted:

Finally, something everyone can enjoy!

MizPiz posted:

This is who Rod Dreher is

Badger of Basra posted:

https://twitter.com/sahouraxo/status/1238835138257174528?s=20

op is the idiot and also all the people in this video

e: the people in the replies too

Badger of Basra posted:

https://twitter.com/sahouraxo/status/1238835138257174528?s=20

op is the idiot and also all the people in this video

e: the people in the replies too