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[–] Kolanaki@pawb.social 16 points 1 day ago* (last edited 1 day ago) (2 children)

Deus vult?

More like deus sex machina.

[–] Brickhead92@lemmy.world 9 points 1 day ago (1 children)

Niice!

But my Latin is somewhat lacking so I had to look up vult. Vult = Wants.

WTF is wrong with these people. Does he think he himself is a god? or that his god is ok with or even demands we undo 10's, 100's, even thousands of years of progress as a society to end up back in the dark ages?

These are rhetorical, it's just dumbfounding sometimes, and increasingly often.

[–] InvertedParallax@lemm.ee 5 points 23 hours ago (1 children)

It's from a video game, crusader kings.

And it translates to God Wills It.

[–] CMonster@discuss.online 11 points 23 hours ago (1 children)

It's the battle cry from the First Crusade.

[–] InvertedParallax@lemm.ee 2 points 23 hours ago (2 children)

... yeah, I don't think that's where the incels are picking it up.

[–] CMonster@discuss.online 6 points 23 hours ago (1 children)

The dude who wrote the tweet definitely knows where it is really from. That entire rabbit hole is full of white supremacy whistles and tropes.

[–] InvertedParallax@lemm.ee 2 points 22 hours ago

Doubtful, they only get their memes second-hand from discord chats.

[–] GoodLuckToFriends@lemmy.today 5 points 23 hours ago

No, their arrival was with the icky train that has a turntable for the christian-aryan brotherhood-kkk-shithead railways.

[–] Geobloke@lemm.ee 3 points 23 hours ago (1 children)

I'd pay to see that band, but what genre would they be in into? Some sort of gritty industrial ?

[–] sugar_in_your_tea@sh.itjust.works 3 points 22 hours ago (1 children)

Ska. With funky Hawaiian shirts.

[–] Kolanaki@pawb.social 3 points 22 hours ago

Jimmy Buffett, but with distortion effects.