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The post Xitter web has spawned soo many “esoteric” right wing freaks, but there’s no appropriate sneer-space for them. I’m talking redscare-ish, reality challenged “culture critics” who write about everything but understand nothing. I’m talking about reply-guys who make the same 6 tweets about the same 3 subjects. They’re inescapable at this point, yet I don’t see them mocked (as much as they should be)
Like, there was one dude a while back who insisted that women couldn’t be surgeons because they didn’t believe in the moon or in stars? I think each and every one of these guys is uniquely fucked up and if I can’t escape them, I would love to sneer at them.
(Semi-obligatory thanks to @dgerard for starting this)
Fascists were always cringe. Himmler was a weird occultist. Goering was a drug addict still high on his glorious from World War I. Hitler was a profoundly lazy man with terrible taste in art. There were normal fascists (there had to be), but the leadership was always cringe. Unfortunately, being cringe doesn’t stop a movement from killing vast numbers of people.
@ahopefullycuterrobot @sc_griffith This is one of the reasons why I like Jojo Rabbit. Especially the scene where the Gestapo pays a visit to the main character’s home. They all know it’s ridiculous, and they find the main character’s devotion absolutely hilarious. Especially when they know what they did immediately prior to the visit.
Yes! I have my issues with Jojo Rabbit, but it does a good job of portraying Nazism as a laughable ideology. It’s good praxis, because Nazis like to portray themselves as being cool (fast cars, uniforms, the brotherhood of the trenches), but in reality, it was a mix of cringe, parvenu social climbing, and disgusting.
This Adolf guy kinda had me when he was just a dude traumatized by war who liked buildings and was kinda shit at drawing them, but his political takes were full on yikes and he quickly lost me when it came to the arts as well.