I think it’s because everyone expects Germans to know better. And it’s pretty sad when it looks like the lesson that was learnt wasn’t “subjugation and genocide of a targeted demographic is bad” but instead “criticism of Israel is bad”.

People expect it from magas and religious nutters but not from Germans in 2025.

Yeah to be completely honest, I would have good intentions but also probably leave this world a burning wreck afterwards. To use the latest movie for an example, I would probably be part Superman and part Hawkgirl. I would be trying to do good but also I’m not an alien trying to get people to accept me and like me, I’m a native that’s sick of this shit. So I would also be dropping certain people from high places.

And I definitely wouldn’t not interfere with world politics. I’ve even thought about it. My first move before introducing myself to the world would be to find where all the nukes are, and hit everywhere as quickly as possible and leave them on the moon or something until I figure out what to do with them. Then I would get all of the ‘strong’ men and nazis and religious despots and traitors of the free world together in front of cameras and make a human centipede out of them without any surgery, and without a mouth or backside so that it’s just an ouroborous of its own shit.

Then I would just stick to crime fighting and ruining Lex Luthor’s day and shit and keep an eye as people chose new leaders. And if leaders that aren’t there to serve the people start taking over again, it’s ouroborous of shit time again. Or something worse.

I agree with most of what you say but I think it’s both. People are tired of voting and paying taxes when it all seems to just go towards paying rich and connected people bloated salaries to blatantly sleep in parliament in front of cameras. But the wealthy elites harnessed that and took advantage. And infected conspiracy theory circles and started putting so much bullshit out there that ‘truth’ seems to be optional these days.

I’m showing my tinfoil hat here but in my view this started happening some time after the Arab spring when powerful people shat themselves and realised how powerful social media could actually be.

Trump was totally packaged as a rebel and a renegade coming to change the system. Around 2015 I remember even ‘progressive’ minded people saying things like “he’s a businessman, not one of these useless assholes, he’ll get things done!” In South Africa, there was the same rhetoric surrounding Cyril Ramaphosa in the beginning.

I don’t want to sound like self aggrandizing asshole here but I think that maybe people in general are even less smart than I thought. Because just before everyone started thinking that capitalist businessmen were going to save them, social media was all about Anonymous and Zeitgeist and how awesome socialism is and how much capitalism sucks. And seemingly overnight, while still looking for the same kind of change, they fell for a slimy capitalist swindler selling that change.

Honestly my sincere hope and probably the main thing keeping me going is that this all collapses under the weight of pedophiles and incompetent podcasters and news readers put into positions of power, and then the pendulum swings back and we get the change that we actually need.

Sounding more like a Snyderman fan than a Superman fan, to be honest. An elseworld story now and then, or an edgelord deconstruction or two is great but the fantasy is that Superman has all this power but still uses it for good.

Turning into a dictator is weak and easy shit. It’s probably what every fucking manosphere clown would do. While going “don’t blame me, it’s just my biology! Hurr durr! I’m simultaneously logic and rational and superior but also a fucking ape that can’t control myself! Hurr durr.”

What makes Superman special is that he has all of this power but still has actual morals and values and empathy without the only thing holding him back being the law.

As a non-American looking in from the outside, from what I can gather in progressive online spaces, people are sick of career politicians in general that don’t have any actual morals but are instead driven by marketing and advertising. This is a problem not just with the US Democrats but with the old guard in general worldwide.

That’s part of why the door has been opened to right wing lunatics in the first place. Around 10 years ago, a lot of people thought Donald Trump was the “anti establishment” pick. As insane as that is to reasonably well educated people, simple people with shitty lives believed that this upstart really would “drain the swamp”.

It’s also part of why the career politicians aren’t doing much to stop it either. They see the numbers on their marketing graphs, so they’re evolving into another stage of parasite that can feed on the new generation.

There’s no doubt in my mind that it would be a tougher battle for a woman than for a man in the USA. But also, they would stand a much better chance with someone like AOC than someone like Clinton or Obama or Harris. Because people are fucking sick of corporate undead ghouls whose sole purpose is to keep the Overton window in place.

I know that someone here is going to call AOC a sellout or something but come on, your anarchist socialist utopia is even further away now that the christo-fascists have undone so much progress. AOC is a thousand times better than almost anything else you’ve got right now.

You need more women with AOC and Jasmine Crockett energy, and less with Joe Biden energy. Someone to knock these christo-fascist clowns the fuck out on the mic and on social media, and to inspire people. Not someone that’s going to go “oh well I tried nothing and now I give up” and fucking bore everyone to death.

Pretty sure it’s this guy: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nick_Adams_(commentator)

Reading about him, it still seems like one big joke but that’s a hell of a long time and a lot of dedication to the joke. It’s all pretty absurd. The problem with this kind of shit is that it makes us all look like clowns because what should be obvious sarcasm or joking isn’t such a clear thing anymore. Not in the current era of stupid.

Found him.

Yeah this one could be satirical. Although it’s getting harder and harder to tell the difference these days. And also, history has taught me that people who spend a lot of time making ‘jokes’ about it, often turn out to be only half joking. Like how online circlejerk communities seem to always turn out to actually just be a bunch of bigots hiding behind the ‘joke’.

There’s definitely another dumb asshole that I see around who also has (alpha male) in his username who I’m sure is quite serious. If I had a stolen screenshot handy, I’d post it.

Yeah exactly. This manosphere ‘alpha’ shit is insecurity and fear packaged as ‘masculinity’ by a bunch of jocks that think it’s gay to wash their asses. It’s an absolute sad joke.

I’m confused why you apparently doubt that puberty affects teenagers in high school

Can you read? If you could, you’d probably be less confused.

can’t erase the effects of male puberty

You say that and then jump straight to an example of a teenager in high school. Clown. This is why trans kids are given puberty blockers in more enlightened places. So that their teenage puberty doesn’t take hold before they’re old enough for bigger steps. But you probably want to end that too.

It seems you’d really like me to be somebody else, that you can rail against for other opinions. It feels good when you can properly hate someone with moral conviction.

I’m thinking that you’re exactly what I think you are.

Hormone replacement therapy actually changes a lot more than breast size, including muscle mass and bone density.

But let’s be real here. You’re the kind of person that would also complain about a trans person in a chess or COD tournament. And who would accuse cis women of being men because they don’t look woman enough to you.

The funny thing about this conversation is that I wasn’t born yesterday. And what I’ve noticed is that the people who are most concerned about it, are anti-feminist men that hero worship pedos and probably have rape charges in their past, Harry Potter fans that never gave a shit about feminism before, and women like Riley Gaines that came in 5th place and blamed everything on a trans woman that was in the same race.

Not that it’s even as widespread as you seem to think it is. You’re just obsessed with trans people.

No but it makes you a clown that’s really really really proud of their junior school biology knowledge. Yes, we all know biological sex is real, you’re not a fucking genius with hidden knowledge. So if you feel the need to constantly bring it up, it’s most likely in bad faith and to display your absolute ignorance of anything that requires more than 5th grade reading comprehension.

Sex =/= gender. Psychology and sociology and cultures that make arbitrary bullshit rules are not some “woke librul” plot to turn the frogs gay. The world is bigger than your white christian home town with a population of 200. You are not the “standard” or the “norm”, you’re just ignorant of the fact that other people who do things differently exist.

The same people that feel the need to go around lecturing other grown fucking adults about what they learnt in biology class when they were 8 years old, are the same people that are adamant that blue is for boys and pink is for girls and that everyone must wear a particular shape of clothing based on their genitals. That’s not biology, that’s fucking culture.

The funniest thing about all of this. Is that the people who want to mansplain basic biology to everyone are the most obsessed with gender by a long fucking shot. And the biggest fucking babies and nazis about it. Assigning themselves cute little labels like “alpha” and following clown fucking rules that make a ‘man’, all for the sake of their gender affirming care.

Then they have the god damn fucking nerve to go around lecturing people because they’re too fucking stupid to be any level of self aware, and they’re damn proud of that too.

Yeah South Africa is unfortunately generally socially conservative. And susceptible to magaland conspiracies. And I hate to sound like I have one issue but very patriarchal, whether you’re Afrikaner or Zulu. So I’d say knee deep in the manosphere shit too, which goes hand in hand with magaland conspiracies anyway.

One example of the gender divide is currently for the month of November, a group called ‘Women for Change’ are running a social media campaign where people are changing their profile pics purple, and are planning a general strike in about a week, to draw attention to the fact that a woman is buried in South Africa every 2.5 hours, and that rape and femicide are a plague in this country. Seriously, from babies to 99 year old women, none are safe.

And so of course, certain men responded to this by starting their own bullshit where they’re changing their profile pictures green. At first I thought it had maybe something to do with farm murders and men trying to play the victim olympics but it’s even scummier and lower than that. They changed their profile pictures green to cry that they’re “ATMs” for women. I dunno, I just think that’s kinda fucking despicable.

In fairness, there are (usually white) conservative women in magaland too. But I’m not going to beat around the bush when I say that you don’t need a magnifying glass to see how lobsided the demographics are in this regard.

Interesting how even in the right wing world, the first ones to grow a spine and stop licking boots are women. Just an observation.

I mean, considering that this is a successful meme on two different platforms and that there are multiple comments giving their own examples, I would assume that it’s a behaviour that a lot of people come across, regardless of your personal experience.

We live in a world where people who believe in jewish space lazers and think they’re going to get 5G from vaccines exist, and you find this hard to believe?

And of course, South Africans are having a field day regurgitating neo nazi talking points.

Imagine thinking you’re being ‘replaced’ by 153 people. Almost as ludicrous as believing they’re putting microchips into vaccines, which South Africans are all over too. It’s honestly embarrassing.

Also, I’m starting to think that a large amount of online trolls that spend their days attacking feminist and queer pages on mainstream social media are god damn fkn white South Africans. I’ve already seen people mention that they are some of the worst of the worst on Twitter.

Pretty sure it’s homophobia. Or just general conformist bigotry because it’s not like heterosexual couples couldn’t use the word too if they wanted.

Felt like talking about myself some more and where better than this post.

About the “they/them” in my username and personal pronouns in general. As far as real life goes, considering that I’m not officially “out”, and living in a fairly socially conservative country at that, I’m not enforcing anything on anyone.

Not going to expect that have known me my whole life thus far to change anything, although I guess if they did it would be a bonus. It’s also why I don’t mind confusing shop cashiers because that’s probably the closest thing to being recognised out in the wild that I could expect around here.

Although if I ended up with a group of friends that don’t need anything explained etc. I’d love to try out they/them and see how it really fits. I do get a little thrill when Facebook uses gender neutral pronouns for me eg. “Secret_Music updated their profile picture.” Or when someone in a comment section refers to me that way. But that’s about the extent of me actually experiencing it.

So all that said, the “they/them” in my username is in place of a non-binary flag emoji. But actually any pronouns are fine or whatever. And it’s not in my username to shove it down anyone’s throat or whatever. It’s just my only space where I can fly that flag without inviting things in that I’m not in the mood to deal with at this point. But I’ll revisit that thought when my personal life is a little less of a dumpster fire and I have more power.