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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.
(Credit and/or blame to David Gerard for starting this.)
Bari Weiss, IDW star, founder of The Free Press and author of āHow to Fight Anti-Semitismā publishes and then approvingly tweets excerpts from not-very-convincingly-ex white supremacist Richard Hanania explaining that
Quite uncharacteristically, she deleted her tweet in shame, but not before our friend TracingWoodgrains signal boosted it, adding āExcellent, timely article from Hanania.ā His favorite excerpt, unsurprisingly, is Hanania patiently explaining that open Nazism is not āa winning political strategy.ā Better to insinuate your racism with sophistication!
Shortly after, realizing he needed to even out his light criticism of his fascist comrades, Woodgrains posted about āvile populism to right of me, vile populism to left of meā, with the latter being the Luigi fandom (no citation that this is leftist, and contrary to the writings of Luigi). To his mind the latter is worse ābecause there is a vanishingly short path between it and more political murders in the short-term futureā, whereas open Nazism at the highest levels of the American conservative movement doesnāt hurt anyone [important].
Read here a worthwhile deconstruction of Hananiaās bullshit by John Ganz: https://www.unpopularfront.news/p/enough
āKeep wearingā, so is he saying that Musk et al ākeep doingā āstiff-armed salutesā (that anyone with eyes can see are Nazi salutes) in public?
I know one shouldnāt expect logic from a Nazi, but claiming that the fog horn is actually a dog whistle is really ridiculous. āYou heard nothing!ā
[enraged goose meme] āOppositional to what, motherfucker? Oppositional to what?!ā
How is Hanania the āexā Nazi a credible source on this at all? For fucks sake!
It helps sanewash their own prejudices. āSee, this guy could be talked down from the worst of it, arenāt we reasonable by comparison?ā
The Luigi thing is already souring on me a bit as a saw a yter use his actions to threaten gaming companies. (And it wasnt even some super predatory gaming company it was really a āwtf dudeā moment. Dont get me wrong im not mourning the CEO, and the McDonaldās guy was wrong, but jesus fuck Gamers ruin everything.
E: And it wasnāt even about Fortnite, or Roblox like those predatory goes after kids things, nope just some dumb live service game with a cosmetics store badly bolted on in a corner. Sure horse armor sucks, but damn touch some grass and note the difference between lifetimes in debt or die and paying for overprices skins.
gamergaters and their descendants are novel (to me). for them the games themselves are just vehicles for what they really care about, which is despising game developers and journalists. theyāre far right, but much more specifically than that theyāre an anti labor movement targeting the labor that makes and writes about one type of product. their primary goal is to make that labor feel frightened, unstable, etc
if youāve ever seen chuds cheering mass firings (say by elon at twitter or the white house), itās the same spirit, except elevated to the top priority
EDIT: which now that I think about it makes it pretty perverse to invoke Luigi - the whole thing that makes the UHC assassination persistently popular is that the target was a person of enormous power and not labor
Itās likeā¦theyāre trying to do a Peronism by hijacking working class ideas for their weird right wing bullshit, but theyāre lazy computer touchers so they just seem unhinged to outsiders.