Maddox has a potato for a head, lol.
Hmm. Try Frank Sinatra or
Gregory Peck.
A lot of people make poor life decisions and engage in “shitty and stupid behavior” because they’re mentally ill and engage in compulsive patterns of self-harm.
Does bullying the mentally ill make you feel big? Does it make you feel special? Everything that KF singles people out for is pretty much because they have a diagnosable condition under the DSM-5.
Depression, anxiety, and gender dysphoria are all real things. They’re not made up. Upon learning of a pandemic virus, normal people don’t have screaming fits of panic so bad that they need fucking buspar to deal with them.
I’m not angry. I’m just disappointed. Frankly, it shouldn’t be all that surprising to people that a community like Kiwi Farms exists. After all, here in America, it is considered socially acceptable to incarcerate the mentally ill at much higher rates than the rest of the public:
PBS' "Bedlam" director Ken Rosenberg spoke to Salon about how incarceration won out over hospitalization
www.salon.com
I mean, it’s not like anything you guys are doing can compare with literally throwing people in prison or giving them lobotomies or electroshock therapy. Frankly, being doxed and bullied rates pretty
low on the list of society’s transgressions against the mentally ill.
People pick on the Farmers for what you guys do, as if it’s a special and unique sin, and yet, they turn a blind eye to the fact that society frequently does far, far worse. It’s not just one little forum. The mistreatment of the mentally ill is a widespread, endemic problem.
Ever notice that? People always look for a socially-acceptable scapegoat. Criticizing a forum full of extreme libertarians for bullying mentally ill people is treated as fine. Criticizing the establishment for literally imprisoning and abusing the mentally ill? Nobody cares. It’s outside the Overton Window because it includes a critique of the establishment.
When Trump got elected, you saw this same effect writ large. Everyone went out of their way to attack and smear his character while ignoring the institutions that made his election possible in the first place. To the average liberal, the government is, itself, a sacred cow, and bureaucracy is above criticism. It’s not the system that’s broken, or so their logic goes. It’s just this one man. This one trespasser on the sanctity of the church.
When I was a kid, if you wanted to be anti-establishment, you sided with the Left. Right-wingers were warmongering christcuck squares, and Left-wingers were hip and transgressive and had all the weird, kinky stuff.
When I mentioned the Battle of Seattle, even though I was too young to have participated in it, it was to draw a comparison. The ones calling for the toppling of the establishment and an end to globalist exploitation of the underclass were decidedly left-wing at that time.
Ever notice that? Ever notice how everything flip-flopped?
Back in the nineties, if you were anti-globalism, it meant you were against sweatshops and exploitative business practices.
Now, if you say you’re anti-globalist, that means you’re a protectionist, fascist, low-IQ redneck who hates the global poor who benefit from industrial growth.
In the nineties, if you were for creative freedom in fiction and opposed to little old grannies trying to censor everything, you were most likely a leftist and a libertine, scorning the heavy-handed moralism of the Right.
These days, most of the ones calling for censorship of fiction are self-avowed leftists who have anointed themselves as the new moral authorities, claiming to protect women and minorities by controlling how they are depicted.
None of this makes any sense to me at all. It feels like I had the rug pulled out from under me, so to speak.
When I was a kid, I was very, very conservative. As I hit my teens, I turned away from all that and went far-left out of a sense of rebellion. It was a repudiation of stifling and rigid moral authority, like the kind expressed on this very forum. Being involved with sci-fi and video game fandom communities made me feel like I was part of some kind of neo-beatnik movement, when all we were really doing was reading and writing shitty fanfics.
So, imagine my surprise when the identitarian SJWs came along. They embodied an ideological and existential threat. All of a sudden, we had censorious lefties who were claiming to be the new moral majority, tearing down the Old Left’s paradise of bohemian filth in the name of sensitivity and safe spaces.
I can’t be the only one who’s noticed this. Everything flip-flopped. The Left are the new squares and the Right are the new radicals. How the fuck did that happen? Most of what people call right-wing talking points today were left-wing talking points when I was a kid.
There’s too much censorship, globalism is bad and disenfranchises people, we ought to put an end to stifling bureaucratic institutions, the banker cartels control everything, our media is 24/7 corporate propaganda spew, and the perpetual security state makes the underclass fight their stupid petrodollar wars for them.
Which side am I on if I say these things?
If you said any of these things in the nineties or early 2000s, chances are, you were a leftie and against neocons in power. Hell, you weren’t just against the invasion of Iraq, but probably Kosovo, too.
What happened? Why were these quite reasonable positions discredited by becoming associated with the radical right? Why did Barack Obama get away unscathed doing literally nothing different from George Bush as far as our foreign policy goes? Nothing in this world makes any sense to me, anymore. While you’re all here, criticizing me and calling me dishonest, we regularly put dishonest people in the highest places of power in our country. If any of you guys had balls, you’d use this energy and investigative skill to pick on and dox politicians; the big, fat lolcows who rule us all. Oh, but we all know what happens to people who dox politicians, as Julian Assange’s ludicrously Kafkaesque trial aptly demonstrated, where they practically put him under the Cone of Silence from Get Smart just to isolate and intimidate him. Nobody gives enough of a shit about the mentally ill to come to their defense. We’re easy targets. People who spread the private communiques of bureaucrats and diplomats get v&, or end up in self-imposed exile in countries with no extradition treaties. It takes actual bravery to do that.
