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He looks like younger, bow-tie era Tucker Carlson. Twat.
i knew this fucking reminded me of something.
Dude looks like Edward Sallow’s cum dumpster.
There’s an actual explanation in the original article about some of the wardrobe choices. It’s even dumber, and it involves effective altruism.
It is a very cold home. It’s early March, and within 20 minutes of being here the tips of some of my fingers have turned white. This, they explain, is part of living their values: as effective altruists, they give everything they can spare to charity (their charities). “Any pointless indulgence, like heating the house in the winter, we try to avoid if we can find other solutions,” says Malcolm. This explains Simone’s clothing: her normal winterwear is cheap, high-quality snowsuits she buys online from Russia, but she can’t fit into them now, so she’s currently dressing in the clothes pregnant women wore in a time before central heating: a drawstring-necked chemise on top of warm underlayers, a thick black apron, and a modified corset she found on Etsy. She assures me she is not a tradwife. “I’m not dressing trad now because we’re into trad, because before I was dressing like a Russian Bond villain. We do what’s practical.”
that gives a whole new facet to the meaning of “cold upbringing”.
Warm clothes instead of heating is great, but they manage to subvert it in a very EA way. The way they talk about it sounds almost Calvinist. I wonder if they have some equivalent of the secret TV in the attic.
There’s no reason to believe they live this way in reality. None of these profiles do any actual journalism. None of them investigate whether their claims about their childhood are true. This one doesn’t even talk to the neighbors who theoretically live next door for free (and do the unpaid childcare). This is stenography of neo-fash influencers self-described life and there’s no reason to believe any of it.
It’s just practical, don’t worry about it.
have they never heard of this miraculous material called styrofoam
Yes and that’s obviously lies, as anyone who has grown up with limited income in a cold area can tell them. Cheap, warm clothing is not bought online (in the US) from Russia, and never from Etsy. In the US it’s bought — if you’re buying new at all! — from Target or Kohl’s or some other big chain. You get layers, you get things used when you can, and the cheapest way to dress warmly is the most normie, uninteresting clothes that are mass produced and sold in low end department stores.
Nothing they describe is practical or cheap. It’s cosplay Kinder, Küche, Kirche, and the journalist repeated it verbatim because she’s a chump.
@gnomicutterance @Architeuthis
When I wanted to know about cold-weather clothing, I asked someone from ND via Minnesota.@gnomicutterance @Architeuthis
Sorry, what is the context of this comment?
Mastodon separated it from whatever it was you are replying to and your words caught my curiosity.
lemmy thread here: https://awful.systems/post/1596726 which spun off from here: https://awful.systems/post/1587716
Thanks!
The context thread has now magically appeared above the post, so I don’t know what the heck is happening in the pipes. Maybe just a really long delay loading, but I ain’t no expert.
yeah, delay-loads in fedi are a thing occasionally
@Phosphenes @gnomicutterance @Architeuthis I had no problem finding the context by clicking on the post. Mastodon web interface. What client are you using?
@gerikson @Phosphenes @gnomicutterance @Architeuthis I too can’t see the context. Mastodon default UI on techhub.social.
If I copy the post link and open in a new tab I see this is hosted on a very different looking UI, with a ‘show context ->’ link which does what it says on the tin.
@gerikson @Phosphenes @gnomicutterance @Architeuthis Oh and *now* if I look at what *was* the top-level toot I could see here I can see the actual context.
Just Mastodon/fediverse being itself I guess ?
@AthanSpod @gerikson @gnomicutterance @Architeuthis
No all software is infallible and you and I are the only crazy ones. 😉
@gnomicutterance @Architeuthis dude find the second hand store the snow birds and skiers dump their shit at and you’re frickin golden for life.
Kinder, Küche, Kosplay?
Grew up in fairly rural upstate New York, where you can expect lots of snow and you can unironically envy neighbors who have working Franklin stoves when the power goes out.
I can confirm all of the above, plus: if you are lucky enough to have an Army-Navy surplus store around, one of your handmedowns is likely to be an N3B parka. Definitely not Russian or German or stylish. But it will keep everything above your thighs warm, except your hands. The pockets are uninsulated.
Oh man, I once bought the most glorious winter coat at an army-navy store. Lightweight, cheap, and so warm.
Once I had money I discovered the glory of high-quality thermals, but if you don’t have money and live in a cold house, you try to keep at least one room warm with a lot of closed doors, plastic on the windows and draft stopper door snakes if the house is drafty, warm socks, layers. Nobody without money is buying pregnancy corsets from Etsy to stay warm, what the shit is that.
@gnomicutterance @Architeuthis They are abusive idiots and TSTL I grew up in a house heated with wood in N.H. The wood came from our woodlot. Slapping a child is abusive; slapping a two year old is stupid and abusive.
But a tie is so cheap and keeps you warm!1!!.
They reek evil impersonators who’ll try to rip people off. Rip vulnerable off.
And I don’t even know who they are.
Whats with the boots?
can’t goosestep without great boots.
He looks like the child Taron Egerton’s Eggsy and Scott Alexander
Maybe if Eggsy’s balls hadn’t dropped and he was raised by a billionaire.
I can’t put my finger on it exactly but the pictures of them give me the impression that they’ve never actually had sex.
Fuck me, is that what Scott Alexander looks like?
I really don’t like talking shit about people’s looks. but the irony of him talking shit about other people’s genes, my god. this guy looks like the annoying orange fucked a cue ball
yeah it’s amazing, dude’s got a face like what people would pick “most punchable” in game character design or something
Never mind genes, he chose to shave his head like that. Humpty Dumpty
He looks like someone handing out cult literature at the airport.
That’s what everybody who’s into HBD looks like
You know what
Gee, I wonder what about the time period from 2015 to 2020 would have prompted the transformation from “occasional youtuber who goofily wears fascinators and cute nerdy graphic tees” to “hugo boss chic”. Must have just been her own changing tastes, couldn’t possibly be related to anything else.
The video title “A Pragmatist’s Take on Small Talk” would be much better if it were William James giving advice on navigating the social niceties. Step 1: this hat.
hot damn.
The middle picture looks very much like a young lesbian couple.
Not that there’s anything wrong with lesbian couples of any age. It’s just with this pair it’s… odd.
I can’t help it. I see a picture of them and it’s like a puzzle I need to solve.
It’s true though. They’re not nazis. They’re incapable of being fired by any fundamentally political or spiritual ideals, no matter how ultimately black and nihilistic, at all. Even if these people were full-throated card-carrying members of the American Nazi party marching through Times Square with a swastika flag throwing out copies of Der Sturmer from a Panzer tank they wouldn’t be nazis. The fact is that they’re just the purest distillation of 20th-21st century media culture yet: they’re so utterly saturated in media that the only choice they’ve made, the only choice available to them, was whether to lean into the goodie or the baddie vibe, and they plumped for “baddie” because it suited their contrarian aesthetic and then, without even leaving a ripple on the surface, they slipped into the role and inhabited it so thoroughly that it is, literally, indistinguishable from who they are.
These people are nothing less, and 100% nothing more, than your childish glee at getting to play the villain in an RPG.
“Not Like Us” was less scathing than this. Fucking hell.
p-zombies, but nazis
Dead Snow, but more pee
Oops:
Dead Yellow Snow
These people are nothing less, and 100% nothing more, than your childish glee at getting to play the villain in an RPG.
I’m pretty certain I get more glee from my RP than they ever experienced in their lives.
Historians have a word for Germans who joined the Nazi party, not because they hated Jews, but out of a hope for restored patriotism, or a sense of economic anxiety, or a hope to preserve their religious values, or dislike of their opponents, or raw political opportunism, or convenience, or ignorance, or greed. That word is “Nazi.”
I’m saying this goes further!
Actually I feel kind of irked that this reply seems to just miss the part at the end of the paragraph that says “it is, literally, indistinguishable from who they are”
I didn’t miss it. I just don’t see any need to be elaborate about the word nazi, although I do appreciate what a crushingly insulting description of them you gave
Paraphrasing Santayana, we must understand why people become fascist, or else we will not understand how to prevent ourselves from making the same mistakes of dehumanization and black-and-white reasoning which characterize their piss-poor attempts at logic.
Scholars of fascism and nazism do it all the time! The target of quotes like that is supposed to be those who deliberately muddy the waters. The “call a nazi a nazi” principle is a blunt instrument, and there are other tools in the anti-nazi kit.
[some hours later…] ah, the quote is from AR Moxon, whom I happen to know is both (a) not remotely averse to going deeper on what makes the nazis, (b) distinctly averse to not going deeper
Their body postures completely bely their need to be relevant and noticed.
Whats the context for this? (Sorry if someone mentioned it and I didn’t find it)
Already asked and answered elsewhere in the comments.
Edit see https://awful.systems/post/1587716
Danke
Does anyone else think that they look stupid?
unfortunately had to slap my youngest child, hyperion dipshit, in the target parking lot today after he failed to show proper respect to a cybertruck. before you call that abuse, just ask my other children, aryan chlamydia and maximus trifecta what they think
confiscating Adeptus Mechanus’s iPad to teach him a lesson about makers and takers
cursed subskeet is what we plan to name our fourth child
I think it’s cute when siblings dress to match.
Yeah that lady and her son look real nice.
Most Erudite Crimson Tide Enthusiasts
they’re most certainly insane and vile people who commit child abuse.
see the links elsewhere in thread here for more info
