Posts that would’ve have done numbers on an image board in 2004

Ralph Bakshi, is that you?

But consider:

Emojis have no soul, and will never see the light of Heaven

Text based emoticons, meanwhile :) :( :3 :o Are God’s chosen tone indicator, animated with the breath of life

2 Manly P. Hall – known for writings on esoteric philosophy.

That picture is actually of Gerald Gardner, the guy who founded (kind of? Its complicated) the religion of Wicca.

That’s literally Gerald’s Wikipedia picture, while Manley Hall kina looks like he’d be a groyper twink if he were alive today

To answer the question though, white Jesus easily has the most toxic fan club, by sheer volume of followers.

Anton LaVey was an edgy fuck though, so he probably gets 2nd place for just being kinda cringe ¯_(ツ)_/¯

Log off and come suck my gock, fuckwad lmao

Get the ever living fuck off Lemmy, we don’t want misogynistic dipshits like you

I don’t really want to argue with a fellow leftist here while there are liberals attacking us all over the place

Me, an ML, defending my anarchist comrades from the liberals o7

Hasan Piker, a left wing political commentator on the internet, who’s popular among the 18-35 set

Somalia is a failed state, not a project built around anarchist organizing principles

How can a territory with borders containing hundreds of thousands of individuals hide?

Real Wakanda EZLN

Get your ass on Soulseek

forcing many users to consider the unthinkable

… Death???

The “Recent Data” in question was largely a piece of satire which claimed that the Grindr CEO called the 2024 RNC, “Grindr’s Super Bowl” this never actually happened.

There were also claims that Grindr crashed during the 2024 RNC:

Over 1,000 users reported a Grindr outage in the Milwaukee area around 4 p.m. on Tuesday, according to Downdetector, a website that collects online service status information.

The Grindr app also allegedly experienced problems in the Cream City on Thursday— the fourth and final day of the RNC — as well as in Chicago, Los Angeles, and New York. However, Grindr’s official status updates show there hasn’t been an outage since May.

According to Newsweek, those appear to be unsubstantiated.

Further, the majority of the spike in Grindr traffic during the RNC was due to journalists, curious locals, and law enforcement, all of whom got on the app with the intent to monitor the goings on.

And why would all those people want to do that? Because we’ve created this largely fake “gay on gay violence” trope wherein all of the people most opposed to queer rights are secretly queer themselves.

People believe this trope, everyone flocks to Grindr during the RNC to watch. Then the inflated Grindr numbers, of people there to see the supposed flood of secret Gay conservatives, are cited as proof that the flood of secret Gay conservatives is real.

It’s like if I claimed a Rhino was ice skating downtown. The fact that people showed up to see if there was actually an ice skating rhino, is not proof that such a thing ever existed. It’s pointing at shadows cast on the wall, and mistaking them for reality.

Ehh, I know we’re in the shitpost community, but if I can be serious for a moment, this “Homophobes are actually secretly gay” schtick always rubs me the wrong way.

It’s not actually that common of a phenomenon, and the idea absolves straight people of their own culpability in the oppression of queer people, by pinning it on an imagined “Gay on Gay violence”, as opposed to actual systemic factors

Mr. Hands, is that you?

Enjoy!

My Immortal is an internet classic, and a bizarre time capsule of what youth subculture was like ~20 years ago.

There wasn’t a single American slave revolt that contributed substantially to the end of slavery.

Except I literally gave you an example of one…The massive general strike of slaves which crippled the southern economy

Fellow white transfem here, I definitely agree that there’s a time and place for unaffected people to advocate for a minority.

That said, if I’m being charitable to OP, there are absolutely times when minorities get talked over in ways that really suck.

I once attended a listening circle/support group that came together as a piece of transphobic legislation was likely to pass in my state. I went, expecting a good mix of trans folks and allies, and that we’d be coming together to vent our frustrations and figure out a way forward.

But what I got instead was a room full of mostly cis people, talking over the trans people in the room, and being all sad and morose, like the bill in question was already a foregone conclusion. Like the trans people in the room were a lost cause to mourn, rather than worth helping.

And that… Sucked! That bill didn’t pass, but it wasn’t because any of the cis people in that room did anything to help.

Slavery didn’t end because the slaves revolted. It ended because white people fought to abolish it.

Holy revisionist history!!

White abolitionists absolutely played a role in ending chattel slavery in the United States, not the least of which were John Brown, the 48ers, and others who were doing what they did for the goal of Abolition primarily.

The vast majority of northern politicians, generals, and soldiers, were engaged in the Civil war to preserve the Union, first and foremost. Abolition was a distant secondary concern for most of them.

Furthermore, Slaves weren’t just sitting on their asses waiting to be freed by the benevolence of white people, they were agents of history all on their own. W.E.B. DuBois argued in Black Reconstruction in America that an underdiscussed turning point in the Civil War was when slaves engaged in one of the largest general strikes in American history. A strike which crippled the southern economy and thus its ability to sustain the war.

So yes, Slavery did end in very large part because the slaves revolted.

Pretty sure this is fetish content…