I have a couple decades experience being “otherized” by my fellow fearful, anxious, and terrified Americans, so if you’re trying to paint this #American #MilitaryAgeMale with that brush, you need to try a whole lot harder and up your emotional manipulation game, my sibling in Dionysus.
Yes, as an #American #MilitaryAgeMale, terror events, military actions, and the national discourse, is all vaguely…triggering.
Just when you think you’ve processed shit, they pull you back into The Suck.
https://mastodon.world/@Shebeencounter/112369041581423453
Kids protesting are gonna be sniped from a rooftop or droned for exercising their 1st Amendment rights.
Things are different now.
Welcome to the New Normal™ of the globalized #MilitaryAgeMale.
I expected this to occur to voters standing in lines during the elections of 2020.
My forecast was too early.
@GreenFire @NosirrahSec @potus
I was an #American #MilitaryAgeMale on 9/11.
Born and raised.
Keep accusing people who are not terrorists of having terrorist sympathies.
It will work out well for you.
The Americans whom you accuse will forget easily.
I promise.
Ask me how I know.
As an #American #MilitaryAgeMale, all of this is low-key triggering PTSD.
https://mastodon.social/@rightardia/112328574416044681
As an #American #MilitaryAgeMale who has been #ExtremelyOnline since #Usenet, I have some experience with people using shibboleths to say one thing as cover for something else, either towards me, but mainly the entire category of The Others™.
I’m familiar with how quickly “otherization” occurs, how shibboleths concretize, and how the worst people weaponize them effectively.
Ask me how I know.
Hamas are fncking sociopaths who oppress the Palestinian people they supposedly “govern”
Being pro-Hamas is a bad look.
Don’t be pro-Hamas.
Likud are also fncking racists who think children of The Others™ don’t count as human.
Don’t be pro-Likud.
Sincerely,
an #American #MilitaryAgeMale
https://sampathpanini.medium.com/stop-wondering-55ec41ae070a
The subconscious understanding and placement of the term #MilitaryAgeMale is a somewhat useful #shibboleth
As a #MilitaryAgeMale and an #American who is not a terrorist, I’ve had to define it more than I’d like, unfortunately.
A #MilitaryAgeMale was any virtue-signaling serf from Briton to the Danube to the Rubicon to the Balkans who was engaged in #Crusaderism.
@SteveThompson @xdydx @VICENews
Is it possible for you to venture a guess regarding the number of dead children in Gaza that doesn’t involve mentioning Hamas (they are terrorists terrorizing, I get it, I’m a #MilitaryAgeMale).
Is the fact I’m a military-age male, who would be considered a casualty in your war on terror, why you think I’m being judgmental?
If there are things that South Asian bros can do #comedy about it’s the reality of being a #MilitaryAgeMale: https://www.bbc.com/news/world-europe-68056421
I learned the term “hasbara” in the last couple months and pattern-matching between “flooding the zone”, “bloviating bullshit”, and straight up anti-Jewish propaganda everyone is swimming in it.
The objective is increase the cognitive load for #CriticalThinking.
As a post-9/11 #MilitaryAgeMale #American, my sense is only 15-20% of the population needs to be persuaded that the stated intent is correct and morally justified.
As someone who was a #MilitaryAgeMale on and after 9/11, the expressed sentiment by everyday Israelis to support indiscriminately eliminating every military-age male Palestinian is both vaguely traumatizing and also a conflict with my #CoreValues of #RadicalHumanism.
Personally, as an #American and person who was a #MilitaryAgeMale on the day, I view 9/11 as a failure of the national security apparatus.
As people have been comparing the terrorist attacks of 10/7 to Sept. 11, I’m sure there are Israelis who feel the same way:
