By David Futrelle
Twitter is abuzz today with talk of “globohomo psyops” after discovering a tweet from our old friend Roosh V, the rapey pickup-artist-turned-crackpot-moralist, claiming that the first-ever black hole photo that took over the internet yesterday was some sort of “globohomo” hoax designed to make women look good.
No, really.
Roosh deleted this tweet, though he explained his, er, logic here in another tweet that’s still up.
But a screenshot of the “globohomo psyop” tweet has made it’s way around the internet, and quite a few have become instantly enamored of the phrase.
This is hardly the first time Roosh has inveighed against the alleged evils of globohomoism.
Sometimes he mixes and matches his conspiracy theories. Here he claims the Christchurch mosque shootings were an Israeli false flag designed to benefit the Jews and the globohomos at once.
In fact, Roosh has been going on about globohomoism for years now; I’ve even written about his globohomo fiaxtion a couple of times.
But the idea that evil globohomo forces rule the world is older than that. I’m not sure who originated this unique portmanteau word — a mashup of anti-Semitism and homophobia that supposedly stands for “global homogenization” — but I first ran across it on Chateau Heartiste, a blog written by an exceedingly racist pickup artist who’s been a friend of Roosh’s for something like a decade now — and who’s utterly obsessed with all things globohomo.
Now the term has been picked up not only by Roosh but by a wide assortment of alt-rightists and other shitposters.
So without further ado, here are are a bunch of other things that weirdo right-wing shitposters blame on the globohomos.
Killer fungus:
Wars to spread sodomy:
Fat women:
The Immigration and Nationality Act of 1965:
High interest rates:
Poor character design in the videogame Borderlands 3:
The North Atlantic Treaty Organization:
The thwarting of this woman’s dream of living amongst goats:
Masturbation:
Gay marriage, trans bathrooms and boycotting the NRA?
Socialism, yet also libertarianism:
Vegetables as food:
Soy lattes, and somehow also PayPal?
I guess this guy thinks that “lattes” rhymes with “states?”
Pot-smoking hippies:
“Homo harassment” and other gay stuff:
Garfield (the cat, not the president):
I have no idea what is even going on here:
I hope this all clears things up for you.
We Hunted the Mammoth is independent and ad-free, and relies entirely on readers like you for its survival. If you appreciate our work, please send a few bucks our way! Thanks!
Dibs on “globohemian”
@ S.P.
Not just you.
@ Amtep,
Globohemian Rhapsody!
(Is it just me, or does that conjure up an image of Freddy Mercury with those Halloween glowstick things?)
I don’t know, I kind of read it as ‘globohomo psychopomp’, which extends the trochaic meter out another half-foot.
And makes an even better sounding band name. Such a fabulous guide to the land of the dead…
I’m fairly sure “globohomo” is a Chateau Heartiste original – or at least, that he independently created and popularized it. Roissy does love his weird neologisms.
I see that Roosh V has discovered that black holes look more or less the same… I guess…
Honestly, all this stuff about the black hole has worsened my emotional state. Astronomical events usually do. Nobody in my family seems to care about this stuff at all. And they pretty much ruined any realistic chance I had of continuing my education.
I’ve been in contact with a career educator from my old school, and just yesterday we were talking about setting specific and realistic goals about job titles. There was a list of broad job fields that I’d generated by answering questions on the website Career Cruising, and a lot of them were academic jobs that required further education, so in the short term they weren’t realistic goals. They included stuff like mathematician, physicist, chemist, and astronomer. It made sense but it still kind of ate at me, especially later when I saw the internet talking about the black hole picture.
I also graduated from high school in 2007. It was peculiar at worst when people around my age were becoming music stars, dance stars, esports champions… but now they’re in Congress, they’re in Parliament, they’re contributing to science, they’re leading organizations. I’m aware that part of that anxiety may be coming from the stupid and vain idea from my upbringing that I was “gifted,” but it still doesn’t change the fact that I hate the situation I’m in and I wish that things were different.
Socal Mike, the guy with the cross and the American flag after his name, has apparently forgotten the following biblical admonition:
[K]now ye not that your body is the temple of the Holy Ghost which is in you, which ye have of God, and ye are not your own? (1 Corinthians 6:19)
FWIW “Immanitize the Eschaton” means basically “ release the Ending spirit or some Demon thing” . Its from the Illuminatius trilogy. From the book, it’s a demon that supposed to be captured in the center of the Pentagon. The bad guys are trying to release it to end Goddess worship and female-centered pagan spirituality. The Eschaton is a symbol of unrestrained patriarchy, so I guess that is why it was added to the tweet, even though the tweet poster apparently missed the whole point of the book, I guess.
What is a Black swan event????
OT but still relevant
kupo: of *course* Bouman has been attacked. Merely giving credit to all her collaborators isn’t enough, she also was supposed to … well, basically, not exist.
Luckily the globohomo collective is on it:
https://twitter.com/thisgreyspirit/status/1116518544961830918
@Jojo
Nah, Illuminatus! was taking the piss out of the idea. It means “bringing about the end of history, in a manner akin to the Kingdom of Heaven as described in early 20th century millenarianism”, or, in a political context, to establish some unchanging pseudoutopian global order, along the lines of IngSoc”. Railing against it was a shibboleth of Buckley conservatives in the 60s, and I guess some dipshit figures everything old is new again. I suppose it’s a natural next step from yelling about Saul Alinsky.
That last word salad almost made me nostalgic for Time Cube.
OT: An interview with Professor Jordan Peterson
You can only donate blood (to be transfused into others) if your homoglobin levels are deemed sufficiently high. Coincidence? I think not.
@dalillama thank you for going into more context about this. I was only really aware from the book, so l certainly missed some info.I really do learn a lot from this site!!
@watwatwat
A black swan event is something unusual and unexpected that shakes up our ideas about what’s possible. Like people who go their whole lives thinking all swans are white and then they see a black one.
In context, he probably means “miracles”.
Multiculturalism is a tool for global homogeneization.
Makes perfect sense in Bizarro Land.
Nah, it’s more like globohomo technocapital Family Circus. Your sense of outraged manhood is Little Jeffy’s dotted line as he wanders home from school.
Globohomo sounds, at least to me, like a really elaborate lava lamp. Like some you get to start decorating a lounge.
Or it’s an abbreviation for Global Hemoglobin, which if put into a Wikipedia search, gets you pages about anemia.
Either way, neologisms without context or use as informal slang among teenagers are bound to fail.
Globohomo technocapital is my favourite Stereolab song.
Reading globohomo this many times just makes me think that the Hemo-Goblin will descend on the world any minute now.
https://dc.fandom.com/wiki/Hemo-Goblin_(New_Earth)
@ Buttercup Q. Skullpants:
In this secenario, is Globohomo the equivalent of “Notme,” the phantom responsible for all muddy footprints and broken knickknacks?
“You got your homophobia in my Islamophobia!”
“You got your Islamophobia in my homophobia!”
This is why I always found that stupid “Islam throws gays off buildings” talking point so obnoxious because the people who say it are always reactionaries that oppose any kind of LGBT representation at best and are eager to hurt gay people at worst. Roosh straight up called them “sodomites,” so he’s basically saying “Sure, we might dehumanize you and marginalize you to second-class citizens, bully you, harass you, assign exterior motives to you that stray into paranoia, even murder you when nobody’s looking… but those guys over there do it in the name of the scary brown god!”
It’s pretty clear to me that they’re upset that they don’t get to be as oppressive as Islamic theocracies.
RE: The Katie Bouman Black Hole Picture
Does any one else remember when the Curiosity Rover landed on Mars and Bobak Ferdowsi aka NASA Mohawk guy became a big internet celebrity/meme? Did he get any of the same sort of shit Dr. Bouman is getting?
@Katamount
Never expect any sort of ideological consistency from the right. The only consistency in their beliefs is that they always support whatever benefits them the most at that particular moment in time. You see the same thing with the “free speech” types that lose their minds when they get banned from Twitter but see no problem with government-enforced dissolution of gender studies and other academic departments they don’t like.