"The Trump campaign knew that men were his ticket back to power, and it targeted them—pointedly young men, and men of color—with a sophisticated campaign of grievance and disinformation.

William Lindsey :toad:

"Musk’s efforts are both part of and indicative of the fact that more and more men are cocooned in a YouTube/podcast/Twitch information ecosystem that connects sports, gaming, and other male-dominated hobbies to politics. And in that space, algorithmic forces and concerted efforts by far-right influencers and adjacent grifters are normalizing disdain or hate for women, part of a conveyor belt of extremism."

#Trump #men #women #misogyny #MaleEntitlement #patriarchy #YoungMen #ElonMusk
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William Lindsey :toad:

"For all of the punditry analyzing the reason for Democrats’ loss on November 5, almost none of them mention the Trump campaign’s explicit appeal to sexism among young men. Any pundit who purports to analyze the reasons for Kamala Harris’s loss and does not list misogyny among the top three reasons is running cover for Trump—whether they intend to or not."

~ Robert B. Hubbell

#Trump #men #women #misogyny #MaleEntitlement #patriarchy #YoungMen
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Put one foot in front of the other. Repeat.

November 16, 2024

(roberthubbell.substack.com)

William Lindsey :toad:

"There's a lot of masculine chauvinism, masculine triumphalism that has very much kind of banded together around Trump's victory. And that's kind of dominates two out of three of these major brands of Christian nationalism. So there's the Reformed Reconstructionist kind of manosphere there."

~ Matthew D. Taylor

#Trump #men #women #misogyny #MaleEntitlement #patriarchy #YoungMen #TheoBros #manosphere
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The Violent Christian Nationalism of Pete Hegseth and the New Trump Administration

By announcing Pete Hegseth as his new Secretary of Defense, Donald Trump is signaling his Administration's embrace of violent white Christian nationalism. Scholar Matthew D. Taylor breaks it down.

(thelefthook.substack.com)

Joseph Meyer

@wdlindsy Agreed 100%.

William Lindsey :toad:

"And then there's also this radical traditionalist Catholic wing that is much more connected to people like J.D. Vance. That is also very masculine dominated. It participates in this kind of manosphere world."

#Trump #men #women #misogyny #MaleEntitlement #patriarchy #YoungMen #TheoBros #Catholic #JDVance #manosphere
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JustRosy

@wdlindsy The pro-Palestinian protesters who supposedly refused to vote, voted for Trump and then admitted it:

reuters.com

(www.reuters.com)

Nazani

@wdlindsy
Opus Dei (~90k members)
was chastized by the Pope, but not enough. With a track record of villainy going back to the FBI spy Robert Hanssen, they ought to be disbanded.

William Lindsey :toad:

@Nazani Yes, Opus Dei has long had an inside track at the Vatican and among many Catholic bishops' conferences including in the US. That has much to do with their wealth and power, and their influence at high levels of government including, in the US, on the Supreme Court. Matthew Fox has written cogently about this.

A Deeper Look at Opus Dei, Christofascism, Misogyny & SCOTUS - Daily Meditations with Matthew Fox

Since the far-right wing cult in the Roman Catholic church known as “Opus Dei” has played such a prominent role in Leonard Leo’s life and in the current Supreme Court that he has fashioned, it seems fitting to take a closer look at the organization. Christofascism is always steeped in misogyny. So was the fascist founder […]

Daily Meditations with Matthew Fox (dailymeditationswithmatthewfox.org)

William Lindsey :toad:

@JustRosy I hope they'll be satisfied with what they've chosen for all of us by their votes. I wonder if they're foolish enough to think that the proposal to make Mike Huckabee ambassador to Israel is a promising sign for what Trump intends for Palestinians.

William Lindsey :toad:

@JosephMeyer I do, too — an excellent statement.

Nazani

@wdlindsy
I keep waiting for today's youth to rediscover Liberation Theology... but they don't read.

Newcanuk

@wdlindsy @JustRosy I hope people don’t blame the people who refused to barter with their conscience.
Choosing the lesser of two evils is still choosing evil.
Keeping your conscience fully and completely makes you stronger.
The struggle never ends.

Just an outsiders two cents which rounds down to nothing.

Paxil

@wdlindsy It is gobsmacking how women and #Latinos in #Texas and #Florida voted to oppress themselves.

Newcanuk

@wdlindsy @JustRosy so this comment lost me a follower or two. So sad !!
Lol
Anywayz…… calling out the ones you’re complaining about as simply stupid is going to get you exactly nowhere.
If you don’t look for answers, you’re not going to find solutions.

William Lindsey :toad:

@Newcanuk @JustRosy You lecture me by stating that I need to look for answers.

I'm curious as to why that fact that some of us are sometimes very stupid is ruled out as an acceptable answer.

Newcanuk

@wdlindsy @JustRosy please don’t tell me I’m lecturing you by adding my opinion to your conversation, this is counterproductive to any conversation. Which may be your point.

William Lindsey :toad:

@Paxil This is surely a major story of this era (from around, say, 1970 to the present) of political life in the US, isn't it — the willingness of many of us to keep voting against our self-interest at the behest of economic elites who keep us angry, divided, and ignorant?

Paxil

@wdlindsy All I can figure is they're voting against other people but to me the other people is them.

Newcanuk

@wdlindsy @JustRosy if someone wants to pass judgment on a group that refused to vote for the lesser evil, maybe there should be a more thorough examination of the reason beyond “they’re stupid”
If people want to unfollow me for that, o welcome it.

William Lindsey :toad:

@Nazani You couldn't be more right. So many now get "information" from online videos and soundbytes. The loss of interest in reading, in reading actual books, is very disturbing to me.