Angelica, a fairly popular ASMR YouTuber recently made a hard right turn after being a communist. It’s very disturbing to see since she originally supported the LGBTQ+ community and now she has completely turned heel here. She even posted an “apology” video that was so smug and awful too.

Another cringe video she just posted: “Why I Left the Left… Kids Need Protection” https://youtu.be/jos6Gpsu4mg?si=CEL5_gzKtetKjvBM

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    Fundies and tradcaths crave “I was a wicked lesbian pagan witch hippie commie but now I’m SAVED” stories. It’s an easy grift. debord-tired

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      You know the really sad thing is that Evangelicals and American’s generally are such penny pinching assholes you can’t even go knocking on doors with a story about turning away from a life of sin and dissolution to get a free meal anymore?

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    I refuse to watch this video but if someone can pivot from communist to terf in a few months I’m going to guess she:

    a) wasn’t a fucking communist to begin with and just regurgitated what she thought made her cool

    b) is so vapid that the same reactionary justifications historically used against any minority the status quo hated has swayed her to a nazi adjacent position

    c) found out that most of her viewer base was right wing, creepy sexist guys who fawn over her and has pivoted her content and online persona to profit from her main userbase in some misguided attempt to make more money

    d) all of the above

    It’s d) folks, it’s gotta be d.

    If we could silence and lock up every person who said “it’s to protect kids” we’d actually see a generation of kids who were not abused by parents, healthy, socially adjusted, void of generational bigotry and hatred and happy probably because they weren’t been raised by the same unhinged abusive domineering, victim blaming shit heads who now use children as the excuse to justify their hatred of non cis het white people.

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      communist to terf

      most of the terf i know are actual communists, but I get what you mean here. the meaning of terf shifted so much with time, from “trans exclusionary radical feminists”, to just any kind of transphobes. previously every terf was a transphobe, but not every transphobe was a terf. now it’s the same.

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        Yeah the lines have blurred now.

        I look forward to when everyone’s old and society is ashamed of its past transphobia and how anyone could ever be that bigoted (like how libs talk about the 80s gay moral panic and homophobia) amd remind every fucking hypocrit of what they said about me or to me when we were young.

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    If she really took Christ’s teachings seriously and really wanted to be his follower, she’d have to take care of the poor, hungry, cold, refugees, the spurned and oppressed - and that includes taking up the struggle for LGBT rights - all without preaching to them or condescending to them. Jesus was very clear about how to act as his follower.

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      Evangelicals, and probably tradcaths too, are starting to turn on Jesus. Like explicitly stating to their religious leaders that Jesus is a wuss and they can’t do that turn the other cheek crap in the face of the liberal threat. They’re complaining Jesus is too woke. It’s great. I love it. I am super enthusiastic bout this, the greatest of all anime betrayals.

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          afaik, yeah, basically. They’re the same kind of brainworms as the Evangelical Christian Fascists with a thin Catholic veneer. I think most of them denounce the pope? Basically just more of the schismatic hard-right-wing reactionary heresies that America nurtures like mushrooms in shit. It’d be fun to get a list of world religions and see just how many of them have a wildly heretical American-spawned schismatic sect.

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            It’d be fun to get a list of world religions and see just how many of them have a wildly heretical American-spawned schismatic sect.

            There’s Canadian MAGA and Australian MAGA. It’s real and it’s fucked. trump-moist

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          Some freeze-gamer I know went “tradcath” after years of Warhammer 40K bullshit and “ironically” spouting Imperium of Man fascist shit. It wasn’t their only influence (up-yours-woke-moralists likely had more to do with it) but it contributed.

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          It’s not the same as what they said, but people I know who work at a church have told me that it’s not unheard of for someone who donates a lot to the church to talk to the pastor about talking less about Jesus in the sermon. It might be exaggerated (maybe not idk), and it’s not a majority opinion (or is it?), but the energy is there.

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          There was a story the other week interviewing reverends and priests saying that their parishioners are complaining about Jesus’s teachings being too woke.

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        A lot of political concerns overtook religious ones. Some of the religious fights got substituted for political economic struggles, for example the donatism heresy happened because a bunch of berber christian priests were persecuted by the Romans in North Africa and led a struggle against them - and they lost, and instead of martyring some of the priests renounced Christianity. Later when it was safe they rejoined but there was resentment that these people shouldn’t be able to do that and they were punished by people saying that these priests shouldn’t be capable of giving communion or blessings as they ought to be sinless to do so. Jesus told people that those who haven’t sinned should cast the proverbial stone but that teaching was discounted because people were mad that these priests renounced Christianity to save their own hides.

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      It works though, right? I never heard of her before this and will do my best to kill the neuron holding her memory as soon as possible, but we are talking about her. Whether her new audience will ever eclipse what she had before I couldn’t guess but she did get a temporary boost out of all this.

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    2 points:

    At 6:40, she actually cites Parenti and I feel offended on his behalf

    At 12:23, she implies that Chapo support “debauchery and a lack of morals”.

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      She claims to have become an AnCom around the start of the pandemic when she dated a person who was “deeply communist”.

      So, she was an AnCom orbiter in effect. She ain’t read any theory and we all know it.