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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.
(2026 is off to a great start, isnāt it? Credit and/or blame to David Gerard for starting this.)
So just a couple things before the rest of this comment:
I spent about five minutes trying to see what I could find out. I looked up a few āintactivistā organisations and, at risk of poisoning my algorithms forever, looked at their socials and who they followed. I donāt think I really found out anything that interesting, except that a lot of them follow daniel ātosh.0ā tosh? He probably platformed some of them at some point. Otherwise, I think in terms of what is organisationally there, itās a little too fringe to be ādriven primarilyā by any particular cultural faction.
E: adding that when I think about it, Iāve seen intactivists presented in two tv shows as fringe weirdos. I think the editors of the shows chose to focus just on the views surrounding circumcision and not anything else.
When I used to work at the farmersā market in San Francisco, I would always dread when somebody had a protest scheduled for the Embarcadero plaza, as it would make packing up and getting out at the end of the day even more of a chore. But the most, ah, visually striking of those was certainly the āintactivists.ā It was actually a fairly gender-diverse crowd, plenty of concerned moms mixed in (and I was given to suspect that some of them had to be drawn from what we would now call MAHA circles)ā¦ But the centerpiece was a bunch of guys holding signs and wearing bleached-white jeans with red circles painted on their groins š¬
Ah yes the first group I looked up, the āBloodstained Men & Their Friendsā (BSM) are the ones who started (perhaps appropriated from period havers) the red on white pants thing.
And now Iām imagining ordering a porchetta sandwich at Roli Roti, seeing them protest, and remembering to ask for extra pork skin.
j/k, I would never forget to order the crackling.
(Iām so sorry for that)
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in retrospect I regret starting this hare
The impulse was a HN sub where the
CDCCPS was gonna mark infant male circumcision as badbecase the CDC is now basically RFK JR/MAHA aligned, my thought went instantly to neo-nazis.[See above, this was CPS, not CDC, so I doubly misread. Further association follows] In part because a couple of election cycles ago here in Sweden, the local nationalist party tried to resurrect the old Swedish ban on kashrut slaughter as an anti-islamist trope, showing that these bad Nazi ideas keep showing upHN submission (flagged): https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46567696
Previous discussion on HN from 9 years ago, no-one mentions Fremskrittspartiet are heirs to Nazis, nor that the linked submission explicitely calls out the legislation as anti-semitic.
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=14291906
I completely forgot that the US is almost unique in the prevalence of infant male circumcision on non-religious grounds