Protesilaos aka “Prot” is a well-known member of the Emacs community, being the author of several popular packages. I unfortunately just learned about an anti-feminist rant he posted to his website 5 days ago (Sep 5). I don’t want to link it, but it is easily found if you desire.
His philosophy just sucks, he’s not as smart as he thinks he is, he’s stuck arguing with himself over his own abstractions
In short, he equates feminism with individualism in order to “prove” that feminism and socialism don’t mix (and he doesn’t like socialism anyway)
shut the fuck up Prot
Assume everyone you meet is an unhinged fascist and you’ll never be disappointed. If you’re in The West, you’re going to be right at least 3/4 of the time.
That stranger on the street? He only doesn’t directly quote Hitler daily because he’s too illiterate to read Mein Kampf.
Your parents? Irredeemable.
Your favorite author? Posting shocking screeds on 4chan.
Your neighbours? They have a Confederate flag in their basement.
You? Haven’t read theory.
I used to have a neighbor that proudly flew the stars and bars in front of their home. This was north of the Mason Dixon line.
There’s a house near me that flies a Gadsden flag and the Stars and Bars. This is in Northern Ontario.
Is that near Lake America?
Pretty much as far as you can get via roads from Lake America without leaving Ontario.
Roads end a few km north of me and the only way to get around further north is via ice roads in winter or by flying in a float plane.
Kenora District is very big but has very few people. The population of Portland, Maine and a land area the size of California. Everything is lakes. In the “city” there are stores with more parking for boats than there are for cars.
One time I got mad at someone (also in canada) about the giant as confederate flag painted in their car. They were Dukes of Hazard fans, no kidding, that shit was huge in rural NS when it aired. Like, you made sure not to drive in the hours after it came on cause people would be drunk driving and hyped up on Duke energy. The guy I called out was an older fella who had just kept his recreated Duke Mobile and never considered the implication. He did repaint after and turned out he was a pretty cool dude in the end. I only yell this story cause it’s a fun story. This guy is the exception and confederate flags should be called out, this nice guy would have been driving around with a hate symbol of a car had I not gotten mad at him. Canadian Confederate Apologists are a weird thing but not uncommon. My fucking dad for one, I mentioned that I had been seeing a car with a confederate flag front license plate parked in the grocery store lot nearby often and he went on to tell me it doesnt represent being pro slavery but southern pride and rebellion in a broad sense. He just thinks this because he likes NASCAR. otherwise he’s lib Hank Hill.
I live in what was fiercely Union territory that was burned down by Confederates during the American Civil War and there are more than a few losers around here who display that rag
Not all of it, but I try
I think authors usually put screeds on bluesky or substack nowadays, which is not much better tbf.
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