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[–] [email protected] 3 points 54 minutes ago

There's been an undercurrent of this among TERF forums. In many ways, they're leftover second wave feminists who didn't get on board with the intersectionality that's central to third wave feminism. They tend to drag other things from 1960s/70s feminism along with them, like prattling on about the Earth Mother and healing crystals.

One of the criticisms the third wave had of the second is that the sex negativity tended to align them with far right religious conservatives on many issues. That's a good indication that something went wrong. Maybe it's no surprise they ended up in MAGA.

[–] [email protected] 9 points 3 hours ago* (last edited 3 hours ago)
[–] [email protected] 3 points 2 hours ago (1 children)

I truly want to know if these people are brain dead zombies.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 hour ago

The brain dead zombies have complained about the association.

[–] [email protected] 4 points 3 hours ago

I too say dumb shit when I'm high, I never thought I could get a high level government job for saying dumb shit while high.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 3 hours ago (1 children)

Why are vaccines a problem then? Let me tune into earth's 5G signals baby!

[–] [email protected] 5 points 8 hours ago (2 children)

"Well Mr. Doe, I'm afraid it's bad news. We found a mass in your chest, it looks like pancreatic cancer."

"Oh no, so what will we do about that? Will I get radiation, or chemo?"

"I'll be prescribing you a set of positively charged aura crystals, just spend some time near them every day, and let them charge under moonlight at night. I've also scheduled you a time with our resident chiropractor, he'll try to realign your chakras. Until then you could also try to stay away from Virgos."

[–] [email protected] 2 points 3 hours ago (1 children)

We're all laughing but next up guys sort of shit will be picked up by US pharmaceutical companies who crank up the cost of s good chakra cleansing to the point where nobody can afford them without going bankrupt, then what are we going to do?

[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 hour ago

Same as with regular medicine, book a flight to India or Mexico.

[–] [email protected] 3 points 9 hours ago

I'd much rather the new age movement align with the right and make them be the ones who look stupid by association. Do not want to make room in the tent for that shit, thanks.

[–] [email protected] 5 points 12 hours ago

If the future of medicine is light then I don't want to see any of you MAGAt morons in a hospital or doctors office. Go sit outside and pray away your sickness in the sunlight, dumbasses.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 10 hours ago

should be maganism.

[–] [email protected] 13 points 19 hours ago (4 children)
[–] [email protected] 1 points 2 hours ago

Let them proceed

[–] [email protected] 7 points 18 hours ago

No you read it all wrong, this is about getting government vibrators to everyone. Set it on high and talk to God.

[–] [email protected] 6 points 20 hours ago

Good, good. Now convince MAGA folks to drink the koolaid together…

[–] [email protected] 31 points 1 day ago* (last edited 1 day ago) (4 children)

Weeelll, humans are out of touch with the Earth and we are depleting it's life force. I spend a great deal of time in several ecosystems, have some education in general science, botany, biology, etc., and a great deal on interest in all life sciences.

I think about this a lot, and don't want to write a wall of depressing shit, but our ecosystems have changed drastically since I was a wee lad in the 70s. And nobody notices! When I point out a given fact to people my age, they're clearly taken aback, had not thought about it. "Remember when cleaning bugs off your windshield was a common task?"

I can go on for an hour, but all is see is death, or rather an absence of life. If I could teleport a 20-something to the 70s, they would freak out over the abundance and variety of animals, in the city. We had more mammals in my mid-town Tulsa hood than I see on the edge of town in NW Florida. Again, I'm outside a lot, I'm looking.

Walking around outside Aldi yesterday I was looking at the perfect grass. Where most see a well kept lawn, all I saw was a barren desert. How much insecticide and herbicide did it take to make that perfect monoculture? Money says you couldn't dig an earthworm out of that "soil". Know how I used to find worms? Pick a random spot of dirt and dig for a whole minute. Now I don't even see them crawling around after a rain.

Another random fact: Global warming has ponds drying up in the summer that didn't dry up even 10-years ago. Dragonflies take 2-years to mature underwater. Put that together and enjoy all the mosquitoes.

Good news! My efforts have brought frogs back to my yard. They were deafening last night! Hoping to have mature dragonflies next year, or barring that, 2-years from now after I get the 150g pond set up.

(I know that's not what she's talking about, just had to get a bit off my chest.)

[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 hour ago

Here in Central Florida, love bugs have been a spring and fall problem for decades. They are an invasive species, so they have always been a concern.

We could count on them coating our windshields every spring, and their sticky, acidic guts eat away at the paint on our cars. Special bug removal additive for your wiper fluid was commonly stacked up on the aisles of stores in the spring. Cleaning your windshield and washing your car was routine.

But over the past few years, they've all but disappeared, which seems like a good thing, but the scary thing is that scientists have no idea why. For some reason, they just stopped breeding a few years ago. Nobody saw it coming, just after a year or two, people started asking "Where are the lovebugs?”, and scientist don't have an answer.

One scientist said since they were an invasive species, there is no grant money to study the issue. If an invasive species goes away, who cares, right? But scientists are concerned that whatever could wipe out an entire species, even if it's invasive, may be wiping out other species as well.

So the love bug problem solved itself, and we have no idea why.

[–] [email protected] 3 points 2 hours ago

A tangent, but I do wonder about all the people that played Final Fantasy 7 and just didn't get any of the pro-environment message. The protagonists are literally eco terrorists who blow shit up to stop the antagonist corporation from bleeding the planet dry.

It's like people who listen to rage against the machine and don't take any politics away.

[–] [email protected] 4 points 13 hours ago

I wish more people had your perspective

[–] [email protected] 6 points 19 hours ago

Literally talking to my wife today about how bugs on the bumper/windshield isn’t a thing anymore in 90% of places. It’s sad. Like you, all I see is death.

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[–] [email protected] 14 points 1 day ago (3 children)

So who's gonna propose we bring back leeching and lobotomies first, this lady or captain brain worm?

[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 hour ago

The worm does the lobotomy

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[–] [email protected] 6 points 1 day ago (1 children)

I know this isn’t quite the same but I’m getting Heavens Gate vibes. Not good.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 hour ago

The MAGA Nazis are welcome to don their track suits and red sneakers, and take their poison, and wait for the next comet to take them to Heaven.

[–] [email protected] 6 points 1 day ago (1 children)

Anybody who speaks about spiritual nonsense in conjunction with health matters is a quake and should NOT be surgeon general. Then again an anti-vaxxer is in charge of the CDC so I'm not surprised at that this point.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 10 hours ago* (last edited 10 hours ago)

anti-vaxxer, brainworms controlling a human meat suit. and then a snakesoilman controlling medicare and medicad.

[–] [email protected] 109 points 1 day ago (4 children)

People laughed when leftists talked about the yoga studio to fascism pipeline…

In all seriousness this is utterly fucked.

[–] [email protected] 18 points 1 day ago

Brown Esotericism was always a thing in Germany, there's a german wikipedia page about it, psiram wiki has a chapter about "National Socialism and extremist right groups today" on their page about Esotericism.

This has been going on since the Third Reich and is one of the pipelines to bring economically better off people into right wing rethoric and thought patterns.

[–] [email protected] 21 points 1 day ago (1 children)

The herbal remedies / yoga / crystal gems people were always selling snake oil. No surprise that they'd get along with Trump. (Which is not to say all herbal remedies are worthless, but many are, and if you don't believe me, have fun getting scammed. And yoga can do a lot for your fitness, yes yes, we agree.)

[–] [email protected] 20 points 1 day ago (1 children)

Yeah, there’s a big difference between “this herb has some naturally occurring anti-inflammatory compounds” and “this berry is a cure for cancer and lupus and the common cold.”

Regarding yoga, stretching and bodyweight exercises are definitely a good part of fitness, but the mystical side of it is complete horseshit.

[–] [email protected] 7 points 1 day ago

I remember seeing a doTERRA ad some hon had put up at a Mexican restaurant. In English it said normal stuff about how aromatherapy helps with mood, maybe a vaguely defined "energy levels" but no legally defined health claims. En español it was literally claiming that the doTERRA oils could cure cancer!

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