as much as anything, yesterday was a perfect example of how the modern conservative conception of toughness is completely at odds with actual toughness
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trump was whining "don't tell me how to feel" and vance chimed in "you fowgot to say pwetty pwease" and countless maga shut ins are all like "finally real men are in charge"
As Vance was saying he's seen videos (an answer which could not be more stupid), Zelensky mutters something in Ukrainian that many have translated to "F U, bitch". Mic drop.
How were they were able to reach this point? I know this plan was initiated decades ago, but this con job is epic. Wait until he starts to cut domestic programs. Then we will see how that goes.
Whether the performance of toughness came with any conviction was irrelevant. That was Trump’s announcement that the U.S. is now a vassal state of Russia’s. Full stop.
Followed by “man, it’s good we are getting all of those too-emotional-to-lead women out of power, I mean what would happen if they had their periods and launched a nuke?”
It’s all I could think as I watched Trump whine about his feelings and threaten WW3.
The demand for performance of gratitude as a means of domination struck me as deeply familiar from religious instruction, motivational speakers, parents, teachers, and the odd therapist TBH. I think the impulse there is deeply embedded in our conceptions of authority and power.
Cognitive authoritarianism is a necessary psychology of fascism due to its weakness more than 'toughness' -- a continuum of abuse that victims must normalize which allows them to maintain manipulation.
So men are bullied and bossed around like children of strict fathers.
Conservative toughness is now perfectly aligned with the tactics of domestic abuse. Anyone who has experienced or witnessed domestic violence can see that media framing this as muscular or whatever is profoundly dangerous.
Nothing reflects this more than the right subsuming BJJ, a martial art for people who both think it's really tough and cool as well as innovative despite just not really working and instead is a huge scam
JD is looking like he needs a trainer. Maybe you could suggest something for those jowls? Altho he's looking thinner than his "out and proud Soviet ho" days...
I think they all watch WWE too much or anything that's staged. They don't take much time to observe anything real. Reality shows have warped their reality.
Drumpf: ever-offended when confronted with persons of actual integrity, transmutes it into an affront on his dignity, his legitimacy, and then doubles back on the "offender" and like a monitor lizard, sinks his teeth into a leg or an arm, fully knowing that the salivary poison is his back-up....
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It’s all I could think as I watched Trump whine about his feelings and threaten WW3.
So men are bullied and bossed around like children of strict fathers.
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Putin = Dictator. Trump = Dicktaster.