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It’s official. Hitler had a micropenis. Furthermore, Nick Fuentes is either a closeted homosexual or a 30 year old virgin.
I’m wondering to what extent far right political worldviews are influenced by the denial of sexual malformations or shortcomings. I decided that this forum would be a good place to explore the extent of this and perhaps collect more data on the phenomenon.
If any posters here at the motte would like to participate in an anonymous questionnaire, please DM me.
Fuentes likely has a girlfriend (if not multiple) but hides this to prevent their doxxing. He has a loyal female fanbase that calls themselves groypettes and they pay to have their superchat messages read on his livestream, where he unceremoniously declines their advances.
On a more interesting note, sex-based insults are so common because they work. Vance and the couch for instance. Humans really are that base. I recall reading that the 12th century Peter Abelard couldn’t be promoted at his monastery because he was castrated and thus deemed unmanly. That’s a monastery, in the Middle Ages. And the recent insult that Trump fellated Bill Clinton is no different than when they called Caesar “Queen of Bithynia” per the accusation that he slept with Nicomedes IV of Bithynia in his youth. Something that annoyed me with Kamala Harris is that he have actual evidence that she behaved in such a prostitutional way, as she was the girlfriend of Willy Brown at 29 while he was 60 and he proceeded to hand her a comfy no-show political job. This was so ripe for insults — the guy’s name is literally Brown Willy — but no one was willing to stoop low for it, though they were all on board with the Russia prostitute stuff. I think the reason for this is man’s innate philogyny, and IMO is why politics must be restricted to only men.
Dude is also a devout Roman Catholic. Trying to shame him for being a virgin is probably not the best avenue of attack.
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I'm reminded of the suffragettes who would purposely wear white to their protests in order to emphasise their chastity, because their critics (evidently somewhat successfully) been calling them a bunch of sluts.
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Between him being Catholic, being pals with homosexuals like Ali Alexander, it seems likely he is a homosexual too.
There's even video of him performing fellatio, isn't there?
Can't believe how many times I've seen this question litigated given that I don't care about the guy at all and don't seek out information related to him.
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No, that's fake and wrong. First of all the video you are thinking about would be of Destiny sucking dick and the theory that would be that the dick belonged to Fuentes, i.e. a video of him receiving fellation (from a man). But even so, it's all made up.
However.
There's the date with catboy kamikaze. There's that one time in 2024 when he was flirting with some zoomer kick livestreamers outside an in-n-out late at night in early 2024. Or that his favorite evangelion character is Kaworu Nagisa and his favorite show is Euphoria. Or how two prominent members of AF were homosexuals named Ali (Jamal and Alexander). Or that one time he accidentally tweeted a video that showed he was watching tranny porno. Or how AF members look like a "type". Or when Jaden (ex treasurer) left and he was heartbroken. And the Jaden said about living in Nick's basement. Or that time he said he thinks sex is disgusting (the other time, not the famous one when he said sex with women is gay).
But it's all gossip, the proof is all buried in kino casino and metokur streams, all stuff without any credibility, from years ago and it's all plausibly deniable anyway. So he isn't officially gay until he goes on the coming out podcast tour. For all we know he might have an harem. A super secret harem of women who don't mind being in a harem, don't regret it afterwards and don't use the fact of having been in one to cloutchase.
There is a way to test this, though I'm not sure he would submit to it: https://reactionaryblog.substack.com/p/using-fmri-to-remove-gays-and-paedophiles
A positive hit on an fMRI would a) not indicate whether practicing or non-practicing, and more seriously b) have an 8% error rate, and thus remain less powerful a predictive tool than Kaworu fandom.
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The video is of Destiny performing fellatio on an unknown man, which was claimed to be Fuentes when the video leaked.
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I am always amused at the creative ways obsessives wedge their weird obsessions into every thread.
As for Fuentes- if there is ever someone about whom accusations of being a closet case were believable, it's him. But there is a certain category of straight dude who really, truly hates women and resents that he's sexually attracted to them (and really resents that he needs their permission to stick his dick in them).
Fuentes obviously possesses a seething hatred of women, not just a tradcon belief that they should stay in their assigned roles (and not vote), but he seems to be viscerally disgusted by females. That's either a guy frantically trying to compensate for his sublimated lust for dick, or a guy who has a pathological level of misogyny--either way, someone whose own desires repulse him.
The notion that Fuentes is actually keeping a secret harem is some serious copium.
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Sex-based insults work when directed at men, that is.
Both sides of the aisle agree on women’s Wonderfulness and the usual Who? Whom?
Sex or gender-related insults—or negative observations in general—directed at men are far more acceptable than they are directed at women, especially by a man.
Calling a man gay, small-dick, a couchfucker, a pedophile, a John, a rapist, a virgin, or an incel, regardless of its veracity :drake_yes:
Calling out a woman for riding the casting couch :drake_no:
In the former, it doesn’t necessarily matter whether a specific accusation is true, what’s important is that it’s all in good fun and good faith to hold shitty men accountable for the vibes they project.
The latter is bad faith misogynistic slut-shaming and victim blaming.
Fat/body-shaming by the Left when applied to somebody who's an 'acceptable target' has always struck me as kinda hilarious.
Absolutely sacrosanct taboo to go for random obese women/'healthy at every size' then lowest common denominator fat jokes about ideological enemies.
Yeah, even normies have Noticed the “body positivity for me but not for thee” double standards. Although perhaps not specifically about ideological enemies, an example meme would be “Empowering” vs. “Put on a shirt nigga.”
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One predictable perpetrator of this was Jimmy Kimmel during the manufactured outrage around the death of Cecil the Lion.
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Abelard was castrated because he fucked around (literally, he got her pregnant) with the niece of a Very Important Guy who didn't appreciate that kind of hands-on approach to tutoring (today Abelard would be criticised for power imbalance, grooming, age gap - he was 36, she was 15-17 years of age, of his pupil). They engaged in a secret marriage in order to satisfy her uncle but kept it secret because if Abelard wanted to become a priest (to have a career in the church) clerical celibacy was becoming necessary.
Uncle was not happy about all this and took action:
End result is that Héloïse ends up in a convent and Abelard remains a monk, but cannot be ordained to the priesthood if he is castrated (there are rubrics around bastardy etc. and what disqualifies someone from the priesthood, including being a eunuch). This doesn't mean he can't continue to be wellknown, he already had a reputation as a theologian and was famous and continued to be, but since he couldn't be a priest this disbarred him from advancement to such offices as bishop, etc. but he did become abbot of a monastery, though his career continued to be controversial due to his alleged heretical teachings.
Truly a case of "fuck around and find out".
As for Kamala, certainly stories about her past were floating around for a long time (e.g. I saw it mentioned online that her nickname had been "Heels Up Harris") and it came to the point that Willie Brown had to issue a denial that he promoted her only because she was his girlfriend (and indeed, later she allegedly warned him off*). Being fair to Willy, yeah he pretty much did promote her because she was his girlfriend and that got her the start in political career, but he also promoted guys as well for being loyal to him. Old-school politician who rewarded his allies and loyalists when the fat spoils were to be divided upon gaining power.
I think the reason it didn't get play this time was (1) it was old news (2) the media and online media were working hard to squash any such distasteful racist and sexist attacks upon the Democratic Saviour From Evil Trump (remember all the havering over "how very dare you say she was border czar, she was no such thing, the Republicans are lying when they call her that"?)
*"Brown's romantic relationship with Alameda County deputy district attorney Kamala Harris preceded his appointment of Harris to two California state commissions in the mid-1990s. The San Francisco Chronicle called the Unemployment Insurance Appeals Board and the California Medical Assistance Commission patronage positions. When the appointments became a political issue in Harris's 2003 race for District Attorney, she responded: "Whether you agree or disagree with the system, I did the work". Brown's relationship with Harris gained renewed attention in early 2019 after she had become a U.S. senator and ran for president. Brown addressed the questions by publishing a piece in the San Francisco Chronicle titled "Sure, I dated Kamala Harris. So what?" He wrote that he may have "influenced" her career by appointing her to boards and supporting her run for District Attorney, but added that he had also influenced the careers of other politicians. Brown noted that the difference between Harris and other politicians he had helped was that "Harris is the only one who, after I helped her, sent word that I would be indicted if I 'so much as jaywalked' while she was D.A. That's politics for ya."
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