Right-Wing Moron Thinks American Revolution Was Too Woke

[@ericfurman5227]

He tried so hard not to say “race mixing”

[@chrisyowell3013]

Lol you people just love to play the race card

[@shawnmack1095]

I swear 😆 🤣 🤣 🤣 🤣 🤣

[@sinsincere5748]

Right

[@Ellieempress]

Yea he did .

[@op3129]

and "feudalism"

[@aaronlawrence6350]

The weird thing about his argument is that it's self-defeating. The reason we reference the 1220s or the 1880s as a different era is because times have changed since then. And they changed because they all reached a point where enough people started to say, "I bet things could be better than this." History, as an arc, is just the story of conservatives losing.

[@FakingANerve]

Damn. Well. Said. That last sentence is poignant and perfect! 🍻

[@p0pimp2004]

Exactly. When has conservative ideology ever persisted? He is saying that liberals are relying on conservatism but that's just not the case. The technological revolution was not born out of conservative ideology. I'm sure the religious zealots thought of it as witchcraft. Most advancement in human history came out of rebellion of the status quo, i.e. conservatism.

[@soulknife20]

Conservatives are rarely if ever on the right side of history.

[@edwardkantowicz4707]

The right are wrong every time.

[@matthewhuszarik4173]

@@soulknife20 In free societies Conservatives are always on the wrong side.

[@firerunner35624]

I love how pride is only a deadly sin when it pertains to a subject conservatives feel uncomfortable about. Its never a sin when it comes to america, the bible, guns, or their sexuality.

[@sweepyourspeech8350]

Can't wait till Wrath Fest😂😂😂😂 or is that the Purge😮😮😮

[@ladylikelia]

Or being White 😆

[@Echo81Rumple83]

@@sweepyourspeech8350 DON'T. GIVE THEM. ANY. IDEAS 😬

[@Echo81Rumple83]

especially when one of those sins makes it too damn easy for them to do fatal harm to children in grade schools.

[@HelFrostKara]

I'm sure some of his ilk have said "nothing wrong with feeling pride in your race" at some point.

[@kurisu7885]

Pride is the deadliest of the seven deadly sins? Then why has he never once called out the Proud Boys?

[@felixjones9198]

Well said!

[@alexcamacho4880]

Because he's blowing them.

[@warlordofbritannia]

I mean…would you rather have to deal with the Lust Boys? The Gluttony Boys?

[@CarbonMage]

​@@warlordofbritanniagluttony boys and sloth boys don't sound so bad

[@Gildedmuse]

​@@CarbonMageMmm, you know, I'd be interested in watching the lust boys.

[@thewayyouwah9170]

"That flag is offensive to all normal people" Normal people? But then he goes on: "This flag is degenerate" . That word, which has Nazi overtones, is a word I'm hearing more and more nowadays. Peterson uses it quite liberally too.

[@bookgirlny8511]

🎯🎯🎯

[@TheEclecticDyslexic]

I am surprised more people don't know the history of the word degeneracy. I didn't learn that until only a few years ago. I am 99% certain these guys take advantage of that and use it as a dog whistle.

[@OceanusHelios]

"Worldview" is also Nazi speak. The Nazis loved euphamisms. Now when these jokers say "Deep State" what they mean is Jews.

[@monabear7287]

Nazi Lives Don't Matter.

[@amelliamendel2227]

The bible is offensive to all normal people JFC these people

[@tabeathahall8246]

It kills me how inconsistent they are. You can know in middle school if you are stright ,but you can't know if you are gay or trans until you are 18. 😒 These people are morons.

[@schrodingerthecat]

Bingo - they are morons.

[@PatDavis1989]

@@zerobullets6935 Hell, I remember how rampant homophobia was back in the early-mid 00s. Forget ID'ing as queer, you'd get called gay (and many other less polite terms) for not wanting to do something as dumb as playing bloody knuckles.

[@jimbob3030]

@@zerobullets6935 Everyone LGBT has experienced that hate and prejudice going back to the first religion that made us scapegoats. It goes back to before schools existed, before the US existed, before the Roman Empire existed.

[@JesseJames-vc2bm]

A whole Month of celebrating and being Proud of your Sexuality and or gender is kind of silly.

[@PatDavis1989]

@@JesseJames-vc2bm Dude straight people were staging gender reveal parties and setting forests on fire to show off that they fucked a few years back. Pride seems pretty tame compared to that.

[@john.premose]

Of course he does. The 1700s were way too woke for the modern right. All that enlightenment and reason, people actually thinking... that's anathema to people like him.

[@soulknife20]

Anathema is a good word.

[@TheInfamousRoo]

And the birth of capitalism. He’s giving the game away. Theocratic Fascism/Feudalism is their aim.

[@RoninDave]

he'd want to bring back witch burning

[@john.premose]

@@RoninDave at the very least. There's no bottom to this infinite regress mode the rightwing is in right now. I say just let them do their thing in isolation. I don't really see why us sane people need to pay any attention to them.

[@JudasMaccabeus1]

By modern standards, the 1700’s absolutely weren’t woke. By the standards of the 17th century that preceded it, it was a progressive century, but compared to the 20th and 21st century, still entirely religious and regressive besides the few small pockets of liberalism and humanism mostly in the urban centers.

[@robrich7846]

The first multicellular organisms were far too woke for Michael Knowles.

[@ArticBlueFox96]

Michael Knowles wants a world of pond scum.

[@john.premose]

Wait til he finds out how woke God is.

[@shinystarmiestudios4179]

The Big Bang was too woke for Michael Knowles.

[@boembo6627]

No first multi cellular organisms, everything just puffed (forgive the pun) into existence as is, by the big beardy guy in the sky.

[@FrozEnbyWolf150]

"Look at all those cells working together for the common good. That's socialism! We can't have that!"

[@ItsNatt09]

When you see the Puritans' coming to America not as a group seeking religious freedom but as a group who got kicked out of Europe for being insane hatemongers, American evangelism makes a lot more sense.

[@grayson0916]

To be fair, They were seeking religious freedom. Just not religious freedom for anyone else lmao

[@nondescriptcat5620]

@@grayson0916 they had religious freedom in the Netherlands. they wanted "freedom" to oppress everyone else.

[@josephbearpaw]

🎩 bingo'

[@elkeve2742]

@@xunqianbaidu6917 It's not entirely wrong at all. There was religious tolerance in the Low Lands for instance, but they wanted to be able to be intolerant.

[@Ellieempress]

That’s it . 💯bingo.

[@pancakingon]

He wants America to be as it was in 1220? I'm sure lots of Native Americans would have preferred that too!

[@janicefreeman1199]

Yes We would have. We wouldn't be the Minority of Minorites in Our Own Country because of the Genocide. Many of those people that did the Slaughting and Rapes were Carrying a Bible in 1 Hand and a Gun in the other Ranting "This is God Almighty's Will!"

[@riverjordan1829]

Your comprehension of the subject is lacking.

[@hojosconsal9913]

​@@riverjordan1829would you be so kind to enlighten us then?

[@riverjordan1829]

@@hojosconsal9913 Certainly. He said that he wished society was as CONSERVATIVE as back then. Not that we literally went back in time. Also the whole bit is more of a joke because he was switching 2012 to 1220. He doesn't literally mean 1220 he means just more conservative than the most recent century.

[@Yummypoison0]

​@@riverjordan1829i mean the most conservative/reactionary indigenous peoples would push white people out and destroy them. Honestly yea that def should have happened lol

[@ericrobb558]

“1220 ….before all the modern ideologies started corroding our civilization.” Do you mean heliocentrism?

[@john.premose]

Yes, Copernicus was so woke. That's where the right is at now.

[@shinystarmiestudios4179]

Michael Knowles thinks the Big Bang was woke.

[@FrozEnbyWolf150]

@@capyossarian "It doesn't make seyyynse!"

[@samcox443]

It's clear he has no concept of when and where the major advances in science, medicine, mathematics, architecture and the other arts were taking place. Sounds like a victim of the damage done by too much revisionist, fake, compromised and cherry-picked history,

[@renlevy411]

At least Heliocentrism have been canon in Catholic Church since even before the Nicene Creed.

[@TrueYellowDart]

Bro, shit was vicious back in the day. 1220? Get ready to be a serf working some noble’s land. Then get conscripted for war and be fodder, smashed by trained knights on armored warhorses. I’m sure dude imagines he’ll be one of the nobles.

[@kaskus7147]

I thought 11 year olds had no idea what sexuality is at all let alone what their own sexuality is either. "They are too young to make that decision".

[@thagrammarnazi]

It’s like how any queer relationship in any media that could possibly make it’s way to children is grooming, ignore the straight relationships we’ve been showing directly to kids for millennia through movies and fairytales

[@ahouyearno]

11 year olds are in full puberty and they know who they like and it’s not a decision Grooming them to be straight is setting up almost 10% of them to have a stunted development during their most difficult years

[@jacfac9969]

I used to think that tricking conservatives into thinking Hindu-Arabic numerals (also known as normal ass numbers) are too woke was just a stupid gotcha. Apparently, Michael Knowles legitimately believes (or at least is paid enough to believe) that all that incredibly basic ideas we’ve had since the enlightenment is all too woke

[@jbee5258]

My ex-husband grew up in the evangelical church. I was not. He is a sheep. I am no one’s property.

[@FakingANerve]

Glad you got away from that. It sounds bahhhhhhhd.

[@princeofcats7822]

You just don't know the identity of your owner. Welcome to America.

[@davebarton6824]

These IDIOT REPUBLICAN MEN want to go back to the good old days when men ruled everything. They want to be able to beat their wife and kids and not go to JAIL. They want to be able to HATE who ever they choose for their skin color or their lifestyle. But they are the party of FREEDOM... more like FREEDUMB.

[@carolinemaybe]

I am an old cis woman who has been surrounded by gay and trans people my whole life and I’m STILL STRAIGHT. I refuse to let these bigots win. I’m grateful to all the online communities who support others who are either queer or left a religion.

[@panthera50]

🎯👍

[@erich6860]

My wife is Bi, my son is Bi, we have one gay friend, one drag queen friend, and yet I remain straight. Obviously conservatives are all in the closet because if all it takes is a rainbow flag to "indoctrinate" them into being LGBTQ.......... well ya know.

[@vgaportauthority9932]

The only people who think that people can be "turned gay" are the people who grew up lusting for people of the same sex in school and viewed that whole lustful experience as a "test of their faith." They do not see it as their sexuality making itself known... They feel it's a test of their faith.. If they can beat the urges, they'll go to heaven. Perfect example of this is Steven Crowder who has openly admitted to having his "battle" with bisexuality in college.... And now he's an adult 30 something guy who teabags his buddies and colleagues and shows them his dick and stuff.. You know, normal straight guy behavior for sure..??? Totally won that battle with bisexuality FOR SURE.... 100% won. VICTORIOUS! Guy is so straight, SO straight.. He's a guy who thinks that you can be turned gay.. Because in his experience, without the shame of christianity, he would be prancing around in gay pride parades happy as hell today... Instead he had to get into a loveless relationship with a woman who he then abused for years... Just going through the motions of a straight relationship because he was shamed out of accepting he's gay or bi... Miserable man turned bitter, blamed his wife for not being wifely enough.. I mean if she was wifely enough, maybe he'd be happy? (He wouldn't, dude is gay as fuck.) And he wants that shame for others.. Because he thinks he prevailed, and he wants other boys to prevail and vanquish the urges through doubling down on faith and shame... It's sickening that he doesn't just accept that he thirsts for men.. Instead he's just outing himself as bi/gay every time he talks about how people can be turned gay by the "gay agenda...." Straight people can't be turned gay... Shame-stricken gay people who pretend to be straight can be released from their shame by moving away from the people who shame them.. Such as going to college and finding people who won't tell them they're going to hell if they are attracted to the same sex. Kid comes home from college, tells his parents he's gay, parents lose their mind and blame college.... Kid comes home from high school, tells his parents he's gay, parents blame the school system... These types of christian parents are not straight... Because as I say a million times.. Straight kids don't turn gay... And straight people wouldn't assume that anyone can be "turned gay" because it makes no damn sense... Matt Walsh is literally home schooling his kids to keep them straight.... Matt Walsh is hella gay and extremely ashamed, particularly because he's also a pedophile. Only reason he has a wife is that she's the only way he'd get easy access to kids. Made them himself, then kept them from the world... We got ourselves another Josef Fritzl on our hands with that guy, and he's peddling morality as if he's got any. Ben Shapiro can't make his wife wet... Cause how the hell could he? Dude's limp as a noodle cause he's straddling a woman.. The last thing he wants in life is to be close to women. Anyways.. No one would think "turning gay" makes sense unless they're attracted to the same sex. It makes ABSOLUTELY NO SENSE for a straight person to believe that straight dudes are running a gauntlet of cocks while horny as all hell. There's a higher chance of me being turned into a vampire by the catholic church than me turning gay.. Cause I'm straight.. Conservatives will never understand that they're outing themselves with this line of reasoning... I'm starting to think that there are FAR more gay conservatives than there are gay liberals. They're just "kept in check" by delusions and shame. No wonder there are so many loveless marriages on the right... And lets be honest, the conservative incel movement are incels because A: They can't have same sex relationships that they crave.. And B: 50% of them are lusting for minors. They're alone because their attraction is literally illegal. Nothing but self-outing on the right these days.

[@GreyWulf-g8k]

Yep. These Refuklicans and KKKonservates are just hateful and will take anything they can target with their hate. The only time I'm concerned about other people's sexuality is when they _force_ it on me. I'm a straight dude, but I'll still reject a woman's advances if I'm not interested and it's forced on me, so for me, it's not really about what orientation the other person has. If I'm not involved in the action, I don't really care whom other people choose to love or associate with - well, so long as it's all consensual. Live and let live!

[@grantsmith505]

If you drank bud light, maybe things wouid be different

[@race-abolitionist]

Michael Knowles’ description of the pride flag was the exact description of (the) confederate flag.

[@calvinmay4673]

Keep that garbage away from normal people.

[@MrYago-xd7um]

Probably stole those words from an old Times article.

[@bookgirlny8511]

Truth

[@bookgirlny8511]

@@5APPH_13 The Confederacy is the Pride flag of RACISM. Just read Vice President Stephen’s Cornerstone speech. Smh

[@calvinmay4673]

@@5APPH_13 don’t disrespect the confederate flag for that Filthy degenerate pride flag.

[@Mr-DNA]

Conservatives when high schoolers speak out against guns and climate change: “You’re not mature enough, you don’t know what you’re talking about, etc” Conservatives when an 11-year-old misunderstands the use of the word straight in a Tennessee Williams quote: “Ah, from the mouths of babes…”

[@KristyMcClellan]

Me: Happy Pride Month! 🏳‍🌈 Them: Pride is the deadliest of all sins! Also Them: I'm proud to be an American!

[@zephyr8072]

My favourite of those is Jordan Peterson. Jordan: “Remember when pride was a sin? I do!!! It’s a sin!” Also Jordan: *too proud to ever admit his harassment of Elliot Page was wrong and instead went on a supervillain rant about it*

[@argspid]

@@zephyr8072 To quote Popehat, they've forgotten that the 8th deadly sin is douche.

[@babagalacticus]

some (probably young) turnip posted somewhere that he was proud to be 'white' (whatever that meant to him); i replied, "good for you boyo, i'm proud of my opposable thumbs". i don't think he got it....

[@KristyMcClellan]

@@babagalacticus 🤣😂🤣

[@cake_9510]

B-but nationalism isn't pride, it's just love! *Aggressively tries making out with US flag*

[@Argumemnon]

Amazing how Knowles' main argument against gay "pride" is the equivalent of a ten year old who's just learned about synonyms and wants to annoy his parents.

[@FrozEnbyWolf150]

Also the fact that he just took the year 2012 and rearranged the numbers to get 1220, thinking that makes him clever.

[@Echo81Rumple83]

or each other like Arthur and D.W. did wen they were asking their babysitter what other insults they could hurl at each other through a thesaurus XD

[@somethingelse4424]

I'm glad you made this comment. It never clicked with me until you did. I think pride verges on being a homophone or "homograph" at this point. Like bow. Bow can mean to bend the body down to show deference, or it can be a tree limb or device to shoot an arrow. All are somewhat logically related, but have critical differences in meaning. Close can mean to shut a door or that two objects are in proximity. "The door is close to being closed" 😡 It's infuriating, and obviously nobody means "pride" as in a feeling of superiority. It's probably not a true homograph at this point, but it is a word with multiple implications.

[@kgs2280]

⁠@@somethingelse4424Oh, I think “pride” definitely means superiority to some people. Think White Pride.

[@Imperial-Socialist]

@@somethingelse4424 A tree limb is a "bough"

[@jj947]

Matt Walsh is an edgier, blander Ben Shapiro and Michael Knowles is trying to be an edgier, blander Matt Walsh

[@soulknife20]

How can you be blander than flour?

[@nolongerblocked6210]

Maybe we'll get lucky and everyone at the Daily Wire will pull a Heavens Gate... I'll buy the silver dollars for em

[@thehoneybadgerusmc]

Those four “men” are disgusting.

[@kurisu7885]

@@soulknife20 They're in a competition to find out.

[@DissociatedWomenIncorporated]

If a kid's offended by the notion that their heart contains no straight lines, then they've failed biology _and_ geometry.

[@llpolluxll]

This is the "facts over feelings" crowd.

[@alexquinn2390]

Is your pfp Terra? Love it.

[@anghusmorgenholz1060]

Just cause. Not non-eucludian geometry. My apologies I haven't been able to find any right wing clowns to be unpleasant to. Not being unpleasant to you. I just have to let this crap out of my head or it might explode. Sorry again.

[@matiasyannuzzi9655]

The ones that failed are their parents, at raising someone who isn't a brainless bigot.

[@hl1342]

and they call us the snowflakes

[@joegibbskins]

A middle schooler could totally say “you know that offends me” but it’s only because they are meeting the world through their parents’ world view. Some kids at that age are rebelling against their parents, and some are are just sort of following rules and looking for adult approval. Michael Knowles on the other hand saying “uh yeah, that flag is offensive to all normal people” is legit one of the most insanely stupid things I have ever seen an adult say

[@TheRaggedFlygon]

It’s absurd that middle schoolers acting like middle schoolers is on the news. Reveling against authority is part of being a teen for a lot of people. We’ve all made jokes at the cringey dare speeches etc. this is the same thing

[@angelikaopland7880]

That insanely stupid comment gets a lot of competition from this guy's ideological fellow travelers these days. I'm sure MTG alone has topped it a time or 3.....

[@SeeStuDo]

At 11 years old, all my kids knew racism, bigotry, and misogyny were wrong. Knowless is far behind, somwhere in toddler land still.

[@cosmosofinfinity]

He's 800 years behind today's toddlers, self-admittedly. He thinks the people of 1220 had everything right. Before biology, microbiology, the industrial revolution, the discovery of America itself let alone its founding as a country. If Michael Knowles hate the modern world so much, I wish he would just "exit" it, instead of ruin it for the rest of us by hitting rewind on so many centuries of progress that generations of people more sensible than him worked hard building. This religious fundamentalism of his never built a single skyscraper. His ideal "civilization" in America must be Salem and their mass hysteria witch trials, except even 1690s Salem is miles ahead of his even more backwards ideal standard of living

[@ahouyearno]

Toddlers also k ow that. Bigotry and racism is learned behaviour.

[@davehart9972]

and now they are helpless and will get beaten by blacks. way to go you horrible parent.

[@davehart9972]

@@ahouyearno racism is natural and a healthy defense mechanism. If you arent racist you are a sitting duck. Other races dont hate racism, they just hate whites.

[@Yummypoison0]

Kids in my school routinely used the n word and f slur like commas. These people come from some where

[@JayTea345]

Knowles is desperately trying to catch up after Matt Walsh overtook him as the fourth most popular person at Daily Wire.

[@nolongerblocked6210]

💯💯🎯 🤣🤣 Trying to out bigot each other, so Christian 🙄🙄

[@LaSerpentDEden]

@@nolongerblocked6210 that actually is super Christian

[@Pyreleaf]

I only know Shapiro, Walsh, and Knowles, who are #2 and #3?

[@KaceyRepublic]

@@Pyreleaf Candace Owens is Daily Wire, that's the only other one I know off the top of my head.

[@Pyreleaf]

@@KaceyRepublic ohhh, I completely forgot about Auntie Klandace!

[@marcevan1141]

Christ, when people fail at show business careers they can really go off the deep end. Knowles is a joke and, remember, Ben Shapiro is a failed screenwriter.

[@jeffreycarman2185]

Crowder is a failed comedian

[@marcevan1141]

@@jeffreycarman2185 Yes. Dave Rubin as well.

[@john.premose]

And Steve Bannon. And Breitbart.

[@kbar3612]

Failed? I don’t think any of them were taken seriously in those fields by anyone other then morons thinking it was “political comedy” which does not exist on the right.

[@toga4900]

Brett cooper is a failed actress. Matt walsh is a failed radio dj. They're all just theater kidd that weren't creative enough lol.

[@jj947]

Very convenient of Michael to make his ideal example pre America to avoid saying the US was “conservative enough” when there was slavery or segregation

[@redlightmax]

Start the clock on conservatives criticizing Abraham Lincoln for being too woke.

[@yoredeerleader]

1220 may be post Magna Carta but in 1220 none of us can read so we have to wait for the graphic novel version. Which probably contain graven images so…

[@CrowManyClouds]

@@redlightmax 'Lincoln was BLM and loved CRT!'

[@seto_kaiba_]

1220 is even more regressive than slavery/segregationist America though. Also-Michael doesn't seem to be very concerned with being politically correct.

[@beratnabodhi]

Well, ya know, property rights didn't become "natural" until white men landed on Plymouth Rock.

[@haeuptlingaberja4927]

50 years ago, when I was a happy hippie kid and the summer was full of the Watergate hearings and the Wounded Knee uprising was finally burying John Wayne, etc, etc, we were so optimistic. We had no inkling that in just a few years the Reagan "revolution" would ignite a backlash against all things Progressive, or that when we were old men and women Nazism would be resurgent...in America. Or that our kids would be depressed, apathetic and frightened of being gunned down at school. I am so sick of these stupid Nazis saying stupid Nazi shit to stupid people who eat it all up. The hippies were right. And we still are.

[@TheDanorte]

Must be heatbreaking to see America becoming what it is today. A hypercapitalistic police state hellscape, with the same old problems but far more prominent. The country become 100x richer but the people much poorer. The entire society is held hostage by corporations. Realistically, I don't see a way for a government to take back power from corporations. You have removed all checks and balances to control capital acumulation. Even if someone tries to do good, an army of ignorants fed by corporation rhetoric will be there to halt any possible progress. There's nothing more American than being against your interests.

[@tubian323]

I say if Michael Knowles wants to live in 1220, let him live in 1220. No running water, no electricity, no modern appliances, chamber pots being thrown in the street, rats, disease the whole bit.

[@bevanfletcher6563]

So he's also stating that he wants to live in 1220 when there was no United States

[@monabear7287]

Lock him up!!!!

[@NunYabiznass-hd6dj]

Yeah how can there be a time "we" were conservative in 1220 when there was no "we" yet?

[@tharfagreinir]

"I want the country to be as socially conservative as it was in 1220." Oh so he wants all European settlers out and the country completely returned to native Americans?

[@notnickcage]

No, no. Not like that.

[@ZealothPL]

Btw i think that "go back to middle ages" bit was started by damn Fuentes (at least thats the first moron ive seen say it). So Knowles is openly parroting EXTREME christian fascism

[@shotaaizawa1206]

It's a humorous joke of switching around the '12' and '20' It's not that hard AT ALL to miss that

[@brucebostick2521]

POINT is----vast majority are decent folks, people get to know others, learn new things, find out how other/different people live (including loved ones) & THEY change!! B/C there are ALWAYS backward/ignorant people who want to whipe out progress, but it requires us, majority, to stand up for rts for ALL people!!

[@akumakorgar]

Literally wants to put yellow stars on Jews like they did in 13th century England I guess?

[@jj947]

Such whiplash seeing all these intellectual dark web / alt right types go from posturing themselves as transgressive thinkers and logic wizards a few years ago and now just talking like villains in The Crucible

[@soozofay1825]

Lmao so true. They wanna play the cool edgy dark intellectual so bad. Kinda cringe imo.

[@vgaportauthority9932]

They went from being edgelords to being terrified pearl-clutching 1980s housewives at the snap of the fingers. "Think of the chiiiildren!"

[@Mr1stcat]

Michael Knowles wouldn't last a minute in the 1200s 🤣

[@samueloakley4254]

At some point, I know these chuds have said "pride is a sin" and "greed is good" in the same sentence

[@nolongerblocked6210]

One of the GOP House members said he "didn't want reality" in a committee meeting last week when asking a question of the witness... you can't make this stuff up 😂😂😂😂

[@danpowell3953]

@@nolongerblocked6210 Well, I have to give him points for introspection and honesty for that statement.

[@kriegmesserdclxvi2833]

If only we could send Michael back in time to experience that world for himself.

[@NothingIsKnown00]

I’m sure Knowles would love life as a medieval serf.

[@susansantini2968]

The irony is Knowles doesn't understand how much "tolerance" it takes to stomach the likes of him.

[@nolongerblocked6210]

Seriously... I feel like his neighbors would love to let him know though 😂😂

[@dmman33]

I don’t tolerate Knowles. If I see him on the street [REDACTED]

[@bookgirlny8511]

Trophy winner!🏆

[@DrJReefer]

​@@nolongerblocked6210🔥🏡🔥 If he was my neighbour... he'd know.

[@terrancejfry497]

I like him

[@lisadioguardi5742]

What does he know about 1220? He wouldn't have lasted five minutes as an extra in Army of Darkness.

[@alexpkeaton4471]

People in 1220: "Oh, you're from the future and did 'movies' as a gay man? He's a witch, burn him."

[@dinofacedindividual9462]

They know absolutely nothing about the medieval world. Public nudity was completely fine to my knowledge, and it’s not like the peasants were anti-sex

[@rhiannon7852]

Hail to the King, baby

[@Argumemnon]

People have been claiming that new ideas degrade morality for thousands of years. Imagine how incredibly morally upstanding people were 5000 years ago!

[@stefanlvkc7986]

He wouldn't last, but he definitely is a primitive screwhead.

[@MarquisLeary34]

People are aware that he cribbed this whole rant from Nick Fuentes, right? That should be frightening.

[@ahlishaholloway233]

Exactly. This is directly taken from open white supremacist and fascist Nick Fuentes. And it's being uttered by one of the most influential commentators in the right wing media sphere.

[@DBul3000]

It was frightening before that piece of information

[@MrYago-xd7um]

Don't know what's more frightening. How lazy he is or how unable to form an opinion he is.

[@nondescriptcat5620]

one nazi copying another. no one ever accused them of being original.

[@randibgood]

​@@DBul3000 Yes it was.

[@rhodawatkins4516]

She really cherry picked the "can't be straight" bit out of that quote, while completely ignoring the context of comparing the heart to a winding mountain road, instead of a straight city street.

[@71manny89]

But how can an 11 year old girl know she is straight? She is still a child. If an 11 year old is too young to know they are gay or trans then wouldn't they also be too young to know they are straight?

[@soulknife20]

Michael Knowles acts like he was never bullied in school. We should change that.

[@nolongerblocked6210]

There's no chance of that. Most of the people at the Daily Wire are trying to get back at all the people that had fun, partied & were sexually active in high school/college & made fun of them... kinda like spiritual cops

[@soulknife20]

@@nolongerblocked6210 Oh. They absolutely need to be bullied then. Not my fault they didn't have fun in high school.

[@randomthings1293]

That statement is utterly disgusting and profoundly ANTI-leftist. I would like to stop having to read such babybrained takes. You're implying that the socially emarginated are automatically those that become monsters in life and that the solution should be to emarginate and denigrate them even MORE. Kinda like conservatives treat homeless people. Nevermind that the bullies in school are usually the conservative, more often than not borderline fascist rich JOCKS, I would remind to everyone. And what does your statement says towards people who were bullied in their youth and nevertheless grew up to be defenders of the poors and the weakest in society? That they should have been rather more enraged and bitter because society thinks that they weren't treated bad enough anyway? Get a grip. And grow an empathy.

[@bookgirlny8511]

I’m sure he was. Positive.

[@kingboobs20]

@@bookgirlny8511 Not enough.

[@apolloforabetterfuture4814]

This is precisely why I reject Gerard Horne's and others historical nihilism, today conservatives would be anti American revolution, anti empiricism. As progressives, as democratic socialists we have to continue the work of the American revolution. We have to continue the enlightenment before we slip into another dark age.

[@john.premose]

Well...philosophically I have several issues with what you say. The Enlightenment was actually a very bourgeois thing. Capitalism was embraced because it was considered to be based on "reason", exploitation of workers and indigenous people in the colonies was justified based on the idea of a "natural order", etc. So all in all, I would consider the Enlightenment to be something we need to move beyond at this point. However I understand the spirit of what you're saying.

[@john.premose]

And the American "revolution" was just a bunch of property owners bolstering their own position against a popular uprising of the people, which they explicitly feared would happen if it wasn't kept in check. It wasn't until the 1820s that the US even had universal white male suffrage, because they were initially afraid that the people would overthrow the propertied elites.

[@alphajackal6648]

@@john.premose I mostly take issue with the implication that all progressives are demsocs. I'd rather not water down my socialism with capitalist apologetics, personally. The Nordic model only works because it's based upon a history of exploitation. Even if it's an improvement on capitalism, it's still capitalism and the exploitation is an inherent part of it.

[@john.premose]

@@alphajackal6648 and the idea that the American "revolution" had anything to do with progress. It was nothing but a dispute between landlords and had nothing to do with improving working people's lives or status. Quite the opposite actually.

[@ceolandomhain298]

​@@john.premose The urban working class as we consider them today did not really exist at the time of the AmRev, and it's important to note that 'capitalism' was a term coined by critics of capitalism, who only developed as the contradictions inherent to the system began to show. The bourgeois revolutions were indeed progressive! Landowners don't seem like a progressive class to us nowadays (because the only class that can achieve socialism is the proletariat) but they once were! and had they not come along, we might still be living in feudalism, a far more abject and unfree existence! The AmRev had a lot of problematic aspects, but every important historical movement has. The difference is that the bourgeois revolutions laid the historical groundwork for the potential for socialism. Socialism is about moving beyond capitalism, not regressing behind it and declaring any sort of system that is "anti-bourgeois" as good. That is antinomical thinking, not dialectical thinking.

[@Alltime2050]

He wants to go back to the way it was two hundred years before Protestantism became a thing. He wants to go back to a time when the Western world was 100% Catholic. I wonder what the Evangelicals think of that?

[@JudasMaccabeus1]

300 years technically

[@andreabrown4541]

Just not as far back as Rome because, you know, pride! Back in the 80s for the first iteration of anti-CRT, blacks, Latinos and white women were out but gays were in because Rome was part of Western civilization. Today, gays, blacks and Jews are out but apparently white women are back in. LOL!

[@renlevy411]

Is Michael Knowles even Catholic?

[@JudasMaccabeus1]

@@renlevy411 no. Just stupid

[@TheFunGun5]

​@@renlevy411 Yes

[@anthonynocera3846]

It sucks that every time a right winger is unable to make it in Hollywood, they have to make the world suffer for it. If there’s anything that the last decade and coming one will teach us, it’s fear the wrath of a mediocre person with a camera and microphone

[@travisboyle285]

Guess it is like Hitler not making it as a painter.

[@NunYabiznass-hd6dj]

*that also has fracking billionaires backing them

[@raistlin3462]

I support sending Michael Knowles back to 1220 to fulfill his dream of living as a medieval peasant.

[@andjkh]

Better yet, in the same location he is present day, I'm thinking he is in North America.

[@sandraphillips5091]

@ raistlin3462 send him back even the rich folks in those days had no electric lights, no running water, they used chamber pots and outhouses and there was no toilet paper.

[@monabear7287]

I've literally been conceptualizing a time machine for years but cannot find infinite energy. Also, time doesn't exist.

[@cedrickulacz8468]

The Protestant Reformation is too woke for Knowles. The Divine Comedy, The Prince, and Utopia are all too edgy for him. XD

[@matiasyannuzzi9655]

"Gutenberg created his demonic press contraption to push his woke agenda at an industrial scale."

[@bookgirlny8511]

The day Voltaire famously embraced Dr. Franklin was the END for Knowles.

[@Whoeverheardof]

The titles on these videos are increasingly demonstrating an exasperation that I sincerely appreciate.

[@antlerbraum2881]

Exactly lol, I can feel the pain in them, I relate.

[@john.premose]

I don't see why they talk about this stuff. To me it just normalizes it. I'd like to see progressive media stop doing so much reaction and commentary to every brain movement some absurd rw pundit flushes into the talkosphere. Why are we giving them this publicity?

[@Whoeverheardof]

@@john.premose I get what you are saying but if they didn’t expose the insane theories and assertions from the right I would have no idea about them. It’s not like I’m watching those shows. And I feel like it’s important to know what the other side is saying and doing. We need to know what we are up against. Also these ppl deserve to be ridiculed in public. They are gonna say what they say but there should exist a different voice on record to fight against it. I’m sure they’d love for us to ignore them so they can just run rampant with no opposition. I appreciate that channels like the Majority Report don’t allow that.

[@john.premose]

@@Whoeverheardof yeah to some degree but at the same time it also disseminates it more and makes it seem semi-normal. If we weren't used to hearing this kind of absurdity, it would be shocking (as it should be). But since we hear it all the time we just shrug and say "oh well that's just right wingers". Some of those ideas might even start influencing us subconsciously. There is actually a term for this, it's called repetition fallacy. If you hear something repeated over and over you start to think it must have some basis in reality. Why do you think these pundits on the right say this stuff? It's to get the idea circulating. The more you hear something even if you know it's not true, the more it starts to sink into your consciousness.

[@john.premose]

@@Whoeverheardof I mean look at it this way: do you think the right is out there showing people what the left is saying? No, not at all. They don’t want their people to hear what we are actually saying and there’s a reason for that. But in our case we almost masochistically keep paying attention to what the right is talking about, instead of ignoring it and focusing on what we want to talk about.

[@Goatchild90]

Waiting till they say Jesus was too woke

[@nolongerblocked6210]

Them: "Helping the less fortunate" ...Trump wouldn't do that

[@danpowell3953]

Not sure they’ve specifically said that, but they certainly act that way.

[@Unzinkable]

They worship the opposite of Jesus and never notice it.

[@cake_9510]

​@@Unzinkable Jesus: Aren't you christian? Conservatives: yup. Jesus: and this bible is your instructions on how to live. Conservatives: yup. Jesus: I said in this to specifically love and care for everyone. And if this is the case, this is how you live your life. Conservatives: That makes sense to me. Jesus: Then do it. Conservatives: it's an abomination and you would be ashamed.

[@Unzinkable]

A 12 year old girl hears a quote by Tennessee Williams and it goes right over her head. She's choosing to be offended by it and that just italicizes her ignorance. But she's 12. I say we overlook it. As well as all these other people who have an overblown sense of the value of their own thoughts and hope to force those thoughts on the rest of us. Go back to school and don't address me again until you've noticed enough of your own thoughts to be ashamed, because right now you just don't notice.

[@grahvis]

I strongly suspect the woman is a liar, her daughter saying no such thing without first being coached.

[@soulknife20]

Did someone ban Streetcar named Desire? Or did they ban Cat on a hot tin roof?

[@Unzinkable]

@@soulknife20 That's not the point. The point is that her understanding of the quote is so puny and colorless that I weep for the lack of self awareness she experiences quite naturally for her age, although I didn't suffer from it. But no one should allow themselves to be subjugated by her defects. It would be a crime and a sin indeed. She should have no authority to control what others may read.

[@FreddieVee]

When they came for the 1.3% of us, I didn't complain because I was not a member of the 1.3%. When they came for the 3% of us, I didn't complain because I was not a member of the 3%. When they came for the 13% of us, I didn't complain because I was not a member of the 13%. When they came for the 15% of us, I didn't complain because I was not a member of the 15%. When they came for me, no one complained because they were too afraid.

[@MJH-kr4zg]

I think the question we all want to know is, what's the future for Dave Rubin? Because it doesn't look like the right will be needing the token gay guy anymore...

[@nolongerblocked6210]

He can't feel safe going to right wing events

[@bthorson7979]

He'll still be blaming the left as they stone him to death in the Christian States of America in 10 years.

[@inrainbows1829]

My kid came home and said the middle school students all saw a rainbow flag and dropped down instantly started going down on each other

[@nickbrooks3054]

😂

[@melodygarrison7531]

😂

[@felixjones9198]

I believe it! Similar thing happened to me. I saw one and was instantly struck gay.

[@elisawhitman8526]

I wonder if Michael Knowles holds such vitriol for the Confederate flag. I mean, what is the Confederate flag if not a symbol of “Southern pride?”

[@nowknowthis]

Pride is only bad to them if it’s associated with things they don’t like. But they can say “I’m proud to be an American” all they like and it’s not sinful

[@elisawhitman8526]

@@nowknowthis Exactly!

[@josephimperatrice5552]

​@@elisawhitman8526 I doubt very much the Southern Confederates would have seen Michael Knowles as White.

[@Nemo12417]

Openly, they'd remind you that the Sourthern conservatives were Democrats. Quietly, they think the Confederate flag is awesome.

[@jpward5158]

I want to know but he probably never has if he has ever read Alexander Stephens cornerstone speech on why the south decided to split from the north. "Our new government is founded upon exactly the opposite ideas; its foundations are laid, its cornerstone rests, upon the great truth that the negro is not equal to the white man; that slavery, subordination to the superior race, is his natural and normal condition."- Alexander Stephens. If that's not supporting racism and slavery, then you're an idiot.

[@laurataylor8717]

I was recently at an event where I heard a recent high school graduate talking about a girl she knew at school who was wearing a pride shirt that said "Born this way." The girl went on to say "you weren't 'born this way'. It's a choice." When I hear children who clearly grew up in a sheltered environment, I am anxious for them to go out into the world and have their world view expand. Hopefully.

[@AceofDlamonds]

This is more honest than most so-called conservatives, who hold contradictory views on human rights and basic liberalism. This guy actually prefers a pre-liberal world, because the American revolution was one of the first chain in a series of liberal revolutions of the 1700s and 1800s.

[@mr.coffee5220]

It’s not even the same type of liberalism. It’s just liberalism in name.

[@mattmanw54301]

and yet, knowles is terrified of sissy hypno porn. so if he's afraid a video will turn him into a sissy, then i got news for you.

[@AgitpropPsyop]

“Pride; the deadliest of the seven deadly sins.” No joke, I thought this dude was doing a bit LMAO.

[@starflakey]

who's to say knowles wouldn't be a woman or a slave or a eunuch or staving serf? there's no reason to assume he'd be of the far smaller classes of royalty or wealthy than exist today 😄

[@soulknife20]

He's already a eunuch.

[@FrozEnbyWolf150]

@@soulknife20 Dan and Farris Wilks have his family jewels in a jar on their desk.

[@john.premose]

Who's to say he isn't now?

[@hermeskun3274]

As those conservatives would say, are we sure that 11-year old child knows she's straight?

[@soraneyorumi2017]

If pride is the biggest sin, we shouldn't take pride in being American either but if you say that to a conservative they'd melt on the spot

[@jmmclaughlin1989]

I would be neat to put Michael Knowles in a time machine and launch him to the year 1220 to see how much he'd like living in the world back then. And if he thought life back then was just perfect, he could stay there for the rest of his days.

[@symbiotesam3562]

Very good point. I don’t think it ever dawns on these types of people that there are reasons why society has evolved from the Middle Ages.

[@giannaleng1897]

@@symbiotesam3562 these numb-nuts really want to go back to a time where most humans died before the age of 45 from shitting their brains out and getting dehydrated 😒

[@HocusPocus6969]

Like he’d last five minutes without an air conditioner and having to hunt and gather his sustenance.

[@nolongerblocked6210]

​@@HocusPocus6969 no chance that guy could clean a fish or butcher a deer. He'd be lost without a grocery store

[@TheZombiemofo]

@@nolongerblocked6210 he'd be lost without his wife taking care of him you mean.

[@glen7228]

How does somebody's mind become that F'ed up. That little rant of hate was straight up insane, I'm saying actually insane.

[@glen7228]

@@matthew3136 That's what I'm saying. If he is being honest and this is how he truly views the world and society, it's psychotic

[@nolongerblocked6210]

It's a prerequisite to work at the Daily Wire that you're a sociopath

[@sluttyMapleSyrup]

​​​@@matthew3136 Functionally the difference is meaningless, but ethically, I think the greed angle is worse because it means he has no principles beyond his religious conditioning and "what will make me money?"

[@celestialangel666]

1220 year, according to Wikipedia, had the Fifth crusade and in China, Genghis Khan started his campaigns.

[@octavianpopescu4776]

"Not even a mighty warrior can break a frail arrow when it is multiplied and supported by its fellows. As long as you brothers support one another and render assistance to one another, your enemies can never gain the victory over you. But if you fall away from each other your enemy can brake you like frail arrows, one at a time." - Genghis Khan being a lefty "Heaven grew weary of the excessive pride and luxury of China... I am from the Barbaric North. I wear the same clothing and eat the same food as the cowherds and horse-herders. We make the same sacrifices and we share.. our riches. I look upon the nation as a new-born child and I care for my soldiers as though they were my brothers." - Genghis Khan being even more of a lefty "Just as God gave different fingers to the hand so has He given different ways to men." - Genghis Khan promoting diversity "I hate luxury. I exercise moderation…It will be easy to forget your vision and purpose one you have fine clothes, fast horses and beautiful women. [In which case], you will be no better than a slave, and you will surely lose everything." - Genghis Khan not being a fan of the 1% "One of the joys of travel is visiting new towns and meeting new people." - Genghis Khan promoting learning about the world and having an open mind

[@celestialangel666]

@@octavianpopescu4776 it is always interesting to see how 'woke' Genghis Khan is (meant with no sarcasm, I learned about all this too and was very happily surprised)

[@danbeaulieu2130]

In 1220, Islam's Golden Age still had 30 years left before ending in the bloody Mongol conquest. Baghdad was the richest, and most cosmopolitan city on Earth. Damascus and Cairo, each had a medical school that taught actual diagnostic medicine.

[@Advent3546]

"My STRAIGHT DAUGHTER told me she was offended by that Tennessee Williams quote" Straight from the front page of r/ThatHappened

[@kurisu7885]

My thoughts exactly. Most conservative stories like this belong on there.

[@joshdelany5189]

Please give us 1220, then I can legally elimate all the bigots and racists in duels, it'd be like a dream come true.

[@jaycorbin]

The First Lady should have taught her daughter what a “metaphor” is…..

[@Parmetheus]

Pastor says metaphors are the devil's way of using liberals to deceive us conservatives

[@TheNylter]

I walked away from the Seventh Day Adventists because I realized that they were wrong about what they said the world was. They created a delusion, and walking away was a huge relief.

[@RobertHollander]

Based on the way he's using it, it's clear that Michael Knowles doesn't have a clue as to what lysergic acid is.

[@magcarta]

that's a shame. he might learn something.

[@nolongerblocked6210]

I'd love to introduce/dose that square, lol

[@liveoak227]

​@@magcartanah if he got dosed it'd be 8 hours of paranoia and demons laughing at him.

[@magcarta]

@@liveoak227 that's why dosing anyone is a felony. it's all about set and setting, like Dr. Leary said.

[@liveoak227]

@@magcarta I don't think set and setting would help this guy much. He's neck deep in catholic guilt. He would have to do a lot of work and introspection to get to a point where an acid trip could be a positive experience.

[@janerkenbrack3373]

Women pee sitting down and men pee standing up. When men start sitting down to pee, we are witnessing the end of civilization, and inviting the wrath of God. (Sarcasm intended.)

[@danmerget]

11:11 no phones... no lights... no motorcars...

[@MatthewRachansky]

"These sad saps. They come to Rapture thinking they're gonna be 'captains of industry', but they all forget that somebody's gotta scrub the toilets" That's you, Knowles.

[@sluttyMapleSyrup]

This quote sums up all the Cryptoland type shit too

[@magcarta]

the American colonies' war of independence (as it was taught in the USSR) was not a revolution. the ruling class was left intact. France, Russia, Cuba, Haiti, China had revolutions.

[@tothboy01]

You're right. The American Revolution was just a bunch of patricians/nobility fighting against a king, which is a type of revolt that took place every now and then in Europe since medieval times. Also, the ancient Roman Republic was founded by aristocrats ousting the king. In 1648 in France, the event called the Fronde was a failed parliament revolt against the king (historically speaking, parliaments were reserved for the aristocratic class), and the English Civil War in the 1600s was Parliament and Oliver Cromwell vs King Charles 1st, which the Cromwell won and established a republic and commonwealth, similar to how the patricians led by George Washington established the U.S. republic in the American "Revolution". The French Revolution and also the Russian communist revolution were both led by the commoners class (in France) and peasants (in Russia).

[@NunYabiznass-hd6dj]

Either way there's always going to be a ruling class, as you can see in all those places you mentioned

[@discocrisco01]

1220. What about the Roman Catholics killing all of the dissenters who disagree with their views of the church?

[@soulknife20]

There were a lot of Inquisitions.

[@magcarta]

and bloody crusades where English kings disemboweled children for swallowed gold.

[@marcellevesque2442]

We have a flag that represents the other 6 deadly sins: greed, sloth, gluttony, envy, lust and anger...the Stars and Stripes.

[@mypillowguy445]

The only time I found Knowles credible was when he portrayed a gay man in a TV movie.

[@john.premose]

You're telling me that is an actor? I had no idea.

[@FrozEnbyWolf150]

Michael Knowles: Being gay is a choice! Me: Okay, then prove it. Go perform gay acts until you convince yourself you enjoy it. Michael Knowles: Okay, I will. (Makes that film) Me: Wow, normally that doesn't work.

[@JohnnyMuffintop]

Knowles needs to contest with the fact that he actually just wants everyone to be Amish, but he would never since he loves all the perks of what abandoning that level of "conservative" resulted in.

[@darrenelmore3425]

The Magna Carta was first introduced in 1215 and ultimately proved the end of feudalism in Europe by limiting ruling power and establishing basic human rights. This wasn't just a stupid play on 2012.

[@Nimroc]

That isn't really what it was intended as back in 1215 though, the original document wasn't about ending feudalism but rather just renegotiating the terms for it in favour of the nobility, it's part of ending feudalism in England has less to do with the original document and more to do with people later reinterpreting(and rewriting) it to suit their goals at the time. It did include some clauses about all free men being equal before the law, but a large portion of the population was serfs and not applicable for that at the time. Besides it was just a legal document for England, it had negligible impact on the rest of Europe, at least until well after the middle ages.

[@emperorpingusmathchannel5365]

Guy looked at female lobotomies in 1950 and went nah too woke

[@josephwilliams5038]

So, he wants to be a peasant? 85-90% of the population had nothing!

[@timstram]

One might say he is wrathful at pride. 🤔

[@hollyyork1164]

This is why, as a mom of an eleven year old in Floriduh, I've chosen to homeschool. When my child has questions about or repeats the bigotry, racism or misogyny he hears online or from friends, I can teach him truth, love, and tolerance.

[@elisawhitman8526]

Yes! I live in Floriduh too, and I homeschool my daughter for the same reasons. A lot of people assume that parents who homeschool their kids are trying to shelter them or prevent them from learning facts, when it’s often the exact opposite. My daughter receives a more comprehensive education at home than she ever received in public school. She learns unvarnished facts and critical thinking skills instead of the myths, fairytales, and whitewashed versions of history that so many public school teachers are forced by law to push on kids.

[@john.premose]

I'm loving this spelling. This really needs to become the official spelling henceforth.

[@recole374]

​@@john.premose it's sad really because it doesn't have to be if we voted accordingly. Please vote blue all the way down the ballot.

[@manuelmarquez2514]

The renaissance and the enlightenment are too woke for Michael Knowles

[@scotthullinger4684]

We can be damn sure that the word WOKE was not used by a Right wing person with regard to this topic ... but was used ONLY by a Left wing person who feels the need to trash the Right wing person. In brief . . . That word WOKE does not characterize the American revolution.

[@thereccher8746]

The fact that this is 2023 and the graph isn't a straight line at 100 is sad.

[@PlanetOfTheApes999]

Michael Knowless.

[@sluttyMapleSyrup]

Mickey Knowless

[@kingcyrusthegreat3887]

The same guy who defended the Divine Right of Kings 🤴

[@calamityjean1525]

He did? Ick.

[@kingcyrusthegreat3887]

@Calamity Jean Yep he defend the French model of Absolute Monarchy too which is odd so Micheal wants to be Louis XIV

[@soulknife20]

​@@kingcyrusthegreat3887Nah. We should treat Knowles like Louis XVI

[@jadedgal05]

This is only an attack on women’s spaces and sports. And it’s very misogynist for a man to tell me that I should be okay with that.

[@ganmerlad]

That Tennessee Williams quote (from A Streetcar Named Desire, 1947) isn't about LGBTQ. It's about all humans. Another way to put the quote is "the heart wants what it wants". It doesn't matter what's most logical, beneficial, or easy because feelings and desires aren't dictated by those things. And for people to be upset by a quote from a play/movie about *straight* people's messy relationships is grade A ignorance. I'm fed up with stupidity.

[@Alltime2050]

3:30 Just like religious people believe that things like atheism and science are just another form of religion, highly ideological people believe that everything people do in their lives is ideological by nature.

[@Fawkes1978]

It is almost cute to find out that puny little Michael Knowles sees himself as an operator of a Spanish Inquisition era torture machine than what would have been more probable of him being tied to one.

[@monsterhunter445]

Isn't greed another deadly sin? Seems Capatalism is incompatible with God's law

[@gilbertjacobs3705]

the hypocrisy of knowles trying to say that we're too prideful yet it's their same ego and pride to never admit that they're wrong.

[@douchopotamus3755]

damn, a royalist in this day and age

[@Irishdovetlc]

the 1220s when it was ok for a 60 year old man to marry a 13 year old girl

[@nowknowthis]

Or younger

[@giannaleng1897]

The 1220s when most humans died before the age of 30 from a host of diseases ranging from polio, the plague, the flu, dysentery or just germs I guess 😂

[@shinystarmiestudios4179]

It was 1220 when an old man the same age as me (28) could marry a 5 year old.

[@PatDavis1989]

Maybe sending these guys back in time to get used in a human wave attack isn't such a bad idea.

[@brentwalker8596]

KNowles is shooting for a pre-Enlightenment period before all of those pesky notions of rationality and science started to weaken the Church. Ah yes, the good old days.

[@cir0plus]

Just like with the BLM movement, they missed the point. It comes from A Streetcar Named Desire. Summary: "He wrote this to speak out against the harsh treatment of homosexuals during the 1950s and to emphasize that gays are still people." Though the quote can have many interpretations, for me it's that love isn't as simple as a straight line. Whatever your interpretation is, it's not attacking any sexuality.

[@marcclarence2260]

When he says productivity, he is almost certainly referring to slavery.

[@sdovas]

1220, avg max lifespan c. 35-40 years, so Knowles ought to be prepping to kick off.

[@dontcensormebro3217]

That's mostly due to infant mortality.

[@tylerhackner9731]

Michael Knowles nothing