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Right now in the culture war, the right’s stronger than ever. It feels like an inverse of 2009 when Obama got in and the YouTube atheist movement was at its peak. Then before you know it, the whole anti-SJW craze and then gamergate happened.

The right started with dunking on “tumblr feminists” and it arguably started with TJ Kirk’s video criticizing them. Of course this led to gamergate which led to the present day: the new “good ol’ days”.

What is the right’s equivalent of “tumblr feminists”, people you can criticize with less pushback and with enough smart-alecky framing, come out on top?

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[–] AssortedBiscuits@hexbear.net 16 points 3 weeks ago (1 children)

Incels. Despite being the target demographic for recruitment, nobody fucking likes them. It's an insult even by people of the right, after all.

[–] SorosFootSoldier@hexbear.net 5 points 3 weeks ago* (last edited 3 weeks ago)

Yeah I could see some potential friction from the groyper incel youth wing of republican fascism clashing with the boomer's who had parents that fought the nazis.

[–] SorosFootSoldier@hexbear.net 10 points 3 weeks ago (1 children)

I'd imagine all these pedophiles on the right are going to end up as huge liability somewhere. Like I get that the fascist's are masters of hypocrisy and picking and choosing what does and doesn't actually matter to the public, but with that said I can see them losing a lot of people with this Epstein shit.

[–] Esoteir@hexbear.net 10 points 3 weeks ago

I can see them losing a lot of people with this Epstein shit.

i dont see this at all lmao, once trump's term and therefore usefulness comes to an end, people like MTG will run off of MMAGAGA, making maga great again, and say that trump was bought out by the pedophile elite unlike them, the true inheritors of the maga

this of course will start off a maga succession war kinda like HBO Max's House of the Dragon, but at the end the next unpedophile candidate will run on full steam at least until Epstein 2

[–] iByteABit@hexbear.net 8 points 3 weeks ago

I think a major weak point is that while fascism aims to divert the working class away from the real problems and real solutions towards artificial dangers, or putting a spotlight on a single symptom of capitalism instead of capitalism itself, eventually it runs out of people that are stupid enough to believe that shit after they start noticing that the fascists are doing nothing to actually address their problems.

On a more personal "tumblr feminist" way, there's really nothing redeeming about most of these people, I can't pick one type. These are the people that would make fun of anyone with empathy and call them "cringe" and hypocritical or fake because they don't comprehend what it's like to support someone when there's nothing in it for you.

[–] LangleyDominos@hexbear.net 7 points 3 weeks ago

Them placing a lot of importance on internet posting is their weakness. It's anyone's weakness.