Nice try, he’s a depressed Doc Brown.
Russian bot spam on Reddit.
Russian bot spam on Lemmy.
Did I miss something?
Seconded
I thought he was older than that when he started.
Nope, 36, almost exactly to the day.
I don’t get it
On the left is soyak (soyboy wojak): https://knowyourmeme.com/memes/soy-boy-face-soyjak
I Fucking Love Science was a Facebook page that posted pop-sci articles.
On the right is Ted Kaczynski AKA the Unabomber: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ted_Kaczynski
Oh shit
Whoops, thank you
I recognize that’s a police sketch artist depiction, so probably not ideal lol.
Thats the unibomber specifically. His manifesto is probably the punchline hinted here since it was very against the modern world.
The amount of people who would probably agree with the manifesto on Lemmy is probably higher than people expect.
Probably only the first little bit lmao. It starts sounding like something a MAGA influencer wrote today pretty quickly.
The leftists who agree with the unabombers manifesto are the ones who haven’t read it and have only heard he was anti technology. If you read it you’ll see he was a right wing nutjob who was also anti technology and racist too
It was his methods that were somewhat problematic
No, not just his methods, unless you agree with shit like this:
Leftists tend to hate anything that has an image of being strong, good and successful. They hate America, they hate Western civilization, they hate white males, they hate rationality. The reasons that leftists give for hating the West, etc. clearly do not correspond with their real motives. They SAY they hate the West because it is warlike, imperialistic, sexist, ethnocentric and so forth, but where these same faults appear in socialist countries or in primitive cultures, the leftist finds excuses for them, or at best he GRUDGINGLY admits that they exist; whereas he ENTHUSIASTICALLY points out (and often greatly exaggerates) these faults where they appear in Western civilization. Thus it is clear that these faults are not the leftist’s real motive for hating America and the West. He hates America and the West because they are strong and successful.
Wow. That’s fascinating. Thank you for sharing it.
Ted could have done with someone explaining the concept of punching down to him.
Ngl this sounds like some of the most prominent .world posters.
Exactly, “The amount of people who would probably agree with the manifesto on Lemmy is probably higher than people expect.”
It’s just not the Tankies.
That was the joke. Also that he seemed mostly like some sort of libertarian or precursor MAGA. That strong and successful quote aged like milk lol
I don’t mean to discount the deranged ramblings in there, but I’d say the parts about technology and its effects on society (arguably the most central parts) are much more intriguing.
Disclaimer that Tankies, for example, would promote it but not actually believe it.
Are you saying tankies don’t like to shit on the west?
Tankies promote anarchism and violence in the west, promote authoritarianism at home.
The unabomber
Definitely not ideal, but anyone who is going into debt for a degree these days might not have other options
Pretty sure that guy was not in his 30s. Nice try though.
The sketch was made quite a bit later but he sent his first bomb in the week of his 36th birthday and five more before he turned 40. That’s about a third of his entire “work”.
Cool that makes me feel better about my achievements…
Wait until you hear that he got a Bachelor of Arts degree from Harvard when he was 20 and became an assistant professor at Berkeley when he was 25.
Yes but then they fucked him up with some stupid mkultra thing, right?
What a waste of potential.
That study seems to have had a massive impact that worsened his insecurities and his hatred for the world. There are other factors though:
- In school (and maybe even in university), he was always the smartest person in the room, years ahead of his peers. That made it incredibly hard for him to find friends.
- Because was that intelligent and talented, he felt entitled to a teaching position while he was still working on his Master and PhD degrees but his preferred university refused so he had to go somewhere else. That probably caused a lot of frustration and resentment.
- When he was about 25, he thought he might be trans and decided to see a psychiatrist to figure out if he should seek gender reassignment treatment. He chickened out at the last moment, talked about something else and apparently had a really bad therapy session. Maybe if he had lived 50 years later, he would have had the opportunity to figure out who he is.
He had always been an outsider who felt the wold was treating him unfairly. No idea if that was paranoia, narcissism, just a lack of good social contacts or a mix of all of that but in the end, some stupid psychological experiment turned it all up to 11.
You know how many queer and nerdy people joke about leaving everything behind and moving to a cabin in the woods? He did that. And then he went a step further and hurt people. Really makes you think how many marginalized people are just one really traumatic experience away from losing it. And instead of trying to help, society slowly reverts back to casting them out, just to be surprised when something happens.
