Scalesfall, USA

The hard right, which spent decades screaming and hollering about pedophilia, is largely cool with pardoning arguably the biggest monster of the biggest child sex trafficking ring in modern history.

The hard left, which spent decades screaming and hollering about rape, is largely cool with Hamas raping Jewish Israeli women.

Everyone's just posing. Signifying. Waving flags and feeling righteous in their mouthy stand. Peel back the skin, and it's brute tribalism. Hatred for the Other is the only real thing. The sole motivator.

Performative virtue, as the fruit of a poisoned tree, cannot help but be hypocritical and spotty.


It doesn't fit my thesis, but I can't resist: Priests spent centuries preaching hellfire for teenagers depraved enough to commit the sin of masturbation, yet have been buggering kiddies in droves. Perhaps a relatively small minority, but the majority has been largely cool with it.