This, by Toby Buckle (@polphilpod.bsky.social) is motherfucking excellent. I've been saying it forever. The Right, these "lost boys" are not organically reacting to anything we're doing, but to crazy shit made up by those even more fucked up than they are. www.liberalcurrents.com/swiping-left... - ThreadSky | a Reddit-style client for Bluesky

robynelyse.bsky.social • 37 days ago

This, by Toby Buckle (@polphilpod.bsky.social) is motherfucking excellent.

I've been saying it forever. The Right, these "lost boys" are not organically reacting to anything we're doing, but to crazy shit made up by those even more fucked up than they are.

https://www.liberalcurrents.com/swiping-left-on-maga/

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thomaskilmer.bsky.social•36 days ago

"Men under 45 have gone from supporting Biden by 8% in 2020, to supporting Trump by 8% in 2024."

This is so misleading as to be a fabrication though. Trump did not gain any voters in this demographic, Harris had fewer compared to Biden ... and every other demographic.-

thomaskilmer.bsky.social•36 days ago

Younger men have on average *stayed put*, ideologically speaking, relative to young women. Specifically existing conservative men have concentrated how nightmarishly misogynistic they are even as left-wing men drift only vaguely more progressive. Which is a bad thing!

But it's a very different-

thomaskilmer.bsky.social•36 days ago

reality than this narrative that misogyny (and fascism as a whole) have popular appeal and are gaining new converts and shifting opinion. As opposed to the same bloc of bigots it's always been, following the same marching orders they have for decades, just with new conductors.

crochetcat.bsky.social•37 days ago

Read a letter from a new mom. She thought things were going well, then husband wanted a paternity test on baby. No reason to believe she cheated, he “just wanted to be sure “. He’d been listening to those podcasts.

mikethemadbiol.bsky.social•37 days ago

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robynelyse.bsky.social•37 days ago

One thing I've always noticed is that when I tell men who are *not* familiar with this brand of bullshit (or people who aren't familiar with other right-wing brands of bullshit) about their core beliefs, they look at me like I've lost my damn mind.

polphilpod.bsky.social•37 days ago

'They think kamala was going to bring back the draft'

. . . but . . . she wasn't

'Obviously, but . . .'

robynelyse.bsky.social•37 days ago

Like the world's most obnoxious improv group, they're playing an endless game of "Yes, and" in which they all imagine increasingly preposterous things and then go along with/become furious about whatever they or anyone else in their orbit came up with.

travalanch.bsky.social•37 days ago

And that’s BEFORE you even get to the bizarre metaphysical shit some of these groups push

ostrasyn.bsky.social•35 days ago

Do you have an example in mind?

travalanch.bsky.social•35 days ago

The main one I had in mind when I made the post was all the “spiritual empowerment through semen retention” nonsense

I’ll admit that beyond that, “pseudoscientific biology/psychology/history” would be a better term than “metaphysical”

travalanch.bsky.social•35 days ago

Ex.: fabricated evo-psych theories around oxytocin. Nazi-adjacent mysticism and Hyperborean Age myths. Bullshit about trans people being a (((plot)))to destroy White Civilization. Really creepy stuff about “fertility” and child brides.

From there you kinda just get into overall Crank Magnetism

eli403.bsky.social•37 days ago

I tend to roll my eyes about all the "left behind boys". Media bends over backwards for them about what we can do for them instead of expecting them to step up and try harder

eli403.bsky.social•37 days ago

This was a great article btw, thank you for sharing it