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I don't see how this is anywhere on the political spectrum. It's just a little dumb.
And yet the people who make this point are all bunched up in one corner.
That's a pretty big assumption.
Before I make an assumption let me ask. What is your position on marriage and the need to raise children?
Before I make an assumption let me ask.
Alright.
What is your position on marriage
...can you be more specific?
and the need to raise children?
Uh...children do in fact need to be raised...?
I feel like you're either not asking quite what you intend to, or I'm missing something.
Are you pronatalist? Specifically do you agree with the statement,
"Population collapse due to low birthrates is a much bigger risk to civilisation than global warming."
Are you pronatalist?
I don't think so, but how do you define it?
“Population collapse due to low birthrates is a much bigger risk to civilisation than global warming.”
Hell, I find the very use of the word "collapse" in that sentence to be a ridiculous exaggerated way to describe population growth slowing, or even stopping.
I also can't think of how such a thing would be a "risk" to civilization. Risking what, exactly?
Overall, kinda sounds like the inverse, equally-weird version of those people who make a big deal of declaring that human beings should all die and that we're a plague on the planet, etc.
It is weird, it's also the leading rhetoric for Musk and other conservative/alt right influencers that spread the message of the trad wife and the prerequisite purity required of a wife. Also how tattoos corrupt that "purity"
That population collapse quote was from Musk himself trying to downplay the environmental issues we all face as a species.
Okay. That's totally irrelevant, though. There isn't even a caption on this image that implies any political motivation at all.
I've had several left-leaning friends who hated tattoos and the idea of them, as well as right-leaning friends who love them and literally fantasize about getting the next one as soon as their latest one is done. Hell, during the brief period I tried using dating apps, it was the most aggressively-tattooed people that I recall being more likely to have something pro-Trump right at the top of their profiles.
The bottom line is, a lot of people think being covered in tattoos looks unattractive or even repulsive, and they are definitely NOT "all bunched up in one corner" politically. Hence "that's a pretty big assumption".
Edit: Reverse searched the image, and the only result is from a generic anti-tattoo group. Knock me over with a feather.
https://lemmy.world/comment/14127527
Bro, this you? Biiiiiiiiig energy switch when I mentioned Musk. Curious, it's so easy to assume your politics.
Correct, @horse_battery_staple
Weird I wonder how femme people could be politicized lately
Well no shit, but I don't see anything in this image that makes it right or left or center or anything.
Comparing a femme person's choice to decorate their own body and a graffitied building doesn't have overtones? Are you engaging with this honestly?
I don't assume its source based solely on this image, because this image doesn't identify a source.
Ah, willfully ignorant then. Understood
There you go making assumptions again.
I'm reflecting on your refusal to interact with the medium. That is not an assumption.
I don’t assume its source based solely on this image, because this image doesn’t identify a source.
We're not discussing a source, we're talking about a trend in conservative discource and how it applies to memes. This isn't a doctoral defense of the media. You dodged an honest question with a refusal to engage. Thus you're currently being, in this instance, willfully ignorant.
There's plenty of shitty fascist stuff to get enraged about that is supported by evidence.
Now you're making assumptions, I'm not enraged.
I did however make the mistake of assuming you would argue in good faith. I acknowledge that now.
Read it again. I didn't say you were enraged.
I could super easily sit here at my own desk and make shitty memes and post them here, and I am way way far away from anything that could be described as "right wing." Anyone else can do the same. Has that happened here (maybe not even by OP but by wherever they got this from)? We don't know. There's nothing in this image to indicate who created this image or why.
I won't apologize for wanting anything which would go towards confirming that this was posted somewhere as a right wing meme. I haven't given up on facts.