• FunkyStuff [he/him]@hexbear.net
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    3 days ago

    If we couldn’t explain to chuds how Helldivers is satire, we’re gonna have a really, really hard time doing some kind of semiotic breakdown explaining how groypers take anti-fascist satire and turn it into fascist memes, like Bella Ciao and the other casing engraving.

    Or I guess you could just not do that and if they insist the shooter was a leftist you just say “yeah looks like the right better shut up and start hiding”

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      These people are so caught up in their ultimate version of proper society that a slight difference turns someone who agrees with 99% of their beliefs into a fascist

      This is just a more public version of when the Knights of the Burning Cross try to kill the Knights of the Flaming Cross

    • semioticbreakdown [she/her]@hexbear.net
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      we’re gonna have a really, really hard time doing some kind of semiotic breakdown

      doggirl-sweat

      But yeah I agree. A not insignificant portion of the American populace legitimately believes Hitler was a socialist. How do you explain the meta-ironic post-truth Nazi hyperreality of being a fucking Fuentes groyper? False consciousness and chan culture is probably a good start I guess but I wouldn’t know where to go from there.

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      “Never believe the antisemites are unaware of the absurdity of their claims.”

      They know fascists appropriate leftwing rhetoric. They know the shooter wasn’t trans or an anti-fascist. They say the wrong things on purpose to downplay their involvement so they can justify the abuse they plan to dish out later. It’s the “I wasn’t racist but then you called me a racist so now I am,” shtick they do with everything.