Aaron Ross Powell ☸️ on Nostr: The culture on the far right is the "I studied the blade" meme blown up into an ...
The culture on the far right is the "I studied the blade" meme blown up into an ideology. Musk, Trump, etc., all playacting a cartoon masculinity and toughness, while lacking the self-awareness to understand just how silly they look to everyone not bought into the same fictions and, in particular, to those they're most desperate to impress with their act. And they then read the snickering reactions not as evidence they're being silly, but as evidence that they've succeeded in being threatening.
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