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If your sneer seems higher quality than you thought, feel free to cutānāpaste it into its own post ā thereās no quota for posting and the bar really isnāt that high.
The post Xitter web has spawned soo many āesotericā right wing freaks, but thereās no appropriate sneer-space for them. Iām talking redscare-ish, reality challenged āculture criticsā who write about everything but understand nothing. Iām talking about reply-guys who make the same 6 tweets about the same 3 subjects. Theyāre inescapable at this point, yet I donāt see them mocked (as much as they should be)
Like, there was one dude a while back who insisted that women couldnāt be surgeons because they didnāt believe in the moon or in stars? I think each and every one of these guys is uniquely fucked up and if I canāt escape them, I would love to sneer at them.
(Semi-obligatory thanks to @dgerard for starting this.)
genuine question https://mathstodon.xyz/@sc_griffith/113680680638530340
Consider: making fun of the way they look not only hurts anyone who looks like them through no fault of their own (say, can only afford a shitty cut once every few months) but actively plays into the hands of those shitheels - they made you do a classism.
Letās ridicule them for their garbage beliefs and their shitty actions; they sure deliver plenty of those.
do you have any thoughts on why these wealthy and powerful public figures have all chosen this extraordinarily unusual aesthetic
Yeah, why do they dress expensively but shit? My suspicion is so that the kind of elites the Kravattennazis donāt like can snub them. Gives them street cred, the āelitesā donāt like them!
The British elected a guy who wears a mop on his head. You cannot convince me that is his actual hair.
I still have occasional intrusive visions of Johnson busting into an unattended supply closet in the Palace of Westminster to steal a fresh mop head, shouting, āBLOODY LABOUR NICKED ME TOUPĆE!ā
@istewart @techtakes Spoiler: itās not his natural hairstyle, heās been caught deliberately mussing it up before going on camera. Also, his friends and family call him āAlexā (short for Alexander), not āBorisā. Itās all an act.
Heās really sold the bit, hasnāt he?
Yet, if you cover up his hair, he easily scans as āgeneric English aristocrat.ā
And his actual name, Alexander de Pleffel-Johnson, also scans āgeneric English aristocrat.ā
Hence the stage personality.
Oddly parodied before it happened in the tv series community (the dad of the somewhat racist main character. The dad itself is very racist).
E: I do wonder what Javier Milei looks like if he would dye his hair
You can excuse racism?
he would continue to look like shit
People probably asked the same question about the first Habsburgs.
mild guess: āgolden boys, with the the 30+ years required to look Politically Evolvedā? and of course the selection factors involved from even just getting to that point and the stylist/image handling that that involves
thereās also an element of the system does as designed, and thereās an element of self-reinforcing delivery/production of these ghouls