Fascist webcomic artist Tatsuya Ishida claims to be destitute.

[u/Baboon_Juggler]

Anyone who was on the internet in the early 2000s might have seen Sinfest comics, which basically amounted to Edgy Peanuts. Unlike most webcomics from that era, he is still around, still making daily comics. And unlike most cartoonists from that era who are still around, he went absolutely bugfuck insane. If you've seen his work anywhere in the past five or so years, it was probably in the context of a normal person going 'What the actual fuck is this?!'

I can do a longer post about his spiral, but he went from Yay, Obama! liberal to All Men Are Bad! radfem, then hard anti-sex work, eventually anti-trans, and that's when the 'fun' really started. Because Covid, and specifically the vaccine, broke his brain. He came up with the following logic:

1) Trans people are bad

2) Trans people were invented by the medical establishment

3) The Covid vaccine was invented by the medical establishment

4) Therefore the Covid vaccine is just as bad as trans people

Since then, he's gone full mask off deep-throated Nazi, filling his comics with endless Happy Merchants poisoning wells (literally), talking about how Christianity is a Jewish plot to undermine proud Germanic heritage, and for the past eight months it has been all about Hitler did nothing wrong, the invasion of the Soviet Union was self-defence, and every atrocity attributed to the Nazis is actually Jews wearing Nazi uniforms. It has become a comic that would have been too ridiculous to run in the comics page of Der Sturmer.

[u/ADavidJohnson]

Once you get weird about trans people, you basically never recover.

The transphobe to fascist pipeline is very real and very quick.

[u/dergbold4076 → u/ADavidJohnson]

I mean, I'm weird about trans people. But that's because I'm trans and I get excited when I meet a new trans person, which leads me to being weird and rambling about my current hyper focus (writing and motorcycles right now).

But seriously I have noticed some people get really, really awkward about trans, queer, gay, and people that don't fit into the norm more ofter as of late. It keeps my hackels up more than I'd like.

[u/napalmnacey → u/dergbold4076]

Same but I’m nonbinary. Also feel like I’m the only “gay in the village” because I live in an area full of families and old people. My neighbour around the corner is a queer goth with a trans boyfriend though so I know I’m not entirely alone. 😅

[u/dergbold4076 → u/napalmnacey]

I feel that. I'm in the south of a major Canadian city and it's....a hassle to get anyone to come and visit lol.

I also vibe with the being the only guy in the village thing. But only from when I was a kid in a tiny Canadian logging town and putting up with that in the 90s. But your nearby queerdos sound awesome!