Yes, but this is nothing new. "Mysticism", "esotericism", "religion", etc... have always been a tool of fascism.
- https://www.theguardian.com/lifeandstyle/2023/aug/02/everything-youve-been-told-is-a-lie-inside-the-wellness-to-facism-pipeline
- https://www.theatlantic.com/ideas/archive/2022/12/fringe-left-alt-right-share-beliefs-white-power-movement/672454/
- https://thepangean.com/Rise-of-the-New-Age-Nazis
- https://spheresofinfluence.ca/strange-bedfellows-far-right-extremists-new-age-spiritualists-and-covid-19-conspiracy-theories/
- https://www.versobooks.com/en-gb/blogs/news/5117-acid-fascism-past-and-present-ties-between-occultism-and-the-far-right
There's been an undercurrent of this among TERF forums. In many ways, they're leftover second wave feminists who didn't get on board with the intersectionality that's central to third wave feminism. They tend to drag other things from 1960s/70s feminism along with them, like prattling on about the Earth Mother and healing crystals.
One of the criticisms the third wave had of the second is that the sex negativity tended to align them with far right religious conservatives on many issues. That's a good indication that something went wrong. Maybe it's no surprise they ended up in MAGA.
"Well Mr. Doe, I'm afraid it's bad news. We found a mass in your chest, it looks like pancreatic cancer."
"Oh no, so what will we do about that? Will I get radiation, or chemo?"
"I'll be prescribing you a set of positively charged aura crystals, just spend some time near them every day, and let them charge under moonlight at night. I've also scheduled you a time with our resident chiropractor, he'll try to realign your chakras. Until then you could also try to stay away from Virgos."
I truly want to know if these people are brain dead zombies.
Mass suicide pact when?
Let them proceed
If the future of medicine is light then I don't want to see any of you MAGAt morons in a hospital or doctors office. Go sit outside and pray away your sickness in the sunlight, dumbasses.
I'd much rather the new age movement align with the right and make them be the ones who look stupid by association. Do not want to make room in the tent for that shit, thanks.
People laughed when leftists talked about the yoga studio to fascism pipeline…
In all seriousness this is utterly fucked.
Brown Esotericism was always a thing in Germany, there's a german wikipedia page about it, psiram wiki has a chapter about "National Socialism and extremist right groups today" on their page about Esotericism.
This has been going on since the Third Reich and is one of the pipelines to bring economically better off people into right wing rethoric and thought patterns.
Naomi Klein talks about this in Doppelgänger, and it’s really interesting. She argues, compellingly, that the yoga/spirituality/wellness types were never so much truly left-wing as they were counter to the medical establishment. Which wasn’t inherently harmful - yoga and meditation are good, and modern medicine doesn’t solve every problem. But then COVID came along, and it stripped away all the control these people felt they had over their health. And then it became revealed that they were never so much far-left as they were far out.
the current yoga is a white womans assumption that they can connect witht he universe, its basically co-opted from the religion from india, which is a different thing and turned into a huge industry for targeting mostly woman of a certain demographic.
The herbal remedies / yoga / crystal gems people were always selling snake oil. No surprise that they'd get along with Trump. (Which is not to say all herbal remedies are worthless, but many are, and if you don't believe me, have fun getting scammed. And yoga can do a lot for your fitness, yes yes, we agree.)
Yeah, there’s a big difference between “this herb has some naturally occurring anti-inflammatory compounds” and “this berry is a cure for cancer and lupus and the common cold.”
Regarding yoga, stretching and bodyweight exercises are definitely a good part of fitness, but the mystical side of it is complete horseshit.
Why are vaccines a problem then? Let me tune into earth's 5G signals baby!
My mom died last year because she thought she could treat her cancer by "resonating with the world's vibration." Fuck this woman, and fuck the people who decided to put her in charge of healthcare.
certain demographics are very into the cult of homeopathy and naturopathy, and pseudoscience. its usually woman in thier mid 40s, and midwesterners. Chronic lyme is one, i once ventured into communities across various site. they all have undiagnosed mental illnesses, delusional parasitosis(they deny they have it).
they were taking supplements and antibiotics to the point of causing serious symptoms unrelated to the actual infection.
Same thing here. Grandmother and uncle (early 40s) Blake, you died nearly two years ago now. The herbs and vitamin C were never going to save you. Cindy, not even a year yet. I can feel nothing but sadness and sorrow for the way they were decieved.
So who's gonna propose we bring back leeching and lobotomies first, this lady or captain brain worm?
The worm does the lobotomy
Good, good. Now convince MAGA folks to drink the koolaid together…
is she talking about global warming and people fucking up the nature? Isn't that like extremely woke?
It's woke until she gets to the "solution".
The lockdowns and subsequent vaccine drama turned a huge amount of previously assumed "liberal" new-age dumbasses into full-throated right-wing dumbasses. It was surprising to watch at first, but it makes sense when you think about it.
i watched some yotubers turned to rabid magats, after all the vaccine drama+ some controversy that kickstarted it all from thier declining channel, they couldve connected with alot of POC in the community, im guess thier true colors of sucking off trump and musk was thier true value.
Is it because there's a whole ton of people who are simply selfish?
Basically the whole contingent is anti-authority, and con's were able to capitalize on that by feeding the pushback against vaccines and masks.
I know this isn’t quite the same but I’m getting Heavens Gate vibes. Not good.
The MAGA Nazis are welcome to don their track suits and red sneakers, and take their poison, and wait for the next comet to take them to Heaven.
Anybody who speaks about spiritual nonsense in conjunction with health matters is a quake and should NOT be surgeon general. Then again an anti-vaxxer is in charge of the CDC so I'm not surprised at that this point.
anti-vaxxer, brainworms controlling a human meat suit. and then a snakesoilman controlling medicare and medicad.
Well if only they could stop polluting the world so we can get some of that clean living.
This is pure comedy. Let's point and laugh at them until they go away
I’ll let my transplant team know it wasn’t new lungs I needed, and three people’s worth of blood and six months in ICU and three weeks on ECMO, it was just light I was lacking… silly me!
I've heard if you expose your perineum to the sun, it maximizes the benefit (and your odds of ass cancer).
Like they always said: Just get more sun! Touch grass! Its easy!
should be maganism.
So this lady is just looking for a bigger, better vibrator? Might solve a few problems...
Hole widening therapy, now for MAGA communists, MAGA yoga enjoyers, and MAGA commanders wives (If you watched Handmaids Tale, you'll know).
What the fuck...
This isnt surprising at all to me. There is a woman in my city who is a massive MAGA chud that runs a New Age store and claims she's a medium and clairvoyant. She thinks she's a pillar of the community but even her own kids say she's full of shit.
Sounds pretty woke to me
If Carl Sagan was still with us today he'd lose his shit, for real
I fiirmly believe that people are doing badly and suffering because they don't listen to themselves and their body.
If MAGA starts accepting its own body, they will get waay more powerful.
humans are not the only species to have destroyed their own habitat on this planet.
What other animals managed this feat?
so? whats your point? We're smart enough to know what we're doing, an insect is not.
