Proposition: convince these people that toiletries — toothpaste, deodorant, toilet paper, soap — are gay and trans and woke, until they wind up looking and smelling like the newscasters from Batman after the Joker poisons stuff with Smilex.
@Popehat they are opposed to grooming already, so maybe not too much of a lift!
@Popehat Showering and using deodorant for men removes the natural smells from the body. It's totally gay and woke to use them.
@riskymanag3ment @Popehat there is a substantial subset of what i'll charitably call 'men' that are already refraining from wiping too thoroughly *or* washing the area with any diligence because approaching the general ass region might give them The Gays

@palecur @riskymanag3ment @Popehat Now that's funny! 😅

I guess they'll be alone because women sure wouldn't take them either.

@the_Effekt @riskymanag3ment @Popehat that women still choose to date men at all is the strongest evidence we have that sexual orientation is not a choice, because if you had any other option, why would you
@riskymanag3ment @Popehat
Truly manly, muscular, straight, strong men, with tears in their eyes and a penchant for calling other men "Sir," know how important and macho it is to maintain a pungent taint musk, which as I understand it happens to also be Elon's 11th surprise-kid's name

@riskymanag3ment @Popehat I've been doing it for decades, and it didn't make me gay. (Or straight.) Or trans.

Hopefully I'd have been "woke" to injustices with or without decent bathing and grooming!

@Popehat They are very stupid, so it could work, but OTOH someone will probably just start selling toiletries in gun-shaped packages with black/blue line American flags on them, with names like "Punisher Paste"
@wpieper @Popehat Quite so, this is, I would say, a milder perceptual salvo on male fragility than what I propose to get filthy rich on.
@Nonya_Bidniss @Popehat "Punisher Paste, now in Ghost Reaper Habanero scent!"
@Nonya_Bidniss @Popehat I have already seen "MAN WIPES" in the toilet paper aisle.
@RobinBobcat @Nonya_Bidniss @Popehat man wipes, ass wipes... What's the difference?
@enmodo @RobinBobcat @Popehat The men who buy them. That's the difference.
@Nonya_Bidniss @enmodo @Popehat That's odd, not seeing Enmodo's response.
But inferring the question, it was in an angular package, with a black and purple color scheme.
Otherwise functionally identical to baby wipes.
Checking online, I can find "Dude Wipes". Maybe that was them. But I really remember the "aggressive" packaging.
@RobinBobcat @Nonya_Bidniss @Popehat I saw your response to my response that you didn't see... Is your server blocking mastodon.social? If so I guess you'll never see this either...
@Nonya_Bidniss @Popehat apparently you’ve never seen the soap they sell at Ace Hardware with names like “Naval Supremacy”
@Popehat Gonna do my best to convince them the internet is woke.
@arush @Popehat And the loud social "conservatives" promoting a straight-and-narrow fundamentalist Christian agenda (or Islamic, or fill in the blank) need to be convinced that TV, radio, and the internet are NOWHERE mentioned in the Bible (Qur'an, etc.) and are thus tools of the DEVIL to be ABSOLUTELY AVOIDED at all costs!
@Popehat I mean they got pretty close with the fluoride toothpaste thing and the gay frogs or whatever it was
@Popehat Did you see the even more unhinged follow-up tweet? What is wrong with this guy.
@The_Tim @Popehat This is not the first time he has brought up that... ingredient. He's obsessed with it.
@The_Tim @Popehat another in a long line of mediocre right wing grifters surfing on deliberately ignorant takes
@Popehat I’ve been wondering when monitoring wastewater for COVID will become an issue for these people, leading to the various grifters selling special buckets to shit in, with some sort of anti-stink lid or something.
@chriswarren @Popehat just said something similar the other day but it devolved into talking about wastewater data being really difficult to de-aggregate
@Popehat They already kind of fell for that with the totally untrue P&G logo myth (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Procter_%26_Gamble#Logo_myth) which was boosted by Amway distributors (and my recollection is that the Amway corporation never made any real effort to stop therir distributors from spreading that malicious lie). I'll bet Betsy DeVos never did a thing to stop that lie, good submissive Christian wife that she was (yeah, right...).
Procter & Gamble - Wikipedia

@Lunatech @Popehat holy crap I didn't know that was a thing.

@Popehat Another couple that are not much of a stretch:

In-home air filters — God put all those things into the air for you to improve your immune system

Cleaning food and heating it to 165 degrees — our ancestors didn't bother with that sort of wimpishness and neither should we… eat the natural food God provides

@Popehat And, of course, diabetes is a hoax — the Obamas and Clintons own all the companies that produce insulin…

@Popehat

This is typical bully behavior. Because corporations don't like choppy water, the bullies start feeling godlike and get all giddy with power. They can force their will on anyone and everyone no matter how trivial the issue.

I think of it as rapist syndrome. Same vibe.

@Popehat We just need to convince them to only support companies who are publically anti-woke and let them starve to death in the streets.
@Popehat perhaps take a cue from Budweiser?

@Popehat There is someone on twitter who photoshopped a Bass Pro Pride display ("Whatever You're Fishing For") and was planning on posting it in the replies to conservatives. It is the sort of thing I could see them falling for.

https://twitter.com/quaintsockrug/status/1662679792787898370

Averyy🥚🐣🦆 on Twitter

“i wasn't joking”

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@Popehat - Wrong approach. Convince them that cholesterol and blood pressure meds are gay AF.

@MrShoggoth @Popehat

Big pharma puts estrogen, gay-makers, and satanic sacrifice powder in their drugs.

Losartan? More like Gaysatan!

@Popehat

I move we convince them the chemtrails have been upgraded and breathing will make them trans...
But then I'm a bad person who likes to see stupid people suffer.

@Popehat "What gives toothpaste its flavor are tiny metallic nanobots Bill Gates owns! Deodorant leaves tracking devices on your armpits!! Toilet paper is filtered at sewage treatment plants to test for your DNA to know what drugs you're using!!! Worst of all - soap was invented by a woke drag queen!!!!" - Ed from Vermont
@Popehat chick fil-a is delicious so if they go woke I wont have to lie about eating there when im in the airport
@Popehat I was hoping we could persuade them to refuse to use Arabic numerals, and go back to Roman numerals as Western civilization demands.
@Popehat I tell my trumpy acquaintances that antibiotics were invented by Soros to make them gay. It's a long game.
@Popehat Only tangentially related, but I've been wondering when the right will realize that "employees must wash hands before returning to work" in restaurant bathrooms is basically the same logic as wearing masks to reduce the spread of COVID... and conclude that we should just have more fecal-oral disease transmission. (I'm for less transmission.)
@dbaron @Popehat Quiet! You're going to ruin it for everyone!
@Popehat is Chick-Fil-A hoping with this that we'll forget about its homophobia? Or did they at least fix that ...
@klausfiend @Popehat As long as any Chick-fil-A corporate or owners' money funds fundamentalist causes, I'm still not buying anything of theirs.
@Popehat I’m just laughing that he has to put ‘US’ at the end of his Twitter handle. I mean, where else in the world are you going to get such intolerant views, except maybe amongst the Taliban?
@Popehat The venerable NY Post calls him a “conservative strategist”. I worry about their strategy - Chick-Fil-A appointed the guy to the DEI position in November 2021, so I don’t know why Joey decided today was the day to freak out about it🙄
@Popehat ... and then they came after Chick-fil-A and I said nothing because ...
@Popehat Right-wing psychopaths: "Is chicken gay now?! DO I HAVE TO BOYCOTT CHICKEN?!"