There’s also a million other people who say it that don’t. A lot of super lefty positions you see on sites like Lemmy are exclusively from terminally online people.
The terminally online people generally have more experience in dealing with people that have opposing ideas and opinions over someone who never goes online, never leaves their country, and never talks to anyone who isn’t just like them and then end up being completely ignorant about people other than themselves and the limited group of people they know, which scares the shit out of them.
Lol the terminally online folks need to touch grass. Every shadow they jump at is in their mind. They constantly make new strawmen to fight and they’re all Nazis coincidentally.
Terminally online people tend to a) seek out bubbles where opposing voices are silenced, and b) spiral into extremism due to lack of moderating influence from normal people
Happens to both right and left, it’s just the right has a major news organization pushing extremism as well, and rhetoric on the right is more violent so that translates to more violent real world action.
You realize most people have mobile phones that allow them to be on the internet when ever right? MOST people are online all the time. Even when they leave the house.
It really isn’t. This isn’t all being posted by bots. There are people posting online. You can go outside and see people posting shit from their phones all over.
‘“Basically, I’m just fed up with the fact that I’m cis-gendered, I’m a white male, and I lean right, towards the Republican side,” said Fears, 28, wearing a pin of the 3rd SS Panzer Division Totenkopf of the Waffen-SS. “And I get demonized if I don’t accept certain things.”’
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I love that they think that. Mere acceptance is too far? K. Then the are no limits on how too far we can go. Y’allqaida moved the goalposts so far that there’s no point in attempting to appease them anymore
Exactly. So it doesn’t matter. Demand the absolute furthest left policies, demand all the things they’re afraid of. Full term abortion for all, paid for by specifically tax dollars of farmers. Universal healthcare that will pay for homeless immigrants no questions asked.
These chucklefucks seem to always say shit like “lean right” or “moderate conservative” and then go on about Hitler did nothing wrong and Regan is God’s gift to man…
Ffs Mr.StrongMan state your position honestly you coward!
I see the same shit on dating apps everyone is either liberal or moderate… I live in a red area, 80% of those “moderates” are 100% on the Trump train and say pretty much that in their profiles… It’s some masturbation, big brain feels, to say you’re above it all by being “moderate” even though you’re 110% Right wing conservative, or just fear…
If anything one common trait of Republicans is cowardice/fear. That’s why they need the strong man, it’s why they fear the immigrant, it’s why they worship the military and police. The world is a big scary place and they need to feel safe so they can’t even be honest with themselves and say they’re Right wing.
Where I live they’re just calling themselves “centrists” which is just code for “i’m secret repub cause i know if i tell people i’m repub they will shun me”
These chucklefucks seem to always say shit like “lean right” or “moderate conservative” and then go on about Hitler did nothing wrong and Regan is God’s gift to man…
Pretending to not be far-right is a deliberate strategy. Once upon a time it was “hiding your power level”, these days it’s probably known as being “mask on”.
You’ve already worked out at least one reason why – nobody wants to fuck a neo-nazi. So they masquerade as “moderates” to try and get their dicks sucked and seethe whenever women see through it.
Another reason is deplatforming – nobody wants to listen to a neo-nazi either. What are they possibly going to contribute to a conversation? “The problem is minorities and the solution is to kill them”.
Finally, they work hard to try and normalise their beliefs. They want to convince actual moderates that demonising the LGBT community is what good conservatives do. They want to convince children playing games online that it’s normal to hurl racist slurs at strangers.
The entire “alt-right” thing was just a way of creating plausible deniability about who they really were and what they really think.
When the “unite the right” rally happened, they were feeling braver than they had in decades. They had a top 50 subreddit. They’d been on television. People weren’t spitting on them.
So they triumphantly dropped the act, waved around swastikas, chanted about jews, killed an innocent woman who disagreed with them and readied themselves for their spots of honour in the fourth rieche.
But it never came. Instead, they got fired from their jobs and disowned by their families. People went back to calling them Nazis and spitting in their faces. All their progress was wiped out in an instant.
They learned their lesson; unless you’re about to do a mass shooting, never admit what you truly are.
I remember right afterwards when a bunch of them got put on no fly lists and they couldn’t work out why.
They genuinely hadn’t figured that there would be consequences to their actions. They travelled potentially hundreds of miles to somewhere where they weren’t liked, burnt what few bridges they had left, and then got stuck on a no-fly list. I would love to know how some of them got back. I think it would make for an interesting comedy show.
I’m just picturing the sequence from Jay and Silent Bob Strike Back where they’re trying to get to California to stop the Bluntman and Chronic movie from being made as our hero tried desperately to keep everyone on the road from recognizing him as one of the Nazis that was at the Capitol and the pursuing Feds looking to arrest him.
Presumably the KKK thought of themselves as moderate. And of course they tend to fall back when called out to the good old cowardly, “We’re only saying what everyone else is thinking”, whilst conveniently ignoring what everyone is actually thinking.
What’s that phenomena called where people tend to favor careers that fit their name? Like a fireman named Les McBurny? This guy gives me the same vibes with a name like that and being so scared of progress and people who are different.
Also if we cried for him, we would be shedding tears for Fears.
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