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This is what happens when we dont have basic rights like universal healthcare or stable jobs. And the "lesser evil" political party has nothing to offer besides vague phony optimism.

More and more people are being pushed to the fringe right due to the failures of capitalism.

We need better.

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[-] Rom@hexbear.net 88 points 6 days ago
[-] Vernon_Tennessee@hexbear.net 42 points 6 days ago

Denied our birthright to free vbucks bro

[-] BurgerPunk@hexbear.net 82 points 6 days ago

"Corrupted our hobbies" let me guess. Its a freeze-gamer

[-] barrbaric@hexbear.net 50 points 6 days ago

Nah, it's a warhammer dipshit, and everyone knows that warhammer "fans" never actually play the game because they're too busy bitching about women custodes.

[-] glimmer_twin@hexbear.net 35 points 6 days ago* (last edited 6 days ago)

Average warhammer enjoyer: I am a power gamer and also cheat, all my armies are commission painted because I just want whatever is top of the meta on any given week, also the imperium of man is not satire it is actually awesome

Me: I just like to glue elves together and paint them at a rate of about 5 figures per year. plastic machine go brrr

[-] barrbaric@hexbear.net 26 points 6 days ago

"NOOOOO Eldar are lame! If they're so good, why don't they like the space fascists?!?!"

"Hehe this warlock has some funny space eel friends"

[-] glimmer_twin@hexbear.net 11 points 6 days ago

(I’m actually extremely slowly painting high elves for TOW, haven’t played 40k since the mid-2000s, that model is cool as hell tho it’s like the two eels from little mermaid)

[-] barrbaric@hexbear.net 9 points 6 days ago

Thanks, it's sooo much better than the monopose warlocks GW sells (and cheaper to boot!). There's also a secret third eel hiding behind her hand. You should post your elves to /c/hobby once they're done! Always love to see people's work.

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[-] Yukiko@hexbear.net 13 points 6 days ago

I'm just too busy painting my models and not learning the rules sadness

[-] barrbaric@hexbear.net 13 points 6 days ago

By painting even a single model you are already infinitely better than the average warhammer fan, especially when that model looks as good as your forgefiend.

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[-] TerminalEncounter@hexbear.net 24 points 6 days ago

I JUST WANTED TO LOOK AT ANIME TITTIES AND F*TA BUT YALL HAD TO MAKE IT POLITICAL

[-] kleeon@hexbear.net 65 points 6 days ago

So I ask you this in return, how does it feel to look at the monster you created?

[-] Awoo@hexbear.net 61 points 6 days ago

This certainly sounds like a child.

[-] VernetheJules@hexbear.net 23 points 6 days ago

Definitely a professional quote-maker

[-] amberSuperMario@lemmygrad.ml 58 points 6 days ago
[-] SkingradGuard@hexbear.net 44 points 6 days ago

Right?

"I BECAME A NAZI BECAUSE YOU SAID MEAN THINGS ABOUT ME! I'M TOTALLY NORMAL!"

Pathetic, clueless crap.

[-] FunkyStuff@hexbear.net 51 points 6 days ago

Ukraine flag

calling other people Hitler Youth

not-immune-to-propaganda

[-] Z_Poster365@hexbear.net 29 points 6 days ago

imagine putting the palestine flag next to the people aiding their genocide and a bunch of fucking nazis

liberals are wild

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[-] ManFreakBeast@hexbear.net 37 points 6 days ago

our birthright

That birthright being video game boobs

[-] AmericaDeserved711@hexbear.net 15 points 6 days ago

this is so funny because there's never been a better time in history for enjoyers of video game boobs. who cares if it's in the base game? there's mods, rule34s, source filmmaker porn, e-girl cosplayers, and now with AI you can easily generate all the vidya smut your horny little ass desires

like our society literally could not cater more to the fantasies of the straight male gooner gamer and they're still mad??

[-] Aru@lemmygrad.ml 10 points 5 days ago

you know a lot about video game boobs ✍️

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[-] Alisu@hexbear.net 8 points 5 days ago

There's tons of booba in the base game of current games. Don't even talk about mods, because that shit gets real disgusting real quick

[-] SkingradGuard@hexbear.net 41 points 6 days ago

This is just online gen zs imo

[-] Vernon_Tennessee@hexbear.net 21 points 6 days ago

Terminally online fs

[-] SevenSkalls@hexbear.net 13 points 6 days ago

Isn't that all Gen z at this point?

[-] SkingradGuard@hexbear.net 9 points 6 days ago

shrug-outta-hecks terminally online, then

[-] Angel@hexbear.net 8 points 6 days ago

White ones too

[-] glimmer_twin@hexbear.net 41 points 6 days ago

“Corrupted our hobbies” lol. What a loser. What exactly is their “birthright” I wonder

[-] blobjim@hexbear.net 30 points 6 days ago

Other people's labor and adoration, of course.

[-] oldfart@lemm.ee 32 points 6 days ago* (last edited 6 days ago)

Brocoli hair is not an "immutable characteristic"

Edit: * charactaristic

[-] SweetLava@hexbear.net 28 points 6 days ago

the look i give when [ideology] is not mainstream

[-] BodyBySisyphus@hexbear.net 29 points 6 days ago

"There's nothing as toxic as unmet expectations."

Part of the problem here is that white cis hetero males are still bathed in sense that they should be on top of the pile throughout childhood and are suddenly getting dropped out of high school into a world where that's no longer the case. Stable jobs and healthcare will help but I think this is also a situation where a cultural shift needs to happen.

[-] HakFoo@lemmy.sdf.org 17 points 6 days ago

I think it's not even 100% a superiority thing, but the loss of position, purpose, place.

Stable jobs and healthcare would do so much to defuse the "I need to outcompete/hobble everyone else to WIN" grindset hustle mentality.

In my field (a "successful" one in the modern economy), the conventional wisdom is to intentionally change jobs every two years or so to get a bigger raise than loyalty yields. Other fields have either intentional high turnover or mismanagement that sabotages long-term employment. Nobody develops a pride of position and it creates more easily replacable workers. Of course this ripples to "nobody even stays in the same neighbourhood anymore" as we Grapes of Wrath ourselves across the map looking for opportunity.

If you aren't forced to chase the ever-moving brass ring, maybe you can find satisfaction in being part of long-lived communities which encourage mutual support. If you know your needs are going to be taken care of, different faces and lifestyles are less of a risk to destabilize your world.

[-] Gorb@hexbear.net 25 points 6 days ago

What a loser lmao. I was a misanthropic teenager and even I wasn't this cringe lol. If I'm giving teenage me props you've basically hit maximum loser points

[-] blobjim@hexbear.net 28 points 6 days ago* (last edited 6 days ago)

This is what happens when we don't have basic rights like universal healthcare or stable jobs. And the "lesser evil" political party has nothing to offer besides vague phony optimism.

More and more people are being pushed to the fringe right due to the failures of capitalism.

Nah.

These are just right-wing psychos.

You don't need to analyze literally everything through the lens of "the more-right-wing party won the latest bourgeoisie election which means everyone but me is right-wing".

Maybe there's a case for left-wing propaganda not being widespread enough. But even in that case, I don't think "capitalism is bad and causes all our problems" is some secret thing that young people have never heard.

[-] FunkyStuff@hexbear.net 28 points 6 days ago

I don't think it's a bad theory, although maybe there's some recency bias in bringing up current US electoral politics to try to explain something much more general. Reactionary antisocial behavior is a consequence of alienation, i.e. people are pushed to the fringes because of capitalism's failure to maintain the social bonds that stops people from becoming misanthropic edgelords like OOP.

[-] Z_Poster365@hexbear.net 14 points 6 days ago

Some people really want to moralize and get defensive when materialist explanations are given.

We need to understand what causes fascists to exist if we want to eradicate them after all, and just believing they're an eternal evil of the universe doesn't help that. It's not about whether they are good or bad, we are going to have to deal with them they stand in our way, and we want to study the phenomena and conditions of their absurd existence so we can prevent future fascists from developing once we take power.

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[-] NephewAlphaBravo@hexbear.net 24 points 6 days ago

sephiroth voice squeaking through a closed locker door

[-] Barx@hexbear.net 11 points 5 days ago

Racists that spend all their time playing Fortnite and [new fad] aren't the Hitler Youth, they are just atomized reactionary liberals.

Fascists arose in opposition to socialists. They were supported by the bourgeoisie, particularly the petty bourgeoisie, to fight a left that was ascendant and asserting people's power, taking over cities and taking over factories. With the liberal institutions failing to guarantee bourgeois control, the armed right wing gangs bringing violence against the left were the only other game in town and were funded accordingly. This is how organized crime basically functions as well - it is just filling a space where the state monopoly on violence has been undermined. And later fascistic groups filled a similar role, like with Pinochet, who restored the (largely international) bourgeoisie's capital control in Chilé through a coup and terror.

Nothing like this is happening in the United States. The United States does not have a left, there are too few of us. All of this is happening without a left and without a bourgeoisie that has been dispossessed. Accordingly, there are no brownshirts, not in any real numbers. They have nothing they would defend in retribution anyways.

But there are other factors that rhyme a bit so that you see what we have in front of us. There is a material decline, particularly for the least marginalized groups, and it requires a false consciousness under liberalism. The classic scapegoating of minorities is not a fascist invention, liberals were doing this long before and after European fascism. And with no left, the only people who could be mass opponents to violence against the marginalized are liberals, and they do so in an ineffectual liberal way. Providing no solutions, not addressing the underlying dynamics at play, destroying the education system, funding and owning social media that blasts right wing conteny while doing their best to censor left content, emphasizing electoralism for their ghouls, these are the liberal "solutions". They create the conditions for reactionaries to exist, feed into their scapegoating (Dems have always been racist and xenophobic, e.g.), use their power to punch left instead of right.

So what you see today is more the typical liberal order in empire where no left exists. It is a resetting of the terms to the more typical arrangement. "Progress" is not inevirable, it can be crushed and reset, all it tajes is for those in power to have no real fear of the people. And the American people are almost the least fearsome they have ever been, though there are undercurrents of riots that could break out during a recession. If left organizations were just large enough and just ready enough, they would be able to provide direction and longevity for the next mass expression of pain and frustration.

[-] ChaosMaterialist@hexbear.net 10 points 5 days ago* (last edited 5 days ago)

corrupted our hobbies

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:cool-zone: FUCK OFF AND CREATE SOMETHING ON YOUR OWN PARASITE! :cool-zone:

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There is a reason this demographic is 20-25, because they are a bunch of entitled coddled man-children who finally had contact with the cold harsh reality and they can't cope. You grow out of it and later see it as cringe.

This is why we need Stalin 🙂

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