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[-] YouKnowWhoTheFuckIAM@awful.systems 57 points 6 months ago

It’s true though. They’re not nazis. They’re incapable of being fired by any fundamentally political or spiritual ideals, no matter how ultimately black and nihilistic, at all. Even if these people were full-throated card-carrying members of the American Nazi party marching through Times Square with a swastika flag throwing out copies of Der Sturmer from a Panzer tank they wouldn’t be nazis. The fact is that they’re just the purest distillation of 20th-21st century media culture yet: they’re so utterly saturated in media that the only choice they’ve made, the only choice available to them, was whether to lean into the goodie or the baddie vibe, and they plumped for “baddie” because it suited their contrarian aesthetic and then, without even leaving a ripple on the surface, they slipped into the role and inhabited it so thoroughly that it is, literally, indistinguishable from who they are.

These people are nothing less, and 100% nothing more, than your childish glee at getting to play the villain in an RPG.

[-] sc_griffith@awful.systems 80 points 6 months ago

Historians have a word for Germans who joined the Nazi party, not because they hated Jews, but out of a hope for restored patriotism, or a sense of economic anxiety, or a hope to preserve their religious values, or dislike of their opponents, or raw political opportunism, or convenience, or ignorance, or greed. That word is "Nazi."

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[-] o7___o7@awful.systems 16 points 6 months ago
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[-] sc_griffith@awful.systems 54 points 6 months ago

you would never see a scene like this in a Nazi household

[-] dgerard@awful.systems 22 points 6 months ago

note non-fiction Chekhov's gun on the mantel

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[-] self@awful.systems 18 points 6 months ago

ok so this is driving me crazy

am I weird for thinking the circle of candles in the fireplace (in a house that’s allegedly unbearably cold) is weird?

[-] self@awful.systems 19 points 6 months ago

is this… are these motherfuckers roleplaying a dril tweet

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[-] maol@awful.systems 17 points 6 months ago

Reaching through my screen into this photo so I can pull out the rifle and shoot myself

Who thought it would be a good idea to keep that in a household with 3 kids under 5. Is it just so they can flash it at Republicans and win primary votes??

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[-] sc_griffith@awful.systems 52 points 6 months ago

my husband and I are just trying to repopulate the world

[-] gnomicutterance@awful.systems 49 points 6 months ago

three consecutive youtube thumbnails, dated 11, 9, and 4 years ago, showing simone’s transition from having fun with a channel woman in a cute fascinator to hugo boss chic

Gee, I wonder what about the time period from 2015 to 2020 would have prompted the transformation from “occasional youtuber who goofily wears fascinators and cute nerdy graphic tees” to “hugo boss chic”. Must have just been her own changing tastes, couldn’t possibly be related to anything else.

[-] blakestacey@awful.systems 24 points 6 months ago* (last edited 6 months ago)

The video title "A Pragmatist's Take on Small Talk" would be much better if it were William James giving advice on navigating the social niceties. Step 1: this hat.

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[-] ChicoSuave@lemmy.world 43 points 6 months ago

That guy sits like he's allergic to the back of chairs.

[-] maol@awful.systems 16 points 6 months ago

He looks like a dog that's just been shown a treat.

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[-] sc_griffith@awful.systems 43 points 6 months ago* (last edited 6 months ago)
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[-] sc_griffith@awful.systems 40 points 6 months ago

we're actually very liberal

[-] Semi_Hemi_Demigod@lemmy.world 31 points 6 months ago

What maniac hangs out around the house in a goddamn suit and tie?

[-] o7___o7@awful.systems 32 points 6 months ago* (last edited 6 months ago)

Where are the bed sheets?

Also, where are the family photos? Framed art? Kid drawings?

Edit: Cobra Commander and the Baroness at home in a GI-Joe movie directed by Michael Bay circa 2008.

Edit2: Evil Sean Astin

Edit3: I've never seen a three-piece suit with dungarees. It's the mullet of suits: business on the top, party on the bottom.

I'm sorry, I'm being awfully mean and petty on the internet today.

[-] froztbyte@awful.systems 17 points 6 months ago

the kids have to thunderdome it out for recognition, and then they have to pay for the photos with their own money that they earned in their weekend jobs (you know, the ones they get to do after their homejobs all week). just like in a perfectly normal family!

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[-] youRFate@feddit.de 17 points 6 months ago

Also knee-high boots in the living room while playing with her kids.

[-] WarlockLawyer@lemmy.world 16 points 6 months ago

But with jeans on!?

[-] jonhendry@awful.systems 25 points 6 months ago

Mr Burns (seated) and Smithers.

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[-] BaroqueInMind@lemmy.one 34 points 6 months ago

Can someone please help me understand?

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[-] Architeuthis@awful.systems 32 points 6 months ago* (last edited 6 months ago)

There's an actual explanation in the original article about some of the wardrobe choices. It's even dumber, and it involves effective altruism.

It is a very cold home. It’s early March, and within 20 minutes of being here the tips of some of my fingers have turned white. This, they explain, is part of living their values: as effective altruists, they give everything they can spare to charity (their charities). “Any pointless indulgence, like heating the house in the winter, we try to avoid if we can find other solutions,” says Malcolm. This explains Simone’s clothing: her normal winterwear is cheap, high-quality snowsuits she buys online from Russia, but she can’t fit into them now, so she’s currently dressing in the clothes pregnant women wore in a time before central heating: a drawstring-necked chemise on top of warm underlayers, a thick black apron, and a modified corset she found on Etsy. She assures me she is not a tradwife. “I’m not dressing trad now because we’re into trad, because before I was dressing like a Russian Bond villain. We do what’s practical.”

[-] gnomicutterance@awful.systems 55 points 6 months ago

Yes and that’s obviously lies, as anyone who has grown up with limited income in a cold area can tell them. Cheap, warm clothing is not bought online (in the US) from Russia, and never from Etsy. In the US it’s bought — if you’re buying new at all! — from Target or Kohl’s or some other big chain. You get layers, you get things used when you can, and the cheapest way to dress warmly is the most normie, uninteresting clothes that are mass produced and sold in low end department stores.

Nothing they describe is practical or cheap. It’s cosplay Kinder, Küche, Kirche, and the journalist repeated it verbatim because she’s a chump.

[-] mpk@awful.systems 20 points 6 months ago

Kinder, Küche, Kosplay?

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[-] MBM@lemmings.world 20 points 6 months ago

Warm clothes instead of heating is great, but they manage to subvert it in a very EA way. The way they talk about it sounds almost Calvinist. I wonder if they have some equivalent of the secret TV in the attic.

[-] gnomicutterance@awful.systems 32 points 6 months ago* (last edited 6 months ago)

There’s no reason to believe they live this way in reality. None of these profiles do any actual journalism. None of them investigate whether their claims about their childhood are true. This one doesn’t even talk to the neighbors who theoretically live next door for free (and do the unpaid childcare). This is stenography of neo-fash influencers self-described life and there’s no reason to believe any of it.

[-] jonhendry@iosdev.space 15 points 6 months ago* (last edited 6 months ago)

@Architeuthis

" buys online from Russia"

but why

(I know why)

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[-] V0ldek@awful.systems 30 points 6 months ago

Why are you posting stills of Man in the High Castle to sneerclub, I don't get it

[-] dgerard@awful.systems 29 points 6 months ago

from bsky

unfortunately had to slap my youngest child, hyperion dipshit, in the target parking lot today after he failed to show proper respect to a cybertruck. before you call that abuse, just ask my other children, aryan chlamydia and maximus trifecta what they think

confiscating Adeptus Mechanus's iPad to teach him a lesson about makers and takers

cursed subskeet is what we plan to name our fourth child

[-] breakingcups@lemmy.world 28 points 6 months ago

It's like mirror universe Niles and Maris

[-] IHeartBadCode@kbin.social 27 points 6 months ago

The biggest issue with these people is they use “reason and logic” to arrive at their belief, but literally fail to connect dots because of their removal from reality.

the problem is most acute in countries that are “technophilic, pluralistic, educated, where women have rights”.

It’s not because women have rights though. It’s because rich fucks like his mentor Musk absorbs the majority of prosperity in nations. If there’s no hope, there’s no reason to continue.

The only places where the birthrate is not falling to unsustainable levels are countries where the average citizen earns less than $5,000 (£4,000) a year

And this isn’t even true. Places like India, even the poorest of the poor regions, are seeing their population boom quickly decline. So while technically they haven’t hit negative values, they’re already moving in that direction.

Whenever you hit max value for a resource, you’ve hit peak that resource, and humanity has hit peak humanity in terms of how the various governments and economic systems view value in their fellow mankind. Economic systems have no additional value to give (or value that they WANT to give) to human beings. There’s just no additional investment going into that resource. We’ve hit peak humanity in an economic sense, so there’s just zero reason for something to grow if nothing is being invested into it.

This would be clear to this couple if their heads weren’t so far up their asses.

[-] maol@awful.systems 18 points 6 months ago

Not a mention in the article of the impact of pollution on fertility, which isn't inconsiderable.

Two factors that have made the birth rate go down are a) greater access to contraception and abortion for women and b) reduced numbers of teenage pregnancies. Of course forced births and forced labour are a-ok with these two.

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[-] Semi_Hemi_Demigod@lemmy.world 23 points 6 months ago

Both of them require glasses. I guess the master race has astigmatism.

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[-] zbyte64@awful.systems 23 points 6 months ago

I think it's cute when siblings dress to match.

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[-] maol@awful.systems 22 points 6 months ago* (last edited 6 months ago)

He looks like younger, bow-tie era Tucker Carlson. Twat.

[-] Chef_Boyardee@lemm.ee 18 points 6 months ago

Does anyone else think that they look stupid?

[-] darwinwoodka@mastodon.social 18 points 6 months ago

@sc_griffith

they're most certainly insane and vile people who commit child abuse.

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[-] Dkarma@lemmy.world 17 points 6 months ago

Their body postures completely bely their need to be relevant and noticed.

[-] CatDragon@mastodon.world 16 points 6 months ago

@sc_griffith everything they can spare except for what they spend on makeup, expensive glasses, leather knee boots and pocket squares?
This is a look at us aesthetic and I’m worried about the child she will no doubt film being delivered while she’s leaning on the kitchen table with her I don’t believe in hot water husband catching it as it comes out.
I wonder how Puerperal sepsis fits in with her lifestyle, it being authentic and all.

[-] saucerwizard@awful.systems 15 points 6 months ago
[-] gnomicutterance@awful.systems 18 points 6 months ago

can't goosestep without great boots.

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