• David Gerard@awful.systemsM
      link
      fedilink
      English
      arrow-up
      0
      ·
      5 months ago

      as well as boot nazis and tie nazis, I propose a third classification: horrible locker-friendly dweebs like this

  • Catherine is Tired@mastodon.world
    link
    fedilink
    arrow-up
    0
    ·
    5 months ago

    @sc_griffith everything they can spare except for what they spend on makeup, expensive glasses, leather knee boots and pocket squares?
    This is a look at us aesthetic and I’m worried about the child she will no doubt film being delivered while she’s leaning on the kitchen table with her I don’t believe in hot water husband catching it as it comes out.
    I wonder how Puerperal sepsis fits in with her lifestyle, it being authentic and all.

  • YouKnowWhoTheFuckIAM@awful.systems
    link
    fedilink
    English
    arrow-up
    0
    ·
    5 months ago

    It’s true though. They’re not nazis. They’re incapable of being fired by any fundamentally political or spiritual ideals, no matter how ultimately black and nihilistic, at all. Even if these people were full-throated card-carrying members of the American Nazi party marching through Times Square with a swastika flag throwing out copies of Der Sturmer from a Panzer tank they wouldn’t be nazis. The fact is that they’re just the purest distillation of 20th-21st century media culture yet: they’re so utterly saturated in media that the only choice they’ve made, the only choice available to them, was whether to lean into the goodie or the baddie vibe, and they plumped for “baddie” because it suited their contrarian aesthetic and then, without even leaving a ripple on the surface, they slipped into the role and inhabited it so thoroughly that it is, literally, indistinguishable from who they are.

    These people are nothing less, and 100% nothing more, than your childish glee at getting to play the villain in an RPG.

    • sc_griffith@awful.systemsOP
      link
      fedilink
      English
      arrow-up
      0
      ·
      5 months ago

      Historians have a word for Germans who joined the Nazi party, not because they hated Jews, but out of a hope for restored patriotism, or a sense of economic anxiety, or a hope to preserve their religious values, or dislike of their opponents, or raw political opportunism, or convenience, or ignorance, or greed. That word is “Nazi.”

        • sc_griffith@awful.systemsOP
          link
          fedilink
          English
          arrow-up
          0
          ·
          5 months ago

          I didn’t miss it. I just don’t see any need to be elaborate about the word nazi, although I do appreciate what a crushingly insulting description of them you gave

          • corbin@awful.systems
            link
            fedilink
            English
            arrow-up
            0
            ·
            5 months ago

            Paraphrasing Santayana, we must understand why people become fascist, or else we will not understand how to prevent ourselves from making the same mistakes of dehumanization and black-and-white reasoning which characterize their piss-poor attempts at logic.

          • YouKnowWhoTheFuckIAM@awful.systems
            link
            fedilink
            English
            arrow-up
            0
            ·
            5 months ago

            Scholars of fascism and nazism do it all the time! The target of quotes like that is supposed to be those who deliberately muddy the waters. The “call a nazi a nazi” principle is a blunt instrument, and there are other tools in the anti-nazi kit.

    • V0ldek@awful.systems
      link
      fedilink
      English
      arrow-up
      0
      ·
      5 months ago

      These people are nothing less, and 100% nothing more, than your childish glee at getting to play the villain in an RPG.

      I’m pretty certain I get more glee from my RP than they ever experienced in their lives.

    • maol@awful.systems
      link
      fedilink
      English
      arrow-up
      0
      ·
      5 months ago

      Reaching through my screen into this photo so I can pull out the rifle and shoot myself

      Who thought it would be a good idea to keep that in a household with 3 kids under 5. Is it just so they can flash it at Republicans and win primary votes??

    • self@awful.systemsM
      link
      fedilink
      English
      arrow-up
      0
      ·
      5 months ago

      ok so this is driving me crazy

      am I weird for thinking the circle of candles in the fireplace (in a house that’s allegedly unbearably cold) is weird?

      • deborah@awful.systems
        link
        fedilink
        English
        arrow-up
        0
        ·
        5 months ago

        It’s weird, but it’s normal weird. It’s the kind of thing you see in design magazines and pinterest and the spruce. I don’t know if actual rich people do it but it’s definitely fairly normal middlebrow home decor.

        (A lot of fireplaces in older US buildings are vestigial, often blocked up, and are inefficient at heating.)

        • froztbyte@awful.systems
          link
          fedilink
          English
          arrow-up
          0
          ·
          edit-2
          5 months ago

          it’s also definitely the sort of shit you see in some midmarket airbnb’s (because it’s in design/pinterest/etc magazines)

        • deborah@awful.systems
          link
          fedilink
          English
          arrow-up
          0
          ·
          5 months ago

          The prose on that The Spruce link makes me hate the concepts of design, aesthetics, and houses.

  • Architeuthis@awful.systems
    link
    fedilink
    English
    arrow-up
    0
    ·
    5 months ago

    There’s an actual explanation in the original article about some of the wardrobe choices. It’s even dumber, and it involves effective altruism.

    It is a very cold home. It’s early March, and within 20 minutes of being here the tips of some of my fingers have turned white. This, they explain, is part of living their values: as effective altruists, they give everything they can spare to charity (their charities). “Any pointless indulgence, like heating the house in the winter, we try to avoid if we can find other solutions,” says Malcolm. This explains Simone’s clothing: her normal winterwear is cheap, high-quality snowsuits she buys online from Russia, but she can’t fit into them now, so she’s currently dressing in the clothes pregnant women wore in a time before central heating: a drawstring-necked chemise on top of warm underlayers, a thick black apron, and a modified corset she found on Etsy. She assures me she is not a tradwife. “I’m not dressing trad now because we’re into trad, because before I was dressing like a Russian Bond villain. We do what’s practical.”

    • deborah@awful.systems
      link
      fedilink
      English
      arrow-up
      0
      ·
      5 months ago

      Yes and that’s obviously lies, as anyone who has grown up with limited income in a cold area can tell them. Cheap, warm clothing is not bought online (in the US) from Russia, and never from Etsy. In the US it’s bought — if you’re buying new at all! — from Target or Kohl’s or some other big chain. You get layers, you get things used when you can, and the cheapest way to dress warmly is the most normie, uninteresting clothes that are mass produced and sold in low end department stores.

      Nothing they describe is practical or cheap. It’s cosplay Kinder, Küche, Kirche, and the journalist repeated it verbatim because she’s a chump.

    • MBM@lemmings.world
      link
      fedilink
      English
      arrow-up
      0
      ·
      5 months ago

      Warm clothes instead of heating is great, but they manage to subvert it in a very EA way. The way they talk about it sounds almost Calvinist. I wonder if they have some equivalent of the secret TV in the attic.

      • deborah@awful.systems
        link
        fedilink
        English
        arrow-up
        0
        ·
        edit-2
        5 months ago

        There’s no reason to believe they live this way in reality. None of these profiles do any actual journalism. None of them investigate whether their claims about their childhood are true. This one doesn’t even talk to the neighbors who theoretically live next door for free (and do the unpaid childcare). This is stenography of neo-fash influencers self-described life and there’s no reason to believe any of it.

    • Jonathan Hendry@iosdev.space
      link
      fedilink
      arrow-up
      0
      ·
      5 months ago

      @slopjockey

      Maybe if Eggsy’s balls hadn’t dropped and he was raised by a billionaire.

      I can’t put my finger on it exactly but the pictures of them give me the impression that they’ve never actually had sex.

      • sc_griffith@awful.systemsOP
        link
        fedilink
        English
        arrow-up
        0
        ·
        edit-2
        5 months ago

        I really don’t like talking shit about people’s looks. but the irony of him talking shit about other people’s genes, my god. this guy looks like the annoying orange fucked a cue ball

        • froztbyte@awful.systems
          link
          fedilink
          English
          arrow-up
          0
          ·
          5 months ago

          yeah it’s amazing, dude’s got a face like what people would pick “most punchable” in game character design or something