Friend Infected With Right Wing Brain Worms - What to Do?

this reminds me of some years ago when a certain then-up-and-coming far-right troll was hanging out with a relatively prominent leftish-feminist broadsheet columnist and they apparently had a whale of a time together "despite their differences" and incidentally they were both privately-educated white brits

After a bit of a pause, I'm back into Mike Duncan's Revolutions Podcast at the moment, the bit on the peasants in 1870s France is reminiscent of some of the themes in this thread!

I'm still in 1948, looking forward to getting to the bits I remember from Zola novels, the shopkeepers in Le Ventre de Paris do remind me a great deal of a certain kind of English people in the modern day.

1848 sorry!

thanks for the reminder. I've not been back to the Russian Revolution since he took a break last year and there are a lot of new eps.

one for my fellow tankies - the Bolshevik Bank Heist - Stalin as a swashbuckling countercultural hero!

An old boyfriend of my sister has just contacted me via Facebook to ask me to say hello to her - I don't know why he couldn't contact her directly as she's never off Facebook. Anyway, I remember this guy, all those years ago, as a really good looking if rather vain sort of gothy punk guy but he's been living in New York for years - I assume he's now a US citizen - and his Facebook page is full of pro-Trump, anti-BLM stuff. I don't think I'll bother telling her.

Sounds like she blocked him before.

Yes, that's possible. She's had to block at least one other person from her past who has turned into a racist, right wing wanker - that one lives in China btw.

i'm up to the massacre of champ de mars in the mike duncan revolutions pod (since it's mentioned just upthread for some reason)

i think it's p good but i have to make some kind of comment and/or protest re duncan's french pronunciation, which is in my opinion PECULIAR lol

the radical parisian district of cor-dell-YEE!

(Pssst mark, check out this thread, it's a good 'un: Political/History Podcasts - Recommendations)

thank you :)

I preferred it when he was plugging harry's razors rather than the dodgy hair restoring treatments at the start of his recent Russian revolution eps!

tbh i just skip all that stuff

I've signed up for audible, my male pattern baldness is in retreat, got some really great suitcases and I only shave with the finest German steel now.

tmi tbh

I listen to it on spotify and just leave it running ep by ep, plugs and ads included. It's usually when I'm cooking.

a good thing about US podcasts is you usually wouldn't be able to get the services that advertise on them here even if you wanted to

the "audible" that duncan talks abt is presumably also the "audible" that lanchester refers to in his very bad ghost story

so you can definitely get it in the netherworld

'loose term' friend has been asking me to go over and sort out his laptop because he's been 'hacked'. Further questioning of other friends turns out he's been heavily into T3legram for the past year and was also looking at "Jews who hate white people" sites! Further questioning and he believes earth is flat and street-lights are all secretly embedded with 5g spy robots. Think I'll pass and let his laptop rot.

How much of eg flat earth belief do you think is real?

Flat eartherism has been gradually on the rise for..10? 15? years. And for a long time I'd put it down as kind of pseudo-real, partly affectation. Maybe interesting but not consequential or of wider relevance. But I feel like it became more real over time and/or there was never that much pseudo about its growth

Your friend can't be all that distant if he's asking you to go over and help? Any signs before this?

waht

Lads, most of the people you meet or are forced together with in this life are worth ignoring

there is a young lad I sometimes talk to who's got an adorable little Manchester Terrier called Romo. Anyway t'other week he starts going on about "The Great Reset" ... and that's it I'm gone!

Ben Shapiro: "Joe Biden is the Kurt Cobain of politics. He put a shotgun in the mouth of the American body politic and then pulled the trigger. And the brains are on the wall" pic.twitter.com/7om4KwvAbv

— Jason Campbell (@JasonSCampbell) March 2, 2022

So, wait, who is the Kathleen Hanna in this metaphor?

Pretty sure that Nancy Pelosi is the Dave Grohl.

Bernie Sanders is the Eddie Vedder.

Chuck Schumer is the Butch Vig.

Beau Biden is the guy from Green River

Ben Shapiro is the Andy Rooney.

Okay as long as Bill Clinton is the Chad Channing and Kamala Harris is the Kurt Loder, I am satisfied that the metaphor works.

Hunter Biden - Silverchair dude

Mitch McConnell is Tad

anyone else see the state of the union last night when stephen breyer tossed his bass straight up in the air and it came straight down and bonked him in the head?

The Truss brainworm isn't gaining traction

Sad to report that my friend passed away in his sleep last October at age 40. The dalliance with scary politics was thankfully short-lived and while we hadn’t seen each other since the start of the pandemic, we were still on good terms. Appropriately enough our last interaction was reminiscing about the time we spent as kids seeing movies. I miss him.

RIP Sean 1982-2022

Ah man, that’s a rough age

So sorry to hear.

There’s an acquaintance from college who I’ve been friends with on social media for years, though we haven’t seen each other in person for ages. When I knew him he was a very sweet guy, iirc he was openly gay. In the last few years his social media has been filled with posts about becoming a born-again Christian, recognizing himself as a worthless sinner undeserving of God’s love, etc. As I understand it, he devoted himself to God at a time of total desolation while working in a remote area of the South Pacific.

I found his posts interesting sometimes, they didn’t usually map on to a specific ideology, though it seemed like he was following pretty hard-line people. Unfortunately he’s recently started repeating the most rancid transphobic shit, both the usual scary viral anecdotes and also really nasty things about Lia Thomas. And he seems to have adopted a version of Christianity that argues against even being nice and kind - because of course using someone’s pronouns, or just letting them live their life, is letting them continue in sin, and endangering their soul. So the very idea of accepting someone for who they are is enabling their damnation.

I should probably just unfriend him and not think about it beyond that, it’s not like we were close, there’s just something really sad about it, it feels like he’s upping the zealotry to hold onto the intensity that came with his conversion. He doesn’t seem like someone who is happy. I’m tempted to message him to tell him how upsetting I find his posts, and that his version of Christianity is one that repels me and basically everyone I know, but I can’t imagine it would get through at all. I would probably just get filed away as someone doing the work of Satan to tempt him away from what Christ demands of him.

When the brain worms have tunneled all the way to your fingers.

Jeffrey Epstein had some balls.

He found Bill Gates’ girlfriend, paid for her software course, and then emailed him asking to be paid back as a way to try to bribe Gates into funding him.

He was too much of a man for this feminized era. https://t.co/VI6aujHS1e pic.twitter.com/RXxYjcS5kO

— Richard Hanania (@RichardHanania) May 21, 2023

xp Weird how so many people who profess to have grasped their own sinfulness are still so busy policing it in others. That strikes me as the wrong outcome.

xp I never know who these fuckwits even are.

Starting to see more and more progressives demand public swimming pools. Get ready for the next entitlement program.

— Erick Erickson (@EWErickson) July 30, 2023

I'm ready

Asked an older friend of mine to tell me what she thought 15-minute towns were. "It's where the government puts you in planned places like Ballymun..." I had to stop her. This is a woman who started off her Youtube journey about ten years ago with Norwegian knitters and foragers, then moved through van life people to preppers and is now being served full-on conspiracy nutjobs. She just lets them play. I think she has this idea that YouTube is essentially a television channel and that you wouldn't be allowed to say these things on television if they weren't true. She told us today that she was amazed about the "undercover government stuff" involved in the fires in Hawaii. We had to tell her it wasn't true. Fundamentally this isn't my problem, and I know we've said it all before. But I wish there was some secret setting I could toggle on her Youtube account that just keeps her seeing harmless Scandi knitwear designers forever.

The level of credibility is astonishing. It's like they didn't learn even basic critical thinking skills however long they stayed in school.

That Erick "Erick" Erickson tweet is puzzling. Not sure what he's on about.

This may be insensitive, but I wonder if Sean (RIP) died from Covid.

Or was it the brain worms?

Covid is coming back later this year as the Democrats look to ban in person voting at the next election so they can make 15 minute cities and take cars away. There are also plans to take the guns away and introduce communism

A neurosurgeon investigating a woman’s mystery symptoms in Australia says she plucked a wriggling worm from the patient’s brain. “It continued to move with vigor. We all felt a bit sick,” surgeon Hari Priya Bandi added of her operating team. https://t.co/Wzm6dLkqG5

— The Associated Press (@AP) August 29, 2023

brain worms are real. wake up sheeple