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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.
This new trend of describing the American right wing as weirdos sure is something, isnāt it? What used to be our little hobby has escaped containment, largely due to the surfacing of JD Vance and his backers during the RNC. As recently as last month, when NRx and Rationalist oddballs came up in a news item, the response of the average reader would be to shrug and dismiss them as a small minority of sweaty nerds and assume that āregularā Republican politicians wouldnāt have anything to do with them. Things have changed; now thereās many an NPR-loving granny googling āwhat is a yarvinā and getting wound up about it in her group chats.
Weāve all heard of the Overton Window, which according to Wikipedia is, āthe range of policies politically acceptable to the mainstream population at a given time.ā I therefore propose a new thing, the āYarvin Window,ā which we can define as āthe range of insane policies that it is politically acceptable to ascribe to your ideological opponents.ā
This is the price they pay for grabbing the wrong end of the poo stick.
What amazes me, as a sort of US politics watcher from the outside, just how badly the various republicans weirdos are reacting to this. Esp Vance, posting his dolphin fucker stuff in the middle of the jokestorm about him being into furniture. But not just him, the GOP going ādonāt be racist about Harrisā and then all the racists doubling down on their racism, etc etc. The weird lashouts re weirdness. āhow dare you call me weird! Grabs calipers I can see from your skull shape that you are ā¦ā
damn so heās a posadist too on top of everything?
If I had a nickle for every time Iāve heard about dolphin sex Iād have four nickles. Which isnāt much, but also is kind of a lot.