The masculine urge to join a fascist death squad

FD your point at the beginning about cops foaming at the mouth to tell you can shoot someone reminds me of the first scene of Boyz n the Hood when Furious fired at the robber. The cops came after and the cop was like “it’s a shame you didn’t get him, there’d be one less nigga out on these streets that we’d have to worry about.” Completely demonic. Also been watching your videos for a long time appreciate the content ✌🏾

5:00 I know I'm gonna be out of my depth here and I don't want to present this as some kind of all-inclusive statement, but this particular section has been rattling around in my brain for a while because I feel as though this is a major contributor to why so many men see sexual violence as "not that big of a deal." There's a generally accepted lack of autonomy and consent around young boys, an expectation that you're either gonna have to deal with abuse or you'll have to become an abuser in order to NOT be abused.

Again, I don't wanna be dismissive of the role of Patriarchy and the way in which men are continually centered even as they commit violence against women, but the mentality seems to be, "Well I have to deal with people doing shit to me I don't want, so why can't you?" and learning that A) it was never okay when it happened to you, and B) that doesn't excuse a thoughtless support of rape culture, is the sort of lesson that men need to learn simultaneously, and that's extremely difficult to learn without a supportive, emotionally honest group (which is ALSO very hard to find as a man.)

I would say watch Barry with Bill Hader! 09:30

He should encourage more people to defend their homes with birdshot. It incapacitates the home invader without having to kill them.

FD, I really hope you got to replay FFXII to use that sweet autoleveling strat – they remade it for switch and even added a speed multiplier, so you could basically get up to level 99 in less than a day.

Good vid. Unfortunately, big tech is exporting these views around the world.

Im a 5'2" transgender man with honestly a very fragile sense of my own masculinity and that has motivated me to be needlessly aggressive and toxic but I also have a moral compass so I just listen to metal and watch action movies and drink straight vodka and do dangerous shit to impress girls like a normal guy

My two cents is that, apart from toxic masculinity being inngrained early (and other factors), ONE factor is just that we squeeze people so hard in this country, or just anywhere under capitalism generally once it has soured this badly, the yearning to finally get violent against the people society tells you are the SECRET ENEMIES (not those in power! Those in the *REAL* power, secretly!) you flip into batman mode. The righteous revenge against the cartoonish villain. What a high!

1:19 literally the type of kid I was, growing up. And if I’d never been given a second chance, I never would have turned into a man whose been happily married for 17 years, two kids. One in college. With a career that spans almost as long. No more issues with the law. Sometimes people just need a hand up, and a chance to do something better for themselves

2:03 Oh damn, for real? I have FFXII on the PS2 and still have my PS2 thankfully. Might have to try that sometime.

FD, you are 100% correct in your take that a lot of the people who want to end up in the police are the type that glorify this violence. I went through a certificate police program at a local community college in MN, circa 2018. I wasn’t one of them, to me violence was an unfortunate consequence of wanting to help people (back when I still believed I could do some good for my community in that type of job), but after completing the course I wanted absolutely nothing to do with that career due to the types of people I saw there and how quickly their interactions influenced the 18-year olds making up the majority of the class. I had already gotten a BA in sociology, with emphasis on criminology, prior to moving into the state and was able to contextualize and see the awfulness for what it was, but that realization was terrifying to me. I hope I was able to steer at least some of them away from that mindset, but I doubt it. It’s fostered and protected and rewarded by the systems as is, and I got out because I wanted to help people, not hurt them. I hate that in less than a year after my graduation in 2019 I was proven right, and after our state was invaded by ICE over these last months that vindication turned to dread. Its everywhere and I have no clue how to even begin to change it

for light work this shiz heavy

Fascism is basically a huge death cult.