• Sentient Loom@sh.itjust.works
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    1 year ago
    1. Yes, the secret to deprogramming a rapist’s cult is definitely 100% to have good intentions for those lonely men who fall prey to the cult.

    2. Yes, keep ridiculing Tate because he is ridiculous and hostile. But if you are generally ridiculing lonely people for their desperation and their failure to find a good response to their misery… then you are exactly the same as Tate.

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      1 year ago

      You know a ton of Tate’s followers are children, right? There are a fuckload of societal issues beyond just “loneliness” in play here.

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        1 year ago

        The meme is explicitly about lonely men falling prey to brainwashing. That’s what we’ve been talking about this whole time.

        If you actually care about diminishing the power of Tate’s ugliness, you would offer something other than more ugliness to those lonely people.

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            1 year ago

            Not ridiculing lonely people for being lonely. That’s literally all I’m suggesting.

            But you go ahead and keep herding lonely people towards Tate or suicide.