Yes, the secret to deprogramming a rapist's cult is definitely 100% to have good intentions for those lonely men who fall prey to the cult.
Yes, keep ridiculing Tate because he is ridiculous and hostile. But if you are generally ridiculing lonely people for their desperation and their failure to find a good response to their misery... then you are exactly the same as Tate.

[–] TokyoMonsterTrucker@lemmy.dbzer0.com 4 points 1 year ago (1 children)

You know a ton of Tate's followers are children, right? There are a fuckload of societal issues beyond just "loneliness" in play here.

[–] sentient_loom@sh.itjust.works -4 points 1 year ago (1 children)

The meme is explicitly about lonely men falling prey to brainwashing. That's what we've been talking about this whole time.

If you actually care about diminishing the power of Tate's ugliness, you would offer something other than more ugliness to those lonely people.

[–] TokyoMonsterTrucker@lemmy.dbzer0.com 6 points 1 year ago (2 children)

You are amazingly unspecific about what that something might be. How about something more concrete than generic feel-good platitudes?

[–] lightnsfw@reddthat.com 4 points 1 year ago

I think making counseling a mandatory part of school for everyone would go a long way to helping prevent this problem. Something to get the kids that are behind socially to be more comfortable socializing. When I was a kid all the incel types were coming out of highschool having had the shit bullied out of them for years and being afraid to socialize with anyone outside their group. Then they get out of school with social skills and at the mercy of wherever they end up(college, job, neet, whatever) if they don't find someone to include them in shit and rewire them out of that "other people are cruel" mindset they're fucked.

[–] sentient_loom@sh.itjust.works -3 points 1 year ago

Not ridiculing lonely people for being lonely. That's literally all I'm suggesting.

But you go ahead and keep herding lonely people towards Tate or suicide.