So I was browsing reddit out of boredom, and I saw a random post on the hoi4 subreddit and I clicked it without much thought. It was about Chinese players giving bad reviews to the game due to India getting cores for Tibet but not China. I clicked on it due to my masochistic desire to see if anyone else would recognize how stupid it was, and was sorely disappointed.
There were the usual ‘muh ccp’ jokes there, also shit about ‘west taiwan’ (ah yes ‘I understand history very well’), and then one guy who really caught my attention saying Chinese ‘people’ (savages) don’t matter because they speak a different language from ‘us’ (the civilized white people). Now granted that isn’t the most charitable interpretation, but… like… come on, this is reddit.
Shit like this makes my blood boil. Because libs will go, ‘oh we accept everyone!’ ‘we hate the government not the people!’ and drop the most disgusting garbage like this because they’re proud little pigs knowing how much propaganda they can fucking shove down their own throats and see an entire race as subhuman. I’ve always thought reeducation was better than punishment and that a lot of these folks are simply misguided, but jesus christ they’re not making it easy for me to suppress the desire to bind them to a rock with metal chains and beat their ribs to pieces with my bare fists and/or a metal bar while screaming “BEG FOR MERCY NOW YOU RACIST SHIT-FOR-BRAINS!”
It gets even more frustrating when it’s people you know in real life. I have a trans friend who generally has pretty good takes on stuff like palestine, disabled rights etc, but even he regurgitates the same shit from the state department and about how he’d ‘definitely kill xi if he got the chance.’
It’s so fucking tiring that these assholes can just turn the ‘counts as human’ switch on and off whenever they want for whatever race they want and suffer no consequences whatsoever. Really makes me wish I could Diver Down their screens and remind them of the weight of their words by bashing in their pale distorted sweaty reddit faces.
rant over.
From my own personal findings, I’m 90 percent sure that the Satanic Panic was a CIA-connected operation to preemptively dismiss, downplay and criticize anti-american sentiments, and deflect from actual child abuse cases that were coming out.
I don’t view all satanists as being child abusers, though. I’m aware of the different branches and nuances.
It’s quite possible. I’ve said (and been heavily down voted elsewhere) before two things:
The real ritual abuse is offering up our children to self or others to be abused for financial eta; or other …constraints. This may be sexual, to make rent alone or keep Daddy happy so bills can be met, or being overworked and unable to direct anger at appropriate entities, bearing in mind that abuse can be financial (no money for sports or scouts), physical (not having patience, time or skills to properly address conflict/upset betweens and you parent or child so even non-brutal spanking for frustration or expedience to brutal punishment/compliance, also not allowing idle hands to prevent mischief), sexual (whether complicity, simply not seeing signs, leaving a child with daycare that exploits or refusing to acknowledge exploitation by other children or asking why children are overly brutish or sexualized) and
Unless we make contact with our own psychological demons, understand them, love them, they control us. Once we do that, they become our holy guardian angels, in that base instincts/survival techniques that once served a purpose in certain aspects can be acknowledged, worked with, what is useful kept, what isn’t “bound” “sacrificed/to” etc to be “put into our service.” For example, drinking to excess regularly, sacrificed either permanently or until moderation is achievable, depending on individual temperament and self-regulatory ability, which is theoretically, expandable/contractable. There are other esoteric (not to be confused with exoteric) terms available. Exoteric is noticing patterns around us, but that is only part of the whole. After which we turn our eyes inward to see corresponding patterns and how they can be manipulated or tempered.
Eta; this abuse can also be toward our own and others’ inner children, vulnerable, wounded both, eg 'triggering the lib/right/left". Triggers are only good if they prompt self reflection and offer a way to heal, eg the difference between lancing a boil or merely poking it for immediate, malicious gratification. And we kid ourselves about it.