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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.
(Credit and/or blame to David Gerard for starting this.)
frankly that’s the most detailed I’ve seen it get. usually it’s more like this
this is weird. My first thought is that it’s just another vector of normalization for the idea that people who are afraid of and Post about genocide or other forms of discriminatory violence are not to be taken seriously. By putting a variety of insane victimhood appropriating subcultures into the internet milieu, it allows people to ignore what’s happening (and what may be about to happen) in the real world, where groups of people actually are subject to fascistic violence.
Probably one part normalisation, one part AI supporters throwing tantrums when people don’t treat them like the specialiest little geniuses they believe they are. These people have incredibly fragile egos, after all.
That is my thought as well. It’s like the “you call everyone you disagree with a Nazi” argument from the 90s and 00s - discrediting attempts to call out fascist and genocidal ideas creates a lot of cover for those ideas to spread without being appropriately checked. It helps create a situation where serious and respectable people can keep arguing that things aren’t that bad all the way until they get pushed onto a cattle car.
curious, that art style in that reply strongly matches the image I saw on this toot drifting by in my timeline earlier
I haven’t touched image generators and idk how different their products are, if at all. but I think of this as the default AI “illustrated” style. very low on detail outside of the objects of focus, heavy line work, flat, rounded, muted colors
A lot of it looks like it was pissed on.
jfc