• Todd Bonzalez@lemm.ee
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    2 months ago

    The soy thing has to be one of the funniest delusions I’ve ever seen.

    People convincing themselves that all liberals are vegans, all vegans eat a diet primarily of soy, and that soy has compounds similar to estrogen, so therefore all liberal men are feminized by their diets and are therefore weak (because being a woman is bad).

    The number of weird things you have to believe out of insecurity to get to that conclusion are quite embarrassing. It’s quite a self-report.

    You can also reverse the argument into mockery, accusing conservative women of being too masculine because they don’t eat enough soy, then bragging about how feminine soy-loving liberal women are.

    • nova_ad_vitum@lemmy.ca
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      2 months ago

      It’s also why the most deeply delusional MAGAs have to convince themselves that Tim Walz is gay - because a gun toting bird-hunting liberal does not compute for them.

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        2 months ago

        Hunting birds is gay now, actually.

        Men hunt boars and shit like that. Moose. Bison. Bears.

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      2 months ago

      Finding a reason to completely disregard not just the ideas but even the humanity of huge swaths of other people is conservatism 101. Just give in to your most base tribal tendencies, and “know” that all those good-sounding ideas are in fact wrong and evil because they’re coming from the wrong/lesser people.

      When you can’t argue against ideas, argue against the people saying them. See if ad-hominem attacks will work on people. (narrator: they did)