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The post Xitter web has spawned soo many āesotericā right wing freaks, but thereās no appropriate sneer-space for them. Iām talking redscare-ish, reality challenged āculture criticsā who write about everything but understand nothing. Iām talking about reply-guys who make the same 6 tweets about the same 3 subjects. Theyāre inescapable at this point, yet I donāt see them mocked (as much as they should be)
Like, there was one dude a while back who insisted that women couldnāt be surgeons because they didnāt believe in the moon or in stars? I think each and every one of these guys is uniquely fucked up and if I canāt escape them, I would love to sneer at them.
(Credit and/or blame to David Gerard for starting this.)
That couple have been in the white house to brief the president on their one thing ig
I knew the exact couple you were talking about before I read any additional comments. They seem to show up in the news like clockworkā¦ do they have a publicist or PR agent looking for newspapers in need of garbage filler puff pieces? If anything, going to the white house is a step up from there normal pattern of self promotion.
theyāre Thiel creatures. This is why (a) theyāre in all the papers all the fucking time (b) no other pronatalist couple is
Theyāre Internet Native/Terminally Online, so they can SEO their own appearances, plus now they are fully plugged-in to the right-wing hype machine so theyāre probably turning down appearances instead of chasing them.
they have billionaire bank rollers. since the reality of our media system is that you hear a lot about whatever billionaires want you to hear about, they are covered
this couple?
https://www.vice.com/en/article/the-elite-breeding-couple-are-terminally-online-redditors-whove-gone-viral-before/
I could have sworn they were siblings
Yeah. They are like midbosses of this side of the internet.
Iām annoyed they still have relevancy somehow.
What
I tried being too vague to avoid giving the pronatalist couple more clout, and I guess the bit bombed.
Also: I fact checked myself and it turns out I committed the grave sin of posting old news.
āGross thrice-married orange man wants you to bonk moreā is gonna be a hard sell but rest assured, his pals in tech will make sure their ad selection supports it.
shinzo abe but not assassinated yet
I donāt know anything about Abe apart from him being a right-winger. Was he also very very worried about Japanās birthrate (just like Hackernews is)?
Without going into too much detail (because I am not well read on this and am likely to be wrong about a lot of it), one of the many issues that Abe addressed during his leadership was Japanās declining birthrate. Thereās a bit of a conspiracy amongst many people who consume Japanese popular culture (at a deep-ish level) that Abe pushed pronatalist themes in pop culture, as well as tropes like NEETs/hikikomori escaping their isolation from society and entering romantic relationships. This has become a huge meme, where any time a romantic development happens in a manga or anime, many people are quick to say things along the lines of āAbe would be proudā.
E: From the knowyourmeme page on Abe:
Presumably, he didnāt address it by dealing with how Japanese work life makes starting a family damn-nigh impossible.
rightwing āpro childā policy in practice always seems to consist of oppressing women and gesturing vaguely when asked how this fixed anything
He was right wing, after all, not to mention a cultist. His heart didnāt have the capacity for such a compassionate solution, and thatās before it was collapsed by that homemade hand-cannon.