• frezik@midwest.social
    4·
    1 hour ago

    There’s been an undercurrent of this among TERF forums. In many ways, they’re leftover second wave feminists who didn’t get on board with the intersectionality that’s central to third wave feminism. They tend to drag other things from 1960s/70s feminism along with them, like prattling on about the Earth Mother and healing crystals.

    One of the criticisms the third wave had of the second is that the sex negativity tended to align them with far right religious conservatives on many issues. That’s a good indication that something went wrong. Maybe it’s no surprise they ended up in MAGA.

  • technocrit@lemmy.dbzer0.com
    9·
    4 hours ago

    Yes, but this is nothing new. “Mysticism”, “esotericism”, “religion”, etc… have always been a tool of fascism.

  • Phoenixz@lemmy.ca
    4·
    4 hours ago

    I too say dumb shit when I’m high, I never thought I could get a high level government job for saying dumb shit while high.

  • ssillyssadass@lemmy.worldEnglish
    5·
    9 hours ago

    “Well Mr. Doe, I’m afraid it’s bad news. We found a mass in your chest, it looks like pancreatic cancer.”

    “Oh no, so what will we do about that? Will I get radiation, or chemo?”

    “I’ll be prescribing you a set of positively charged aura crystals, just spend some time near them every day, and let them charge under moonlight at night. I’ve also scheduled you a time with our resident chiropractor, he’ll try to realign your chakras. Until then you could also try to stay away from Virgos.”

  • spacesatan@leminal.spaceEnglish
    3·
    10 hours ago

    I’d much rather the new age movement align with the right and make them be the ones who look stupid by association. Do not want to make room in the tent for that shit, thanks.

  • selkiesidhe@lemm.ee
    5·
    13 hours ago

    If the future of medicine is light then I don’t want to see any of you MAGAt morons in a hospital or doctors office. Go sit outside and pray away your sickness in the sunlight, dumbasses.

  • shalafi@lemmy.worldEnglish
    31·
    1 day ago

    Weeelll, humans are out of touch with the Earth and we are depleting it’s life force. I spend a great deal of time in several ecosystems, have some education in general science, botany, biology, etc., and a great deal on interest in all life sciences.

    I think about this a lot, and don’t want to write a wall of depressing shit, but our ecosystems have changed drastically since I was a wee lad in the 70s. And nobody notices! When I point out a given fact to people my age, they’re clearly taken aback, had not thought about it. “Remember when cleaning bugs off your windshield was a common task?”

    I can go on for an hour, but all is see is death, or rather an absence of life. If I could teleport a 20-something to the 70s, they would freak out over the abundance and variety of animals, in the city. We had more mammals in my mid-town Tulsa hood than I see on the edge of town in NW Florida. Again, I’m outside a lot, I’m looking.

    Walking around outside Aldi yesterday I was looking at the perfect grass. Where most see a well kept lawn, all I saw was a barren desert. How much insecticide and herbicide did it take to make that perfect monoculture? Money says you couldn’t dig an earthworm out of that “soil”. Know how I used to find worms? Pick a random spot of dirt and dig for a whole minute. Now I don’t even see them crawling around after a rain.

    Another random fact: Global warming has ponds drying up in the summer that didn’t dry up even 10-years ago. Dragonflies take 2-years to mature underwater. Put that together and enjoy all the mosquitoes.

    Good news! My efforts have brought frogs back to my yard. They were deafening last night! Hoping to have mature dragonflies next year, or barring that, 2-years from now after I get the 150g pond set up.

    (I know that’s not what she’s talking about, just had to get a bit off my chest.)

    • barneypiccolo@lemm.eeEnglish
      1·
      2 hours ago

      Here in Central Florida, love bugs have been a spring and fall problem for decades. They are an invasive species, so they have always been a concern.

      We could count on them coating our windshields every spring, and their sticky, acidic guts eat away at the paint on our cars. Special bug removal additive for your wiper fluid was commonly stacked up on the aisles of stores in the spring. Cleaning your windshield and washing your car was routine.

      But over the past few years, they’ve all but disappeared, which seems like a good thing, but the scary thing is that scientists have no idea why. For some reason, they just stopped breeding a few years ago. Nobody saw it coming, just after a year or two, people started asking "Where are the lovebugs?”, and scientist don’t have an answer.

      One scientist said since they were an invasive species, there is no grant money to study the issue. If an invasive species goes away, who cares, right? But scientists are concerned that whatever could wipe out an entire species, even if it’s invasive, may be wiping out other species as well.

      So the love bug problem solved itself, and we have no idea why.

    • jjjalljs@ttrpg.network
      3·
      3 hours ago

      A tangent, but I do wonder about all the people that played Final Fantasy 7 and just didn’t get any of the pro-environment message. The protagonists are literally eco terrorists who blow shit up to stop the antagonist corporation from bleeding the planet dry.

      It’s like people who listen to rage against the machine and don’t take any politics away.

    • MacAttak8@lemmy.world
      6·
      20 hours ago

      Literally talking to my wife today about how bugs on the bumper/windshield isn’t a thing anymore in 90% of places. It’s sad. Like you, all I see is death.

    • barneypiccolo@lemm.eeEnglish
      1·
      2 hours ago

      The MAGA Nazis are welcome to don their track suits and red sneakers, and take their poison, and wait for the next comet to take them to Heaven.