{"id":18675,"date":"2019-11-21T18:12:15","date_gmt":"2019-11-22T01:12:15","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.struat.com\/election\/?p=18675"},"modified":"2019-11-21T18:12:15","modified_gmt":"2019-11-22T01:12:15","slug":"words-have-only-a-whiff-of-meaning-these-days","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.struat.com\/election\/2019\/11\/21\/words-have-only-a-whiff-of-meaning-these-days\/","title":{"rendered":"words have only a whiff of meaning these days"},"content":{"rendered":"

Looking over this American Conservative magazine outline of a Rolling Stone article about a group of men wanting to masturbate and watch porn less…<\/p>\n

… which is to say, some information relayed second-hand…<\/p>\n

and I keep getting gobsmacked by the sheer meaningless of the word “alt right<\/a>“.<\/p>\n

According to Dickson, the enemy is anyone currently participating in #NoNutNovember, a viral internet challenge that encourages men to go 30 days without watching porn or masturbating. In what\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s become a tell-tale sign that the hip vanguard of the cultural left\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s late-stage sexual revolution feels threatened, Dickson lets us know, in no uncertain terms, that those who dare abstain from porn have embraced \u00e2\u20ac\u0153the ideology\u00e2\u20ac\u00a6of the far right\u00e2\u20ac\u009d: \u00e2\u20ac\u0153anti-Semitism,\u00e2\u20ac\u009d \u00e2\u20ac\u0153homophobia,\u00e2\u20ac\u009d \u00e2\u20ac\u0153racism,\u00e2\u20ac\u009d and \u00e2\u20ac\u0153misogyny.\u00e2\u20ac\u009d He even includes Ley\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s \u00e2\u20ac\u0153You know who else hated porn? Hitler!\u00e2\u20ac\u009d argument and goes out of his way (and I mean waaaaaaay out of his way) to name drop Alex Jones and Milo Yiannopoulos.<\/em><\/p>\n

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Both\u00c2\u00a0Rolling Stone\u00c2\u00a0and\u00c2\u00a0The Daily Show\u00c2\u00a0focus on debunking the supposed boost in virility that comes from semen retention (which, granted, is bunk) that motivates some #NoNutNovember-ers. But the extent to which both outlets ignore the obvious reality that most participants are driven primarily by a desire for self-control is staggering.<\/em><\/p>\n

Ley actually criticizes Jordan Peterson (whom he calls \u00e2\u20ac\u0153a leader in the alt-right movement in Canada\u00e2\u20ac\u009d) for telling young men that \u00e2\u20ac\u0153there is nothing noble about masturbating to pornography.\u00e2\u20ac\u009d<\/em><\/p>\n

\u00e2\u20ac\u0153That\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s noble! That\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s healthy!\u00e2\u20ac\u009d Ley insists. Dickson, meanwhile, reacts indignantly to the\u00c2\u00a0\u00e2\u20ac\u0153Coomer\u00e2\u20ac\u009d meme, an image used by #NoNutNovember participants to mock those who compulsively watch porn.<\/em><\/p>\n

I understand things overlap and not one is with the other and this is a broad based “mood” moreso than anything… but weren’t the hackers who filed away a whole bunch of images of hacked naked female celebrities under the title of the “Great [don’t remember the term, but it’s an onomatopoeia for slapping your dick about)” … your keke Pepe Frog meme loving “alt right”?<\/p>\n

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