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The post Xitter web has spawned soo many āesotericā right wing freaks, but thereās no appropriate sneer-space for them. Iām talking redscare-ish, reality challenged āculture criticsā who write about everything but understand nothing. Iām talking about reply-guys who make the same 6 tweets about the same 3 subjects. Theyāre inescapable at this point, yet I donāt see them mocked (as much as they should be)
Like, there was one dude a while back who insisted that women couldnāt be surgeons because they didnāt believe in the moon or in stars? I think each and every one of these guys is uniquely fucked up and if I canāt escape them, I would love to sneer at them.
wait, what? What sort of context? Multiple people? FFS TELL
so I think I must just have one of those faces cause itās been something that multiple former friends have revealed to me, and itās usually a weird show of trust? and itās always something like āyou know, I just think fairies must be real, like theyāve got to be out there? you know?ā
and in all cases Iāve gone āā¦oh thatās coolā and mentally earmarked that person as ādo not trust with heavy machineryā
i mean, i have a friend who is literally a UFO religion believer, but theyāre decent and politically good and trustworthy and present as normal-English, so
see occasionally you meet a UFO person and theyāre normal and you only find out about their interest in UFOs because itās the reason they want to get into radio or whatever and they want to see if you can recommend them a setup to communicate with satellites and other stuff in orbit. in effect, their UFO hobby is essentially a modified radio/birdwatching hobby thatās hopefully driving them to learn more about the world around them
but much more often you meet a UFO person and hear the absolute worst thing youāve heard all month while looking for an escape route, without making it too obvious because youāre fairly certain theyāre armed. they will later go on the internet and call you an NPC who refuses to wake up because you wouldnāt discuss lizard people with them.
you know, I donāt know if Iāve actually run into this kind of conversation. I donāt think I have. or if I almost did, I fairly likely applied a conversation logic-shortcircuit way before it got there (because of ambient red flag count). but fuck me, if I donāt know exactly the kind of person youāre referring toā¦ :|
also
ZA has many problems (and oh christ could I wax lyrical), but thank fuck I do not live in fucking eaglecountry
itās a whole fucked-up 'ole dynamic when you need to āwatch your backā in the most very literal sense because you didnāt eat some bozoās shit :|
:<
just remembered someone i met decades ago going on and on about spiritualism and ESP and just happened to drop in their own massive racism, thereās definitely a type
The crystals to anti-vaxx to full-blown fascism pipeline is real and I have more than a few cousins deep in that KKK hole. Hate to be a science brodude, but all the spiritualism stuff can be a gullibility magnet for those prone to self radicalisation (the bad type)
yeah i have one of those faces too (tall, blue eyes, Danish cheekbones), disconcerting number of nazis who wanted me to be in with them
I get the club invite most times I speak afrikaans in pretoria
in australia the club invite is just a way of saying āhiā to your fellow white person
Iāve never had the full on āletās be nazis togetherā invite but Iāve had several people launch unprompted into ānow that itās just us white folks we can talk for realā mode. internally they must have been like āI see white skin, we are clear for takeoff, 54321ā
funnily enough it hasnāt happened since I became visibly trans
ja that can happen/s here too
presumably your bones comprehend all the non-weather reasons that .au is such a popular za expat destination
those particular south africans apparently made perth in particular a fucking delight of genteel racism in the late 90s
tho they didnāt particularly change the nature of it
@dgerard
Trying to turn it into Bogandesia.
already there. it is difficult to explain just how racist Australia is, and impossible to explain it to Australians, who are convinced against all possible evidence that it is not