Thread by @JuliusGoat

Telling people with toxic beliefs their beliefs are toxic is not what makes their beliefs toxic. Toxic beliefs themselves, not opposition to toxic beliefs, drive toxic actions.

But a culture dedicated to abuse always treats accountability as oppression.

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We have 'maladjusted boys,' @DLoesch, because we teach them that their maleness is dependent on sex and that sex is conquest, and that failure to conquer is a problem, and that violence is the best way to solve problems, and a gun is the best tool for violent problem resolution.

We have 'maladjusted boys,' @DLoesch, because we need them to make possible the myth that we are the Good Guys With Guns.

Good Guys With Guns are good, because they alone can stop Bad Guys With Guns.

But you can't be a Good Guy With A Gun unless there exist Bad Guys With Guns.

You can't dream of saving the day with your gun unless you know there's a credible threat of an armed bad guy.

So people like @DLoesch work to make armed bad guys as likely as possible, so we might plausibly dream our dreams of dealing Good Violence.

The violence is the product

Every goddam school shooting is a goddam gun commercial, designed to help these fevered egos dream about How It Would Have Gone Down Different If I Had Been There®

A gun commercial made possible by @DLoesch and @NRATV

That's why you have 'maladjusted boys', @DLoesch. Marketing.

But the dirty secret, @DLoesch, is that the Good Guys With Guns? The ones open-carrying in Chipotle, dreaming about saving the day with Good Violence?

Those are our 'maladjusted boys' too.

The violence is the product, and they're all buying.

They think violence is the answer to problems. And problems will come. Because maleness needs sex to prove itself, and sex is conquest, and failure to conquer is a problem.

And, thanks to your organization, @DLoesch, they are heavily armed.