In Reply to: The model that made the internet a toxic hellhole posted by HasBen on March 23, 2025 at 10:20:13
have become. I am starting to lean in the direction that with the rise of the (fascist) new right, our politics in today's America is as much about the gender-coding the left/right divide[* as it is about economics[**].
[*] ... where an increasingly Andrew Tate aligned, body building, self-improvement and male rights advocating, testosterone poisoned, gun toting, aggressive right claiming to have the "masculine" values while "feminine coding" liberals and what they stand for. Consider their obsession wuth transgendered individuals, and the types of insults they like to throw around: cuck, beta, low energy (which is code for impotence), and think of this contrast in manosphere terms where the feminine needs to be dominated by and submissive to the masculine.[***]
[**] meaning that old-fashioned, practically quaint understanding of politics by the older generation who considered the great opposition to be grounded in the question of who really deserves to have how much of the percentage of the wealth being generated by the country's economy.
[***] Note that his is only one of the components, and works in concert with (not instead of) the new right's claims of cognitive superiority (= IQ) over us "retards", which is another piece that defines them, undergirding their infatuation with Musk.
Thanks for the piece. I'd been finding out about Gamergate on and off over the years and it seems like I forget about it as soon as I re-learn what it was all about, weirdly enough.