For a more nuanced discussion of this topic, please see my friend Bjarne Knausgarde’s blog “Notes From Disgraceland.” There, he discusses:
The political subject of late fascism is an updated version of the old one. The industrial worker- citizen, the authorized emblem of post-utopian depoliticized post-war modernity, now appears in the guise of the forgotten men, the non-synchronous people of the political present[10]. He encapsulates the virtues of petro-masculinity: A patriarchal, weapon-carrying and 2 amendment-worshipping male, defined by manufacturing, motoring, his tie to fossil fuel presents a particularly uncomfortable configuration in the light of climate change and urgency for reducing or eliminating dependency on conventional energy sources, which creates an urgency to imagine a new barricaded lebensraum for the heteronormative family protected from the deviant other, which bundles together economic, geopolitical, religious, racial, and genital into a comprehensive crisis of order and allows fascism to emerge as a candidate for its restoration.
Link to the post: https://notesfromdisgraceland.wordpress.com/2024/05/06/fraudulent-ideology-of-fascism-other-tales-of-revolt-against-reason/
That is one of the worst-written things I’ve ever read in my entire life. It reminds me of reading Jordan Peterson, like the author thinks they derive authority from how obtusely they can phrase simple concepts.
Maybe some people think this kind of writing is clever or impressive, but it just reeks of insecurity to me.
hmm yeah words
How many magas can afford 100k watches?
Obsolete Biden stickers! Lol I hope they have boxes of these dishonest attacks on a person who’s not running anymore…
Whilst voting against addressing any issues that would improve their situation at every given opportunity.
Change watch to guns and you nailed it
dont forget they’re still paying off a divorce
hey! you leave beer and cigs out of this!
Tbf, those are symptoms of despair, in most cases, regardless of income.
ok man. i’ll be over here having a good time.
That’s what a local said, until they ended up needing a lawyer. I’m not blaming the consumers. I’m blaming the economic policies.
what are you even talking about?
Inaccurate.
$30k truck $300 Suunto watch Don’t smoke or drink 25 mpg
I’m doing ok.
In anglo Canada we have our own version of this that includes at least 1 oversized Canadian flag, at least 1 “FUCK 🍁 TRUDEAU” and 1 “FREEDOM” optionally also on flags or decals, something sloppily painted in white complaining about coronavirus mandates, and getting more common is something insulting Jagmeet Singh.
They have maga and Trump merch as well
It’s very confusing how they can fly a Maple Leaf and not know what country they’re in
LOL! The MAGA idiots fail to realize healthcare costs are far worse than fuel prices.
Leave my beer and cigarettes alone.
I work in a gas station, there is a MAGA regular who is constantly complaining about how broke she is, she buys 2 packs of unfiltered camels a day, that’s $14.60 a pack, over $800 a month just for cigarettes cause she buys the most expensive packs in the store.
at those prices meth is cheaper.
Being serious here, but since I moved away from alcohol and started using LSD and MDMA I’m actually saving when going to party. A beer at the club have the same price that an LSD tab!
At this point, I actually think the meth is more socially acceptable, too.
its not hard to get a prescription either. Insurance will pay for 60% of it.
So, as long as I’ve been on lemmy, I may have come across maybe 2 certified Trump supporters, yet… there are 36 downvotes on this post.
I wonder who the 34 other cowards are that refuse to stand and be counted. Also, I wonder how many of the bad-faith both-sides “leftists” we all know and love are amongst them.
I downvoted it because conservatives constantly make this exact same “joke” about how poor people actually deserve to be poor because they pay for Netflix or clothes or anything that isn’t food or rent. It’s not funny when they do it and because I’m not a hypocrite I don’t find it funny when leftists do it either.
Normally I would have just downvoted and moved on with my day, but apparently that makes me a “coward that refuses to stand and be counted”. Because attacking people for downvoting a joke they didn’t like is apparently 100% okay with Lemmings and totally not toxic behavior. Does not liking literally all of the comedy that comes out of the left make me a ‘bad-faith both-sides “leftist”’? If so, guilty as charged. I do not see the left as a monolith and feel no shame in criticising or disagreeing with what other leftists say.
Sooo… I’m not a leftists and I don’t think it’s a leftist meme. Democrats/liberals are actually staring to actually fight back for a change. And it’s working. They’re finally trading punches with the always-on-the-offense far right, and they’re kicking their fucking asses- and you’re going to play both sides in this?
Yeah. You’re a coward.
I didn’t downdoot it but it’s pretty mean-spirited and probably doesn’t reflect the majority of Trump supporters’ finances.
From my perspective, it’s spot on accurate. I know people exactly like this.
Fair enough.
I’ll add that I know this isn’t a blanket statement to define all conservatives, but I’ve never known one not to fit this description.
And as an aside, fuck them anyway. Not one of them in my eyes deserve pity or mercy when it comes to defining them by their actions.
They’re being grifted from all sides and are too poorly educated to do anything about it. I think that’s pitiable.
Hard disagree. It’s 2024. Factual information is readily available. They’re not forced to be grifted. They chose it.
You think it’s not possible to be genuinely mistaken, with all this bullshit available? Harsh.
Its the people who have lift kits and like beer and cigarettes. I need to get a lift kit but that has to do with the fact that some roads in my area are somehow worse than dirt roads and off roading.
Hey now, beer and cigarettes are necessities.
That’s not true.
I’d say more beer and more cigarettes are necessities.
I personally have pity for rank and file Republican voters.
They were simply easy marks our education system intentionally failed to teach critical thinking and reason to because obedient laborers don’t need that, and were then spoonfed sensationalist lies that appealed to their fears and anxieties, the easiest avenues for indoctrination, for the last half century under the guise of being “news” for the private profit of private shareholders and to turn them into useful idiot dependable votes for those same private shareholders.
As just one in an ocean of examples, Fox “News” has been telling these poor sad bastards that “man made climate change is a hoax for scientists to sell books!”
That’s not why.
They are taught that education is bad because the Bible teaches them everything they really need to know, and focusing on their weird version of ‘Christianity’^tm makes them better than all those academic eggheads in their luxurious ivory towers while the people who actually run things make sure no help ever actually gets to them.
And now, in the most (mo)ironic twist ever, they are saying hurricane Helene was intentionally created to lower republican turnout in the election. No, seriously.
I’ve heard shit that it was moved by the left with weather control machines so they could clear out areas to mine lithium
So what you’re saying is, you don’t hate the fools, you pity them.
