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   timberwraith (timberwraith@mastodon.social)'s status on Friday, 30-Aug-2024 02:48:05 JST timberwraith

   As a general rule, abusing members of another oppressed group in the hope that you can escape your own oppression by raising your personal status to the power of an oppressor, is pretty good evidence that you're an asshole.

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     timberwraith (timberwraith@mastodon.social)'s status on Friday, 30-Aug-2024 02:48:04 JST timberwraith

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     Toxic masculinity has a habit of promoting the idea that:

     1) Being an asshole is a male birth right.

     2) You can raise your status in the world by being an asshole toward others.

     3) It's best to just be an asshole by default so that the other assholes don't bother you.

     4) You should probably turn all of this into a way of running a country and doing international relations.

     These ideas are kind of contagious.

     Global even.

     Apply to the earlier posts as needed.

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     timberwraith (timberwraith@mastodon.social)'s status on Friday, 30-Aug-2024 02:48:04 JST timberwraith

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     It would seem that a whole lot of countries are trying hard to be king asshole in a whole lot of ways.

     Doesn't matter if it's a country that is predominantly populated by traditionally oppressed people or some other country like the UK or the u.s.a.

     "Asshole" is the gold standard of behavior promoted by millennia of patriarchy and other entwined dominance oriented systems.

     It's kind of a thing.

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     timberwraith (timberwraith@mastodon.social)'s status on Friday, 30-Aug-2024 02:48:05 JST timberwraith

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     If a country populated by oppressed people takes that approach?

     Still an asshole. A whole lot of assholes.

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     timberwraith (timberwraith@mastodon.social)'s status on Friday, 30-Aug-2024 02:48:05 JST timberwraith

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     Sadly, humans have a special gift for behaving like assholes.

     So, this sort of thing happens as a recurring pattern.

     Wouldn't it be nice if we stopped doing this bullshit?