Don’t think there’s one source. It’s been all over the internet for the last two days. Here’s an article not even mentioning the outfit, featuring a different shot and a video clip: https://www.rawstory.com/backlash-emerges-after-trump-criticizes-marjorie-taylor-greene-online/

I agree with most of what you say but I think it’s both. People are tired of voting and paying taxes when it all seems to just go towards paying rich and connected people bloated salaries to blatantly sleep in parliament in front of cameras. But the wealthy elites harnessed that and took advantage. And infected conspiracy theory circles and started putting so much bullshit out there that ‘truth’ seems to be optional these days.

I’m showing my tinfoil hat here but in my view this started happening some time after the Arab spring when powerful people shat themselves and realised how powerful social media could actually be.

Trump was totally packaged as a rebel and a renegade coming to change the system. Around 2015 I remember even ‘progressive’ minded people saying things like “he’s a businessman, not one of these useless assholes, he’ll get things done!” In South Africa, there was the same rhetoric surrounding Cyril Ramaphosa in the beginning.

I don’t want to sound like self aggrandizing asshole here but I think that maybe people in general are even less smart than I thought. Because just before everyone started thinking that capitalist businessmen were going to save them, social media was all about Anonymous and Zeitgeist and how awesome socialism is and how much capitalism sucks. And seemingly overnight, while still looking for the same kind of change, they fell for a slimy capitalist swindler selling that change.

Honestly my sincere hope and probably the main thing keeping me going is that this all collapses under the weight of pedophiles and incompetent podcasters and news readers put into positions of power, and then the pendulum swings back and we get the change that we actually need.

As a non-American looking in from the outside, from what I can gather in progressive online spaces, people are sick of career politicians in general that don’t have any actual morals but are instead driven by marketing and advertising. This is a problem not just with the US Democrats but with the old guard in general worldwide.

That’s part of why the door has been opened to right wing lunatics in the first place. Around 10 years ago, a lot of people thought Donald Trump was the “anti establishment” pick. As insane as that is to reasonably well educated people, simple people with shitty lives believed that this upstart really would “drain the swamp”.

It’s also part of why the career politicians aren’t doing much to stop it either. They see the numbers on their marketing graphs, so they’re evolving into another stage of parasite that can feed on the new generation.

There’s no doubt in my mind that it would be a tougher battle for a woman than for a man in the USA. But also, they would stand a much better chance with someone like AOC than someone like Clinton or Obama or Harris. Because people are fucking sick of corporate undead ghouls whose sole purpose is to keep the Overton window in place.

I know that someone here is going to call AOC a sellout or something but come on, your anarchist socialist utopia is even further away now that the christo-fascists have undone so much progress. AOC is a thousand times better than almost anything else you’ve got right now.

You need more women with AOC and Jasmine Crockett energy, and less with Joe Biden energy. Someone to knock these christo-fascist clowns the fuck out on the mic and on social media, and to inspire people. Not someone that’s going to go “oh well I tried nothing and now I give up” and fucking bore everyone to death.

I’m confused why you apparently doubt that puberty affects teenagers in high school

Can you read? If you could, you’d probably be less confused.

can’t erase the effects of male puberty

You say that and then jump straight to an example of a teenager in high school. Clown. This is why trans kids are given puberty blockers in more enlightened places. So that their teenage puberty doesn’t take hold before they’re old enough for bigger steps. But you probably want to end that too.

It seems you’d really like me to be somebody else, that you can rail against for other opinions. It feels good when you can properly hate someone with moral conviction.

I’m thinking that you’re exactly what I think you are.

Hormone replacement therapy actually changes a lot more than breast size, including muscle mass and bone density.

But let’s be real here. You’re the kind of person that would also complain about a trans person in a chess or COD tournament. And who would accuse cis women of being men because they don’t look woman enough to you.

The funny thing about this conversation is that I wasn’t born yesterday. And what I’ve noticed is that the people who are most concerned about it, are anti-feminist men that hero worship pedos and probably have rape charges in their past, Harry Potter fans that never gave a shit about feminism before, and women like Riley Gaines that came in 5th place and blamed everything on a trans woman that was in the same race.

Not that it’s even as widespread as you seem to think it is. You’re just obsessed with trans people.

No but it makes you a clown that’s really really really proud of their junior school biology knowledge. Yes, we all know biological sex is real, you’re not a fucking genius with hidden knowledge. So if you feel the need to constantly bring it up, it’s most likely in bad faith and to display your absolute ignorance of anything that requires more than 5th grade reading comprehension.

Sex =/= gender. Psychology and sociology and cultures that make arbitrary bullshit rules are not some “woke librul” plot to turn the frogs gay. The world is bigger than your white christian home town with a population of 200. You are not the “standard” or the “norm”, you’re just ignorant of the fact that other people who do things differently exist.

The same people that feel the need to go around lecturing other grown fucking adults about what they learnt in biology class when they were 8 years old, are the same people that are adamant that blue is for boys and pink is for girls and that everyone must wear a particular shape of clothing based on their genitals. That’s not biology, that’s fucking culture.

The funniest thing about all of this. Is that the people who want to mansplain basic biology to everyone are the most obsessed with gender by a long fucking shot. And the biggest fucking babies and nazis about it. Assigning themselves cute little labels like “alpha” and following clown fucking rules that make a ‘man’, all for the sake of their gender affirming care.

Then they have the god damn fucking nerve to go around lecturing people because they’re too fucking stupid to be any level of self aware, and they’re damn proud of that too.

Interesting how even in the right wing world, the first ones to grow a spine and stop licking boots are women. Just an observation.

Ah I definitely understand the “preaching to the choir” sentiment, particularly here on Lemmy. I think that’s also partly why I’m fucking with mainstream social media right now.

But I mean in that case, might as well not share any political content here. Personally I wasn’t sharing it here to preach to anyone here. I think that sharing content here is more for showing things to like minded people. Maybe a reminder sometimes. Or something for them to look up or share to their social media or whatever.

I could’ve been a little less defensive, so I apologize. The platform where I got this from is a shit show where certain people literally defend this shit. Need to remind myself that I don’t need to automatically fight when I’m here.

I do not work with them nor am I associated with them in any way. I just shared this here and left more than enough details for people to verify for themselves if they still doubt the fact that religious right wingers tend to be scum with issues around children and with projecting their own actions and guilt onto others.

This isn’t some new groundbreaking revelation. That’s why the clutching at pearls over trans people was such a fucking joke. Because they’ve been turning a blind eye to kiddie fiddling priests and right wing politicians for decades now. And proved that christianity is a religion of conformity, not morality.

This is literally just more information for the people who have actually been awake at any point in their lives and aren’t just finding out today that right wingers are disproportionately involved in child abuse. So that they can know to keep children away from the man with the maga hat and tell their friends. So that the heat can be on the right target.

It’s why I’m being a bit hostile here. This to me isn’t really a conversation in good faith. It’s debating the validity of something that has been a problem for at least as long as I’ve been alive, almost four decades.

You could also go and check out the Reddit subs “not a drag queen” and “still not a drag queen” for documented cases going years back. You could just use your fucking memories of how far back the stories of priests diddling kids go, and how the USA south has a particular reputation for this. None if this is fucking new. Including the pedophile president that these fucking people all love.

Tired of ‘debating’ reality with debate bros that only have room in their heads for the last podcast they listened to.

Ok find them.

this kind of thing needs to be backed up with evidence

I don’t know about Instagram but going by their Facebook profile, you would have to be deliberately stupid to think that they’re just posting about random people being arrested.

There are 56 names on this list, as well as the individual articles about all of these individuals on this profile. Expecting someone to spoon feed you 56 different links, or more if you’re too much of a ‘skeptic’ to trust just one source for each of them, is a bit much. I’m sure you know how to use Google based on the information here.

And even if you don’t have a Facebook account and can’t see that content, and won’t make one, or any effort to see for yourself before declaring “both sides”, I’m sure that your Uncle Joe has a Facebook account.

And he sees this shit too, these pedo president worshipping pieces of shit are all over left wing and feminist pages letting everyone know clearly just what they think. They just don’t fucking care. Or they call it “fake news”.

So this isn’t for Uncle Joe, who would’ve voted for a turd fresh out of Donald Trump’s ass, with lips painted on, as long it gives him any excuse to use the N word and call trans people “predators” online. Feelings don’t care about facts for these fkn clowns.

This is for the people who aren’t ignorant, mouth breathing bigots, and who are capable of a little bit of their own initiative, in order to be armed with knowledge.

Here’s also the tally for September:

1. Brooks Turnbow
2. Blake Bowser
3. Ronald Duane Kirby
4. Candon Dean Dahle
5. James Taylor
6. Dwight Merrell
7. Quentin Andrew Whaley
8. Lance Larkin
9. Travis Olson
10. Nicholas Bain
11. Steve Sumner
12. Randy D. Patrick
13. Jason D. Holwager
14. Ricky Horton
15. Angela Amburn
16. Jeremy Amburn
17. Elzie Rhodes
18. Larry Tennison
19. Gretchen Tennison
20. John White
21. Terry Black
22. Austin Rounds
23. Bobby Raney
24. David Roberts
25. Mason Halliburton
26. Wayne Sands
27. Kyle Brenchley
28. Jennifer Aree Myers
29. Benjamin Geoffrey Myers
30. Jackie Allred
31. Timothy Hart
32. John Paul Sheptock
33. Kelly Lee Selzer
34. Justin T. Weimer
35. Jon Reep
36. Chase Eubanks
37. Harliegh Hoffman
38. Jordon Hoffman
39. James B. Gosnell, Jr.
40. Jeffry Clain
41. Herbert Durwood Duhon
42. Austin Maddox

This has been going on much longer and I wish I had saved previous months. But I’m going to share this shit here each month from now on.