🔒 Understanding Fascism as Childish Tantrum

When you step back and look at the situation in the United States right now as a millennial, it really feels like a comedy premise that some really cringe internet writer would have come up with in 2013 and tried to make into a low budget movie: An army of young adult geeks who call themselves Doge conquer and ransack Washington DC under the banner of Kekistan to purge it of SJWs in the name of lulz. 

In fact they actually did try to make this movie in 2013. Or something similar. It was called The Chronicles of Rick Roll and it never made it past a trailer:

Now it’s happening, though, and It turns out that this isn’t actually very funny.

 Elon Musk, who has the emotional maturity of a nine year old but a power that presidents envy, has conquered the US capital and his army—a bunch of script kiddies from 4Chan barely out of high school—is sacking the city.

 Their mission is stamping out “woke,” a dubious concept none of them can define, and “DEI,” which can be defined but means something different when they say it. These are in both cases euphemisms. They’ve come to eliminate feminism, and reduce the presence and visibility of non-white people in the workforce and media.

 It’s fascist, yes, but it’s also pathetic. It’s pathetic in a way that makes you see fascist regimes of the past in a whole new light and realise they were always pathetic.

 The cliché that people use to explain and justify fascists coming to power is best illustrated by a quote from a G. Michael Hopf novel: “Hard times create strong men. Strong men create good times. Good times create weak men. And weak men create hard times.”

 It was something that I’d always believed because it sounds about right, but it’s only as I watch what’s now going on that I realise the fundamental error in this theory. Look at these people. Elon Musk isn’t a strong man, he’s a fucking dipshit. He skips around stage making “hurrr hurrrrrr” noises and when he takes to the microphone he sounds like the Matt Damon puppet from Team America. He’s the charisma of Goofy with the personality of Pete.

Hard times don’t create strong men. Hard times lower the threshold to the point where weak, pathetic, losers have a chance at seizing control. Hard times lower civilization’s immune system to where it can get its ass kicked by the human equivalent of the common cold.

 The first years of this decade were really hard times for America. Trump is responsible for much of that. He was a weak man who created hard times, and Biden wasn’t a strong enough man to fully correct course when the economic fallout from Trump’s bungled pandemic response hit. Cue egg prices, cue Elon Musk, the pied piper of gutter Nazis.

 Musk ran a recruitment program on Twitter and through Discord servers and internally through Peter Thiel’s companies in the weeks after the election – the assignment was to build a task force of highly motivated young software engineers to eradicate Woke and DEI from the federal government. The job would be long hours with little pay, so applicants would need to be highly motivated by their hatred of Woke and DEI alone. There is a very specific type of person who is going to answer that call.

 You get Marko Elez, an open and proud racist who temporarily resigned from Musk’s militia when journalists dug up his racist tweets and there once was a time when resigning was what you were supposed to do when that happens. The Vice President, who is apparently not Elon Musk but some other guy named Vance, reinstated him with the reminder that this is kind of why he was hired in the first place.

 Vance, Elez, and the new US Attorney Ed Martin are all also linked somehow to a pseudonymous neo-Nazi on Twitter who goes by the name Captive Dreamer and from whom Vance may have gotten the tip for the whole Haitians eating cats lie that appeared in the run-up to the election.

Then there’s Edward Coristine, a 19 year old malicious hacker and deep cybercriminal associate whose social media nickname is “Big Balls.” He has connections to scummy Chan culture infested doxing and DDoS groups and his recent employment history shows him having been fired for the deliberate mishandling of sensitive information.

 That’s a great resume for someone who has apparently been granted unlimited access to secure private data at the US Treasury and has apparently been made Senior Advisor to the State Department. Much of his social media history has been wiped beyond recovery but there’s some evidence he’s connected to the creepy Aporia/Steve Sailer race science and eugenics Substack circle.

 There’s Gavin Kliger, who’s attached to the so-called Groyper movement, led by neo-Nazi Nick Fuentes. Other than that he’s your standard hard-line Mass Deportations Now red hat Derek Chauvin superfan from Team Fuentes/Loomer/Bannon, which makes it kinda curious that he’s working for Musk, but I suppose the opportunity to smash the government is a fine reason to cross that particular picket line. He has a Substack in which he reveres, for some reason, Matt Gaetz, a man who is so likely to be a child sex trafficker that even the most MAGA wing of the party wouldn’t risk it.

The list goes on but guys, look at the sad, pathetic, miserable picture being painted here. This is it, this is what we’re replacing “wokeness” with. This is what winning looks like.

 This is the reality of White Culture.

 The funny thing is, the people involved in this culture all have Roman statue profile pictures. They’ll angrily tweet pictures of drag queens and pride parades, they’ll demand to know why there are black people performing at the Super Bowl, and their ideal for American society is a confused pastiche of Medieval European cathedrals and Cold War era nuclear family propaganda posters.

 There are no cathedrals planned for Trump’s America, though. What you’re getting instead is Secretary General Big Balls of the Longcat Department of Skibidi Rizz.

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