"She found the humorlessness of the contemporary left more alienating than the conservatism of her youth."
Seriously? Has she never met a conservative? They are NOT known for their sense of humor, at least in my lifetime. There are reasons conservative "comedians" are so rare, and the few that exist only appeal to MAGAts.
And as is Law Number One of the uber-Right, Nazi playbook, the PROJECTION of their wants and needs and fevered scenarios seems to be coming full circle, back where it belongs finally. They projected their ideations of “cancel culture” and “real women-haters” and anti-motherhood onto the liberally minded when in essence it was they themselves who believe in these things. Left wing liberals are not the racist, misogynistic “incels” one immediately thinks of (altho they exist they’re not the stereotype). Examine what the Shapiro class-Right says (because who knows what they’ll actually do) and turn it inside out. In so many cases, almost always in fact, it applies to their values, their made-up bullshit cultural zeitgeist. Their vindicated victimhood. Fear causes that response. It’s made up fear, the tropes of convenience, of course, but it spreads as quickly
today as real existential fear. Remember: a lie circles the world while truth is still putting on its shoes.
This turn around for some MAGA women is consistent with the general outlook of the extreme right which is that they only care about harm when they feel harmed. These women only “saw the light” when they were treated badly. They remain incapable of empathy.
There was this...ummm, gem???, turd/??? of an article in Huffpost about this lady who became full on obsessed in Bari Weiss(my words) until she just realized she wasn't.
Well, call me precious and quaint, but maybe this means more young women will vote for a sane person who at least claims to want better lives for people, including women, and doesn’t openly embrace bigotry because it’s “edgy.” But I lost all hope when America saw J6 unfold and decided, we want more of that. Let’s run this back again. Trump 2.0 might have less to do with weirdos believing Haitians were eating all the ducks, and more to do with straight up ageism. People saw Joe Biden change from late 70’s Joe who offered a return to stability and boring, scandal-free politics, and early 80’s Joe, who was simply getting older, stumbling more, and he became an easy target. For all Jim Comer’s made up scandals, Joe Biden’s term was a thousand times more stable and serious than whatever the hell is going on now.
Exactly, they think they're being counter culture rebels while really being confidently wrong that they're the only ones who "get" patriotism and Christianity, all in service of people who are diametrically opposed to both.
“I’ve always liked edgy stuff, unfortunately — that’s one of my problems,"
The people who "like edgy stuff" all repeat the same NPC things, and they all say that you cannot, under any circumstances, say those guys who advocate fascist ideas on stage are fascists.
"The online right had begun to engage more explicitly with forbidden subjects: nativism, race science, and gender essentialism drawn from evolutionary psychology. “There was an element of gnosticism to it,” she says, “the sense that you know secret things that other people don’t know.”"
It's actually *not* fun to be sit across from a man child lecture you about what he heard Peter Thiel and Joey Rogan say on a podcast for hours every day. We've all had that experience during our first week of freshman year as an undergrad in the dorm at 2 am, and our idiot asses thought we were cool and edgy at the time. But then we found fun things to do.
"She found the humorlessness of the contemporary left more alienating than the conservatism of her youth."
Seriously? Has she never met a conservative? They are NOT known for their sense of humor, at least in my lifetime. There are reasons conservative "comedians" are so rare, and the few that exist only appeal to MAGAts.
And as is Law Number One of the uber-Right, Nazi playbook, the PROJECTION of their wants and needs and fevered scenarios seems to be coming full circle, back where it belongs finally. They projected their ideations of “cancel culture” and “real women-haters” and anti-motherhood onto the liberally minded when in essence it was they themselves who believe in these things. Left wing liberals are not the racist, misogynistic “incels” one immediately thinks of (altho they exist they’re not the stereotype). Examine what the Shapiro class-Right says (because who knows what they’ll actually do) and turn it inside out. In so many cases, almost always in fact, it applies to their values, their made-up bullshit cultural zeitgeist. Their vindicated victimhood. Fear causes that response. It’s made up fear, the tropes of convenience, of course, but it spreads as quickly
today as real existential fear. Remember: a lie circles the world while truth is still putting on its shoes.
There was a reason why there was feminism- even before abortion. What do we think men will do when they can get away with literally anything?
This turn around for some MAGA women is consistent with the general outlook of the extreme right which is that they only care about harm when they feel harmed. These women only “saw the light” when they were treated badly. They remain incapable of empathy.
Smug much?
There was this...ummm, gem???, turd/??? of an article in Huffpost about this lady who became full on obsessed in Bari Weiss(my words) until she just realized she wasn't.
It was a deeply weird read, tbh
https://www.huffpost.com/entry/bari-weiss-podcast-red-pill_n_69af459ee4b0a62acae52242
https://youtu.be/_Xl2sfHkVBQ
this is what happens when you teach that critical thinking is bad, and that being an 'individual' is more important than working towards a common good
White people problems...
Well, call me precious and quaint, but maybe this means more young women will vote for a sane person who at least claims to want better lives for people, including women, and doesn’t openly embrace bigotry because it’s “edgy.” But I lost all hope when America saw J6 unfold and decided, we want more of that. Let’s run this back again. Trump 2.0 might have less to do with weirdos believing Haitians were eating all the ducks, and more to do with straight up ageism. People saw Joe Biden change from late 70’s Joe who offered a return to stability and boring, scandal-free politics, and early 80’s Joe, who was simply getting older, stumbling more, and he became an easy target. For all Jim Comer’s made up scandals, Joe Biden’s term was a thousand times more stable and serious than whatever the hell is going on now.
Oh well. I really don’t care about them and hope they’re miserable and die alone.
Well written piece 👌
“I was too frivolous with ideas.”
> she gonna stop thinking? sounds like she's still stuck in the in-between. get her some woke theroy stat!
“the woke scolds were too much and we were all rebels who would never be any good, so we had to become Nazis!”
If you do something because you are "forced" to do it, then you are a weak ass loser with no agency. That is the exact opposite of rebellion.
Sure, a lot of those people--the men and women of the right--just do what fascist men tell them to do.
Exactly, they think they're being counter culture rebels while really being confidently wrong that they're the only ones who "get" patriotism and Christianity, all in service of people who are diametrically opposed to both.
“I’ve always liked edgy stuff, unfortunately — that’s one of my problems,"
The people who "like edgy stuff" all repeat the same NPC things, and they all say that you cannot, under any circumstances, say those guys who advocate fascist ideas on stage are fascists.
"The online right had begun to engage more explicitly with forbidden subjects: nativism, race science, and gender essentialism drawn from evolutionary psychology. “There was an element of gnosticism to it,” she says, “the sense that you know secret things that other people don’t know.”"
It's actually *not* fun to be sit across from a man child lecture you about what he heard Peter Thiel and Joey Rogan say on a podcast for hours every day. We've all had that experience during our first week of freshman year as an undergrad in the dorm at 2 am, and our idiot asses thought we were cool and edgy at the time. But then we found fun things to do.