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If your sneer seems higher quality than you thought, feel free to cut’n’paste it into its own post — there’s no quota for posting and the bar really isn’t that high.

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.)

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[-] sc_griffith@awful.systems 7 points 3 days ago
[-] antifuchs@awful.systems -1 points 1 day ago

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.

Let’s ridicule them for their garbage beliefs and their shitty actions; they sure deliver plenty of those.

[-] sc_griffith@awful.systems 3 points 21 hours ago

do you have any thoughts on why these wealthy and powerful public figures have all chosen this extraordinarily unusual aesthetic

[-] antifuchs@awful.systems 3 points 16 hours ago

Yeah, why do they dress expensively but shit? My suspicion is so that the kind of elites the Kravattennazis don’t like can snub them. Gives them street cred, the “elites” don’t like them!

[-] istewart@awful.systems 12 points 3 days ago

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, "BLOODY LABOUR NICKED ME TOUPÉE!"

[-] cstross@wandering.shop 15 points 3 days ago

@istewart @techtakes Spoiler: it's not his natural hairstyle, he's been caught deliberately mussing it up before going on camera. Also, his friends and family call him "Alex" (short for Alexander), not "Boris". It's all an act.

[-] o7___o7@awful.systems 7 points 3 days ago

He's really sold the bit, hasn't he?

Yet, if you cover up his hair, he easily scans as "generic English aristocrat."

[-] mountainriver@awful.systems 4 points 2 days ago

And his actual name, Alexander de Pleffel-Johnson, also scans “generic English aristocrat.”

Hence the stage personality.

[-] froztbyte@awful.systems 8 points 3 days ago

mild guess: "golden boys, with the the 30+ years required to look Politically Evolved"? and of course the selection factors involved from even just getting to that point and the stylist/image handling that that involves

there's also an element of the system does as designed, and there's an element of self-reinforcing delivery/production of these ghouls

[-] Soyweiser@awful.systems 7 points 3 days ago* (last edited 3 days ago)

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

[-] istewart@awful.systems 9 points 3 days ago

he would continue to look like shit

[-] o7___o7@awful.systems 6 points 3 days ago

People probably asked the same question about the first Habsburgs.

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