r/classicdepravities
here you will find all of my deep dives into the history of the strange and bizarre part of the internet. The older the WTF, the better. Feel free to come to this post and leave suggestions for topics you would like covered, or critiques and how I can improve.
Since I'm new to making a sub, it's just set up for me to crosspost my entries. Maybe when I get more comfortable with it, I'll open it up for everyone to post, but for right now this is just an archive. again, if you have suggestions I'd LOVE to hear them!
Fair Warning: we go dark in here. nothing illegal, but I don't filter the world's cruelty. I just report it.
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God I'm sorry guys. Between failing the "Don't attend a funeral 2025" challenge, my dad needing surgery, traveling for work and endless drama, I was planning to be a lot more regular on here. 2025 HAS to be the year I get my shit together.
Join us on Valentine's day for a good ol' Chicagoland depravity: the Valentine's day Massacre.
Alright everyone. Let's talk about it.
It's been over three months since I've shown my face. Has life gotten better? OH HELL NO, are you kidding me? Things have never been darker or looked more depressing and hopeless. Buuuuuut with my reserve of fucks officially depleted, and with the world darker than it's ever been, I've more inspiration to scream and bitch about how fucked the world is than ever before.
And what better place to start than with how officially and utterly over the United States of Hatred are. Welcome to the new normal. Leave your rights at the door and submit to our new overlord.
Fuck everything.
PROJECT 2025
(warning: gross) Project 2025:
https://static.project2025.org/2025_MandateForLeadership_FULL.pdf
ACLU "Project 2025 explained":
https://www.aclu.org/project-2025-explained
BBC "Project 2025: The right-wing wish list for another Trump presidency":
https://www.bbc.com/news/articles/c977njnvq2do
Democracy Forward "The People's Guide to Project 2025":
https://democracyforward.org/wp-content/uploads/2024/06/2024-05_Peoples-Guide-Pro-2025.pdf
PBS "What Trump has said he'll do on day 1":
https://www.pbs.org/newshour/politics/what-trump-has-said-he-will-do-on-day-1
American Progress "Project 2025 Would Destroy the U.S. System of Checks and Balances and Create an Imperial Presidency":
MSI Reproductive Choices "Project 2025's impact on abortion and women's rights":
https://www.msichoices.org/latest/what-is-project-2025/
The Leadership Conference on civil and human rights "Project 2025: Learn more about what's at stake":
https://civilrights.org/project2025-guides/
CONTEXT:
“It was a terrible night for women, for children, for the hundreds of thousands of hard working immigrants who make this country go, for health care, for our climate, for science, for journalism, for justice, for free speech. It was a terrible night for poor people, for the middle class, for seniors who rely on Social Security, for our allies in Ukraine, for NATO and democracy and decency. And it was a terrible night for everyone who voted against him. And guess what? It was a bad night for everyone who voted for him too. You just don’t realize it yet.”
-Jimmy Kimmel
November 5th, 2016.
I'm in my 3D animation class. My Pixar class, to be exact. A class I had to audition to even get into, and one I was very proud of. We're deep into the semester at this point, and we're presenting our projects for "dailies", or weekly animation checkups to get feedback from the teachers. It's vitally important for improving your craft.
My mind's not on it. The election's that night.
For months up to that point, I had been stressing out over the impending doom that was a Trump presidency. I could feel, deep down in my gut even then, that a win for him would spell doom for America and the rise of hate that I wasn't sure I could survive. I had begrudgingly done my civic duty earlier in the day, choking on bile as I cast a vote for Hillary Clinton in the hopes that well, MAYBE she wouldn't be as bad. At the very least, she wasn't HIM, and wasn't proudly spewing horrid shit from all orifices. All Mexicans are rapists, remember that? I do. How my VERY MEXICAN FAMILY could look at that and not blink is beyond me.
But now it was 8pm. Polls across the country were closing. There in California, we still had till 9pm before we would start getting results, but our eyes were glued to the vote count as the class wore on. And as I sat there, watching it turn redder and redder, I felt that wave of dread again. No. It can't be. No no no you can't be serious. It kept going, and going, and around me I could hear my classmates begin to worriedly talk to each other. The teachers were getting nervous. By 10pm, when class got out, it was over. Trump had won. I remember sitting there at my desk, head in my hands, unsure of what to even do. There, for the first time in my life, I thought of leaving the country. As I slowly walked the three blocks from the campus to my dorm room, I stopped at a liquor store and bought a cheap bottle of vodka and some orange juice. I poured a couple of glasses for me and my roommates and, very melodramatically, proposed a toast to the end of democracy.
..........
Yeah this is worse. This is a helluva lot worse.
To call this week and a half "exhausting" would be an understatement the likes of which we've never seen. Between the Proud Boys, the Nazis, AND the KKK all having open and proud rallies in celebration, the rise of the "Your body, my choice" bullshit from incel fuckheads like Nick Fuentes, to entire families being ripped apart by politics, it's been a nightmare. Don't even get me started on the people Trump has picked for his cabinet. You won't find that many sexual predators outside of Epstein's island, and let's be real. If Epstein were alive, he'd be made Press Secretary. They've announced that they want to do away with the Department of Education, Trump announced that he'll use a national emergency announcement to force mass deportations, businesses are already laying people off in fear of the tariffs, it's a bloody mess of our own making. The amount of people searching for "can i change my vote" is some of the most darkly hilarious shit I've ever seen. There is talk of a recount, of foul play being used, and sure MAYBE, but let's all get real with ourselves here. There is no one coming to save us. There is no way out of this. GET USED TO IT.
Maybe I'm more bitter than most because I saw all of this coming. I knew what this would mean years in advance, and I haven't exactly been subtle or quiet about it. I have, in fact, been an annoying whiny Trump-hating BITCH, but do you see? Do you see WHY I stayed on this for so long? Because every single FUCKING thing, every cruel and disgusting whim in their dark hearts, I knew they would do the second they got back into power. How did I know?
Project 2025.
"For many decades, there have been efforts to advance radical proposals to weaken America’s middle class, stripping them of fundamental freedoms and subverting the rule of law, most notably by capturing the U.S. Supreme Court. But the Project 2025 blueprint makes those prior efforts look quaint. Project 2025 unabashedly promotes the wholesale violation of norms and laws, consolidating enormous power in a president and trampling on Congress’ constitutional role—to take away Americans’ long-cherished freedoms and opportunities."
-American Progress
Yeah here's the thing. The guardrails are off this time.
So! How the FUCK did we get to this point? Your guess is as good as mine. I'm not a political scientist, I'm one random asshole on the internet with a degree in ART, of all things. People more qualified than me are braying from the rooftops about how they think THIS is why Kamala lost, or THIS is what lost the Dems the election. Frankly, I can see it boiling down to three reasons. One, she is a woman. America is nothing but deeply, DEEPLY misogynist. Even if she had run a perfect campaign (she didn't), this would've tripped her up. Do I want a woman to be president? Desperately. Clearly, men haven't been doing that hot. But until we can stop treating our women like second class citizens in a Margaret Atwood novel, then we're gonna have issues here. Two, she is a woman of Color, and America is nothing if not REAL damn racist. They ran their campaign into the ground harping on her blackness or lack of blackness, mocking her food and her clothes and her slang up and down the board. Running on a platform of Racism is par for the course nowadays.
But I think the most likely reason of all might have been that her heart was three sizes too small.
I think it was less that more people were supporting him than last time, and more to do with the fact that this was an impossible choice for a lot of people, myself included. Not sure you've noticed, but there's been this thing called the Palestinian Genocide for the past year? Something that most of the liberal voting base is against, wants desperately to stop, and have been rallying and protesting against, all of it to fall on deaf ears. We have a Democrat in office right now as we fucking speak, and HE'S been the one bankrolling most of the destruction. It's been a point that really hurt Kamala Harris's chances, running a dangerously centrist campaign that actively stepped on and squashed the voices BEGGING the Democratic party to give more of a shit. "I'm Talking Now", anyone? Yeah that REALLY won over the Muslim vote. How do I vote for someone who supports the wholesale slaughter of men, women and children? And all the threats of "TRUMP WILL BE WORSE" fell on deaf ears because it's happening NOW. It proved that this would be just more of the same, and that "lesser of the two evils" philosophy sort of broke down.
Buuuuuut it doesn't really matter at this point. My ability to give a shit died on the 5th. Now, all we have to do is prepare.
The first rumblings of Project 2025 began in 2023, or at least that is when I first started to hear about it. Already, it was obvious who would be the next Republican nominee. Trump had been crying to anyone who listened about how the election had been stolen from him, spending millions of dollars on lawyers to try and get the results overturned and even starting a whole insurrection in his name. Clearly, the right-leaning party was all in for their new golden child. Anyone else who tried to run against him just got swallowed and would eventually bend a knee and kiss the ass of the king. But it wasn't until a conservative think tank called the Heritage Foundation came in that alarm bells started going off. Founded in 1973 out of people being SOMEHOW unhappy with how.....liberal??? Nixon was, it first began pulling together rightwight conservative Christians to try and influence Reagan, who I guess attempted to implement 2/3rds of the policy they put forward. They've been writing conservative plans for incoming Republican presidents ever since, with Trump ALSO attempting to shove through 2/3rds of their 2015 plan of action. Project 2025 was to be their most aggressive and ambitious plan ever, though, and it shines through in the level of gleeful cruelty it embodies.
But I'm getting ahead of myself.
The entire time of the campaign, people tried to sound the alarm about this thing. It's so fucking demoralizing to see how little it mattered, but I know I sure tried. I tried so hard to get people to understand how dangerous this document really was. But with Trump hurriedly trying to deny his involvement and distance himself from it and the media doing an absolute piss poor job actually covering what really MATTERED, it didn't reach enough people. Only now, after the fact, when they've ripped the masks off and admitted that Project 2025 was the plan all along, are people starting to sit up and take notice. Just yesterday, in fact, Trump announced that one of the architects of the damn thing was to be Trump's nominee for the Federal Communication Commission. I ALMOST feel bad for the people in marginalized groups who voted for their own downfall here. Almost. Empathy died on the 5th.
But hold on, I hear you say. You're talking a big game here Jonah. How bad could this actually be? I have been known to exaggerate and make things into a bigger deal than they actually are from time to time. Why am I so sure that this is how democracy dies?
Let's dive into what it ACTUALLY says.
"Today, America and the conservative movement are enduring an era of division and danger akin to the late 1970s. Now, as then, our political class has been discredited by wholesale dishonesty and corruption. Look at America under the ruling and cultural elite today: Inflation is ravaging family budgets, drug overdose deaths continue to escalate, and children suffer the toxic normalization of transgenderism with drag queens and pornography invading their school libraries. Overseas, a totalitarian Communist dictatorship in Beijing is engaged in a strategic, cultural, and economic Cold War against America’s interests, values, and people—all while globalist elites in Washington awaken only slowly to that growing threat. Moreover, low-income communities are drowning in addiction and government dependence. Contemporary elites have even repurposed the worst ingredients of 1970s “radical chic” to build the totalitarian cult known today as “The Great Awokening.” And now, as then, the Republican Party seems to have little understanding about what to do. Most alarming of all, the very moral foundations of our society are in peril."
-Project 2025
Oh we'll get to that. We will get there. I'm saving that point for last, but I gotta point out that I LOVE that us transgender people are such an existential threat to the fabric of America that we're in the goddamn Prologue of this shit.
I think the best place to begin would be with the biggest and most terrifying point: Project 2025 kills off checks and balances and gives the President the power of a King. That isn't hyperbole this time. It relies on something called the "unitary executive theory", which basically says that Congress cannot interfere with the President's executive powers. Which, to put it bluntly, is aiming to cripple Congress's power to reign in the president from doing dumb shit. If you were around in the first Trump term, you will remember that a lot of his more wild ideas were able to be shot down in Congress and we were buffered very slightly from things being worse. That isn't the case anymore, especially not now that they have control of the Congress AND the Supreme Court. Who, by the way, voted late last year to give the President as much presidential impunity as he wants. So, we're crispy fried fucked on this front. Anything and everything Trump wants to do? Project 2025 sees to it that he can.
And once an autocracy is established, Project 2025 goes on to outline exactly what he can DO with this power. Activists and protestors who speak out against Israel are explicitly stated to be up for deportation and persecution. Political opponents of Trump, especially media who's spoken out against him, could be imprisoned. The media itself is going to be gutted and twisted to be more "Conservative friendly". The use of the death penalty is stated to go up, and hey who's stopping them from putting "degenerate filth" to death now? There is something called "Schedule F" federal employees, something Trump tried to do in the first presidency, that was basically people who worked explicitly for the president (read: TRUMP) and serve his agenda and NOT the American people's. Project 2025 would expand upon that and make a LOT of unsuspecting federal employees suddenly this made up Schedule F, and if they don't bow to Trump then they can be dismissed at any time without consequence. It's a recipe for an army of sycophants.
It also expands the power and presence of the police, cracking down on "crime" which here means minorities. Wish I were joking, but wishes ALSO died on the 5th.
"Project 2025 attacks diversity, equity, inclusion, and accessibility (DEIA) and “critical race theory,” and it would twist civil rights laws to use the DOJ and the Equal Employment Opportunity Commission as enforcement arms against them. It would use the executive branch to undermine protections for LGBTQ+ employees and to stop civil rights data collection. It would even prosecute private employers that support DEIA in their workplaces.
Several of the organizations behind Project 2025 have been recognized as hate groups by the Southern Poverty Law Center. The head of the Heritage Foundation, the primary author of Project 2025, recently proclaimed that “we are in the process of the second American Revolution, which will remain bloodless — if the left allows it to be.”
-The Leadership Conference on Civil and Human Rights
That brings us to the gutting of education and civil liberties.
They're gutting the Department of Education. I wish I was joking. Like..... just objectively, this is an idiotic idea. Stripping it of its ability to protect our children's education, taking away protections for marginalized students, stripping funding from public schools in favor of private vouchers, cracking down on "deplorable" DEI rhetoric..... it's a free for all. It will especially impact children with disabilities, something that certain people who work with disabled people care very deeply about.
Me. It's me. I care about this. Can't believe there are people who don't.
Fun fucking fact, people like my brother couldn't get anything resembling an education until the formation of the Dept. of Education in 1979. It's only because they were deemed worthy of being looked after that things like special education and the gifted programs came into being. Even then, it was a STRUGGLE to get my brother educated as a nonverbal and pretty behavioral Autistic kid in the 90s, and it's only been in the last couple decades that things have even started to improve. Well all of THAT is gone.
This will target and impact children of color, especially black children who will see them warp our country's history to erase the damage we've done to them. Prager University has already been pushing their white supremacist version of American history in schools, well now there's nothing stopping them from doing that all over. LGBTQIA students might as well not even attend, as all protections and safe guards for them are getting stripped.
Not to mention the stripping of Women's rights, especially abortion. With the death of Roe vs Wade in 2022, we've already seen an increase in maternal death rates as hospitals turn people away instead of risking being sued for treating them. Yeah well guess what's gonna get a whole hell of a lot worse now? THIS. Abortion as we know it will be universally banned, no more maternal leave for new mothers, birth control will be effectively banished, even going so far as to track women's periods to know when they're fertile. Don't FUCING BELIEVE ME? this was already a goddamn thing they tried in Texas.
Mass deportations of immigrants is one of their biggest and most cherished tenants, too. "America is for Americans", as they're so fucking proud to chant, crowing to thousands of jeering fans that Puerto Rico is a trash pile. The sheer amount of racist drivel I've heard and seen in the last year is something that will haunt me. This is extremely personal to me, as I have mentioned several times in the past that I have a grandmother who immigrated from Mexico. It won't matter that she's been a legal citizen for decades. It doesn't matter in the fucking slightest that she's paid her taxes, has been patriotic, loves this country, and even probably voted for Trump. It won't matter because she isn't "from here", so out she goes and out goes everyone we deem not "good enough" to be here. National emergency, all the Latinos get out of the pool. God FUCKING dammit, I am so tired of this shit.
"Project 2025 calls for allowing Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) to use “expedited removal” — a process normally only used near the border, and one that raises significant concerns about due process — against immigrants found anywhere within the country. It would enable raids in sensitive zones like schools, hospitals, and religious institutions.....Project 2025 calls for more than doubling the number of immigrants, up to 100,000 on any day, who can be locked up while facing deportation. It calls for more immigrants to be subject to mandatory deportation, regardless of whether they are a flight or public safety risk. Deportation is a process that can take months or even years."
-The Leadership Conference on Civil and Human Rights
Voter's rights? Gone. Immigrant rights? Gone. Anti-discrimination laws? Buh-bye. All of it's in this thing.
I could go on forever. This thing is over 900 pages long, after all. Maybe that's why nobody really bothered, it was too long and too wordy for people to give a shit. The staggering apathy of it all is enough to kill the spirit. But here at the end, if you'll allow me, I'd like to get REAL personal.
See, one of Project 2025's biggest targets are LGBTQIA rights.......especially trans rights. I am transgender. Can you see the problem here?
Project 2025 calls for, and i quote, the end of "sexual orientation and gender identity ('SOGI'), diversity, equity, and inclusion ('DEI'), gender, gender equality, gender equity, gender awareness, gender-sensitive, abortion, reproductive health, reproductive rights ... out of every federal rule, agency regulation, contract, grant, regulation, and piece of legislation that exists." Every SINGLE one. They want to, day one of Trump's presidency, put an end to the "transgender insanity" and look into if hormone treatments make us more violent, as well as effectively write us out of the legal definition of the law by declaring that "only birth sex is legally valid". Again, direct quote. They ran a $215 MILLION dollar campaign on anti-trans shit alone, and it WON. So the 500+ anti-trans bills introduced over the course of 2023 is gonna look like a fucking cakewalk. There are no more guardrails protecting people like me from the more archaic laws they tried to pull, like for example here in Iowa where they tried to have us get a marker on our driver's licences showing we're trans. Gee, a symbol marking us as "Other" in the eyes of the law? where the FUCK have I heard that before? Every single horrible thing they've wanted to do to my community, they now have the carte blanche power to do.
I am sorry to be so frank and angry about this, except I'm not. I'm not sorry at all. I'm FURIOUS. I have screamed at the top of my lungs for ANYONE to give a shit about this for over eight YEARS, and I'm tired. I am so fucking tired now, chat. My own mother voted for this monster, despite me begging and pleading for her to just CONSIDER what this would mean for her children and her grandchildren. My sister almost died from an ectopic pregnancy in 2021, and if that had happened nowadays? She would be gone, and her children wouldn't have a mother. If my niece gets assaulted and gets pregnant, she is forced to keep it. My brother could lose funding because he isn't "contributing to society", like these ghouls even deserve to fucking know him. I have so many people over the years that have impacted my life for the better who ALL might be facing deportation now because their parents just happened to be from another country. I could lose my grandma. That thought alone is enough to keep me up at night.
And then there's me, and what the hell am I supposed to do? My life in this country is effectively OVER. I am not welcome here. They've made that more than abundantly clear. What do I do? do I move? Get out while I still can? Do I stay and fight like I did last time? I'm not sure. Honestly, I'm in the middle of getting my papers in order, and I would highly recommend you do that if you're transgender and American. If I move, then I move. If not..... the fight ahead is going to be hard.
But I don't like to leave my posts on bad notes. Especially not when I've missed you all so much. So here is what I'll do. Here is the advice I'll give to my American degenerates who might be panicking right now: Breathe. First and foremost, breathe. Can't do anything when your world's on fire. Second, get as much of your affairs in order. Whatever paperwork you need to get done to avoid being harassed or stopped or questioned, do it. Stock up on whatever medication you need, be it birth control or antidepressants. Got a feeling those will become very expensive and hard to get. Find yourself a community, however you can, and build it. We're stronger together, and that community will be more important than ever now.
And this fight was never going to end in my lifetime. All we can do is try to make it better for the kids who come next. That's who I'm doing it for.
" We feel your anxiety, hold your grief, will care for your pain in times of great sorrow and champion you in moments of triumph. Politics is personal but you are a person first. Your feelings matter and are valid. Your humanity is precious. You will never be reduced to a ballot measure. You deserve a safe space to feel everything. We will always create that for you.
We are here no matter the outcome of any election. And we’re not going away."
-The Trevor Project
Welp it's official. You can create one of the worst z00sadism videos ever, and walk away with less jail time than if you get caught with drugs. Fucking hell.
According to people who were there yesterday, Adam Britton read out an apology, taking responsibility for what he had done and emphasizing that he acted alone. The judge read out a summary of his crimes, which was too much for some of the court to even handle, and audible gasps of disgust happened whenever he was referred to by name. I'm not overly shocked that the sentence was what it turned out to be, but I'm PISSED nonetheless.
as soon as I know more, I will be making a post about it. I know that this is the one a lot of people have been interested in, and wanting to see justice happen for a long time. Keep the faith guys, I'm hoping for a stiff sentence.