Thordros [he/him, comrade/them]

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Cake day: July 26th, 2020

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  • I may have exaggerated a bit. Fingerprint evidence is almost entirely subjective analysis, relying on the person looking at the prints being ethical and unbiased. A perfect description of cops, if you ask me.

    There have been a lot of high profile cases where fingerprint evidence was a “100% match”, even though that would been impossible. The Madrid train bombings 20 years ago are the first case that immediately comes to mind—a guy halfway across the world, who had no passport, and hadn’t left the country in a decade, had “his” fingerprints all over the bombs. But, he’d recently converted to Islam, and the wAr On TeRrOr had just started firing on all cylinders in Iraq, so he got Patriot Act’d for a month.

    Fingerprints may very well be unique, but subjective analysis ain’t real science.











  • Damn, I hate this topic. It’s so painfully personal. Even though I’ve (mostly) struggled through it, it always haunts what I have to say about feminism and masculinity.

    Incel culture is the synthesis of toxic masculinity and capitalist alienation because it combines harmful gender norms with the sense of estrangement and disempowerment produced by capitalist systems.

    Toxic masculinity promotes rigid expectations for men to be dominant, emotionally stoic, and sexually successful. Incel culture distorts these expectations into a sense of entitlement to sex (and romantic relationships—which is also fucked up!), leading to resentment and anger when that doesn’t happen by magic.

    Toxic masculinity and capitalist alienation feed into each other. It’s fucked up. It leads to a worldview where men feel disconnected from both society and themselves, leading to frustration, misogyny, and frequently violence.

    I despise that way of thinking. I try to encourage the lads in my sphere of influence to fight back against those pressures, but it’s… difficult. I lead by example, and that’s the best I can do. I don’t know if I’m doing well, but I’m trying my best.